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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84223	An examination examined: being a full and moderate answer to Maior Innes relation concerning the siege and taking of the town of Leicester by the Kings forces, the last of May 1645.	Temple, Peter, Sir, 1622-1692.	1645 (1645)	Wing E3713; Thomason E303_13; ESTC P1212; ESTC R200294	13,670	16

complaint of inequalitie of Taxes was made to us but it received redresse And whereas it is said by the Author Wee that it is verily beleeved that had the Moneys collected weekely bin converted to no other use then for the service and maintenance of their Garrisons Leicester had beene better provided for a siege then as appeares now was Friendly Reader let it fall into your consideration what wee may expect from this Bunch if men included in this word Wee for it cannot be wee Major Jnnes onely but wee defamers of other mens actions have made this Quaere upon you the Committee of Leicester and wee againe the Committee there doe thus answer That in the Narration set forth which this Pamphlet examines and passes a censure upon it is desired that something might be first proved and then Printed but notwithstanding wee the behind-doore publishers of this scandalous Pamphlet in case wee cannot find just matter proved will yet upon our owne braines believe and publish also that you are defrauders of the State and deceivers abusers of that trust put into you and let these conceits speed how they will yet goe they shall But to this wee reply no further but upon more certaine evidence we suppose if guesses faile us not there are none of those that thus stand behind the doore or looke through the Lettuce and cry Wee but they are or should be Accomptants to the State for large summes of Mony 〈…〉 conclusion of this point wee wish that those Gentlemen of ●●●●●● tie who made the first entrance into the Affaires of the Mi●●●ia in this Countie may as punctually reckon with the State as wee and when they have cleared themselves they may the better charge us And whereas the Pamphlet saith wee affirme that wee receive not any pay and this Examiner saith that they are credibly informed that very few or none of us but are chargeable with Money raysed in the Countrey for the publique service and how wee have disposed of it they must leave it to the examination of those who are imployed for that purpose wee answer wee also shall leave that to the examination of the Sub-Committee for Accompts they having it in charge and being men wee neither desire nor expect favour from And whereas they say that many of the Committee were Captaines and have received great summes of Money yet seldome or never went out with their Troupes for the defence of the Countrey wee answer that this Charge is most unjust the greatest part of our Horse were ingarrison'd abroad neere the enemie and were so active that they kept the enemies Garrisons in such awe that they durst not stirre out but like Theeves in the night As for cashiering old souldiers wee say wee never cashier'd any neither know wee any old souldier formerly imployed at Leicester above the degree of a Lieutenant in the Low-Countries except Colonel Wardeloe who was gone long before the last Ordinance for the Militia And for Captain Temple we know not that ever Captain Temple refused to goe forth declin'd an enemie or lost oportunitie and for his going to London he was High Sheriffe of the Countie and by reason of that Office had businesse there and that at his going not ten dayes after we heard not any thing of the enemies approach and for the rest of his charge we hold it frivolous and not worth the answering And however he might perswade upon report of the Kings advance towards Ashby to secure the Ordnance in Rockingham-Castle Leicester being unfortified it was no verie indiscreet advice yet he never concurred in advice upon the approach of an enemie to strip Colours off the staffe and to put them into a Coach so to carry them away And whereas they say that of those that now sit in the Committee not above two or three of them did appeare and joyne in the service with those Gentlemen that hazarded their lives and fortunes for the publique in the beginning and are now out of the Ordinance for the Militia and that they did not appeare till Leicester was neere fortified both Towne Countrie in a good posture of defence we say there was more of the now Committee appeared then there was of those Gentlemen of qualitie mentioned to be the fortifyers of Leicester But give us leave to aske one question Wherefore did not those Gentlemen of quality appear at Oundle to personate the affairs of the County there when the wel-affected Gentlemen of the eight Counties did meet to consider what everie Countie should contribute toward the raysing an Armie for the mutuall defence one of another Had they beene active then to have made an association and gathered a sutable strength to those eight Counties which were the best in the Kingdome of England for able horse and men and meanes to maintaine them Leicestershire had seene no Garrison upon its owne soyle nor had Newarke upon Trent taken so deepe a root no these Counties had not knowne what Pillaging and Plundring had beene no more then the Associated Counties have done nor was it hard to demonstrate that the North of England had never undergone those heavie pressures by the Earle of New Castles Armie but the Major Generall had no more strength then poore Leicestershire maintained had those Gentlemen of qualitie done this it had not beene to put Leicester onely into a posture of defence but the whole Association and beene a worke much more proper and extreamly beneficiall to the whole Kingdome And whereas in our Narration wee declare that if Sir Edward Hartop Baronet Sir Thomas Hartop Sir Roger Smith Knights John Saint-John and Thomas Brudnell Esquires were but commanded downe to sit as Committees they would give more satisfaction to the Countrie and doe the Parliament better service then those that are of lesse estates possible can doe whereunto they answer the Committee well know that all or most of those Gentlemen before mentioned by reason of their age and infirmities without prejudice to their healths cannot attend to doe service as otherwise they willingly would Whereunto we reply we know well but know no inabilities of bodie in them such as may hinder them altogether from the service divers of us being as aged and infirme as some of them And whereas there are divers persons in the Pamphlet named to be added to the Commttiee which certainly were unknowne to Major Jnnes as if twenty eight besides Townes-men formerly approved of by the Parliament were not enough being the choysest Gentrie in the Countrie that were not in armes against the Parliament amongst which are named all those who appeared upon the first Ordinance and deserted not the service and yet they spake of a Petition preferred by the Countrie for addition wee say that a Petition was presented in the name of the best affected of the Countie but not set on foot by them and to make the greater shew verie manie mens names were twice subscribed manie others Malignants both Gentrie

us three dayes before the Kings comming that in all probabilitie his designe was for Leicester to that we answer that what Sir John Gell writ was but probable and uncertaine and Cole-Overton was a Garrison within Cannon-shot of Ashby and had exceedingly weakned them both in reputation and strength and was the preserver of all the Northerne Trade to London and of as great consequence as any small Garrison in England which made us unwilling to quit that place but upon undoubted intelligence of the Kings resolutions for Leicester had we quit that Garrison and the King gone Northward of which we had probable intelligence those carefull Gentlemen of qualitie then had had one just complaint at which we should have blusht The next is an answer to the reply made by Sir Robert Pye and Major Innes after the Towne was summoned both of them then questioning whether the strength of the Towne was sufficient to defend it against the Kings Armie which Major Innes answers saying that upon view at the Posts they found but foure hundred and fiftie souldiers Our reply is That if he meanes Listed Souldiers under the Committee besides Townes-men it approaches neere unto truth There was of those about five hundred Colonel Grey in his march to the Works had in his companie two hundred and thirtie being accounted by Sir Robert Pye Captaine Farmer had one hundred and twentie Captaine Hurst had one hundred twentie and nine Lieutenant Colonel Battersby about fiftie there was also about nine hundred Townes-men and 150 of the Countreymen and this computation riseth neere to sixteene hundred In the next place it is said That Sir Robert Pye desired the Committee that Teames might be in a readinesse for removing the Cannon from place to place but that not a Horse or Teame was to be seene in readinesse for that service whereunto we answer That all the Teames in the Town were in readinesse and many of them imployed to bring Wooll-Packs Baggs of Hops and other necessaries to stop the breaches and to supply us with what was wanting and this doth appeare to be so because there was but two Cannon desired to be removed the one from the Horse-Faire Leyes to the breach in the Newarke and the other from the high Crosse to the North Mills which were done accordingly The next Charge is That the Committee did not keepe promise with Sir Robert Pye to keepe three hundred men upon the maine guard wee say that we made no such promise neither was it sutable to the Towne strength having so large a worke to man yet the enemie found a maine guard which cost many of them their lives and we had many prisoners also that while we were in sight violently prest for libertie so that we were enforst to draw off some Musquetiers from the maine guard to keepe them in order We consent with Major Innes that it is a vast Line but under his favour we differ upon the defence of it for fifteene hundred men cannot halfe man it against a great Army which we foreseeing indeavoured the fortifying of the Newarke the Workes being neare foure miles in circuit And we desire every man to take notice that when it was in the Enemies hands and that Sir Thomas Fairfax came against it the Enemy had as many more Forces as ever we had in it all our Armes and Ammunition the Trayned Bands being called in to their assistance the Country compelled to fortifie notwithstanding all this thought it not safe for them to stand upon their defence but yeelded without any assault at all It is also averred That Sir Robert Pye and Major Innes declared they would contribute their best indeavours for the maintenance of the Towne which they said they fully performed To this we answer We cannot justifie them in this particular but say That if Major Innes did any such service at the breach in the Newarke by his favour we know not how he came there for his Post was assigned him at St Margarets Church-yard and the West Bridge and to that ground he was brought by Colonell Grey and Master Hasilrigge two of the Committee which ground he profest to maintaine or loose his life But the Enemy entred at the North Mills within that Line and betwixt Belgrave Gate and Humberston Gate close by that Line and the Horse at Belgrave Gate And thus plainly yet truly we are inforced to deale with him to vindicate our owne Souldiers from unjust charges We know no Officer of ours that forsooke his Post nor we suppose that any man of honour will goe about to prove it And not to disparage his Service we had at the breach in the Newarke Commanders and Souldiers both Horse and Foote as valiant and tryed men as are any where to be found as both friends and Enemies can witnesse and had they not entred elswhere they must not have entred there Though Major Innes had beene away our men did their parts and there tooke two of the Enemies Colours and pluckt divers of their Pikes out of their hands and beate the Enemy back foure severall times This is truth And we doe againe averre it to be true which was said in the Narration that we did disperse our selves to severall parts in the Towne to supply what was wanting in Ammunition or otherwise in distributing Money and Provisions to the Souldiers and to incourage them some one amongst us distributing ten pounds of his owne Money amongst them besides what others did and if any had want of meate or moneys it might be their owne fault absenting themselves from the Works And that the Committee very seldome appeared at the Works it is also false and is but the effect of that scandellous malice the Pamphlettor without any just cause expresses both towards us and our Souldiery through the whole Pamphlet which he injuriously and senselesly prosecutes against Captaine Hacker taxing him with making an escape through the breach at which the Enemy entred after five repulses and that he should be taken neere Humberston if this had been true as it was not it had been an honour to him to breake out in the face of an Enemy and not at a back doore or to hide himselfe under a Table the truth indeed is that when the Enemy had broken in on the contrary Line and came upon the backs of them in the Newarke then Captaine Hacker with divers others got over the River at the Pike head and were all taken on that side the River towards Bramstone which is opposite to Humberstone And whereas the Author goes on to make Captaine Hackers name the burden to a scandalous story saying this is the same Captaine Hacker that failed to joine with Colonell Rossiter It is true his Forces were not joyned with Colonell Rossiter but himself was in person with him when newes came of the neare approach of the Enemy and was desired by Colonell Rossiter to goe and fetch his Troops which accordingly he did not so much

as a lighting from his Horse but drew out his Forces and marched towards Colonell Rossiter and was within halfe a mile of him where news came to him that Colonell Rossiter was routed neverthelesse he marched towards the Enemy untill Captaine Collins of Burley not Captaine Collinson met him and told him that Colonell Rossiters Horse were all routed and that he had seene an end of all his brave Horse and men and had not a man left to stand in the face of an Enemy and told him further that the Enemy had twenty bodies of Horse and that their Forlorne Hope was as bigge as Colonell Rossiters Body whereupon Captaine Hacker the Garrison of Kirby not being finished nor defensible without Draw-Bridge or so much as a Line drawne on ●●e side the House he set fire on part of the out houses brought away all his Ammunition and Armes and left not so much Provision as would have kept his men two daies and came to Leicester whence if Captaine Collins his report had been true of the Enemies number he might have done more service then in a naked House but offereth to prove that the time the Enemy was in those parts he had Scouts and Guards out continually though by the Pamphlettor it is alleadged to the contrary And now let this be taken into their printed Records of more sincerity and truth that this was that Cap. Hacker for whose release the three Committees of Leicester Nottingham Derby petitioned the Parliament for when he was Prisoner at Belvoyre Castle This was that Cap. Hacker that was principall actor in taking Bagworth House from the Enemy and first entred the Towne of Nottingham and tooke it when the Enemy had possessed it that in his returne from Nottingham with a few of his owne Troope entred Ashby Parke within command of their Muskets and Canons brought many Cattell out of it and the same that gave the defeate at Bagworth Heath to the Enemy where they wounded and flew many and tooke three score prisoners and the same that gave the defeate at Milton where they killed and wounded many both Captaines and Souldiers tooke forty five Prisoners and the same that entred the Towne of Ashby brought away forty of the Enemies Horse and divers Prisoners and the same that with eight of his Troope entred the grounds under Belvoyre and tooke thirty sixe of the Enemies Horse and the same that had the command of Leicester Nottingham and Derby Horse at the great defeate given the Enemy neere Belvoyre where they lost about nine hundred Horse and the same Captaine Hacker that of all the prizes that ever he tooke reserved nothing for himselfe but gave all frankly to the State and his Souldiers and the same that having layne long Prisoner at Belvoyre was offered his Pardon and the Command of a Regiment of Horse to change his side and refused it with scorne and the same that now at the Kings taking of Leicester was so much prized by the Enemy as they offered him a choice Regiment of Horse to serve the King but he refused chusing rather to suffer imprisonment and beggery then to take up Armes against the Parliament And finally this is that Hacker that ever hath carryed himself as a man tender of his Country a friend to all honest and good men and fights not for the spoile of the Kingdome And these and many ●ore are his honest actions and we know no cause of this invect●●● spleene against him but that he is a valliant Souldier and one of the Committee The next Charge is upon Col. Grey That it will be proved that he suffered Sir Bern. Ashley with his whole Brigade of Foot to scale with three ladders and entred the Works without discharging one Musket and running from his Post was wounded in the back one of his Enemies saying He would give him the marke of a coward This charge is most unjust we have it under the hands of sufficient witnesses he behaved himself valiantly and Major Trollop that took him in Leicester acknowledges him to be a valiant and a stout man he had no Post to keep but maintained the Line with much diligence and courage till the Enemy with Horse and Foote brake in upon him incompast Belgrave Gate and there fighting on Horseback was wounded on the face and had two cuts on the fore-part of his head one of them cut the scull and also a wound in the back with a Pike which was rather a marke of honour then of disgrace and there being beaten off his Horse was led away And were there no other Answer made to this Pamphlet but to desire the honest Reader to observe these two last passages he would finde it stuffed with nothing but malice and falshoods in the extreme and things alledged impossible to prove And concerning Captain Hurst who is reported in the Narration to be slaine it was by mis-information but wounded he was And whereas it is declared in this abusive Pamphlet that it is most certaine that the Committee were so possest with feare that they told his Majesty they would have delivered the Towne at first upon the Summons had not Sir Robert Pye and Major Innes diswaded them from it Hereunto we answer That the Committee never spake with the King that both Sir Robert Pye and Major Innes know that if any of the Committee told the King so they told him a notorious untruth for they themselves with many others both Captaines Officers and other Gentlemen were witnesses that no one of the Committee spake one syllable of the rendring of the Towne but all assented to what was said by him that read the Summons the sum whereof was That he desired to die in no better a Cause and every man stood to his imprisonment neither did we expresse so much feare as either to crave or accept any pardon which if any particular man have done we desire to know him and shall indeavour to put him out from amongst us After which answer Sir Robert Pye and Major Jnnes questioned whether the strength in th● Towne was sufficient for the defence of it and how farre they wo●ld have proceeded by arguments to have perswaded us to the rendring of it had they found us inclinable to have hearkned to them we know not but the concurrance betwixt us and our Officers was such in our joynt resolutions for the defending of the Towne that they could have but small hopes to prevaile thereby although upon examination of some things lately come to our eares we are not altogether without grounds of such a suspition And whereas it is alledged that Sir Henry Skipwith and Sir John Pate two notorious Delinquents and powerfull with his Majesty declared at Leicester in the presence of manie honest men there That the greatest motive that drew the King to Leicester was the certaine intelligence that he had of the weakenesse of the Committee and their want of experience in militarie affaires We say that it is was