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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88765	The justice of the Army against evill-doers vindicated: being a brief narration of the court-martials proceedings against Arnold, Tomson, and Lockyer, with the causes and grounds thereof. By which the impartiall reader may plainly judge, how hardly and unchristianly these men deale with the Army, to call that arbitrary, tyrannicall, barbarous murther, in them; which they could not omit without eminent neglect of their duty, and apparant danger of the most desperate events to the Parliament, kingdome, and Army, that can be imagined.	R. L.; Lawrence, Richard, d. 1684, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing L55; Thomason E558_14; ESTC R204520	15,085	20

many of the Horse also having been among them full of distempers c. and there they received a Letter the substance whereof was that they should stand as I remember to their honest ingagements for Souldiers rights and Englands freedoms and the party that brought the Letter to them told them the Generall and Lieutenant Generall would not oppose them though they were not satisfied in the way yet and these expressions made the Souldiers more and more exorable After that the Lieutenant Colonell and Major came to Dunstable and brought another Order from the Generall and read it to them but could not prevaile c. But the Officers voted that some of the Captaines with my selfe should goe through their Quarters with Orders for them to march into Buckinghamshire But when we came to Luton we heard the Souldiers had a Randevouz off and from themselves The said Officers went to Captain Talhursts quarter and found a Guard set on him and his money by his own men and there the said Captaines wounded or killed one or two men and one Lieutenant was also wounded So I parted from the Captaines after we had procured a Chirurgion and told them I would go to the Randevouz though I lost my own life as it was probable enough as they confest and give them my Orders received of the Major and accordingly I came to Dunstable and read my Orders to my owne men in the Town the Randevouz being broken up and gave them all the Arguments that was in me to march but they told me their generall determination at the Randevouz was that they would march to Readborne to a Randevouz and so they did accordingly without my consent or approbation c. as many witnesses can testifie and that night before they went to St. Albanes they set a Guard upon me and my Colours c. and so they marched to S. Albanes and lodged the Colours of the whole Regiment together and so they went towards Hartford the next day I receiving a Letter from the Generall upon our march commanding me and the Souldiers to stay where that Letter should come to us I told the Messenger I did not continue with them as commanding them but to hinder an unjust influence or the enemies designe upon them and to keep as much as I could the Generals authority among them which I was and am tender of And I communicated my Orders to the Souldiers and they all cryed out they could not goe to that Randevouz and that they were betraid if they did Whereupon the Souldiers petitioned the Generall who sent me a particular Order to march to Ware Randevouz William Bray THis Relation of Gaptain Bray I rather chuse to make use of then any of the other testimony because from him may be expected a more favourable relation then from any other himselfe being very much suspected to be an a better or at least a favourer of the Mutiny these things following being testified upon oath by Henry Lilburne John Topping William Dod Rowland Stewart William Hallowes James Hart Ethelburt Morgan and Gabriel Erwood Most of whom were then considerable Officers in the same Regiment That at a Court of Warre held at Richmond after the Generall had ordered the Regiment to march to Newcastle he said that it was not fit for the Regiment to march thither but to stay neere London untill the Parliament had confirmed the proposals of the Army and the freedome of the people And that when the Regiment did march the Colonels Company mutinying at St. Albanes Captaine Bray did say that it were better for the Regiment to march back then to goe forward and that if the Colonels Company would march back he would march in the head of them And when the Company did return back in a mutiny he did march back in the head of them and issued out Warrants under his own hand to the Countrey to bring in Horses to draw the Waggons back when they should have marched forward And the said Captaine Bray in the height of the mutiny at Dunstable did speake to this purpose That the Parliament were our profest enemies and that there was no visible Authority in the Kingdome but the Generall and that the Generall was not infallible His Lieutenant Colonell desiring to know of him whether he would goe to the head of his Company and acquaint them what orders he had received from the Generall he answered I shall not and gave it as his opinion That the way to get the Regiment to march was to send a faire letter to the Agents of the five Regiments of Horse and to get an Order from them Notwithstanding these things with much more of the same nature was proved against him yet he pretending he stayed with them only to prevent the influence of others upon them as in his foregoing Narrative the Court Martiall was willing to take the best sense of him they could did not proceed against him upon this charge which they would hardly have done if they had been so much inclined to arbitrary tyranny as himselfe and others have endeavoured to represent them For if the circumstances of this mutiny be impartially considered what a distemper it wrought in the whole Army necessitating a generall Randevouz to satisfie the Souldiers c. What opportunities it gave to evill minded men to put both Army and Kingdome into a flame Nay how industrious and active the Cavaliers agents were on the one hand and our discontented friends on the other who have alwayes pretended better things then their desperate bloody endeavours at that time and often since doe demonstrate they intend there is not any man that ever knew in the least measure what belonged to the government and discipline of an Army or of any other well governed Society but will rather wonder that every tenth man of them did not suffer then think such a storm could be allayed with the executing of one man though they should understand no more of the Story then what hath been related by Captain Bray Who in his Narrative takes no notice of their insolent barbarous carriage towards their Officers and the Countrey which was so horribly wicked and barbarous that all the Felons which have suffered at Tyburn these twelve moneths are not really guilty of so many horrid outrages as they were in that time toward the Countrey and their Officers the particulars thereof are too tedious to relate Not any of their Officers except Captaine Bray the Quarter-master and one more as I remember durst come neare them some of them being pursued many miles by their owne Souldiers who swore as they pursued them they would be revenged on them and did violently take away divers Horses in the Countrey in this pursuit of their Officers pretending their Officers were run away with their money when they were forced to run to save their lives there being one Lieutenant dangerously wounded by them And at that time when this man viz. Arnoll was

executed there were divers other Officers could not be heard of and the rest did feare that they were murthered and made away by their Souldiers And they did not exercise their rage and cruelty towards such in the Countrey as were enemies to the cause they were raised for and paid to maintain but on the contrary where ever they came in their march inquired if there were any Round-heads in that Towne and against them did they exercise their cruelty Some honest men at St. Albanes c. informed me that they were never so used by the Cavaliers as they used them and did affirme that if Captain Bray and the Quarter-master had not been with them who had a little influence upon them they had been certainly plundred if not murthered many of whom have been and still are as faithfull to the interest of the people as the highest clamourer against this piece of necessitated justice In this insolent distemper did they march to the Randevouz where they were drawn up by their Captaine Lieutenant Bray and there stood with white papers in their Hats as if they had been going to ingage with an enemy When the Generall had viewed the rest of the Army he came to them attended with his Officers who commanded them to pull their papers out of their Hats but they refused Whereupon some Officers rode in among them and plucked out the papers of some that were most insolent and then the rest began to submit By this time some of their own scattered Officers were gotten up to the Randevouz of whom the Generall and Officers enquired who among them had been the principall Leaders and actors in this mutiny and commanded them as they could espy them to single them out and accordingly they drew out as I remember eight or nine A Court-martiall being called in the place they were all found notoriously guilty of particular facts in this businesse and were there adjudged by the Lawes and Ordinances of warre to dye and accordingly sentence of death was pronounced upon them and afterward referred to a Lot all pardoned but one on whom the Lot should fall which was this Arnoll who was presently shot to death in the place And I well remember some of the Officers of that Regiment did much rejoyce in the just hand of God directing the Lot upon that man whom they had observed to be more notoriously guilty then any other in this businesse The Lot is cast into the lap but the whole disposing thereof i● of the Lord Pro. 16.33 The next person for whom the Army hath been clamoured against for their procedings with is William Thomson a Corporal in Captain Pichforts Troop in Colonell Whaleys Regiment who was questioned at a Court-martiall in the Regiment for drunkennesse gaming and quarrelling The story followeth The said Thomson being at a Tavern in Colebrooke after some time spent in drinking carousing he fell into play for money finding himself in danger to lose he began to quarrell with the man he played with who perceiving his designe took the stakes into his hand Upon which Mr. Thomson laid violent hands upon the Gentleman tore him by the haire and by force possest himselfe of the stakes In the mean while the Gentlewoman of the House being putting her husband to bed hearing a great noise of quarrelling below came running down among them and endeavoured to part them upon which Thomson threw her down kickt her on the face and most grosly beat and abused the servants for striving to part them And he being not able to have his will on them himselfe goeth away and not long after returned againe with some other of his companions and in the dead time of the night forced into the house with his drawne sword wounded three or foure of the servants laid felony to the charge of the Mistresse of the House and two others for robbing him of 20. l. of gold and silver tooke one man away prisoner viz. William Mouse threatning him to tye him neck and heels together if he would not confesse his money notwithstanding by his owne confession afterwards he lost none All which is testified at large against him by Mr. Miles of Colebrook and his wife Thomas Win-all and George Weare and most of it confest by himselfe Upon debate of the premises he was adjudged by the Councell of warre to be cashiered at the head of the Regiment the next Randevouz which sentence he would not submit unto but endeavoured to get the Souldiers of the Regiment to stand by him in this quarrell from which irregular mutinous carriages proceeded that which followeth Upon the 28. of October the Regiment had a Randevouz upon Odiam Heath in the County of Surrey the said Thomson still abiding with the Regiment notwithstanding hee was cashiered six weekes before and had received severall orders to depart the Quarters The Major of the Regiment did there endevour according to the judgement of the Court actually to cashiere him at the head of the Regiment which he in a peremptory mutinous manner refused to submit unto Upon which there was a new charge exhibited against him consisting of severall Articles the heads whereof are as followeth First that the said Thomson at or about the tenth of September 1647. did assume the title of a Souldier in the Army under the command of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and came to the Regiment of Colonell Fleetwood being at a Randevouz and there spake to and in the hearing of all the Souldiers severall seditious and mutinous words and delivered severall seditious papers some written others printed Secondly he endeavoured to make mutiny in the said Regiment by pretending he had brought a letter from the Agents of 15. Regiments and said he came to the Souldiers and not to the Officers affirming there were accusations against the Officers of the Army labouring thereby to make a division betweene the Officers and the Souldiers pressing the Souldiers to subscribe his papers All which were proved upon oath by Captain Griffith Loyd Captain Gilmond Taylor and Thomas Scot Trooper all in Col Fleetwoods Regiment Thirdly that upon the 20. of October he endeavoured to make a mutiny in Colonell Whallies Regiment as followeth The said Thomson being adjudged by a Court-Martiall to be cashiered at the head of the Regiment Major Swallow the Major of that Regiment required him to dismount at the head of the Reigment but the said Thomson refused charging the Regiments Councell of injustice and appealed to the Souldiers of the Regiment for justice pretending it was against their ingagement to suffer any Souldier to bee cashiered without satisfaction with many more words to this purpose All which is proved against him by the depositions of Colonell Whalley Major Swallow Captain Evanson Captain Dale Corner Steward and Anthony Law All which mutinous carriages words and actions comes within the letter and equitable sense of the eighth Article of duties towards Superiors and Commanders None shall utter any words