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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96212	The apologie of Colonell John Were, in vindication of his proceedings since the beginning of this present Parliament.	Were, John, d. 1658.	1644 (1644)	Wing W1364; Thomason E21_34; ESTC R14409	6,583	8

and three of my colours taken away and I for the safety of my life was forced to crosse the water and with much speede to recover the hill where Major Generall was I acquainted him with the passages there staying untill the Army came up I met with Major Belfore sometimes Major of my Regement by order aforesaid but then turned to the King who told me he wished me well and saw that I was wet and heard that I was wounded and that our Army was to lye that night upon the hill where they would be plundered advised and perswaded me to goe to his quarters ingaging the faith of a Souldier bee would see me safe to our Army againe the next morning then I finding my selfe in a wett and sicke condition so as that nights colde lodging might have indangered my life I tooke his word relying some thing upon our former intimacy of acquaintance but principally upon that faith which if broken so much dishonoreth a Gentleman or Souldier with two of the Convoy went Master Salway my Chalplaine and Cornet Davis who accompanying me to Liskard where we were civily dealt withall that night the next morning when we thought to returne the house and towne were full of souldiers where we had beene barbarously used had not the convoy protected us then sending for Belfore I desired him to make good his promise unto me which he basely and ungentlemanlike denied saying there had beene much enquirie for me that night and that I must goe to Sir Richard Grendvile I was not then in a condition to contest more then with bare words and so went with him to Grendvile who lay in the same town no sooner came I thither but I acquinted him with the passage desiing him as he was a Souldier to send me to the Army againe which he refused saying I had beene the most active enemy they had and he was glad hee now had me in his custody and that he would send me to the King upon breach of the Articles in learning the rode way with the Army I told him it was Belfores ingagement brought me thither he replyed Belfore was a foole to promise more then he could performe and so put me into another roome and within a short time sent for me againe telling me I must either to the King or serve him and then I should not want encouragements truely this their base carriages did much amase me and perceiving I could not avoide going to the King of whom by reason of my former actions I could expect little favour or suffer under the hands of an unruly multitude who thronged about me with many menaces in this extremity I promised to serve the King but with a secret reservation to my selfe no further then he complyed with his Parliament holding it no sinne to deceive them that had beene twice perfidious to me then Grendvile gave mee in charge to Major Mohum who brought me that evening to th● 〈◊〉 Goring unto whom upon the same constraint as to Grendvile I ma●● the same promise then was I carried that night with a sufficient guard to Master Trefrayes house the next day to Okehampton where I met our Army but was not suffered to stay there but by Mohum was carried a mile out of the towne where my Major came unto mee to him I gave forty shillings for to buy victualls for my Souldiers and told him privately and passionately how basely I had beene used by Belfore desiring him to assure the Major Generall I would speedily be with him for I would never serve against the Parliament this he is more a Souldier then to deny if he do I can prove his confession of it Thence I was carried to Tiverton where Sir John Bearkley lay unto whom I made the same promise as to Grenvile and Goring and got of him a release for divers Souldiers there taken up and brought them to mine owne house where giving them money and victualls I sent them to our Armie telling them with as much assurance as in discretion was thought fit I would never serve against the Parliament this I did to them and others which I can prove if my owne words in my owne cause be not currant the friday after the compossition I came to my owne house the Sabboth following came Colonell Lindsie and some eight persons more with him unto me who demanded in a rough way of me the reason I had not sent out my warrants saying when I was for the Parliament I was daily active now I did nothing swearing they would make me doe i● or ●end me to Ex●n I replied what I did for the Parliament I had commission for and quarters for my men now I had neither then said Linsey write a letter to the Lord Goring and I will carry it and you shall have any thing upon it I writt a smooth letter to Goring had an order to free 〈◊〉 ●rom Ha … rton his then quarters for me to quarter there this Order I shewed to M●hum and so was freed of those two tormentors that night I intended to goe for Taunton but before night in came Cockin and his troope and Captaine M●●●efor● quartered at my house then sent I to Captaine K 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to know whether hee could not bring me twenty honest men from Sampf●rd our neighbour Parish and we would adventure upon that troope and bring them away he said no it was hard to trust Country followes with so weighty a secret as concernes our lives these fell●wes kept so strict a guard over us as wee could not escape without danger and infinite hazard we wanting horse and other accommodations for our dispatch at last God offered a meanes the which I tooke this Captaine Mu●●ifor● desired me to make him Captaine of Tiverton Company I pe●ceived by it a company would worke much with him which I g●anted so hee would ass●●t me in bringing in my Regement hee not without oathes promised it then the next day being Sunday I tooke the advantage and car●ed him to the Constable of Halbertones house unto whom I did openly before Muddifor● and Cockin● quartermaster deliver a warrant but before had privily told him my intentions never to serve against the Parliament and s●ewed them a smooth letter that I had writt t● Sir J●hn Bar … desired them to send it this bread such a confidence in them that Muddifor● ride with me and Quartermaster Baker to one Th●mas Knights house where I had appointed Captaine Kerslake and his Leiuetenant to meete me where we dined and after dinner under pretence of this warrant which M●ddif●r● had we brought him in by waies some seven miles neare Milverton Heffeild where we understood of a troope of the enemies horse not farre before us and Muddifor● mistrusting by reason of our whispering rid away otherwise wee had brought him away prisoner then I and my company posted to Taunton where I was hartily welcomed by Leivtenant Colonell Blake the governour of the

THE APOLOGIE OF COLONELL JOHN WERE In vindication of his Proceedings since the beginning of this present PARLIAMENT Decemb 20th LONDON Printed in the yeare 1644. The Apologie of Colonell John Were in vindication of his proceedings since the beginning of this present Parliament MY Conscience is within me cleare and quiet and therein I have given satisfaction to my selfe my actions were not obscure nor done in darkenesse and they render me an intire man to all that saw them or knew me yet am I so unhappie as to suffer by the meere guilt of rumour or by some aspertions cast upon me by the subtile enemy whose interest is the discord of friends wherein I can claime no priviledge above my Saviour who was not free of slaunders 'T is for his cause that I glory I have shed my blood nor neede I repine to be a sufferer like him And certainly neither the hardship of mine own imprisonment nor the distrest condition of my tender family could have induced me to have dained so much to a false rumour as to have given this open satisfaction were there any more noble way left me to vindicate my reputation more pretious then my life But since necessity inforceth me to this Apologie take it without glosse or smooth expression my cōmerce is more with the Souldier then the Orator and plaine truth is to it selfe a sufficient countenance I undertooke not this service for private intrest revenge or pay I had an estate cōpetent left by my Anccstors the office of a Justice of Peace I long had executed in my Country and I wanted not solicitations to adheare to the Kings party being put into the Commission of Aray but upon Assembly of the Gentry that were that way affected hearing some discourse that tended both to the dishonour of God and the overthrow of the common liberty I totally disavowed the executing that Commission and fully resolved with my utmost to promote the purity of Religion and the publique peace I applied my selfe to Sir Peter Prediux a Deputy Leiftenant and from him received a Commission in the Militia being the first and I suppose the last Gentleman in Devonshire that raised and continued a Regement in that County and since have raised severall Regements at my owne charge at severall times all actually imployed in the Parliaments service the particulars of which imployments have beene thus Vpon the Lord Marquest of Hartford and Sir Ralph Hoptons first surprising Shurburne Castle a party of the County of Devon were summoned at Collumpton whether I brought a considerable number and was desired to march thither and to perswade that Regement which I did and by reason of my respects and vicinity with them I got readily their consent though they had stood mute to others before and marched with three companies of them this was my first imployment The next Sir Ralph Hopton and the Cornish forces advancing towards Exon I brought into that City a good supply of men and maintained it untill we were relieved by the Earle of Stanford our then Generall where for that service keeping Cowley Bridge with much disadvantage against a violent storme I received a memoriall of their loves and thankes then was Belfore made by the said Earle my Major I was commanded to send him with 100. Dragoneares to march with the Army the rest of the Regement to disband which I did Then after their defeate in Cornewell Plymouth being besieged I was commanded to bring what force I could to Exon to joyne with the Regements there where I brought a considerable number of my friends and neighbours and from thence marcht to Modbury and after a long fight the enemy was beaten thence and Plymouth relieved and a treaty of both Counties Devon and Cornewell assented to and my Regement with the rest of the Army was disbanded the treaty broke off I was againe commanded to bring my Regement to Crediton whence I marcht to Stratton where I continued all the fight and came off with my generall who continued to the last having I suppose not twenty men left with him when he fired with our assistance divers peeces of Ordnance upon the Enemy the Earle went to … iford thence to Exon I to mine own house where Sir Ralph Hopton bei●● upon his march I received an other Summon to bring in my Regement 〈◊〉 as many as I could procure to Exon which I did thence upon a Petition I was sent to Tewerton where I was like to have beene betrayed by the Mayor and was forced wanting Armes Ammunition and men to goe for Taunton having got up what force I could I marcht through the enemies quarters with much hazard and came againe to Exon where I continued all the siege after the surrender of that City upon composition I went to my owne house where I could not stay without I would take up Armes for the King which rather then I would doe I chose to leave my wife children and estate to the mercy of the Enemy though the Parliament was then in it's lowest ebbe Then I came to Lym● thence to London where I was againe imployed by the Parliament and sent to Lyme with about 200. men with them I beate up Bridgport quarters of the Enemy and tooke 100. good horse which so hartened the Inhabitants about Hemlocke that they generally rose to free themselves and sent to me for some assistance of Horse and Officers which by a generall consent of a Councell of Warre at Lyme was granted and Major Butler sent with 60. Horse thither to bring them to mee at Studcombe House which order if it had beene observed I at that instant beating up Collinten quarters of the Enemy taking most of that Garison prisoners I desire all Deavonshire men to consider whether I had not beene master of the field as farre as Exon this was done before Leifetenant Colonell Blakes comming downe these successes drew Prince Morris to leave Plymoth and besige Lyme where I continued all the siege being shot though not governor yet commander in chiefe of most of the forces in the town in all this time I beleeve there was not the least suspition of infidelity in me for I was received into my Country with as much honour as they could give or I expect for the good service I had don witnes the great appearance I had at the first summons when his Excellency came down which I think all the Army can testifie for within a short time I raised two Regements one of horse the other of foote without money when his Excellency marcht into Cornewell I went with him never being off my Regement untill our Armes as is well knowne were laid downe and then had not gone from them but upon this occasion quarters and good tearmes being compounded for by Major Generall Skippon and the Councell of Warre we marched from Castell dore to Lostwithiell where at the Bridge were many barbarismes used some killed others flung into the water most plundered