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A92761	Sir Barnabas Scvdamore's defence Vindicating him from those grand inputations o[f] treachery and negligence, in the late surprisall of Hereford, vvhich through the ignorance of some, and malice of others, are unjustly layd upon him. Also, discovering the true causes and maner of its surprisall the 18. day of September, anno Domini 1645.	Scudamore, Barnabas, Sir, d. 1658.	1646 (1646)	Wing S2129A; ESTC R231548	13,207	26

SIR BARNABAS SCVDAMORE DEFENCE Vindicating him from those grand imputations Treachery and Negligence in the late Surprisall of Hereford VVhich through the ignorance of some and malice of others are unjustly layd upon him ALSO Discovering the true Causes and Maner of its Surprisall the 18. day of September Anno Domini 1645. Printed in the Yeare 1646. Sir Barnabas Scudamore's Defence WHO commands in chiefe in any kinde of Action becomes the single subject of all great faylings when in successe Officers and Soldiers expect the benefit of it This being my case in the surprisall of Hereford the 18. of December 1645. is aggravated upon me with such a kinde of Treachery and wilfull Negligence that could the charge be made good against me would render mee not only unfit for imployment but for life The importance of this Town at that time to the King my Master and whatsoever depended on him was not unknowne unto me And when I have sayd this I have saydenough to shew the degree and odiousnesse of such a villany Yet Passing by that which is obvious the blemishing of that honourable Profession of a Soldier whose proper Acts ate the defence of Iustice and the stayning of the Family whereof I am descended I will adde this that to betray those persons and that Towne unto plunder and slaughter in whose defence my duty and love did resolve me rather to die had beene an act unchristian and most barbarous Yet under the oppression of this restlesse charge I have layne languishing a Prisoner at Worcester seven months My importunity for a triall at a Court of VVarre hath beene with out ceasing Twice or thrice it pleased his Maiesty to write tha● I should be transported to Oxford But malice hath beene no lesse busie to keepe me both from that and all trialls then it was to asperse me at first Oxford being rendred to the Parliament and Worcester likely to follow I laboured the Governour of this latter place to graunt me a publike hearing there which yet I failed to obtaine with effect through the absence of the said Governour from the Court of VVarre though the time and place and summoning of all witnesses were fixed upon severall publique posts by his appointment Soone after Worcester being in the same condition with Oxford and my marching away included with the rest and my liberty a consequent thereof I see not now any other meanes left to vindicate my selfe from reproach with the world since I know not when I may be so happy as to come to a judiciall triall then according to the approved example of persons in like cases to publish a true relation of the whole businesse and therefore I shall endeavour without partiality to represent the motions and naked state of the whole as it was carried poynt by poynt from the beginning Sir John Bridges being discontented for the burning of his House and for some reproachfull Language given him by one of his Majesties Generalls upon the businesse of the Clubmen and angry with me for not having something that he desired which yet I could not give him quits the Kings Quarters and goes to Gloucester where and in the parts adjacent residing some two or three Monthes and comming sometimes into Hereford-shire in disguise the better to lay his designe at length goes up to London and presents to the Committees of both Kingdomes Propositions for the taking of Hereford by the way of Stratagem as he calls it Hereupon Order is given to Colonell Birch then Governour of Bath to joyne his forces with Colonell Morgan Governour of Glocester for the purpose aforsaid Coll. Birch his forces being joyned accordingly comes privately with Sir Iohn Bridges from Glocester to a place some few miles from Hereford where they met with two persons that is as I am credibly enformed Cap. Howorth and Cap. Alderne both Captaines under the King by whom Coll. Birch as in his printed Letter may appeare was sufficiently informed of the state of the Towne and returning backe to Glocester they received continuall intelligence of the condition of Hereford by the meanes of the said Captaine Howorth and Captaine Alderne but especially from Captaine Ballard my Captaine Lieutenant upon whose advertisements being now drawne into their party they most relyed In few dayes after these aforesaid two Colonells marched with all their forces to Ledbury in the County of Hereford where they arrived at five a clocke in the evening upon Munday the 15. of December Notice whereof being sent mee the next morning very early from one at Ledbury upon whom I depended constantly for intelligence I dispatched the messenger backe with directions that fresh messengers should be sent to and fro continually to advise me of the posture and motion of the Enemy I likewise dispatched instantly Expresses to intimate the same to Sir Michael Woodhouse Governour of Ludlow and Sir William Vaughan who lay at Bridgenorth collecting forces for the reliefe of Chester And I gave immediate order to Captaine Chaplaine the Towne-Major to double the Guards in the Towne And the Towne being weakned by forces sent forth two dayes before for the reliefe of Chester having drawne in the day before all the Horse that were quartering in the Country saving the Lieutenant Colonells Troop for the better fortifying of the Garrison upon this notice of the advance of the Enemy I drew in his Troope also giving him command to guard that night and to send out of the Towne at Port-shutting a party of his Horse to guard without and petroll toward the Enemy to guard within and goe the Grand-Round himselfe to goe forth likewise himselfe at Port-opening the next morning with Horse as farre as Lug-bridge all which the said Lieutenant colonell Ieffreys did exactly performe This Troop was no sooner in but though it were drawne in upon this cause a company of Townsmen take occasion from hence to raise a mutiny and so while we should have beene in attendance to the motions of the Enemy without the townesmen refusing quarter to this troope and townesmen and souldiers going together by the ears and the countenance of the mutiny appearing as if it were like to grow to a very great height worke difficulty I had enough yea I was wholly imployed to suppresse the mutiny within VVhether this was done upon designe or no I cannot say but I have inducements to thinke it so Sure I am the notice of it gave incouragement to the Enemy Of whose march all Munday night from Ledbury toward Hereford as far as Cannon-Froom I had notice by divers upon Tuesday morning as likewise upon Tuesday night of their returne backe to Ledbury Vpon VVednesday in the afternoone I was advertised that the enemy was marched out of Ledbury and that the discourse of the common Souldier in Ledbury was that they were going towards Hereford This newes the Messenger delivering privately by word of mouth when Master Major and some halfe a score Gentlemen and Townes-men were in the

respect For his Lieut Cooper spake with him that morning and received from his hands the keyes of the sally Ports of the Castle with which keyes for my part I know not what Major Chaplaine did But Lieu Lightfoot to whose custody these keyes did properly belong informes that this Chaplaine that night in my name and I say again without my knowledge demanded the Keyes of him as sent for by me and got them from him by much importunity Possible enough it is that through these Sally-ports the enemy received intelligence that night and morning for it is most certaine they expected intelligence out of the Towne even to the very minute of their entrance in case any difficulty should have risen unexpectedly to secure themselves But Cooper finding me gone to rest thought likely the time to be now most fit and finding the Salli-port keyes to be of no further use for his designe in hand to conceale himselfe rids his hands of those keyes to Lieutenant Lightfoot as returned by his Major and then comes instantly to my house and demands and presses with great importunity to have the keyes of the great Gates delivered him pretending that carts and people staied in the street to go forth which though it might have a colorable shew was far from truth But his earnestnesse at length prevailed with him that waited in my chamber to steale up that he might not awake mee and to take the keyes which were in the window and so still in my sight being awake and to bring them downe to him The keyes received away he hastens and omitting the ordinary duties which were to go to the main Guard and take a guard with him sends the other keyes to their severall Ports and passing to Bysters gate opens not the wicket sends out no Scouts but opens the great Gate lets downe the great Chaine le ts fall the Draw-bridge and going over himselfe while he saw upon the side of the Mote the Liev. and six souldiers who acted the part of the Constable and Labourers whose reported pretence of being sent for by warrant Cooper could not but know to be untrue for hee was the overseer of the VVorks writ all such VVarrants and saw the snow upon the ground which made it unfit for work and knew that the Ice was every day broken by the Garrison cryes out and to them certainly Now or Never Now or Never And happily thinking it would be too hot for him to returne the same way he went forth runs amaine along the ditch side and comes backe into the Towne at the Castle which very returne into the Towne when hee could not but see as hee ran along the Enemy entring shewes that he had a greater confidence in them then one true to the Garrison could have VVith this the Enemy enters the above mentioned persons Captaine Howorth being in the forelorne-hope of foot that seconded the said personated Constable and Labourers Sir Iohn Bridges in the forelorne-hope of Horse and Captaine Aldern in the second division Being entred the Gate where they found but foure Souldiers the forelorne-hope of Horse takes the right hand and seizeth upon the Maine-guards where were but six Souldiers and one Ensigne And Captaine Alderne my professed Enemy takes the left hand to my house and the Castle My man brings word to my bed-side the Enemy was entered I leapt up commanded him to get me a horse and slipping on my cloathes I ran instantly downe with my Sword and Pistoll in my hand to the fore gate towards the street where the Enemies Horse already come fired upon me and shot my Secretary into the belly At which I retreating another of the house shuts the door out I got at a back way towards the River in hopes still of my horse Vpon the left hand at the Castle I was shewed the Enemy gallopping towards me upon the right hand going to the Bishops Pallace I found a body of their foot comming into the Pallace yard and seeing my selfe thus beset my boy shewing mee that a couple were gotten to the other side of the River over the Ice by which I perceived it would beare I passed over and got to the gate at Wybridge where intending to get into the Towne at the wicket I saw most of the guard gone and a body of their horse comming upon the Bridge and then understanding the Enemy to be fully possessed of the Towne and no possibility of resistance left I resolved to cast my self at the King my Masters feet and rather to be sacrificed for his service if his wisdome upon triall of mee should so order it then to live with appearance of such evill either by putting my selfe into the protection of the Enemy or by any other way of flying from the Kings justice desert mine owne innocency From hence then I went to Ludlow and from Ludlow in like manner to Worcester professing there my purpose to ride to Oxford But sicknesse staying me there a weeke untoucht in comes my deputy Governour and very unthankfully being stirred up with a causelesse revenge chargeth me with the losse of Hereford by treachery which if it were true the Orders given and diligence used by mee manifested in the foregoing Relation would be a strange peece of policie for it is as cleare as the Sunne that if the inferiour officers upon whom this Relation in the face of the world chargeth the losse of the place had performed those Orders it had been impossible that the Town should have been taken in this manner though I had concurred For there would have beene an Alarum and then the Garrison with the Towne and Gentry would have made their defence sufficiently maugre the Governour But I am charged and must answer you shall heare the proofes It is said that I received money for the delivering the Towne and Lieut Wykes who is a person that hath relation to my knowne Enemies gives in evidence that Mr. Charles Bridges did affirme to him that about five or six dayes before the losse of Hereford he brought sixteene or seventeen hundred pounds to me for the delivery of the Towne To cleare which Mr. Charles Bridges hath disclaimed it to severall persons of honour and quality But then Wykes alleadgeth further that Mr. Thomas Pembridge Collonell Morgans Secretary said to him that he knew nothing of the said seventeen hundred pounds but that he had brought twelve hundred pounds from Gloucester to the old Gore being a little Village betweene Hereford and Gloucester he being one of the Convoy which money he saw told in Gloucester and to Wykes his best remembrance said it was for Sir Barnabas Scudamore for the delivery of Hereford and that hee the said Pembridge thought that the Parliament would be glad if Sir Barnabas Scudamore were put to death that they might pay him no more money Now if for one man to allege that he heard another man and another say this and that thing shall passe for good evidence

ready by eight a clock the same morning and so dismissed them Ob. 4. Fourthly because Livetenant Cooper the Major of the Townes Livetenant did fetch the keies of the Ports from my House and did so perfidiously open the Gate at which the enemy entred it is alledged by the said Major Chaplaine to excuse his owne palpable naughtinesse that I did know and allow of his Livetenant Cooper to open the Ports Resol But this hath as much truth as the former For to what end did the Towne commend and I entertaine him to be Major if his Livetenant could supply the place and the trust should be reposed in him And these be the maine arguments by which they would make me guilty of wilfull negligence I confesse I am more then halfe ashamed to lengthen the Readers trouble in setting downe such triviall things especially since none of these objections have been proved upon oath Yet having been interrogated upon them I thought it not amisse for satisfaction to produce them to the view of the world to meet with rumors lest they should gaine credit to my prejudice So now you have seen both the charge and the proofs The charge great enough Treachery and Negligence And the proofes weake enough neither of them valid even to the ordinary Reader For as to the Charge of wilfull negligence none of the allegations above recited hath been made upon oath but being sent to the Advocate Marshall he thought it not amisse to heare what I could answer to them And as to the charge of treachery they have only offered as I said before two heare-saies and a scrap of non-significant paper Yet I have laine long enough a prisoner at Worcestor for depositions to have been sent in if matter could have been as readily found as my adversaries have been laborious and curious to hunt after it But how unlikely is it that my desires should any wayes concurre in this fact seeing the losse of that place hath not only put my life but my good name more precious then life to most eminent hazard By this meanes I am deprived not onely of the honour of being Governour and the benefit accruing by that command but of all meanes of satisfaction for provisions of my owne which were in the towne before the time of my being Governour and delivered by my Commissary to the Garrison amounting to the value of 700 and odde pounds of all hopes of reliefe for my other ingagements and disbursements to the Commissarie for the Garrison amounting to as much more by the Commissaries Accompts of all stores of provisions arreares of my allowance for my own house Not to speak of my intertainment money horses plate and houshold-stuffe surmounting in all the summe of 3000l Besides the estates of my friends and of my best friends in that County in which was included the onely meanes remayning for my subsistence was heereby exposed to Sequestration the many noble and worthy persons of both sexes whom I loved and honoured who had fled thither for their last refuge The Towne in which I had some part of my Education and whereof I was now a sworne member my fellow Citizens and companions in Loyalty that so bravely assisted me in the late siege against a formidable Army of Scots all these were made lyable I should detest to live if by me to the mercy of a party which esteemed us as of all others most malignant so most worthy of extream severity And all this for what for twelve or seventeen hundred pounds why you see by that above mentioned that I should have been so a loser in point of money And if it be replyed that I should have received more afterward I pray you reflect that the way to Oxford was not the way to that The blood of ancient Gently and of an untainted family makes me abhorre the first apprehensions of so detestable and damnable a fact For no act can bee more perfectly base cowardly then for feare of any temporall want to desert in this sort Iustice Honour and Humanity Let my carriage be considered before and after this action Take a view of the whole course of my life and particularly in this warre Looke upon the orders I gave even to the last while this evill fortune was in motion Regard my behaviour since putting my selfe stript of all assistance into the power of the Kings party inraged like Lions with that losse and doth not my behaviour in these distinct parts of time administer just arguments of innocency and constancy But not to tire the Reader this was done by externall force and therefore it needs not be considered what reason or what affection might carry me for it was done by others and in no wise by me Briefly you see my diligence was such in point of intelligence that wee had continuall notice of the motions of the Enemy till the Horse were to got forth at Port-shutting that VVednesday night and the failing of their going forth was not through default of order from me Then upon the intelligence orders were presently given out and continually renewed by mee to the Major of the Towne Captaine Chaplaine to double the guards within And drawing the Horse in I commanded them double duty that is to guard as well without as within the Towne Vpon the said VVednesday in the afternoon as soone as the notice of the Enemies advance came to mee I imparted it immediatly to Mr. Major and published it by Proclamation to the whole Towne At nine a clocke that night I dismist the Towne Major Chaplaine to his rest that he might be with me at five next morning to take care of the Towne I went the Grand Round not remissly but correcting faults as I passed I sent for Captaine Traherne Captaine of the watch to come to the place of his duty the Maine Guard At every Port I charged them upon paine of death that neither Officer nor Soulder should flirre off their guard ever inculcating that the Enemy was advancing and the Towne in danger I Cudgelled the drunken Corporall at Bysters Gate commanding him to be set by the heels and that an officer in Commission should bee placed at that Port. I viewed the Centries Armes that stood over that Gate and added another Centrie to him directing the Centries should be visited and relieved every halfe houre At the dismissing the Guards I charged Ballard to continue Rounds without ceasing untill eight a clocke in the morning and then to bring me an account Permit me this further that I was so farre from giving order as is reported that the Gates should bee opened at 8. a clock that I intended they should be kept shut at least till ten For having received private notice that some opposition was like to be made by Townesmen in defence of the Mutiniers to be tried I was willing that businesse should be ended before the Gates were unlocked And my resolution being immediatly after the rising of the Court of VVar to march out my selfe in person with the whole body of Horse to discover and observe the motions of the Enemy I truely meant the ports should not be opened till I went forth my selfe And of this resolution of mine Liev. Collonell Ieffreyes is a perfect witnesse to whom I did communicate it upon Letters I had received the day before from Sir Michael Woodhouse Governour of Ludlow who suspected the Enemy had a designe to plant a Garrison at Tenbury to stop the intercourse betweene Ludlow and Worcester But you see how my intention was made frustrate my servant that waited upon me in my chamber stealing away the keyes as he might no lesse easily have taken away my life from the place where and in places like to which all Governours use to confide their keyes they usually rested and safely enough even during the late siege though I will not charge my said servant with any knowledge of Lieutenant Coopers treacherous purpose And this is the negligence that I am guilty of Now if any of these orders had been fully executed could this Towne have been lost It cannot be imagined On the other side you see how the plot was laid and Carried Sir Iohn Bridges and Colonell Birch riding into Hereford shire receive information of the present state of Hereford by Captaine Howorth and Captain Alderne these two with the addition of Captaine Ballard my Lievtenant conveyed continuall intelligence to Glocester Major Fletcher omits to send forth out guards Major Chaplaine failes to double the guards within and in a word keeping his bed neglects the whole duty naturally inherent in the place of Major Captain Treherne Captain of the watch comes not at all to the maine Guard Captain Lievtenant Ballard commanding the guards drawes off the guards from Bysters Gate in order to his disabling beforehand the murthering Peece Lievtenant Cooper opens the great gate lets downe the chaine lets downe the draw bridge and gives the word Now or Never with which the Enemy enters with three or foure and twenty hundred accompanied with Captaine Howorth Sir Iohn Bridges and Captaine Alderne And yet the whole businesse still lay upon me although by this time it is very well knowne what it cost the Parliament and who received their moneyes This is the truth and I doubt not but it will finde credit with good men and abundantly satisfie the generous and judicious spirits in order to my innocency and deliver mee from the false foule charge of Treachery or Negligence My conscience bearing witnesse with me that I am guilty only of the unhappinesse of it which hath been and is common to all men of honor of my profession

roome with me I did instantly communicate it in publique to them all And directed Master Major to make Proclamation that the Townsmen might have notice of this intelligence And withall he required presently to shovell off the Snow from the Walls that the place might be fit for them to stand on with their Armes upon the first Alarum which Proclamation was accordingly made At two of the Clocke the said afternoone Order was given by me to Livetenant Colonell Jeffreys who commanded the Horse in chiefe that as he in his owne person had performed the duty of the Guards the night before as is before expressed so he should give Order that the Officer who had the Guard that Wednesday night should doe the very same This Order Livetenant Colonell Ieffreys acknowledgeth to have received from me and affirmes that he transmitted it to Major Fletcher who by turne had the command of the Guard that Wednesday night and Major Fletcher under his hand hath acknowledged that he received the said Orders from Livetenant Colonell Ieffreys But the next daies successe doth manifest that no Horse were sent out that night and that Major Fletcher failed in that important duty About three a clock that afternoone I gave Major Chaplaine Orders to double the Guards Which he performed not as by the list he gave me appeares At nine a clock I dismist the said Chaplaine to goe to his rest telling him that I would goe the grand round my selfe and should expect him to be with me at five a clock in the morning to receive from me the defects of the Guards and to looke to the Towne while I might catch an houres rest or two being at eight a clock in the morning to sit at a Court of Warre upon the Mutineers of the day before The grand round I went about one of the clock and beginning at the maine Guard I found that Captaine Traherne Captaine of the Watch was not upon the place and resenting it I directed his Ensigne to send for him in my name to attend his duty which was done accordingly but Traherne came not Going on the round at every Port I charged them upon paine of death that neither Officer nor Souldier should stirre off from their Guard ever adding that the enemie was advancing and the Towne in danger Comming to Bysters Gate at which Port they that come from Ledbury enter and where indeed the enemy did enter I found the Corporall so drunke that he could not give me the word whom I corrected for the present with my Cane and commanded my Captaine Livetenant the above mentioned Ballard who commanded the round with me mine owne Company being upon the Guard to place an Officer in Commission at that Port as soone as the grand round should be ended and to lay the Corporall by the heeles Looking up I called to the Sentinel that stood on the top of that Gate to swingle his match and answer being made that he had a snap-hanz for the more surety I sent another Souldier up and called him downe and finding it to be so and fixt and laden I returned him up to his sentry place and added one more to him leaving a strict charge that the Sentries should be often visited and relieved every halfe houre So that whereas it is noysed that I called downe this Sentry and returned none up to meet with this rumor you may perceive that instead of one I placed there two And here seeing it is in my way let me answer another as frivolous objection It is bruited abroad that I gave money to corrupt the Guard T is true that as I passed by the Ports I gave in that cold snowie night some twelvepence or eighteen pence a peece as my custome was to each Guard yet with order to the Officer who received that money from me that they should not drinke it till nine a clock and five shillings I gave to the Officer of the Horse with like order But at this Port Bysters Gate finding things as you see not in order I gave not one penny The grand round being ended about five of the clock I commanded my Captaine Livetenant Ballard to continue rounds without ceasing untill eigh tand to give me an account Which Order he altogether neglected though I did not only give it him at the dismissing of the Guards but afterwards at mine owne house repeating it twice at least Yea it was the last word I said unto him But it is no wonder if we consider what doth follow For in place of it t is very well knowne by testimony of some who entred the Towne with the enemie that he the said Ballard drew off the Guards from Bysters Gate where when the Towne was entred were but foure Souldiers And further that he had beforehand poysoned or by some other meanes disabled the Murthering Peece which lay in the mouth of Bysters Gate Both which good Officers were faire preparatives for the force which was without to enter with greater ease and safetie But where is Major Chaplaine the Towne Major whom the Common Councell some weekes before recommended to me for that place with much importunity It is not unknowne I then told them that he would deceive them and would not rise in a morning And now they find my words made good For according to Order I expected him to take the charge of the Towne as befitted his Office yea I enquired often for him not without passion but then no newes could be heard of him Yet now in his confession under his hand he is not ashamed to avow that he was in his bed when the Towne was taken which was about eight a clock in the morninge And though his nature may incline some to thinke that this was sloth and others through his report that the woundes which he had in his body and the attendance of the Chyrurgion to dresse it may be the matter yet I doubt there was a worse thing in it For cleerely the wound that troubled him for it is but one is but in the nature of an Issue and requires but the attendance of an Issue Besides this wound hath been in him some yeares and notwithstanding it during the siege of Hereford which was not above foure moneths before he was able to watch all night and doe his duty all day taking his rest but as other Officers did But suppose him to be generally unable to rise betimes yet when that Towne which recommended him to the place was in danger and the Governour by expresse Order had commanded him to be with him by five in the morning and at a time when all the Towne knew by Proclamation that the enemy was approaching For him then not to obtaine of himselfe to rise two or three houres before his accustomed time but to sleepe secure doth shrewdly infer his minde to be in a worse condition then his body But sleep he did not all this while he was awake earely enough yea too soon in that