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The reward of oppression, tyranny, and injustice committed by the late kings and queens of England and others by the unlawful entry and unlawful deteiner of the dutchie lands of Lancaster : declared in the case of Samuel Beck, an infant, and directed to his Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of England &c. and to the Right Honorable his Privy Counsel / by Margaret Beck.
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Beck, Margaret.
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1656
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Wing B1649; ESTC R23676
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the Infant IT is true that John of Gaunt had the Dukedom of Lancaster by his first wife and that hee had H. 4. and two daughters by the first wife as is expressed in the paper And that Thomas Earl of Dorset and Joan de Beufart came of the body of Katharine Swinford his third wife As to pag. 328. the paper faith it is said that H. 4. united the Dukedome of Lancaster to the Crown which proves nothing but it will bee prooved that H. 4. was so far from uniting of it to the Crown that hee made a Charter of the Dukedom and confirmed it by act of Parlâ—ment to Thomas de Beufort in expectancy after his death and that after his death Thomas did enter and did enjoy it all the time of H. 5. and six years in the time of H. 6. and in all that time let Lease and granted Estates And for that it was unlikely that H. 4. would pass it to a female which is no proof for Beck's case is not that H. 4. passed it to a female but that Thomas dying without issue Joan was his next heir at the common Law And it doth appear by the grants made by H. 4. to Thomas de Beufort that hee esteemed him above all others of his family for in the grants it is for maintaining his Title to the Crown both at home and abroad and so might verie well trust him to keep up his Childrens Title to the Crown after his deceas Also it appear's by Record that H. 4. created him Earl of Dorset and afterwards Duke of Exeter and after that this grant of the Reversion of the Dukedome of Lancaster thereby the more to enable him to maintain his Children's Title to the Crown It doth not appear that Ralph Nevil had any more Children by Joan de Beufert his second wife then George Nevil Lord Latimer and Cicilia afterwards married to Richard Plantagenet Duke of York from whom the Stewards family descended but it must needs bee that the Children of Ralph Nevil were of his first wife otherwise how could it bee found in the office after the death of Latimer and wife of Beck that her Child was heir to Jone Countess of Westmerland and so to Thomas Earl of Dorset and Duke of Lancaster All this appeared by the coppies of the Records allowed by King James taken out of the Tower Court of wards and Heralds office when King James assigned the Child's grandfather Counsel Notwithstanding all this the mother and guardian of the Childe do submit to the Lord Protector and his privy Counsel to deal with her and her poor Childe as they shall pleas whereupon the Childe was sent to Eaton Colledg to bee bred there at School to eat the bread given by H. 6. who first intruded on the Dutchie Lands but the privy Counsel would not hear any further in the case OBSERVATIONS HENRY 6. entered first by intrusion on the Dutchie Lands of Lancaster after the death of Tho. de Beufort Earl of Dorset and Duke of Lancaster and Exeter and was afterwards conquered by E. 4. taken prisoner and murthered in prison and so lost the Dutchie Lands Crown and Life Also E. 4. kept it by wrong all his life who was wicked in murthers and adulterie hee caused his Brother George Duke of Clarence to bee drowned in a Butt of Malmsey his adultery with Jane shore and others and had wars all his time with those who took part with the hous of Lancaster his two sons after his death murthered in the Tower by R. 3. The Children are paid for the sins of the Father R. 3 would not part with it untill H. 7. killed him at Bosworth field where his body was disgracefully drawn to Lecester and there buried basely H. 7. entered upon the Dutchie Lands and sold much of it and made abundance of mony by that and unlawfull taxes upon the people as a most wicked Tyrant and left it to his son H. 8. who as wickedly spent it as his Father got it and left E. 6. his son who died an Instant and Mary his eldest daughter who wickedly persecuted her sister Elizabeth Shee reigned all her time in a bloody persecution and died all three Children of H. 8. raigning successively one after the other and dying Childless a curs upon that line King James entered upon the Lands of the Dukedom left unsold and kept it by oppression died unnaturally by poison as hath been apparently prooved and left King Charls who refused to restore the Lands or give any satisfaction His end most miserable arraigned condemned and executed at his own door his wife and Children constrained to live on Alms in strange Countries And for the members of the late long Parlament they were disgracefully turned out of that power And lastly for the Assembly who called themselvs a Parlament brake up themselvs in confusion oppression and injustice visibly punished in this verie case It is observed by good Historians that from the body of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster have descended lineally one Empresse 32 Christian Kings and Queens 2 Cardinals 10 Princes and Princesses and 49 Dukes and Dutchesses c. as from another Abraham whereof this Infant Samuel Beck is the last onely heir of that line left in England The Stewards family is also descended from the second hous of Lancaster in expectancie from Joan Countess of Westmorland the daughter of John of Gaunt but their descent is by her youngest daughter the Ladie Cecilia who intermarried with Richard Plantagenet Duke of York who had E. 4. and R. 3. but Samuel Beck is lineally descended from George the son of John Countess of Westmorland who was Bâ—â—â—her of the whole blood to Cecilia Dutchess of York the issue of the Son in right of his Mother is to bee answered before the issue of the daughter which clear's the case for Samuel Beck the Inffant FINIS
The REWARD OF OPPRESSION TYRANNY and INJUSTICE Committed by the late Kings and Queens of England and others by the unlawful Entry and unlawful Deteiner of the Dutchie Lands of LANCASTER Declared in the Case of Samuel Beck an Infant and Directed to his Highness OLIVER LORD PROTECTOR of England c. and to the Right Honorable his PRIVY COUNSEL By MARGARET BECK widdow late Wife of Nevil Beck Mother and Guardian to the Infant London Printed Ann. Dom. MDCLVI TO HIS HIGHNESS OLIVER LORD PROTECTOR Of ENGLAND c. May it pleas your Highness TO look upon the case of the poor Childe concerning his Title to the lands of the Dutchie of Lancaster It hath pleased God that the power of Justice is now devolved on your Highness and the most honorable Privie Counsel And you are now the fountain thereof KIng Ed. 4. and his Counsel heard the Caus of the Masters and poor Brethren of the Hospital of St. Leonard's in York complayning that Sir Hugh Hastings John Wombel and others withdrew from them a great part of their Living which consisted chiefly upon the having of a Thrave of Corn of each Plough-land in the Counties of York Westmorland Cumberland and Lancashire and for which they being very poor men were not able to sue for at the Common Law Rotulo pat de An. 8. E. 4. part 3. memb. 14. and yet they had for that Hospital a special Act of Parlament made for them to give them action in that verie case 2. Hen. Cap 2. That there are many Presidents in the like case where the single person and his privy Counsel heard determined causes for the poor against oppression Shee make's bold to offer this to your Highness with confidence becaus heretofore you knew her poor Husband and have pitied his case and have been a friend to him out of your bountie and goodness May it pleas your Highness shee is so poor that shee is fain by her Needle to maintain her self and poor Child hardly Therefore her humble petition is that your Highness will bee pleased to order her a hearing in the behalf of her child before your Highness and your privy Counsel in this case and to assign her Counsel and in the mean time out of your bountie and goodness to allow her for the present maintenance for her Child A petition as it hath pleased your Highness graciously to afford to others and the prayers of the Widdow and Fatherless will bee for your Highness happiness c To the Right Honorable the Lord 's of his Highnes's most Honorable Privy Counsel The humble Petition of Margaret Beck widdow Humbly sheweth THat in all ages extraordinary causes were heard and determined before the single person and his privy Counsel as in the case of Bogo de Clare notwithstanding hee was dismist out of Parlament for Error in the complaint yet the King commanded him by Writ ad faciendum recipiendum quod per Regem concilium fuerit faciendum and so proceed to a Reexamination of the whole Caus 18. E. 1. And in the case of Elizabeth the widdow of Nicolas Audley against James Audley concerning her dowrie 4â— E. 3. Also in the case of William Goddard against Hugh Straule for divers Mannors in the Isle of Tannet 6. E. 5. Also in the case of Robert Danvers a Counseller against William Brocket a Clark of the Exchequer 21. H. 6. Another concerning the innocency of the Lord Ralph Cromwell Chamberlain to H. 6. concerning the villanous accusation of one Robert Colindona Priest for suspition of treason 31. H. 6. also In the case of the Abbot of S. Edmond's-Bury against Walter Thurston and others 20. E. 4. also In the case of Fardinando de Sanciago a Spaniard H. 7. with many more presidents in those and other Kings raigns and in the book of orders by the privy Counscel in the Minoritie of H 6. in the â— Article that all bills terminable at the Common Law shall bee remitted thither unless the discretion of the Counsel feel too great might on the one partie and unmight on the other or caus reasonable to move them and in the 14 article that the Clerk of the Counsel shall bee swoâ—n that each day of sitting hee shall call the bills of the poorest sutors to bee first read and answered so neer as hee can ask and inquire and the Kings serjeant to bee sworn to give Counsel without fee to such as shall bee accepted upon pain to bee discharged of their offices which were the verie words of the articles Therefore her humble petition is that you would be pleased to look upon the following case and to assign her counsel videl. Sergeant Maynard Mr Lach and Mr Freeman c. And to order that shee may have Coppie of such records as concern the Dutchie of Lancaster and that her Counsel and Agent may search for the same without Fees shee being miserably poor and that those who have entered on the Lands of the said Dutchie may bee summoned to answer to her Bill in the behalf af the Infant and shee shall daily pray c. HENRY the 4. after his Coronation created Thomas Beaufort Earl of Dorset and gave him 20 l. per An. out of the Exchequer for maintaining the King's Title to the Crown both at home and abroad and also made a Charter of the Dukedome of Lancaster to the second Hous of Lancaster in expectancie which then was Tho. Earl of Dorset who after the deceas of H. 4. by virtue of the Charter did enter into the Dukedome and did enjoy the same nine years in the raign of H 5. and six years in the raign of H. 6. and being lawfully thereof seized died without issue after whose deceas the said Dukedom descended to the next heir at the common Law which was Joan Countess of Westmorland his Sister who had issue George Nevil Lord Latimer who had Sir Henry Nevil who had issue Richard Lord Latimer and Thomas Nevil twins Richard died without issue Thomas had issue Elizabeth his onely daughter and heir who intermarried with Wil. Beck Esq who had issue Sam. Beck whohad issue Nevil Beck who had issue Sam. Beck an Infant now living H. 6. Contrary to the Charter made by H. 4. entered by intrusion for which the quarrel began between the Houses of York and Lancaster E. 4. conquered H. 6. and entered upon all his Lands as escheted becaus hee found the Lands of the Dukedome of Lancaster in his possession hee kept that also for his better strength and securitie and died who had issue Edward and Richard Infants murthered in their Infancie by Richard 3. who usurped both the Crown and Lands of the Dukedome of Lancaster H. 7. who had been banished came into England with forces onely to claim the Earldom of Richmond and fought with and killed R. 3. and took upon him the Crown and also entered upon the Dukedome of Lancaster taking his president from R. 3. E. 4. and H. 6. and