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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