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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76357	A true relation of the abominable injustice, oppressions and tyranny, which Captain Henry Bell suffered nine years together at the Councell board, before this Parliament began, as the said Captain Bell did humbly exhibite the same to the King at White-Hall, on the second day of December 1640. and what His Majesty was graciously pleased to doe thereupon. And also, herein the said Captain Bell doth exhibite his humble petition to the Right Honourable the Lords assembled in Parliament. ...	Bell, Henry, Captain.	1646 (1646)	Wing B1797; Wing T2923; Thomason E357_4; ESTC R201147	6,351	16

A TRVE RELATION OF THE ABOMINABLE Injustice Oppressions and Tyranny which Captain Henry Bell suffered nine years together at the Councell-board before this Parliament began as the said Captain Bell did humbly Exhibite the same to the King at White-Hall on the second day of December 1640. and what His Majesty was graciously pleased to doe thereupon AND ALSO HEREIN THE SAID CAPTAIN Bell doth exhibite his humble Petition to the Right Honourable the Lords Assembled in Parliament Wherein he truly sheweth what Lamentable passages have hapned unto him and what misery hee hath suffered now almost six yeares together since the beginning of this Parliament only by reason their Lordships have not yet taken his grievances into hearing which the King did referre and send unto their Lordships by the Lord Privy Seale and by Sir John Bankes when this Parliament began Printed in the yeare 1646. TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent MAIESTY The humble Petition of Captain Henry Bell. Most gracious Soveraigne I Your Majesties most humble Petitioner would rather be a Bond slave among the Turkes then Your Majesties Free-born man as I am to be used as I have been nine yeares together before this Parliament began at your Councell-board here in England For the courses which were taken against me by the whole Councell board were more unjust then the ungodly proceedings that were taken against Naboth in the time of wicked King Ahab who by false accusation was unjustly bereaved of his Vine-yard whereby both Ahab and Jezabel were destroyed which fearfull example of Gods wrath may well serve at this time to be a looking-glasse for my Adversaries at the Councell-board who likewise did bend their utmost endevours u●justly to bereave me of my Vine-yard also that is of my poore estate which I disbursed in a service wherein I was imployed by your Majesties Royall Father King James amounting to 5268 l the Service being of no lesse moment then for the preservation of both your Majesties lives as M. Secretary Morton by your Majesties command did certifie your Majesty in writing at Holbery shortly before his death Wherefore I doe most humbly pray your Majesty will be graciously pleased to referre this Petition and my grievances hereunto annexed to be speedily heard before the Assembly sitting in the Commons House in Parliament that so I may have and receive payment of such moneys as are due unto mee from your Majesty together with such satisfaction for my nine yeares wrongfull Imprisonment Losses and Disgraces as shall be found agreeable with Justice and Equity And I shall ever pray for your Majesties long and happy Reigne HENRY BELL. A true Relation of the state and proceedings of Captain Henry Bells Cause nine yeares together at the Councell-board I. THAT I Captaine Henry Bell was imployed beyond the seas foure yeares together by your Majesties Royall Father King James about the pretended loving Letter which the Empresse wrote to her Highnesse the Lady Elizabeth your Majesties Sister Anno 1618. under the colour of which Letter that horrible plot should have taken effect at Ratisbone which was contrived at Vienna against the Lady Elizabeth and the young Prince her then only Sonne and also against King James and your then Princely person certified more at large unto your Majesty by Secretary Morton as is before related II. That in the said imployment as also in another imployment here in this Kingdome I disbursed out of purse for the use and service of King James of your Majestie and of this State the Summe of 5● 38 l in moneyes III. That in satisfaction of the said Summe disbursed his Majesty Anno 1619. with the full consent of the whole Councell-board did grant unto me under the great Seale of England the yearly Pention of 500 l for the Terme of 31. yeares to endure IV. That after the death of King James in regard my Pention could not be duly paid unto mee your Majesty upon the foresaid Mr. Secretary Mortons Certificate did graciously grant two Privy Seales for the payment of 900 l in part of the foresaid summe disbursed therewith to relieve me in my then present wants V. That Anno 1630. your Majesty was graciously pleased to give order to the Lord Treasurer Weston to cause another Privy Seale to be drawne up and passed unto me for the payment of 5000 l more in liew of my foresaid Pention and in satisfaction of the moneyes by me disbursed as aforesaid VI. That I attended the said Lord Treasurer two yeares for the passing of the said Privy Seale in which time I had nothing from him but only fayre promises without any performance for the passing of the same insomuch as I was forced to make my griev● us case knowne unto him and tell him that my selfe my wife and children were like to perish for want of my moneyes and meanes and therfore I humbly prayed his Lordship to give directions for the drawing up of the said Privy Seale according to your Majesties order in that behalfe otherwise I told him I should be forced to complaine of him to your Majesty and to the State VII That his Lordship thereupon grew very angry and said thus unto me Captain Bell seeing you are so peremptory you shall stay yet longer for your Privy Seale and because you say you will complaine of me therefore I will goe to the Councell Table and complaine of you to the Lords which he did forthwith according and told the Lords that I threatned to complaine of him VIII That within a few dayes after the late Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Cottington and others of the Austrian and Spanish faction who conceived and did beare an inward hate toward me ever since I performed the foresaid service did procure a warrant from the whole Councell-board to commit me to prison in the Gate-house Westminster without shewing any cause why they committed me IX That upon the said Warrant I suffered nine yeares imprisonment most wrongfully and innocently by apparent oppression injustice and tyranny X. That after I had been two yeares in Prison and without intermission did daily petition their Lordships to know the cause why they kept me in prison then because for shame of the world they must shew some colour of cause for keeping mee in Prison there was most wickedly contrived such a Bill against me as that the like thereunto was never heard of nor known so long as this Kingdome hath stood for from the beginning of the first word in the said Bill to the end of the last there was nothing true in the whole Bill neither was the said Bill drawne upon any information at all but it was only devised by and upon their Lorships meere conceits and pretended cogitations and weenings XI That I forthwith did put in my answer to the said Bill and thereupon I sent continually one petition after another to the Councell board humbly desiring their Lordships to give order that the said Bill and answer might be brought