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A89428	A true and exact relation of the great and heavy pressures and grievances the well-affected of the northern bordering countries lye under, by Sir Arthur Haslerigs misgovernment, and placing in authority there for justices of the peace, commissioners for the militia, ministry, and sequestrations, malignants, and men disaffected to the present government, set forth in the petition, articles, letters and remonstrance, humbly presented to the councel of state, with his apologie to the Lord President, for publishing thereof. / By John Musgrave.	Musgrave, John, fl. 1654.	1650 (1650)	Wing M3153; Thomason E619_10; ESTC R206368	38,763	55

the enemies against the Parliament under Captain Rolf a drunkard a pleader for Delinquent and scandalous Ministers an Enemy to honest men and the Parliaments suffering friends 3. Robert Hutton now a Commissioner for the Militia and Ministry a man Sequestrable took the Oath for the Earl of New-Castle against the Parliament a countenancer and upholder of Malignant and scandalous Ministers and such as Act for the Scottish Interest a common Ale-house-haunter and a great drinker 4. Cuthbert Studholme now Commissioner for the Militia Ministry and Sequestrations a private Captain in Carlile Garrison a Farmour of Sequestred tithes at far undervalues when other would have given and offered greater sums a countenancer and upholder of such ministers as oppose the Engagement and he is for the Scottish Interest against the Parliaments friends 5. Thomas Craister now a Commissioner for Sequestrations for the Militia and Ministry a professed Enemy and persecutour of all the Parliaments suffering friends there under the name of Independants an upholder and maintainer of Malignant and such Ministers as refused the Engagement and are for the Scottish faction threatned those that informed against such saying they went in John Musgraves way he discountenanced witnesses produced against Thomas Millington a Malignant Minister who since the Act and Proclamations against King and Kingship prayed for all Kings and Princes and especially for those that pretended Title to this Nation and for bad men to speak against the King and said the Kings Laws would yet be in force and Lawfull and that the Parliament could not order England he doth still Church women and take money for Burials all this and much more was proved before the said M. Craister M. Langhorn M. Lamplongh M. Cholmeley and Edward Winter yet by M. Craister power and Countenance the said Minister is still Countenanced and continued in his personage being worth 100. l. per annum and more 6. That Thomas Craister refused to joyn with the said John Musgrave to receive discoveries against Delinquents whereby the Common-wealth is hindered 10000. l. and Delinquents inabled to raise a second War 7. That the Commissioners for the Militia in Cumberland suffer Delinquents to ride with their armes and to go from their homes at pleasure some 10. some 20. some 60. miles without Sequestring or questioning them for it contrary to the late Act of Parliament 8. Thomas Cholmely now a Justice of Peace a Commissioner for the Militia Ministry and Sequestrations a man Sequestrable left the Parliament for his delinquency in the first War was in arms and joyned with the Enemy against the Parliament and Voluntarily lent the Enemy fifty pounds in the second War kept Intelligence with the Scots and sent a man and horse to the Enemy into Scotland took the Oath for the Earl of New-Castle against the Parliament a great Enemy to the Parliaments friends and them them call Independants joyned with M. Briscoe Sr. Wilfride Lawson M. Lamplongh M. Henry Tolson M. Thomas Curwen and M. John Barwis in committing diverse honest men for not coming to the Book of Common-Prayer since it was taken away and caused them to be indicted at the quarter Sessions for the same and a little before the Scots received the last great overthrow by the now Lord General the said M. Cholmley said the Scots were his brethren in Covenant and it was against his conscience to fight against the Scots he is a great upholder of such Ministers as are against the Engament and he complieth with the Malignant and Scotish party 9. Edward Winter a man of a private condition never appeared for the Parliament where danger was a countenancer and maintainer of Malignant Ministers and such as are against the Engagement and procured by M. Craister and M. Langhorn to be a Commissioner for the Militia and Ministry to vote with them 10. John Crosthwait a Commissioner for the Militia and Ministers a man that lived peaceably in the Enemies Quarters while they had power never Acted nor appeared for the Parliament where danger was holds his Estate in Tenantbright under Sr. John Lowthernant and was Bailiffe and receiver of his Rents when Sr. John was a Commissioner of Array he is a fearfull low-spirited man and procured by M. Craister to be a Commissioner to vote and Act with him 11. William Mawson now a Commissioner for the Militia and Ministry never Acted nor appeared for the Parliament where danger was a great favourer and protector of scandalous and Malignant Ministers and procured by M. Craistor and M. Langhorn to vote with them and uphold their Interest 12. Thomas Langhorn now a Commissioner for Sequestrations the Militia and Ministry a Man sequestred took the Oath for the Earl of New castle against the Parliament A great enemy to them they call Independents refused to joyn with the said John Musgrave in discovery of Delinquents when presented unto them an upholder of Mr. Balwyne a Minister that refuseth the Engagement to preach on Thanksgiving-dayes or preach for the Parliament or Army disaffected to the present Government and joynes with Mr. Craistor to keep under such as favour the Parliament and such as are called Independents 13. Thomas Garth named Agent for Sequestrations a man sequestrable took Oath for the Earl of Newcastle was Cornet to Sir Henry Fletcher and Quartermaster to Sir Phylip Musgrave a great favorer and protector of Malignants while he was Solicitor to the old Committee for Sequestrations 14. Henry Robinson imployed as Agent for Sequestrations now by Mr. Craistor and Mr. Langhorne voluntarily gave to the Enemy five pounds to buy a Horse and ingaged he would never act for the Parliament protesting what he did for the Parliament he did it for a livelihood saying alas alas he was for the King in his heart 15. Thomas Curwen now a Justice of Peace in the last Warre set out Man and Horse for the Enemy was protected in his Estate by Baronet Curwen and continued at the said Baronet Curwens house all the time of the last Warre and after the County was reduced to the Parliament he protected the said Baronet Curwens Estate kept his Goods from being sequestring and in a threatning manner told some whom he called Independents that it was such as they that caused the last Warre 16. That all or most of the Delinquents there injoy their real Estates and most of their personal and those that have compounded with Sir Arthur Hazlerig did not compound to the half value of their Estates 17. Sir Wilfride Lawson now a Commissioner for Ministers and a Justice of Peace was a Commissioner of Array and acted upon the same took the Oath for the Earl of Newcastle and was in Arms with the Enemy against the Parliament hath great summes of money of the County not accompted for a professed Enemy to honest men a favorer and Protector of Papists and Delinquents 18. That the Commissioners for the Militia are great favourers of Malignants very unequally raising the Horse on the poorer sort and

therewith their dying spirits were revived as if they had bin already delivered from under the hand of their cruel Egyptian Taskmasters who exacted their stinted number of brick without allowance of any straw and hoped their bondage should have ended in the first year of Englands Freedom but alas their sunne was soon overclouded and an unexpected storm of a sudden doth arise ready to over-whelm them in a Sea of new ttoubles when their Ship was ready to arrive at the Haven of their wished desires Mr. Howard a most dangerous and notorious delinquent in Arms against the Parliament both in the first and second War a man of great wealth and very powerful in his Countrey who in the last War raised great Forces and mustered 8000 men for the enemy who at his Muster declared for the late King said he was to meet the Prince at Barwick causing his Souldiers to shout a King a King in holding up their naked swords in his house hath for his Councellour one Followfield a Lawyer a dangerous Papist being but the other day with the Rebels in Ireland and for his Chaplain a Malignant-Priest late Preacher to the King at Oxford in his Garison there I say that Mr. Howard by whose recommendation I know not if not by Sir Arthur Haslerig within two moneths that I had presented my Remonstrance as aforesaid is made High Sheriff of Cumberland to the lifting up the Malignant spirits I complain to Sir Arthur H. of this he slights it or rather approves of it few days after Sir Arthur H. as of purpose to set up the enemy with high hand presents to the Councel of State for Commissioners of the Militia for our Countrey Mr. Howards Vassalls and Creatures known Delinquents and men professedly enemies to the present Government openly and liberally I speak against Sir Arthur H. for so doing he procures an Order and convents me before the Councel of State to give in my exceptions and the reasons of my exceptions to the men thinking by his greatness and power to have born me down but after long debate upon my exceptions he promised to the Councel of State to lay these men aside as unworthy that trust and imployment pleads misprision and how he was abused by Thomas Craystor Major of Carlisle whose Letters for these men he shewed but upon our Noble and ever to be honoured Generals return from Ireland and his march for Scotland Sir Arthur H. procures the before excepted men to be Commissioners for our Militia a boldness not to be paralleld and a fault not excusable acting as if he were above Law above the Parliament After he returns into the Countrey to Newcastle he convents our Ministry before him the Engagement he mentions not nay some are threatned with imprisonment for desiring the same to be tendered to some Scottish Malignant Priests which are beneficed with us he establishes in the Ministry malignant scandalous and such as be opposite to the Engagement our honest Ministers and your friends he discountenanceth silenceth and sequesters putting in their places men disaffected and Mr. Nichols Sheriffe Howards Chaplain whom before I spoke of upon the recommendation of Mr. Craystor as from a good hand is certefied me since I came thence he hath placed at Aicton where before Mr. Lampit served faithfully the cure I pray your Lordship consider whether if your enemy in Armes were possessed of that Countrey could do you this way more disservice and more injure your friends but why complain I alone read these following Letters am I not blamed for my long silence as either conniving at consenting or at least concealing Sir Arthur H. exorbitancy and oppressions therefore least I should prove guilty herein of betraying my own and Countries Liberty I have as Esther did in the like case and extremity present her self before the King put all to hazard and contrary to your Law and Order come thus into your presence and rather then this grand impostor of State should not be unmasked I have cast my self upon your bounty and if I perish I perish pardon my Lord this my presumption consider our condition and speak peace unto us we are brought to the like exigency and strait as the Lepers of Samaria if we now hold our peace we dye and if we put our selves out our condition cannot be worse nay I had rather be in your prison then live as we do under Sir Arthur H. in liberty which very thing and no other is the cause that without an Imprimatur I have thus published his illegal irregular actings his breach of faith and trust and what manner of men he imployes and intrusts and how they order things and behave themselves in their publick Offices but if any object and say that I strengthen the enemy by thus discovering breaches amongst our selves I answer the enemy within the Rib of the Trojan Horse in one night burned that great City which the Princes of Greece in ten years Warre with all their powers could never enter and is not Sir Arthur H. made Guardian and Keeper of your strong Holds and Cities bordering upon the perfidious Scot your unreconciliable enemy and by the laying open the rottonness of these men the enemy will be much frustrated of their hopes and prevented in their design when they cannot have a party among us longer undiscovered to uphold their interest by the Sword of Authority and such hereafter as we shall intrust and imploy when they know they cannot escape unpunished if they should falsifie their trust will be more careful to discharge their duty And such have been Patriots of their Countrey who have minded the good of the Common-wealth and not their own Wealth as blessed be God for it many there be placed in several seats of your highest Judicatures will be incouraged to act with higher resolutions without fear for the Honour of the State there the good and comfort of the People and be to their own verlasting praise the causes of all the late tumultuous risings insurrections here in Wales the North were occasioned by no other then some of your bosom enemies such have been the cause of these distractions and the continuance of this War thus long amongst us and till justice be done impartially your corrupt Ministers of State be brought to account you can expect no end of these troubles Slight us not herein it concernes your peace your security for if such men as we complain of be kept in Authority by new divisions through their misgovernment will indanger if this Warre were ended and all your enemies broken to foment raise new troubles greater and more dangerous combustions then any we have had or yet undergon premoniti premuniti Therefore my Lord you being so concerned and your interest so great and your welfare so much depending upon the States prosperity besides your love of Justice your great courage and your unparalleld actings beyond any other in Authority tending thereunto with the

the Parliaments Friends whose Estates are under ten pounds per Annum and men of great Estates and charged by the Act not charging them proportionably and upon ●uch as have Estates and did set out Horse and Arms for the Enemy they impose little and of some such nothing at all 19. That the Commissioners for Ministers have displaced such honest Ministers as they call Independents and such rectories they take into their hands they farm out to their own Agents and Servants at far undervalues and for far less then others would have given and afford when the same we let out as one instance for many they let the Rectory of Graistock which is worth 300 l. per Annum to their Agent Clerk for threescore and eleven pounds when twice as much was bid and the Commissioners take the Tythes up to their own use as can be proved JOHN MUSGRAVE The Articles are subscribed and will be attested by John Nicholson Mungo Rothew John Nicholson Francis Smith Isaac Antrobus My exceptions to the Commissioners for the Militia upon this following Order were approved by the Councel of State and Sir Arthur H. besides his Engagement to the Councel of State promised me afterwards he would put none others but honest men in any place or Office but hath done far otherwise Die Jovis 31. January 1649. At the Councel of State at White-Hall ORDERED THat Mr. John Musgrave be sent unto to come to this Councel to morrow in the afternoon to give in his exceptions and the reason of those exceptions which he makes against the names of the Persons given in by Sir Arthur Hazlerig othe Commissioners for the Militia for the Northern Counties Yours G. FROST Secretary AFter Sir Arthur H. had consented to by aside the Commissioners there for the Militia whom I excepted against I return into my Countrey and acquainted my Friends what I had done they much rejoyced d●siring me in their names humbly to represent to the Lord Presidene Bradshaw their thankful acknowledgement of his former respects which they and their Countrey had received from him when in Easter Terme last when being about some Lawes concerning my self and my poor Mother oppressed by a bad Husband I came to London I found our affairs in a worser condition then I expected upon the Lord Gen. March for Scotland the Militia of this Common-wealth being to be setled for the more security thereof Sir Arthur H. procures a Commis to the excepted persons to be Commissioners for Cumberland with which I was acquainted but few dayes before I was constrained upon urgent occasions to return home whither being come this following letter is sent me from the Congregated Church at Broughton Kind Friend and Brother Musgrave UPon your return from London in Hillary Terme we were much gladded the Councel of State was pleased to hear you upon your exceptions to the Commissioners of the Militia and for their Declaration to redress our grievances complained of in your Remonstrance but when we understood that Sir Arthur Hazlerig had procured the same men whom you excepted against not only to be Commissioners for the Militia but for the Ministry we were cast down conceiving the Enemy to be very potent and prevailing more on you because of your negligence though formerly you have been very active and suffering for your Countrey yet in this we cannot but blame you being confident if the Councel of State had known what manner of men they were how disaffected to the present Government either Cavaliers or of the Scottish faction not one of them would have been approved of by the Councel of State unless the Governor of Carlile who in regard he is a stranger is wholly guided by the other as for the Militia they pursue not the Act but take a disposing power of mens Estates setting some half a Horse where his Estate is not equal to such they impose but a third part And for the Ministry they approve of few or none but such as are of the Scottish faction and raylors against Independents or if worse may be such as are Malignants and Royalists but for honest men they cannot abide such they remove and put out of the Ministry under the name of Sectaries and Independents as Mr. Lampit Mr. Baggerley and Mr. Wharton if any be for the Presbytery though they deny the Engagement are approved of and allowed our Justices of Peace do impose book-swearing upon some of the States friends and for denying the same do fine them in ten pounds threatning them and scoffing them and calling them as they think good Mr. Musgrave be not weary of well doing though you have no money or wages from us slight us not it concernes you nearly if the Enemy be thus holden up you can expect little ease and lesse security therefore as you tender your own welfare and your friends peace be not sluggish or longer silent but stand for the cause of our God and his People be bold it will be your Honour whatsoever the success be trust God Sir howsoever be our condition we will not cease to trouble you hoping you will take in good part what we have written and will not forsake your suffering friends or in silence leave us under our Enemies hands let the God of power inable you to finish what you have begun for the good of his Church and People to whose care and protection we recommend you and our cause this 13. of the 9. Moneth 1650. Your Brethren in affection and signed by the direction of the Church at Broughton in particular viz. John Robinson Mungo Rothero Gawen Wheelwright John Taffin Iohn Bow Iohn Scot Fran Smith Tho Thompson Iohn Mr. Lampit the Minister of Aickton in Cumberland hearing I was to take my journey for London writes unto me this following Letter after came to me himself desiring me to present his Petition to the Councel of State and another for the Committee for plundered Ministers the man being poor and a great sufferer I undertook to do my endeavour to accomplish his desire but not knowing what success I should have therein I did not take one peny of his money October 15 1650. Worthy SIR HEaring of your exceeding care in promoting the glory of God of your favourable countenance in incouraging honest men in reference to the State and present Government of this Nation strongly animates and makes me though unacquainted to present you in these lines with a short Character of the harsh and unkind if not unjust dealings and proceedings of the Commissioners for the Ministry against me at Newcastle and their favour towards Malignants and scandalous Ministers Sir I was by some of the old Committee and other Officers in Carlisle commended to Aicton Church as Minister after the decease of Mr. Halton last incumbent there elected called by the People as appears by a testimony under their hands but when Mr. Craystor had received the like Commission I was called at the first to Newcastle and

same being demanded by what Authority they did take up the Rents there Captain Holcroft held out his Pistol and said here is our Commission All which is fully and truly set forth in their Petition which doings and the like oppressions have brought the wrath and judgments of God upon the Parliament even by breaking them twice with their own strength But the Lord hitherto hath preserved the Nation from breaking by his righteous judgements upon the Parliament We therefore humbly supplicate your Honours to whom we fly for refuge and help as the last and visible means under God for our recovery in this our lost and perishing condition having not onely fruitlesly spent above five hundred pounds in attendance upon the Parliament but lie open to the mercilesse cruelties of our adversaries and every day in danger to be surprised by the common enemy If you neglect us the same may likewise indanger your safety as our ruine and hasten the curse upon you which as a Milstone is fallen upon the late King his House Pears which you can no other way avoid then by your equal and due administration of justice to the poor as to the rich which in all probability will break factions and recover unto you the lost affections of the people and raise again the drooping spirits of your oppressed distressed friends and prevent the adversary of his purpose Now the better to facilitate this great work so long retarded by some corrupt Members of Parliament where if not by your all delayes and obstructions of Justice ought to be examined and redressed It will not be amisse here to relate the expedient the wisdom of our Ancestors found out to prevent the delay of Justice and not to be left onely to the will of private and particular Members of Parliament when and how to bring in Petitions as now is practised to the dishonour and great scandal of the present Government ruin not onely of private families but of whole Countreys and which hath rendered the Parliament to be no other then upholders of Injustice supporters of Tyranny and oppression far contrary to our exspectation and their promises and engagements and which necessitated his Excellency and Armies to advance to London twice against them The old and good way of bringing in Petitions into the Parliament for the equal distribution of Justice to all Suitors was not by the Speaker or any particular Member thereof but by the Masters of the Chancery who by their place and Office were to attend the Parliament for that very end and purpose as the Rolls of most times witnesse it being by the old mod tenend Parliament and others accounted against reason that Petitions should be taken brought into the House by those that were to debate and determine them for so might they at pleasure keep them out or too happily press them on Therefore saieth the same Author Petitions were filed in course and so to be debated as they were received which were intrusted to the care of known and sworn Officers of the Kingdom who of old time were appointed for triers of Petitions to enquire of the matter of fact expressed in the Petitions that it might be rightly stated before it came to be debated in the House By the disuser whereof Justice hath been obstructed the same hath brought contempt upon the Parliament no means left us for making known our grievances and to compleat our misery the worst of men again creep into Magistracy by which they do the Parliament more disservice then when they openly acted in the way of professed enmity as by this ensuing storie of a cunning welch Judge will appear A Gentleman suspecting the welch Judge to have been the cause of putting several of the Parliaments friends out of Commission of Peace and others known disaffected and delinquents to be in their place did entertain discourse with a bosome friend of his by way of complaining The Gentleman said the Judge was ever taken for a friend to Cavaliers and it was not well taken that he had put A. M. from his practise for A. M. was truly the Kings friend the other replied and said if it were so the Judge should bring him again to his practice for he loved the King and never was man so cast down as he and his Son were for the Kings death both of them wept bitterly when the King died then said the Gentleman but I fear the Roundheads will complain of the Judge for putting them out of Commission and the Kings friends in their place and so the Judge might come into trouble and be lesse able to serve his friends the other answered take no thought for that as he waited all opportunities to do good Offices for the King and his friends so he doubted not but to come fair off if Roundheads did complain of him for a Parliament man whom he then named would own the thing as his own act who was able to deal with all that should oppose By all which your Lordship and this Honorable Councel may clearly perceive what imminent danger you are subject unto by these petty Tyrants of the time who as they oppresse us so they wait but for an opportunity to remove you from your seates Now we leave it to your consideration if delay of Iustice be adenial of Iustice or rather Injustice it self how unjust men be these our Northern Gentlemen of the House of Commons who since the Parliament began would never present a Petition for us some of us having since the third day of the Parliaments first sitting down attended and sollicited for that purpose therefore as you tender your own safetie regard you Honors respect Justice love the Common-wealth and are affected with any bowels of compassion towards a distressed afflicted and oppressed people take our Remonstrance into your serious consideration with these our humble requests 1. That all Delinquents in the North according to Ordinance of Parliament may be removed from all Offices Civil and Martial and that under a penalty 2. That the Moneys unduly leavied by Sr. Wilfrid Lawson or any others with us upon the Countrey without order or Ordinance of Parliament may be accounted for and satisfaction made to the parties wronged 3. That Mr. Worsley and his childrens sufferings may be taken into consideration and relieved and provision made that for their non-conformity to the Book of Common-Prayer they be not further molested either in their Persons Lands or goods all charges charged and issuing out of the Exchequer against them for the same may be discharged and nulled and the burthen of Book-swearing taken away 4. That John Musgrave Captain Richard Crackanthorpe Mary Blaithwaite and Thomas Gibson who are wasted with a long and chargeable attendance may have fitting repairations for their losses and sufferings by the Commissioners of Array Justices of the Peace and Committee-men of Cumberland 5. That Mrs. Vaux Petition with the House of Peers Order upon it may be

taken into like consideration 6. That John Musgrave for his discovery of concealed Delinquents in Cumberland and his attendance upon the Committee of Lords and Commons for sequestrations may be taken into consideration 7. That a way may be provided that the grievances of our Northern Counties the oppressions of the Justices of peace Committees there may be removed and such as have unjustly suffered by them may be repaired to the end we may not be constrained after 300. miles travell hither to consume the little that is left us by the adversary in a fruitless and chargeable attendance for moneths and years as for these 8. years and more we have done upon such men as will not nor ever did present a Petition for us themselves for the most part having by some irregular way undue election by the votes of Malignants or Letters of some petty Tyrants or Lord being returned Knights and Burgesses for our Counties JOHN MVSGRAVE This following Letter I writ to my Lord President who thereupon sent for me and shortly after procured me audience before the Conncel of State upon reading my Remonstrance which I at the request of some friends have published as in thankfulness to his Lordship so to satisfie and inform friends how and for what Interest I have ever acted and suffered My Lord SInce my Letter to you by Mr. Rumsey of the 18. of the first moneth I did forbear any wayes to be troublesome unto you neither would I now if I could have found a door open unto me for justice which hitherto as to me and my suffering friends hath been altogether shut up And now I am constrained as the most probable means to attain my wished desires to make my supplication to you and though I could not in spirit go along with you in your last actings towards the late King by the reason of the many oaths and engagements made and taken on his behalf yet I have ever held it my duty to submit without resistance to such Powers and Authorities as the Lord of Heaven in his wayes shall set over us accirding to the Apostles Rule Rom. 13.1.2 Yet I cannot but put the Lords on earth in mind how the same Apostle saith in the same place that Rulers ought not to be a terrour to good works but to the evil But while oppression and injustice in any is either connived at or past by upon complaint unpunished the wicked growe bold by their impunity and the Magistracy becomes a terrour and the Law no other then a snare to all honest men My Request to you now is neither for place nor promotion though these be due to deserving men as the rewards of vertue Therefore I shall never envy nor upbrayde any upon whom the same are conferred by a State or other but give me leave to tell you while the poor are neglected the oppressed unrelieved and justice not done freely in your gates that is openly and not in Chambers security or comfort you cannot long have in the enjoyment of them I have wearied and wasted my self ever since the Parl first sate down in seeking to remove oppressors from their Seats and gaining justice for poor people but never to this present day could I bring my purpose to passe for which I blame not the Parliament but such as sit there in right of our Countrey who only mind themselves and do their own work regardless of us and our Countrey For by fitting there they become great purchasers of Lands and Mannours fare Dives like while we at home are spoiled of all and here disreregarded Lazarous-like lies at their doors begging for justice but never yet could taste the least of their Crums so as from them I am hopeless ever to obtain any good If I had been a Solicitor or Agent for Cavaliers at Goldsmiths-Hall to the Committee of Sequestrations or to the Parliament I might have got Wealth and had the countenance of the great ones and found ready dispatch of business I know one poor Solicitor that way hath gained 2. or 3000 l. at the least But I agitating for a poor plundered People could never gain the favour as the reading of a Petition Mr. Allen hath had poor Widow Blaythwaits Petition one whom you sometimes owned and did good to in his hand near 3. years yet could never find opportunity to present it he held me in hand more then a year he would present mine and Captain Crakanthorps Petition but in the close finding no real dealing with him glad I was to take it from him by no hand could I get access unto justice When I came the other day to present my Petition to the Councel of State I desired * A Member of the Councel of State Mr. Scot to bring it in before you he told me it was not proper for you before he read or knew the Contents of it If I had told him some prety story of some hidden treasure I should then have had ready admittance and well rewarded but while he Dog-like snatcht at the shadow he lost the Gold in his hand Let all such covetous wretches be so served I forbear to particularize it is a story fitter for Pasquile or Tarleton then your graviry I remember when the Earl of Strafford came first President to York and for sundry years after the same being the usual Custome of the Kings learned Councel there every day after dinner for an houre and a half before he went to Court or entered upon any other business of state suiters by turns were called in their Petitions read being before received from them of course by the Clarke of the Petitions there being two that attended every other week for that purpose who had their diet and a constant salary for that purpose so as the reference and attendance to the suitors was no way chargeable none being necessitated to wait for answer longer then two days at the most a good president for you and the Councel of State to follow By which doings for sundry years he kept the North free from oppressions and mightily gained upon the affections of the people The which when he gave over and begun to be proud and covetous his Table became a snare to him and his glory departed and soon after followed the down-fall of him and that Court and how he was after prosecuted with the envy of the people his tryal and death is enough to mention Vpon his tryal I was by the Lord Whitlock brought before the Lords in Parliament and presented to them as a ruinated Gentleman by him without me it was then said they could not have made forth any considerable thing against him of his illegal regal actings in the North then I had the plaudite and thanks not only of that Committee but of many other eminent Members of the House with many and large though then undesired promises to procure me justice and do great matters for which service I was committed by Justice Dikes

said Sr. Arthur is a protector of Papists and Delinquents forbidding the Subsequestratours and Sollicitours for Sequestration in Bishoprick to Sequester Papists Ordered to be Sequestred of which the Papists and Delinquents do much boast and honest men thereby are much cast down 7. That Sr. Arthur Haslerigge hinders and obstructs the ordinary proceedings of Law and Justice in favour of Papists and did take out of the Sheriffes custody Ralph Lampton a notorious Papist and Delinquent being under arrest and formerly arraigned for poisening his wife with which Lampton the said Sr. Arthur is very kinde and familiar 8. That the said Sr. Arthur Haslerigge procured Ralph Delivall Esq a Delinquent in arms against the Parliament and dis-affected to the present Government this last year to be high Sheriffe for Northumberland 9. That the said Sr. Arthur Haslerigge contrary to an Act of Parliament suffered Lieutenant Colonel John Jackson a notorious Delinquent and in arms against the Parliament both in the first and second War a great plunderer to go and ride up and down the Countrey with his arms and against law put the said Jackson in possession of certain grounds and Colleries in Bishoprick belonging to men well-affected whom the said Sr. Arthur by strong hand dispossessed thereof without Law and the said Sr. Arthur Haslerigge against the fundamental Law of the Land most arbitrarily and Tyrannically did by his power take from the now high Sheriffe of Bishoprick the said Jacksons goods taken in Execution after Judgement and restored the said goods to the said Jackson contrary to all the rules of the Law 10. That the said Sr. Arthur Haslerigge is very familiar and keepeth company with Thomas Wray a Papist in arms against the Parliament and upon search for a Popish Priest there was lately found in the said Wrayes house Copes and other Popish Relickes and much Gold and mony most whereof Sr. Arthur Haslerigge caused to be returned back to M. Wrayes wife a Papist And the said Sr. Arthur by his Souldiers put sundry Honest men out of possession of the Colleries settled upon them by Law under colour the same belonged to the said Wray whose Debts Sr. Arthur Haslerigge undertook to pay as Wray confessed for the said Colleries being worth 10. pounds per diem as the said Sr. Arthur giveth forth to the utter undoing of the owners of the said Colleries 11. That the said Sr. Arthur Haslerigge doth comply with and countenance Colonel John Hilton a Delinquent in arms both in the first and second War and assists the said Hilton to defraud the poor in sundry Parishes in Bishoprick of great legacies given by the said Hiltons Elder Brother 12. That Sr. Arthur Haslerigge brought Colonel Hacker into the Country who contrary to an Act of Parliament Quarters his Souldiers and others under the name of Souldiers who are none upon the well affected in Bishoprick and would but pay what they pleased and in some places nothing but upon complaint Colonel Hacker gave the people no relief but threatned them to have them before Sr. Arthur Haslerigge for complaining afterwards Captain Thomas Lilbourn brought the matter in question before a Councel of War at Whitehall but by Sr. Arthurs power it could never be fully heard which if it had there would have appeared many thousand pounds kept wrongfully from the Souldiers besides the great oppression of free Quarter some Examinations whereof were taken by Mr. Margets which Sr. Arthur Haslerigge keeps hitherto from reading and the said Sr. Arthur sore threatned the said Captain for appearing for the Souldiery and Countrey against him and Colonel Hacker 13. That the said Sr. Arthur Haslerigge to disable M. George Lilbourn to serve his Countrey and the more to discourage the well effected in Bishoprick caused him to be put out of the Commission of Peace Ministery and Militia and much endeavoureth to Sequester the said M. George Lilbourn who hath commonly been reputed the most active stirring and suffering man for the good of this Nation both before the Parliament began and since of any that hath been or is in the Countrey 14. That Sr. Arthur Haslerigge hath displaced all the well-affected men in Bishoprick that were of the Committee for Sequestrations there and put in their stead one Thomas Haslerigge his Kinsman and a stranger and doth continue one Colonel Frauncis Wren who in the head of his Regiment upon his first march into Scotland was disgracefully and justly cashiered by the now Lord General Cromwel for plundering and other grosse and foulmisde-meanours and one Thomas Dalaval an arch Malignant and dis-affected to the present Government who lived in the Enemies quarters all the time the Earl of New-Castle had his Forces there 15. That the said George Lilbourn being Surveyer of the Bishops Lands in Bishoprick with one Edward Colson which said Colson joyned with one Saunders and counterfeited M. Duncalfes hand without his privity for the abatement of a thousand and odd pounds meerly to cofin the State thereof which cheat and cousenage the said George Lalbourn discovered But the said Sr. Arthur Haslerigge much laboured and Sollicited the said George Lilbourn to conceal the said cheat and forgery of the said Colson and though the said Colson be a man dis-affected to the present Government and married to a Papist yet doth the said Sr. Arthur Haslerigge much countenance the said Colson and made him a Commissioner for the Ministery and his Court-keeper 16. That your Petitioner hath been much Sollicited by the well-affected in his Countrey to present their grievances and oppressions and crave relief in their behalf as appears by their Letters Copies whereof are hereunto annexed 17. That your Petitioner hath lately discovered sundry concealed and unsequestred Delinquents of great Estates which will bring in to the State 10. thousand pounds and more if the Commissioners for Sequestration made by Sr. Arthur Haslerigge were honest and faithfull men but in regard most of the said Commissioners are Delinquents and Sequestrable themselves and all of them dis-affected to the present Government they do what in them lies to hinder your Petitioner in the prosecution thereof Articles Exhibited by John Musgrave against the Justices of the Peace Commissioners for the Militia Commissioners for the Ministery and Commissioners for Sequestrations in the County of Cumberland at the desire and Request of the well-affected there INprimis Thomas Lamplongh now Justice of the peace a Commissioner for the Militia and Ministry took the Oath for the Earl of New-Castle against the Parliament subscribed the same set out Horse and arms for the Enemy Voluntarily contributed to the Enemy and had his Estate protected by the Enemy a great persecutour of honest men under the name of Independents a countenancer and protector of Papists Delinquents and Malignant Ministers and did justifie the Enemies Colonels Orders were good orders and ought to be obeyed 2. John Stoddert now a Commissioner for the Militia and Ministry aman Sequestrable was a Lieutenant in Arms for