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A96636	The humble remonstrance of Sr. Francis VVilloughby knight therein setting forth his faithfull services, his many sufferings, and his earnest desires to spend the rest of his dayes in the service of the Parliament, against the rebels of Ireland.	Willoughby of Parham, Francis Willoughby, Baron, 1613?-1666.	1649 (1649)	Wing W2858A; ESTC R230908	4,970	12

that Kingdome of Ireland ready to be produced above twelve thousand pounds due unto me which I shall humbly leave to the pleasure of the Parliament to be considered of in what measure they thinke fit At the intreaty of the Lords Justices and Councell viz. Sr. William Parsons and Sr. John Burlace I kept my own Company five weeks upon my owne charge in time of want of money they promising me payment assoone as Treasure came from the Parliament of England and for which I have their Order ready to be produced but I never received one penny of it being a hundred and ten pounds At the request of the same Lords Justices and Counsell in times of want I sent into the store which Sr. Philip Percivall Victuall Master Generall received as is acknowledged under his hand Beeves at halfe value amounting to an hundred and thirteeen pounds and for which I have also an Order but never received any satisfaction for them Which Order is ready to be produced The Fort of Gallaway being my Government and I being commanded as is before recited to recide in Dublin Castle I left my sonne there with much of my goods which Fort being after besieged by the Rebels my son sent unto me in a Trunck an hundred fourty nine pounds of mine that I left there at my coming away the Ship in which it came being put into Kinsale the Lord of Inchequin being in want of money for the Army under his Command and conceiving there had been some greater summe in the Trunck caused the said Trunck to be broken up and finding no more money in it took that out and as his owne Letter makes mention imployed it to the use of the Army for which no satisfaction hath as yet been made unto me only one twenty pounds of it he paid and no more And now having made known unto your Honour my imployments and partly my sufferings both in Ireland and here in England I having served faithfully against the Rebels of Ireland as is well known l●st one of my sons there in that Service spent and lost my whole Estate to a great value in that Service only what is yet remaining lies in the Rebels Quarters from whence I can draw no succour for the relief of me and mine at present nor have not done these six yeares And against whom I desire to spend the rest of my dayes in the service of the Parliament of England not doubting but as formerly I shall be found able to doe my Country good and acceptable service And therefore my humble suit unto your Honour is that when my Petition to this purpose shall be presented to the most Honourable the Houses of Parliament That you will please to vouchsafe me your favour and furtherance in the justnesse of my cause And in regard that in the late settlement of the Army in the Province of Leinster I finde no man of Quality but enjoyes what Commands he before held yea some farre better then ever they had before And for that there is not nor cannot be any exceptions justly taken against me That I may be by the favours of the Parliament continued in my Commands which I have so long had and so faithfully served for It being without all Example That a man of my quality and imployments should be laid aside no offence being justly proved against me imployments honourable Sir is the chiefest thing I desire That as I have lived with honour so I may dye which granted unto me I shall leave my great and dearly earned Arreares justly due unto me to the pleasure of the most Honourable the Houses of Parliament to be considered of as in their grave wisdomes they shall thinke fit But if the Parliament have otherwise resolved as I hope they have not and will not continue me in my imployments or any part of them Then I most humbly beseech your Honour to stand my friend that I may be by you and them held worthy of some part of my great and dearly earn'd Arreares As also my truly disbursed monyes for the advancement of their service in Ireland whereby I may be in some measure enabled for the future to provide for my wife and children that we perish not I having nothing left me in the world to subsist on but your noble favours and that I have in Ireland which lies in the Rebels Quarters as before mentioned To recover which I shall have no encouragement to goe thither if not imployed by the Parliament To the furtherance of which I humbly implore your favour and humbly desire your speedy Answer I not being able to subsist here any longer nor well know whither to goe That I have alwayes carryed my selfe like an honest man this Certificate will shew to all men AT the request of Sir Francis Willoughby Knight we doe hereby certifie that he hath served long in the Kingdome of Ireland and in eminent places and commands as Colonel and Governour of the Fort of Gallaway and from the beginning of the rebellion there he hath been intrusted with the Castle of Dublin and Major Generall of the Army there In all which imployments he hath served industriously and faithfully against the Rebels untill the cessation which began in September 1643. And aswell before as since the cessation we have well observed his carriage to be such and so moderate as we conceived to be free from any ill affection to the Parliament of England And to our knowledge he is much impaired in his Estate by that service having received but little pay And for the most part living upon his owne stock having to our knowledge great arreares due unto him All which we humbly certifie whom it may concerne Sir William Parsons then one of the Lords Justices of Ireland Edward Lord Brabason a Privie Counsellor of that Kingdome Sir George Shirley Lo chief Justice of the Kings Bench and a Privie Counsellor Sir Gerrard Lowther Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas and a Privie Counsellor Sir Adam Loftus vice-Vice-treasurer and Treasurer at warres and a Privie Counsellor Sir Paul Davis Clarke of the Counsell Sr. Philip Persivall Sir Dudley Loftus Sr. Edward Povey Sr. William Anderson Sir Francis Slingsby Mr. Bisse Recorder of the City of Dublin Mr. Theodore Scout Mr. Thomas Mawle That I was so well esteemed of by the Honourable Committee of Derby house as to be imployed into Ireland as aforesaid this will shew VVHereas Sir Francis Willoughby Knight is now dispatcht hence with Letters and other directions to the Citie of Dublin of great importance which requires all expedition These are to require all Officers at Land and all Commanders of Ships at Sea not only to permit and suffer him to passe in this his journey but also to be aiding and assisting unto him in providing of him and his servants with post horses at the usuall rates and in taking up a Ship or other convenient Vessell for his speedy passage by Sea whereof they are not to faile as they will answer the contrary Westminster the 19.th of October 1647. The Lord Lisle The Lord Wharton Mr William Perpoint Sir Gregory Norton Mr Densill Hollis Sir Philip Stapleton Sir John Temple Sir John Clotworthy Mr Thomas Challenor FINIS

J.G. Hodgson THE HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE OF S R. Francis VVilloughby KNIGHT Therein setting forth his faithfull services his many sufferings and his earnest desires to spend the rest of his dayes in the Service of the Parliament against the Rebels of Ireland Honourable I Have served in the Warres with honour and reputation 47. yeares 25. whereof I spent in the service of the States of the United Provinces under the command of the Lord Generall Vere the rest being 22. yeares I have spent in the Kingdome of Ireland where I have had many and honourable Commands And first as Governour of the Cities of Corke and Lymerick and a Counsellors place of that Province of Munster After that I was by the then Lord Deputy of that Kingdome commanded to take upon me the government of the Fort of Gallaway and to repaire and finish the same which was by me perfected in two yeares time and made one of the compleatest Forts in that Kingdome I was also made Deputy Governour of the County and Town of Gallaway having both Martiall and civill government conferred upon me under the broad Seal of that Kingdome as also made a Privie Counsellor of that Kingdome and being by accident in Dublin at the beginning of that horrid Rebellion and on that very day I was by the then Lords Justices viz. Sir William Parsons and Sr John Burlace commanded to take into my charge and care the Castle of Dublin that important piece And by their Commission made Governour thereof with promise of twenty shillings per diem but I never received any thing in six yeares time After that I was made Major Generall of the Army and a Colonell All which places I have from time to time discharged with all duty and faithfulfulnesse And which is so certified by men of honour who were the chiefe Governours and Counsell of that Kingdome in the time of my imployments and service and to whom my service was best known which Certificate of theirs is hereunto annexed And I finding to my unspeakable griefe that some malitious persons have secretly wounded my reputation to the most honourable the Houses of Parliament by which I have and doe much suffer I can but wish he or they had had more honesty then to possesse the Parliament with such falsities and untruths or had so much worth in them as to have accused me to my face which if they had done or would yet doe I make no question but am confident that my innocency shall not only cleere me but also shame my Accusers And so much I dare be bold to say that there lives not that man that can justly accuse me of any the least crime committed against the most Honourable the Houses of Parliament of England or of any disservice ever done unto my Country in all my life and doubt not of making it good against any whatsoever if thereto admitted I was one of the Commissioners imployed 17. moneths agoe from the Marquesse of Ormond and Councell of Ireland for the rendring up of the City of Dublin and all other the Forts and Fortresses then under the command of the said Marquesse into the hands of the Parliament of England which journey my selfe and the rest of the Commissioners viz. Sr Gerrard Lowther Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Sr Paul Davis Clerk of the Counsell cheerfully undertooke in the deep of winter upon our owne charges out of our zeale to doe the Parliament service which great and happy work by the blessing of God hath well succeeded since to the contentment of the Parliament and to the great comfort of all the distressed Protestants of Ireland although as yet nothing have been by the Parliament allowed us or to any of us for any thing knowne to me for our paines and charges in the negotiating of so happy a worke notwithstanding others that came after us but with particular Letters have been bountifully rewarded by the Parliament The right honourable the Committee at Derby house were pleased within few dayes after I came over as aforesaid to make choyce of me to send over into Ireland with letters of credence to the Marquesse of Ormond and Councell As also with private Instructions of comfort to the distressed Protestants at Dublin and elsewhere assuring them of speedy succours to be sent unto them for their reliefe and Commissioners to follow to treat with the Marquesse of Ormond which journey I also most cheerefully undertooke and speedily performed finding at my landing the Army of the Rebels before the City of Dublin ready to swallow them up but my unexpected arrivall there gave so generall a satisfaction to all the Protestants that both Inhabitants and souldiers with undaunted resolution wrought in the trenches and watched night and day for the safety of and defence of that City which otherwise had been in great danger to have been lost And when the Parliament Commissioners came over and I finding contrary to my hope that Treaty to prove fruitlesse for that time I desired leave of the Commissioners to come away with them which being by them granted unto me I left all I had there both fortunes and Estate and came over with them I have attended here 17. moneths at great charges a Petitioner unto the most Honourable the Houses of Parliament for some monies taken from me out of Gold-smiths-Hall by a misinformation as also to know your Honours pleasures concerning my places of Command which I held in Ireland and had long enjoyed by Commission from his Majesty and the Parliament which was the Major Generals place the government of the Castle of Dublin and an old standing Company of Foot which Company I have had this nineteen years as before recited and was armed at my own charge And although the Parliament have been pleased a quarter of yeare since for the reliefe of the extreame necessity of my wife and children to order me seven hundred pounds to be paid out of the moyety of Gold-Smiths-Hall not ingaged in course which mony I humbly conceive was in lieu of that taken from me which if it be so meant is short of what I ought to have 250. li. as by good certificate from the Wardens and Company of Goldsmiths ready to be produced may appeare Yet such are the vast summes that Goldsmiths-Hall is charged with already that the Treasurers say that in a long time nothing can be expected from thence which I having made known by Petition to the Parliament they have been pleased on the 17. of Febr. 1647. to order interest to be paid every six moneths till the money may come in course to be received And although this good worke of theirs adds but little comfort to my great and present pressing wants yet I am most humbly thankfull to them for it I have for the most part of the rebellion of Ireland served the Parliament upon my own charge having by just Accompts made up and signed by the chief Governours and Counsell of