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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75665	Articles of impeachment exhibited against Col. Robert Gibbons and Cap. Richard Yeardley, late governors of the Isle of Jersey; wherein the several impeachments, notorious actions, high misdemeanours, abominations and oppressions, are laid open, detected, and made publick to the admiring world; as also, a remedy for the people, against the heavy yoke of such tyrannical oppressours, in this juncture of miraculous restauration, after so long a bondage, wherein the little finger of some appeared heavier then the whole loins of others.	Gibbons, Robert.; A. B.; Yeardley, Richard.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3857; Thomason E989_20; ESTC R16060	9,981	16

troubles which the said Maret accepted by reason he observed the said Gibbons to be very potent at Court but in lieu of doing according as he had engaged he the said Gibbons attempted by sureptitious ways to have the Estate of the said Maret to be forfeited who for two years together hath waited in London upon the said Gibbons being thereby very much damnified as well in his bodily health as estate which Imprisonment and troubles hath almost brought his antient and weakly Mother to the grave Articles of misdemeanours exhibited against Cap. Rich. Yeardley Deputy Governour of the Isle of Jersey 15. THat the said Captain Richard Yeardley as Deputy Governour hath for these late years contrary to the priviledges granted to the people of that Isle taken upon himself to dispose of the Licenses of Wooll Leather and other Commodities granted and allotted to the said Isle to whom he seemeth good and for his particular gain and advantage doth ingrosse a great part of the said Commodities to himself by granting Licenses to his Servants Allies Factors and others not in the least related to the said Isle to the great prejudice and dammage of Merchants and others Inhabitants of that Isle amongst whom and of right the said Licenses ought to be distributed by which unjust proceedings several of the said Merchants and Inhabitants are forced to buy the said Licenses from the said strangers at very high rates it being evident and of certain truth that a great quanting of the said Commodities are for his Accounts and of his Factors and Agents transported into France which cannot be hindered by reason that none can or dare controle him either in the disposing the said Licenses or in making and giving Returns for the several Commodities as he doth and seemeth best for his advantage all being at his arbitrary will and disposal But directly contrary and against the ancient way practised in the disposall of the said Licenses which are to be distributed in the presence of the Bayliff and Justices there and registred in the Court by the Clark and that for ten pence per Licence whereas the said Yeardly suffers his Clark to take of the poor Inhabitants five shillings or at least two and six pence for every Licence although but for five todds of wooll 16. That the said Yeardly contrary to the Law and antient priviledges of the said Isle and contrary to the Law of War hath by his arbitrary will and pleasure Imprisoned and afterwards released divers of the Inhabitants namely one Mr. Ph. Richarson and lastly the High Constable and other Officers of the Parish of St. Brefade onely for executing the Duty of their places in searching a suspected House of the Parrish where lived one of his Souldiers for divers Sheep and other things that had been stollen from some of the inhabitants And that onely by reason that it was a Souldier's House as if Souldiers houses were Sanctuaries and not to be searched 17. That the said Yeardly very well knowing that by the Establishment of Jersey and for the defence thereof there ought to be kept twenty Troopers furnished with Horses for which number there is constant pay allowed from the Common-wealth and yet the said Yeardly Commander in Chief there connives and suffers the Common-wealth to be defrauded and the Island indangered by not keeping above twelve Troopers that have Horses serviceable Some of the Troopers which are in pay having never a Horse and others that have are no way serviceable suffering Servants and Children of eleven years of age to be mustered and Pay allowed to their Masters for the said Servants and Children 18. That the said Captain Yeardly to the very much indangering the safety of the Castles and of that Isle so considerable to the Common-wealth doth suffer Souldiers to be lifted in foot Companies that were in actual war in that Isle against the Common-wealth of England 19. That the said Captain Richard Yeardly Deputy Governor of the said Isle contrary to the Laws of War and to the great Scandal of the Government of the Army and godly people in that Isle and ill example to others doth keep constant Company with the most notorious Cavalliers of that Isle going often to their houses there to play at Cards to feast and drink healths in such excessive manner that several times the said Yeardly hath ben observed to be so much distempered with Liquor and so drunk that he could not scarce go or stand 20. That the said Yeardly hath several times vowed if he should remain in the said Isle he would take such course that all the Anabaptists there should be banished the Isle 21. That it is here credibly informed that the said Captain Richard Yeardly before and since the dissolving of the late Assembly did appear very much disatisfied of the proceedings of those called Commonwealth men then sitting in the said Assembly saying that they were all for Charles Stuart And after the said Assembly was dissolved he did appear very much discontented and dissatisfied of the same muttering against the proceedings of the Army and pleading openly against them and their actions and for the late Protectors Government with whom he was the night before the said Dissolution 22. That the said Captin Richard Yeardly is such a Countenancer of Notorious Cavaliers in that Isle that when any well-affected persons have a Suite or Action at Law against them in any thing considerable then the said Yeardly upon the day of tryal or hearing of the Cause was sure to come to the Court and so effectually countenanced the Cause of such Cavaliers against the well-affected that by his high words threathings he did awe the Court in such manner that the well-affected persons could not have Justice And particularly about the month of October last he appeared for one grand Malignant whom he calls Sr. Ph. Carteret against two known well-affected persons by name Mr. Thomas Roberts and Mr. John Ricard who both of them have much suffered for their affection to the renowned long Parliament of England who did then sue the said Carteret in Court by vertue of a certain Ordinance of Parliament dated the 16th of September 1645. The said well-affected persons being then railed against and accused as if they had been guilty of high Treason to plead against the said Delinquent and the said Roberts then Lievtenant of the Train Band of St. Owens Parrish and the said Ricard Ensigne were both dismissed that day from their Commands by the said Yeardly for no other offence known to them but for pleading against a Notorious Malignant 23. That the said Captain Yeardly being Authorized in that Isle a Commissioner to have an inspection upon such persons as should be made choyce of by the People to be Justices He the said Yeardly would rather admit and cause to be admitted some that had been in Arms against the Parl. to the place of Judicature then to permitt those which had bin chosen and had bin great sufferers for the Parliaments Interest to be admitted in the said place of Judicature 24. These high Misdemeanours committed and connived at by the said Col. Rob. Gibbons Gove●nour as aforesaid and the said Yeardley his Deputy with more of that nature can be sufficiently proved in case certain persons of integrity and honesty having neither relation to the said Gibbons nor to the Isle and such as the said Governor may not be a terrour to as he is to the poor innocent people there might go thither with power authority not onely to examine the truth of the said Misdemeanours but likewise all other grievances of the people and either to authorize them to reform the same and see that the Offendors may receive condigne punishment for those enormous and foul Crimes according to the Laws and Customs of that Isle or at least to make their Report upon the whole matter formerly as upon such complaint was practised in Cases of the like nature FINIS