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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

Seas in and about the discovering and preventing that horrible plot which was contrived at Vienna Anno 1616. against her Highness the Lady Elizabeth and also what moneys he disbursed therein the which letter and Certificate were by your Lordships directions delivered into Mr. Smithes custody one of the Clarks attending on your Lordships II. That since his Majesty did send the said perticulars unto your Lordships the Petitioner hath received divers Orders from your Lordships in writing and dayes of hearing his cause set downe but nothing at all hath beene done therein III. That neare three yeares past the right Honrable the Lords and others Commissioners of Scotland did write their letters unto your Lordships in the Petitioners behalfe and therein did earnestly entreat that your Lordships would be pleased to take a speedy hearing of the Petitioners grevances in regard his moneys and meanes were still detained from him and was not able to subsist any longer without order for maintenance to be allowed him untill his cause were heard and determined upon which letters your Lordships were pleased to returne this answer following to the Commons of Scotland viz. that whereas your Lordships had not time and leasure to heare the Petitioners cause by reason of many other weightyer affaires your Lordships therefore with the house of Commons would order a competent maintenance to be allowed unto the petitioner untill his cause were heard and determined IIII. That notwithstanding your Lordships said answer and promise made and sent to the Commissioners of Scotland there hath been no order at all yet taken for your Petitioners reliefe or maintenance by reason whereof another child of his came likewise to an untimely death and perished in lamentable sort for want of necessary sustainance the Petitioner himselfe is now thereby also sunck into such a depth of misery and poverty that he is meerly destitute of Food Rayment and Lodging and must needs likewise perish if he be not speedily relieved And so hee leaveth it to the Worlds censure whether the perticulars above related doe any way agree with Justice or doe concurre with the solemn Oath and Covenant lately taken and sworne unto or whether they be not quite opposite to the same Forasmuch now as it was not his Majesties will and pleasure to suffer the Petitioner to addresse himselfe with his greevances to the House of Commons where he might long since have been relieeved but was graciously pleased to put him and his cause into your Lordships hands Justlie to be repaired Your Petitioner therefore humbly prayeth that your Lordships will not suffer him to be destroyed to starve and perish in your Lordships hands for want of Justice but rather to order and nominate a certaine day unfayleably for the hearing of his grievances either in publique or in private as your Lordships shall thinke fitting and thereupon that your Lordsh ps will be also pleased together with the Honourable House of Commons to order unto the Petitoner payment of such moneys as he shall make plainly appeare to be justly due unto him from his Majesty and also to order him satisfaction out of the estates of these Privy Councellers and others whether they be living or dead that are and have been the authours of the petitioners nine yeare wrongfull imprisonment and who have caused the untimely deathes and starving of his wife and Children as is above related a List of whose names are set downe hereafter following And your Petitioner shall pray for your Lordships healthes and prosperity HENRY BELL. Hereafter are set downe the names of those Privie Counsellers and others that were and are the Authors of my foresaid and other wrongfull sufferings THe late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury The Lord Covintry Lord Keeper The Earle of Portland Lord Treasurer The Earle of Manchester Lord Privie Seale The Earle of Pembrooke Lord Chamberlein The Lord Cottington The Lord Falkland Master Secretarie Cooke These eight above named did subscribe their names to the warrant for my Commitment The Earle of Strafford The Earle of Arundell The Earle of Dorsot The Earle of Suffolke The Earle of Salisbury The Earle of Bridge-water The Earle of Holland The Earle of Exeter The Lord Wimbleton The Lord Savill Comptroler The Lord Goring The Lord New-burgh The Bishop of London Lord Treasurer The Arch Bishop of Yorke Doctor Neale Sir Thomas Edmonds Sir Iulius Caesar Sir Robert Naunton Secretary Windebanke Sir Thomas Iermin Sir Iohn Bankes FINIS

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

to a speedy tryall XII That when the Lords understood that I would not cease from petitioning to have that Bill and answer brought to a tryall then their Lordships directed Sir John Bankes Attorney Generall to send for me who said unto me as followeth Captaine Bell the Lords of the Councell have commanded me to send for you and to tell you that the Bill was not drawne against you with any intent to bring it to a tryall but only to see what answer you would make thereunto and the Lords are now satisfied with your answer to the same and they have ordered the Bill to be dismissed and that the reason they committed you to Prison was because you kept such a continuall clamouring for your mony which the King oweth you whereas my Lord Treasurer many times told you that there was not yet money to pay you and the Lords have commanded me to tell you further that if you will be bound with good security in a Bond of 2000 l that you will be quiet and not make a clamouring for your money but with patience will forbeare yet one yeare to trouble their Lordships untill money comes in to pay you then the Lords will set you at liberty and for your maintenance their Lordships will continue your allowance which you have had in Prison viz. a Noble per diem untill you receive your money due unto you from the King whereupon I told Sir John Bankes that I would be bound with good Security to performe the same XIII That two dayes after I sent word to Sir John Bankes that I had my Security ready and I sent him their names and gave him notice where they dwelt then he sent for us to come unto him to his chamber in Grayes-Inne where we entred into Bond of 2000 l for the performing of the particulars above related whereupon Sir John Bankes tooke the said bond and told us he would shew it unto the Lords and that the next morning he would send a Warrant to the keeper of the Gate-house to set me at liberty XIV That I was not only kept still in Prison five yeares after we had given Bond as aforsaid without any warrant for my enlargement but also Sir John Bankes kept our Bond still in his hand and would neither deliver it up unto us nor would he give Warrant for my enlargement whereby my Security were forced to neglect all their owne affayres in Trading and to attend continually in Petitioning either to have the said Bond delivered up unto us or els that a Warrant might be given for my enlargement out of Prison But all petitioning was in vaine insomuch as thereby I forfeited my Counterbond of two thousand pounds which I gave my Security to save them harmelesse XV That during the time of my imprisonment I sent 214 Petitions to the Councell-board in all which my Petitions I made humble sute unto their Lordships only for Justice that I might know why they kept me in Prison seeing no man could justly charge me that I had offended the King either in word or in deed or that I had transgressed the Lawes of this Land but that on the contrary I had done good and exceptable service to and for the King and this State all which I offered to prove apparantly if their Lordships would be but pleased once to heare me but all my Petitioning was in vaine I could never obtain so much Iustice at their Lordships hands as once to be called before them nor to be heard to speake somuch as one word nor could I ever know any cause why they kept me in prison but only they sent me word many and oftentimes especially the Lord Privy Seale that they were assured if I were set at Liberty I would keepe a Clamouring for my money and there was not yet money for to pay me insomuch that thereupon I sent a Petition to the late Archbishop of Canterbury and another to the Lord Priuy Seale wherein I told their Lordships that if ever it pleased God to send us a Parliament their Lordships would 〈◊〉 these courses they took against me The Lord Privy Seale shewed my said Petition to the Lords at the Councell-board And said By this petition we may easily gather that Captain Bell would be a very troublesome man unto us if we should set him at liberty therefore he said by my consent he shall still remaine where he is untill his money can be paid him XVI That these tyranicall unjust and oppressive courses taken against me at the Councell-board did cause and worke the untimely deathes of my wife and of my young children who lamentably perished and were starved to death in the time of my nine yeares unjust and wrongfull imprisonment whose innocent bloods and untimely deathes God will reveng and will require the same at the hands of the authors and causers thereof Thus and hereby your Majesty may be graciously pleased plainly to find and see that this Land is even now ripe for punishment and it is much to be feared that Gods Anger is already kindled against us by reason of the heavy sinnes of injustice which fearfully have taken the upper hand doe sway and florish heere amongst us and that Gods Judgement will ere long be powered downe upon this Kingdome Given this second day of December 1640. HENRY BELL. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE LORDS Assembled in Parliament The humble Remonstrance and Petition of Captaine Henry Bell. Humbly shewing I. THAT before this Parliament began after the Petitioner had suffered nine yeares imprisonment most wrongfully and innocently and that his moneyes amounting to five thousand two hundred sixty eight pounds were most unjustly detained from him whereby his wife and two small children lamentably perished and were starved to death in the time of his said wrongfull imprisonment which with many more oppressions injustice and tyranny your petitioner suffered only by warrant from the Councell-board then at the begining of this Parliament your Petitioner humbly besought his Majesty to referr his grievous complaint against the Councell-board to be heard and determined in and before the Honourable Houses of Parliament whereupon his Majesty presently reading the said grievances did straitly charge the Petitioner that he should not bring his great complaint against the Councell-board into the House of Commons but his Majesty did forthwith referre and did send the same to your Lordships by the Lord privy Seale and by Sir Iohn Bankes requiring your Lordships to take the Petitioners grievances into a speedy and a private hearing and to determine thereof for your Petitioners just reliefe and to the intent your Lordships might be pleased the sooner and with the more ease dispatch the same his Majesty did then also send unto your Lordships the Empresse letter which she wrot to his Majesties Sister the Lady Elizabeth and Mr. Secretary Mortons Certificate touching the same which doe cleerly demonstrate the service done by your petitioner in his Majesties imployments beyond the