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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

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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