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lord_n	commissioner_n	john_n	sir_n	10,577	5	6.4155	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28236	A manifesto declaring what George Bishope hath been to the city of Bristoll and the particular persons now in authority therein and what hee hath received from them in recompence occasioned by the late sentence of banishment pronounced upon him by them, 16th, 7th Mon., 1665, and other useages for his conscience to God / by George Bishope.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1665 (1665)	Wing B2999; ESTC R11093	24,526	32

be sent to Bristol for their good affection unto them And that the City might not be put to charge at that time I procured a Bill of 500 l. to be sent also by the Counsil upon the account of the State towards what should be done therein Well Worcester business was over and the Parliament were upon an Act of Indemnity and I thought it high time now to look about and to finish what I had with so much travel and more then three years expence of time endeavoured to bring to pass Therefore least this Act should be closed with an exclusion of Bristol I drew a third Petition to the House in the Name of several Citizens and Inhabitants of Bristol that had been well affected to them who had signed the first Petition aforesaid and I adjoyned thereto certain Considerations wherefore the Parliament should grant Bristol an Indemnity and I engaged in the Delivery and prosecution thereof the most leading men that then were in the House As the then Lord General Lord Commissioner Whitlock Lord Grey of Groby Sir Henry Vane Sir Arthur Hazelrig Col. Hen. Martin Major Sallaway the Lord Commissioner Lisle the Lord Chief Justice St. Johns c. with many others who well timing the thing took their opportunity and being presented the House so spake that the Parliament voted to this effect That if the Instructions for the Act of Indemnity and general Pardon in the general did not reach Bristol in particular Bristol should have a particular Act of Indemnity for it self and ordred the Petition and Considerations annext to be left in the hands of the Clark of the House for that purpose This I thought pretty well yet I could not judge the matter secure whilst there was any thing between this and the thing done I having received so many disappointments and well knowing that Votes of Parliament many times admit of Alterations and as Ships at Sea are forced oft times according to the Winds but principally was I jealous of Haberdashers-Hall and the workings of the opposite party there that hitherto had given me that exercise in the matter least that now upon the closing of the thing they should struggle to undo my work and to finish their own And the rather was I confiderate in the matter because when the Vote aforesaid passed the House I being in the Lobby attending what should be done I saw one of the Burgesses come out as not able to stay therein when he saw it like to be carried when the Vote passed so least any thing should again come between the cup and the lip as they use to say between the Vote and the finishing least Haberdashers-Hall should yet interpose or be driven thereunto I drew a few lines unto them signifying what the Parliament had done because being not enacted these Commissioners were not bound to take notice of what was voted in the House and desiring them to forbear any further prosecutions on Bristol till what the Parliament would do in the thing might come to be understood Which some of the Members aforesaid signed particularly the Lord Commissioner Whitlock whom upon the withdrawing of Edmund Prideaux to be Atturny General I bespoke and procured to be Recorder of Bristol that so by his Relation he might have the more open opportunity to do that good which was in his heart to do for the City Sir Hen. Vane with some others but as for the Burgesses one or both of them but I am sure one of them refused to put his hand thereunto This had its effect on Haberdashers-Hall at least they did nothing further in the Sequestration of Bristol and so one of the general Instructions of the Act of Indemnity having this clause in particular viz. That all those that were not actually sequestred before such a day of September 1649. should be freed from Sequestration those of the City who had been on the contrary Party were freed from Sequestration they not being actually sequestred before the said day of September And so the keeping off the actual Sequestration of Bristol during those years wherein the Matters were tossed up and down as aforesaid and thorough such difficulties wrought in order to this time which finisht the matter and freed those who had so much Resolution as to hold it out which was the whole except some few particular persons aforesaid from Sequestration And so I made an end of my work which I began as aforesaid out of mine own particular Consideration of the good of the place and the particular persons therein without the influence of any other persons whatsoever and which through many sore and long attendances disappointments abuses and oppositions sometimes waiting six sometimes eight Weeks together from Bristol upon them then when at Whitehall applying the whole of my Interest besides what else of trouble and anxiety of Spirit did intervene and other troubles in a thing of that nature which I have chosen rather to forget then by remembring to renew my sorrows again I finished not with greater advantage to the Citizens and the City it self being considered as aforesaid then satisfaction to my self and gladness of heart that I had though with all the Appendices aforesaid accomplished the Peace and Welfare of my Native place and the Citizens therein concerned as hath been said hoping at least justly expecting that in the peace thereof I might enjoy peace and that such a thing as this being done for them which no place in England obtained but themselves and thus freely by me for they to this day never asked me what it cost me nor gave me Consideration therein nor did I ever receive any thing at their hands directly or indirectly for what I so did for them therein and what charge and trouble I was at wise men may guess but cannot thoroughly understand I say hoping at least justly expecting that in the Peace thereof I might sit down in peace and that such a thing as this being thus freely done by me which had been done for no place I might in the love and good will of those for whom I had acted and from whom I may modestly say deserv'd it have my future recess and being in that place when opportunity called me to return and to have my retirement therein But I have found it other wise as aforesaid which hath given the occasion of this adjusting of Accounts with them already hitherto and hereafter to be mentioned For being put on this foot of Banishment in the eye of those who do not understand me nor know the ground and reason wherefore it is so come to pass nor what I have been to this place and the particular Men therein who have sentenc'd me thereunto I am rendred and bespoken as the thing it self signifies such a person and that in the judgment of those with whom I live as deserves not a being in my Native Country whom therefore the Lawes and those in Power with whom I live sent me from thence