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The reward of oppression, tyranny, and injustice committed by the late kings and queens of England and others by the unlawful entry and unlawful deteiner of the dutchie lands of Lancaster : declared in the case of Samuel Beck, an infant, and directed to his Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of England &c. and to the Right Honorable his Privy Counsel / by Margaret Beck.
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Beck, Margaret.
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1656
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Wing B1649; ESTC R23676
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kept it all his time and left it to H. 8. In the first year of Mary an office was found after the death of Elizabeth daughter of Tho. Lord Latimer and wife of William Beck whereby Samuel Beck grandfather to this Infant was found heir to the Dukedome of Lancaster as heir to his Mother who had been lamentably persecuted and constrained to flie from place to place for fear of beeing burnt for Heresie as they called it by that Cruel woman Queen Mary This office was prosecuted and found by one Heath Father in law to Samuel Beck the Grandfather Hee beeing an Infant and at School at Westminster and in the 3 year of Philip and Mary Samuel Beck beeing under nine years of age was seized by Warrant and delivered to Rixam a Romish Priest to bee bred up in the Romish Religion the Queen then pretending love to him being her Kinsman and hee must bee carriried away from all his honorable Kindred and there must bee called Heath after his Father in Law's name hoping by this cheat to defraud the Office and that hee was not that partie found heir in the Office When that Queen died Heath found out the child and bred him at Oxford and matriculated him by the right name of Beck and when hee came to bee capable of the Ministry Queen Elizabeth gave him two great benefices in Devonshire and Cornwall with which preferment hee contented himself untill much importuned by many of his noble Kindred and especially the then Earl of Worcester to challenge his right to the Dukedome of Lancaster whereupon hee made his application to Queen Elizabeth by Petition who answered that the Dukedome was cast upon her without her means or procurement and that shee desired to have him advanced to his right and dignity hee beeing so near allied to her and ordered that no more grant of the Dutchie lands should pass untill it was tried in Parlament and also offered him great honor and dignity in the Church of England but before it was determined in Parlament the Queen died Then hee petitioned King James for a hearing in Parlament and to assign him Counsel who did viz. Sergeant Harris Sergeant Jones Mr Dyett and Mr George Crook and then contrary to Law committed him close prisoner without Ink or Paper and so kept him in prison untill a little before his death that the King intended to call a Parlament and being fearful that the horrible piece of tyrannie would bee questioned hee released him and promised him fair as hee knew well enough how to dissemble and called it nothing but King-craft but performed nothing during his life And after his death it beeing told King James that the Duke of Lancaster was dead hee answered God have mercie on Charls and his Issue for hee had don the Duke of Lancaster mickle wrong and that hee meaning Mr Beck had left a heavie curs behind him which were King James his own words for it was Mr Beck's custom when hee spake with the King to desire God to deal by the King and his as the King had dealt with him Shortly after King James dyed Then Nevil Beck beeing in his travels beyond the seas came back to claim his right to the Dukedom of Lancaster of King Charls who delayed him and would not consent to a hearing whereupon Nevil Beck desired 400l per An. for his maintenance for the present but the King answered that if hee gave him that it would enable Nevil Beck to make a case of it and so go to Law with him whereupon som high words of discontent passed from Nevil Beck in relation to his wrong that the King in fury caused him to bee put out of the Court Gates and gave order that the Porters should not suffer him to com in at any time after which caused Nevil Beck to use these words to the Kings servants I do believ I shall live to see him turned out and that neither hee nor his shall have any thing to do with this hous meaning Whitehall Then Nevil Beck petitioned the Lord's and Commons of the late long Parlament to hear his case who deferred the hearing of it telling him that hee must first get an allowance from the King who was then at Oxford in open hostlity against the Parlament and unless that were first don they could not give allowance to his Bill which how impossible that was to bee don let the world judg and after the King's execution they answered him that they had pulled down the hous of York and abolished Kingship and therefore it would bee dangerous to set up the hous of Lancaster but issued out to him som small summes at several times which kept him onely from starving and also forbad the sale of the Dutchie Lands and after his death issued out 20 l. to the use of his Son Samuel Beck the Infant by way of acknowledgment The Dutchie Lands were unfold untill the assembly after at Westminster who voted themselvs a Parlament ordained the sale of the Dutchie Lands The answer of his HIGHNESS most honorable privie Counsel to the Case of Samuel Beck as followeth JOhn of Gaunt had the Dukedome of Lancaster by his first wife heir of Henry Duke of Lancaster pag. 326. By that first wife hee had H. 4. and Philip marrried to John King of Portugal and Elizabeth married to John Holland Duke of Exeter and afterwards to Sir John Cornwall But Thomas Earl of Dorset came from Katharine Swinford the third wife so did Joan Beaufort married to the Earl of Westmerland from whom Beck claimes pag. 327. And pag. 328. it is said that H. 4. united the Ductchie to the Crown which himself held and H. 5. and H. 6. which are true heirs to it Neither is it likely that H. 4. would pass it to a female descended from Katharine Swinford who had divers sons himself pag. 992. Joan Beufort sister of Tho. Beufort of Dorset was second wife of Ralph Nevil Earl of Westmorland and this Earl had a son called Richard Nevil Earl of Salisbury in right of his wife and hee had issue first Richard Nevil the King-maker and six daughters from whom came the Earl of Derby Earl of Arundel the Lord Beuchamp the Earl of Huntingdon the Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery hee had also a ninth sonn called William Nevil Lord Falconberg after Earl of Kent whose three daughters married Coyners Strange waies and Bedbaring and a twelvth was George Nevil Lord Latimer whom the printed paper cites which Barony his Father purchased with the Lands of Latimer and bestowed them on his sonn George Lord Latimer from whom Beck claims in the paper But how can any thing descend on the daughter of this Lord Latimer from John Beufort when all the families before mentioned Derby Arundell c. descend from the elder son of Joan Beufort by marriage with his daughtâ—rs and George Latimer was the twelvth son of that eldest son The reply of Margaret Beck widdow Mother and Guardian to
the Infant IT is true that John of Gaunt had the Dukedom of Lancaster by his first wife and that hee had H. 4. and two daughters by the first wife as is expressed in the paper And that Thomas Earl of Dorset and Joan de Beufart came of the body of Katharine Swinford his third wife As to pag. 328. the paper faith it is said that H. 4. united the Dukedome of Lancaster to the Crown which proves nothing but it will bee prooved that H. 4. was so far from uniting of it to the Crown that hee made a Charter of the Dukedom and confirmed it by act of Parlâ—ment to Thomas de Beufort in expectancy after his death and that after his death Thomas did enter and did enjoy it all the time of H. 5. and six years in the time of H. 6. and in all that time let Lease and granted Estates And for that it was unlikely that H. 4. would pass it to a female which is no proof for Beck's case is not that H. 4. passed it to a female but that Thomas dying without issue Joan was his next heir at the common Law And it doth appear by the grants made by H. 4. to Thomas de Beufort that hee esteemed him above all others of his family for in the grants it is for maintaining his Title to the Crown both at home and abroad and so might verie well trust him to keep up his Childrens Title to the Crown after his deceas Also it appear's by Record that H. 4. created him Earl of Dorset and afterwards Duke of Exeter and after that this grant of the Reversion of the Dukedome of Lancaster thereby the more to enable him to maintain his Children's Title to the Crown It doth not appear that Ralph Nevil had any more Children by Joan de Beufert his second wife then George Nevil Lord Latimer and Cicilia afterwards married to Richard Plantagenet Duke of York from whom the Stewards family descended but it must needs bee that the Children of Ralph Nevil were of his first wife otherwise how could it bee found in the office after the death of Latimer and wife of Beck that her Child was heir to Jone Countess of Westmerland and so to Thomas Earl of Dorset and Duke of Lancaster All this appeared by the coppies of the Records allowed by King James taken out of the Tower Court of wards and Heralds office when King James assigned the Child's grandfather Counsel Notwithstanding all this the mother and guardian of the Childe do submit to the Lord Protector and his privy Counsel to deal with her and her poor Childe as they shall pleas whereupon the Childe was sent to Eaton Colledg to bee bred there at School to eat the bread given by H. 6. who first intruded on the Dutchie Lands but the privy Counsel would not hear any further in the case OBSERVATIONS HENRY 6. entered first by intrusion on the Dutchie Lands of Lancaster after the death of Tho. de Beufort Earl of Dorset and Duke of Lancaster and Exeter and was afterwards conquered by E. 4. taken prisoner and murthered in prison and so lost the Dutchie Lands Crown and Life Also E. 4. kept it by wrong all his life who was wicked in murthers and adulterie hee caused his Brother George Duke of Clarence to bee drowned in a Butt of Malmsey his adultery with Jane shore and others and had wars all his time with those who took part with the hous of Lancaster his two sons after his death murthered in the Tower by R. 3. The Children are paid for the sins of the Father R. 3 would not part with it untill H. 7. killed him at Bosworth field where his body was disgracefully drawn to Lecester and there buried basely H. 7. entered upon the Dutchie Lands and sold much of it and made abundance of mony by that and unlawfull taxes upon the people as a most wicked Tyrant and left it to his son H. 8. who as wickedly spent it as his Father got it and left E. 6. his son who died an Instant and Mary his eldest daughter who wickedly persecuted her sister Elizabeth Shee reigned all her time in a bloody persecution and died all three Children of H. 8. raigning successively one after the other and dying Childless a curs upon that line King James entered upon the Lands of the Dukedom left unsold and kept it by oppression died unnaturally by poison as hath been apparently prooved and left King Charls who refused to restore the Lands or give any satisfaction His end most miserable arraigned condemned and executed at his own door his wife and Children constrained to live on Alms in strange Countries And for the members of the late long Parlament they were disgracefully turned out of that power And lastly for the Assembly who called themselvs a Parlament brake up themselvs in confusion oppression and injustice visibly punished in this verie case It is observed by good Historians that from the body of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster have descended lineally one Empresse 32 Christian Kings and Queens 2 Cardinals 10 Princes and Princesses and 49 Dukes and Dutchesses c. as from another Abraham whereof this Infant Samuel Beck is the last onely heir of that line left in England The Stewards family is also descended from the second hous of Lancaster in expectancie from Joan Countess of Westmorland the daughter of John of Gaunt but their descent is by her youngest daughter the Ladie Cecilia who intermarried with Richard Plantagenet Duke of York who had E. 4. and R. 3. but Samuel Beck is lineally descended from George the son of John Countess of Westmorland who was Bâ—â—â—her of the whole blood to Cecilia Dutchess of York the issue of the Son in right of his Mother is to bee answered before the issue of the daughter which clear's the case for Samuel Beck the Inffant FINIS