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A27226 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. Beck, Margaret. 1656 (1656) Wing B1649; ESTC R23676 6,899 16

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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 daught●rs and George Latimer was the twelvth son of that eldest son The reply of Margaret Beck widdow Mother and Guardian to