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A40016 A letter sent to the right honourable Edward Earle of Manchester, Speaker pro tempore in the House of Peers. Wherein are truly stated, and reported some differences of a high nature, betweene the high and mighty Prince Charles, Duke of Lorrayne, &c. And the two honourable Houses of Parliament. Fortescue, Anthony. 1648 (1648) Wing F1611D; ESTC R213746 4,714 12

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A LETTER Sent to the Right Honourable EDWARD Earle of MANCHESTER Speaker pro tempore in the House of PEERS Wherein are truly Stated and reported some Differences of a High Nature betweene the High and Mighty Prince CHARLES Duke of Lorrayne c. And the two Honourable Houses of Parliament Printed in the Yeare 1648. A LETTER Sent to the Right Honourable EDWARD Earle of Manchester Speaker pro tempore in the house of PEERES My Lord VNderstanding his Highnesse Letters have now at last bin read in both the Honourable Houses that an Order hath issued to have them sent to the Committee of the Admiralty there to have the businesse stated and reported to the Honourable Houses touching his Highnesse Ships and the taking of them together with the proceedings as towards mee his Highnesse Resident I thought it my part standing in the place I doe to set up these Lights before the Honourable Houses lest parte inanditâ alterâ their judgments might be still misled in a matter of so great concernment For how can his Highnesse my Master expect an even and faire report to be made from that Committee which already prejudicating his Highnesse cause hath imposed silence not only upon themselves in answering to his gracious Letters but upon me also his publike Minister or any sent by me to agitate his Highnesse affaires at that Table insisting still upon that Crambe of my being onely a pretended Agent which imputation cannot appeare to the Honourable Houses in any other shape then of Calumny his Highnesse having so often iterated by his Letters to both the Honourable Houses as also to divers particular Members of either House your Lordship having beene one of them my being his Resident still honouring me in all those Letters with the stile of his Resident which quality for these dozen yeares he hath fixed upon me which also hath beene made evident by his severall renewed Commissions and I will crowne this verity with a testimony unquestionable His Majesties Royall Letters sent me from Oxford confirming under his Hand and Seale the priviledges of my place equall to those he gave to the greatest Embassadors So that in all sense this ridiculous badge of Pretended might have beene cryed downe long ere this having no ground at all to subsist upon but the opinion of such who file their owne dreames upon Record Now my Lord for his Highnesse setting out men of Warre in a maritime way against his Enemy the French who in prudence can fault it he being a Soveraigne Prince and in confederacy with the Catholike King who gives him the freedome of all his Ports as by our last Prize taken and brought into Ostena is made manifest So as that fond cavill must be laid downe in questioning his Highness right to arme at Sea The particulars of what some of his men under his Highnesse Commission have done in this kind I will here set downe and how they have beene treated though with a more impartiall penne then I presume the Honourable Houses will receive from the Report of the Committee of the Admiralty which already hath so much slighted his Highnesse and passed sohard a censure upon those his Affaires His Highnesse sending for Ireland a Ship called the St. Carlo of 300. Tunne to transport those men for Flanders which he had levied there it was taken by a Parliament man of Warre in the River of Limrick and though by Order from his Highnesse I made my complaints yet could I not obtaine of the Committee of the Admiralty any redresse so that his Highnesse lost that Ship and by that occasion his men also which being transported afterwards in a weaker Vessell were taken at Sea by the Hollanders presuming they were to serve the King of Spayne for the States of Holland are not in Hostility with my Master Captaine Antony a Flemming being sent by his Highnesse the Duke of Lorraine into Ireland to conduct some Souldiers of Colonell Plunkets Regigiment which he had levied in Ireland for the Dukes Service his Highnesse seeing the Spaniard and the French levie forces in Ireland thought it as lawfull for him so to doe as for them Captaine Antony upon his Highnesse charge bought a Vessell in Waterford in which he imbarked some 30 or 40 men for Flanders but at Sea was taken by a Parliament Ship and brought Prisoner into Portsmouth no regard being had to his Highnesse Commission which he shewed There were his men kept Prisoners for many weekes on Ship-board not being permitted to Land the Captaine in the meane time got leave to come up to me to make his complaints in which I negotiated as much as possible I could but was still put off in the meane time his Highnesse men still on Ship-board indured extreamity of misery being forced somtimes for eight dayes together to drink nothing but Sea water In fine I pressing that they might be used like Christians one in office in the Committee of the Admiralty answered me that he esteemed them no better then doggs At the last the Captaine was forced to goe into Flanders there to buy another Ship to fetch his men away his Highnesse Vessell being heere seased upon These were all young Gentlemen of Ireland none of them above 20 years of age who had never borne Arms in that Kingdome which I often intimated but nothing would be heard The poore Youths being most of them Nobly borne and tenderly bred being arrived in Flanders immediatly dyed upon these cruelties used against them His Highnesse having intention to fight his Enemy the French in all the Elements he could resolves to set up forces also by Sea and having the freedome of all the King of Spaines ports was willing to entertaine in that service men of our Nation as well as Dutch Scots and Danes whereupon Captaine George Grace under Commission from his Highnesse setting to Sea tooke upon the Coast of France a Hanburger richly laden with French goods as wee made to appeare in the Admiralty Court both by the Cocket and Bills of Lading as by the confession of the Hanburger and his fellow Mariners under their hands neverthelesse the Prize being taken from his Highnesse Captaine by a Ship of the Parliament commanded by Captaine Filpot with much violence used to our Captaine and his Company was brought into Portsmouth and here in the Admiralty Court adjudged no Price by Doctor Samms then judge of the Admiralty and with such passion was the businesse carried and in such contempt of his Highnesse Commission that Captaine Grace was arrested in the very Court whilst the cause was hearing and all the Cockets Bils of Lading and the testimonies of the Hanburgers taken from him Thus was his Highnesse defeated of his Prize and of his owne Ship Another Vessell was bought by his Highnesse in which Captaine Grace was againe set out and pursuing a French-man in open Sea the French-man fled to a Parliament Ship which protected him whereupon Captaine Grace was forced to desist
and sayled towards Poole where lying at Anchor to take in ballast by Order from the Governour of Poole he was seased upon by a Ship of the Parliament commanded by Captaine Cartridge who brought him into Poole where the Governour kept the Ship for divers moneths and imprisoned the Captaine and his men without any ground at all but upon cavill against his Commission and upon sinister informations caused the Captaine to be sent up to London Prisoner by Order from the Committee of the Admiralty By his meanes that service was wholly lost to his Highesse great dammage and dishonor though afterwards with much and much solicitation the Ship was restored but with excessive charge to his Highnesse both in the clearing of her and making her fit againe for Service His Highnesse still not doubting but to receive full satisfation for these injuries offered him sets out another Vessell under Command of Captaine Faulkner who upon the French Coast tooke a Frenchman and brought him into Dartmouth where the Governor seased upon him and his Prize but at last was content to let Captaine Paulkner depart with his owne Vessell but detained for his owne use and benefit the French Vessell which was an excellent Swimmer and kept all the goods in her and although by Order from his Highnesse I made my addresses to the Committee of the Admiralty for satisfaction yet none could I ever obtaine Neither wanted upon all these severall exigents his Highnesse Letters to both the Honourable Houses demanding restitution in a faire way but so farre was that off as to this houre his Highnesse never received any Neverthelesse his Highnesse not intending in these his intentions for Sea to exclude our Nation sets out Captaine Faulkner againe who taking a French-man not within command of any Fort or Castle of this Kingdome as is pretended which appeared by a shot made from Mount-Batten which reached not Captaine Faulkner by a mile and upward brought confidently his Prize into the Isle of Wight where he was presently seased upon by Colonell Hammond the Captaine and all his men cast into Prison his Prize taken from him and sold before his face which shewed no intention of restoring it to the French had they had any right to it and an inventory sent up to the Committee of the Admiralty of the goods to a very small valuation though the Prize was worth 600li the ship being laden with Wines Rozen Pitch Pruens and the like French Commodities of value All the sollicitation possible I could make in his Highnesse behalfe and withall delivering his Highnesse Letters to both the Honourable Houses filled with much sweetnesse and affection towards this Nation to obtaine satisfaction none ever yet was thought upon nor that there was any such Princeas the Duke of Lorrayne whose Letters were worthy of answer In witnesse still of this high misprission foure of his seamen are yet in extreame misery detayned in the Common-Goale of Winchester where they are ready to perish and both the French Ship and the Dukes also are imbarged and seased upon before the Isle of Wight At the same time Captaine Anderson having received his Highnesse Commission went downe to Portsmouth where having gotten to him some few Sea-men and bought a small Vessell to transport themselves to Ostend there to be put upon a greater Ship no sooner was it knowne that they were to serve under the Duke my Masters Commission having yet never attempted any thing were seased upon and detained in prison for many weeks to the overthrow of that his Highnesse service and the undoing of the poore men after my many sollicitations and many repulses they were at last freed from their most unjust imprisonment but with no consideration had of their losses These several passages of disgrace having beene put upon the Duke my Master with so stiffe a silence in both the Honourable Houses to his Highnesse so many courteous Letters have caused I presume this last Letter of his to both the Houses to make some expression of his resentment in demanding of the Parliament of England whether they desire to have him their Friend or their Enemy And although I my Lord am servant to this great Prince who at this houre commands an Army of his owne of 12000. as gallant men as the Sunne shines upon most of them old Souldiers of understanding as well able to command as of wills ready to obey having borne for many yeares the waight and scoarching of the day who with often graplings have made soft unto their hands the hardnesse of warre glorying more in their honourable Scarrs then in their Scarlets and are at their height of joy when they heare the Trumpets call to a Battell yet am I still an English man and so zealous a Patriot as most willingly would I Sacrifice my life in the continuation of that ancient League and Amity which hath ever beene betweene this Kingdome and the House of Lorrayne that Mother of Princes that Nurcery of Kings whose Royall steame hath extended its flourishing Branches over most of the Thrones of Europe whose now Regnant Heyre the Duke my Master looking upon the rich Ornaments of his Soveraignty values the greatest Juell in it his so neere allyance to our Soveraign Lord Charles King of England France Scotland and Ireland whose present condition he behols with eyes full of affections and cleered from all Mists of mistake I conclude my Lord with my owne disinterest it is not I am confident the pleasure of my Master to call me off from this Station by way of complyance with the Honourable Houses till that abusive attribute of pretended be taken off from me his reall Minister for what judgement can thinke such an imputation should be laid upon me from any doubt in matter of fact as whether his Highnesse ownes me for his Resident or not but rather the doubt seemes to be raysed in matter of his Highnesse Power whether he can constitute any Publique Minister And to question this wil but expresse more more the weaknesse of those who doubt it and make his Highnesse more more reflect upon his own Powers But did the streame run cleere as formerly which now begins to be troubled betweene his Highnesse my Master and the Honourable Houses I should receive those endeavours most joyfully which should effectually obtaine my recalling for the cause of my stay here being now rightly stated the difference appeares betweene his Highnesse the Duke of Lorraine and the Parliament of England and not betweene the Parliament of England and Your Lordships most humble Servant ANTHONY FORTESCUE Resident for his Highnesse of Lorraine April 20. 1648.