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A63730	A True relation of the transaction of the commands of both Houses of Parliament in the execution of the militia in the county of Leichester by the Right Honourable Henry Earle of Stamford, lord lieutenant of the said county, the honourable the Lord Ruthen, Sir Arthur Haselrigge Knight, deputy lieutenants, and others subservient to the same commands performed in the towne and county of Leichester aforesaid, before and upon Wednesday the two and twentieth of June 1642 : with the votes of both Houses of Parliament, dissanuling His Majesties illegall Commission of Aray.	Chambers, John, 17th cent.; Stanforth, James, 17th cent.	1642 (1642)	Wing T3060; ESTC R22050	8,380	16

A true RELATION Of the TRANSACTION Of the Commands of both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT in the execution of the Militia in the County of LEICESTER By the right Honourable Henry Earle of Stamford Lord Lieutenant of the said County The honourable the Lord Ruthen Sir Arthur Haselrigge Knight Deputy Lieutenants and others subservient to the same Commands Performed in the Towne and County of Leicester aforesaid before and upon Wednesday the two and twentieth of June 1642. With the Votes of both Houses of Parliament dissanuling his Majesties illegall Commission of Aray Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled that this execution of the Militia for Leicester-shire with these Votes be forthwith published in Print Ioh. Brown Cler. Parliam LONDON Printed for George Lindesay and for all those who truly love and honour the King and Parliament and desire their Amity and Unity July 5. 1642. A Relation of the execution of the Ordinance of Parliament touching the Militia ON Saturday the fourth of June the Earle of Stamford came to Leicester where his Lordship issued out his warrants to all the head Constables to summon all the Trained and desired all the private men within their severall divisions to appeare before him or his Deputies at the Towne of Leicester on Wednesday following Afterwards the very same Saturday came a messenger from Yorke with a writ to the high Sheriffe to send forth his Majesties Proclamations to the contrary Notwithstanding the warrants being sent out by the head Constables the Countrey came in both Trained Souldiers private men and Voluntiers farre beyond expectation who generally declared themselves for the King and Parliament But the said Earl thought fit again the week following to appoint the five companies of the Trained Bands to appeare severally in such convenient places as might be most for their ease and least chargeable and thereupon they came The first on Tuesday June the fourteenth to Broughton-Ashley where appeared above an hundred Voluntiers and the Trained and private men all save onely out of one division the head Constable thereof being perswaded by the Parson of the Towne where he lives refusing to send out his warrants and yet out of that division the Trained Souldiers and private men in many Townes came in without warning The second on Wednesday at Kibworth where there was a very good appearance except some of the Clergy with above an hundred Voluntiers The third on Thursday at Melton Mowbray where they made generall appearance The fourth upon Friday at Ruinborough where the appearance was very good considering how many great Papists and ill affected people live thereabouts The last on Munday at the Coptoake there was a generall appearance of the Trained and private men with two hundred Voluntiers at the least And in every one of these places very many of the Countrey men came to the said Earle and desired him to helpe them to armes for their owne defence and the publicke safety And after his returne home from that daies Muster he was advertised that Richard Hawford Sir Iohn Bale Knight Iohn ●ate Esquire had prevailed with Mr. Major of Leicester to set a guard upon the remainder of the Magazine left at that place and that one of that worthy Gentlemans servants should watch the same together with divers desperate fellowes of that Towne the Earle repaired thither accompained with the Lord Ruthen Sir Arthur Haselrig Mr. Thomas Bramour and divers other Gentlemen of good worth in that County and commanded the Major to remove away the remainder of the Powder Match and Bullets and put it into a place of more strength and safety But on Wednesday the fifteenth of June as the said Earle returned from Kibworth he heard at Leicester that Mr. Henry Hastings Esquire was immediately before come thither from Yorke with a commission of Aray So the said Earle having first given advertisement thereof to the Parliament removed very early the next morning a great part of the Magazine from the Towne of Leicester for more security to his owne house That day being Thursday Master Hastings caused the under Sheriffe in the absence of 〈◊〉 high Sheriffe to send forth warrants in the high Sheriffes name to the whole County as well Trained Souldiers private men and the Clergy should come to Leicester according to his commission there to be mustered upon the Wednesday following In the interim the said Earle having notice given him from divers persons of many menacing words cast forth against him tending to the hazard of his life and destruction of his house on Munday the said Earle set a guard about his house of an hundred and fifty of his neighbours tenants and servants who hearing the report came and offered themselves to doe him service whom he maintained at his owne charge On Tuseday early in the morning a messenger from the high Court of Parliament did attach the under Sheriffe for sending forth warrants by vertue of the commission of Aray and with a sufficient guard carried him away to the Parliament In the afternoone Master Hastings being newly returned againe from Yorke came to Loughborough and hearing that the under Sheriffe was gone sent out againe other warrants himselfe to summon all the Townes neare his abode to come to him at Loughborough betimes the next morning being the Master of certain Cole-mines he caused all his horses belonging to the engines to be in a readinesse and there raised about one hundred Collyers out of Darbishire whom he had armed with Pikes Muskets and Calivers and few or none of the Trained Bands comming into him he assembled his friends many of them Papists such others as are ill affected towards the proceedings of Parliament at Loughborough on Wednesday morning where and at Ashby-de-la-zouch he bought up all the powder and old troopers sadles that on the suddain could be got when all were come in together he made proclamations that whosoever wanted armes should be furnished from Garradon Abbey and other Popish places as is credibly repotted and so they marched with drums and colours towards Leicester eight miles distant himselfe still marching before them when they came neare a Towne Within three miles of the Towne of Leicester he caused powder match and bullets to be delivered to every Musketier and commanded by a Sergeant that every man should charge with powder and bullet which was done immediately and match lighted and so himselfe marched in the head of them into the Towne of Leicester and commanded they should not discharge till the word of command was given The Earle of Stamford having intelligence of his march by Scouts which he sent abroad might have laid his ambuscado and by the advantage of the way have cut them all off for the said Earle was furnished with about an hundred and fifty Musketiers and shot and twenty good horse well mounted with carabines and pistolls besides the neighbouring Townes came running in offering their lives and fortunes at his dispose and in effect the

whole County ready and willing to have beene raised at his command The provocations were great from Mr. Hastings and his troops consisting of horse as well as pike men and musketiers who gave out by the way to the terror of the people that came affrighted and gave intelligence to the said Earle that they would fetch away the Magazine from him fire his house have his heart bloud and never leave him till they had made him turne up the white of his eyes Yet the said Earle chose rather to stand upon his guard at home then to sally out and levie a warre well weighing with himselfe the misery that might have ensued not to this County alone but to the whole Kingdome When Mr. Hastings and his company were come into the field but not in the place where by the warrant he had appointed the Countrey to meet very few of the Trained Bands obeying that summons having made a speech and therein pretended his affection to his Countrey that he had not a Papist in his company and that his desire was to avoid the effusion of bloud he began to read his Commission of Aray Thereupon the high Sheriffe caused the Votes of both Houses of Parliament to be read wherein his Commission was voted illegall So a Messenger from both Houses of Parliament did presently attach him as a delinquent as also some others of the Commissioners that were present with him by vertue of a Warrant from the high Court of Parliament Then notwithstanding his foresaid Oration divers of his Company both horse and foot did cock their Match and draw out their Pistolls and presented them towards the high Sheriffe Master Hastings and the rest being much danted at the unexpected courage and spirit both of the high Sheriffe and the Messenger said after they had executed his Majesties Commission they would appeare at the Parliament but the horse pressing upon them consisting chiefly of the foure delinquents their Captaines Officers and Servants with others Papists and unknown persons rescued them and shot at the Messenger and two Butchers of Leicester throwing Mr. Hastings on horseback he drew out his Pistolls and marched directly with the rest of his company to his Inne and shut up the Gates The Earle of Stamford hearing of the Rescue sent fome of his Servants to Leicester to give command to every man that had any Souldiers in his house to seize their Armes when they were asleep In the meane while Master Hastings and the rest hearing what men the said Earle had in a readinesse and apprehending that Mr. Sheriffe might require his aide did all thereupon very fairely runne away that night at a leven leven of the clock So it hapened that all or most of their Armes were seized upon according to the stratagem proposed and are now remaining at the dispose of the said Earle of Stamford the which shall bee imployed as both Houses of Parliament please to command It is to be remembred that Mr. Hastings had his man at Leicester ready upon the comming downe of the Earle of Stamford to carry him word and that hee immediatly posted away to Yorke and brought back with him Proclamations which he dispersed about the Country writing himselfe upon the backside in the nature of a warrant that it was to be conveyed from towne to towne and published in every place That the day before the Country was to come in that he came himself to Leicester Master Major and the Aldermen being met in the Towne Hall to advise about the appearance of the trained soulders in the Towne which Master Major promised on Saterday before should come in if the Earl of Stamford would grant him a warrant which was granted Master Hastings came to the Hall and sent for Master Major from his brethren and so changed his resolucion that hee utterly refused to issue out any warrants for which Master Hastings since hath procured a letter of thanks from the King to the Major Notwithstanding the backwardnesse of the Major about 100. men many of the Majors Bretheren and of the Company of the Burrough with others well affected to the King Parliament and Kingdome and the safety of them came as volunteers well Armed and many others offred in a short time to provide themselves with Armes to be ready at the next Summons of the Earl of Stamfords to be trained and exercised Die Sabbathi 18. Iunii 1642. Resolved upon the Question by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament THat this Commission of Aray for Leicester is against Law and the Liberty and property of the Subject Die Lunae 20. Irunii 1642. Resolved upon the Question c. THat all those that are Actors in putting the Commission of Aray in execution shall be esteemed as disturbers of the peace of the Kingdome and betrayers of the liberty of the Suject Iohn Brown Cler. Parliamentorum A NARATION Of the Service performed by Iohn Chambers and James Stanforth by command of both Houses of Parliament touching the Militia ON Saturday the eighteenth of this instant June 1642. they received at the rising of the House of Commons their warrants against the severall Delinquents therein named viz. Henry Hastings Esquire Sonne to the Right Honourable the Earle of Huntington Henry Hastings of Humerston Esquire Sir Richard Hawford Knight Master Pate Sir John Bale Knight and Master Gregory the Under-Sheriffe of the County of Leicester On Munday the 20 of the said Moneth they came by eleven of the clocke in the morning to Broadgate in the said County to the House of the Right Honourable the Earle of Stamford where they were informed that his Lordship together with the Lord Ruthin and Sir Arthur Haslerigg were training of Souldiers at a place called C●pt Oake three myles distant from the Lord Stamfords house where the said Chambers and Stanforth waited till the evening when they returned from the Muster and presently tooke horse as the Lords Sir Arthur Haslerigg and others then presently did and waited on them to the Town of Leicester where they attended the said Lords and Sir Arthur Haslerigg who received information that Sir Richard Hawford had prevailed with Thomas Ruddier the Maior there to set a Guard on the remainder of the Magazine and they having sent for the said Maior and Justices of the said Town of Leicester removed the same from the South-gate into a strong Tower called Neworks-Gate neere the Town by the approbation of the said Maior and Justices who were then present that evening and the next day they waited for further command from their Lordships and Sir Arthur Haslerigg who being at Leicester where they heard that Master Henry Hastings sir Richard Hawford and others intended to come in a Warlike manner against them the day following being Wednesday the 23. of the said June after the Lords and Sir Arthur Haslerigg had fixed the Votes of both Houses on the In-Gates where they the said Master Hastings and the other Delinquents were to lye and

had done what was possible in the businesse for the time present About nine of the clock in the morning they departed to the Lord Stamfords leaving the said Chambers and Stanforth together with one Thomas Horton one of the said Sir Arthurs servants at Leicester to wait on the said High-Sheriffe Archdale Palmer Esquite to mannage the businesse as the Sheriffe and they were required On the Wednesday aforesaid about eight of the clock in the morning the High-Sheriffe came to Leicester attended on by men Armed with swords and javelins to keep the Kings Peace there that being in an Inne called the Hearon in Leicester the said Chambers saw a Barrell brought in by a Porter which he deemed to be Gunpowder which doubts to satisfie the Porter was examined whereupon he confessed the Barrell was filled with Gun-powder and that it was sent thither by Master Andrew Hawford Son to the said sir Richard Hawford which Powder the High-Sheriffe then seized upon by power of an Order of the Honorable House of Parliament Dated the eleventh day of June aforesaid That about ten of the clock the said day one Master Walter Hastings mounted on a Bay stone-horse with a great saddle and Petronels in a Warlike manner Rid into the yard of the said Inne and with him the Lord Lovelace and one Master Killegrew as they were informed who traversing up and down the said Yard on horsebacke the said Walter Hastings swore that he would eat up the Lord Stamford to which one of the said gentlemen replied leave one bit for me or to the same effect and then the said Hastings made a short distracted speech to the people saying What my friends and countrymen ye stand for the King and the Hastings who have ever been true to the Crown The people answered we are all for the King and the Parliament Then the said Hastings required the said Sheriffe to read His Majesties Proclamation which with an oath of God damn him he the said Hastings swore the Sheriffe had received Whereunto the Sheriffe modestly replied it was not true which done he the said Hastings departed and the rest of his company in an outragious and uncivill manner swearing and cursing as they rid out of the said Inne About two of the clocke of the same day they the said High-Sheriffe Chambers and Stanforth had intelligence that the said Delinquents or most of them with all their Troops and Foot Souldiers to the number of about 300 were met in a Commou or green called the Horse Faire neere the said Town whither they repaired attended on by the said Sheriff men on Foot and found the said Parties there met some of them on great Horses with Petronels and the rest Armed with swords Muskers Caleevers Pikes and Halberts Master Henry Hastings alighted and told the Sheriffe and the rest he was come thither to execute his Majesties Commission of Array to himselfe and others then granted for that County and then tendered to the said Sheriffe two bundels the one of Proclamations the other of books with an imposition on the Sheriffe to read and publish the same Master Hastings swearing he was the Kings body and Soul and the said Sheriffe being often and very uncivilly pressed by the said Master Hastings to read and publish the said Proclamations made this answer I cannot performe His Majesties single commands till I have acquainted the Parliament therewith nor do any thing contrary to their Votes I am for the King and for the Parliament and if I perish I perish Whereupon the said Chambers produced the last Votes of both Houses concerning the illegality of the Commissions of Array and read the same plainly and openly endeavouring thereby to let the people hear them so read And likewise read the last Declaration of both Houses concerning the Militia concluding with these words God save the King and Parliament which words the people plausibly reiterated except the said Henry Hastings who as before againe said he was the Kings body and soule and then and there the said Chambers drew forth the Warrants of both Houses and intreated the peoples silence read them openly and called the Delinquents Master Henry Hastings Sir Richard Hawford Sir John Bale Master John Pate they being then and there present and within hearing as the said Chambers was informed requiring them at their utmost perils to yeeld their obedience to the power of the said Warrants and the said Chambers required the Sheriffe to keepe the Kings peace and to be aiding and assisting unto him the said Chambers in this due execution of the said Warrants To prevent and utterly hinder the due execution whereof the said Master Hastings began to read the Kings Commission which being in Latine and he not being ready therein did there indevour to comment upon the meaning thereof in English which being altogether then unable to doe one Master Edward Palmer the Towne Clarke of Leicester tooke the said Commission out of his hand saying it ought to be read who read it in Latine to which most of the people gave eare but answered nothing That done the said Chambers laid a strict command on the said Sheriffe to have a speciall care of the said Delinquents and required them likewise to obey which words the said Sir Richard Hawford hearing being very neere to the said Chambers answered thus viz. When this his Majesties great businesse is over then I le come to you Master Sheriffe and give such security for my attendance on the Parliament as shall be fitting Master Hastings also willed the said Chambers to repaire to the Angell in Leicester where all the Delinquents as he said intended to lodge that night where he should have civill deportment from them which he much doubted seeing their cariage before in the Field to be so outragious Immediately after that Master Hastings pretended he would divide the Troopers and Souldiers into foure parts and call them by their names but having severed them for his owne advantage to gaine his Horse he was by two rude Butchers one by name Henry Cotes as the said Chambers was informed lifted up into his great Saddle and a Petronell ready cockt given into his hands by one of the said Butchers Then the Cavaleers and the rest of the Souldiers joyning with the rude multitude and about foure and twenty Parsons in Canonicall Coats well horsed rid all towards the Towne with loud exclamations a KING a KING others for the KING for the KING in a strange and unheard of manner Captaine Worsley giving the Word of command to the Souldiers Make ready Make ready which as they were providing to doe a sudden and extraordinary aboundance of raine falling the Souldiers were hindred from firing Then the said Master Walter Hasting endeavoured to ride over the said Chambers who to prevent that got up a high banke whereon a rude fellow standing strooke him with a club on the breast and with the violence thereof the said Chambers fel backward into a ditch but as soone as his strength served him to recover himselfe he made all the haste he possibly could towards the Towne to escape murthering then they followed Master Sheriffe Chambers and Stanforth crying out at the Cap at the Cap which was at that time on Chambers his head and one of the persons endeavoured to ride over the sayd Sheriffe another of them would have ridden over the said Stanforth and Master Walter Hastings gave fire at Chambers with one of his Petronels but the same did not discharge so they got to the said Inne with much hazard who afterwards were in forced for their owne safety to stand upon their guard and being very much tyred were unable that night to doe any further service except the writing of a Letter which Chambers did and recommended the same to the Lord Stamford and the rest to satisfie what done and to have further direction what was fitting after to be done therein which directions about one of the clocke in the morning were that the said Chambers and Stanforth should by the assistance of the said Sheriffe and the Major and Justices of Leicester use their best power and endeavour to surprize the said Delinquents But they too sensible of their ill carriage and misdemeanour privately in the evening had got away leaving the Souldiers behinde them About two of the clocke the said morning the said Chambers and Stanforth with the assistance of the Justices and other Townesmen with about forty persons more made severall searches in Innes and other drinking-houses where they found many souldiers laid in bed some on the bed but most of them distempered with drinke and then seized on their Armes and caused them to be carried to the Sheriffe in the said Inne viz. one great Saddle three Petronels and about one hundreth Pikes one Launce above threescore Muskets and Caleevers about twenty Swords and foure long Peeces about seven foot in length All which the said Chambers and Stanforth and others of the Sheriffes men searching found charged some with Bullets some with halfe Bullets and others with goose shot very deepely and dangerously which amunition being left in the Sheriffes custody part of them were delivered to some of the traine Band and the rest presented by the said Chambers to the Lord Stamford Then the said Chambers being further informed that Master Henry Hastings had procured about an hundred and twenty Colliers out of Darbishire to attend him to Leicester upon the like search the said Chambers with Stanforth being accompanied with the said Justices and Townesmen found two of them who confessed they were poore Darbishire Colliers neither trained men nor men that had at any time before that borne Armes for any other and that they and their fellowes were commanded to come to Leicester in aid of his Majesty and their Master the said Master Hastings which said Colliers never appeared before the Sheriffe to demand or receive their Armes but got privately away the Major in the whole progresse of this businesse seemed backward to doe any thing for the Parliament and as forward to further Master Hastings in the businesse aforesaid The effect of which proceedings the said Chambers and Stanforth thought fit humbly to present to the construction and grave consideration of this Honorable Assembly ready alwayes to prostrate themselves and service at your further commands John Chambers James Stanforth FINIS