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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08388	As it is very much the Parliaments honour, so we account it no lesse our happinesse, that the doors thereof stands so freely open, wherein we may present our desires, as also acquaint it with such fears and grievances, as for the present we do, or for the future may suspect to suffer under. And as for the full discovery of both, we have presented our severall petitions, so we think ourselves in duty obliged to tender our hearty and thankefull acknowledgements, for that returne for the present we received by the mouths of those two worthy gentlemen Sir Henry Vane and Col. Lister. Not doubting but that we shall suddenly finde our hopes crowned with such further answer, as the merits of so just and honest a case deserves. In the mean time, we cannot but to our great regreet take notice of a false and scandalous paper, put in by Sir William Killigrew, miscalling our humble and mode it addresses, clamours, our appearances riots. A strange mistaken confidence, so foully indeavouring to abuse their credulity, from whom he expects to finde favour or authority.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1651 (1651)	Wing A3916AA; ESTC R223977	5,292	1

calumniation we will hold our babbles persons of quality are seldome tatlers To invite and incourage people in a good cause is noble honest and commendable humbly to petition cannot be called clamour by a tongue well guided We cannot learn of any Votes that passed against us neither can we believe it nor that any of this Parliament is against us who was so much for them nor that the Fens can be lost if kept out of the hands of Parliament-destroyers We shall never be so uncivill or unnaturall as to leave our wives and children at the Parliaments doore nor can we imagine that ever any thing will come from thence to cause them to beg at other mens doors To the second Sir William knows the poore need no invitations it was they onely who were found guilty and punished for pulling down their houses c. as appears by severall Indictments when Sir Williams friends and sharers was by Court power made high Sheriff and Justices of the peace and Parliament men put out Had Sir Williams charity sooner appeared it might have been better for him and us He argues Leveller like to gain the poore by telling them that is theirs they have no propriety in for all Lawyers will tell him right of common belongs to the lands and houses of men and not to their persons and such poore as have land or cottage hath as good right of Commons as he that hath a hundred acres We are as willing our Common should be stinted and enjoyed in common if so thought fit as any poor man can desire it practise that onely and condemn us if we oppose it When Sir Williams power prevailed it is well known how the poore was oppressed so that his charity and arguments are but self-ends He saith the rich men of Boston eat up the Common with great stocks and so he saith of the rest of the Towns which great stock those Fens ever maintained before Sir William knew the Country and is an argument the Fens are not at all hurtfully surrounded grounds and needs draining since they bear such great stocks He saith the Commoners would defraud the State of eight thousand acres in the eight hundred Fenne It is he that would defraud the State by inviting them to own what was condemned in the King and so metamorphize a dear-bought-Common wealth into a Kingdome again He knows the King when Court-power ruled having no Title could never out the Commoners though he perplexed them with long and tedious suits in the Court of Exchequer where he was cast and the Commoners possessions never interupted To the third We say it is great discretion in Sir William not to reply to books he is so unable to answer But we much value that after a cause so fully heard in Parliament as to be remonstrated a grievance it should now be a question whether the grievers should be recompenced or not What our petitions or repetitions signifie we must leave to the judgement of the Readers who will soberly determine who is most clamourous He saith it is but some few men that oppose him We will joyne issue with him there if he can either of persons or hands procure foure in ten of rightfull Owners and Commoners we will cease in opposing him Sir William much insisteth upon the Act or Bill that is ordered by the House to be brought in by Jo Gooding Esq a Member thereof as if it was either made by or with his and his sharers privity for he saith the delay of it will starve them it is better starving ten then ten thousand But we cannot but imagine he abuseth that worthy Member in fomenting cause of jealousie being well assured the House ordered no compliance more with them then us Sure we are we have had no insight or privity at all to the Bill and why they should we wonder It is strange that one who hath received so much mercy should be still so foul-mouthed as to call humble Petitioners riotters and abettors He falsely accuseth us for riotters and yet invites us to be so in excepting against many rich men being trusted to represent the grievances of thousands as if it was fit to trouble the Parliament with multitudes But as before if Sir William can procure the greater number we will be silent We know none in England that opposeth drainings neither do we believe any in England think us such fools or mad men that we need Guardians for our estates We are perswaded few of the Nation knows how we have been abused by Court-Undertakers if they did they would wonder such propriety-destroyers should go unpunished To the fourth We are sorry to heare Sir William glory in oppression our imprisonments fining selling our cattell without any account making taking our Land against our consents and commanding Commissioners by the Kings letters deserves little applause and expresseth lesse equity Produce the consent gained of the greatest part of the eminentest Lords Owners and Commoners otherwaies then by force and we will acquiesse A for the improvement made we shall submit to the view of indifferent honest Gentlemen who may judge by the soyle turned up what was the former condition of the Fens Sir William argues much for Recompence we can easily prove a good recompence he hath received for our parts we have more cause to expect it Micah 2.1 2 3 4 5. shews what recompence such deserve many of the Commoners having lost their lives and estates in the Parliaments service by the violence of Sir William and his participants which blood was of greater value then any estate Sir William ever had If we be unable to satisfie his pretended estate he is far more unable to answer for our bloud and estates he and his participants in the late war so lavishly shed and spoyled In the pardon of his violence done to the five Members and his hostility to the Parliament he hath received more then ever we did for our lives and estates we lost and hazarded What Bedford Act is concerns not us their convenience and inconveniences may not be the same with ours It is high presumption for such an offendor as Sir William hath been to say its vain to petition a Parliament Could his bribes prevail there as they did at Court he would anticipate the justice thereof and divide betwixt them and the people the which we hope providence that in our extremity raised us a Parliament will prevent In a late paper Sir William boasteth of 78 Commissioners that did act for him It s well known how unwilling they were to act untill they were commanded by the Kings letters Again those Gentlemen were not actors in that which was the root of the evill for the view of what grounds was hurtfully surrounded betwixt Bourne and Kime Eae was taken onely by Undertakers and Sharers viz. the Earl of Lindsey the Lord Willoughby his son Sir Edward Heron Sir John Brooks William Langton and Robert Long Esq these being for themselves were tempted with that sin of covetuousnesse yet unreformed and certified that all was hurtfully surrounded the other Gentlemen not privie to the designe being commanded by the Kings letters to proceed accordingly and did untill they understood the evil of that designe and then they endeavoured to oppose it But when the Undertakers perceived their dislike of the proceedings they put out of commission o● Sewers those Gentlemen of which number Sir William Armin and Mr. Lister were two and neither of them viewed the Fens now in question We wonder Sir William Killigrew should so unworthily charge Sir William Armin that worthy deceased Member as a Viewer who cleared his innocency of that act before the Committee of the Fens Though what he said and what Sir Anthony Irby testified before the Committee what Fens he and others meant when they writ to the King for an Undertaker be left out of the depositions yet many worthy Members and Gentlemen standing by remembers it Sir Anthony Irby being still living we desire he may again if occasion requires it declare himself he formerly testified that it was not meant the Fens between Bourne and Kine Eae