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A89430	Yet another word to the wise: shewing, that the lamentable grievances of the Parliaments friends in Cumberland and Westmerland. [sic] presented by their Commissioner, Mr. Iohn Musgrave, to the House of Commons above two years agoe, are so far yet from being redressed, that the House of Commons not only protecteth Mr. Richard Barwis, one of their owne members, from the law, being accused of high treason, as appeareth by the great charge against him in this treatise contained. As also against Sir Wilford Lawson, commander in chiefe of Cumberland, who betrayed that county into the enemies hands. ... But instead of doing justice either against them or other accused traytors to the common-wealth, they have most unjustly committed that worthy gentleman, Mr. John Musgrave, (their accuser and prosecuter to the Fleet prison) above these 12. moneths, ...	Musgrave, John, fl. 1654.	1646 (1646)	Wing M3155; Thomason E355_25; ESTC R201125	47,559	50

Scotland where our ships come not no place stands more need Delinquents and meane men are put in high places either of which enough to ruine a Kingdome Jervis Benson and Br●mthwait the first made Colonell yet hath but a house and no land his Education no better then a Register formerly under the Bishop of Chester who yet executes that office the other you know and hath little a L. Colonell but will be rich enough if this world would hold I sent you before an information against Lawson but it perished with my letter and many more things of consequence which I cannot keep in mind Farewell Richard Crakanthrop 12.10 Mon 1645. little Srickland An extract of a Letter from Master Crakanthrop to Master Osmotherley Sir I doe much admire that you are not long since wearied out with this long and tedious businesse your friends and I doe much admire of your courage the truth is dwee are all growne faint and I had rather that it were quite given over then be held with a continuall expectation you know and so Mr. Musgrave the strength of our friēds who purpose only was to discharge themselves in making known their Coūtries sufferings but if no cognizāce wil be taken thereof yet do they hold themselves discharged and not all waies held to consume the little they have with continuall attendance it may be you will think I doe not herein play the part of a comfortable friend but doe rather weaken then strengthen you I must confesse I did expect to have received some better satisfaction then the last Orders did give me yet doe I referre all to your wisdome and will alwaies endeavour to apply my selfe to give you satisfaction in your desires and to submit my selfe to your judgment I have not written to you this 14. daies wee have had the Enemy to keep us so busie who came from New wark with about 1500 horse under the command of the Lord Dighy and at Sherburne suffered some losse and so marched for Cumberland by Millam upon whose approch Barronet Curwen and Colonell Law son was together at Isell the Enemy came to Workinton where they found the house provided of all thinges for their entertainment from whence they went for Scotland And abut Annon Sir John Browne with some few horse fell one them taking the nights opportunity cut of divers and took divers Prisoners Lawson called the Country together making a shew to doe something but did nothing only with-drew his companies which kept the water at Bownesse whereupon the Enemy retreated back to Workington but staid but a day the Baronet came to Penreth but the Enemy was frustrate and went to the I le of man the rest disperced and fled being rather smitten with terror from God then cause of such feare a party came over at Mooredovocke yet none give notice to the country before them only I was told of that parties comming up Cunnerkeld and with as good a party as I could make of the night time did make on to Strickland head and missing on them wee went for Rosgill where wee heard some of them were but they had not there staied so wee missed of them yet are the most of them taken in some place one some two and some three and many in Lancashire so they are utterlyrouted and and overthrowne what ever their designe was which some say for Scotland to Mountrose but I rather think for the landing of Irish who missing of them upon their first approch made as they had been for Scotland but returned againe and so missing againe aboue workington dispersed some of Cumberland fled to them John Scenehouse of S●lkild of Whitehall and Sir Edward Musgrave but I think you will have the relation from Sir John Browne who did gallantly who have given you information enough Mr. Bellingham doth not yet send the Articles and whe-●●er he will or on I know not he did send a petition with articles to York to this pur-pose he hath had letters from Sir Ralph Ashton and Sir Thomas Witherington that if he would have a Solicitor the time was or not at all we supposed you would have seen to it The L. Wharton of late hath put a great many of his Tenants that had formerly ben of the Committee of this Committee for affocation wee thought to have heard from you of this too if a Cōmittee be obtained I wish Mr. Allen Bellingham were in it I sent away your letters to your wife who I heare is well shee writ to you twise to my knowledge desire Master Musgrave to look to his owne businesse his Mother is well and the Children but cannot get any thing out of Vaux for her maintenance desire him to see what he can doe with the Committee of Justice for her and to advise us The Lord Dacre is come to London desire Master Musgrave to returne him thankes for his mother and to tender my service unto him he will I hope acquaint you with the Cumberland Committees Cariage so Sir refering all to your serious consideration I take leave and will alwaies remaine Yours in what I may Richard Crakanthrop Little Strickland the 30. of the 10. moneth 1645. To my Much respected friend John Osmotherly or to Mr. Musgrave in his absence Lieu. Col. Bellinghams Letter THis is the Countryes owne petition for I transcribed it and sent it them at York if you can make any use of it I pray you delay it not for losse of time is dangetous thus leaving it to your consideration I remaine now as ever Your assured friend James Bellingham The 2. Novemb. 1645 For Mr. John Musgrave and Mr. Osmotherley FOr newes wee heare Master Barwis hath so prevailed with my Lord Gray as he hath got a Commission to Sir Wilfride Lawson Master Briscoe Master Lamplongh Master Barwis Master Tolson and Master Curwen as some of them report to be Lieutenants Justices and Committees of accompts for Cumberland in whose hands the monyes and goods remaines that is to be accompted for John Osmotherly 26. Janu. 1645. BEloved your mother is so oppressed by Mr. Vaux through the helpe of Nicholas Mawson the Earle of Strafford never put an Arbitrary power more in execution then these Committees they would needs have Townson your sisters husband to be bound to the behaviour for comming to your mother and have given their Order to Vaux that he shall not come their nor lodg there but yet not him only but the intent is that none shall be assistant to her or doe her service yet did Towenson Stoutly tell the Committee and Vaux that he would come to her when shee desired him and doe her service and stay as long shee would I can say no more unto you knowing your labour herein for freeing us of these Arbitrary governors that regard the Parliaments Orders and theirowne Commissioner no more nay not so much as those that were Enemles to the Parliament their will is their Law and Order they go by and now they

Petition was sent me the 2. Mon. 1646. subscribed by 90. of the Gentlemen and other well-affected of Cumberland and Westmerland A warrant of the Commissioners of Array in Cumberland subscribed by Sir Wilfride Lawson who was one of that number there VVHereas all the Counties of this Kingdome now lye groning under the heavy yoke of this unnaturall Rebellion warre against their Soveraigne yet notwithstanding all or most part of these Counties have submitted to a voluntary contribution to his Majestie towards the maintenance of his Majesties Royall Army Cumberland and Westmerland only excepted and there-upon information given to the Lord Generall his Excellency of our slacknes in not addressing our selves the same way as others did who there-upon had given order for sending three thousand horse to be billetted among us and some before that time billetted in the Country if not by the carefull sollicitation of Sir Philip Musgrave and Sir Richard Graham who were sent from both the Counties his Excellency had not been diverted from that way would have ruined the Country and thereupon such horse as was already billetted were by his Lord-ships command removed out of the two Counties and whereas his Majestie in the late warre with the Scots did by his Royall proclamation command all his Free-houlders in chief to be attendant on his Person at Yorke yet such was his care over this County that his Majestie by his warrant under his prime Signet did discharg these Counties of the said Proclamation all which acts of grace and to prevent the biletting of horse among us and other inconveniences that may happen unto us by our neglect wee having taken into consideration doe hereby testifie our obedience to his Majesties service and therefore will and require you the _____ and the Constables of Ribtonand little Broughton and that you doe Assesse your whole Parish at the summe of two pound ten shillings and the same so assessed by that then you and all of you forth-with demand collect and receive of the said Inhabitants there and pay the same to Leonard Dikes Esquire High-sheriffe of the county of Cumberland at Cockermouth the first day of April to that end the same may be presented to his Majestie as a free contribution of his well-affected subjects in Cumberland towards the charge of his great affaires faile not as you tender the furtherance of his Majesties service Given under our hands at the City of Carlile thirteenth of April 1643. Richard Graham Edward Musgrave Philp Musgrave Henry Fletcher Wilfride Lawson Patricius Curwen William Dalston George Dalston Thomas Dacre Sir Philip Musgrave Commander in chief over the Kings forces in Cumberland and Westmerland and Leonard Dikes a Commissioner of Array their warrant against Henry Bluthwait and Mary his wife Cumberland FOrasmuch as wee are informed that Mary the wife of Henry Bluthwait is one that doth not stand affected to his Majesties service and is suspected to disperse scandalus pamphelts These are therefore to will and command you that you take and arrest the bodies of the said Henry Bluthwait and Mary his wife and them carry before the next Justice to enter in Recognizance with good sureties not only to appeare at the next Sessions but also not to depart this County without License of the commander in chief whereof faile not Given under our hands this nineteenth of April 1644. Philip Musgrave Leo. Dikes To the Constables of Withope Seckmurther and Embleton and if they refuse to become bound as abovesaid that you commit them to the Gaole at Carlile Philip Musgrave A warrant of Sir Wilfride Lawson then a Commissioner of Array and now High-Sheriffe of Cumberland and Commander in chief ouer the Parliaments forces there Cumberland SIr Wilfride Lawson Knight one of his Majesties Justices of Peace within the county of Cumberland to the Constables of Seckmurther to the Keeper of his Majesties Gaole at Carlile whereas the said Constbles of Seckmurther had a warrant from Sir Philip Musgrave Knight and Baronet and Commander in chief of the county of Cumberland and Westmerland and from Leonard Dikes Esquire to arrest the bodies of Henry Bluthwait and Mary his wife of Sickmurther aforesaid and them to bring before the next Justice that such course might be taken as to Justice appertaineth in pursuance of the aforesaid warrant the said Constables brought the said parties before me but the said Mary Bluthwait the wife of the said Henry Bluthwait snatcht up the warrant and doth detaine the same These are therefore to will and command you the constables immediatly upon the receipt hereof to convey the body of the said Henry Bluthwait for refusing to observe the said warrant and the said Mary his wife for the misdemenour aforesaid as also for refusing to observe the said warrant safely to his Majesties Gaole at Carlile there to remain untill such time as he and shee shall be inlarged by due course of Law Isel 6. May 1644. Wilfride Lawson Upon this warrant Bluthwait and his wife were imprisoned the woman was bound in a Cart with her face and head upward and under the horse tayle and the horse so driven that he galloped with her to the danger of her life and before they put her in prison caused her to be stript to her smock under pretence of searching for suspected papers and afterwards Henry Pearson and Iames Pearson Brothers and two Delinquents Atturneys gave direction and command in the name of Sir Wilfride Lawson to lay her in Irons Philip Musgrave Baronet and Symon Musgrave Esquire two of his Majesties Justices of the peace within the county of Cumberland To the Constables of Penreth and all other his Majesties Officers and loving Subjects within the said County as also to the Keeper of his Mejesties Gaole at Carlile and to every of them greeting Whereas wee are credibly informed that Richard Crakanthrop late of Stickland in the County of Westmerland Gentl. hath lately much strived to seduce and mistead his Majesties loyall subjects within these two Counties of Cumberland and Westmerland since he got his inlargement out of prison from their duty and allegiance to his Majestie the Lawes of the Kingdome and Religion established and hath likewise publiquely attempted to raise and levie warre within the two counties before named and hath also publiquely opposed himselfe against those who are put in Authority by his Majestie to the evill and wicked example of all his Majesties well-affected subjects These are therefore in his Majesties name to command you that you doe carry the said Richard Crakanthrop to his Majesties Gaole at Carlile And you the Keeper or Keepers of the said Gaole that you doe receive him into your custody and him the said Richard Crakanthrop in safe custody to keep in your said Gaole without baile or mainprize untill his Excellence the Lord Generals pleasure of his Majesties Army in the North-partes be further knowne or otherwise untill he shall have a legall triall by Law for his said offences and

Westmerland 27. 1. Moneth 1646. Sir I humbly thank you and your people for your kindesse to our brother Musgrave and I desire of you to have a good esteeme what ever be said to the contrary for his fidellity will aloud preclaime it selfe to the world to the trouble no doubt of oppressors The Copy of a letter sent by Master Isaac Autrobus Minister of Egrement in Cumberland to Mr. William Ben Minister at Lambeth upon the 27. of the first moneth 1646. Deare Sir THe burthen of the ministrie as you partly know for I did discover my minde unto you lyeth heavy upon me you see the Lord hath revealed the unlawfulnesse of our calling to the eye of the world and now that wee are upon chang●ing it were good that wee should learne the right and infallible way to Zion for then the Lord hath promised a blessing and life for ever more I would doe as much as the most of our Cumberland ministers but I have in my eye that which they want I desire you to be a meanes to helpe me to acquire meanes for my livelyhood I have written to Master Burroughs for his help herein and to your selfe but I feare all have miscarried I was indebted before the times of tryall but these have added to my load Twice was I plūdred by Sir Chri. Lowther John Senhouse before the Parliaments forces came here but the Lord Digby his forces swept all away It cost me for the Parliamēts service this last yeare a hūdred pounds which I think cordially well bestowed I have complained to our Committee for some relief for the losses I suffered by the Enemy but no help from them Wee have now in Cumberland very cruell times The present government here by our Majestrates seemes to be matter of policie rather then of justice as one kinsman goes out of office on the Kings side another comes in for the Parliament and so the match is made up againe the oppressors are only chāged but the oppression continues justice falls in the streets corruption prevailes those few that be reall for the Parliament are quite discouraged so that the Cavaliers carryes it stil the honest religious men about Broughton are beat and imprisoned c. so that I feare our misery in Cumberland is but beginning If the Parliament would doe that for us which they have done in other Counties wee might yet enjoy happinesse viz. send downe Magistrates that have no kinted here then its like there would not be so much partiality You may be a good instrument for your Country if the Lord move your heart you shall Sir I desire you to consider of these rude lines and to lend me your helping hand You have done good to me and your Country Go on and the Lord the al-director prosper you with the tender of my thankfulnesse and loving affections to your selfe I remaine Yours in the surest bond Isaac Autrobus Egrement 27 of 1. Moneth 1646. The Coppy of a Letter written to one of the House of Commons Sir I am bold to be trouble some unto you in acquainting you with the cause ground of my sufferings which are largely set forth in my letters and petitions published to the view of the world what is mine I am ready to owne Other things of the publishers or printers I owne not yet as I doe not justifie them in their doings so I will not condemne them for truth is still truth by whomsoever it is spoken The severall charges the Scotish papers with my reasons for not answering without deliberation and advice are in the hands of Mr. Lisle and the coppy of such other things as are in my hands I have sent you I am still ready to answer such interrogatories as shall be propouded to me agreeable to Law but I cannot consent to betray the trust which my Country reposeth in me neither give way to prove my charge I have already avowed with my partner untill the parties accused have answered yet if the same be referted over to the common law as I have proved in my letter to Sir Arther Haslerig it ought to be I am ready to prosecute and make good the same or else to suffer profalso ●●more It is strange that I cannot have the parties accused brought to answer nor delivered up to the law when as daylie the Committee of Examinations commits and then puts them to answer in criminall causes before any charge be brought in against them as I my self was committed and so brought before that Committee I desire to know the Houses pleasure whether I may have the benefit of the law and be admitted to proceed in prosecuting my Countries cause if not then I desire I may have my liberty with satisfaction and reparation for my losses from Mr. Lisle for my imprisonment which I have vndergon upon his untrue report What the state and condition our Country is in you will better understand by these papers here enclosed and by this our Counties petition to the House which I desire you to present or returne to me againe The not redressing of our Countries grievances makes their adversaries insult over them and they are now under far more heavy pressures then formerly they were under the Kings partie our neighbour Countries are very little better as I am given to understand in Bishoprick Sir George Vane a notorious delinquent and a professed enemy to the state is now made high Sheriffe by an Ordinance of Parliament and so the posse Comitatus committed to a traitor to the great griefe of the well affected party there Yorkshire is in no better condition as appeareth also by their petition How those things answers the Parliaments under●akings promises oathes and protestations I leave it to your selves to judge The revolting Welsh may be a caution to you to commit such high commands and trust to any that have formerly joyned with the Enemy Sir I pray you as you tender the good of the State such as feare God let these things be timely amended and let these Achans and troublers of our State be brught forth and taken out of the way and deliver us from our oppressours and as wee have never been unfaithfull to you so you shall not find us unthankfull My liberty is very deare unto me yet little comfort should I have in it unlesse our Countrie be likewise freed from Tyrants and oppressors I understand there is an Order for my freedome upon bayle I desire either to come forth a freeman and justified or else I am willing still to continue prisoner till the House bring me forth unto triall Only I desire that the House would take some care for my provision and maintenance and that I may not be given up into the hands of spoylers as I was of late for two of the Sergeants men of your House under pretence of a warrant from the Committee of examinations to search my lodging for books intituled Another word to the wise would have

think they may do what they wil no complaint is heard against them you know they took eight and twenty beasts from me bought in your presence without a law but their own wills Whereupon their Order came out what power more Arbitrary Nicholas Mawson the great Adversary of your mothers and one that doth what he will is now comming to London he is the great receiver of all the summes of moneys both for the Scots and the Committees and yet is he of the Committee of Accompts you say nothing of that businesse to me whereof I wonder I hope you received our Petition by Henry Dalton surely if the Grand Committee be suffered to name such a Committee who are all unlesse two in either County for meere fashion the one John Thwaits of Apleby one who never flood for the Parliament but for the Enemy they are all accomptable nay they had the setting receiving and disbursing of all moneyes and are the principall men to be accomptable You sent me a Petition to subscribe but you may easily thinke that if the things be never so just yet will none now subscribe from our hands you have brought us so farre in disgrace with all who looke upon the outward face of things and not at the right end Farewell Westmerland Richard Crakanthrop Written about 4. 4. Mon. 1646. and received the twelfth of the same moneth John Musgrave A Letter from my Mother DEare sonne the great distresse I here suffer by the means of Master Vaux is unsupportable I cannot obtain from him any of the Quarterly ten pound which he is to pay me as you know and there is now an hundred pound behind for bee hath paid me none since the Earle of New-castles Forces came into these parts pretending me to be while they bare the sway for the Parliament and therefore kept my Rent backe and since the County was subdued by the Scots he hath got such favour of the Committee that they would not afford me any thing that I could get of him I heartily desire and authorize you to present this my Petition to the Parliament who I hope will take it into consideration and grant some reliefe sutable to my estate and meanes which he hath got by me being two hundred pound per Annum he having then though a Gentleman no estate at all So with my prayers to Almighty God to inable us to go through the vale of misery to the glory of his Name and comfort of his people which shall be the daily prayers of Your distressed Mother Isabel Vaux Catteden the fifteenth of April 1646. To her sonne Jo. M. The Copy of a Letter sent out of Westmerland to a worthy aged Citizen of London SIR THe great troubles that the poor people of God in the County of Cumberland are in and the knowledge that I perceive you have of the same by Master Musgrave our brother of whom as I understand so ne who otherwise faithfull but herein mis-informed have complained unto you I thought it my part to certifie you of the constant fidelity of our brother Musgrave and of the hard condition of the poore Church of God in Cumberland the cause of our great griefe God who worketh as he will when he will and of whom he will hath in that barren County of Religion chosen unto himselfe a people that to the glory of his Name are in Church fellowship and I may say a more faithfull people is not to be found in this kingdome none more desirous to know and practise the truth yet poore in wordly estate and of meane degree which doth wide open the mouth of adversaries and make them more odious to the world especially the Committee Now they having a good affection to the Parliament made complaint by articles exhibited by their agents Mr. John Osmotherley and Mr. Musgrave of the Committee and others of which wee have got no expected answere enough to affright us and others from watching over our Counties and the publique weals good but this wee purchased even envy for which doing this poore Church of God is so threatned ●●en to be rained but he that planted I hope will defend About the first of this month the Committee and Colonell Lawson desired the said people to give them a meeting and they would bring some Ministers to give them satisfaction as they pretended but the truth was to entrap them for they brought a Priest one Linger who was come out of Ireland and was reported to them to be there of the Prelates faction and a persecuter of the contrary party he mightily reviled the poore harmlesse people who was not admitted to dispute but was examined accused and arraigned and two of them committed by Colonell Lawson and the Committee to close prison the rest so threatned to deterre others and to make them come to their assemblies The ground of their Mittimus was that they should have said in private to a friend that this Linger had persecuted in Ireland as they had heard yet Linger himself fearing to have them committed upon this desired their liberty to whom Colonell Lawson answered that they were not committed for that but for publique businesse his meaning as was plaine was their petitioning the Parliament against him and his fellowes The Committee sore examined them of their covenant and other things about their Church and order and writ what they would intending to send the same to Mr. Barwis a member of the House of Commons to informe the House against them It is to be feared that they will certifie much untruths against them to make them contemptible and to procure some order to restraine their meetings or liberty Now I desire of you that if you heare of any strange thing informed against them not to beleeve it but rather to perswade the contrary for no foraigne nor strange thing doe they maintaine but our owne grounds and that you labour in their behalf I humbly pray that things may be examined before they be condemned surely you shall doe God good service for many are looking to the truth and assemble with them and if trouble fall upon them may be hindred in their progresse this Church hath increased to neare forty persons and forty more separated not yet admitted and in that Coun●●y which makes the Committee so to starme against them Sir I perceive you have acquaineance with some people that think well of Mr. Barwis I pray you certifie them hereof and how much the Gospell is hindred by his friends and such as have imployment by his meanes Yet I must tell you the men are againe at liberty how long wee know not for they are sore threatned and all or the most of them are Independants that did article and petition I doubt not but you will carry the businesse judiceously for the glory of God and the peace of his people the thing above all things I most desire and shall ever rest your brother in the Lord Jesus Richard Crakanthrop