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A73387 Depositions and articles against Thomas Earle of Strafford, Febr. 16. 1640; Proceedings. 1641-02-16. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1641 (1641) STC 25248.5; Wing E2572bA; ESTC R204327 16,130 48

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Ireland to be put out of possession of divers Lands and Tenements being his free-hold in the County of Mago and Rosecomen in the said Kingdome and divers others of his Majesties subjects to be also put out of possession and diseized of their free-hold by colour of the same resolution without legall proceedings whereby many hundreds of his Majesties subjects were undone and their families utterly ruined VIII That the said Earle of Strafford upon a petition of Sir Iohn Gifford Knight the first day of February in the said 13. year of his Majesties Reigne without any legall proces made a decree or order against Adam Viscount Lofts of Elie a Peere of the said Realme of Ireland and Lord Chancellor of Ireland and did cause the said Viscount to be imprisoned and kept close prisoner on pretence of disobedience to the said decree or order And the said Earle without any authority and contrary to his Commission required and commanded the said Lord Viscount to yeeld unto him the great Seale of the Realme of Ireland which was then in his custody by his Majesties command and imprisoned the said Chancellor for not obeying such his command And without any legall proceedings did in the same thirteenth yeare imprison George Earle of Kildare a Peere of Ireland against law thereby to enforce him to submit his title to the Mannor and Lordship of Castle Leigh in the Queenes County being of great yearely value to the said Earle of Straffords will and pleasure and kept him a yeare prisoner for the said cause two months whereof hee kept him close prisoner and refused to enlarge him notwithstanding his Majesties letters for his enlargrment to the said Earle of Strafford directed And upon a petition exhibited in October 1635. by Thomas Hibbots against dame Mary Hibbots widdow to him the said Earle of Strafford the said Earle of Strafford recommended the said petition to the Councell Table of Ireland where the most part of the Councell gave their vote and opinion for the said Lady but the said Earle finding fault herewith caused an order to bee entred against the said Lady and threatned her that if shee refused to submit thereunto he would imprison her and fine her five hundred pound that if she continued obstinate he would continue her imprisonment and double her fine every month by month wherof she was enforced to relinquish her estate in the land questioned in the said petition which shortly was conveyed to Sir Robert Meredith to the use of the said Earle of Strafford And the said Earle in like manner did imprison divers others of his Majesties subjects upon pretence of disobedience to his orders and decrees and other illegall commands by him made for pretended debts titles of lands and other causes in an arbitrary and extrajudiciall course upon paper petitions to him preferred and no other cause legally depending IX That the said Earle of Strafford the sixteenth day of Febr. in the 12. yeare of his now Majesties Reigne assuming to himself a power above and against law tooke upon him by a generall warrant under his hand to give power to the Lord Bishop of Down and Connor his Chancellor or Chancellors and their several officers thereto to bee appointed to attach and arrest the bodies of all such of the meaner and poorer sort where after citation should either refuse to appeare before them or appearing should omit or denie to performe or undergo all lawful decrees sentences and orders issued imposed or given out against them and them to commit and keepe in the next Gaole untill they should either performe such sentences or put in sufficient Baile to shew some reason before the Councell table of such their contempt and neglect and the said Earle the day and yeere last mentioned signed and issued a warrant to that effect and made the like warrant to send all other Bishops and their Chancellors in the said Realme of Ireland to the same effect X. That the said Earle of Strafford being Lord Lieutenant or Deputy of Ireland procured the Customes of the marchandize exported out and imported into that Realme to be farmed to his owne use And in the ninth yeere of his now Majesties Reigne he having then intrest in the said Customes to advance his owne gaine and lucre did cause and procure the native comodities of Ireland to bee rated in the booke of Rates for the Customes according to which the customes were usually gathered at farre greater values and prices then in truth they were worth that is to say every hide at 20. shillings which in truth was worth but five shillings every stone of wooll at thirteen shillings fourepence though the same ordinarily were worth but five shillings at the utmost but nine shillings by which meanes the custom which before was but a twentieth part of the true value of the commodity was inhanced sometimes to a fift part and sometimes to a fourth and sometimes to a third part of the true value to the great oppression of the subjects and decay of Marchandize XI That the said Earle in the ninth yeere of his now Majesties raigne did by his own will and pleasure and for his owne lucre restraine the exportation of the commodities of that kingdome without his licence as namely Pipe-staves and other commodities and then raised great sums of mony for licensing of exportation of those commodities and dispensation of the said restraints imposed on them by which means the Pipe-staves were raised from foure pound ten shillings or 5 pound per thousand to ten pound and sometimes a seven pound per thousand and other commodities were inhanced in the like proportion and by the same means by him the said Earle XII That the said Earle being Lord Deputie of Ireland on the ninth day of Ian. in the thirteenth yeere of his Majesties Reigne did then under colour to regulate the Importation of Tobacco into the said Realme of Ireland issue a Proclamation in his Majesties name prohibiting the importation of Tobacco without licence of him and the Councell there from and after the first day of May Anno Dom. 1638. after which restraint the said Earle notwithstanding the said restraint caused divers great quantities of Tobacco to be imported to his owne use and fraughted divers ships with Tobacco which he imported to his owne use and that if any ship brought Tobacco into any Port there the said Earle and his Agents used to buy the same to his owne use at their owne price And if that the owners refused to let him have the same at under values then they were not permitted to vent the same by which undue meanes the said Earle having gotten the whole trade of Tobacco into his owne hands hee sold it at great and excessive prices such as he list to impose for his owne profit And the more to assure the said Monopoly of Tobacco he the said Earle on the 23. day of February in the thirteenth yeare aforesaid did issue another Proclamation commanding that