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A79510	The inhumanity of the Kings prison-keeper at Oxford. Or a true relation of the most transcendent cruelties, cheatings, cozenings, and base dishonest dealings of William Smith Provest [sic] Marshall General of the Kings Army, against the Parliament prisoners under his custody. As it was delivered at the Barre in the House of Commons, by one, who with many others, were sworne before the Lords assembled in Parliament, and were prisoners in Oxford six moneths, being further confirmed by Captain Wingate in the Commons House, he being Member of the said House, and some time prisoner in Oxford, the space of 9. moneths. Together, with the copy of a letter from a Gentleman of quality confirming the former particulars. Also the copy of a petition and articles exhibited to the King, his councell of warre against Smith. Likewise a letter to the Speaker, subscribed with 70. prisoners hands. Whereunto is added the unsufferable cruelties, exercised upon the Cirencester men, in their passage to Oxford, and at Oxford, in the castle and Bride-vvell, vvhen they were taken. Written by Edm. Chillenden. who was a prisoner there 6. moneths. Printed according to order.	Chillenden, Edmund, fl. 1656.	1643 (1643)	Wing C3876; Thomason E63_17; ESTC R9315	22,716	31

and one Mr. Selven that did refuse the protestation hee strikes them and breake their heads makes the blood run downe their eares and sends them to the Dungeon in Bridewell There was one Mr. Edward Bradney that had a man exchanged for him yet had not his liberty Smith told him if hee could get 10. l. to pay his Fees hee should have his liberty Mr. Bradney got 5. l. told Smith I have 4. l. 10 s. Smith said he would not take that so Mr. Bradney was putting up his money againe Smith snatches his money from him and said I will keepe this in part or payment so took away foure pound and kept the man in prison six moneths after first in the Tower then in the Dungeon in Bridewell where he escaped but was taken againe Smith laid him in Irons hands and feet and so keepes him about 8 weekes by reason of this his cruell usage he fell very weak and sick and in his sicknesse he would not suffer any body to come to helpe him in his great extremity so that for three weekes he lay in his owne Dung and pisse and so by a long and languishing disease being pined to nothing in a great deale of woe ended his dayes There was one Richard Cawdle and one Robert Neale that escaped out of Bridewell and were taken againe he burnt them with match betweene the fingers to the bone and laid them in Irons hands and feet suffers no Surgeon to come to them so keeps them 8. weekes and they both in this extremity ended their dayes in much misery There was one Andrew of London who came to Oxford and being brought into Prison Smith himselfe tooke 23. s. out of his pocket and kept him there a short space and then turning him going but never gave him his money There was one Mr. I. A the Lord of Douns man brought in for a Spie he tooke the Protestation and was by Smith released paying 50. s. fees and hee comming into the Castle to see a Friend Smith would not let him goe till he had paid him 50. s. more There was one Mr. Wilde a minister a Malignant committed to prison who lay there 7 daies and paid Smith 3. l. 10. s. for his Fees There was two Londoners Mr. C. Mr. M. that tooke the protestation that paid Smith 20. l. for their fees There was one William Burthen a Constable that tooke the protestation and was by Smith released paying 4. l. but hee after heard he was a rich man got him in prison againe and there keepes him to make him pay 60. l. more and did not let him goe till hee had paid him 20. l. more There was one Mr. Ad. of London prisoner Smith tooke 5. l. 10. ●illings out of his pocket and never gave it him more There was one Mr. VV. B. a Gentleman whom the Bishop of Armath * You mayste by this that if there be any villany to be done a Bishop is at hand to act it perswaded to take the protestation hee was released paying 20. l. fees Smith gets him againe and keepes him prisoner till he had made him pay or given him bond for 30. l. more He also got a Bill of Exchange for 30. l. from Captaine Wingate and Captaine Austen but he hath not yet paid them though he hath bin often asked for it and Captaine Auston asking him for it Smith gave him very opprobious words calling him shitten Prentice boy and threatned to lay him in Irons neck and heels There was one Dr. Claiton Doctor of Divinitie of Waltomstow in Essex as he himselfe said who was taken at Branceford and carried to Oxford Prison who lying there in great misery did endeavour to make an escape and getting over a wall fell downe and broke his neck Captain ●ohn Lilburne he kept him in Irons 19. or 18. daies and since he being very sick even to death yet w●uld not permit any woman to come to look to him in his sicknes Captaine ●ohn Frank in and Master Iohn Brown Gentleman he ironed together and so kept them a good while and since Captaine Iohn Frankling is dead Master William Dingly a Lievtenant of Horse he laid him in Irons and so kept him 8. or 9 weeks He kept one Master Andrew Ellu one of my Lord Generalls Life-Guard a Gentleman of the Innes of Court in the Tower amongst the Common Prisoners and made him to lie on the Boards Master Iohn Frankling Member of the House of Commons he hath most basely abused and calld him Rogue and damn'd Traytor yea stinking fellow and took him by the shoulders and thrust him into a little Chamber saying to him you are a damn'd Traytor and I will use you like a Traytor locks him up close Prisoner and gives the key to one Bradshaw that was a Cavalier in Prison and Smith on purpose set on this Bradshaw and one Captaine Cew one of the Cavaliers an Irish Papist to drinke healths and carrouses in the roome with Mr. Frankling to abuse and torment him This B●adshaw being si● did confesse and hath ever since kept him close Prisoner And Captaine Walton Captaine Iohn L lburne Captaine Vivers Captaine ●atesby Captaine Scroope Captaine Auston Captaine L●dcot he hath kept them all close Prisoners for the most part of their time and seldome would permit their friends to come to visit them no nor their wives to see them Yea he hath taken away the beds from the Captaines and made them to lye on the cords and against their wills placed some of the Cavaliers in them As for Captaine Wingate he hath alwaies kept him close Prisoner alone without any company not suffering him to conferre neither with men nor Books not permit him to have a Bible onely when Blage was hanged Master Harfeild Minister of Banbury and he was in one Chamber and Smith had layed this Reverend Minister in Irons hands and feet and after that Blage was dead brought his body and threw it into the Roome where Captaine Wingate and this was and so locked them up all three close Prisoners and many times Smith hath kept those that have died so long till they have stunk like to poison them nor would not carie them away till the Prisoners were constrained to pay for their buriall He would not suffer Captaine Wi●gate to walke in the Garden for his health sake notwi●hstanding the Kings mind was that he should as hath been in my hearing declared by the Lord of Craford As for Captaine Clifton Cot sby and Captaine Vivers they being in ●anbury his Majestie was pleased by his Herauld of Arms to declare that if they would come and yeeld themselves to Him they should have a free Pardon the which they did and had also the Lord Generalls word on his honour to confirme the same yet after this they were brought to Oxford Prison and by Smith kept there and were before the Lord chiefe Justice Heath on Oyer and Termine● arraigned for their lives Whereupon they both of

them made a Petition declaring his Majesties Act passed to them which was acknowledged by the Generall● as appeares plainly by the Answer of the Petition * The Petition I have seen with the Answe but as yet ●ann ● procure he Copy of it He would not 〈◊〉 Cap aine C teso●y ● c● se h w● 〈◊〉 not pay him ●oo pounds for his fee and so also he did by Mr. Ha field Minister of ●●●bury and so by Captai●e Vive ● I do not believe any of them committed any fa●lt de●erving any Pa don but this I say according to their Proceedings and thereupon order was given they should be released yet notwithstanding Smith kept them in Prison close and by his ill usuage Captain C●tesby is since dead and Captaine Vivers hath bin almost at Deaths dore and is yet Prisoner therefore it behoves the King and the Generall to vindicate their Honour by executing Justice on Smith for thus grosely abusing the King and the Generall He hath kept many in Prison after they have been pardoned by the King and have taken the Protestation for excessive Fees But to let all the world see he is a knave in all respects and to all persons friends and foes he hired a Priest to preach in the Prison and this Priest was as base as Smith himselfe and would raile against the Parliament and the Citie of London as loud as Smith yet when this Priest came to demand his quarterage of Smith P● th●s it 〈…〉 that the P●rl●●ment ●s 〈◊〉 in the least ●●staken in say●i●● the King is 〈◊〉 and invi●●●d i● by King ●● ●naves and ●●eeves he to save his Money and deprive the Priest of his due calls him all to naught and saies to him you raile against the Parliament you shall have quartering and so claps Irons on the poore Priest that he was glad to loose his Money to be rid of his Irons and so he serves all his men when they aske him for Money now let all the world judge whether it be for a Kings honour to have such Officers And further to set out his base dissimulation when the Commissioners from the Parliament are in Oxford then to make the matter faire as if he were a stranger to a Tyrant he will let the Gentlemen Captains have liberty to walke in the Garden and suffers their friends and wives to come to them but as soon as ever they are gone forth of the City he locks them up close Prisoners and debars all friends yea their owne wives and though they be sick will not suffer them to come to helpe them in their extremity nor no Phisitians but whom he will appoint which for ought any knowes may poison them for in a short time there hath died of these Gentlemen Captaine Liacot Captaine Fleminge Captaine Iohn Frankling Captaine Gasterill Captaine Stevens Iunior Captaine Stevens Senior Captaine Plai●r Captaine Austen Captaine Caseby Lievtenant Flower Master VVitman Merchant of London Mr. Herfield Minister of Banbury old Thomas Web and three more Clothiers of Glocestershire and 4. more common men which are before mentioned There was a Clothier of Glocestershire which was released Smith got him againe and kept him in Prison to make him pay a great Summe of Money and there the man ended his daies A True RELATION OF The taking of Cirencester and the cruell dealing of the merciles Cavaliers towards the Prisoners they there took in their passage as they went to Oxon and at Oxon. UPon Thursday the second of February 1642. Prince Rupert with a great company of his Cavaliers came before Cirencestor and there after an hot Skirmish they being valiantly resisted by about 400. of my Lord Stamfords Blew Coats and Captaine Wallingfords Dragooners there being in the Town not above 500. Souldiers with the Trained Bands and all yet such was the cruelty of the Cavaliers seeing my Lord Stamfords Blew-Coats thus valian●ly resisting them and in their resisting slew many of them so that thereby they were much enraged insomuch that they set on fire a Barn and some houses and Hay Ricks which did much anoy our men who had overtoyled themselves with resisting them not being relieved by the Trained Bands which were in the Towne and by this means were forced to retreat into the Town the Cavaliers pursuing them and so surprized the Towne and after they had given them Quarter because they had slaine none before they murthered many of the Inhabitants about twenty persons or more * Let all Malignants take notice that notwithstanding they love them and their Cause yet where they get the ●ictory they will make no diffe●ence between a Mal gnant and an honest Round-head and most of them were Malignants against the Parliament After they had thus taken us we were led into a field about halfe a mile from the Towne where the chiefe Commanders were that they might take a view of us who threatned to do execution upon us all and there the Common Souldiers stript us and wounded many of us and then drove us back to the Church in Cirencester where we remained almost two whole daies and two nights in all which time they allowed us no sustenance wherewithall to live till just as they drove us towards Oxford they gave each of us a small piece of bread and cheese and then bound us all with match and so drove us along without stockings on our legs or shooes on our feet or hats on our heads many of us having no Dublets and some Gentlemen of good quality without Breeches and so we came to Burford hill where the Cavaliers gave each of us a little piece of Bread which was all the reliefe they gave us in our way between Cirencester and Oxon and for this we waited a long time upon the hill the wind blowing very cold and we standing barefoot and bareleg'd in the snow Then we came to Witneigh where we lay in the Church and from thence were drove towards Oxon and about a mile from the City His Majestie with the Prince and the Duke of Yorke came thither to see us drove along more like dogs and Horses then men up to the knees in mire dirt along the horse way aboundance of the Scollers much rejoycing at our misery calling and abusing us by the names of damned Rogues and Traytors And when we came to Oxon we were put all together in the Church and there we received for the most part of us a piece of bread that night the next morning they seperated the Voluntiers from the Trained Bands and cruelly used us to force us all to take the Protestation and take up Arms for them against the Parliament for they allowed us but one small piece of bread and a can of B ere a day and would not allow us to have a draught of water to drinke we offering to pay Money for it yet wee could not obtaine it by which cruell usuage they forced the most of them to take the

Protestation that of 1100. and 66. Prisoners there was but 16. that refused it that they had scraped about the Countrey for for they brought old Almes men about three or foure score yeare old and lame Cripples from their mothers wombe blind men and all to make up the number of a great many Prisoners they not only forcing them to take the Protestation but afterwards fined th●m beyond their estates and drove them to other desperate courses so that one cut his throat he not dying presently was asked the reason why he did so he answered he was so hungry that the Divill tempted him to cut his throat to be out of his misery and divers others of them fell weake and sick and were sent to Bridewell where they died two or three in a day and one man drawing on towards his end I and Edward Leader and another had opportunitie to speak unto him and we asked him what he thought of his last end he said unto us and fetch d a great sigh he could have both said and thinked more if he had refused the Protestation and kept close to Christ and so d●parted Whilest they contiue in the Churches we that were in the Dungeon hearing that they wanted bread gathered 7. shillings amongst us and gave it the woman of Bridewell to lay out in bread for them which she accordingly did and went to the Church to give it them but such was Smiths cruelty as that he would not permit it to be given them so i● was returned to us againe and those of them that refused to take the Protestation he beat and abused tying some of them neck and heels and others he sent to the Dungeon others he brough into the Castle where we were made to stand in the cold yard a●l the fi●st day in the snow then at night we were put in●o the Ha l wh re we continued 3. or 4. daies without receiving any allowa●ce from them whereupon we asked Captaine Smith for some allowance he then giving us bitter words and swore at us hid his man give us so much bread as he would give a dog a day and for water let them lap in the yard and be hanged or pox't for a company of damn'd Rogues Dogs or to this eff●ct Then after two or three daies he allowed us halfe a p●nny loafe a day but we had no water to drinke in two daies together Then we were put up into the Tower and there we were allowed a penny a day in bread and a can of beere wh●ch was the best allowance that ever we received from them lying for the space of 15. weeks on the boards and by reason of this hard usuage many of us fell sick which dr●ve us to call from the Tower for more reliefe whereupon he strikes two of us with his Cane over the head and layes us neck and heels in Irons and kept their allowance from them and since the Pa●liament hath sent downe 1●0 for the reliefe of the poore Prisoners he hath ever since kept away the Kings allowance from us The Copy of a Letter written from the Castle at Oxon by a Gentleman in Prison there confirming the former particulars Noble Sir I Cannot but take speciall notice of your respects manifested unto my selfe and all the rest of the Gentlemen my fellow Prisoners in so kindly writing unto us and sending to see how it faires with us which true it is there came once a Trumpeter of Captaine Lidcots about the exchange of his Master for another and for his paines he was clapt up Prisoner with his Master and kept there by Captaine Smith till such time as he could conforme unto Captaine Smiths will and pleasure and take a new Protestation and serve in the Army which is called the King and his Captaine hath here since with five more in 14. daies ended his daies in a great deale of misery and woe In the last Letter which I have seen though the Bearer was not permitted to come in to us you let us understand of that courteous and noble usuage the Gentlemen that are Prisoners with you find at your hands and you tell us that you are sorry to hear of our hard usuage which you hope is not so bad as the report goes Truly let me say thus much in briefe from my very soul I doe believe that the Barbariousnes inflicted upon the poore Gally slaves in Turky cannot parallell those inhumane cruelties which abundance of poore men have undergon from the hands of Sm th himselfe the full particular rising of which I am confident will fill divers hundred sheets of Pap●r to make a second Book of Martyrs with more sadder Stories then are to be found in Queene Maries cruelties The ●ris●n●●s report A little touch of some part of which you may read in the Relation of one Master Wierlay that broke Prison here and in the Letters that divers others put out in Print (b) In a Letter Intituled a true Relation of 〈◊〉 u●●ag● of the Prisoners at Oxon. and a little more of which you will heare in the Relation of one Mr. Chillenden who with 18. more broke Prison here foure nights agoe for I believe that he will make a Declaration to the world We have from time to time complained to our friends at London which have hitherto hoped that Letters from the Gentlemen to the Court of the good usuage of the Prisoners with them would have prevailed with His Majesty the Generall here to purchase the like for us but alas it is in vain We have Petitioned His Majestie and the Generall and Articled against Smith for trancendent cruelties but we never could have hearing by reason of the potency of his friends and those damnable Oaths that he hath swore against us to which there is no more credit to be given then to the Divill and those wicked lies that he hath told and those false reports that he hath raised on us and filled the Court full of strange and unheard of matters that never entred into our hearts to thinke of much lesse to plot and those be his usuall practises and evasions when we complaine of him so that our strugling and complaining hath done us rather more hurt then good because our friends in Parliament hath not taken the right course to deale with their Prisoners as we have been dealt with which if they had they themselves I am confident would long ere this by their importunate desires and informations to His Majestie have eased us of Smith and purchased more liberty for us so that this is our last refuge that we have to betake us to to presse our friends immediately to get all their Prisoners of quality clapt up close Prisoners as we are and used in some reasonable proportion to what we are here and if this be not speedily done I doe verily believe they will scarce see the face of one man in ten of us for so neare as I can judge Smith

more then Pagan-like cruelty hath already murthered above 40. men yea above 60. men in this house the blood of all which he is guilty of for his starving beating fettering clapping head and heels together close imprisoning and other bad usuage hath already brought the Plague amongst us and two poore m●n in the Tower lie sick of the Plague sores as the Chyrurgion ●vers yet in this great extremity will not let t●e heavy hearted wife come relieve and nourish her sick and distressed husband yea he hath clapt a Chyrurgeon in Prison for comming to dresse the stinking putrified sores of the wounded and diseased yea and the poore people that dressed our diet and washed our linnen are not permitted to come unto us yea and though Captaine Scroope a Gentleman of quality be vety sicke yet will he not suffer his Apothecary to come to administer any thing to him But the saddest Story of all the rest in this house might bee ma●e of one Mr. Edward Bradneys sufferings who was an honest Warwick-shire Man who hath laid a long time in languishing death first in this Castle then at Bridewell and almost ever since they broke Prison there in fetters of Iron who died yesterday whom all the Gentlemen in the House neither for love nor money could not intreat Smith nor his Lievtenant who is growne as bad as himselfe to let us have for out money any poore Woman to looke unto him so that he was forced for 3. We●kes together to lye in his owne Dung and pisse and never was made cleane all that time but once as those that were neerest unto him have for certainty informed me so that they that lay in the Roome with him and next unto him have beene allmost poisoned with stincke by him ●●a though the poore Prisoners many of them be alm●st spent in watching with their f●llow dying Prisoners yet the inhumane Lievte a●● the other night threw stones in at the wi●dowes in a Roome where fou e lay sick bec●use the poore watching Men had b●t a faggot burning to refresh them and a Candle bu●ning to see to give them drinke and such things as they had for them I rest your Servant Oxon Castle May 26. 1643. THE TRUE COPIE OF A Petition and Articles which the Captaines and Gentlemen in Prison preferred to his Majesties Privie Counsell Commissioners and Councell of Warre against SMITH To the right Honourable the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Counsell the Commissioners and the Counsell of Warre ass●mb ed in OXON The most Humble Petition of some Prisoners in the Castle at OXON whose Names are hereunto Subscribed Sheweth THat we presume not from any forgetfullnes of our sad condition being Priso●ers under his Ma esties high displeasure and the in●eperable consequents therewith which in all humility and sense of Sorrow we both apprehend and submit unto or out of any unquietnesse of disposition to encrease trouble to your Lordships to interrupt your gr●at affaires which we most humbly crave pardon for But the long and still daily ●ll intreaty wee all receive under our Keeper the Provost Marshall Generall Captaine Smith is so exorbitant and intollerable as upon the Reputation of Gentlemen we professe that a faire passage out of this World will be farre more welcome unto us then such a life A particular of some of his Actions we all in humblenesse as your Lordships shall vouchsafe to signifie your pleasures desire to present unto your Lordships beseeching your Lordships to take them and us into your grave consideration And to shew your Petitioners such favour and reliefe therein as your Lordships shall thinke meet And we shall daily pray c. Some Particulars of Captaine SMITH his Cariage towards his Prisoners THat we are many of us Close Prison rs and some in Irons and other Gentlemen in the Tower amongst the Common Prisoners and have been strucke by Captaine Smith That we are by him lock't up into our Chambers and debarred the use of Pen Inke and Paper and the Converse with any having Sentinels set at our Chamber doores some of us denyed the Comfort of speaking with such as come from and returne unto our Wives and dearest Friends That we have suffered much for necessaries and many of us are Lousie That he doth frequently reproach and provoke us with very base language calling Sir William Essex old doting Foole and Asse and swore that he would lay him head and heeles together that he hath suddenly in great rage come unto the Captaines and Officers in the presence of divers strangers and his owne Servants no offence that we know being given or by him expressed and swore that he would lay the proudest o● us neck and heeles and that hee spake it to them all in generall or to any of them in particular and challenged them now or at any time hereafter if they were at Liberty to justifie it upon them that he has called some of the Captaines Boyes and other Gentlemen Iackanapes Rascalls and Fooles and that he would whip their arses and lay them in Irons in the Tower That when his prisoners have had no reliefe in 24 houres and have earnestly begged for water and hath with all possible respect been desired thereunto he hath violently fallen upon them knocking of them downe and beating of them in as much as some of their limbs are likely to be lost therby calling them Curs protesting that he respected dogs more then they some of them being Officers and after such beating being cast into Irons head and heeles all night for no other cause then for asking a little water in such extremitie for want whereof they have beene in such necessity that they have beene constrained to drinke their owne Vrine That he as we humbly conceive for his owne private respects most injuriously charges his prisoners with plots and conspiracies and hath taken great summes of money of them for Fees and detained some of them in great extremity even to the prejudice of their lives onely for unlimitted fees unto their utter undoing That whereas his Majestie out of his great mercy is most graciously pleased to allow his poore Prisoners 6. pence a man per diem yet they received hereof but 5 farthings a day whereby many of them had been starved had it not bin for the reliefe of some other Prisoners who made Collection for them and that Captaine Smith his Servant Rich. hath gained 2. s. out of every five thus collected for the reliefe of the poore Prisoners and the said Rich. by the allowance of his Master selleth beere at an excessive rate to wit that in a Kilderkin of 5. shillings he hath gained 6 or 7. shillings That Captaine Smith as he said came with an expresse command from the King to some of his prisoners and told that his his Majestie himselfe commanded him that the Gentlemen should have onely bread and water untill they had paid Mr. Fishers bill of 150. pounds or there about a

with abundance of menacing words having no hope of any intermission of this insupportable burden of misery hath struck such terrour in the hearts of many of the Prisoners that they have taken their Protestation and engaged themselves to serve as afore which hath cost many poore prisoners their lives whose bloud will one day be inquired after at the hands of those who were the efficient Causers thereof yea even the Parliament men themselvs here with us have been so restrained of their Liberties that they have been lockt up and confined to stay in their chambers for three or foure dayes together and not suffered to have any communication with the other Captaines their fellow Prisoners neither have had Meat Drinke or water but what hath been conveyed to them by stealth and have been enforced to ease Nature and throw it out of their Windowes and all this because they have endeavoured for releive by meanes whereof Master Francklyn a Parliament man lies now a dying And that which more augments our grievances is that we are not onely confined to lye on the bare boards on the Tables under the Tables on the chymneyes hearth nay on the very stayres and sometimes on the top one of another whereby is bred such a noysome stinke that it infecteth very many with the pestilent Feavour and other very dangerous diseases there being at this instant of time about twenty persons infected amongst us and in our Judgement past recovery the disease being so violent that i● q●ite bereaveth them of their senses In this deplorable condition we beseech you thinke on some meanes to revive our dying nay almost dead Spirits t●at wee may once againe injoy our Freedome which we have been so long time bereav●d of or take some course with the best of them which you have Prisoners with you to keep them short and barre them of their Liberty as we are to the end that they may with more earnestnesse sollicite their Friends and negotiate to procure their inlargements by exchanging of us for wee are credibly informed and doe beleive it to be true that they have so much Libertie and Favour at London and elsewhere that they need not care much for their imprisonment In a word if we are not speedily exchanged or some course taken for our better usage which now is insufferable many amongst us we feare will change themselves from being our Friends and become our Enemies and be as active in Tyrannizing over us as any that have been forced to apostatize from us wee beseech God so to direct the powers of your minde that you may with all sedulity importune and direct in our behalfe to the most Honourable Court of Parliament and then we doubt not but God will blesse your and our Endeavours to whose protection we commend you and remaine Your humble Servants though distressed Captives From our extraordinary cruell bondage in Oxford Castle this 19. of Iuly 1643. The NAMES of the Prisoners HVmphrey Morgon William Andrewet Thomas Fipps Timothy Code Foulke Greffes Robert Grage Io. Geuton Iohn Gleed St. Richards Iohn Burkhill Iames Clerring Richard Bradshaw Edward Parricke Thomas Wells Io. Williams Humphrey Lebbes Thomas Dungeon Thomas Gibbs William King Iohn Gell. Maurice Mocor VVilliam Wood Richard Symons Ioseph Ratclyffe Iohn Walter Joseph Amye Ioseph Rushaley Iohn Adler John Gelcot Christopher Fowler Richard Mixon Nathaniel Smith Richard Frith Iohn Overton Richard Weauright William Baenes Thomas Hartwell Edward Keepe VVilliam Elkoanley VVilliam Ashley Robert Childe Io. Reade Clement Prat. Iohn Shaw George Sharpe Cha. Smith Richard Smith VVilliam Croley Edward Huggens Richard VVhitehead Lievte Roger Cotrill Lievtenant Io. Reeve Serg. to the Earle of Stamford Henry Fitzherbert Edward Fitzherbert Iames Cragford Andrea Pest Quartermaster M●aurce Iames. Arthur Rose Scapcot Perdes George Rose Robert Holly Iohn VVilye Nathaniel Cambridge William Hawkes Iohn Butchius Iohn Grage Ienkyn Price VVilliam Hughes With many others that are so sicke that they are notable to subscribe Mr. Francklyn is since the penning of this dead by Smiths Cruelty FINIS A POSTSCRIPT Some things more which Jhere adde as his fishing one Mr. Fsheirs-house claping him prisoner in the ●ower a m st starving him afterwards ceasing on his goods turning 〈◊〉 his Wife and Family out of doores and also his seizing o t ●●ctor Gardens house and turning Mistris Garden into ●he street after he had beat and pinched her and most basely abused her neither have I set forth his pedigree and what hath been his manner of life which hath alwayes been base enough as appeares by the Testimony of one Mrs. House of Chichester where this Smith with his Family did lye about a yeare who to get into Favour dissembled himselfe a puritan and must needs have a Minister s●nt for to satisfie his troubled Conscience and when his dissemblednesse could no longer be hid he abused them and railed on them and went away not paying them a farthing this hath been his continuall course to live by cheating and cozning Therefore I desire the State would be pleased to take into their consideration the m sery that poore honest men are like to suffer under hand to keep al the common prisoners they take to exchange them for our common men which they never let free but alwayes keep yea and doe much abuse them These things J have written to let all the World see and know the truth which if they will not yet believe I wist they had seen and felt it as much as I. And whereas some men say their prisoners here suffer as much I deny it because I have been in the Prisons both here in London and at Windsor and finde it is altogether false whatsoever Malignants report