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B09004	A particular charge or impeachment in the name of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and the army under his command, against Denzill Holles Esquire, Sir Philip Stapleton, Sir William Lewis ... [et al.] members of the honorable House of Commons. / by the appointment of his Excel. Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Councell of Warre. Signed John Rushworth Seere.	England and Wales. Army. Council.; Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.; Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690.	1647 (1647)	Wing E741DA; ESTC R174975	15,491	24

A particular CHARGE OR IMPEACHMENT in the name of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax AND The Army under his Command AGAINST Denzill HollisEsq Sir Philip Stapleton Sir William Lewis Sir John Clotworthy Sir William VValler Sir John Maynard Knights Major Gen. Massey John GlynnEsq Recorder of London VValter LongEsq Col. Edward Harley And Anthony NicollEsq Members of the House of Commons BY the appointment of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and his Councell of VVarre Signed JOHN RUSHVVORTH Secr. Imprinted at London for George Whittington at the Blew Anchor in Cornehill neere the Royall Exchange 1647. July 8. 1647. THe Charge was presented to the House of Commons Tuesday the 6. of June by Col. Scroope Col. Okey Col. Hewson Col. Pride Lieutenant Col. Bowen Lieutenant Col. Goffe Major Rainsborow Capt Berry Capt. Clerke Captaine Carter Capt. Rolph Mr. Saxby and Mr. Gethings who attending at the Parliament Door were sent for in and standing at the Barre Col. Scroope spake to this effect That they were appointed by the Generall and the Army under his command to present to this Honourable House a particular Charge or Impeachment against severall Members thereof viz. Mr. Hollis Sir Philip Stapleton Sir William Lewis Sir John Clotworthy Sir William Waller Sir John Maynard Knights Major Generall Massey John Glynn Recorder of London Walter Long Esquire Col. Edward Harley and Anthony Nicoll Esquire and that in the name of his Excellency and the Army they did here impeach the said Members of high Crimes and Misdemeanours humbly tendering the same to this Honourable House Which being done the Speaker sent for the Charge by the Clerke of the House the Officers being desired to withdraw the Members impeached were sent for and the Charge read in the House but the debate thereupon was deferred till Thursday at which time the Officers attended and sent in and acquainted Mr. Speaker that they were at the doore for an answer that so they might give an account to the Army But other weighty matters taking up the day the House sent to informe the Officers that they resolved the debate upon the Charge on Fryday July 9. at whiah time they are againe to attend the House A particular Charge or Impeachment in the name o● His Excellency Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX and the Army under his Command Against Denzill Holles Esq Sir Philip Stapleton Sir Will. Lewis Sir John Clotworthy Sir Will. Waller Sir John Maynard Knights Maj. Gen. Massey John GlynEsq Recorder of London Walter Long Esq Col. Edw. Harley and Anthony Nicholl Esq Members of the House of Commons WHereas on the 15. day of June last the heads of a Charge were delivered in the name of the said Army unto the Courts of Parliament to be sent up to the Parliament against the persons above named Now in prosecution and maintenance thereof and according to the power thereby reserved it is in the name of the said Army more particularly charged against the said persons as followeth I. That the said Master Denzill Holles during the late Warre in prosecution of the evill designes expressed in the generall Heads or Articles formerly exhibited contrary to the trust reposed in him contrary to his Oath taken in June 1643. and contrary to the Ordinance of Parliament dated in October 1643. hath assisted the King in the late unnaturall Warre and held correspondence and intelligence with the Enemy against the Parliament in manner following viz He the said Master Holles being one of the speciall Commissioners for the Parliament to present Propositions of both Houses to the King at Oxford did privately and contrary to his Instructions at severall times make his addresses unto the Kings Party there then in Armes against the Parliament namely unto the Earle of Lindsey the Earle of Southampton the Lord Savill and others and did secretly plot and advise them against the Parliament and did intimate unto them or one of them That the said Propositions then sent unto His Majesty by the Parliament were unreasonable And the said Master Holles being demanded what answer he would advise the King to make to the said Propositions he the said Master Holles did advise that the King should demand a Treaty however and then declare how unreasonable the Propositions were and that yet for the peace of the Kingdome His Majesty would treat upon them but withall wished the said Treaty might be in London whither the King himself should come upon security And he the said Master Holles adding that there was nothing in the world that the violent party meaning the well-affected party to the Parliament against the Enemy did so much feare as his Majesties comming to London which would be a certaine dissolution of their Authority and Power And the said Master Holles bad those said persons or one of them assure the King that if His Majesty knew as much as he the said Master Holles knew His Majesty would take his Horse and be at London the next day or words to that effect And it being againe demanded whether if the King should be willing to come it would be accepted of he the said Mr. Holles thereto answered that certainly it would be much opposed but yet he the said Mr Holles was confident that he and his Party meaning some of the Members above-named and others should carry it and wished the King to put it upon that tryall And the said Mr. Holles was desired by the said Earle of Lindsey Earle of Southhampton and Lord Savill or one of them that he would be pleased to draw such an answer in writing to the said Propositions as he desired the King should send and the said Earle of Southampton who was that night to lye in the Kings Bed-Chamber would perswade the King to condiscend unto it and thereupon the said Master Hol●es withdrew and either the same day or the next day following the said Master Holles accordingly carried in his hand unto the said Lords or one of them a paper ready written which as he said was such an answer to the said Propositions as he had drawne for the King to send to the Parliament which was taken by the said Lords or one of them and carryed to the King to be considered of and so much thereof as advised the Kings comming to London was laid by the King fearing to adventure himselfe but the rest of the said Paper the Lord Digby who writ the Kings Answer to the Propositions made use of in the same words as the said Master Holles had set downe And the said Master Holles to ingratiate himselfe with the Kings Party did about the same time revile the well-affected Members of the House of Commons declaring unto the said Kings Party at Oxford or some of them that those well-affected Members which to render them the more odious as he conceived he named the violent Independant party had ill intentions and great aversenesse to peace and that nothing would be more pleasing to them then for the King to refuse the Propositions

more to delude the Parliament herein they or some of them by the combination aforesaid did procure divers Officers then in this Army namely Collonel Butler Lievtenant Collonel Iackson Major Gooday and others to give in their names as listing themselves for Ireland on the said termes and conduct propounded when as those Officers did at the same time declare themselves unwilling thereunto and resolved not to goe serve in Ireland on any termes whatsoever they the said Members under-hand assuring them that though they made use of their names yet they should not goe for that service They have likewise untruly informed the House and given in the names of many considerable Officers of the Army namely Captain Pennifather and Captain Burges of Collonel Butlers Regiment Captain Clarke and foure or more commission Officers of Sir Hardresse VVallers Regiment and others as having been subscribed for Ireland who did not so ingage or subscribe nor give any consent thereto but did then and have ever since utterly disavowed and denied the same And about the same time they also reported to the House the name and offer of Lievtenant Collonel Farington as being then a Lievtenant Coll. of this Army and ingaging for himselfe and his Regiment for Ireland whereas the said Farrington had beene cashiered the Army a yeare and an halfe before By which and other their untrue informations and reports of that nature The Parliament was abused and misled into a conceipt and confidence of a strength out of the Army then supposed to be ingaged and ready for Jreland on their owne termes when as in truth the same was but a meere delusion and which was so contrived on purpose to occasion a slighting and neglecting of the Army as supposing no further use for them XI Whereas part of three Regiments of foote viz. Collonel Herberts Collonel Kemps and Collonel Grayes were by order of the House advanced towards the reliefe of Ireland as farre as Bromesgrave in the County of Worcester The said Sir Philip Stapleton Master Hollis Sir Iohn Clotworthy Sir William Lewis Major Generall Massie Sir William Waller and Master Glyn by combination aforesaid did of their owne accord without the knowledge or direction of the House on the sixt day of Iune last being Sabbath day and without summoning a Committee command those forces backe againe as farre as Reading with an evill intent to draw forces together to beget a new Warre in England XII That the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy in prosecution of the designes in the said generall charge expressed hath in the yeares 1642. 1643. 1644. and since converted severall great summes of money which by severall orders of Parliament and of the Irish Committee were designed for the reliefe of Ireland to his owne particular use namely the summe of two hundred and eighty pounds which by Order of both Houses dated the eleventh of February 1642. was to be payd for twenty butts of sack for Jreland seven hundred pound which the same day was also ordered for two thousand swords three hundred pounds which by order of the said Irish Committee dated the fift of Aprill 1643. was designed for one hundred and twenty paire of pistolls and divers other summes of money upon severall other orders which he the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy from time to time received for the use and reliefe of Ireland but were not imployed to the uses by the said orders intended and directed but to his the said Sir Iohn Clotworthyes owne private use as aforesaid And that he hath within two yeares last past received severall fummes of monyes armes and other provisions for a troope of horse which he pretended he had raised in Ireland whereas he had not nor did raise or furnish any such troope as he pretended And that he the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy for money and other rewards hath preferred John Davis and William Summers and others to be entrusted with the Irish affaires who have kept correspondency with the enemy and have defrauded the State of other great summes of money and he hath beene privy to and a sharer in such their actions XIII That about November last past the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy being by the Parliament sent a Commissioner with others into Ireland who all had a joynt power or authority to treate with the Earle of Ormond for the space of foure dayes and no more he the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy contrary to the speciall trust reposed in him held secret intelligence with the said Earl of Ormond by cypher or character without the consent or knowledge of those others in Commission with him and many weekes after the time so limited was expired about the same time he the said Sir Joh. Colworthy held the like secret intelligence with the L. George Digby then in Ireland beyond the time prefixed and without the consent of the said other Commissioners and in order thereunto the Lord Ormond and Digby lately employed one Slingsby who pretends a designe about the Prince to come into this Kingdome XIIII That the said Sir John Clotworthy Master Hollis Sir Philip Stapleton by combination with the rest of the Members before named in furher prosecution of the designes mentioned in the 〈…〉 late president of Ireland was both faithfull and vigilant while he was 〈…〉 the fame Kingdome and bad now this last spring made provisions ready to march into the field and that the Lord Baron of Brohill Generall of the Parliaments horse in Munster and Col. Sir Arthur Loftus persons of honour and reputation and of great fortunes in the said Kingdome lately came purposely into this Kingdome to exhibite and did exhibite many articles of high treason against the Lord Inchequin for betraying the Parliaments Army to the enemy as formerly he had done yet by the great power and violent interposition of the said Sir John Clotworthy Master Hollis Sir Philip Stapleton by the practise and combination aforesaid the said Articles have been obstructed and the businesse not suffered to come to a hearing and the said Lord Lisle hastily called out of Ireland and the power and command of the Parliament forces in that Kingdome committed to the said Lord of Inchequin to the losse of this Summers service and the expence of much treasure to make new preparations of warre and whereas the said Lord Lisle being so suddenly called from thence as aforesaid did designe and depute Sir Hardres Waller Knight Major Generall of the forces there a man of known integrity and courage both for his service in England and in Ireland and of considerable fortunes there to take care of the said Lord Lisles forces till the pleasure of the Parliament might be further known The said Lord of Inchequin upon the receipt of a Letter from the said Sir John Clotworthy Master Hollis and Sir Philip Stapleton or one of them or from some other person by their or one of their direction privity procurement did expresse that he had order or direction from London that no man that

favoured the Independents under which name the said Lord of Inchequin hath comprehended all men that have shewed themselves opposite to tyranny and arbitrary government should have any trust or warrant there nay though they were of another judgement yet if they would not prosecute the Independents they should not be imployed there or words to that effect and under colour thereof the said Sir Hardres Waller and all others that formerly had had their Commissions from the said L. Lisle while he commanded were displaced to the discouragement of those other faithfull persons and to the Parl. and to the great disservice and danger of the losse of the Kingdome XV. That whereas a Committee of the House of Commons hath been lately appointed by the Parliament to consider of Propositions for the settling and preservation of Wales whereof the said Sir William Lewis and Master Glyn were and are Members and to report the same to the House They the said Sir William Lewis and Master Glyn with others of the said Committee did on the 30. day of April now last past without any authority of Parliament before any report made to the House of their own accord in stead of settling and preserving Wales order that all Committees for Sequestrations should forbeare all proceedings of Sequestration against all or any of the Inhabitants of Wales and although some few persons were upon general heads excepted Yet by vertue of that 〈…〉 peace and Commissioners of Association 〈◊〉 were as active in raising money and pressing men to serve against the Parliament as any others all the Commissioners of array that did or should at any time come in and submit to the Parliament or their Commanders in chiefe without any limitation of time all that had born Armes against the Parliament unlesse they were Governours and other Officers of war that held out some Towne Castle or Fort against the Parliament All disaffected and scandalous Ministers though in their Sermons they usually reviled and scandalized the Parliament and their proceedings calling them Rebels and Traitors and not only incensing the people aginst the Parliament but usually taking up Arms and leading their Parishioners in arms upon any alarum against the Parliament and many other desperate Delinquents have been and still are taken off and freed from sequestration and the said order was sent to every Committee in Wales in severall Letters contrary to severall Orders and Ordinances of Parliament and contrary to the rules of Justice and equity which should impartially be administred as well in Wales as in other places of this Kingdome whereby the ill-affected Gentry and Ministry of that Country are growne so high and insolent that honest men dare scarce live amongst them so as that which was intended by the Parliament to settle and preserve Wales is by the practice of the said Sir William Lewis and Master Glyn perverted to the danger and destruction of it XVI That the said Sir William Lewis and Master Glyn have further ingratiated themselves with the Delinquents of Wales and prepared them for their said Designes in manner following viz. he the said Sir William Lewis hath within two yeares last past countenanced and protected many of the most notorious and dangerous Delinquent within the severall Counties of South Wales namely the Lord of Carberry and others in Carnarvon-shire Master Carue and others in Glamo●gan-shire Master Morgan late Knight of the shire Master Iohn Herbert and others in Brecnock-shire Master Gwyn Master Lewis and divers others in Radnor-shire by freeing some of them altogether from compositions though Sequestred by labouring divers Members of the House and of Committees to be favourable in compounding with others and to admit of such to their Compositions as were uncapable thereof And the said Sir William Lewis hath animated and encouraged some of the said persons to continue their fidelity to the Kings cause promising them that if they would ingage their friends with the King for him he his would be their friends in the Parliament insomuch as his friends the Delinquents in those parts have lately looked upon him as a rising man when the King shall come to London which hath lately been their constant boasting And the said Sir William Lewis hath within two yeares last past caused divers that had been Commissioners for the King and had pressed men and raised money to promote the late warre against the Parliament namely his brother Master Thomas Lewis Master Gwyn Master Charles Walbiffe Master Meredith Lewis Master Edward Williams and many others to be Commissioners of the Peace and Committee men for the said County of Brecknock insomuch as those that have been most active and faithfull to the Parliament have bin and still are outvoted in those places and can doe no considerable service for the Parliament and the rather for that the said Sir William Lewis hath also procured one Edward Williams his owne Kinsman and one much disaffeected to the Parliament to be Sollicitor of Sequestrations in the said County who is hath been very remisse and corrupt therein And the said Sir William Lewis hath by the meanes aforesaid lately procured Master Edmond Lewis his Sonne though unfit for that imployment to be chosen and returned Burges for Brecknock which that he might the better effect he kept the writ for election of the said Burges above eight months in his own custody before it was delivered to the Sheriffe of the said County And likewise that the said Mr. Iohn Glyn within two yeares last past hath procured several persons that have lately beene Commissioners of Array and in Armes against the Parliament in Northwales viz. _____ and ●t●ers to be named in the Commissions of the peace for the Countyes of Denbigh and Carnarvon and other Counties there and to be put in other great place of trust and command there And amongst others Collonel Glyn his brother who was lately a Collonel in the Kings Army is by the said Master John Glyns procurement become Governour of the Town and Castle of Carnarvon and Admirall or Viceadmirall of the Irish Seas to the endangering of those Counties lying upon the Coasts towards Ireland and to the feare and discouragement of the well affected Inhabitants of those places XVII That the said Sir William Lewis being heretofore during these troubles Governour of Portsmouth a Garrison for the Parliament in which time he received much of the publike Treasure for which he hath not yet given an Accompt did while he was Governour there frequently hold correspondencie and intelligence with the Kings Party about the delivery up of the said Garrison insomuch as although Sir William Waller and divers others in that Garrison were proclaimed Trait●rs to the King yet he by the Kings speciall Command was spared the King affirming That the said Sir William Lewis was his Friend and that he was confident hee would doe him good service or to that effect And although he then was a Parliament-man and Governour of Portsmouth as aforesaid