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A88209	A iust reproof to Haberdashers-Hall: or, An epistle writ by Lieut. Colonel John Lilburn, July 30. 1651. to four of the commissioners at Haberdashers Hall, viz. Mr James Russell, M. Edward Winsloe, M William Mellins, and M. Arthur Squib, wherein is set forth their unjust and unrighteous dealing in severall cases; with the relations of the said John Lilburn, and their captiving their understandings to the tyrannical will of Sir Arthur Haslerigge, who hath most unjustly endeavoured a long time together, the exterpation of the family of the said John Lilburn.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1651 (1651)	Wing L2127; Thomason E638_12; ESTC R206637	46,507	40

said witnesses by this day seven-night * * And upon the expiration of this Order Major Iohn Wildman in open Court made a motion for publication of the depositions unto which Master Fowles Solicitor for the State in open court consented unto upon which by special order there was publication which if not entred in your Books the fault is none of ours And in case that the said witnesses shall be detained longer in Town on behalf of the State that then their charges expended in such stay be allowed unto them And it is referred to M. Reading after such examinations taken to peruse the same and also the Petition of the said M. Primate and Report the case Vera copia Ex. T. Baly The forementioned Orders for hearing the cause thus followeth By the Commissioners for compounding c. 22. May 1651. WHereas we ordered 21 may current That the Case touching the Coliery at Harraton should be heard on Thursday then next come fortnight unlesse Mr Fowle shewed cause to the contrary by Wednesday then next Now upon the desire of Mr. Fowle on behalf of the Common-wealth that there may bee longer time given for the hearing of the said cause and that Mr. Wray might according to former order be sent for up to be present at that time with what Evidence he hath in his hands touching the same It is ordered that the said Case be heard on this day three weekes unlesse just cause be shewed to the contrary And Mr. Wray is required at the time to attend here and bring with him all the Evidences and Writings in his hands concerning the said Coliery and that he have timely notice thereof And the Commissioners for Sequestrations in the County of Durham are to certifie to Vs such notice the week after the receipt hereof and pay to the said Mr. Wray 5. l. for and towards his charges And that Mr. Fowle doe attend the right Honorable the Lord President of the Councel of State for a licence for the said Mr. Wray to come up to London accordingly he being a Papist and Delinquent Copia vera exam T. Bayly By the Commissioners for compounding 5. Junii 1651. WHereas we ordered 22 May last That the Case touching the Coliery at Harraton in the County of Durham should be heard on that day three weekes unlesse cause were shewed to the contrary And Mr. Wray required to attend here at that time and to bring with him all the Evidences and Writings in his hands concerning the said Coliery and to have timely notice thereof And the Commissioners for Sequestrations in the County of Durham were to certifie such notice to Vs the week after the receipt of the said Order and to pay the said Mr. Wray 5. l. for and towards his charges And that Mr Fowle should attend the right Honorable the Lord President of the Councell of State for a licence for the said Wray to come up to London accordingly he being a Papist and Delinquent Now for that upon information given to Vs by Mr. Fowle that hee hath not as yet procured a licence from the Councel of State for the said M. Wrays coming hither at the day of hearing aforesaid and upon consideration had thereof and the short space of time now remaining for the said Mr. Wray to come up hither the three weeks for hearing the said Case being farre spent so that we have not time to addresse our selves to the Councell of State for a licence for the said Mr. Wray It is therefore resolved and so ordered That the said Mr. Wray doe forthwith upon notice hereof repaire hither and bring with him all the Writings and Evidences in his hands touching the said Coliery to be present at the hearing of the said Case and for which this shall be his sufficient Warrant And it is further ordered That the Commissioners for Sequestrations in the said County of Durham doe forthwith pay unto the said Mr. Wray the summe of five pounds for and towards his charges c. Copia vera exam T. Bayly But to return back the said Sir Arthur Hasterig fell upon my Vnkle about the Land he farms at Ford as if he had cozened and cheated the State there and hath put him to a great deale of trouble and charge thereby although he justly farmd it of those that had a right to Le● it the main drift of sir Arthur to my understanding being to get al that land of Ford with all other lands of the late Baron Hiltons that he gave to the poor of London c. invested in the present Col. Hilton a delinquent that so he might by himself ragents get him put into the Bil of Sale being a gallant and fit parcel of Land lying close by Esq Hedworths for Sir Arthur to purchase at the hands of the State after the Rate of his owne surveying and add M. Hallimans Ballast key and Land at Munckwarmouth near Sunderland if Sir Arthur could get that made to be as he strongly endeavours it Pudseys the Delinquents it would be fit for the Bil of sale also And so Sir Arthur in time might have a fo●●ing even from the spring of the River Wear to its going into the 〈◊〉 for I am sure lately Sir Arthur came to plead his cause against poor Halliman which hee did with that violence that I never heard man in life do he declared himself in my hearing that the land claimd by Halliman was just and fit to be put into the Bill of sale Another of Sir Arthurs unjust dealings with my Vncle is his going about to make him a deceiver and the cheater of the State about the Colliery of Lamton in which I am confident he dealt as justly and as honestly as any Tenant in England could doe that took such a thing of any man for a valuable consideration that had a right to let it Another piece of sir Arthurs dealing with my Vnkle was in his sequestring that Land he had in mortgage from the Lady Tonge for 600 l. in redy money to pay her sons Composition as if he had by so doing committed the horriblest cheat against the State that possibly could be but M. B●eretons Report and your own Order made upon Thursday last being the 24 July 1651. hath sufficiently cleared my Vnkle for an honest man in that particular although M. Mollins at the beginning of the caus could with open mouth in the Court call it a notorious cheat which was reproved by Major Wildman by demanding of him if he were not ashamed to condemn a thing before he heard it or understood it but it seems Sir Arthur had said it and left his commands with him so to cal it and therefore right or wrong he must believe it and obey it and M Winsloe and M. Squib both did their parts to that purpose but truth and the reason of M. Moyer was too strong for you all three Another piece of Sir Arthur Haselrig most false and wicked dealing

was in possession for diverse years past and that we put him out the truth is the State was long since in possession the land belonging to Mr. Wray and he being sequestred in the year 1644. and Mr. Wray has now a good estate in it But Mr. Gray by vertue of that power as aforesaid gets into the possession as under-tenant to the State pays no rent and after marries his daughter to Mr Hedworths and then also taking the profits to his own use and when the Committee demanded rent and arrears of him then held forth a Title in Mr. Hedworths name And had not the land been long since in the possession of the State we should not have turned Hedworth out of possession but onely staid the profits and acquainted you with it and so we shall do in all cases of the like nature but we hold it very fit and necessary that where the State hath been possessed they ought not to be put out of possession by any privat or clandestine way but either publickly by Authority from you the Commissioners or the Barons of the Exchequer or by leave given from one of you to the plaintiff to sue at common Law care being taken that the States Title be defended and we offer it to you if it be not requisite that Mr. Gray be called to account for the profits of these lands which of due and right he ought to pay to the State And as for Monk-Warmouth Hal it was sequestred in the year 1644. from one Ralph Pudsey a Papist in Arms he being then in the possession of it the aforesaid Mr. Gray being a Committee-man took it of the Committee and being then possessed of it never paid rent to the State and when he saw his time he let Hollyman have the possession of the land and took to himself the Ballace Shore and so the State was deceived of both and Hollyman by pretending a Title by marrying one of Robert Widdringtons daughters Pudsey being then and so continues still in Arms against us the said Hollyman commencing a suit against Pudsey pretending his wives Title to be better then Pudseys and there being none to defend the Title he hath gotten some legall collour and so thinks utterly to dispossess the State of their Interest and this is the truth of Hollymans Case And we offer it likewise whether Mr. Gray shall not give an account to the State for the profits of this as for the other Arthur Haselrig Francs Wren Thomas Delavall August 8. 1651. Copid vera Exam. Dunelm Jo. Leech After the reading which you may remember I told you to this purpose that Sir Arthur had mended the matter wel for he had now made his Commissioners as bad as himselfe nay he had made them knaves and forsworn men upon Record Forasmuch as they are upon their Oathes and yet return certificates point blank crosse to one another I then desired you to consider whether there were any truth in those Commissioners or any faith or credit to be given to any thing they say or sweare And yet notwithstanding all this I will shew you the copy of a third certificate or Order in the same thing various from both the former which thus followeth By the Commissioners for Sequestration March the 21. 1649. Dunelm IT is ordered That William Brewing Gent. Solicitor for Sequestration shall forthwith repaire to Harraton and take possession for the use of the State of all those lands and Coliery in Harraton now under Sequestration for the recusancy of the Lady Hedworth and for the Recusancy and Delinquency of Thomas Wray and Ralph Rooksby together with all the Gins and other Engins standing upon the grounds for the working of the said Coliery late in the possession of Mr. George Lilburne and Mr. George Grey untill they shall plead their Title before the Barons of the Exchequer and give account to the State for the profits of the said coliery Copia vera exam Cuthbert Hawdon Clerk to the said Commissioners And if any observations upon their contradictions be not authentick enough to declare them contradictions to you take the copie of your owne Order made that very day in the case which thus followeth By the Commissioners for compounding c. 30 April 1651. VPon reading of two certificares returned from the Commissioners for Sequestration for the county of Durham the one dated 8 August 1650. The other dated 8 April currant touching the lands of Harraton in the said county betwixt which there seems to us to be some contradiction touching the persons for whō the same was sequestred it is resolved that copies of both the said certificates be sent down to the said Commissioners who are to certifie unto us how the said contradiction happeneth and they are to search the Books and Records of the former Committee whether Mr. Wray was not in possession of the said lands at the time of the first sequestration thereof and they are to examine witnesses touching the same and what profits hath been received out of the said lands since the sequestration by whom And they are to examine witnesses upon Oath if desired on behalf of Mr. George Lilburne and Mr. Geo●ge Grey or either of them and to cross examine the witnesses on both sides if desired to return the proofs and examinations to us sealed up within six weeks next easuing Mr. Fowles is to draw up a charge against Mr. Grey out of the certificate sent up hither from the said Commissioners in the county of Durham Copia vera exam T. Bayly Which Order having been served upon the Commissioners of the county of Durham with severall others about the lands of the said Harraton yet they wil obey none of them but keep the said lands from the right owner of them Esquire John Hedworth although he hath proved that he was in possession when they sequestred it sometimes for ones delinquency sometimes for anothers And that he was in possession take these proofs Witnesses examined in the case of John Hedworth Esquire 13. Feb. 1650. John Clifton of Gateshhead in the County of Durham gentleman sworn and examined being demanded who was in possession of the lands at Harraton now sequestred at the time of the seisure made saith that Mr. John Hedworth was at the time of Sequestration actually possessed of the lands at Harraton and that since he knew the said Mr. Hedworth he hath frequented the Church and was never in any service against the Parliament John Clifton Thomas Petty of the City of Durham Apothecary sworne and examined saith That Mr. John Hedworth was in actual possession of the lands at Harraton now sequestred at the time of the last seisure for that to this examinants knowledge he tilled the ground and stockt it and that the said John Hedworth was neither recusant nor Delinquent to his knowledge Capt. Coram Thomas Delavell Frances Wren Thomes Pettie T. Bayly Copia vera Exam. Some of the Copies of the forementioned Orders for his

made some agreement with the said Mr. Commondale about the 8 part as they pretend but nothing shown to make it good And comming down in June following they entred into and possessed themselves of the whole colery aforesaid and it hath been wrought by them ever since to their own uses and benefits And for that it plainly appeared unto the Committee that the Colery c c This is as false as can be For the nine and five quarter Seams of Coles were not in work at all in 1644 1645 nor 1646 nor never was sequestred by any in the world till 1649. that Sir Arthur by his Will and Sword sequestred it was sequestred by Sr. William Armine in the yeare 1644. and that it had been solely in the possession of Mr. Wray and his Agents three years before that and that it was let by the Committee of Sequestrations in the yeare 1645. And that no other had claimed any interest in it untill Mr. George Lilburn and Mr. George Grey two of the Committee possessed themselves of it And that there had been no Order made either by the Lords and Commons for Sequestrations or the Committee of Sequestrations in the County nor that there had been any Authority for the divesting and dispossessing of the State of their interest and that Mr. Wray as being a Recusant and Delinquent was uncapable of composition the Committee made this Order Decimo tertio die Augusti 1649. Upon hearing of Thomas Wray George Lilburne and George Grey Esquires It appeared to this Committee that in the year 1644. Sir William Armine did sequester the Colliery at Harraton belonging to Mr. Wray for the use of the State and that the faid Colliery was then wrought for the use of the said Mr. Wray and his assignes and for no other and that the same was since let by this Committee in the yeer 1645. for one whole year to one Pearson And that it doth not appear that the sequestration was not at any time taken off It is therefore thought fit and so ordered by the said Committee that the sequestration shall be continued upon the said Colliery for the use of the State and that all those who have had any use or profit of the said Colliery since the same was sequestred shall forthwith make their accounts that it may appear what profits have been made thereof in that time and immediately after the making this order Mr. George Lilburne then sitting at the Committee and being one of the Committee desired that he might have time given him to make his title good to the estate he claimed in that Colliery the Committee bad him to appoint his time he then desired a full moneth and it was granted Thereupon he went to London and by the aforeappointed day he brought down with him one Mr. Levit and Mr. Josiah Primatt who with their Councel went to the Committee The Councel being then put upon it to shew what title either Mr. Levitt Mr. Primatt or Mr. Lilburne had affirmed that Mr. Wray had gotten their Evidences and would have had the Committee to have compelled him to have produced his title The Committee then replied that the matter was of very great concernment to the State the Colliery being worth 3000. l. per Annum and that Mr. Lilburne had made of it after he had put the State out of possession at least 15. l. per diem for about a year together as they were informed by those that knew it very well and that they durst not be sofalse to their trust as when the State had been in possession above three years to produce Evidences to divest the State and what they desired was such a thing as was never heard in any Court That a Plaintiff that sued for the possession of Land should desire the Defendant to make him a Title to out himself And that if Wray had gotten their Evidences into his hand their way was plain to exhibite a Bill in Chancery there they might compel him to produce his Evidences in a legal way And it not appearing to the Committee that either Mr. Lilburne Mr. Levitt or Mr. Josiah Primatt would or then could produce the least Evidence to overthrow Mr. Wrays title Mr. Wray being then present and confidently affirming and holding his Evidence in his hand ready to make it good that the right of the whol Colliery was in him they confirmed their former order and have since let the said Colliery for the benefit of the State And we do now desire that you would be pleased to call Mr. George Lilburne and Mr. George Grey to account for the profits of the said Colliery we being assured that great sums of money are in their hands due to the Publick they having as yet paid never a penny And we hope this is a full answer to your Order procured by Mr. Josiah Primatt dated July the 12. 1650. concerning his interest in the Cole Mines at Harraton and sent down to us for our Certificate Arthur Hasilrige Francis Wren Tho. Delaval August 8 1650. Copia vera Exam. Jo. Leech Now I shall desire you to take notice that the chief title here set up is Wray's own bare averments who is a Delinquent Papist and one of the basest of that sect being a common procurer of affidavit men and a fellow that will swear any thing in the world it being his common habit in his common discourse as you your selves very well know for which you lately reproved him in open Court though he was too much your friend to be punished therfore by you but in counter-ballance to his lying averments before mentioned I could produce you he oaths of my Uncle and Mr. Grey two men of honor conscience and repute but they being much both at one and my Uncle a party and Mr. Grey none although you lately made him one against all reason and justice I shall onely insert Mr. Greys The Copy of whose oath thus followeth GEorge Gray of Harraton in the County of Durham Gentleman maketh Oath that in the year 1644. Sir William Armin and other Commissioners of Parliament did Sequester certain Colemynes or seams of coals in Harraton in the said County of Durham then belonging to one John Jackson Gentl. a Delinquent and certain other Colemynes or seams of coals in Harraton aforesaid then belonging to Thomas Wray Esquire a Papist and Delinquent which seams of coals belonging to the said Mr. Wray were onely the half yard and 3 quarter seam of coals the greater seams of coal viz. the five quarter seam and nine quarter seam being then drowned and not won or wrought And he further deposeth that on or about the 6 of February 1645. upon the said Mr. Wrays Petition on the behalf of his creditors the Committee for Sequestrations for the said County Ordered that Mr. Rich. Pearson of New Costle or any other of Mr. Wrays creditors well affected that would undertake the working of the said colemines called the half yard

with my Uncle was at Haberdashers hall not long since when he and I had the tug for 5 or 6 houres together hand to hand where he would have had you to have past sentence upon my Vncle upon 3 or 4 verball charges of his prosecuted with that heat by him as if it had laid upon his life which were all falshoods and lyes in themselves and for a taste of one for all give me leave to whet up your memories that when Sir Arthur came to tax my Uncle for cheating of the State of the profits of the land of Harraton as wel as of the coliery which was sequestred only for the Delinquency of the foresaid Thomas Wray as he aver'd being all of it his and he or you the Commissioners demanded my Vncles answer unto it which I gave to this purpose that we denyed every thing that Sir Arthur said there being nothing but falshoods and untruths in all his averments and put it upon him to prove what he said at which he being very mad that such a man of his rank and quality as he was one who had from the Parliament so great a trust upon him should be so affronted as he was by such a man as I was unto which I replyed to this purpose That setting aside his authority with which I would make no comparisons I judg my self as honest and as good a man as himself and come of as good parentage as he and if he or the greatest man in England durst go about in my hearing to make my Father and his generation a company of knaves and cheaters as he that day had done in things or for things for which my conscience told me they had don nothing but justly honestly I should not judg my self worthy to be accounted to com from the loyns of so honest just a man as my Father was if I should hear him so basely abused to his face as he had abused him and suffer it in silence for he hinted as if my Father and Vncle had defrauded or lost unto the State 12000. a year of sequestred lands and that my Father had made himself rich by medling with sequestred lands and therfore if he durst abuse my Father in things I knew to be false I durst tell him he spoke falsly in any place in England and therefore if he would not by me bee told of his falshoods let him speak truth But Sir Arthur at that time began to lift up his eyes and hands and call for vengeance from Heaven averring upon his soul his conscience honor calling the grear Lord God of heaven and earth to bear witness that he spoke nothing but Truth and that as ever he expected to appear with comfort before the Lord the land of Harraton which Esq Hedworth lays claim to was M Wrays and was sequestred for his delinquency and his only and alone and this I know saith he you have a Certificate of from your own sworn commissioners who are men of honor and conscience and therefore desired it might be read Of which Certificate and all others about that land I was totally ignorant of and had never seen not heard read before to my knowledg and M. Baily the Clerk being commanded to read it he read a Certificate the copy of which thus follows Gentlemen we formerly returned that we had sequestred the Lands at Harraton for the Recusancy of the Lady Dorothy Hedworth the relict of Sir John Hedworth deceased And we perceiving by several Orders sent unto us that John Hedworth Esq son of the said Sir John Hedworth and the said Lady is endevoring a pretended right thereunto to get off the Sequestration we have therefore sent the depositions inclosed with a copy of a deed which holds forth the Ladies interest and the originall deed being in the custody of Mr. Levet or Mr. George Gray who now live and recide at London we have sent what testimony was produced unto us by the said Lady Derothy Hedworth and desire that Mr. Levet and Mr. Gray aforesaid may be called before you and injoyned to produce the said Original deed whereof this inclosed is a Copy in case the State be prejudiced by taking off the sequestration of the said estate by destroying the Ladies title which determins not until her death We remain Durham April 18. 1651. Gentlemen your assured friends Francaes Wren Thomas Delavel Copia vera Exam. John Leech At the reading of which you may remember Sir Arthur was full of rage at the Cleark but I helpt to stop his mouth a little by appealing to you to be Judges whether there was either conscience honor faith or truth in Sir Arthur Haselrig or that there was any credit to be given to any thing he had said or sworn seeing he had so solemnly averred protested and imprecated and cal'd God to witness that the land was sequestred onely and alone for Mr. Wrays Delinquency and his own Record that he first produced to prove his assertion saith the quite contrary but although I then plyd him with hot cloaths and made him in the face as read as a Turkey-cock yet he was not totally dasht out of Countenance but to mend the matter called for another Certificate saying he was sure there was such a Certificate as he spake of which being before the Gleark it was read The Copie of which thus followeth Gentlemen According to your Order granted upon the motion of Mr. Higgins in the behalf of John Hedworth Esquire of Harraton and William Hollyman of Monkewarmonth dated July 12. 1650. We do hereby certifie that concerning the Lands in Harraton pretended by John Hedworth to have been in his possession for several years last past It appears to us that about May-day 1647. the said lands were sequestred by the Committee of Sequestrations for the County as belonging unto Thomas Wray of Beamish Esquire he being then in the sole possession thereof and so having had the possession for many years and that they were letten by the Committee to several Farmours for 200 l per annum and that Mr. George Gray one of the said Committee dealt with the said Farmours and got into the possession of the said lands and so continued for several years together not paying any rent to the State And that when the Committee about a year since called for their rent and the arrears Mr. Gray then stood up and claimed the said lands as belonging to one John Hedworth that married his daughter by collour of an intail pretended to have been made by some of Hedworths Ancestors The Committee then finding the state had been so long disposed without any Order and that by a member of their own Committee and that it did belong to the State from the year 1644. that being the time that Mr. Wray was sequestred as a Papist in Arms they ordered the said lands to be sequestred and disposed for the use of the State And whereas Mr. Hedworth informs you that he

I caused to be delivered in print at the Parliament door to the Members thereof the very next day after M. Primat delivered his fore recited Petition which copy thus followeth To the Supreme Authority of this Nation the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England The humble Petition of John Hedworth of Harraton in the County of Durham Esquire Sheweth THAT in May 1650. about 60. head of your Petitioners Cattel were by order from the sub-Commissioners for sequestrations in the County of Durham taken off your Petitioners grounds where they were depastured by some of Colonel Hackars Souldiers under pretence that they were the goods of George Grey of Harraton Esquire your Petitioners Father-in-law whose goods they would have taken under colour that he owed some monies to one Jackson a Delinquent that had compounded and wanted some moneys to pay the latter moiety of his fine That your Petitioner being at that time in London some of his friends demanded his cattel of the said Commissioners and offered proof upon Oath that they were your Petitioners goods but they refused to take any proof or to deliver the goods but half starved the cattel and then sould them at half their value That in August 1650. your Petitioner made his address to the Commissioners for compounding for relief and had an order from them to the said sub-Commissioners that they should certine the grounds of such their proceedings to take away your Petitioners goods but they made a return that they onely were the goods of the said George Grey without shewing the least ground for that their opinion That your Petitioner thereupon did again the 5. of February 1650. move them about his said goods whereupon they ordered that the Commissioners in the Country should certifie within three weeks after notice of that order all their proceedings touching the said goods which they would not do That your Petitioner thereupon did the 28. of May last again move the said Commissioners for compounding for satisfaction for his said cattel he being ready to prove them upon Oath to be his proper goods and the said sub-Commissioners certifying no grounds whereupon they forcibly and most unjustly took them away as the goods of the said George Grey and Oath was made that they were your Petitioners goods and thereupon the said Commissioners for compounding would onely order again that the sub-Commissioners should certifie within ten daies after notice what proofs they had that the said cattel were the goods of the said George Grey and your Petitioner was enforced to send 200. miles to serve the said order which was done accordingly yet the said sub-Commissioners would not obey the said order nor make any return And your Petitioner was forced to his great expence to cause one to come 200. miles to make oath of their disobedience yet the said cattel also being fully proved by the Oaths of two sufficient witnesses before the said Commissioners for compounding to be the proper goods of your Petitioner some of the said Commissioners who over voted the rest refuse to order your Petitioner any satisfaction or to declare a permittance of your Petitioner to sue for the same at Law and would again send your Petitioner to attend the pleasure of the said sub-Commissioners who in several cases of your Petitioner have dealt most illegally and unjustly with him and will obey no Orders That your Petitioners said cattel being the whole stock upon his ground the taking away the same and forcing your Petitioner to above a years attendance about them to no purpose but vast expence and charge and your Petitioner being young and left much indebted by his father sir John Hedworth and not being able to stock his ground again and the reserved rent of the colliery of Harraton belonging to your Petitioner being by the like unjust dealing of the said sub-Commissioners and some of the chief Commissioners with Josiah Primatt Lessee to the said colliery detained from him it hath been almost the undoing of your Petitioner and yet he is hopeless of any relief or justice at all from most of your Commissioners for compounding whose particular interest he hath too just cause to say over-rules their judgments and consciences these amongst them that are willing to do him justice viz M. Moyer Mr. Barn●rs and Mr. Moor being over-voted by the others That your Petitioner having been always well affected to the Parliament and the said George Grey having been a zealous actor and a Committee-man and a great sufferer for the Parliament and in case he had owed the said Delinquent Jack●●n any money the Delinquent having compounded for his whole estate might and ought to have recovered the same at Law so that the sub-Commissioners had no power to take away the said cattel in case they had been the goods of the said George Grey as in the least they were not The premises duly considered your Petitioner most humbly appeals to your honours as his last refuge and craves the justice of you that ought to be and are the releevers of the distressed and oppressed the maintainers of our Liberties freedoms and proprieties and therefore beseecheth you either of your selves to appoint a Committee of your own House speedily to examine the truth of his complaint and to send for all papers at Haberdashers Hall or elsewhere that concerns the case and to order and award him a full recompence for all his said cattel and all his expences and damages which he judgeth cannot amount to less then 500. l. and to do justice upon all your Petitioners oppressors for their Arbitrary and most unjust dealing with him or otherwise that it may be declared by you that he is freely permitted to have his remedy a Law against the said sub-Commissioners and their assistanets whose unjust dealings with him as in reference to his said Cattle is by true Copies of Affidavits hereunto annexed fully proved And he shall pray c. John Hedworth JO'm Clifton of Gateshead in the County of Durham Mercer maketh Oath t●at about the 17 of June 1650 Certain Soldiers belonging to Col. Ha●ker did drive away from off the grounds of Harraton and Follensby in the said County between 50 and 60 head of cattel as being the goods of Mr. George Gray for certain Rents pretended to be due from the said Mr. Gray to one Mr. Jackson a Delinquent and indebted for his Composition money to the State after which time this deponent with one Mr. Thomas Cosin of Newcastle Draper repaired to the Sub Commissioners for Sequestrations then sitting at Durham with a Petition from the wife of John Hedworth of Harraton Esquire himself being at that time here in London the effect of which Petition was that the said goods were the proper goods of her husband and that she desired the Commissioners then sitting would be pleased to give Order for the said goods to be restored back to her yet upon the engagement of this Deponent and the said Mr. Cosin to make good