whereas by some letters scattered about the streets of this city of dublin, and by other informations, we have lately received notice of a conspiracy against the life of us the lord lieutenant ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant (1677-1685 : ormonde) 1678 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a46124 wing i752 estc r36849 16143472 ocm 16143472 104833 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a46124) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 104833) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1595:17) whereas by some letters scattered about the streets of this city of dublin, and by other informations, we have lately received notice of a conspiracy against the life of us the lord lieutenant ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant (1677-1685 : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, 1610-1688. 1 broadside. printed by benjamin took ... and are to be sold by mary crook ..., dublin : 1678. title from first 5 lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at the council chamber in dublin, the 13th. day of december, 1678." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng ormonde, james butler, -duke of, 1610-1688 -assassination attempts. conspiracies -ireland. ireland -history -1649-1775. ireland -politics and government -17th century. 2007-11 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-03 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-03 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde vvhereas by some letters scattered about the streets of this city of dublin , and by other informations , we have lately received notice of a conspiracy against the life of us the lord lieutenant , by means whereof , we have made some discoverie of the said designe , but the person who writ the said letters is yet unknown , we have therefore thought fit hereby to publish and declare , that in case the person who wrote the said letters , or caused the said letters to be so writt and dispersed , or any other person shall within twenty dayes after the date hereof , come before us the lord lieutenant , or his majesties principall secretary of state in this kingdome : or any other of his majesties privie council in dublin , and shall first make full and perfect discovery of the said designe , such person shall not onely receive his pardon in case be were party or privie to the said designe , but shall also foorthwith upon making out such further discoverie , receive the summe of two hundred pounds , for his reward , and shall also be secured in his person from all such trouble and danger , as he shall apprehend may befall him by reason of such discoverie . given at the council chamber in dublin , the 13th . day of december , 1678 . mich : dublin c , arran . granard . lanesborough . hen : midensis . r. coote . r. fitz-gerald . char. meredith . ro. booth . jo : davys . john cole . h , ingoldesby . hans hamilton . ric : gethin . theo : jones . walter plunkett . tho : newcomen . tho : radcliffe . god save the king. dublin , printed by benjamin took , printer to the king 's most excellent majesty ; and are to be sold by mary crook at his majesties printing-house in skimmer-row , 1678. to the kings most excellent majesty, the humble address of the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of london, in common council assembled city of london (england). court of common council. 1683 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b06120 wing t1507 estc r185302 53299318 ocm 53299318 180045 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b06120) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 180045) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2811:12) to the kings most excellent majesty, the humble address of the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of london, in common council assembled city of london (england). court of common council. city of london (england). lord mayor. city of london (england). court of aldermen. scotland sovereign (1660-1685 : charles ii). 1 sheet ([1] p.) re-printed [s.n.], edinburgh, : in the year of god, 1683. caption title. title vignette; initial letter. signed at end: l. jenkins. reproduction of original in: national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng conspiracies -great britain -early works to 1800. great britain -history -charles ii, 1660-1685 -sources. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-01 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-02 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2008-08 spi global rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-10 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-10 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion royal blazon or coat of arms to the kings most excellent majesty , the humble address of the lord mayor , aldermen , and commons of the city of london , in common council assembled . sheweth , that we your most loyal and duetiful subjects , having with astonishment received the discovery of a most traiterous and horrid conspiracy , of divers ill affected and desperate persons , to compass the death and destruction of your royal person and of your dearest brother james duke of york ; and that to effect the same , they have held several treasonable consultations , to levy men , and to make an insurrection , and made great provision of arms : a design notoriously tending to the present destruction , not only of your best subjects , but of the sacred person of your majesty , the best of princes , and to involve this and the future generation in confusion , bloud , and misery ; carried on , notwithstanding their specious pretences , by known dissenting conventiclers , and atheistical persons . and having in the first place offered up our solemn thanks to almighty god , for his watchful providence in bringing to light this impious and execrable machination , we do in the next place humbly offer to your majesty the deep resentments of our loyal hearts concerning the same , and beg your majesty to rest fully assured , that as no interest in this world is valuable to us in comparison of your majesties service and safety ; so we are determined readily to expose our lives and fortunes in defence of your majesties person , your heirs and successors , and your government established in church and state , and particularly , for discovering , defeating , and destroying all such conspiracies , associations , and attempts whatsoever . all which resolutions are accompanied with our daily and fervent prayers , that your majesty may vanquish and overcome all your enemies ; and that the years of your happy reign over us , may be many and prosperous . 2 july 1683. it is his majesties pleasure that this humble address be forthwith printed and published . l. jenkins . edinbvrgh , re-printed , in the year of god , 1683. proclamation for apprehending sir george barclay scotland. privy council. 1696 approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b05638 wing s1838 estc r183499 53299285 ocm 53299285 180017 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05638) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 180017) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2810:42) proclamation for apprehending sir george barclay scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign (1694-1702 : william ii) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson ..., edinburgh, : 1696. caption title. initial letter. title vignette: royal seal with initials w r. intentional blank spaces in text. reproduction of original in: national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng barclay, george, -sir, fl. 1696. conspiracies -great britain -17th century -sources. great britain -history -william and mary, 1689-1702 -early works to 1800. scotland -politics and government -1689-1745 -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-01 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-03 elspeth healey sampled and proofread 2008-03 elspeth healey text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion w r honi soit qui mal y pense diev et mon droit proclamation for apprehending sir george barclay . william by the grace of god , king of great-britain , france , and ireland , defender of the faith : to _____ macers of our privy council , messengers at arms , our sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially , constitute , greeting : forasmuch as , sir george barclay having entered into a horrid and detestable conspiracy , with diverse other wicked and traiterous persons , to assassinate and murder our sacred person , is not yet apprehended and brought to justice , but is supposed to have made his escape out of the kingdom of england ( wher 's that execrable villany was to have been perpetrat ) and to have fled to , and taken his refuge in this our ancient kingdom ; and we being resolved to use all endiavours , to bring such a barbarous traitor to condign punishment . do therefore , require and command all magistrats , and ministers of our law , officers of our army , and souldiers under our pay : and all other the good subjects of this our antient kingdom , whatsoever , to discover , seize upon ; take and apprehend , the person of the said sir george barclay , wherever he may be found , and to carry him to the next sure prison , where he is to be detained till farther order , and our privy council to be immediatly acquainted therewith : and for the encouragement of all persons , to be diligent and careful in discovering , and apprehending the said sir george barclay , we do hereby declare , that whosoever shall apprehend the said sir george barclay , and deliver him to any magistrat within this kingdom , to be detained prisoner as said is , shall receive , and have payed to them the sum of one thousand pounds sterling as a reward for their good service , which sum we hereby require the lords commissioner of our treasury , to make payment of accordingly ; and in case any of our good subjects shall kill , mutilator hurt the said sir george barclay , or any person who shall presume to withstand our good subjects in the apprehending of him , the saids persons who shall kill , hurt , or wound the said sir george barclay or any others who shall stand up violently to defend or withstand his being apprehended , shall be hereby as sufficiently indemnified , as if they had a remission under our great seal for the same : and farther , we hereby strictly prohibite and discharge all the subjects of this our ancient kingdom , to conceal , harbour , or supplie the said sir george barclay , under the pains of being proceeded against with all rigor , according to the several laws and acts of parliament made anent harbouring , or resetting fugitives and traitors . our will is herefore , and we charge you strictly , and command , that incontinent these our letters seen , ye pass to the mercat-cross of edinburgh ; and to the mercat crosses of the whole remanent head-burghs of the several shires and stewartries within this kingdom , and there in our name and authority , by open proclamation , make publication of the premises , that none may pretend ignorance , and ordains these presents to be printed . given under our signet at edinburgh , the seventh day of may , and of our reign the eight year , 1696 . per actum dominorum secreti concilii . gilb . eliot cls. sti. concilii . god save the king. edinburgh , printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson , printer to the kings most excellent majesty , 1696. whereas we have by the blessing of god discovered and disappointed a traiterous conspiracy for surprizing and taking his majesties castle of dublin, (his majesties principal fort in this his kingdom), which the said conspirators had designed to do on the 21th day of this present moneth of may ... ireland. lord lieutenant (1661-1669 : ormonde) 1663 approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a46214 wing i988_variant estc r36980 16170571 ocm 16170571 104972 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a46214) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 104972) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1595:77) whereas we have by the blessing of god discovered and disappointed a traiterous conspiracy for surprizing and taking his majesties castle of dublin, (his majesties principal fort in this his kingdom), which the said conspirators had designed to do on the 21th day of this present moneth of may ... ireland. lord lieutenant (1661-1669 : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, 1610-1688. 1 broadside. printed by john crooke ... and are to be sold by samuel dancer ..., dublin : 1663. title from first 5 lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at his majesties castle of dublin the 23th. of may. 1663." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng blood, thomas, 1618?-1680. conspiracies -ireland. ireland -history -1649-1775. ireland -politics and government -17th century. 2007-11 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-02 elspeth healey sampled and proofread 2008-08 spi global rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-10 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-10 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion c2 r diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde . whereas , we have by the blessing of god discovered and disappointed a traiterous conspiracy for surprizing and taking his majesties castle of dublin , his majesties principal fort in this his kingdom ) which the said conspirators had designed to do on the 21th . day of this present moneth of may , and whereas divers of the conspirators are apprehended and committed to prison , where they still remain ; and whereas divers others of the said conspirators ( being conscious to themselves of their own guilts ) have found means to escape , and are not as yet apprehended , namely , thomas blood , late of sarny near dunboine , in the county of meath , colonel daniel abbot , major abel warren , andrew mac cormock , a pretended minister , lately of magherawly , in the county of down , robert chambers , a pretended minister , colonel gilbert carr , commonly called gibby carr , john chamberlin late of dublin brewer , john fooke late of atherdee in the county of lowth esquire , lieutenant john ruxton late of the same , lieutenant de la rock , major henry jones , late of stelorgan , in the county of dublin , major alexander staples late of londonderry , lieutenant colonel william moore , who was lately disbanded , and had been formerly garrisoned at gallway , and afterwards at athlone . we therefore do by this proclamation in his majesties name strictly charge and command all and every the said forenamed persons , that within eight and forty hours after the publishing of this proclamation , within the county where such person or persons shall then be , he and they do render his and their persons to us , the lord lieutenant , or to one of his majesties privy council in this kingdom , or to one of his majesties iustices of peace next adjoyning to the place or places where such person or persons now are , or then shall be , wherein if they or any of them shall fail , we do hereby declare and publish them and every of them to failing , to be rebells and traitors against his majesty , his crown and dignity , and to be accordingly prosecuted by all his majesties good subjects . and we do hereby publish and declare that all and every person and persons that shall relieve or conceal any of the said forenamed persons at any time after the publishing of this proclamation as aforesaid , that they also shall be proceeded against as relievers and abettors of rebells and traitors , and we require all his majesties officers and loving subjects to endeavour the apprehension of all and every the said forenamed persons . and we do hereby declare that any person or persons that shall apprehend the said thomas blood , major abel warren , andrew mac cormock , robert chambers , colonel gilbert carr , commonly called gibby carr , or any of them , and bring him or them , or cause him or them to be brought to the high sheriff of the county , wherein he or they shall be apprehended at , by or before the 24th . day of june next shall have as a reward for the said service , the sum of one hundred pounds for every of the said last named persons , so to be apprehended and brought in as aforesaid by or before the said 24th . day of june next . given at his majesties castle of dublin the 23th . of may. 1663 . god save the king . mau. eustace , cane . drogheda , mount-alexander , anglesey , massereene , dungannon , w. caulfield , r. coote , santry , hen. tichborne , ja. donelan , jo. bysse , j. temple , paul davis , tho. pigot . dvblin , printed by john crooke , printer to the kings most excellent majesty , and are to be sold by samuel dancer next door to the bear and ragged-staffe in castle-street .. 1663. the traytors unvailed, or a brief account of that horrid and bloody designe intended by those rebellious people, known by the names of anabaptists and fifth monarchy being upon sunday the 14th. of april 1661. in newgate on purpose to oppose his majesties person and laws. 1661 approx. 8 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2008-09 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a84389 wing e606 thomason e1087_10 estc r208541 99867486 99867486 119799 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a84389) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 119799) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 162:e1087[10]) the traytors unvailed, or a brief account of that horrid and bloody designe intended by those rebellious people, known by the names of anabaptists and fifth monarchy being upon sunday the 14th. of april 1661. in newgate on purpose to oppose his majesties person and laws. ellis, thomas, attributed name. 7, [1] p. s.n.], [london : printed in the year, 1661. place of publication from wing. annotation on thomason copy: "apr. 18". reproduction of the original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng conspiracies -england -early works to 1800. anabaptists -early works to 1800. fifth monarchy men -early works to 1800. treason -england -early works to 1800. 2007-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-01 john pas sampled and proofread 2008-01 john pas text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the traytors vnvailed , or a brief and true account of that horrrid and bloody designe intended by those rebellious people , known by the names of anabaptists and fifth monarchy being vpon svnday the 14 th . of april 1661. in nevvgate on purpose to oppose his majesties person and laws . printed in the year , 1661. the traytors vnvailed or a brief relation of that horrid and bloody design intended by the anabaptists and fifth monarchy . it is unknown to all well disposed christian people of the late traiterous insurections and actions in broadstreet , and woodstreet , and had not the lord out of his great goodness timely supprest them , it would certainely ( accordingly to their intents ) involved the whole nation in warrs and blood , but finding their devillish plots not to take effect , thoy have ever since ( for the beter promoting the same ) held conference and correspondency with their deluding spirits , and taking and observing all opertunities of advantage for accomplishing their bloody designs , in a secreet & obscure manner , they sent divers letters of advice and counsel from one to the other at several places , which was to give them notice that on munday last ( at the time when his majesty should be at windsor according to his majesties ancestors custome ) they should unanimosly meet to carry on their work by violence of the sword , but gods great mercy attending his majesty and this poor nation , providentially gave foreknowledge thereof to his majesty and counsel , to prevent the same , his majesty counselled with god in his prayers and meditations , and afterwards according to gods decree and his honorable counsels advice and serious judgment , he sent his special warrant to examine all suspicious houses for papers , letters &c. the which was accordingly executed in several houses by one of the lord general monks captains , with his officers and souldiers , and to their satisfaction divers letters were taken which were received from several persons of great concernment , and large returns in folio of most horrid counsel , their seditious sects in all places both neer and remote , the persons having them in custodywere immediatly secured , but to further prosecute their good success and future hopes of timely preventing their cursed atcheivments , the noble captain made it his next only business to go to new-gate were very many and dangerous persons are together , and therefore thought that there they should be better satisfied and obtain a further and more ample discovery , by taking more of the like letters of black advice ( which according happened ) the particulars in the searching as followes , being observed by a spectator who was so much in danger of his own life that he committed his soul to god and never thought to go out again alive , but their included mallice and desire of blood was by providence unexpectedly and mercifully diverted . about three of the clock , at which time they were at the height of their pretended devotion in several roomes and corners of the house , at which convention the captain judged it the best opportunity to go up . he demanded the keepers to admitt him and his assistance up , by shewing them his authority and intent , of his loving the person . who was first acquainted with the business and the authority thereof was mr. knolls , a prisoner speaker to the anabaptists , who civilly requested to shew what letters & papers he had in his custody , but contrary to the civillity used to him , he insollently disobeyed his majesties warrant , and violently resisted the search both by his hands & tongue , first crying out to his associats that they should secure the keepers and take away the keys , mr. hicks a turnkey would moderatly have pacified and rationally discust the inconveniency that would but follow like a head-strong people void of reason , carried him up the staires upon the leads , and had not his much intreaty preserved him , they had imediately threw him off into the street ; some others in the intrim beat one of the keepers , threw him down staires , took away the keys and kept them ; others were upon one of the turnkeys who was basely misused , and had not some pirsoners that lay for debt secured him , they had certainly ended his daies by a stab , their mallice was so invetterate towards him , however with one voice they all cryed lets through the rogue off from the leads . the captaine in the time of this hurly burly was below , expecting a civill reply of his demandes , but notice being given him by the uproares he with his sword drawn assisted by another turnkey who at that punct of time came with the right worshipfull sheriff boulton to see the warrant executed hearing of their perverness to it , they went to squench the fire whilst it was in its begining that though they saw them appear & the sheriff comanded mr knowlls to go down into his chamber , and obey his majesties orders , yet still they persisted in their folly , by securing the captain in their own chamber , and forcibly knowlls laid hands on mr. lowman with a great stick as if it were purposely prepared , and the rest of his companions seized themselves upon other , but mr. lowman being not at all daunted with the assistance of his prisoners , by degrees overpowered them , and afterwards for present punishment he committed iohn smith into the hoale ( who is a convicted person for the late murder committed by the insurrection in broadstreet ) and was one of the most violent in the house being desirous by his attempts to have stopt mr. lowmans breath by laying his cruel merciless , and bloody hands upon his throat . mr. portman was also put into the hoale , being a chief and principal actor , and desperately strook all that did oppose him or his fellows , and had it not happily fell out that the fift monarchy men were all lockt in their chamber where they were at their meeting , it had certainly been a terrible and cruel day to all that had been in their way . but finding their plots were discovered and their hopes frustrated of their desired ends which should have been brought forth the next day . then to preserve their decaying reputation , and respects and good words amongst the common people , they suddainly sent their messengers abroad to make complaint first , to have their guilt seem less . but on purpose to undeceive the people , and to give them better satisfaction of the reason and truth thereof i have taken the pains as to acquaint all that are desirous of the same , that they may no longer be deceived by their specious pretences , for the fift monarchy men are a people that a true character of their malitious principles cannot be demonstrated , but their actions make them appear to be a blood-thirsty and rebellious people against god and the king. whom god preserve . a true and perfect relation of a great and horrid conspiracie, discovered by a jew in turkie, against the english. with the names of the conspirators, and the proceedings of the great turk thereupon. also. the unchristian like dealing of francis hardedge, master of a ship, with his passengers, bound for barbadoes; as it was in a letter specified, by one that had a fellow-feeling of the misery. / published at the request of many godly christian people, by iohn headley. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a94946 of text r201113 in the english short title catalog (thomason e355_14). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 9 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a94946 wing t2541 thomason e355_14 estc r201113 99861673 99861673 159897 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a94946) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 159897) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 57:e355[14]) a true and perfect relation of a great and horrid conspiracie, discovered by a jew in turkie, against the english. with the names of the conspirators, and the proceedings of the great turk thereupon. also. the unchristian like dealing of francis hardedge, master of a ship, with his passengers, bound for barbadoes; as it was in a letter specified, by one that had a fellow-feeling of the misery. / published at the request of many godly christian people, by iohn headley. headley, john. [2], 6 p. printed for e.e., london : anno dom. 1646. annotation on thomason copy: "7ber [i.e. september] 25". reproduction of the original in the british library. eng conspiracies -turkey -early works to 1800. ocean travel -early works to 1800. turkey -history -1453-1683 -early works to 1800. a94946 r201113 (thomason e355_14). civilwar no a true and perfect relation of a great and horrid conspiracie, discovered by a jew in turkie, against the english.: with the names of the c headley, john. 1646 1543 14 0 0 0 0 0 91 d the rate of 91 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the d category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-08 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-11 megan marion sampled and proofread 2008-11 megan marion text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a true and perfect relation of a great and horrid conspjracie , discovered by a jew in tvrkje , against the english . with the names of the conspirators , and the proceedings of the great turk thereupon . also . the unchristian like dealing of francis hardedge , master of a ship , with his passengers , bound for barbadoes ; as it was in a letter specified , by one that had a fellow-feeling of the misery . published at the request of many godly christian people , by iohn headley . london printed for e.e. anno dom. 1646. 〈…〉 speaker and 〈◊〉 do so too , till god & authority stop their mouths , quod fax it dens . _____ imprimatur ja : cranford , sept. 2. 1646. finis . a true relation of a great and horrid conspiracy discovered in turkie . there are letters lately come from constantinople of sir sackvile crow our english ambassadour there , intimating his barbarous dealing with our english factors at aleppo , scandaroon , and other places , the particulars whereof follow , viz. that the said sir sackvile crow being at the great city of constantinople , summoned together ( as he had power to do ) all the english marchants and factors , under pretence of holding a consultation , &c. who according to his summons met together , all but three or four , and at their meeting , the said sir sackvil crow acquainted them , that by reason of the wars in england , what by his estate in lands , and his place , he had sustained dammage to the value of a hundred thousand pound , or upwards , and that he expected reparation , &c. from them ; and perceiving themselves innared by him , they yeil-and to alow him the summe afore-mentioned ; but the said sir sackvil crow refused to accept thereof , saying , that that would not serve his turn ; and on a suddain clapt them all into a dungeon , and sent out warrants on aleppo , and other places to seize their goods . this plot was discovered by a jew , who made it knowne to the turks bashaw . to the courteous reader . reader , i shall desire christian patience to peruse these few lines from a forreign part , and from a kinsman , who last year upon urgent occasions , best knowne to himself , undertook a voyage to the barbadoes , with one francis headley of wapping which when he gave me notice of , i perswad●d him to desist , and to take his pillage upon some other ship ; for first , i told him , that he would find his name , by nature , both alike ; and likewise that he had shipt a very sufficient surgeon ( which he was advertized of ) and by that meanes the passengers were like to suffer , if it should please god to send sicknesse among them , which seldome failes ; my kinsman replyed , that if he had his things ou● of the ship he would otherwise provide ; but it was then to late . so i seeing an ultra posse desired him ( that god sending him well thither ) hee would give me notice whether my words prov●d true , or no : now having received a letter from my cozen , and very well knowing , that in these halc●onall parliament dayes , things so enorm●ous are tollerated to be discovered , i thought it first my duty to god , and secondly to my country , to discover the same , for my conscience tells me , should i have kept this secret , and not divulge it , i had been accessary to his cruelty ; as also that such men as have employed him , may be more circumspect hereafter : so i rest , thine i. h. a perfect relation of the unchristian like dealing of francis hardedge , master of a ship , with his passengers at barbadoes . to the printer sir , as unknown , i salute you , having at present an imperfection of lamenesse , which is the occasion of me not coming unto you my self , but have sent this bearer : the businesse is , that last year having a kinsman , a marchant , that was desirous to go to the barbadoes upon such affaires as seem'd best to himself , he telling me , that he was to go upon a ship , whereof one francis hardedge was to go commander , and according to my knowledg he had shipt a ve● insufficient chyrurgion , not worthy to undergo that place in a spr●t he●ch , which without doubt he very we i knew , i did dis●wade my kinsman from proceeding with him , telling him , that he would find his nature nor differ from his name ; his reply was , would he had known of it sooner , for then he could otherwise disposed of himself , but now it was to late . then at parting , i desired him , that ( god sending him well thither ) he would write to me by some friend , whether my words were true or no : and now i have lately received a letter from my cozen , and have drawn our a true copy of it , and have sent it unto you , and very , well knowing that in these times , things of such enormity are tollerated to be discovered , i thought it first my duty to god , and secondly to my country , to discover the same , that both his owners and merchants who are his imployers at present , may ( by gods grace ) be more cautious hereafter of employing of him ; the reasons whereof you shall presently understand ; ●or if any scruple bee made , i have the originall to shew , to quit both you , and my self : so rest , yours , i. h. indian bridge in the barbadoes , the 25. of ian. 1645. loving and kind cozen headley , my love remembred unto you , we arrived here the 13. of this moneth i came very sick ashore , and am not well yet , i think if i had been two dayes longer at sea i had fed fishes ; for mr. hardedge victualled his ship with stinking beefe and fish , and that infected our blouds ; insomuch , that there was sixty , seventy , and eighty sick at a time , our surgeon a dunce , and kept his cabbin all the cold weather ; hee laid a man so fast asleep , he never waked again , and being asked why he gave him so much opium , he answered , he did not know , hee was bound in his body , and our master allowed us but meal a day , and stinking bevaradge , and not enough of that neither . there was not one person but was sick two or three times , except one gentleman and my self , who held out till within four days of our arrivall : in our sicknesse our master would not allow us water to drink , notwithstanding he brought ten tun into the harbour , and hath sold thirty tun of beer for himself and others . neither would he allow us oatmeal to make water-grewel ; and if he had , there was not one corn of salt in the ship to season although we lay a moneth in the downes , and often desired him to buy some : the sick people had nothing but the thin broath of the peas , and because they could eate no bisket he took that from them , and when they were well , they would have eate five or sixe cakes a day , it they could have got them , insomuch they looked like death it selfe . he denyed a woman with child beer , that was brought to bed two dayes after , and perisht , and three more , and the child : wee cast over-board my lord of carlile his secretary , i pray remember me to mr. crews : so i rest , your loving cozen , wil : edlin . one of the seamen having bled twenty foure houres , desired the master to take his wages , cloaths , and all that he had in the sh●p , upon condition he might have sweet bee●e and not suffer him to perish . to the impartiall reader . take notice that the letter came from a gentleman of good worth , and what he hath written , question not of the truth of it , i hope it may be a meanes to make the schoole phrase good , felix quem faciunt aliena pericula ●autem , which god grant it may . fare thee well . finis . several propositions presented to the members of the honourable house of commons, by mr. peters, minister of the gospell of jesus christ; concerning the presbyterian ministers of this kingdome. with a discovery of two great plots against the parliament of england: the first, by the queen, and the english runagadoes in france. the second, by the lord hopton, col. cartwright, and divers others in the island of jarsey. also, a declaration of his highnesse the prince of wales in france. peters, hugh, 1598-1660. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a90545 of text r200293 in the english short title catalog (thomason e364_5). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 10 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a90545 wing p1718 thomason e364_5 estc r200293 99861099 99861099 160059 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a90545) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 160059) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 58:e364[5]) several propositions presented to the members of the honourable house of commons, by mr. peters, minister of the gospell of jesus christ; concerning the presbyterian ministers of this kingdome. with a discovery of two great plots against the parliament of england: the first, by the queen, and the english runagadoes in france. the second, by the lord hopton, col. cartwright, and divers others in the island of jarsey. also, a declaration of his highnesse the prince of wales in france. peters, hugh, 1598-1660. [2], 6 p. printed for j.g., london, : decemb. 1. 1646. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng presbyterianism -early works to 1800. conspiracies -england -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. a90545 r200293 (thomason e364_5). civilwar no several propositions presented to the members of the honourable house of commons, by mr. peters, minister of the gospell of jesus christ; co peters, hugh 1646 1644 3 0 0 0 0 0 18 c the rate of 18 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-05 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-06 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2007-06 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion severall propositions presented to the members of the honourable house of commons , by mr. peters , minister of the gospell of jesus christ ; concerning the presbyterian ministers of this kingdome . with a discovery of two great plots against the parliament of england : the first , by the qveen , and the english runagadoes in france . the second , by the lord hopton , col. cartwright , and divers others in the island of jarsey . also , a declaration of his highnesse the prince of wales in france . london , printed for j. g. decemb. 1. 1646. mr. peters reports to the honourable committee of both kingdomes ; concerning the speedy reducing of the irish rebels . first , he desireth , that there may be a speedy course taken for the setling of the poore , distressed , and bleeding kingdom of ireland , in peace and unity , & that there may be some painfull and religious ministers ( both presbyterians and others ) forthwith expedited for that service . secondly , that all possible care may be taken for the sending over provisions and other necessaries for reliefe of the poor distressed protestants . thirdly , that all commanders whatsoever that are under the command of the parliament of england , may forthwith be sent over , for the performance of the great trust reposed in them , that so the cause of ireland may be no longer detarded , but with all faithfulnesse and expediency performed for the easing of our distressed brethren from the heavie oppressions which they have for many yeares groaned under . thus having given you ( in briefe ) the effect and substance of the propositions or report of ( the renowned worthy of our times ) mr. peters , upon friday last , concerning the managing of the affaires for the kingdom of ireland ; i will in the next place communicate unto you , the dangerous estate and condition of this our native kingdom of england ; by reason of the manifold plots and conspiracies which are dayly acting and contriving ( by the enemies of god ) against the worthies of england , the high and honourable court of parliament : yet all their machavillian plots , and horrid conspiracies have been frustrated , and taken no effect ; for when they were in the height of their pride , and ( almost ) upon the finishing of their wicked conspiracies , it pleased god to discover and bring to light all their barbarous and inhumane intentions : yet these great and malicious instruments , which have been for many yeares together , the chiefe disturbers of the peace and tranquility of england , whose hearts have bin inveterate against the proceedings of our renowned parliament , are now studying , complotting , and contriving how to bring their most wicked and bloudy designes once again to perfection , and to set footing within this our realme of england , but because i will not detract time , nor trouble the readers patience with too much superfluity of former experiencies , i will confine my selfe , and proceed to the ensuing subject , which may be tearmed , englands vigilant scout , giving her an alarum of the warlike preparations that are now beyond the seas , not onely by a forreign enemy , but by her native branches , which i will here insert , and faithfully communicate , as followeth : the nobility and gentry of this kingdom of england , which for a long time had so inveterately engaged themselves in a desperate warre against the parliament , are very active beyond the seas in the kingdome of france , and other parts , and are complotting and laying their heads together , how they may contrive & raise a new war in england , using their utmost endeavours , ( by way of entreat ) for the gathering of an army together : and to that end , the greatest part of the nobility and gentry , together with all the collonels , lieutenant colonels , majors , captains , and other inferiour officers , which were runagadoes from their native country , having formerly had the honour of great trust and eminent places reposed to their charge , began to recollect their memories , and to bethink themselves of the gallant dayes which they once enjoyed within the realm of england ; and therefore , having ever since their departure from this kingdom bin much perplexed in mind , joyntly concluded , that if it were possible for them to raise a party , and some certain sums of mony , they would venter once again to steere their coast towards the confines of england ; and for the better effecting of their design now in agitation , the queen doth endeavour to use her utmost power for the effecting of it , as formerly she hath done . but it is very probable that their designe will bee soon frustrated , and all their plots and conspiracies utter confounded ; for one storme hath already appeared against them , and no doubt , but many more will suddenly arise ) so that there is small hopes of their attempting any thing against this kingdome , by reason of a controversie and disputation that hath lately arose between the queen and her confessour at st. iermans , who at a late meeting , told her , that her proceedings were not well approved of , and that he thought she began to incline towards the church of england , and to desert the church of rome : at which words , her majesty being somwhat displeased , replyed and declared her self in this manner : that for her religion , which shee was alwayes brought up in from her infancie , she were resolved to live and dye in ; and for his objections against her , in being pleased to say , that it was not allowable for her , to permit or suffer any of her servants & followers liberty to associate themselves with the heretikes in any publike place or meeting whatsoever ; to which her majesty answered , that shee were resolved to grant them free liberty of conscience ; intimating , that when she were in england , all her followers in geral● had liberty and tolleration to use their owne wayes and consciences , without any disanulment or interruption at all , and in consideration thereof , she were resolved to grant the same liberty to her royall soveraignes ●●iends , and hers , in france , as they fo●merly have had in england . thus having expressed her self so resolutely unto her confessour , hee tooke his leave , and being much perplexed in mind retyred out of the roome , being in a great fury : what the issue of this discord and contention may arise to , i cannot as yet assure you . therefore , in the next place , be pleased to take notice , that his highnesso the prince of vvales is very much perplexed in mind , and cannot approve of the french fashions nor wayes , but declares himself in opposition against them . thus having given you the chiefest observations and remarkablest passages that have happened within the kingdome of france , somewhat reflecting upon the peace and tranquility of england , i cannot but put you in mind of another businesse of great concernment , worthy of your observation , and hath some reference to the former . but drawing to a period , i will only give you a hint of it and briefly intimate unto you , as followeth : from iarsey we are advertised , that the lord hopton , colonell cartwright , and divers other commanders are very active in the said island , both in furnishing of themselves with ammunition , and also in keeping their men together ( which is supposed for some designe against the parliament of england . hopton hath caused two or three powder milles to be made , and are continually in action with them . they keepe severall strong holds about the iland , and are supposed to be about two thousand strong , all compleatly armed , being gallantly experienced in the discipline . the holds that they keepe are of great strength , most of them being scituated upon great rockes , and incompassed with the sea ; so that it is to be feared , it will bee a long time before they are brought to the obedience of the parliament ; unlesse upon composition . but why these garisons should be maintained and kept in a defensive and warlike posture against the parliament , is not as yet known : but we may conceive ( and it is too apparent ) that they have some designes in agitation against the parliament of england ; for who can be so deluded , as to thinke that they will still keepe these holds in defiance , and to endanger both lives and fortunes , but only they have a secret conspiracie amongst themselves ; and no doubt , but their horrid plots , and desperate designes , will at the last be brought to light , and to their everlasting shame , be made manifest to the whole world . they are very vigilant , and will not suffer a fisherman to go to the sea , without severe examination and diligent search . hopton hath again renewed his inveterate malice against the parliaments friends , and hath disarmed all the well-affected throughout the whole island . finis . the humble petition of the lord major, aldermen, and commons of the city of london in common-councell assembled: to the right honorable the lords and commons in parliament assembled. together with their answers to the said petition. city of london (england). court of common council. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a86813 of text r202508 in the english short title catalog (thomason e437_11). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 12 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 7 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a86813 wing h3538 thomason e437_11 estc r202508 99862762 99862762 114938 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a86813) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 114938) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 69:e437[11]) the humble petition of the lord major, aldermen, and commons of the city of london in common-councell assembled: to the right honorable the lords and commons in parliament assembled. together with their answers to the said petition. city of london (england). court of common council. everard, john. england and wales. parliament. 12 p. printed by richard cotes, printer to the honorable city of london, [london] : 1648. includes a statement by john everard regarding a plot to disarm and plunder the city. the replies are dated 27 april 1648. quire b is in two settings; b1r last word is (1) "suspected" or (2) "suspe-". annotation on thomason copy: "aprill 27". reproduction of the original in the british library. eng conspiracies -england -early works to 1800. london (england) -history -17th century -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. a86813 r202508 (thomason e437_11). civilwar no the humble petition of the lord major, aldermen, and commons of the city of london in common-councell assembled:: to the right honorable th city of london 1648 1900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-03 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-04 pip willcox sampled and proofread 2007-04 pip willcox text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the humble petition of the lord major , aldermen , and commons of the city of london in common-councell assembled : to the right honorable the lords and commons in parliament assembled . together with their answers to the said petition . printed by richard cotes printer to the honorable city of london , 1648. to the right honorable the lords in parliament assembled the humble petition of the lord major , aldermen , and commons in common-councell assembled . humbly sheweth , that they had lately presented unto them an information from one john everard , a true copie whereof is hereunto annexed , whereby he doth give intimation of some speeches that passed from certain persons at windsor , of an intention to disarm the city , and then to plunder the same : and that divers reports to that effect have been brought unto us by letters and otherwise from divers parts of this kingdom , and from forain parts : which reports , together with the present drawing and continuing of the army so near the city ; and the encrease of the number of souldiers in the tower , hath been , now is , and will be occasion of great fears , and a great decay of trade , and an enhauncing of the prizes of victuals within this city : the which fears are much encreased by the taking and keeping down of the chaines within the same . and the petitioners doe humbly conceive , that their danger is encreased , and their strength much abated by the disuniting of the command of the forces of the city , and the parts within the late lines of communication , and the weekly bills of mortality . for the removing of which feares , and obtaining of those things which may conduce to the safety of the parliament and of this city ; the petitioners doe humbly pray , that consideration may bee taken of the information given by the said john everard ; and that upon a further examination thereof , such course may be taken therein as your honors shall think fit . that the chaines within the city of london , which were lately pulled down , may forthwith bee repaired and set up again : and that the army may be speedily removed to a further distance from the city . that by an ordinance of parliament , major generall skippon ( who was long since chosen , and still by act of common-councell is continued major generall over the forces of the city ) may be appointed to be major generall within the late lines of communication , and the weekly bils of mortality ; by which meanes he may the better be enabled to reunite the forces within the city , and the said late lines of communication , and weekly bills of mortality , for the better defence of the city , and the places adjacent : and likewise for the preservation of the parliament , to whom the city do resolve to adhere according to their solemn league and covenant . and your petitioners shall pray , &c. the information of john everard , concerning some speeches that passed from certain persons at windsor , of an intention to disarm the city of london , and then to plunder the same . iohn everard maketh oath , that he having some occasion of businesse at windsor upon thursday the 20 of april , 1648. as he did lye in bed , did heare some gentlemen discourse in the next chamber , the number of whom he cannot tel , but by their discourse they could not be lesse then three or four ; and that he doth beleeve they were all officers of the army under the command of his excellency the lord fairfax ; one of them was quartermaster-generall gravener as he supposeth ; another , one colonell ewer , or some such name : and after some merry discourse , they began to be serious , and propounded what they thought fit to bee done in reference to the present exigencies of the kingdome , upon which subject they discoursed an houre or more : they made no doubt of the comming in of the scots ; and with the same confidence beleeved that the city of london would joyne with the scots ; for the preventing of which , they could find no way but to disarm the city both friend and foe : and afterwards , they said , they would intimate that those who were the friends of the army , should come forth into the fields , and there they should be armed : and that they should have the power of the city of london put into their hands , to keep the rest of the citizens in awe : and that they should be maintained at the charge of the city , so long as it should bee thought fit to continue them . and because that money is the sinews of warre , having which , they doubted not but to procure men enow , if there were occasion to use them : and therefore for the present advancement of the same , if need were , ( this city being disarmed ) they would make them advance a million of money , or else plunder them : and the party that spake this , said , hee had acquainted commissary-generall ireton with it . all which , or to the like effect , was spoken in this deponents hearing . john everard . copia vera . 23. aprilis , 1648. jur. coram jo. warner major . die jovis , 27. april . 1648. master sheriffs , and gentlemen of the common-councell of the city of london ; the lords have commanded me to return thanks to the lord major , aldermen , and common-councell of the city of london , for the good affections that they have expressed in this their petition , asserting the resolutions of the city to adhere to the parliament according to their solemn league and covenant . they likewise have commanded me to assure you , that it hath ever been a principall part of their care to prevent any danger or inconveniency that might threaten the disturbance of the quiet of the city of london , or tend to the decay of the trade thereof , though to their great grief these late troubles have much hindred the successe of their endevors therein ; which care they are fully resolved still to continue to the utmost of their power . and they assure you , that it never entred into their thoughts to have the city of london to be disarmed : and they hope there can be no such intentions in any others who wish well to the safety of the parliament . as to the report which hath been brought unto you by one iohn everard , they will put it into a further examination , that they may be satisfied of the truth or falshood of it : and except there be further proof of it , they hope such a report shall not render the army to be suspected of any such design , considering the many former and late experiences that the parliament and city have had of the fidelity and good services of the army . as to the particular of setting up the chaines within the city , they doe fully leave it to the lord major , aldermen , and common-councell , to doe therein as they shall think fit . to the last particular concerning major generall skippon , he being a member of the house of commons , the lords can resolve nothing therein , without a joynt concurrence of that house ; but they will take it further into their consideration . joh. brown , cler. parliamentorum . die jovis , 27 aprilis , 1648. the house being informed that divers aldermen and citizens were at the doore , they were called in , and alderman bide one of-the sheriffes of the city of london , after some short preamble , acquainted the house that he was commanded by the lord major , aldermen and commons in common-councel assembled , the representative body of the city of london , to present a petition to the house : the petitioners being withdrawn , the petition was read , and an information annexed of one john everard taken upon oath before the lord major , 23. of aprill , 1648. the petition was intituled , the humble petition of the lord major , aldermen and commons in common-councell assembled . ordered upon the question by the commons in parliament assembled , that this house doth approve of the desires of the city , concerning major generall skippon . resolved , &c. that the desire of the petitioners concerning the chaines be granted , and that the committee of the militia do see it done . sir harbottle grimston major generall skippon mr. knightley sir john evelyn mr. bond mr. doddridge sir henry mildmay mr. john corbet colonell harvey sir robert harley mr. prideaux mr. miles corbet mr. john ashe colonell ven mr. swynfon mr. boyse alderm. pennington mr. blakiston mr. vassall sir tho. soame alderm. atkin sir greg. norton mr. erle mr. reynalds mr. long . sir martin lumley mr. grove mr. scuwen mr. dove sir rob. pye . mr. bulkley major gen. browne commissary ireton colonel purie mr. say . this committee or any five of them are appointed to examine the information given in by mr. john everard , mentioned in this city petition , the information given in by mr. walker a member of this house , and that he doe name unto the committee the reporter of it to him ; and all other informations , forrain or other , that concern the same businesse ; and have power to send for parties , witnesses , papers , records , and they are to meete upon it to morrow at two pt. merid. in the court of wards , and the care of this businesse is more particularly referred to alderman pennington and mr. doddridge . resolved , &c. that the thankes of this house be returned to the citizens for their good affections exprest in their petition . mr. speaker is appointed to acquaint the citizens , that the drawing of part of the army so neere the city was occasioned by orders given out in the time of the late tumult ; that the house will take that businesse into serious consideration , and doe that therein which may be for the good and safety of the parliament and city so farre as thereby they may receive satisfaction . the sheriffes , aldermen and other citizens were again called in , and mr. speaker by the command of the house , acquainted them with the resolutions and proceedings upon the petition , and did give them the thanks of this house for their very good affections exprest in the petition to the parliament . h. elsynge cler. parl. d. com. finis . francis broccard (secretary to pope clement the eighth) his alarm to all protestant princes with a discovery of popish plots and conspiracies, after his co[n]version from popery to the protestant religion / translated out of the latin copy printed in holland. de foedere contra protestantes. english brocardo, francisco. 1679 approx. 57 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 15 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a29610) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 56514) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 129:10) francis broccard (secretary to pope clement the eighth) his alarm to all protestant princes with a discovery of popish plots and conspiracies, after his co[n]version from popery to the protestant religion / translated out of the latin copy printed in holland. de foedere contra protestantes. english brocardo, francisco. [4], 24 p. printed by t.s. for william rogers ..., london : 1679. translation of: de foedere contra protestantes. the translator says in his preface, "the time when this discourse was written is manifest from the contents of it to be in the year 1603 ... the copy from whence i translated this, was printed at amsterdam, by jacob younger, in the year 1677." brocardo's work was appended to francis potter's "interpretatio numeri 666", amsterdam, 1677. reproduction of original in british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng catholic church -political activity -controversial literature. conspiracies. 2006-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-10 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-11 jonathan blaney sampled and proofread 2006-11 jonathan blaney text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion francis broccard ( secretary to pope clement the eighth ) his alarm to all protestant princes . with a discovery of popish-plots and conspiracies , after his coversion from popery to the protestant religion . translated out of the latin copy printed in holland . london , printed by t. s. for william rogers , at the maiden-head over against st , dunstan's church in fleetstreet . 1679. the translator to the reader . the author of this discourse was francis broccard ; sometime secretary to pope clement the eighth . who , by reason of that employment , was well acquainted with the designes of the pope and the popish party , and thereby enabled to acquaint the world with what counsels they had then on foot , for the ruin of all protestants , and establishing their own tyranny , and bloudy interest . the villanous wickedness of these vnchristian designs , we may well presume , was one great inducement to make him forsake that bloudy religion , and turn protestant , for though the designs were , as to others , palliated under specious pretences , yet to him who saw the bottom of those cursed contrivances ; and by what ways , and for what ends they were to be brought about ; they did appear in their true shape . which , ( notwithstanding the prejudice of his education and interest ) made him detest and abhor such principles . for according to our saviours own direction , ( by their works you shall know them ) he might be well assured that these counsels were not the dictates of the prince of peace . the time when this discourse was written is manifest from the contents of it to be in the year 1603. being later than the year 1602. ( which he mentions num. 21. as a time past ) and while clement the eighth was yet living , as is said in the preamble , ( who died feb. the 21. 1604. english stile , ) and was the same year in which had happened that attempt on geneva by the duke of savoy , as is said at num. 37. ( which began with an intended surprise early on sunday morning dec. 22. 1602. and ended with a treaty july 21. new stile , 1603. as thuanus tells us . lib. 29. and though he do not particularly describe the gunpowder-treason here in england , ( which was then contriving though not perfectly formed ; and was to be executed on our nov. 5. 1605. ) because his principal intent was to set forth the particular designs on germany : omitting the particulars on france , england , and other countries , as he tells at num. 24 , yet he there tells us at num. 23 , 24. that out of the english seminaries were then sent forth into england emissaries in great numbers to do mischief and work disturbance here : and at num. 40. that a great navy was then preparing either against holland or england ( as there should be occasion ) and that there were in england and scotland ( as well as the netherlands ) great multitudes addicted to the popish and spanish interest , who did but wait the opportunity of such an invasion , being ready on all occasions to spend thier bloud for the church of rome . how vniversal the design was which ( under the name of the holy league ) was intended against the whole protestant party ( and england , amongst the rest ; ) and how subtily , sedulously , and maliciously it was carried on with all the artifice , falshood and treachery imaginable , is evident by the discovery made by this convert who had been an actor in it , and secretary to the pope . and 't is from such only that we can hope to have a particular account of such dark designs : when god by his providence convincing them of the wickedness of these hellish plots , make those who had been actors in them to betray their own counsels . and that the designs here discovered were not forgeries of his own invention , but really intended , is but too manifest from the history of those times ; where we find many of them actually attempted , and more ( in likelyhood ) would have been , if that pope ( who died the year following ) had lived a little longer . and that the same designs have been ever since pursued as to the general , ( but varied in particulars as occasions and opportunities have required ) and are so at this day ; is very evident by the bloudy warrs and massacres ever since , in germany and many other protestant countries in pursuant of those designs . and particularly in our late civil-warrs in england fomented by jesuitical counsels , though executed by schismaticks , the bloudy massacres in ireland , and the present popish design , for killing our king , subverting our government , murdering his people , destroying the protestant religion , and introducing popery amongst us . which god hath in like manner discovered by persons ingaged in it , as he did then by the author of this discourse . the lord grant that our eyes may at length be opened to discern these depths of satan , and antichristian policy ; and our hearts inlarged to praise him who hath hitherto watched over us and preserved us : and to wait on him by a faithful dependance , sincere repentance , and diligent endeavours to prevent the mischiefs which they designe . the copy from whence i translated this , was printed at amsterdam , by jacob younger , in the year 1677. annexed to the latin translation of mr. potters interpretation of the number 666. francis broccard ( sometime secretary to pope clement the eighth ) his alarm ( after his conversion to the true faith of christ ) to all christian princes ( favourers of the protestant religion ) against the pope and popish plots and conspiracies , by him discovered . the most gracious god having marvelously brought me forth from the dismal darkness of popery , to the clear light of the gospel , and the pure acknowledgment of his word ; i might deservedly be accounted the most ungrateful of all men living , if i should not devote and set apart the rest of my life to the glory of his holy name , and the advantage of his gospel . for most unworthy i were and impious , if him from whom i enjoy life and salvation , i should not vouchsafe to serve and obey in the best manner i can . and since for the present i am able to do no more , i see no better way and opportunity of bringing glory to god , doing good to his church , and testifying my true affection to the protestant religion , than by detecting and making known the counsels which the papists , the sworn enemies of christ and his gospel , are contriving and endeavouring to bring to pass against all that have a kindness for the protestant cause ; which in my opinion are such as ought not to be dissembled or concealed , nor can be without great offence to his divine majesty , and great mischief to the true religion : for the whole popish party have entred into a most grievous and pernicious conspiracy against the protestant religion , and have unanimously united and bound themselves by oath in a most strict and wicked league against all the professors of it ; insomuch that without doubt they will be able to do much mischief to the protestant cause , if those against whom these counsels are first intended to be put in practice do not take timely warning for their own defence . i know very well that the protestant cause is a good cause ; and that god will be assistant to them , to defeat the assaults which satan and antichrist make upon them : yet ought not these things to be despised , nor they to sleep securely on such perswasions , but ought to believe that it is a providence of god that stirs up any to make discovery thereof to those whose life and safety is in hazard , that they may the better secure themselves from those enemies who thus assault them . to the end therefore that all protestant princes , and all professors of the true religion , may have warning to avoid these conspiracies of the pope of rome , and all popish princes ; i will through the help of god clearly and undauntedly declare and make known the most wicked confederacies , and devilish arts and machinations of the popish confederates against the protestant religion . and what i shall relate , are not slight and trivial stories picked up from the discourse of ordinary persons , or idle monkish dreams ; but what i have heard my self from the pope's own mouth , and from the cardinals themselves , and which have come to my knowledge from the authentick writings of popish princes under their own hands and seals . nor am i frighted with the wrath and indignation which i am like to sustain from kings and potent princes incensed by this discovery : for i ought to be more afraid of god , who is able to destroy both body and soul , than of those who have power only to kill or torment a frail and mortal body . be they inraged and full of indignation , and ( if god so permit ) fall fierce upon me , i am sensible i do acknowledge that it is from god that i am hereunto moved and incited ; and shall , notwithstanding their rage , undauntedly make known their treacherous conspiracies . hear therefore all ye that bear a good will to the protestant cause , and take good heed to what you hear . pope clement the eighth ( who is at this time pope of rome ) having by strange artifice obliged to himself well-nigh all the princes in europe , not willing to neglect so fair an opportunity to establish his tyrannical power , doth endeavour with might and main to carry on and establish the holy league ( as they call it ) of all popish kings and princes , against the protestant interest ; and which as to the greatest part is already concluded . 1. for the emperour , the king of spain , the archdukes of austria , albert and ferdinand ; the dukes of bavaria , lorrain and savoy ; and almost all the rest of the popish princes , except the french king , and the great duke of tuscany ) have already consented and subscribed the league ; and the pope moves every stone to engage the rest to concur with them , and is in hope to effect it . 2. this league consists of divers heads : the way of proceeding , the time , the preparation , the proportion which each of them is to contribute to this holy war , they are plotting and contriving against the protestants . and on this they are in all points agreed , that all these confederates shall with joynt force endeavour the extirpation of protestant religion by all the means they can . 3. the emperour about a year ago was earnest with the pope for money and aid against the turk , whereby he might be able either to repress his insolence , or at last bring him to honourable terms of peace , or some lasting truce ; promising that so soon as he shall have dispatched his business with the turk , he will employ all his strength and forces for the pope against the protestants , or ( as they call them ) the hereticks . 4. the pope is very much inclined to a peace with the turk , and for this reason would not last year give ear to the embassadors of the persian king , who pressed him to a general confederacy against the turk . for the pope reckons that the protestants are a greater hinderance to his affected tyranny , than is the turk . and doth oft complain that a long war hath now been managed for forty years together against the turk to no advantage ; whereas in the same time with far less expence the church of rome might have recovered her authority in europe . and he doth therefore endeavour to perswade the turk to seek a peace , and perswades the emperour to let him have it on reasonable terms . 5. in the year 1601. cardinal dietrichstein , bishop of clomute came in great haste from prague to rome , and brought letters to the pope from the emperour , promising the pope to put in execution by force of arms the sentence which the emperour had given in behalf of the pope against the protestants in the cause concerning goods ecclesiastick , which he commanded to be in all places restored to the use of the church of rome . and from thence the pope conceived hopes of some occasion to be offered of beginning some broils and commotions in germany ; and it was agreed between them that the greatest part of those goods should be distributed amongst those who should be most active in that war. 6. the same cardinal did at the same time promise ( as he said ) in the emperours name , that in the mean time ( while things were getting in readiness for an open war ) the emperour and the princes of austria would wholly turn out all protestants within their hereditary dominions , as in austria , tyrole , croatia , carinthia , stiria , and the like places ; and that they would in like manner fall upon them in moravia , silesia , and bohemia ; first without noise if it may be , and then by force of arms , especially of those souldiers which come back from the war of hungary ; ( for in such cases they do not think fit to trust the german souldiers ) and that he had already granted to them the spoiling and pillaging those people in case they return not to the church of rome . 7. the popes legate now resident at prague did write some months ago , that all these things are in great part already dispatched ; that the protestants were cast out of those provinces , and the jesuites by the emperors permission possess'd of most of the protestant churches and places , not only in austria and carinthia , but likewise in silesia and moravia : and that the french souldiers under the command of one count benegrave had already burnt some villages in the borders of bohemia , and that they intended this year to make more progress therein , especially by the assistance of the italians , which the pope sends into hungary , chiefly for this end , to spoil and destroy the protestants . 8. the emperour hath also promised that he will not henceforth confer any chief offices , whether in civil or military affairs , on any that are hereticks , or do in any wise favour them : and moreover , that all lesser offices now enjoyed by protestants , shall be taken from them , unless within a time limited they return to the church of rome . and by this means the popes legate informed , that daily many of the nobility in germany do renounce the lutheran , and turn to the romish religion ; and that on such are frequently bestowed good places and offices , that others may be thereby incouraged to make the like revolt . for they are perswaded from the experience of all times , that by ambition , and covetousness of riches and honours , many have been seduc'd , who 't is thought would otherwise have been very constant . 9. by this promise the pope having conceived great hopes , hath taken the confidence to press the emperour to depose and put out some of the protestant nobility by him named , from publick offices and places , civil and military , which then they enjoyed . and among these by name count colinick , henry matthew , a turre , a bohemian , the lord of offer-kirchen , the barons of pothan , of oglisto , of dermenstorf , and the like ; and desir'd that he would put in their places some of the popish nobility , and such as had revolted ; affirming that things would never succed well against the turks , if the war were managed by protestants : and that he would never endure , nor was it for the dignity of a catholick emperour , that in a christian army against infidels they should be suffered to have lutheran sermons ; which he therefore requir'd to be wholly supprest ; threatning that otherwise he would never endure that they should henceforth have any leavies of souldiers in italy or spain to be sent thither ; lest these provinces which are yet free should become infected with heresie . 10. the duke of mercury gives this advice , that divers of those who are his adherents , may be promoted to military employments : and himself hath written to cardinal aldobrandine , to perswade the pope , that this the emperor may do very easily . the pope believing this to be a good means for the removing sermons out of the army , and for preparing a way to many other things for the ruine of the protestants , hath very earnestly desir'd the same thing of the emperour ; from whom yet he hath received no other answer , than that he must wait a convenient time for the doing of it , and some better opportunity ; and in the mean time he will take care to do it by little and little . 11. the same duke of mercury about two years since , having conference with the confederates to this purpose , had resolved that in winter time ( when the war in hungary could not be carried on ) he would carefully take a view of all germany , and ( as if he were minding somewhat else ) observe and take notice of the places , situations , rivers , straights , borders , passes , avenues , forts and strengths of the protestant princes and protestant cities , that he might the better contrive waies to surprize and circumvent them , in the war design'd . and i my self have seen at rome with the duke of suesse the delineations of some places belonging to the protestants drawn by petrine a mathematician to the said duke . and while he was yet living , i heard the same was to be done by the duke of nevers who seeks for the place of the duke of mercury in the war of hungary . 12. when the pope perceived that he could not presently obtain from the emperor to put out the aforesaid protestant nobility ; he did by a new device desire of the emperour that he would at least employ a smaller number of the protestant forces , least by this means they might be trained up in military skill to the prejudice of the roman church , and come to have the better of the catholicks . that it were much better that the emperour should raise none but popish , souldiers , and require pay and contributions for them from the protestants : for by this means the protestants in a short time would be at once disarm'd and impoverish'd . that many of the things design'd might then be begun and attempted for the distruction of the protestants , which , as things now stand , could not be thought off : and the better to perswade the emperour hereunto , he accused the protestants of holding correspondence with the turk . 13. the pope hath some councelours in the emperours court who stick very close to him , who for large pensions and great hopes , wherewith he feeds them , do incline the emperour to comply with the popes directions ; and by their means he is made acquainted not only with the emperours actions , but with his very propensions and inclinations . 14. the pope presseth for an election of a king of the romans ; fearing least if the emperour should die before a successor were appointed , some might be chosen in his place , who either is not a papist , or at least more moderate toward the protestants . and for this reason he doth press the emperour to it ; and both to him and to the ecclesiastick electors he doth earnestly recommend albertus ; whom in many respects he desires to have preferr'd before the rest ; for this consideration especially , because he thinks that by this means the popish religion will come to be restored in the netherlands and in germany , and moreover because the king of spain doth make offer and promise to imploy all his strength and forces against the turk and the hereticks , in case they chose albertus . 15. the king of spains embassadour resident at rome produced letters from that kings embassadour at prague , informing him that one of the protestant electors was inclinable to albertus ; and that the spaniards promise themselves great things of him , both as to the business of the election , and the affairs of the netherlands . 16. the emperour seems more inclined to matthias , whom yet the pope seems to reject by reason of some suspicions raised of him in matter of religion ; which he endeavours to remove by the persecutions in austria and moravia , in which places he is very severe against the protestants : hoping thereby to reconcile himself to the pope and to the ecclesiastick electors , but in vain . for the pope and ecclesiasticks do not so much look at matter of religion , as politick interests ; and would have albertus , not because he is more religious , but because they think he will be the more potent , and will less regard the protestant princes . 17. because of this election it is , that many things against the protestants are at present deferr'd , which they would forthwith put in execution if they could , without them obtain an election for the house of austria . for the emperour is afraid if he should use open hostility against the protestants , the protestant princes would be averse to him and his family ; and for this cause he doth sooth and make much of many of them at present , whom ( if he had obtained his end ) he would certainly despise . 18. the archbishop of cologne hath also writ letters to cardinal st. george wherein he intercedes for his house of bavaria ; affirming that he hath the votes of some of the electors inclinable to his family . and makes offers to the pope both in his own and in his fathers name , of all their forces and assistance for the exaltations of the roman church . 19. at the same time came privately to rome , in the duke of bavaria's name , an embassadour called somburg , one of the four knights of the empire , who on the behalf of the said duke treated of divers things with the pope and cardinals concerning the manner of proceeding and taking an opportunity for beginning of that holy war. he pressed also the business of the election ; and to obtain the popes favour toward him , he gave great hopes that by the colloque at ratisbone , which was then under consideration , some of the protestant princes might be brough over to the romish church . which notwithstanding , the pope could not be induced to grant that it should be held with his consent , but had given command to claudius aquaviva , that things being hazardous it should be broken off . 20. the citizens of ausburg ( among whom were mark velsarus , and george fucherus ) were instant with the pope to obtain from the emperour that the protestant ministers might be expelled and cast out of the city of ausburg ; which at that time ( they said ) might easily be done , for that the chief inhabitants and the magistrates of the place were popish , and the neighbouring princes very zealous for the roman religion . the cause was managed in their name by cardinal palavicini , and by the said fucherus , who the last year came to rome on purpose . and with him was one dr. brandanus who suggested to them by what means it might most easily be brought to pass . and it was thus far brought about that the emperour at the popes instance , consented to the ejection of those pastors in case it could be done without commotion and sedition ; and did openly declare that he desir'd nothing more than that it might so be done in all the cities of the empire . 21. in a congregation held at rome beginning in jan. 1602. it was there decreed , with the emperours concurrence thereunto , that there should be jesuits plac'd and maintain'd in all cities of the empire , by whose means the way might be prepar'd for the designed persecution . for they hoped that by the artifices of the jesuits they might so far prevail as to get many to favour them in those cities who were otherwise protestants : by whose assistance they hoped with more ease to suppress the protestants . the question then was only concerning their maintenance . for the germane bishops complained of the smalness of their revenue . and the pope at length concluded to maintain them for the present at the charge of the treasury of the church till some other course should be found out . 22. arch-duke ferdinand prince of stiria , and carinthia , did lately make complaint to the pope , that whereas he had expelled of his provinces all the protestants ; many of them notwithstanding continued yet to live there by the indulgence of the ecclesiastick princes who held some places in his provinces ; as for instance , the bishop of bomberg and the arch-bishop of salisbury , who received and entertained them : wherefore he prayed the pope straitly to charge and to compel them utterly to cast those out , otherwise he threatned to use his soveraign authority , which he pretends to have in those places , and to cast them out by an armed force , even whether those bishops would or not ; with which the pope was well pleased . 23. while things are in preparation for an open war against the protestants , the popish party are contriving how to make attempts on the protestant interest ; and have this year sent into the countries of the netherlands , and of england , a great number of spies and seducers , by whose means many of all sorts are seduced , and wrought over to their party ; who are then maintained in protestant cities at the popes charge , to be serviceable unto him in what he is designing . some of these emissaries about a month ago , went through lipsia in a disguise , in their passage into prussia , where they hope to nestle , as shall afterward be shew'd . if the actions of these emissaries were well observed , it would not be hard to take some of them , and by their notes and memorials these and many other things might be discovered . 24. a few years since the pope erected here in rome two congregations or senates ; whereof one is called congregatio ad propagationem fidei , ( the congregation for the propagating of the faith ) the other , congregatio sacri foederis , ( the congregation of the holy league . ) in each of which are nine cardinals , and as many councellers , who meet together once every week ; and there they act , meditate and study nothing but how to contrive , propose , and consider all means of propagating the popish tyranny , and how to prepare the way for the persecution , and the butchering of the protestants ; and how to lay hold of all advantages of beginning that cursed war designed against them . from this congregation are sent forth those spies and emissaries who every year in great numbers are imployed to make broils in protestant countries , and seduce the professors of the true religion . and these two congregations are the shops wherein they form all their instruments , and contrive all their machinations , treacheries , plots , villanies , and all mischiefs against the protestants . these congregations hold particular correspondence with the jesuites , and those bred up in the colledges or seminaries of the german ▪ english , and moravians ; from whence as out of a trojan horse come forth those traiters and seducers , whom ( as we said ) they send out into all protestant countries . for those of all others are judged the fittest for subtle frauds and 〈…〉 . for by reason of the languages they understand , their fashions , kindred and relations which they have in all protestant countries , they can easily insinuate and get into the courts and acquaintance of princes and persons of quality : and if they find any pliable and easie to be wrought upon , they make it their business by little and little , with hopes and promises , as in the name of the emperour or pope of rome , of honours , dignities , and great things , to allure , seduce and work upon them , and many times with great success ; as we may see in those lords and nobles whom they have lately perverted , as baron terrisle the younger , cicendorff , the knight audechan the younger , baron dermensdorff , baron thona , and many others in germany , i omit what they have done in france , england , and other countries . 25. there is a great number of them every day flocking to rome , to renounce the true faith of christ ; but much greater of those who do privately at home abjure it , and are by these emissaries instructed in the popish idolatry , and are maintained in the country and cities of germany , that liveing covertly and under disguise amongst protestants , they may have the better opportunity of promoting the popish interest ; and do it effectually : for by their means it is perfectly known to rome , what are the protestant designs , differences and inclinations . 26. part of these apostates who flock to rome , and are of the most part of mean condition , are entertained in the city of rome , and the court it self , and there maintained to be serviceable against the protestants who resort to rome ; and for many other purposes , of which we shall speak by and by . others of them are dispersed in several parts and cities of italy , to make discovery and observation , whether any of the protestant princes or nobility come into italy ; which whensoever they can discover ( which is very easy to do by the jesuites education wherein they are exactly instructed ) they presently accuse and give notice of them either to the pope , or to the inquisitors according to the quality of the persons . 27. divers of these spies at rome i have known my self , when about two years since i was conversant there : and to the end that those protestants who shall thither resort , may beware of them , i will mention them by name . the first i shall name is john hierom fendri , who lets lodgings at the sign of the white lion ; he with two of his sons who understand the germane tongue very well , receive from the pope an annual pension to betray the germanes who come thither . the next is one john scherver , at the sign of the black eagle , near the bridge of st. angelo . the third is a dutch taylor in the street called via julia. these three by reason of the employments they exercise , run up and down to several inns and lodgings , as the bear , the bull , the sword , &c. where germanes use to lodge , and by occasion of their language , and the trades they use , make use of that opportunity to insinuate themselves into acquaintance with the gentlemen themselves , or with their servants , and by little and little , by one sign or other , easily discover of what religion , and what country they are ; and do then presently betray them without distinction , whatever their condition be , whether princes , or of inferiour quality . for all these and many more receive pensions from the pope to this purpose . 28. there are besides these some other apostates , men of learning , who do the same but in a more grave and subtle manner ; for these come not but to great persons , whom the meanness of those others is not fit to converse with . of these is one gasper schoppius of bamberg ; dr. fabor a physician ( at the hospital of the holy ghost ) of franceford , justus calvin of heidleburg ; john wouren of amburg ; dr. joseph of wormes ; arnold martin of swilzerland ; stephen della favergia of geneva ; a son in law of anthony calvin ; roboll a frenchman who heretofore secretary to the duke of bullione , and many others of the same stamp from almost all parts of germany . these as soon as they understand that any germane is come , of some name or with a handsom retinue , presently resort to him , and ( as out of meer officiousness in respect to their country or nation ) proffer their service and assistance , and offer to shew them what things remarkable are to be seen , and then by degrees begin to discourse with them of the affairs of the court of rome , and sometimes discourse of the popish ceremonies and manners , as if themselves were not in all things so well satisfied in the romish religion ; that under this pretence they may make discovery where they be halting . and of these wicked apostates they must have a great care who resort to rome ; for few there are who can escape their subtilty ; and many persons of mean condition are by their means , and by the informations they give , cast into prison , and forc'd to renounce christ . with princes and persons of quality , the pope for many reasons thinks fit to deal more mildly ; but yet for these also , he laies snares , and useth his endeavour either to seduce them , or privately to make them away . 29. by means of these apostates and spies , the pope hath been made acquainted with the entry and abode of all great persons who of late years have been in italy ; and from the day of their entring into italy they have had some on the popes behalf who have followed them from place to place , observed their actions and motions ; not presently to seize or commit them ( for they have learned by experience , that these methods do not advantage the romish church ) but to make discovery of their propensions and inclinations , that they may the better know how to intice and seduce them . 30. the pope or the inquisitors so soon as they are informed of any protestant prince or person of quality that is come , they presently dispatch some person of good condition to attend them , and to shew them all civilities , and bestow upon them some small presents , and to entertain them with very civil language , and incourage them not to be afraid . mean while by his emissaries he neglects not to make attempt on them as to their religion , and doth endeavour by all the civil waies , he can , either to seduce them from the protestant religion , or at least to send them out of italy with better opinions of the popes proceedings , and the romish religion . witness hereof are the princes of wirtenburg , of anhall , of the palatinate , of newburg and of saxony ; who have been tempted by such presents , flatteries and artifices . and some of their councellours and preceptors vigorously assaulted and tempted with large promises of honours and dignities , to bring over and pervert their princes : but those of meaner condition are betray'd to the inquisitors , whom by long imprisonments and cruel torments they force to renounce christ ; or if they persist constant in the truth , then by fire and sword and cruel torments they kill and destroy them . 31. by the coming and abode of the foresaid princes in italy , they came to understand much of the protestant princes differenees among themselves , and of the state of religion in germany , and of the peoples affections toward their princes . the pope likewise by this means was made acquainted with the strength and counsels of divers of them , which aford him opportunity of raising and fomenting discords and jealousies amongst the protestant princes , and contriving many things for the ruine of the protestant cause , which before that time he was not able to do . and he hopes , as he hath often bragg'd , by the protestants own arms to propagate and establish his tyranny . let therefore the protestant princes take good heed to themselves : and if they be wise , not confide too much in popish princes ; and forbear coming into italy , and especially to rome ; and when at any time they come there , let them take heed what persons they have with them , and whom they put confidence in . 32. the pope not long since had been informed that a part of prussia was to descend to a son of the marquess of brandenburg , and thereupon he so far prevailed with the emperour and the king of poland , that they three are joyntly to endeavour , that it come not to the house of brandenburg , but to the king of poland ; and they have lately sent their agents the jesuites into those parts , to make way for it . for their design is to begin the broils in those parts ; and for this end the romish legate is yet detained at rome in order thereunto . 33. the aforesaid confederates had endeavoured by their agents and emissaries to suborn the counts of frisland , and draw them into a certain negotiation for delivering up the town of emden to the emperour ; that it might not come into the hands of the states , and that the papists might on that side have a fair passage , and a gate open to fall upon the protestants , and create disturbance to their affairs in those parts ; and did pretend to have come to somewhat of certainty therein , and that they had drawn over those counts to the spanish interest , and the romish religion ; and to that end did place and maintain some jesuites about them to instruct them and retain them in their duty and devotion to the see of rome . but those affairs , through the vigilance of the states , not succeeding as they desired , they are now contriving some other expedients . 34. the pope is by all means endeavouring to make a breach betwixt the princes of austria , and the duke of wurtenburg upon occasion of the alienating and withdrawing the fee of the princedom of wurtenburg by the emperor ; which they would not have to be thought valid , to the prejudice of the rest of the austrian family ; those especially who were then under age , whom he stirs up and incites to demand a restitution ; and for that end to take arms against the duke of wurtenburg , hoping that if once a war be begun in germany against the protestants , he shall be able to pursue his design , and restore the popish idolatry amongst them . 35. the popish argitatours , and the fathers of the two forementioned congregations in rome , are contriving likewise to make a breach between the elector palatine , and the said duke of wurtenburg ; upon occasion of some possessions which have now for divers years been held by the duke of wurtenburg , whereof they are endeavouring ( by means of some of his councellours whom they have corrupted and other ill disposed persons ) to perswade the elector palatine to demand restitution . and hope by this means , together with that of their difference in religion , they may engage them in a war , or at least foment discords between them , and so alienate and divide them that they may not joyn in a common defence when either of them shall be assaulted , nor be assistant one to the other . i would therefore advise those princes to be very circumspect , and not readily give ear to such sowers of dissensions between protestants . they have endeavoured the like against the marquisate of bade and durlac , one of whom seem'd ready to comply with the papists , and was treating with the bishops of spire and constance about restoring the popish religion in case he obtain that government ; which he hopes to do because of the marquiss of durlac being so ill in health and ( they say ) cannot live long ; and in such case this popish successor by the assistance of the pope and the foresaid confederates promises , the restoring of popish idolatry , to which they will in no wise be wanting ; for they leave nothing unattempted , and lose no opportunity of raising commotions in germany . 36. by the instigation of arch-duke albert , and by the popes authority , they are endeavouring to incite the emperour and all the states of the empire against the belgick provinces of the low-countries , pretending that they have done , and daily do possess divers places and dominions belonging to the empire . and that they will in a short time become formidable to all kings and princes , unless some stop be put to them , before their empire grow too large . and so far hath this craft , and the subtle insinuations of the papists prevailed , that under these specious pretences for the empire , they have wrought upon some of the protestant princes , who being deceived and seduced , and by this their devilish subtilty seem inclinable to the destruction & ruine of these provinces , not discerning that this is a most subtle crafty device and stratagem of antichrist , to set protestant against protestant , and if possible to destroy the protestant party by the protestants own weapons . these are ( believe me ) the venemous counsells and villainous contrivances of that cursed league and confederacy , and those wicked congregations of the pope above mentioned ; palliated with this pretence that they are in the behalf of the empire , and for the good thereof , to which they do in no wise appertain . these counsels of suppressing the hollanders are rather against the empire than for it ; as any man may easily discern , if he compare the present government with that of the spanish tyrany . and moreover who is so stupid and void of all sense , as not to know how little kindness the popes of rome ever had , or yet have toward the empire , of whose greatness and majesty they were ever envious and professed enemies . and therefore even the popish princes themselves ought alwaies to be suspicious of their councels when the good of the empire is concerned . 37. from the same fountain ( or abyss rather ) of the aforesaid confederacies against the protestants , proceed these wars and invasions which have this last year been attempted against those of geneva and strasburg , which are but the praeludes or forerunners of the intended general persecution : designing by these attempts to make an essay of the protestants councels and forces ; and make observation whether the protestants will conjoin their forces to defend their common cause ; or each one stand severally upon their own guard . i gave notice fifteen months ago by letters and trusty friends both to those of geneva and to those of strasburg of this design of the popish confederates to assault and surprise them unawars , whether or no they believed me , i cannot tell . but sure i am that meerly out of zeal to the protestant religion i gave them this warning of what i knew to be certainly true ; and they by experience and the event have found it so to be . and so it will be as to those things now write and sincerely declare to all protestant princes . for god is my witness that the things i now discover are what i know to be true and already agreed upon . nor do i this for any other design than out of zeal to the protestant religion . 38. it was not without a deep and subtle design that they did at one and the same time fall upon geneva and strasburg ; for by assalting both these at once , they hoped so to amuse and employ the protestants of switzerland by the war against geneva , that they should not be at leisure to give assistance to those of strasburg , as they did nine years ago . and again by the war begun against strasburg , they hoped so to keep the protestant princes in fear and suspence , as not to suffer any souldiers to be raised in their dominions to assist the states of holland against albertus . they had received intelligence that some of the princes of germany intended to give assistance to those hollanders , which they hoped to prevent by this war of strasburg nor had they failed in this conjecture had their design succeeded against geneva . and though they were therein disappointed , yet are they not thereby dismayed , or give it over . for they have determined to attempt all waies of kindling a flame in germany . and herein the forreign princes are also very intent ; as hoping to extinguish the flames which are yet raging in their own countries , by kindling a fire elsewhere ; and that by this means those of their own countries who are men of turbulent and seditious spirits might have where to employ their fury , and satisfy their bloody minds . this artifice hath at all times given occasion and fewel to many wars throughout the world. it hath long been made use of by the popes of italy and the kings of spain , who have now for many years sate quiet at home , and been spectatours of the wars in the netherlands , in france and hungary , which they for these ends did at first stir up and kindle , and do at this day foment and cherish . the noble germans of former ages were not wont to wait for others to bring war home to them and assault them in their own country ; but to go out and meet it as far as italy , france and spain . that heroick vertue is not yet extinguish'd in the germans breast , and that divine prowess whereby they have conquered great part of the world. let them but rouse it up and exercise that valiant courage and undaunted prowess against these effeminate and faint-hearted priestlings ; who though at present incouraged by our sloth , they grow sierce and insolent , will not dare in italy to look the germans in the face , whom they could not in former daies look upon but with terrour . let the germans look over the noble acts of their ancestours recorded with glory in the writers of all ages ; and learn at length to be true germans ; that is , suppressors of tyranny , assertors of liberty , and masters of the world , and not suffer the popes cowl with a few faint-hearted and lazy popelings insolently to insult over the valiant and masculine germane nation . 39. there was a constant same , and it was reported by the french themselves , that the attempt on geneva by the duke of savoy was with the privity and consent of the king of france . for by as agreement made two years since by cardinal aldobrandine between the french king and the duke of savoy , it was covenanted and agreed , that the duke of savoy might , without offence of the king , or violation of the peace , assault geneva . but with this condition that when it is taken it shall either be demolished , or else so divided between them , that the king shall have that part of it which is on that side of the rosne towards france ; and the duke that of the other side toward savoy . at the same time , in that treaty with aldobrandine , the king of france made promise of many things , concerning receiving the councel of trent , concerning the confederacy or holy league above-mentioned , and restoring of the jesuites ; which thought they have hitherto been deferr'd , yet cardinal dosutus and the kings embassadour have promised the pope that the king in due time will perform them all , and protested that he is very well addicted to the see of rome , but that he hath not been able yet to make good his promise , because of the league he was to confirm with the helvetians , and some protestant princes ; who he fears would be highly offended , if he should put those things in present execution ; but he will do it in a short time . but ( to speak what i think ) i am of this opinion , as to the king of france ( which also i have of ten heard from the mouth of the present pope ) to wit , that the king plays the politician , and is firm to neither part . 40. the king of spain under pretence of blocking up algiers , hath prepared a great fleet in the mediterranean and tyrrhene sea , but means to go forth with it out of the streights , either against the hollanders , or against the english ; and in expectation of this navy it is that albertus lies so long before ostend . of this his intention there be many evidences , one of them is very apparent , that this navy is for the most part furnished with very great ships , which are very proper for the ocean , but not so fit for the 〈◊〉 of africk and the mediterranean ; for which gallies are more convenient , and such only charls the fifth made use o● but there are more certain arguments which i have observed from their councels . let them therefore take heed whom it concerns . nor will it be long ere they make this expedition , if they can but secure themselves of a safe port on the coa●… of the ocean , which they are endeavouring with all their power . for this , they say , is the only obstacle to their business , that they have not any ports or harbours large enough to receive a numerous fleet ; which if they could once obtain , they boast that they should have forces innumerable and insuperable both by land and sea. and truly there are in holland , zeland , frisland , england , and scotland , very great numbers who adhere to the popish and spanish interest , and who daily sollicit the popish princes to take arms against those countries , and promise them all their assistance if once they arive there . and within these few weeks the jesuits who in those countries live in disguise , and say masses , have written to their general claudius , aquaviva , that the number of papists fit to bear arms within the provinces of holland and zealand only , are thirty thousand and more ; and they are so zealous therein , that they are ready on any occasion to spend their blood for the romish church . their letters were read in the congregation ( as they call it ) for the propagation of the faith : and with so great applause , that they were all of one opinion , that in case a navy should there arrive , it would be easie to raise a very great party ; and they conceive hopes of very great success for the catholicks in those parts , if once albertus's affairs succeed well . and in truth the states ought with greater severity to restrain the petulancy of these rebellious spirits , that they grow not worse by too much indulgence . 41. the ecclesiasticks in germany ( that is to say ) the bishops of mentz and collogne have given information to the pope , that there are up and down in germany divers confederaices amongst the protestant princes , and frequent meetings to that purpose ; partly for maintaining calvinism against the lutherans , and partly for maintaining lutheranism against the calvinists ; and that they are at this time at greater discord amongst themselves , more incensed and more inraged against one another than ever they were , all of them against the papists . and added moreover many particulars concerning their factions in state affairs , and other emulations and hatreds of each religion against the other , and of differences among themselves , and how the people stand affectd toward their princes , from whence they might presage and were in hopes , that in a short time the protestants will fall soul upon one another , and by that means the popish religion be greatly promoted , the aforesaid confederates on this occasion spare neither for pains not cost to cherish and foment these discords , contentions and animosities amongst the protestants ; and ( which is very pernicious and much to be lamented ) have so prevailed through their subtilty and our sloth , that for promoting and furtheing these discords they make advantange of the simplicity ( shall i say ) or malignity of protestant princes and councellors . and many there are at this time through the craft of the papists , and artifices of some courtiers , so bewitched , as to think verily that the popish monarchs and princes bear no ill will to the protestant interest , and ( which is more , ) that the pope himself favours this religion , and is desirous of peace with us : and being deluded with this vain perswasion , and besotted ( as it were ) with this deadly lethargy , they who should be most watchful over the lords slock are fallen a sleep , i beseech therefore , most illustrious princes , all of you , who have renounced the popish idolatry , and imbraced the protestant religion , whether by the name of luther or calvin , that laying aside all discords and animosities ( if any be ) amongst your selves , you would all agree in one solemn league ( and truly sacred ) amongst your selves against your professed and sworn enemies ; & would believe that the whole popish party , whoever they be ; are your worst enemies ; and if you give not credit to my bare narration ; observe ( i beseech you ) their actions and motions ; for you will easily discern that it is all true which i have here written . and herein i have not consulted my own advantage , but what is necessary for the safety of your selves , and the whole protestant interest . i have omitted many particulars that i might not be over tedious ; which yet if i shall find you to make a due use as you ought of what is now written , i will not fail to add for the common interest of the protestant cause . in the mean time be watchful , take heed to your selves , and give thanks to god. francis broccard , secetary to the pope . finis . the humble addresse and remonstrance of richard dawson gentleman, now prisoner in the fleet to the right honourable lords and commons in parliament assembled. with all possible submission, representing the sad oppressures under which he groans, his estate being pluckt away from him by injustice, perjury, and subornation thereto, forgery, counterfeiting his hand and seal, and other unjust, illegal unconscionable grievances; by the ... confederacy of roger porrington gentleman, philip read attorney of the kings bench, edward, and francis luttrel, solicitor, and counsellor of law, sir john lenthall knight marshall of the kings bench, and others, set on, encouraged, and defended by them. dawson, richard. 1661 approx. 82 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 18 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2008-09 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a37282 wing d459b estc r215262 99827185 99827185 31601 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a37282) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 31601) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1905:20) the humble addresse and remonstrance of richard dawson gentleman, now prisoner in the fleet to the right honourable lords and commons in parliament assembled. with all possible submission, representing the sad oppressures under which he groans, his estate being pluckt away from him by injustice, perjury, and subornation thereto, forgery, counterfeiting his hand and seal, and other unjust, illegal unconscionable grievances; by the ... confederacy of roger porrington gentleman, philip read attorney of the kings bench, edward, and francis luttrel, solicitor, and counsellor of law, sir john lenthall knight marshall of the kings bench, and others, set on, encouraged, and defended by them. dawson, richard. 32 p. printed for the author, london : 1661. reproduction of original in the cambridge university library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng pleading -early works to 1800. conspiracies -england -early works to 1800. 2006-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-09 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-08 taryn hakala sampled and proofread 2007-08 taryn hakala text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the humble addresse and remonstrance of richard dawson gentleman , now prisoner in the fleet . to the right honourable the lords & commons in parliament assembled , with all possible submission , representing the sad oppressures under which he groans , his estate being pluckt away from him by injustice , perjury , and subornation thereto , forgery , counterfeiting his hand and seal , and other unjust , illegal unconscionable grievances ; by the 〈…〉 confederacy of roger portington gentleman , philip read attorney of the kings bench , edward , and francis luttrel , sollicitor , and counsellor of law , sir john lenthall knight marshall of the kings bench , and others , set on , incouraged , and defended by them . because of the cry of the oppressed , and the groans of prisoners , i will arise saith the lord. let god arise , and his enemies will be scattered . london , printed for the author 1661. right honorable lords , and worthy gentlemen ; the external happynesse of mankind , consisting in society , of which the briole , or check , is the law , which curbs and restrains the unruly exorbitances of unreasonable men ; what can be fall more miserable in this life , than to have this remedy ( by the injustice of its execution ) made worse than the disease ? to find judgement turn'd into gall and wormwood , as is evident in your poor petitioners case , who to the ruine of his wife and children , hath for several years found experimental proof thereof , which being his lot in those times , when our sun of earthly happyness was eclipsed , and only the screetchowles of horror and distraction were heard in our almost ruined land ; when corruption and villany was the natural milk to feed our infant monster the commonwealth ; his hope and assurance is , that the return of our sun of majesty , will be like unto that of him , who hath been , and is his true pattern , the sun of righteousnesse , with healing under his wings , to poor , oppressed , and otherwise despairing prisoners , among whose number , your petitioner humbly acknowledgeth himself . nor is he only prickt forward to this addresse , by the sharpnesse and tediousnesse of his sufferings , and present distress brought upon him thereby ; but is also incouraged ( nay more ) assured of successe , in confidence of your honors true gallantry , justice and wisdom , who your selves in these late overturning times ▪ have tasted of the same cup of affliction , many of you drunk thereof deeply . yea , his most sacred majesty , hath not escaped the same lot ; but ( in imitation of our saviour , his immediate lord and pattern ) hath suffered in the like kind , ( though not in the same manner ) and therefore my confident assurance is , that having in this humble addresse to deal with such a king , the like of whom england never saw , nor brought forth , experimentally ( by gods inscrutable providence ) made sensible of the distresses and sufferings of his meanest subjects , such lords and nobles , who themselves have been tryed in the same furnace of affliction , and for many years last past , have ( not through their princes displeasure ; but for being loyal to their prince ) by the meanest and worst of plebeians been plundered , and stript of all , and afterwards imprisoned , with as much reproa●h and contempt , as if they had been chips of the same block with the most contemptible commoner : such knights and burgesses to sit in parliament , who if in these times of distraction , they lived in england , and are unacquainted with the miseries of imprisonment , it argues in them little cordial fidelity to their soveraign lord , or his father of blessed memory , whose real friends mildest lot was reiterated , and severe imprisonments , others being banished , not a few murthered . on which considerations , your humble petitioner begs of , and humbly beseecheth you , who by the good hand of our most gracious god , have been dragged , many of you out of the dungeon , some recalled from exile , to injoy your antient priviledges and freedoms , and sit ( according to your true desert and merits ) at the helm of state , to cast back your gracious eyes upon such who once were fellow sufferers with you , and not ( like pharaohs butler ) being now your selves restored , to forget the languishing estate of joseph , ( viz. ) your once fellow prisoner . this my lords and honorable gentlemen , i speak not as in the least doubting or fearing any such thing ; but out of the meer sense of my long , and most unjust suffering ; pardon my boldnesse that i am thus importunate ( if possible ) to find an effectual and speedy remedy . and not to trouble your honours with a long preamble , whose very weighty occasions , cannot admit a tedious discourse , i shall come humbly to represent my grievances , so illegal , so many , and carryed on with a high hand , on purpose to ruine your petitioner , whom several persons of note and power , have confederated to undoe and destroy , in so barbarous , and wickedly malicious a manner and way , as i question not , but in the following particulars to make so plainly evident to your honors and wisdoms , as will cause your hearts in reading of them to relent , and commiserate your poor petitioners case , yea so to pity him , as effectually to relieve him . in the year of our lord 1648 octob. 21. richard dawson gentleman , then residing in the county of norfolk , and dealing in the capacity of a grasier , had at one time , forcibly taken from him 267 oxen , which were all driven into the castle of pomfret , by some who pretended themselves souldiers of that place , and there came to the possession of one roger portington , the governour denying , that he had any thing to do with them , when dawson ( owner of the cattle , ) demanded them of him ; but sent him to portington , to treat with him concerning them , being ( as he affirmed ) wholly in his power , and withall required portington to rostore them to dawson , but he refused to return them , or any part of them , using this exasperating expression , to the owners face , that would he give 100 l. for ten of the worst , he should not have them ; with which most rugged answer , dawson being justly provoked , ( as well as exasperated by his great losse ) in the year 1649 , he brought his action of trover and conversion against portington , which being tryed by nisi prius , at guild hall , in the year 1650. the plantiff recovered against the defendant portington , ( with costs of suit ) 1297l . 13s . 4d . according to which verdict , judgement was entred , and dawson had granted him a writ of execution thereupon . a man would now have thought that the plantiff had not been far from his mony , having able bail for bringing forth the body of the defendant , and him a man of sufficient estate to satisfie a greater debt ; but the sequel of this discourse will make it most evident , that as our laws have been , and are in the execution of them still abused , there is no case , so notoriously corrupt and injust ; but meeting with a suitable conscience , joyned with ability of purse , he may be provided with lawyers , who for the sake of gain , will maintain and defend the same , in despight of justice . for this portington to discharge his bayl , rendred himself prisoner to the kings bench , where dawson charged him in execution , upon the sore-recited judgement , and there he to this time continues a prisoner , although for many years he hath been , and still is at large , dwelling at his own house in yorkshire , to the defrauding , and great dammage , of the injured creditor , who can look upon such actions , no otherwise than cheats , however seemingly backt with colour of law ; but of this i shall have cause given to speak more fully hereafter in this discourse : i will now come to shew by what vexatious troubles , the condemned defendant , hath for ten years molested the greatly suffering plantiff , by which he hath been put to so much cost , ( besides molestation , ) that he had better have been himself condemned in as much more money , and clearly lost his debt , then recovered against the defendant that judgement , of 1297l . 13s . 4d . for to avoid payment thereof , the defendant portington hath not only himself endeavoured , but combined with others , to bring dawson to ruine , and hath effected it , so far as tedious law-suits , and imprisonments could do the same , to the expence and dammage of him the forenamed plantiff , more than 8000l . which he can make appear ; and this by such monstrous courses of villany , as can scarce be believed , but that the plantiff can by many records make out the same . his first vexatious dog-trick was , when that invention of salters-hall was hatched , for the relief ( as was pretended ) of creditors and debtors : to these commissioners portington addressed himself by petition , which was granted , and dawson summoned thereupon , to have the case heard by them , who instead of relieving the creditor , ordered only a rehearng of the cause before themselves , to which order ( patience perforce ) dawson submitted ; but the event proved neither relief to creditor , or debtor ; for that court after hearing the cause , and with mature deliberation weighing the merits thereof on both sides , dismist portingtons petition , which cooled his hopes and expectation of relief ; and for the creditor dawson , all his relief was , that after the expence of 200l . in that second hearing and tryal , ( several of his witnesses living 200 miles from london , besides other ways of great charge and cost ) he had only his former judgement confirmed , and yet as far from his mony as before . this dog-trick failing , portington was soon provided with another , which was , to petition the usurper oliver for relief against so due a debt doubly now confirmed by two tryals ; in which petition ( being on record , and the copy of it in dawsons hands , to be shewed any that desire satisfaction therein , ) portington ( to his praise be it spoken ) who would by all means be thought a cordial royalist , did basely , and perfidiously acknowledge the supreme legislative power to be in that bloody rebel ; betraying both his conscience , and the cause he pretended to maintain , with design only to cheat his creditor dawson of a just debt , so injuriously detained . the usurper , in answer to his petition , ordered several references : in attendance upon which , the creditor was put to a new charge of 100l . or thereabout , the prisoner finding as little relief , as he before had at salters-hall ( that is none at all ) not do i believe he ever expected relief from either , only used these delatory means , if not to defraud , at least to retard his creditor from getting , what by law he had recovered ; and by multiplying expensive proceedings ( although illegal ) to weary him out , and tire his patience , seeing more monies dayly thrown away after the former , of which he could now have but little hopes , to receive either principal , interest , or costs of suit. yet for all these disappointments , he is not weary ; but since his majesties happy restauration , presented his petition against dawson in the upper house of parliament , where the lords after several hearings , thought no relief fit to be granted in the case , wherein the law had no lesse than twice had its full , and due course ; however , his restlesse spirit hath lately prompted to him another poor shift , and that is , to bring an audita querela , in which he pretends an acquittance by the act of indempnity , although he hath been a prisoner in execution ( therefore ) now above ten years since he was first charged therewith . howbeit , although i call him a prisoner , yet ( thanks to good sir john lenthall ) he is one at large ▪ this gentleman when great rogues come to be cannonized , shall passe for a pretious saint , the rules of whose prison , where he meets with one like himself , that makes no more conscience of giving , than he of taking a bribe , reach as far as constantinople , some say to the east-india's , by which means , those who can dispense with their consciences , va●ue the execution of the law not a rush ; as particularly appears in portington , who being suffered ( though in execution ) to live at home , and sometimes for nigh three years together , not to come so much as to town , hath taken up a resolution , never to pay his credit or dawson a groat , yet boasts , that he can , and will have his liberty in spight of him , although the hopes of dawson are , that this parliament will take such effectual course against these kind of tricks , as may truly relieve the oppressed , and curb the insolencies o● unconscionable men . and so at present i shall leave my first customer of this kind , and proceed to new , and more prodigious villanies , acted by others , but countenanced and fomented by this portington , who to secure himself in his unjust proceedings , hath not been backward , in the most hellish designs to act his part , to the shame of those who have abetted him , and his associates , who were men of rank and repute . in the year of our lord 1656. novemb. 11. dawson being then in norfolk , had occasion to make use of three hundred pounds for the manageing of his trade , which he offered to repay in london by exchange nine days after ; which sum , one phillip read , an attorney in the court of the kings bench , undertook to furnish him with all , in two dayes time , provided dawson would give him a warrant to an attorney to confesse a judgement to him for five hundred pounds , ( with a defeasance , for nine dayes ) for his better security of the payment of the said 300l . which dawson consented to , signed and sealed a warrant , and read also signed and sealed the foresaid defeasance annexed thereto , which being delivered mutually by both parties ; dawson came at the time appointed , ( viz. ) two dayes after , to receive the 300l . according to agreement , but could have no more paid him then 158l . which was repayed by dawson to read , and his appointment in london by the time limited and allowed in the defeasance , ( yea in truth two dayes before ) with 15 pounds more , which was lent by him to read , to be repaid upon demand ; upon which payment dawson called for his warrant of attorney , which read at that time put off with this excuse , that he had forgot , and left it at his house in the country , promising the delivery of it as soon as he returned to norfolk ; but not performing his word , dawson made several times other demands of the said warrant , but had for answer , it was lost : yet before several persons of repute and credit , read acknowledged himself fully satisfied by dawson , and nothing to remain due to him from the same . however , sept. 12 , 1657. read having privately , without the least knowledge or suspition of dawson , entred that judgement , took out execution upon it , against the goods of dawson , and by virtue thereof did levy in the county of norfolk to the value of 700l . and after sent one thomas hide into huntingtonshire , who by his order , without writ of execution , or any other authority but his direction , took away 47 fat bullocks , worth 200l . and sold them ; nor content with this , he in the same year and month , in the county of norfolk , at a place called wallpool in marshland , did by colour of the said execution , seize of the proper goods of the said dawson , viz. hay ( in stacks and reecks ) to the value of 500l . which though he had no power to condemn and dispose of , yet he detained by colour of his own execution , till he could , and did procure one robert dun by a pretended execution to levy the same , and sell it . upon which illegal abuse , dawson made complaint to the then judges of the kings bench , ( in those dayes called the upper bench ) by whose order , read was committed prisoner in the custody of sir john lenthall ; but by favour of some of his fraternity , forthwith had his liberty , which he imployed so well , that before the end of the same term , he procured one disney to commit wilful perjury , with intent to overthrow dawson in his most just cause , he when read first moved to him that he should make such an oath , replyed , master i know no such thing , who then swore by his maker , that unlesse he would make that oath , as he directed him , he was utterly undone ; so partly by importunity , partly by promises , he procured the said disney desperately to swear against his own knowledge , ; whereupon dawson endicted disney for this perjury , and this master for subornation thereto , since which disney's conscience accusing him , he hath confest to several persons of worth and repute , that his master read would never permit him to be at rest , till he had perswaded him , to make oath of such things , of which he had not the least knowledge . for which cause in easter term 1658. dawson filed a declaration in the kings bench against read , ( who did , and still doth practise there as an attorney ) upon the case , in a special action , which the first of july he brought to a tryal , and recovered 700l . dammage , besides costs of suit , 18l . for which the following michaelmas term he had judgement , and execution granted thereupon , against the person of read , which writ being delivered to the sheriff of norfolk ; the businesse was so jugled between them , that although read was often in the sheriffs company , yet he was not taken in execution , nor would the sheriff at the instance of dawson return the writ , for several terms , and at last returned a non est inventus thereupon , when read during the time of detaining this writ , without execution or return , had embroyled dawson in a tedious and chargeable chancery suit , which because of its exemplary injustice , and corruption , discovered in the manageing thereof , shall be particularly here set down . not long after , dawson had got against read this judgement , and execution ; the defendant sues for relief in chancery , and serves dawson with a subpaena to that purpose , and proceeds the vacation following to examine witnesses , and by favour with the master of the rolls ( william lenthall ) procures the cause to be forthwith set down for a hearing in easter term ( suddenly then following ) 1659. which term being adjourned , the cause was again set down for hearing at the rolls , the 9th . of june following , where as soon as it was opened by reads counsel , lenthall ( the consciencious master of the rolls ) called for dawson , and in seeming familiar friendship told him , he would make a bargain with him , ( viz. ) that read should within two dayes pay him four hundred pounds , and the differences between them made up , and fully ended thereupon , to whom dawson replyed , his debt was 718l . in recovery of which it had cost him no lesse then 500l . when lenthall saw that this bait would not allure dawson to bite at it , who had sufficient former experience of his corrupt basenesse , and dissembling villany , ( as before the close of this discourse shall be discovered in another case , ) he then demanded of reads counsel , if they could produce any presidents , where relief in equity , had been granted , in the like case after recovery , judgement , and writ for execution , who replyed , there were several presidents , upon which answer , lenthall put off the hearing till the 18th . following , of the same month , against which time he willed them to have those presidents in readinesse , and then he would determine the cause ; but in the mean time tyed up dawson not to take read in execution : the appointed day for hearing being come , upon reading the first president , lenthall told them plainly , it made not at all for , but against them ; but he had since the last hearing , considered of the cause on his pillow , and so forthwith , without farther hearing counsel on either side , ordered them to go to a new tryal at law , after which he would reserve the equity to himself ; but in the mean time read should not be taken in execution , with which orders dawson being much agrieved , petitioned the then lords commissioners of the great seal ( as they were called ) complaining of the great injustice he suffred thereby ; in answer to which petition , they granted him a rehearing before them , upon which , counsel having spoken on both sides , they dismist reads bill , and discharged the several orders made by the master of the rolls , with costs to be taxt by a master of chancery , which were accordingly taxed at an hundred marks ; whereupon sir john lenthall ( one of the rebel olivers mock knights ) son to the master of the rolls , being at that time a member of that thing , then called a parliament , seeing read thus left to the law , ( notwithstanding his honest fathers devices to obstruct the same ) gives him his protection during the sitting of that convention . read finding himself thus countenanced , by the master of the rolls and his son , ( for which as himself confesseth , it cost him three hundred pounds thinks he is now armed capape , for any villany , and having a prodigiously villanous wit , goes thorow stitch to the purpose , and thus performs it . first he perswades and prevails with one robert dun , that he might make use of his name , ( at his own charge and costs ) to confesse , and enter a judgement against dawson , for the sum of 350l . upon which grant . read as representing the person , and taking upon him the name of richard dawson , forged the foresaid warrant of attorney , subscribes and seals it , as if himself had been the person of dawson , and then delivers it to the use of robert dun , having witnesses in readinesse , ( who upon examination affirm that they knew neither the persons of read or dawson ) to subscribe to the delivery thereof as the act and deed of dawson . upon which warrant so given by himself , he procured a judgement to be entred , and execution taken out , and levyed on the goods of dawson in the county of norfolk , where by a combination between him and the sheriff , with his under officers , ( who knew very well the judgement to be grounded upon a forged warrant of attorney before the execution of the writ , ) 1000l . worth of goods were seized and sold , yet valued but at 150l . which goods so under valued , were bought by one john prat , whom read procured to buy them upon a joynt account , between them both . which 1000l . being thus swallowed up between these two devourers , and the execution still unsatisfied more than one half ; in the next place , read sues forth a commission of bankruptship against dawson , in the name of dun , for the unconscionable remainder of the pretended execution ; to sit upon which , he pickt up commissioners of his own confederates , who in a very short time after the commission came to their hands , declared dawson a bankrupt , and discharged read from payment of any monyes to him , no other pretence of debt , being brought before these commissioners to prove this statute against dawson , but only the forged warrant for judgement , as is before at large recited , and testified by those very witnesses who were present at the sealing and delivering that warrant of attorney , who deposed that read ( whom then they had no personal knowledge of ) subscribed , sealed , and delivered it , in the name and counterfeiting the person of dawson . things being thus corruptly and unjustly carryed , dawson to prevent ( if possible ) the ruine , which he saw inevitably hanging over the heads of himself and family , unlesse such villanies were redressed , in michaelmas term 1659. made his complaint before the judges of the kings bench , of the fore-recited horrible forgery of read in his name , as also of false witnesses , which were suborned by him , and in readinesse to swear that dawson was the very person , who signed and sealed the warrant of attorney , to the use of dun ; upon which complaint the court , referred , the matter of fact in the case to the examination of mr. herne secondary of the same court , who upon examination of dun , and several other witnesses , found that no monyes were due from dawson to him ; but on the contrary , dun was indebted to dawson in the sum of 400l . due upon bond , who had a general release from him under hand and seal , before the forging that warrant of attorney , ( by read , in his name ) nor did ever dawson deal with him since , as he hath confessed in the hearing of several persons ; to make which more evident , dawson hath now from dun a judgement upon record , acknowledged by himself , for that same debt of 400l . then due when this forgery was committed , dun having moreover confessed on his oath , that read to acquit himself of the judgement for 718l . and 100 marks costs , did sollicite him to consent to , and own this forgery , and suing forth the statute of bankruptship against dawson thereupon . mr , herne having carefully sifted the whole truth of the case , made thereof a just report to the court , who thereupon ordered a tryal at law , and the rule was , that this tryal should be ( according to the election of dawson ) at the next assizes in norfolk , or suffolk , upon a feigned action , whether the warrant of attorney were the act and deed of dawson or no , which if upon tryal , the jurors should find in the affirmative , then the monyes in the sheriffs hand ( made of the goods levied in execution ) to be delivered to dun , but if they should find in the negative , then the judgement to be vacated , and the moneys restored to dawson ; dawson upon this order moved , that the tryal might be either in london or middlesex , where the forgery was committed , because at so great distance , knights of the post might stand for substantial witnesses . yet in this he was overborne by the court , and the tryal ordered in one of those two counties , who because he could have it no better , chose of two evils the least , and had his tryal at bury st. edmonds , at the assizes holden sept. 10. 1660. for the county of suffolk . read making cock-sure of the tryal to goe on his side , being at such a distance , carries down the record , and with it witnesses that knew how to swear home ; dawson also knowing the justice of his cause , fearing the other should neglect it , ( though defendant ) he also carried the record with him , to tryal , in case read , and dun should not ; so two juryes were impannelled , one on the plaintiffes , another on the defendants score ; and although dawson might have just cause to fear the packing of a jury , on the behalf of read and dun , whom his former experience had taught him , to be notoriously villanous , yet trusting to the righteousnesse of his cause , rather than contend , was content to lose the benefit of his own record , and proceed to tryal by their jury . who being sworn upon the case between dun and dawson , read who was at the charge of that tryal , and carrying the witnesses out of london , as hath been since confessed upon oath , by the plaintiff dun , and several other witnesses , and may be concluded by this undenyable circumstance , that read gave ten thousand pound security , to the warden of the fleet , to whom dun was then a prisoner , to have him personally present at the tryal to own the same , yet this read appears as one witness in the behalf of dun , and swore that warrant of attorney was a true warrant , and signed and sealed by dawson to dun , for 220l . which dawson owed him , although in truth read did himself forge , sign , and seal that warrant , as hath been already said , and also made appear by oath upon record . having thus led the dance , he next produceth another witness like himself , to confirm his testimony , who went by the name of william holmes ( which name also , was so subscribed to the warrant of attorney ) but that person being dead , this counterfeit swears positively , that he was the same william holmes , who subscribed his hand to that warrant of attorney , which he upon oath said , was signed , sealed , and delivered by that same richard dawson , who was then defendant in that cause ; but it was discovered in court , that this pretended william holmes , was indeed isaack harding a scrivener , now , and for thirty years last past dwelling in swan-alley near holborn-bridge , and was hired by read for the sum of 45s . paid him in hand by his appointment , besides what was promised him afterward , to make that desperate oath , which he knew to be false in every circumstance of it . now how god was pleased to discover the falshood and perjury of these villains , whose feared consciences durst attest his divine majesty so solemnly , yet so falsely , it will not be amiss to declare briefly . in the time of the hatching , and prosecuting the afore-mentioned villany against dawson , one thomas gunning , was by robert dun perswaded to goe to a certain person , unknown ( but only to the procurers and abbetters of the intended cheat ) to make demand of 220l . of him ( as if he had been richard dawson ) which sum he was to pay unto him upon defeasance of a warrant of attorney , to confesse a judgement for 350l . which dun told gunning , richard dawson had signed and sealed , and that party to whom he sent him , was the same person ; gunning ( at that time not knowing dawson ) made demand accordingly ; that counterfeit person owning the name of richard dawson , promised payment of the sum demanded in a weeks time ; of which demand , and an answer thereto returned , by the supposed richard dawson , gunning ( being perswaded by dun ) made affidavit : the true dawson hearing this news , so strange to him , testified upon oath , was alarum'd thereby to look about , and being authorized by an order , to bring in this deponent gunning , to see if he would make good his deposition the whole plot was in part discovered , for seeing the true richard dawson in presence , he not only upon his oath denied him to be the same , of whom he made the aforesaid demand of 220l . ( who then professed himself to be the same party ) but also deposed , that dun in the name of read , had offered him 40l . to swear that warrant of atorney to be the act and deed of dawson , and bringing him to read's chamber in davids-inne , there read himself proffered him ( in case he would so make oath ) to maintain him at his country-house , furnish him with a good horse , and give him forty pounds in money , as is at large declared in the deposition of thomas gunning , before the right honourable justice mallet , taken july 27. 1660. this first light in short time ( with gods blessing ) discovered the whole design ; for afterward , richard ramsey one of the witnesses to that warrant of attorney , being subpaena'd by read , four dayes before the tryal at bury assizes , at his chamber in davids-inne , to be witness in the case between dun and dawson , there read proffer'd him five pound in hand , to swear that the defendant dawson did sign , seal , and deliver that warrant of attorney , to the use of dun , he when he came in court ingeniously related the truth , viz. that he was present at signing , and sealing that warrant of attorney , and subscribed his mark as a witness thereto , but then knew not either dun or dawson , but since knowing both , he on his oath affirmed , dawson not to be present at that time , but read was the very person who signed , sealed , and delivered it in the name of dawson ; he also upon oath declared the proffer of five pound in hand , made him by read , in case he would swear as was before related ; also , that then , and several other times , he saw read give dun money to prosecute the said suit of forgery , and that jacob wrag , clerk to read , told him after the tryal , that had not he been at bury assizes , his master read and dun , had overthrown dawson , by the evidence of isaac harding , who there swore by the name of william holmes . which william holmes being then dead , on his death bed did declare , that he was sollicited , but was not witness to the warrant of attorney against dawson , to dun , yet his name was subscribed , his person and hand counterfeited ; and though at the tryal he were dead , yet harding , who as a scrivener had attested several leases , and deeds , ( for above thirty years space ) by the name of isaac harding , for the sum of forty five shillings , paid in hand , ( besides what was afterward promised ) he desperately swore what he knew to be false , under the counterfeit name of william holmes , whose name and hand , was at first only forged , as before was said . thus it pleased god to defeat the devices of these two malicious desperate villains , and to discover their forgeries , so that the old perjured wretch , that swore by a disguised name , got nothing by his counterfeiting , and forswearing himself , not those who employed him , but a bare detection of their villany , to the confusion of themselves , and the amazement of the hearers . dawson having this ground to work upon , proceeds to the examination of dun whose conscience beginning to relent , had compelled him to acknowledge what he had acted against him , to several of his acquaintance ; which he hearing of , procured his examination before the right honourable lord chief justice foster , nov. 26 , 1660. who there upon oath confessed , that the warrant for judgement to an atturney , and commission for bankruptship , sued forth thereupon , were both carried on in his name , by the instant importunity of read , and at his costs and charge , with design only to defraud dawson of the 718l . judgement recovered by him against read and the costs taxed in chancery upon the dismission of his bill , by the lords commissioners , and that he did verily believe , the commissioners , who sat upon the statute taken out in his name , did declare dawson a bankrupt , under their hands and seals , only at the request , and importunate desire of read. he also confirmed upon his oath , reads suborning isaack harding , to swear at bury assizes , under the false borrowed name of william holmes , that he saw the warrant of attorney , which was made to dun , for 350l . signed , and sealed , by that very dawson who appeared defendant in that case in the court , for which oath so to be made , read gave him forty five shillings in hand ; likewise , that by the confession of read , as well as the information of divers credible persons , he was assured , that read was often in company with the under-sheriffe of norfolk , during that very time , he had a writ of execution against him , ( at the suit of dawson ) for a judgement of 718l . recovered by law . and lastly , that one jacob wrag ( servant to read ) came to him ( the deponent ) in his masters name , to desire him not to discover any of these things before mentioned , and for so doing , he would be careful for him , and not suffer him to want . thus , at length was made a compleat discovery of all the windings and turnings of these serpentine monsters in villany , one of them , in whose name , and by whose industry ( in great measure ) things were thus corruply ( or rather hellishly ) carried , upon his oath discovering himself , and accusing , and so branding his wicked partner , with a black note of infamy , not to be wiped off by all the cunning he , or his accursed tutor in these forgeries , perjuries , and subornation to perjury , can find out , or invent . to god the true author of this discovery , be ascribed the sole praise , and glory thereof . the several chief heads of the testimonies of these three deponents , i thought fit here to set down with what perspicuity and brevity i could , ( not swerving in the least from the true intent and meaning of the affidavits themselves ) which are at large upon record , taken before honourable persons , as was before touched in each of them ; the name of the right honourable the judge , before whom taken , being particulary remembred , in giving their testimonies in brief , for the readers fuller satisfaction , and further confirmation . to which i might adde many more of the like kind , thirty several at least , but that i here account needlesse , since in the mouth of two or three witnesses , each thing in controversy , is , and ought to be confirmed , and here we have not only witnesses , but ( ipsos fatentes reos ) the persons concerned in the forgery , ( either ignorantly or knowingly , drawn in thereto , ) upon oath confessing against both themselves , and one another , which is a testimony as firm as can be desired or expected . i shall now speak a little more particularly to the statute of bankruptship , sued forth by read in the name of dun against dawson , and firmed by commissioners pickt , and packt for the same purpose , only to discharge read from paying any monies to dawson , whose just debt , upon a legal recovery was upward of 800l . for taking forth , and granting , or affirming the same , dawson brought his action against read , and those commissioners , his confederates ; and upon tryal in jan. 1660. recovered against them 500l . notwithstanding which , upon an affidavit of reads , read openly in the court , at the kings bench bar , a motion was made to have a second hearing , which was had by the consent of both plantiff and defendants the hillary term following ; where read ( according to his old wont ) procured in readinesse four several witnesses , to swear dawson a real bankrupt , ( viz. ) thomas wigge , one of honest sir john lenthalls engineers , a villain so notorious in that kind , that if in any case , ( where he is well paid ) his evidence come short , ( that is ) be not sworn home enough , blame the lawyer that gave him not better and larger instructions , and not him , who wants only to be informed , what manner of oath will serve turn ; then as for performance , let him alone for one . the second jacob wragge , servant to read , one who had learned so much of his masters qualities , that no wise man can trust his word , or believe his oath ; the third robert coghill , a neighbour to read , who by this hopeful beginning , gives great assurance , what a compleat knight of the post he may prove in time , if he continue the acquaintance , and follow the direction of read ; the last , thomas adamson formerly a clerk to read , who it seems still wants his help at a dead lift , ( knowing his abilities ) though at present he hath left his service : these four , being pre-instructed , could ( if occasion had required ) have sworn any man of dealing , in england a bankrupt ; for to give them their due , in their depositions , there wanted nothing but truth , malice enough , and formality sufficient , with a home shot to reach the mark aimed at by read , their tutor , who put cruel words of falsehood into their mouths , and told them what manner of oaths would serve his turn , and they accordingly swore as dangerously , desperately , and resolutely against the credit and reputation of their innocent neighbour , whom some of them knew not , others very little ; all of them , knew certainly that what they swore against him , was absolutely false , and so god by his providence hath plainly since discover'd it to be , to the great shame of those poor perjured wretches ; but most especially of that monster , who suborned them to doe it , as he had done others often before . for which wilful perjury ( palpably now detected ) these four abovenamed , stand indicted at the old bayly in london , by dawson , who doubts not , but to have them brought to condigne , and exemplary punishment . thus have i in brief decyphred out to you , a great monster in villany , as in a landskip , given you a large volume of roguery contracted into an epitome , a short narrative of what to his cost and trouble , dawson ( who hath still been the sufferer hitherto ) hath felt for these many years , to the ruine almost of his wife , children , and family , and whose case or lot may it not be next ? nay who can escape for future ? if such villanies be countenanced , as they will be if not prohibited , and severely punished to the terror of others ? it is reported of a bravoe , that he would vauntingly boast , how he had at his beck ready an hundred to swear for him , an hundred to fight for him , and an hundred more to supply him with money . the thing , ( though ▪ i cannot affirm the number ) is most true of this read ; who as for swearers , hath made his boasts , that he is so provided with a stock of them , as never to fail in any case , and that his manner of dealing with such knights of the post , is suitable to that of the dutch before a sea-fight , with their marriners , viz. to give them 20 or 30 glasses of sack , just before they come upon their oaths , then ( quoth he ) they are fit to serve my turn , and swear resolutely , bravely , and boldly , without making the least scruple of any thing that is told them makes absolutely for the good of the cause depending , to have it sworn either thus , or otherwise . and for fighting ( or rather maintaining his quarrel , ) 't would make a man blesse himself to see prodigious villains so favoured , before one that mannageth a cause as just as justice it self , ( having been so often determined just , by the reiterated sentences of common-law , commissioners for equity ; &c. ) how did the honest master of the rolls ( speaker to the reforming rump ) endeavour to entrap dawson in favour of read ? how was read with great charge , brought into a prison , where he deserved to lye till death , yet ( presto be gone sir ) discharged forthwith ? and dawson brought in upon a large scroll of fob'd actions , to keep the other , and such as he procured to commit perjury wilfully and maliciously , from condigne punishment ? how ready was the sheriff of norfolk to execute a writ upon a forged warrant for judgement , against dawson , and yet knew it to be so , ( using this expression , he would execute 1000 the like , if they were brought to him , and goods of dawsons to be found in his balywick ; ) yet how loth , nay absolutely unwilling to execute a true writ , upon a judgement , justly recovered , in court , ( after the discovery of a pack of roguery ) against read ; though oft in his company , nor would be perswaded to make return of the same , till reads cockatrise eggs of villany were hatched ? how have the gaolers , and their fetting dogs , complyed with this perjured monster and his confederates , to ruine one in defence of the other ? portington a condemned debtor to dawson , and prisoner to sir john lenthall in execution , having liberty to choose whether he would live in restraint or no ; and read cast into prison , for perjury , and subornation thereto , forgery , personating other men , and taking upon him their names , not without great cost and charge to the plaintiff , yet he in short time , let out , upon inconsiderable bayl , though dawson wrongfully imprisoned upon feigned , false actions , maliciously brought against him , to hinder his prosecuting these so abominable villains , hath not liberty to remain in one prison ; but is tost ( like a curr in a blanket ) from gaol to gaol , to a vast expence of monyes , nor without danger to his person , being this present term , removed from the fleet ( where he was so happy , as to be free from grosse incivilities , ) to the kings bench , where the keeper sir john lenthall , for a base bribe , hath injustly ( yet much like himself , and his brother , the quondam ravenous master of the rolls ) suffered portington , a prisoner in execution , at his suit , to have free liberty , these many years , to the defrauding his greatly oppressed creditor , and his extraordinary dammage ; and is now become a deadly enemy to dawson , because he sues him for an escape . i might be large here , but that i study and must affect brevity ; in a word then to close this sad discourse concerning this bad subject , i wish only that the effect and tendency of such practises would be seriously weighed , which is no other than the total subversion of all our laws , and destruction of civil policy ; for if all that is recovered by legal processe , may be so evaded , and detained from the plantiff , and costs multiplyed by vexatious after hearings , his estate pluckt away violently , by forged judgements , and these proved true and real by wilfull perjury , till the party thus wronged hath not monyes left him to prosecute such injuries , or to make a motion in court , yet when this is discovered , and openly made to appear , the parties doing the wrong , be not curbed , and discountenanced , what hopes can an honest man have for future in a just and righteous cause , well then may we cry out with the philosopher , fiat justitia , aut ruet coelum . willingly could i now throw aside my pen , but that more injuries compel me to a farther complaint : from relating the villanies of an attorney ; i would next proceed to match him with a pair of as great villains as himself , in his own profession , viz. a sollicitor and a counsellor , which three , if the devi● had a cause to be prosecuted , he could not be better fitted with a leash of lawyers . but before i come to a survey of their villanous actings , i shall relate a short particular case , which for ought i know hath no relation to any of the rest , but was carried on by the conscientious master of the rolles , and a kinsman of his ( as very an honest man as himself ) to the dammage of dawson at the least 2000l . about the year 1649. dawson commenced a suit with mathew binkes a grasier , for a great summe of money , which he injuriously detained from him , and by law recovered 805l . and had judgment entered for the same , binkes brings his bill for relief in chancery , whereupon after a tedious suit , and great expences ( the commissioners for examination of witnesses , sitting above a hundred and eighty miles from london , ) at last the cause came to hearing , before the honest speaker william lenthal , at the rolls , who perswaded dawson to referre the matter to a person whom he should name , promising to name an honest indifferent man , a stranger to both their persons , and the cause ; but scorning to be as good as his word , nominated a kinsman of his own , by name john nabbs , whose son was sollicitor in that cause against dawson for binks , and pleaded it before his father so effectually , that nabbs gave away the judgment of 805l . from dawson , and moreover , ordered him to pay 44l . 4s . 6d . costs to binks , a strange order , which could not be expected otherwise , considering how it was brought forth , for neither dawson , or any friend of his for him , was present or heard , but only binks and such who spake on his side , the chief of whom was nabbs son , a sollicitor retained by binks . nor was the judgment only given away , but dawson ordered to acknowledge satisfaction for the same upon record , which he refusing , appealed to the then lords commissioners , lisle , &c. who without proofs or allegations , ordered dawson to be committed prisoner to the fleet , until he submitted to perform the order of nabbs , whom the master of the rolls had impowered to hear , and finally determine that cause without appeal . nabbs understanding that dawson questioned his decretal order , in a most unjust revenge , further ordered 180l . more to be paid to binks for costs , which payment dawson refusing , a serjeant at armes was commanded to seize and imprison him , till he did acknowledge satisfaction on the judgment for 805l . pay the first 44l . 4s . 6d . and the other 180l . awarded for costs , and give a general release , never more to question binks . now the injustice of nabbs decree may easily be evinced , for that the master of the rolls , before dawson consented to the reference , proffer'd to give him by decree , 380l . ( taking the rule of those consciencious jurors , who at a venture hang half , and save half , ) which dawson refusing as unjust , and too much damnifying him , at last consented to a reference , where such a referre was appointed by lenthal , who gave not only the judgement away wholly , but above 200l . more , for imaginary costs , refusing to hear any testimony on dawsons side , but perremptorily binding him up to his determination , upon pain of imprisonment , to avoid which , dawson was a long time hunted from county to county , by the officers of the fleet , and at last finding such a fugitive life , to tend to his absolute ruine , he was enforced to submit to this monstrous piece of injustice , not seeing then any hopes of remedy . lenthal being a man so powerful , and nabbs supported by him , that not to yield to them then , signified nothing else but present ruine , they being able to crush at their pleasure whom they listed . he that knows the manner of dealing of the master of the rolls , may give a shrewd guesse at what it cost binkes to purchase this piece of injustice , who thriv'd so well upon it , that he who then was visibly responsible for such a debt trebled , is now as far from being master of a tithe of such a summe , as he was then from honesty ; from whence may be concluded undeniably , that at the long runne , honest dealing will prove the best policy . and now i am at leisure to take notice of , and lay open the injuries wherewith i have been , and still am oppressed , by the procurement of two lawyers , a counsellour , and a sollicitor , brothers in profession , name , and villainy , francis lutterel , and edward lutterel , who both write themselves of grayes-inne , but their practises have been so basely foul , and grossely corrupt , as may justly be the shame of all the innes of court , which i hope will shortly spue out such , ( i will not say villains , because they are lawyers ) but who are the scorn and shame of the long robe . edward lutterel , who prectiseth as a sollicitor , was in that capacity emp●oyed by dawson for several years , who was indeed the chief means o● his sustenance for that time , he having not bread for either himself or children , but what was bought with the money wherewith dawson relieved him , who thought he had so engaged him by many kindnesses ▪ that he might boldly commit his very life into his hands , as he unadvisedly be-trusted him with his means of live●yhood , almost to his utter undoing , as shall be particularly related with as much brevity as i can . he as i said being employed by dawson as a sollicitor , was acquainted with the forgery , and unjust devices of read and dun , in tended for the ruine of dawson , who , as soon as by his industry , and gods blessing thereon , he could get together 500 , or 1000l . worth of goods , would immediately with executions taken out upon forged warrants sweep all away . dawson at that time having in the county of norfolk at walpool , hay ●o the value of about 1200l . being at least six hundred load , which at that time might have been sold in the place for forty shillings the load , or thereabout , and a short time of some months interest in the land on which it grew , and then stood made up in stacks , in which time the grass upon the land , was ( for feeding cattle ) worth at least threescore pound or upwards . edward luttrel perswaded dawson for avoiding the malicious mischief intended against him by read and dun , to sell and make over those goods and leases to him , out of which he would discharge 402l . 10s . 2d . which dawson was ingaged to several persons for , and bring him into his purse 500l . more , and himself defray all incident charges . dawson confiding in the honesty of edward luttrel , consents hereto , and gives him a scedule particularly mentioning all his debts , to whom due , and when payable , ; summed up in the total , as was above exprest , in consideration of the payment of which , and the sum of 500l . over and besides to be paid to dawson by luttrel , he consents to the making of an indenture of sale , which was accordingly made by his brother francis luttrel the counsellor , with the scedule of dawsons debts annexed to the deed , which edward luttrel upon receipt of this deed , undertook to discharge , and for ever to acquit dawson from , and every part of them , then and there assuming , and faithfully engaging his promise to pay to dawson 500l . over and above the debts ; this deed was made july 25. 1659. as by it and the scedule doth more at large appear . edward having gotten this estate in his hands , began to slight dawson , bidding him pay his debts himself , nor did he either satisfie them as he had ingaged , nor pay to dawson one penny , according to his assumption , and faithful promise . dawson being thus deluded , and unworthily dealt with , addresseth himself to the counsellor ( francis luttrel ) who had promised , and undertaken to him , that his brother edward should fully perform and make good his promise , or he in default of him would himself make it good , but he was so far from performing what he promised , that he threatned dawson , that in case he sued or molested him upon the score of his promise , he would grind him to powder : his brother edward boasting , that before he should pay to dawson , or for him , one groat , the counsellor his brother would furnish him with a 1000l . to spend in law. from which time both the luttrels , have most maliciously combined with read , the old implacable enemy of dawson , aud other of his associated confederates , to avoid whom was the first pretence used , and urged by edward luttrel , to induce and perswade dawson to make over the estate unto him . which by his own words and confession , as is testified upon oath by one of his acquaintance , was worth more than 1000l . and made over to him upon that consideration , that he should first of all pay debts , to which he agreed , and promised the same , but said he would neither do it , nor give dawson an account of his estate , of which intention , being demanded the reason , gave this , that he had got into his hands the whole by which dawson intended , or was able to pay his debts , or live upon , and therefore was resolved if he would keep himself but honest , he would keep him poor enough ; which word of his he hath kept to his ability , for when ever dawson brought his action against one or both of them , at common law , they would sue for relief in chancery , as namely that the goods were but only made over to edward in trust , for the use of richard , and so that condition of payment of debts , &c. to be only pro formâ , and not intended to be interpreted to the prejudice of edward ; upon which and the like false suggestions , dawson was tied up by injunction and orders not to proceed at common law , till the cause were heard in the court of chancery , where when dawson preferred his cross-bill of complaint , expecting to have the merits of his cause heard by the right honourable the lord chancellor ; in stead of answer , he had an old outlawry , long before reversed , and superseded , pleaded in bar to his complaint , to disprove which , cost the said richard much money , besides great trouble and delay of time ; to adde to whose incumbrance , and if possible to make him for ever uncapable to prosecute those oppressing betrayers of his peace , edward hath caused to be sued against him most of those debts which he had engaged to discharge and pay , yet keeps his estate without satisfaction therefore , or account thereof given to dawson , pretending it was formally made over to him only in trust , which trust he hath made good with a vengance ; but in truth the goods were absolutely sold ▪ and the deed of bargain and sale delivered to him ( bonâ fide ) upon which he received them , took them into his possession , sold as much of them as according to his own words would serve his turn , and then complied with read to seize the rest ( as dawsons goods ) which he upon absolute sale , aud delivery , had enjoyed and possessed for many months together , with the land which dawson made over to him , for the full time of his leases therein , without molestation of read , dun , or any other , and had them also six months in possession after the time was expired , which dawson made over to him by vertue of his leases . yea when dawson after the sale and delivery ( being with him in norfolk ) advised him to the selling of the hay , in which he had more insight then luttrell ; he bad him meddle with his own business , for he had nothing to do there with either the goods or ground , which were sold and made over to him ; and after that , when dawson perceived that he did not pay those debts , he desired of him , that he would either sell the goods , and make payment , or resign them to some other , who would give security , to indemnifie him , ( the said luttrell , ) as to his ingagement of paying debts ; but he replyed , the goods were his own , which he would neither resign , nor sell , but when he saw his own time . nor was he ashamed to boast , that he had met with such a bargain from dawson , that he would put 500l . into his own purse thereby , which it were strange if he could do any other way , than by cheating him of the whole , and that was the course he took , in which he was incouraged and supported by his brother . and suitable to the dealing of him , in this case of hay and leases of land , was another trick of knavery put upon richard by edward about the sale of a coach , which costing richard 40. l. he sold it to luttrell for 30l . by a deed of sale , which 30l . he the said richard ordred edward to pay 5l . to his brother francis luttrell , and 25l to richard norwich , which payments ( so ordred ) edward luttrell did assume and promise to make ; upon which only consideration , the bill of sale for the coach was by richard delivered to edward . francis luttrell who ordered the deed to be made , accepted of this payment from his brother edward , and did thereupon discharge dawson of the debt of five pounds , though since the coach is sold by edward , and the money for it received , and spent , francis makes new demand of the money from dawson , edward refusing to pay either his brother francis , or richard norwich , but when sued for this debt of thirty pounds by dawson , he first by levata querela , removed it into the mayors court , where by his bill , he pretended himself only a trustee for the coach , as before he was for the hay , though such trusts so discharged , will shortly bring him to be trusted by none . for these have been his continual subterfuges , first to pretend only a trust in dawsons goods , that he might have colour to sue for relief in chancery , and there in stead of making answer material to the cause depending , to plead old reversed outlawryes in bar , so that at once dawson is tied up from his legal course of proceeding ( by injunctions ) and debarred in chancery to prosecute those his bills , till he hath with great cost and trouble disproved the pretended outlawryes to be in force , of which luttrel hath made his brags to several of his companions , as is by some of them testified upon oath , and also upon record . nor is this all ▪ though it argue a mind as bad as bad may be , but by compliance with the clerks of chancery , this luttrel hath not seldome penned his own orders , which have been entred down according to his own words ( as can be proved against him undeniably ) upon which advantage it is not to be wondred at , that dawson is still the sufferer , when his enemies profell , are in effect the contrivers of their own orders , which no doubt ( having that liberty ) they pen with the greatest advantage for themselves ▪ to prove which charge real , the last order which was left for richard at the registers office , was every word thereof , the hand-writing of edward luttrel , which he hath in readinesse to shew , in case it be required of him . now how sad the case of dawson is , may be collected briefly , if we consider his present condition , and compare it with what he was formerly , one who dealt for at least 20000 l. per annum . rented in land ( for feeding of cattle , and for hay ) 900 l. annually , and by gods blessing upon his endeavours , had by his industry gotten such an estate , by which he and his family lived comfortably and plentifully , whose credit would have past without scruple for 3. or 4. thousand pounds : now to find him a prisoner , his estate pluckt away from him by knavery , injustice , perjury , and subornation thereto , forgery , and counterfeiting his name and person , by which means he is damnified at the least 8000 l. besides what by his industry in this time he might have got thereby , in his way of dealing , for want of which money ( although he hath made legal recovery of the greatest part of it ) he hath contracted some debts , which he is unable to satisfie , unless he might have his due from others , one of which debts due to him upon judgement ( if paid ) would discharge every real creditor that could justly make demand of moneys from him . but in stead of payment , these honest debtors to dawson , have all combined together in a mutual engagement never to discharge one farthing , yet are men of able estates , portington a man responsible , detaining 1297 l. 13 s. 4 d. for above 12. years , and putting dawson to at least 1000 l. charge first and last , in recovering and defending that judgement against him : in execution for which , although he hath been 10. years and upwards , one of sr. john lenthall● ( fast and loose ) prisoners , yet so he is resolved rather to dye , than to pay a farthing of this debt ; read also , against whom dawson hath recovered 718l . for his deceitful seizing his goods by vertue of a warrant of attorney ( which was satisfied ) and 500 l. against him , and other his confederates , for dammages sustained by a commission of bankruptship , sued out against dawson , upon a forged warrant to confesse a judgement , as hath at large been declared , yet he boasts that ( rather than pay a groat ) he will rot in prison , though he hath at command several thousand pounds to maintain him , which with his land he will so make over to feoffees in trust , that the plaintiff shall never get penny , not know how to find his estate : and although at another time he took away a thousand pounds worth of the goods of dawson , upon a forged judgment ; in disproveing of which , and discovering the forgery , perjury , and subornation to perjury , committed therein , it cost dawson several hundred pounds , and though the order of court were , that upon disproving that warrant to be real , the goods levied in execution should be returned to the owner of the same , yet he hath not yet received nor can get the least satisfaction therefore ; nor will the sheriff of norfolk make return of that writ of execution , upon which he took away the goods of dawson , and sold them almost two years since ; to which oppressions may be added the giving away a judgement of 805 l. recovered against binks , by nabbs , upon commission granted him by lenthal , then master of the rolles , to hear and determine that cause without appeal , which he determined without hearing dawson , or any witnesse , counsellor , or sollicitor in his behalf , giving away moreover , besides the debt , 200 l. and upwards for costs . and lastly edward luttrell upon pretence of securing dawson from the like future plots of read , and his complices , with promise ( as hath been related ) of paying dawsons real debts , and bringing an overplus into his purse , for the maintenance of him , his wife , and family , hath cheated him of all he had left , his brother and he now complying with read and portington not only to defraud , but to grind and squeeze dawson , and bring him to utter ruine , ( a bad requital of the many years kindnesses shewed by richard to edward , whom he kept from starving ) who now if it lay in his power would starve him and his . and that the falsehood and basenesse of these two brothers in iniquity may be made more evident , besides the ingratitude of edward , which according to the aphorism in ethicks ( ingratum si dixeris omnia dixisti ▪ ) includes all that can be spoken evil concerning any person ; it will not be amiss to hint in brief , the remarkable honesty of the counsellor francis , who being summoned by richard at the tryal between him and his brother edward , concerning the debt of thirty pounds , due upon sale of a coach , at which deed of sale , francis was present , and ordred the making thereof , and thereupon accepted 5 l. from his brother edward , which was due to him from dawson , yet he against his own conscience and knowledge , swore that the deed was there made fraudulently , for the defrauding of some creditors , which edward upon a former deed of sale ( of hay and leases of pasture ground ) made to him by richard , had a year before , undertaken to discharge , yet francis upon oath declared , that to evade those debts , the coach was only colourably made over to edward in trust , and no otherwise , to be redelivered upon demand at the pleasure of dawson ; at the time of making which oath , all of the long robe present in court , blessed themselves to hear him so swear , the judge telling him openly , that oath could not be true , or if it were , it would argue himself to be a very knave : not long after which tryal the coach was sold , and the mony shar'd , but not a penny paid either to dawson or his order . now what justice can be expected against such persons , that can , and dare so swear , let the world judge ▪ nor was this only a failing at that present in the counsellor francis , but according to the relation of his brother edward , to dawson ( in the hearing of several persons , ) francis the counsellor , made offer to him ( the said edward ) of 300 l. sterling , conditionally , that he should make oath against sir allein appesly , that he was one in sir george booths design , in those times to have brought both the life of that worthy person into danger , and confiseated his estate , which he in his conceit was just grasping , only wanted such a desperate swearer , fully to accomplish this intended villany ; from whom , and such as he is , god of his mercy deliver each honest man. for of late edward luttrell , hath gone from party to party , with whom dawson had formerly any dealing , to procure them to enter actions against him , and several with whom he never had to do , nor doth know the persons , have by his perswasion , and reads , brought against dawson great actions , upon which ( to the number of 30 and upwards amounting to the sum of about 1600 l. ) he is now deteined prisoner , of which there is not an hundred pounds due ; but some of the parties dead two years since , in whose names actions are now brought , others satisfied as long time agoe , nor know of the entring any such actions at their suit ; others never known to , or heard of by the defendant dawson , yet have actions against him , ( viz. ) 560 l. pretended to be due upon bond , unto william marriot and thomas bre●tford , of whom he never had knowledge , much lesse dealing with them . also 200 l. entred at the several suits of thomas osborne , and john bates , with whom likewise dawson never had dealing , besides other fob'd actions , too tedious to name particularly . the greater part of which were not charged upon dawson at his first imprisonment , although then the luttrels , read , and their confederates boasted , they had him fast for his life time . to accomplish which design ( to their power ) sir john lenthal ( with whom dawson never had to do , more than to sue him for the wilfull escape of portington , whereby he is damnified at least 1500 l. ) this last easter term , 1661. by habeas corpus , fetch'd him over to his prison , where he was loaded with fob'd actions , to hinder his prosecution of that escape of portington , and the several in●ictments of perjury , which are found against read , and such as were suborned by him , and his procurement , among whom one is an enginee● to , and servant of sir john lenthal , that keeps many such cattle , who it is to be feared , serve his turn in the like cases , oftner , than i hope will hereafter be suffered , or else woe to those whom he and others of such conscience design to ruine . from which prison with very great costs and charges ( which were encreased by the number of feigned actions ) dawson was compelled to remove himself back to the fleet , not accounting his person safe , in the kings bench prison , where the keeper is so great a confederate with his most malicious implacable adversaries . having thus , with as much brevity as i could , related my great grievances , under which i have long groaned , and for remedy whereof i have tryed many wayes ( for divers years ) both in law and equity ; but by reason of the corruption of former times , the power , and number of my adversaries , and mine own inability ( at length ) to prosecute them in a legal course , being reduced by these long oppressures , to great streights , and at present a prisoner , loaded with many malicious forged actions , to hinder my liberty , upon reasonable security such as my present conditition will afford me to procure . some of my creditors by the instigation of read , portington , and the luttrells , having prosecuted me to judgement , and charged me in execution thereupon , only to hinder my going abroad without charge of an habeas corpus , or day writ , which ( with the allowance for a keeper , chamber-rent and outgoing fees ) amounting to at least 10 or 12 s. each day , is so great a burthen , that while i am so confined , or have liberty at such rates , i can expect nothing but utter ruine to my self , and all that are neerly related , and dear unto me . wherefore all other hopes failing me , the last remedy , left me , is to fly unto the shelter of the most honourable , the lords and commons in parliament now assembled , to spread ( most humbly ) my cause before them , and with all possible submission to beg and implore their gracious help and assistance . my case right honourable lords , and worthy gentlemen , although private , is not of private concernment , nor bounded within private limits , for as read hath dealt by me , and mine , so hath he dealt by divers others , twenty families at least i could name , whom by the like a●ts he hath ruined and destroyed , and several fellow-prisoners i meet with daily , oppressed by the same courses of injustice , false oaths , counterfeit warrants for confessing judgments , false actions , under which they are detained , &c. by which wayes of unjust vexation , together with the excessive , unreasonable charges which ( through the corruption of times ) now accompany imprisonment , many are reduced to that extremity that they want for the conveniences of life , much more unable are they , by any means of addresse to seek for relief . my lords and gentlemen ; you are your selves the fathers of children , whom god long preserve and blesse ; howbeit none of you can promise to them a future immunity from the like miseries , unlesse this cockatrice-egge of corruption and injustice be crushed , which no foot , but such a foot of authority can do . these unjust vexatious , law suits , or rather law cheats , bringing sweet gain to very many , who though they will not openly defend , yet will connive at such practises , so lucriferous and beneficial to themselves , and their dependants . but considering there is legal profit sufficient , allowed to all honest ministers of justice , and what comes in this way , is squeezed out of the heart blood of his majesties most faithful subjects , thousands of whom have been ruined in their estates , credit , or both , by such illegal proceedings . my case also being so grossely and fouly exemplary , that it causeth amazement in all who hear it : i doubt not , but that your honours and wisdomes will think of a way of relief , as for all the like oppressures in general , so for your most humble supplicant in particular , that we may have cause ( from our hearts ) to blesse god for the happy change of times , when our bowels shall be refreshed , our miseries considered , and out unjust vexatious oppressures relieved , by your power , prudence , and justice . i shall not dare to prescribe any means to so grave , wise , and honourable a council , but with all humble submission expect and wait for such a remedy as shall appear meet to your judicious breasts , praying the great god ( who sits in your assembly , ) so to assist you with his blessing from above , that you may your selves become a blessing to this kingdome , a sanctuary to the distressed , a defence against wrongs and injustice , and a refreshment in particular , to your poor ruined petitioner , ( if not by your piety and justice relieved ) richard dawson ▪ 