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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82074	A declaration concerning the miserable sufferings of the countrie, under some of the Scots forces that quarter in the north of England, certified in two severall letters from the inhabitants of Stainton, and Cleaveland. Printed and published according to order.		1646 (1646)	Wing D574; Thomason E358_18; ESTC R201162	2,494	10

A DECLARATION CONCERNING The miserable sufferINGS OF THE COVNTRIE under some of the SCOTS FORCES that quarter in the NORTH OF ENGLAND Certified in two severall said to be LETTERS written from the Inhabitants of Stainton and Cleaveland but made at London by the 〈◊〉 Printed and Published according to Order Octob 24th LONDON Printed by E. E. 1646. A DECLARATJON Concerning the miserable sufferings of the COVNTRIE under some of the Scots forces that quarter in the North of England certified in two severall letters from the Inhabitants of Stainton and Cleaveland SIR I Am very sorry that there is so little credit given to our Petitions and letters if those that have not faith to believe them had but our gests amongst them one moneth they would be more sencible of our sufferings In the interim so long as we have either Cattel or Corne they will coinhabit with us and command and without limit exact untill they see an end of us and ours no part of this Kingdome hath suffered so much by supposed friends as this poore Cleave and for if it were exactly counted it could not amount to lesse then 80000. l. yet receive we neither pitty nor reliefe although it is well knowne that when the Scots were in the West we paid a monthly ascesment for 4. moneths But now the whole Army is gotten into the North and there they Lord it without any contribution from any part of this Kingdome certainly the Southern parts suppose that the Scots are marched into their own Country or else this North part is totally assigned to ruine and destruction God knowes how many wofull soules have weekly daily and hourely expected reliefe but the time is nor yet come God in his good time helpe us for our case is miserable divers overtures have been for sending another Gentleman to assist you in soliciting but no money can be raised for his expence And he will not undertake it gratis as you have done But I thinke ere long you wi●l have Westminster Hall full of Petitions for the Country intends to send 3. or 4. out of every Towne in the meane time Sir I beseech you let us still depend upon you for other hopes we haue none but what m●y be from your endlesse endeavours and unwearied paines derived Sir no more for the present but that I am Your very humble servant Signed by the Inhabitants Stainton the 12. of October 1646. SIR IN some of your last letters you seemed to com●ort our dying hopes and dispairing spirits that the Scots were to have 200000 l. and so to march and since the bruite thereof I dare affirme their Army hath bin prejudiciall to these parts 1●0000 l. and for any thing we can perceive their depa●ture as farre of as at the first we heare and read the good Language they give you at London but we feele contrary effects here by their actions we did hope when the Earle of Newcastle was vanq●ished our greatest miseries had been past but we have found the contrary he onely sucked some of our blood but the Scots have devoured our fl●sh and are now picking our bones Betwixt them both I am sure neither you nor any Gentleman of this Wepontake of Langbarfe have made 12. pence profit of their Estates our slauery are farre greater then any those of the Turkes both for our persons and Estates they in Turky are quit for a fifth part we in a yeare pay our Revenew severall times over by Ordinances of Parliament since the Scots came into Yorkshire the whole Country was assessed per. moneth 10000. l. 7000. l. now 3500. l. a moneth but we pay now for billet and sesse to the Scots Army here ●fter the rate of a hundred and forty thousand pounds per mensem and now a part of this hundred payes a thousand pounds a week to 2. Regiments of them we are the absolutest slaves that ever was read of for they ascesse us at their pleasure levy it as they please if they bid us go or ride none dare refuse to provide any thing for their appetites though we fetch it 10. miles they being very excessive in their dyet they kill us in hot blood beat us in cold Captaine Iohn VVelden they lately slew in seeking to rescue his neighbours from their Robberies he hath served faithfully and with great courage the Parliament and deserved a better reward and what his enemies could not do is effected by the pretended friends of the Parliament I would you could use some meanes to the Parliament that some parts of his Ariers might be got for his poore wife we mightily admire at the Parliaments confidence and the good opinion the City hath of their integrity I could wish some visiters were sent from them to view their carryage our misery our observation of them these 18. moneths have been farr different from people that came to preserve us they have protected Delinquents Papists not suffering the O●dinances of Parliament to be excecuted fresh forces daly come in from Scotland their Garisons recruited additionall fortifications great supply of victualls the Scots Army being receptacle and sanctuary of Delinquents and Cavaliers and such as have fought against the Kingdome and for Vandrusks Regiment though disbanded It is but transferred into severall veines of the Scots Army which the Country feeles to their great costs and personall dangers on the contrary the well affected are not onely discountenanced but great insupportable burthens are layd upon them so that they are glad to be intercessors to their enemies for very small courtesies These are bad symptoms either of a good intention or of a peace betwixt the Kingdoms and it will be found that if we should fall to blowes which I tremble to think on that the waste and spoyle that the Parliament hath suffered the Scots to make here is so great that there will not be found a weeks Provision in all this Countrey if they should have occasion to send any confiderable forces hither whereas about Newcastle and Northumberland they keepe things faire and fresh f a foule day should happen Sir in a word our stock is cleane wasted our little corne we had ill got in by reason of the great moisture we are now threshing it for the Scots we are eating our last bread who have been able to get away are gone And we do expect a great mortality the Pestilence being begun already amongst us we the well affected prayes you to petition the Honourable House of Commons that they will give us 2. or 3. moneths allowance out of our Estates having had nothing these 5. yeares out of them or allowance in consideration of them protections for our persons for our debts untill we be restored to our Estates 4000. l. per mensem we have ●aid to the Scots Army constantly since they came into this Weapontakee And lastly Sir if my name should be knowne and produced as Author of this letter I could not hope to live these dayes so terrible are these guests to us I will cease to be further troublesome and rest Your assured friend to serve you Signed by the Inhabitants Cleveland September the 13. 1646 FINIS