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

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

authority or privity of the Generall or the chiefe Officers of the Army commanding in his absence VII That in or about the moneth of March last there being a Petition intended from the Officers and Souldiers of the Army to their Generall for such things onely as were justly due unto them and concerning them meerely as Souldiers The said Sir VVilliam VValler Sir John Clotworthy and Colonell Edward Harley a Member of the Army having gotten into their hands a Copy of the said Petition by combination with the other Members above mentioned with an intent to abuse the Parliament into prejudices and jealousies against the proceedings of the Army concerning the said Petition they well knowing that the said Army stood in their way and hindereth them from bringing to passe the designes in the said generall Charge expressed did falsly and malitiously informe the House That the said Petition was contrived and promoted to debauch and dis-oblige the Army from the Parliament And that it was managed and carried on by divers principall Officers in the Army That Orders were given out for the reading of it in the head of every Regiment and whosoever would not subscribe it should be put out of the Musters and cashiered the Army And by those and other aggravations did represent it to the House as a designe against the Parliament Further adding That some Regiments which were remote were sent for to joyne with the rest of the Army for that purpose by which mis-informations they the said Members did the same day procure a peremptory Order to the Generall to suppresse the said Petition VIII That some few daies after Colonell Edward Harley by the combination aforesaid and in pursuance of the same designes did produce to the House a Letter supposed to be written from within the Quarters of the Army to him the said Colonell Harley by a person not named whereby it was informed that Colonell Harleys Lieutenant Colonell had drawne his Regiment to a rendezvouze and had caused the said Petition to be read at the head of it and that he threatned to cashiere and put out of the Musters all that would not subscribe it And that the designe of the Army therein was to inslave the Parliament and Kingdom if the Parliament proceeded not to some high resolution or to that effect as by th● said Letter relation thereunto being had may appeare And although the substance of the said Letter was most untrue and no author thereof appeared nor could be produced although a Committee was appointed for examination thereof and it was much pressed the author should be discovered yet the said Colonell Harley Sir John Clotworthy and Sir VVilliam VValler did so avow the reality of the said Letter and that the contents thereof would be made good As that thereby and by other false suggestions of theirs against the Army they procured the House upon a long debate which held till about 8. of the clock at night to Order That a Committee of five Members whereof the said Master Holles was one should prepare a Declaration to be brought in to the House the next morning signifying the Houses dislike of the proceedings of the Army upon that Petition as by the said Order dated _____ day of _____ last may appeare Vpon which setling of the said businesse for that night most of the Members departed as conceiving nothing would be done thereupon till the next day and that then they might have a free debate concerning the same But the House still continuing to sit upon the dispach of some Letters formerly ordered the said Master Holles by the same combination and in further prosecution of the said evill designes having of himself without the Committee prepared a Declaration against the Petition it selfe contrary to the intention and direction of the said Order and contrary to the rules of Justice and usuall course of Parliament did the same night about ten of the clock on purpose to surprise the House present the same Declaration to the House whereby the said Petitioners were without being heard declared Enemies to the State and obstructers of the reliefe of Ireland if they persisted therein as by the same Declaration relation being thereunto had may appeare and did procure it to be then passed accordingly to the great dishonour of the Parliament and their proceedings to the insufferable injury the just provocations discouragement and discontent of the Army to the trouble and danger of the whole Kingdome to the hindering of the reliefe of Ireland and other the evill consequences in th● said generall Charges expressed IX That by the same and the like false informations and suggestions the said Colonell Harley then a Member of the Army Sir John Clotworthy Sir William VValler and the said other persons did shortly after the said Declaration so made as afore-said procure divers eminent and faithfull Officers of the Army namely Lievtenant Generall Hamond Colonell Hamond Colonell Lilburne Lieunenant Colonell Pride and others to be all sent for from their charges in the Army to appeare at the Barre of the House to make answer in relation to the said Petition against whom when they came thither they could charge or prove nothing at all in so much as the House thought fit immediatly to discharge them And whereas there was a Committee appointed to examine and consider of the truth or falshood of them and the said members informing were appointed to produce their proofs and evidence to the same before the Committee though they have since then been often urged called upon and demanded to produce their proofes and evidenes thereto if they had any and have been plainely told that if they did not proceed effectually to doe it they should be accounted the Authours and devisers of the said falshoods and reparation would accordingly be demanded against them Yet they have not to this day produced any proofes or evidence to any of the said informations or suggestions whereby the Parliament and the Army were so much abused as before is declared nor could they or any of them be hitherto perswaded to give in to the said Committee any charge against the said Officers of the Army which they have then or since procured to be sent for as aforesaid but have held divers of them in a long and chargeable attendance upon the House without any thing laid to their charge untill the House was pleased to discharge them X. That the said Master Hollis Sir Philip Stapleton Sir VVilliam Lewis Sir William VValler Sir Iohn Clotworthy Major Generall Massie in further pursuance of the designes mentioned in the generall heads charged against them have been great instruments in the obstructing of the reliefe of Ireland and within the space of two moneths last past did falsly informe the House that by their procurement there were fifty Companies of Foot and ten Troopes of Horse of this Army ingaged for Ireland upon the termes and under the conduct then by the Parliament propounded and the

and his estate in the said County of Brecknock being of the value of above 600. pounds per Annum was three years in the Kings Quarters yet the same was never Seqeustred And since the Parliament hath prevailed Collonel Herbert Price Esquire having been Governour of Brecknoc for the King against the Parliament being sequestred the said Sir William Lewis by his sollicitations to the Committee procured the personall Estate of the said Collonel Price which the Committee of the County had found out and caused to be brought to Morgan Aubrayes house in Brecknoc to be restored unto him without any satisfaction to the State and hath procured his the said Col. Price's lands in the said County of Brecknoc being worth about 300 pounds per Annum to be let to a friend of the said Col. Prices to his wives use at fifty pounds per Annum contrary to the directions of the severall Ordinances of Parliament made in that behalfe XVIII That the said M. John Glyn or some other person or persons by his direction consent or privity or to his use hath during his being a Member of the House of Commons taken rewards of severall persons for service done them in the House as namely amongst others divers Drovers from Wales who by his means and procurement had an allowance by Order of the House for three thousand pounds in satisfaction of losses they had sustained by the Enemy did pay unto the wife of the said M. Glyn the summe of an hundred pounds as a reward for his said service XIX That the said M. John Glyn as he hath been most active to bring into the Commission of Peace and into other places of Authority divers notorious Delinquents in North Wales as aforesaid so hath been as active as much as in him lies to put out and keep out of the Militia and Common-Councell of London and out of the Commission of Peace for Middlesex many eminent and faithfull men that have laid out their estates and adventured their lives for defence of the Parliament and City in the time of their greatest necessity namely Alderman Pennington Collonel Tichborne M. Estwick Mr. Moyer and others contrary to the Declaration of both Kingdomes which hath assured all lawfull favour and encouragement to those that have beene faithfull and shall so continue to the Parliament which doings must needs tend to the giving a fresh occasion and power to the Enemy against the Parliaments best friends to the dishonour of the Parliament and the indangering of the Kingdome XX. That the said Sir Philip Stapleton M. Hollis and Sir William Lewis have by their power and countenance as Members of the House of Commons both joyntly and severally used means to obstruct the course of Justice and have interposed themselves in severall Causes and by word of mouth moved and perswaded Judges and other Officers on the behalfe of such as they conceive to be their friends Amongst others whereas a great Cause was lately depending in the House of Lords betweene Alderman Langham and Captain Lymery and Counsell was met for the pleading thereof the said Sir Philip Stapleton M. Hollis and Sir William Lewis did repaire to the Earle of Rutland about the same and the said Sir Philip Stapleton told the said Earle that they meaning himselfe and the said M. Hollis and Sir William Lewis were fully satisfied concerning the Justice of Langhams Cause and therfore as the said Earle did respect them the said Sir Philip Stapleton M. Hollis and Sir VVilliam Lewis or expected from them he the said Earle of Rutland should give his Vote for Langham or used words to that effect which also was seconded by the said M. Hollis in words and agrreed unto by the said Sir VVilliam Lewis as appeared by his presence and gesture And the said Sir VVilliam Lewis did exercise the same power in a Cause of Iohn Gunters or others XXI That the said M. Anthony Nichols although about foure yeares since he was by the Committee of Priviledges voted that he was not a Member fit to sit in the House by reason his election was void yet he the said M. Nichols doth not only sit and Vote there as a Member but by his power and threats in the West-Countries and by his solicitations and indirected practises hath brought in or procured to bee brought in about twenty eight Members more out of Cornwall on purpose to carry on the designes and practises before mentioned and to make a faction in the said House and notwithstanding the selfe-denying Ordinance he the said M. Nichols doth still hold a place in the Tower formerly conferred upon him by the House and receiveth the profits thereof to his owne use XXII That the said M. Nicholls hath since his sitting in the House as aforesaid taken rewards for service done there namely whereas Sir William Vuedall Knight for deserting the Parliament and going to York with the King was suspended the House he the said M. Nicholls for the summe of one hundred pounds or one hundred fifty pounds paid unto him or to his use by the said Sir William Vuedall or some for him did by mis-informations to the House procure the said Sir William Vuedall to be re-admitted a Member of the said House and the said M. Nicholls while he was a Member of the Committee for safety he and others of the said Cōmittee having issued forth a warrant for searching Greenwich-house he the said M. Nicholls did under-hand acquaint one of the Queens officers therewith and thereby prevented the designe of the said Committee to the great disservice of the Parliament and Kingdome XXIII That the said M. Long at the beginning of the late warres not having courage sufficient to perform his duty in military affairs did out of covetousnesse or other unworthinesse procure a command of a troop of horse under his Excellency the L. Gen. the late E. of Essex but when ever his said troop came upon any service he the said M. Long out of feare or treachery unworthily absented himself and never was seen or known to charge the enemy in person though his troop often engaged namely at the battell at Edgehill when he saw there was like to be blowes he the said M. Long left the field and never charged before his Troop and at the battell or fight at Brainford though his Troop was there yet he staid at London till the danger was past and fighting done and when his Troop was sent into the West he took no other notice of it but to receive his pay and in the mean while he repaired into the County of Essex and procured a commission to be a Collonell of Horse and in stead of fighting against the Parliaments enemies he betook himself to plunder and oppresse the Parliaments friends there contrary to order and without any authority or exigencies of War compelling him thereto inforced great summes of money many Horses and other provisions from the Country namely from M. Tho. Manwood a man well affected who had the Generalls protection whose horses were taken from his plough and others to the great losses and oppression of the people and to the great dishonor of the Parliament whose service he neverthelesse neglected and hath not hitherto given an account of the great summes of money and other things he so exacted from the Country as aforesaid XXIV That the said M. Long afterwards upon pretence of some losses susteined by the enemy and some great service he had done for the State did procure of the House a great office in the Coancery namely to be the chief Register of that Court wherein his skill was little and whereof he was and is still altother uncapable and although for a time upon the self denying Ordinance he was displaced yet upon the motion or by the power and means of the said M. Hollis he hath obtained the same office to the great prejudice of skilfull Clerks that have been bred up in the same Court and to the disservice of the Common-wealth and the dishonor of the House XXV That the said M. Long on purpose to drive on the designes in the said generall Charges expressed hath for the space of two yeares last past usually pressed and urged severall Members to give their Votes such wayes as he pleased and to that end and purpose doth constantly plac himself neare the doore of the House that when any debate is concerning any designe wherein his party is ingaged he the said M. Long hath used much tampering and violence to such of his own party as wou●d go out of the House and hath perswaded them to continue there for their Votes and he the said M. Long in case any such have gone out of the House hath been very inquisitive where they may be found that so he may go for them when the businesse in debate comes near to be put to the vote and when they come not according to his expectation doth ordinarily run out of the House himself to call them and drive them in again that he hath beene commonly called by those that are without the House and have taken notice of his actions the Parliament-driver whereby the freedome of the Members is taken from them the māner of the Parliaments proceedings much scandalized and many times evill and dangerous designes drove on in a faction by Votes to the great prejudice of the Common-wealth All which matters and things the said Army shall and will be ready in convenient time to make good by proof upon Oath as his Honorable House shall direct And for that by reasn of the straightnesse of time and other more weighty Affairs of the Army they could not so fully finish and accomplish the said Articles therefore the said Army do still reserve further liberty to adde other Articles against the said Members or any of them at any time before their Triall as occasion ssiall serve By the appointment of his Excellency Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX and his Councell of Warre Signed John Rushworth Secretary