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A28236	A manifesto declaring what George Bishope hath been to the city of Bristoll and the particular persons now in authority therein and what hee hath received from them in recompence occasioned by the late sentence of banishment pronounced upon him by them, 16th, 7th Mon., 1665, and other useages for his conscience to God / by George Bishope.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1665 (1665)	Wing B2999; ESTC R11093	24,526	32

both a Councellor at Law and a Member of the Committee who before and then and afterwards vigorously acted with me and with whom I particularly corresponded in this freedom of the City who here acted what lay in him as I did above though now by some of the Men concern'd as ill rewarded and told him that I thought it would be well if he would communicate it to the Committee He was of my mind in both and so wrought that the Committee denied the Papers that lay before them to these Subcommissioners as not being capacitated by the Act thereunto being not Inhabitants Nevertheless on they proceeded on their own legs and part of Alderman Hooks Estate in Sommersetshire was sequestred and part in Gloucestershire by the Subcommissioners of that County and one came to his House to Inventory his Goods in the City Now I was put to it for the matter was precidential to all for though the Burgesses to wave the business of the Articles suggested that there was only two or three Malignants Hook c. that were in prosecution and no others intended thereby making the matter little yet having broke the ice on them the rest must have followed for the same Rules served for the one as for the other and the leading men being overcome the rest must follow the Commissioners at Haberdashers-Hall having about 200. on the List Though with this Dawberry their Emissaries thought to charme the residue so concerned in the City into an Opinion that the matter was not of that moment nor would have reflection at least in intent upon them so as that they needed to fear Hereby turning aside their general sence and appearance in the Matter and endeavouring the lessning of that which was attempted for them To those of Gloucestershire viz. Capt. Buck and Hancolk Col. Nath. Rich. at my desire and my self wrote who thereupon took off the seizure in order to Sequestration on Hook's Estate and for those of Sommersetshire I so wrought that they were soon turned out and such Men put in their places as upon whom I had an influence whom by Letters and otherwise I kept off from Bristol least they should run themselves into a Premunire as acting in cases where they were not Commissionated This stemm'd the Tide again and gave some respite nevertheless the endeavours of the other part were not wanting to bring it on afresh with Haherdashers-Hall and from the fountain as it were to cause their suffring With Haberdashers-Hall I was forced now to work and several of the Commissioners I engaged with the Reason of the thing not to act and of this number Three there were a fourth was Newtral and cared to do little in the matter So that the Orders from them to the Subcommissioners lay sometime a Moneth together unsigned there being but seven of them and the signing required a Majority of the Commissioners One while I held them with one thing and another while with another and sometimes I wrote to them and made use of the then state of the Nation that required there should be no irritation especially of such a City in such a time which might turn much to prejudice And because I knew not what might be the Consequence at last I got the Matter in the House again as to the particular of Alderman Hook and the rest which being not so well timed by the Speaker it being early in the Morning and the Members that were to assist it not being present one of the Burgesses crusht it in the bud and so it died The motion arose from a Letter General Fairfax wrote to the House in that particular which I procured and gave to the Speaker who presented it Then I wrought in the Counsil of State I being then at White-hall and in the nature of a Secretary of State though they being then in the form of a Commonwealth they gave no such appellation such an appellation being to a state improper yet Secretary I was and such was the term that by their order they gave me I say I wrought with the Counsil of State and exhibited considerations to them according to the nature of things and the reason of the times and so accomplished that some of the Commissioners were sent for by the Counsil to appear before them where we had a hearing but neither here could any thing be accomplished by reason of the workings of the Burgesses with some of the Counsil though the then President and others did what they could The matter indeed not so properly relating unto them to judge in seeing the Law was as to Sequestration otherwise then as to a prudent suspension of putting the Law in execution where probably such execution might return to a greater prejudice and to commend the consideration of the whole to the Parliament This gave a little breathing the Commissioners being found no otherwise acting but in reference to their Oaths in the discharge of what they had undertaken according to the Rules that were set them which being prompted to by others instigation and such as were Members of Parliament it could be expected to have no other influence Nevertheless things ended not here but new sollicitations to Sequestration produced new Orders and a peremptory Letter by the Commissioners was sent down to the Committee in reference to their Non-Sequestration demanding the Copies of the Papers that were before them for that purpose threatning to lay a fine upon their heads and that a Serjeant at Armes moreover should be sent for Creswick's Land also at Langford in the County of Sommerset was sequestred To this the Committee gave a manly Reply my Coz. Haggat being Instrumental therein who drew it and as for John Creswick I informed the Commissioners that his father Alderman Creswick aforesaid was dead who in his life time was not sequestred and now his Estate was devided among his Children and this particular part of it to his Son John whom none of their Rules had included for Sequestration So that the matter fell to the ground and the Sequestration was taken off as did the other by the return to the Letter aforesaid So this tide was stemm'd again and a Pause there was Now drew neer the time wherein the King and his Army marched out of Scotland into England which was not an ordinary time in England The Counsil of State then bestir'd themselves and Intelligence they had from all parts of the Nation every day for so it was laid of what was done therein and how their Militia advanced From Bristol also they received an account amongst the rest of what was done in that City which the Counsil so took and I was careful so to improve that they ordred it to be reported to the House by Henry Vane Kt. then High Steward of the City who being willing to do it a kindness and having been assistant unto me in my endeavours for the City so managed it that a Letter of Thanks was ordred by the House to

Hooks abilities being well known to far exceed in the Governance of the City any of those who now seemed to bear the day he must be removed and those who were more related and seemed to adhere to him because otherwise that Faction must vaile in the City And here began that unhappy encounter which gave much sorrow and trouble in the City and to me much travel For the rest of the Councel were men that had been acting in the same day the same things yet they were kept in and these were put out as hereafter is mentioned These proceedings were an abomination to me and I hated them exceedingly the rather because I saw it was not so much for the advancement of the Interest unto which they pretended as indeed for the seting up of a particular Party or Faction the progress and issue of which hath tended to the undoing of the City For all things hitherto were carried and whatsoever was the pretence to the contrary yet all concentred here that is to say the private Comodity and advantage of some particular persons who as Horsleeches sucked the breasts of the opportunity to serve their purpose dividing the City into Factions for that end under the pretence of the Publique I hated also to see that almost intollerable Oppression viz. some of those very persons who in the former day had conjointly acted and with as much seeming zeal for the Interest then on foot now to sit in the Committee as Judges of those who with them had acted the same thing To speak plainly to see Cavileer in shew fitting in Judgment upon Cavileer for the same things done jointly by each quatenus quando Cavileers and to behold the body of the Counsil who together as one man strenuously appeared for the Interest of the King to be reserved as well affected to the Parliament for so the exclusion spake and to act as such when Alderman Hook and those with him were ejected the Counsil for having done the same did smell so ranck of a Faction that it was manifest that it was not because the Parliaments Interest was in danger of being damnified if he and they had been continued but that some of those who now rose up to bear the day over them conceived themselves in danger by reason of him and them to be overtopt that is to say that not themselves but he and them would rule the City though for the Parliament so that the ground of that ilfavoured though called Reformation was that themselves might bear the sway not that they themselves had been together bearing the sway for the Interest of the King And I appeal to those judicious unbiassed men whom the Faction swayed not who then minded those transactions as they then were and have since observed the issue of those things whether the measure I have given be not the Diameter of those Proceedings I say I hated these things and they were an abomination to me and as I did upon all opportunities bear my Testimony against them foe which they sat in opposition to me so I endeavoured to out-work them and the whole Interest and the Understanding I had I made use of to counterwork at least to obviate the issue of these things which I saw must needs be the Natural effect If in all these things they prospered viz. the ruine of the City the particular persons therein that were men of Estates whom the enterchanges of the former day had brought into the capacity of Sequestration In the prosecution of which I met with many notable and great Encounters as what follows will in part make manifest which were they to be attempted with money could not have been purchased of me at any rate For the Obstractions I met with the length of time the most tedious waitings and Disappointments were such that I speak in truth of heart no such consideration could have wrought me over thereunto Nevertheless I set my self to it and though Young as I have said and not having many to joyne with me I mean such as would make it their business to tug in such a matter yet I was determined in the thing and in the consequence obtained that which is some ground of this Relation General Fairfax being near about the City and the head Quarters of the Army at Bath in the year 1646. after the first Warrs were over some of the men opprest as aforesaid foreseeing what was coming upon them applyed themselves to the General by Petition concerning the Interpretation of the Articles of Surrender hoping thereby to stemm if it might be the floud of Sequestration that was coming upon them who in a Letter to the Parliament gave his sence to this effect viz. That he intended by the fourth Article which was that unto which they had particular resort as much saving to the Corporation and the particular persons concern'd therein as was in his power to grant Which was as much as could be expected at his hands considering the state he and the Army stood in at that time sc as being thought in Principle and otherwise as to Religion not in order to that Reformation which those then in Power thought to settle in the Nation I was at Bath when this thing was in agitation and I helped it forward with the General Officers what I could on whom I had an influence but it accomplisht nothing for it was not made use of So things stood in reference to this as before and they lay objected to as much mischief as those that rose against them were able to do unto them and their Disease was yet without a Remedy And indeed this matter sprang of themselves through the opportunity of some friend of Alderman Hooks who accomplished it with the General which nevertheless was assisted by the General Officers whose agitation therein was not altogether useless their concurrence being something to the General therein with whom I had to do as aforesaid Nor was it altogether unnecessary for thereby by they came to be so informed in the state of Affairs as to Bristol and to be brought into such a sence that for ever afterwards they assisted the good and benefit of the City what lay in their power And indeed without them the things that were afterwards could not have been affected for their valour and success gave them to be something in the ordring of Affairs of this nature especially where their Swords had led the way thereunto and wherein their honour as Souldiers was engaged in point of Articles And here I laid the stress of the matter viz. upon the Army and those who were with them in the Parliament and Council and other places of Concernment in the Nation and the Others placed their Opposition against me in the Interest that was contrary and so the rugg became hard the chiefest Men in Power in England then on both sides being concern'd in the matter and so it rose and fell as the Interests prosper'd who in other