as are knowne to be old Theeves and new plundring Robbers 4. That the factious Agents here residing may be sent home into their Countries to assist in this good worke and no longer suffered to foment divisions and under colour of publike employment spend on the Countries charge 5. That the many sufferers throughout the three Counties of Cardican and Carmarthine but especially that of Pembrooke and those which have constantly stood to publike cause may be timely provided for before they starve or perish through the extreamity of want whereunto they are now reduced 6. That no pretendors to lesses may by favour of friends in Parliament preoccupate the estates or Fines of any Delinquents within the said Counties but that in the first place they may be preserved for some competent amends to bee made to such as have been destroyed and their numerous families utterly left without subsistence and meerly for the Parliaments sake 7. That some worthy and discreet Commissioners may be timely deputed to examine perticular greevances of all kindes but principally to inquier of such as have from little or nothing much inriched themselves by following of Gerrards Army and quarters and only to make prey on the well-wishers and pertakers with the Parliament utterly at present unable to come up and to tender their sad estate to the house There being many of this sort throughout the 3. Counties which have made up their fortunes by designing and pointing out many an honest man * and well willer to the Parliament to utter destruction which amongst the greater Delinquents would soone be found out as fittest to make part of the restitution to such as have bin only damnified by their procurement That it may please this honourable Court to take notice of the miserable condition of the County of Pembrooke as also of the hundred of Durtlesse in the Countie of Carmarthin where the Inhabitants in the generall are utterly unable to put a Plow in the ground it being lamentable to behold 30. myles together to lye in a manner utterly wast and here and there two or 3. Cowes in harnises scraping up the earth to cast in a little corn when 500 good Plows have bin heretofore seen in the seed time merily to till the ground in plenty Wee shall now in all humblenesse period our Animadversions with our hearty prayers to Almighty God that as in this monstrous unnaturall and sanguinary conflict he hath heitherto seconded your painfull indeavours and in a most miraculous manner extended his high hand throughout the whole progresse of this horrid War It may farther please him on the prosperity of your Armyes and on His Majesties comming in after so long a range and fatall deviation so to conduct your future indeavours as in the first place Vnity and Concord between both Nations may be inviolably preserved and that the generall calamity may be timely closed up in a firme and well established Peace to the glory of God the honour of the King and good of the Kingdomes As also that the licentiousnesse of the times in seditious speakings and loosenesse of the many disaffected to you and the publike and so long inured to rapine and plunder may be speedily restrained as in your great providence and wisdoms shall be thought most expedient either to employ some of them for Ireland and others of them not to bee trusted caused to quit the Kingdom least a worse thing happen unto us and that as opportunity may fall out they unhappily put you and the Kingdomes to an after War which that it may by the same powerfull arme which hath heitherto conducted your councells be prevented shall be the continuall prayers of him who hath born a share of your care and to that of his losses offers both this and himselfe to yours and the publike service FINIS The inveterate fewds and dissentions of this County hath beene a great hindrance to the publike service and if not timely composd may be of a more dangerous consequence King James his Speech in Parliament 1609. 〈…〉 * The late Parliament distasting this Warr were resolved to give the King ten Subsidies for a peace rather then one for a Warre with Scotland * The King on hearing of the Scotts allegations and absent from his ill Councell granted them his Royall pacification but on his returne out of the North 1639. was trayterously councelled to renew the war by the Cabb Councell * The French and Spanish Warres prime secundo Caroli * As God prohibits all Mariages with adulterate and Idolatrous Princes Deu. 7. so is it rarely seene that any blessing can followthat Prince which breakes over that law which God hath prescribed Straford Canterbury Cottington †Both Stra. and Cant. Ieered and contemsptuously spoken of in the French Court for men insolent and of little reach especially by the Cardnall Richâ—leu * Vide Straford in the Juncta loos absolvd from all the Reignes of government you are now to do what power will admit Idem Archbishop by the laws of God and man you ought to have assistance and lawfull to take it L. Cottington gave the same advice * On the Scots Petition the Petition or the 25 Lords and the Yorkshire Petition the King yeelded to summon a Parliament in both kingdoms during his residence at Yorke 1639. * The King councelled to run the course of his future government Ala-Francoys Take notice saies Straford my L. Cottington the King of France hath a wise Councell for he sends his Officers to search all Merchants books and finding the richest men hath his horse troops ready to leavy the assesment * The base flattery of the Prelaticall Clergy both in their writings and Sermons for the upholding of absolute power in Kings directly opposite to divinity The treachery of the Judgeâ— in their extrandictiall sentences for the Kings raising of many at will and pleasure against the knowne laws of the land and dissonant from the constitution of this Soveraigntie betweene both these the King hath bin insufferably abused and the Kingdomes extreamly both weakened and ruined Those of our Princes which have cast themselves on their Parliaments never repented it * The English Soveraignty not absolute but mixtum imperium Arist craticall and democraticall * The Delinquents and Court Parasits conspire at first to quash this Parliament consequently all others to come that might cal them to an accompt for their misbehaviour * The strange and unheard 〈…〉 commissions of Aâ—ray 〈…〉 the people against themselves * A few Gentlmen only of the County of Pembrook withstood the Lords and the Commissioners of Array against the generall vote of all the principalitie * No plot of Knavery without a Priest Lattermer in his Sermon before K. Edw. the sixth * Mr. White of Castle Tough inforced to fly to Sea the Gentlewoman his Wife by the tyranicall insolency of the Souldier frighted to her Grave his Eldest Son barbarously imprisoned his second Son cut and mangled some of his servants wounded to death in their owne houses the rest with all his poore Tenants inforced to fly the country and his many children left utterly destitute of all meanes to keep them alive * Jt was further commonly spoken by the best sort of the Gentlemen that the welsh were the true Brittaines and his Majestyes best and only Orthodox subjects and Pembrookshire men for the most part Saxons and Bastards * Lately chosen Knight of the County of Pemb. * It was conceived by some knowing men that Ienkins was set over his Lordship of Carberry to overlook his actions * This summe was 2000. l. it was collected and paid to his Lordship * This Gent. hath bin strangly used and hurried up and downe and all to take him off from the Parliaments service * His bastard Brethren * Sir Toby Mathew a suspected Jesuit but a dangerous and active Papist about the beginning of this Parliament took survay of Milford-Haven to what end let the world Iudge * This writing beares date 17 of August at Carmarvin as neere as I can remember * These Gentlemen now utterly denigh their coming to Tinby though avouched by the testimony of ten of the chiefe of the town Sir Rich. Philips avouching that his name was or might be put in by some of the rest on his Lordship of Carbery * They denigh that Haverford was first yeelded up which is clearly false * Master Roger Lort Mr. Geor. Adams Master Geor. Howard and others * He avouches that they had not a man more then his owne meniall servauts and those only for defence of him selfe Stackpoole the first siege of the Major Generall * Trefloyne the second siedge he did not for tifie his house for it was taken by his Lordship of Carbery Mr. Bowen himself being at Pembrooke * The Fort and Pill-Village his 3d siedge Carew yeelded by composition The skirmish at Carmarvin and the Town taken by storm * One thousand houses at least barbarously burnt in the County of Pembrooke * Haverford Pembr and Tinby The hot skirmish on Candauke Mountaine Najor Philips and Captaine Rowland VVoogan with divers others of the Major Generals party sorely wounded in this incounter Cardiean Castle the 6. siege taken and rebesieged by Gen. Gerrard The Seamen loath to go on untill the Generalls foote foot were first gone over * The seate of Master James Philips Emblin the 7th siedge * The chiefe sufferers in all the County of Carmarthin were Mr. Evand Thomas Mr. Cradock a very dilligeâ—â— Preacher Mr. Tho. White Mr. Arthur Stafford Mr. Henry Lloyd Mr. Gunter all of the hundred of Durtlesse and Mr. Richard Vaughan Vnkle to my Lord of Carberry Mr. Iohn and Ed. Mâ—â—sell with many more of inferior ranke especially Mr. Grindye the one Brother barbarously kild in his House by Captaine Ed. Lloydes Souldiers the other arraigned and condemned to be hangd drawne and quartered by that reverend Iudge Ienkins * The Marquesse of Hartford and his brother the L. St. Maure * 〈…〉 * A most turbalent factious Brewer in Artivill a great pertaker with Edw the 3d in his march in France afterwards slaine in amutenie * Vide Gerrards List of such Gentlemen as were by him appointed to be questioned for their lives and estates
Parliament and in common Prognostication of the best discerning judgments what the event of such a Warre would be An assured weakning of the puysance of both Kingdomes Yet our high bearing statists strong in their owne vaine Imaginations conceived it to much losse of reputation to sitte still with safety but after a just * Royall pacification granted reperswaded the King topursue the designe in a second preparation of war contrary to his Majesties faith given to the Scotts Nobility that they should remaine as they were without infringment of their Nationall Covenant instituted by the late King 1580. It is as precisely true that this Parliament so much in the eye and odium of his Majesties aversation and of so terrible an aspect to the many Delinquents was at such a time assembled as that the Kings hopes and designes on the comming in of the Scotts at Newborne 1640. were at an instant turn'd about to an after Game or to check at Chesse without either possibility of remotion to go on with safety or backward without extreme losse of honour at home and reputation abroad into so intricat a laborinth and toyle of embroylement had the Cabbinet Councell then both ingaged the King and indangered all the Kingdomes And at such a season and in the close of so long a calme of Peace and tranquillity as the three Kingdomes never yet attained unto both the late King and his Majesty now regnant having alwayes beene in perfect peace and amity with most of the Princes of Europ neither for thirty six yeares to gether had they any other warres but vapours * or such as our of the voluptuousnes of the times wantonnesse of the great privadoes of Court were as rashly undertaken as vainly prosecuted without either sufficient grounds or foresight of their issues hence it is as wise men have long since observed that from the very first treaty with Spaine for a Mariage with the Infanta an * evident improsperity hath inseperably hanted the affaires of both Raignes To speake in tearmes of plainenesse the principall Instruments of state in this Raigne never exceeded more then a Triumviratora knot of some few all others being but for stales or uses work-men ordinis secundi of a subordinate degree though all united Concentring in the advance of the grand designe and Master-peece viz. Absolute Soveraignty over the Vniversall people ◠men rather cryed up by ignorants and those of their owne followers and faction for persons of waight and of worth then parted and indowed with abilities in the true prackticke of State affaires either befitting Military employments or in times of peace with judgment and moderation so to manage the Royall and publike administrations as to conserve them in the same posture of felicity wherein at their first arrivall to grace and favour in Court they found them but only applying themselves rather to comply with the Kings inclinations as having aforehand learned the Scope and measure of his propension then by safe and honest Councells †to allay and divert the heat of his Majesties affectations in the advance of the Soveraigntie to some higher pitch and straine then other stood with his Oath and honour to affect or with his power to accomplish otherwise then with greater hazard then the acquision of them could bee possibly worth either in true valuation with himselfe or estimation of others of judgment and solidity to discerne the sequell and dangers insident to all innovations and changes in a long established Government And thus were the Kings Councells carried along or as we may better say swayed by a few * unfaithfull to their master and perfidious to the State And by two of them how soever we may hope they are now with God yet living of inexorable natures and of immoderate aspirations the other of another kinde of temper subtile untrusty and umbrating an affected wylinesse under the vayle of a Spanish garbe or Gravity But joyntly all three bigge with Innovation as if in want of other employment they had them studdied how to discompose the common tranquillity and by cutting out some new and destructive worke to thrust out the kingdomes into combustion The state of the Kings and Kingdomes affaires so lead on and to render them in plain Caractors of truth strenuosly inforst and driven on * paucis nec non honestis rerumque novarum cupidis Insomuch that when this Parliament was out of necessity to be assembled neither the King nor those his seemingly wise and over-bold instruments could possibly discerne the way whither they would goe or how to drive on their designes with any warrantable hopes answerable to their expectation In this perplexity and amidst the concussion of both Nations before generally in good tearms of brotherly affection one with the other this so formidable and persecuted Parliament with that of Scotland were then thought fit to be assembled as the only means remaining both to recover and inlarge the King and to quiet the Kingdomes when at their very first sitting downe all former sterages of State and Court contrivances tending to the subversion of the fundamentalls of the ancient government together with the Authors of the Scottish troubles and brochers of Innovation both in the Church and and Common-wealth we are all called to accompt as the first and most proper worke of a Court of Parliament and then evident it was that their future course would be to reduce all new-cut-out and indirect streames and straines of government into their old and usuall Channell A labour of a very high and difficult taske if considered what time had wrought through the long disuse of our Parliaments which had they been more frequently called would doubtlesse have stayd or thwarted the * Kings egar pursuite in new moulding the old frame into some other modell so long aforehand prepared and in a faire progression only by the Regall power whence it was apparent that the work became the more unweldy and the knot of Arbitrary contrivements then more hard to bee untyed by this Parliament then others formerly had ever bin accustomed unto Wee need not presse this on the common beliefe that Parliaments at any time were otherwise pleasing to the late King then as the exegencies of his wants urged their summons to serve the present for replenishing of his empty Coffers nor that His now Majesty would ever have summoned this in being much lesse to make it perpetuall but meerely out of the extremity of inforcement to disingage himselfe of an incombrance from which without a Parliament there appeared then no medium to recede or any by way whether he might handsomly make his retreate wheras had it been his Majesties good fortune to have been faithfully councelled and at his first accession rightly instructed as it was his ill fate alwayes to be misinformed by such of his * Ministers of both roabes as have had the honour of his eare of the
nature and constitution of this Soveraignty and how much it imports a King of England to summon his Parliaments before he needs them or that the obliquities of the Church and Common-wealth requires them for the generall reformation and that when they are assembled how much it concernes both Prince and people that they be cherished and backt by the Royall authority as Courts which are the invincible pillars of the Royalty and onely buttrises of the State It could not possibly have fallen out that so great a fatallity should have befallen His Majesties perticular and the universall populacy of three so late flourishing kingdomes which as now they are wasted weakened and embroyled cannot be recovered not their ruptures handsomly made up untill by the blessing of God a right understanding of each others right may be timely begotten between his Royall selfe and the great Councells of the Kingdomes * certain it is that of all humane causes the primum mobile of all our Tragicall sufferings was His Majesties aversation to that which is the inheritance of the kingdome Parliaments and the same which God men and the lawes of the Land required and would have at such a time to be summoned when long before it was resolved Parliaments should have beene coffind up in their last funerall rites and the King Royally intending to rule alone and without them so insearchable and past finding out are the wayes of him by whom Kings-Raigne and must stoope their wils to his who as well disposeth of their Scepters as of the hearts of their Vassalls We ought not to question known truths without prejudice to the publike faith for it was written in large Caracters in the Kings aspect that the very principia of this Assembly and the tracts they walkt in were not only averse to his Royall inclinations but seemed to all * those which had a hand in leading on His Majesties designes to bee of a terrible continuance as evidently portending the assured ruine of many both of their hopes and fortunes When certaine it was that the party adjuvant and delinquent might both stand up and shun the perrill then imminently hanging over their heads a course of necessity must be found out both how to quash this so furious a Parliament as then it was apprehended it would be and consequently to annihilate all others that in time to come might be summoned as obstackls which might in the future hinder the growth of absolute power Omiting perticularities It was then now more manifestly known that the Court contrivances wherby to effect this great worke of annihilation were many contiguous dangerous in their aâ—tempt and more daring then ever have bin attempted on any of our Parliaments and such as were beyond common expectation and the beliefe of all men of sober judgment could have bin enterprized against the great Councell of the Kingdome The wonder being so much the more that the King himselfe shouâ—d build his hopes on such feeble and uncertaine foundations as to set up his rest on an enterprize of so unlikly and improbable an archievement as to graple with the power of the Kingdome then contracted and compacted in its representative But we passe over the ennumeration of the many various and sundry practises as in order of their invention from time to time and without intermission they were put on the tryall of their execution though hitherto by divine providence they have proved fruitlesse in their effect yet most remarkable it is that on his Majesties recesse and deserting the House and the bulke of the Parliaments strength then much maimed lessened and weakned both in defect of the head and by so great a desection of the parts and tergiversation of the Members falcifying the trust of their Countries yet that the remaining and trusty part should notwithstanding beate up in the defence of the publik interest and amidst so many and powerfull Interjections slight vilipend that ridiculous Conventickle or mungrell Parliament at Oxford trayterously opposed against this so legally assembled It must be acknowledged that Almighty God stood with the cause and infused them with the spirit of courage and that his speciall providence had a high hand in the conduct of their preservation But we must now looke back and shall only touch on the maine contrivances in their grosse and as they were at the Kings comming to Yorke there set a foot first for raising of an Army whereby on all formet failancies by force of Armes to over-power this Parliament and as after it was resolved to erect the Royall Stendard at Nottingham so to draw up the power of the people against themselves in their representative together with his Majesties Commissions of Array * dispatcht into severall parts of the Kingdome as if some forraigne Enemy had then beene in preparation to invade the State pre-invaded and only by those which should have defended it We shall but only mention those Commissions sent into the North and other those remote parts thought then most apt to second his Majesties intentions and most out of the noyse of the people and hearing of the Parliament ignorant in the right understanding both of the cause and artifices of Court and shall chiefly insist on those sent into the West as Commissioned to the Marquesse of Hartford his Brother the Lord St. Maure and Sir Ralph Hopton These three Lords about Iuly 1642. comming out of the North came first to Marlborough summoning the Major and his Bretheren to repayre to their Lordships they shewed them their Commission of Array but found them more round then they expected the towne wholly standing up for the Parliament thence they bent their course immediatly towards Bath Bristoll and Wells where the Inhabitant were as averse to thir Commissions as to submit their head to the block though all three of them were in those Countries both powerfull in Tenancye and generally in the good opinion and affection of the people but no sooner appearing in this strange and unheard of errand but they became of despicable accompt as the sequell thereupon proved it to be most true for they were shortly after beaten and chased away from Mendippe and Wells whence withall the strength they could possibly raise they retreated to the Castle of Sherborne his Lordship Cottington as one of their grand assistants not liking the businesse took an occasion to leave them the night before The Lords with the rest of their Associats being there besieged shortly after made an eruption and in a confused march of flight finding those parts to hot for their abiding and nothing conformable to their commissions haste to Myniard the whole Country rising upon them whereupon dividing themselves Hopton tending towards the Cornish men a sort of people Robustious and in the generall utterly unacquainted with the wayes and subtilties of Court neither understanding the true state of the Cause were easily seduced by him The other Lords instead of better sanctuary-betooke
Some particular ANIMADVERSIONS of MARKE for satisfaction of the contumatious MALIGNANT WITH Some other Generall and Remarkable observations on the summons of the late dissolved and of this Parliament upon the Kings deserting the House and his retreat to YORKE 1642. But more particularly of the swift Motions of the Cornish Men and those of the South parts of the PRINCIPALITY in their inconsiderat and unnaturall taking up of Armes against their Conservatory and principally of the various Passages of the County of PEMBROOKE under the Tiranous Command of Generall GERRARD where the War hath bin most barbarously cruell Together with the severall Fights Defeates Siedges Skirmishes Routs Retreates betweene both Armies with the differences and Divisions of the County of Pembrooke and the finall Over-throw and beating out of Generall GERRARDS last plundring Army out of that County and the miraculous Reduction of all South-WALES by Maior Generall LAVGHERNE With some humble Propositions both for the suppression of the Insolencies of the Souldier and speedy Reparation of such as have suffered in the losse of all their Estates for the publike Cause Humbly adrest to the High Court of Parliament LONDON PRINTED Anno Dom. 1646. For the Right Honourable LORDS the Peeres and Gentlemen of the Honourable House of COMMONS THe Author as to the first part of his Animadversions touching the late motions of the State in the visible pursuance of Arbytrary power presents them not as newes to a Court of Parliament the evidence whereof being obvious to all the world onely hee ranckes them here in a new fyle for satisfaction of the incredulous Malignant not capable to owane his owne friends neither will be sensible what your indefatigable labours have beene or take notice of the pains you have taken during these foure yeares for Preservation of the common freedome and liberties of the Kingdome As to the second part which is a narrative touching the Warre under the conduct of major Generall Laughorns it is offered to all of discerning Iudgements how mirakculously Gods speciall providence hath evidently appeared as well in that particular of the County of Pembrook as in the Generall prosperity of the Kingdoms armes The conclusive part is both humbly monotory and petitionary that that poore dessolated County with the parts adiacent may be timely taken into your compassionate consideration and such a speedy course taken therein as may best suit with your present great and urgent affairs The distressed condition whereof through Gerrards cruelties is truly laid open unto you as also the way of this Counties repaire in some competent measure humbly presented in a few Propositions which may both rectifie the many grievances and dissentions of this County together with the disorder of the Souldier without other charging the State or farther troubling your important Consultations otherwise then in your timely designation of some honest and able Gentlemen as your Commissioners to examine all grievances especially in the behalfe of such as have suffered in the losse of their whole estates in the publike service and are at present reduced to extreame want and penury the care whereof in all humblenesse is desired and left to your pious providence least the constant party there should bee utterly disheartned and at such time as there may be present use of their farther service since probable it is that the Irish Rebels on their late victory may thrust over such Forces into that County and Milford Haven as may turn the Skales of your Victories here if not timely prevented by garding those Coasts with a strong Fleete both the Welch Nation and English Malignants in the generall howsoever now mastered retaining still their wonted hearts may in all likely-hood on all occasions joyne with the strongest And thus in all humilitie hath the Author taken the boldnesse to present unto your wisdoms the whole scope of his poore indeavours and humbly craves farther leave to concludewith the Oracles of two great Princes wishing that they may profit such as they most concerne The strength of a King is the preservation of the State the foundation thereof is the people and woe unto them which devides the weale of a King from that of the Kingdome How guilty the Delinquent and malignant party have beene in the fomentation of the present devisions the appeale is made to their owne Consciences which have most unnaturally invaded the people in their representative and have indeavoured to deprive both King and Kingdome of their great Councell Aequius est me tot talium amicorum consilium quam tot tales meam unius voluntatem sequi How averse His Majesties great heart hath beene in following the vestigia of this famous Emperor and how fatall to himselfe let 3. ruined Kingdomes be the Arbiters and his owne conscience the faithfull umpier Your most constant and faithfull Servant Gil Batt Some particular Animadversions of Marke for satisfaction of the contumacious Malignant with c. Humbly adrest to the High Court of Parliament AFter so long a time in the mysterious sâ—erages of Court and State during the last and of this raigne It is now confest and knowne to all the Kingdome that the late dissolved Parliament was assembled to one and the selfe same end as that of Ireland was somwhat before by the late Deputy Straffâ—rd only to raise mony for the managing of a most unnecessary and injurious Warre and as unadvisedly undertaken against the Scots without any respect to the generall Reformation here either in Church or State both then growne sick even to the very highth of sundry and various distemperatures and as we may safely judge through the defects and want of the due effects of most of our latter Parliaments Courts which have ever bin the great and supreame regulating Councells of this glorious Monarchie As also in pursuance of the grand designe to make conclusions on the natives by stealing in upon them by degrees some innovations in their Church discipline as Tryalls or precursions to future incroachments to bee introduced in their Civill Administrations all conducing to bring in absolute power throughout the three Kingdomes in one compleat conformity to inthraldome This Kingdome with that of Ireland having by finenesse of wit and the contrivance of cur late Artizans of State bin aforehand readily trained and inured to the impatient sufferance of Ship taxations and other arbitrary levyes whilst that of Scotland different to the others in sundry poynts of their fundamentalls and the soveranty there some what incongruous to either stood as a Remora and in the way of our grand Masters and Ingeneeres of Court The Scotts being a people quick-sighted and incompactible to indure all changes and Innovation in Government necessarily made the worke where to begin so much the more difficult in this that to reduce them to the like conformity might in the issue prove a dangerous ingagement of both Nations in a direfull warre This being providently foreseene by the late *