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A78053	A brief declaration of the severall passages in the treaty concerning the surrender of the garrison of Lundy, formerly commanded by Tho. Bushell Esq; Governour thereof for His Maiestie. Die Sabbathi 10. Julii 1647. Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that upon the delivery up of the Isle of Lundy to the Lord Vicount Say and Seal, or his assignes, by Mr. Tho. Bushell, the delinquencie of the said Tho. Bushell be taken off, and all sequestration in respect thereof be discharged, and he and his assignes restored to all such rites as he or they had or ought to have in the mines in Devonshire, Wales, and Cornewall, and to all his other estates and rights whatsoever, and that the men that were with him in the island, being not souldiers of estate and fortune, be pardoned and freed from delinquencie. H. Elsing. Cler. Par. Dom. Com.	Bushell, Thomas, 1594-1674.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1648 (1648)	Wing B6240; Thomason E433_24; ESTC R206206	16,344	27

you may plead you will do what the King doth here I send you the Copy of his Letter to the High Court of Parliament to come in as also a Copy of what entertainment is at London provided for him that so if you be not wilfully blinde you may see in what a forlorn condition you will be in if you surrender not the Island to his right masters use Your positive answer he expects that would be your friend if you would be your own and so rests Iohn Crouther Happy Entrance Regis under Lundy 20 April 1646. Worthy SIR I Have received your Summons and to let you know my respects and affection I have to the owner of this Isle as likewise to the Parliament preserving my loyalty to the King my master I have sent you the Copy of my Letter to the Governor of Swanzey and his Majesty concerning the same which I expect daily an answer the which if it cannot satisfie your disposition for the present I must be forst to stand upon my own defence in regard I value my reputation above life or fortune and so with my hearty thanks for your news in that hopes it gives me of a desired peace I remain Your true Friend and Servant if you please T. B. From Lundy 20 April 1646. SIR HAving received this inclosed from the Committee of both Kingdoms I have sent this Drummer unto you giving you this assurance that if you please to repair to my head-quarters or to any other place in the Parliaments quarters to speak with such as my self or my Lord Say shall appoint to meet you you shall have a safe conduct for your comming and return or if you think not fit to come forth of the Island your self to send one to signifie your minde concerning this business of my Lord Sayes or to him he shall appoint here with me Your Servant T. Fairfax Colomb Iohn-house 8 April 1646. Die Lunae 12 January 1645. At the Committee of both Kingdoms at Darby House IT is Ordered that a proposition be made to Mr. Bushell that if he will deliver up the Isle of Lundy this Committee will use their endeavors with the Parliament that he may be restored to his Interest in the Silver Mines Gualter Prest Secret to the same Committee SIR YOurs of the 8 of this moneth I received not till this morning else I had returned a sooner answer that had not your occasions removed you from these parts I would not have failed to have waited on your Excellencie for I should have thought your promise Sir of my free return to be more impregnable then Lundy but to let you know the clearness of my proceedings and my true respect to my Lord Say I have inclosed these Letters which at your leasure you may be pleased to peruse assuring your Honour that I will dispatch a friend with all the speed I can to his Lordship and I doubt not of procuring a way both to deserve the continuance of his Lordships friendship and to preserve my fidelity to the King my master which I hope your Honours patience will allow me having no other designe but to preserve my fortune for the discharge of my debts to which if your goodness will but countenance it may be reckoned amongst your victories and will oblige many more besides Sir your humble Servant T. B. Lundy 3 April 1646. For his Excellencie Sir Thomas Fairfax c. May it please your Excellencie ACcording to your commands and my promise in my last Letter I have sent this Gentleman my kinsman to wait upon your Honour and my Lord Say to whom I have given full power to conclude my Surrender of Lundy having obtained my masters consent thereunto and to that purpose I have likewise desired him to wait upon his Majesty whose goodness I am confident will not deny me a favor of a higher nature and without which a grant were it of the Indies should not invite me to it for I am resolved what ever becomes of me my name shall never be found amongst theirs who have betrayed their trust which fidelity I presume your Honour cannot but approve of where he is an enemy who is Your humble Servant T. B. Lundy 14 May. 1646. For his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax c. An answer to the Vice-Admirals Message SIR IN Answer of your Message whether I keep this Isle wholly for the King or for the King and Parliament the which for to prevent any mistake Know Sir I was trusted by the King and keep but my private family without injuring of any which obligeth me to preserve untill I have a return of the Treaty inclosed sent by an Order from the Honourable Committee of both Kingdoms with a Letter of His Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax wherein to accommodate their Honours desires and preserve my own reputation with the King my master I did upon sight thereof dispatch my friend and kinsman to conclude the business but if you or any other shall conceive my proceedings to be not justifiable in your own conscience before God and man let the bloud that is spilt light upon those that are the occasion so remains Your Friend and Servant as I finde you mine T. B. Happy Entrance Regis in Lundy Road. 20 May. 1646. May it please your Majesty THe inclosed I received from my Lord Says servant who is now Governour of Swanzey which I conceive was sent by his Lordships direction wherein he invites me to the surrender of this Isle being his Lordships known purchase in the perusall of which I was not at all startled at the threats therein but must confess my self moved at the obligation it minds me of with which I formerly acquainted your Majesty in the presence of my Lord of Dorset since which Captain Crouther Vice-Admirall of these Seas summoned me to surrender this place And not long after Sir Tho. Fairfax sent a Drummer with his Letter and an Order from the Committee of both Kingdoms wherein they proposed their assistance in restoring me to my Interest in the silver Mines if that I would deliver up this Island to my Lord Say Your Majesty well knoweth how I have maintained Lundy at no other Contribution but my own and how chearfully I have exposed my friends and my own credit for your service as well as exhausted them in the discovery of the Mines royall besides the place in it self is useless except in some advantages it may yield to me if your sacred Majesty would be pleased to vouchsafe me leave to express my gratitude to my Lord Say by my quiet and free surrendring it which I hope your goodness will not deny me but if otherwise your Majesty shall require my longer stay here be confident Sir I shall Sacrifice both life and fortune before the Loyalty of Your obedient humble Servant T. B. Lundy 14. May 1646. His Majesties Answer to Mr. Bushell concerning the surrender of Lundy BVSHEL WE have perused your Letter in which We finde thy

that my conscience witnesseth I ever Honoured them next to my master nor never injured any in these times of Common Rapine without it were in my humble requesting the restitution of my poor fortune for the payment of my just debts or the freedom of my servants to work in the said Mines whilest I Petition Heaven for a further discoverie of his mercies towards me in this my retirement to the naked promontory of Lundy the considerations whereof hath so redoubled my griefs that if I had not made a resignation of my sufferings in soul body estate to the eternal Divine power of Justice for contemning the revenge of injustice my disposition of humane patience would have been transported into weak passions followed the instructions of those who advised me to take goods at sea unless I were restored my right at land but such Counsellors are fit for war and not for peace for Heathens not for Christians when the remedy is worse then the disease and therefore you may be confident Sir the lowest condition of misery shall not inforce me to an act of violating that moral and Divine Law do as you would be done unto which hath made me deposite double the value in your masters hands I. C. for what commodities my constrained necessity compels me to borrow from your ship called the Fortune This being the occasion and true state of my condition I hope your charity will judge friendly of him who covets to requite such a christian-like curtesie T. B. Lundy 20 September 1646. For the Master of the Barque called the Fortune SIR GIve me leave lovingly to question your judgement for omiting this fair opportunity in making up your breach with the Parliament since all other garrisons are surrendred except yours of Lundy which is generally conceived will no ways advance the Kings cause as things now stands nor your credit to keep the Isle from the right owner but be certain to increase yours and my sufferings that is deeply ingaged for you wherefore I hope your prudent care and profest honesty will look as well upon your friends misery as altogether the service of his Majesty not leave me to the mercy of an enemy nor your self exposed to the trophy of their pity when it now remains in your power to remedy the one and come off with Honourable tearms in the other knowing by Proclamation your past and present Actions is charged as the greatest crimes and to those that shall relieve you conceived as Traytors against the State for your forwardnesse in recruiting his Majesties Army with a thousand Miners at his first entrance to these wars clothing his souldiers supplying his Magazine with Ammunition of Lead and bringing your Mint from the Castle of Aberistwith to pay them as also disobeying their severall Summons by Sea and Land for surrendring Lundy These with many other accusations if not timely prevented will I fear fall fatall upon your life and fortune which God in his good time avert shall be the daily prayers of Your faithfull friend J. J. 20. August 1646. Mr. Bushels Answer to a friends Letter which by way of Admonition threatneth his life and fortune SIR TO prevent your fears and seeming jealousies of my proceedings I have not only sent your deep ingagements canselled as an affection I bear to friendship but likewise my innocent answer and resolution here inclosed of those pretended crimes laid to my charge in the lining of your Letter being confident it will satisfie the moderate hearers if not aggravate by malevolent spirits whose envy I so much contemn as were my person upon the Scaffold of execution I should signifie the same expression and pitty their judgements that have surrendred those strong garrisons of the Kings or were not forward to maintain the Royalty of his Majesties legall Rights in regard I fear the honour fidelity of our English people to their Soveraign Prince will thereby be called in question and through their own transgression be punished by another Nation which is the only cause I ingenuously professe makes me covet to maintain the place at my own charge rather then be in the List of so prodigious a Story to future posterity without any disrespect to the Honourable Owner whom I am obliged to honour in a fruitfull gratitude next to my Master Thus is the condition and intention of your servant that conceives it more secure in point of morality reason and religion to pay my tribute debt due to nature for performing the commands of my just Prince then live to enjoy any earthly content with a guilty conscience by betraying the trust of Gods Anointed and therefore to deny the truth of my actions were to deny my Master which for replication to your objection I shall reduce the reasons that induced me to it as I must give an account at the high Tribunall That my complyance to serve his Majesty was not out of an ill respect to the Honourable Parliament but as a loyall duty to my Masters Commands and in a confident hope to ballance the breach between King and Parliament as no forc't power should not be able to take away the Regality of his Soveraign Rights nor his Prerogative trench any more upon the priviledge of his native Subjects being his sworn servant before the wars and I conceive permitted by the Parliaments Honourable Order to attend his person whose Mint is well known to the meanest man that it was his Majesties and therefore in me double ungratefull if I had not restored it disobedient if not obeyed his Commands for conducting his Miners or unworthy of ever farming his Mines Royall if refused him a parcell of his own Lead for his mony being then at the Parliaments pleasure to command the like and for my retirement to Lundy it is well known the occasion was my affection to solitude the pressing of my Miners at Commartin as also to prevent an ill Inhabitant which should have prejudiced the Kings cause the Countries traffick and surprize the honourable Owner from his purchased right but to demean my self so therein as my conscience might not accuse me of an unjust act during the Government nor the adjacent Countries be charged with the maintenance And for clothing the Kings Army I am confident the Common-wealth will receive as much benefit thereby as my service therein hath done his Majesty for having the Customes of Lead assigned me in satisfaction of my great disbursements it obligeth my diligence the more to discover new Mines and recover the old when I have no other hopes of re-imbursing my ingagements but by increasing the staple commodity of Lead which is as well known to the generall State much decayed as my particular adventures can witnesse to the world my discovery Besides sir your better judgement may well conceive others would have undertaken the service and not be so carefull of surprising plundered Clothes from the unruly souldiers with buying it again to the full value of the

right owners which I refer for proof to the poor men that made it by their honest calling and so committing you to Gods protection as my innocent preparation to this Summons of death in your Letter of admonition which to question your secresie having made you my Confessor were a sin in Your servant T. B. Lundy 24. September 1646. SIR I Have received my Honourable Lord your Fathers Letter and the Honourable Committees Order to treate with you concerning the Surrender of Lundy the which I shall not only most willingly obey but if your affection hath a desire to see the Isle as I am informed by Major Pomeroy I do here promise you upon the faith of a Christian and the word of a Gentleman you shall be heartily welcome both going and comming for the Major hath given such a Character of your worth and merit as I desire to be acquainted with so noble a nature and should have waited upon you my self were it not for some reasons this Gentleman can acquaint you from the Servant of your Commands T. B. Lundy 19. November 1646. For his Honoured friend Major Fienes Present Die Saturni 31. Octob. 1646. At the Committee of both Kingdoms at Darby house ORdered that whereas formerly leave was given to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Say and Seale to treate with Mr. Bushel about the rendring up of Lundy Island and that this Committee did undertake to do their endeavours that upon the surrendring the said Isle the Delinquency of the said Mr. Bushel should be taken off and he restored to his Interest in the silver Mines It is now Ordered that all the Souldiers there with Mr. Bushel shall have the same benefit of the endeavours of this Committee upon the surrender aforesaid to have their Delinquency taken off they being not men of Estate and they shall have liberty to go to their own homes and live there unmolested they being obedient to the Laws of the Kingdom and submitting to all Ordinances in Parliament And that the Lord Say shall have time to continue to treate with them for two moneths after the expiration of the time formerly granted By Command of the same Committee Gualter Prest Secret My Lord I Have received your Letter and the Honourable Committees Order of both Kingdoms by your hopefull son which should be most willingly obeyed could I relieve my losses or cancell my obligations with the sight of their good intentions but if the Honourable Committee will be pleased to procure the performance of my estate and those immunities I formerly sent here inclosed by an Ordinance in Parliament towards the payment of my just debts and the prosecution of my publike inployments before my surrender which as I am informed by Mr. Squire who was imployed by the Commissioners of Devon to the same purpose that their pious Charity have engaged their endeavors to accomplish my humble desires after my surrender otherwise I must be forced through a constrained necessity to beg leave of your Lordship for its conveniency as the refuge of my fortune to right my unsupportable sufferings by Sea and land which hitherto I have patiently endured and preserved the place against all forraign oppositions at my own charge without assistance from his Majesty or prejudice to any as the countrys adjacent will inform your Lordship it being contrary to the disposition of my naturall inclination for seeking a restauration from the ruins of others that never injured me but rather to wait upon the Parliaments justice for satisfying my Creditors out of the demands of my mean fortune which I am confident no man with an honest conscience can deny me and for any other I fear not the power of their greatness knowing my resolution and innocence is prepared to encounter their cruelties were it the worst of evils not fear life or that Delinquencie which loyalty to the King my Master hath laid upon me when the consequence stands in competition with my reputation as Orphans and Widdows are wanting of satisfaction Be pleased therefore in your Lordships wisdom as a prudent care to the Piety of peace to recommend once more my civill request here inclosed to the Honorable Committee of both Kingdoms least the bloud that may be spilt light not upon your Honor nor your family as upon those that hinder the progress of so happy a Treaty for some reasons this Gentleman can better inform your Lordship by relation then my self by a Letter whom I sent on purpose to know the Parliaments positive answer least a dellatory Treaty should force me to fall into another famine which Gods providence hath miraculously relieved me when all the world had left me and therefore I fear not what the malice of man can do to Your Lorships humble Servant T. B. Lundy 24. November 1646. For the Right Honorable the Lord Viscount Say and Seal Mr. Bushel THat which the Committee of both Kingdoms have undertaken which was to take off all Delinquencie from your self and those who are with you in the Island and thereby all sequestration of your Estate and a pardon for what hath been done since these wars in respect of the war or by occasion of that I assure my self you may rest secured shall be done if you will deliver me my own And truly why I should suffer from my friend in my inheritance I know not neither do I see the equity or Justice of it I have now an opportunity to do you a good office and having once set you Rectus Incuria I shall do you pleasures in that which withall may be for the publike good the King is now come to Holdenby and you have kept that place when all others are rendred as I think the longest It will be just and Honourable for you now upon tearms for your own Indempnity in respect of what you have done and those who are with you to deliver it If you will buy that which is mine give me 3000 li. for all that is there you shall have it so you keep it not to offend the State which I think you intend not if these either cannot be done or you like it not keep not from the Owner that which is his let me know your resolution and I then will send my Son thither if you will render it upon the tearms the Committee have undertaken Your very loving Friend W. Say and Seal February 16. 1646. For Mr. Bushel at Lundy My Honourable Lord YOur Noble Letter of advice is to me a Law and your vertuous promise to take me into your care of protection is in my estimation a liberty above Magna Charta or the strength of Lundy and therefore your Lordship may rest assured of your inheritance delivered to your hopefull son upon the sight of his person or satisfaction for the same according to your Honourable desires for upon the faith of a Gentleman my intention was never no otherwise then to obey my Masters Commands in keeping of the place without