A True relation of the transaction of the commands of both Houses of Parliament in the execution of the militia in the county of Leichester by the Right Honourable Henry Earle of Stamford, lord lieutenant of the said county, the honourable the Lord Ruthen, Sir Arthur Haselrigge Knight, deputy lieutenants, and others subservient to the same commands performed in the towne and county of Leichester aforesaid, before and upon Wednesday the two and twentieth of June 1642 : with the votes of both Houses of Parliament, dissanuling His Majesties illegall Commission of Aray. 1642 Approx. 28 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 8 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-01 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A63730 Wing T3060 ESTC R22050 12684716 ocm 12684716 65742

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 eng Hesilrige, Arthur, -- Sir, d. 1661. Stamford, Henry Grey, -- Earl of, 1599?-1673. Grey of Ruthin, Charles Longueville, -- Baron, 1618-1643. Commissions of array -- England. 2006-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-08 Sampled and proofread 2006-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

A true RELATION Of the TRANSACTION Of the Commands of both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT in the execution of the Militia in the County of LEICESTER. By the right Honourable Henry Earle of Stamford, Lord Lieutenant of the ſaid County. The honourable the Lord Ruthen, Sir Arthur Haſelrigge Knight, Deputy Lieutenants, and others ſubſervient to the ſame Commands. Performed in the Towne and County of Leiceſter aforeſaid, before and upon Wedneſday the two and twentieth of June 1642. With the Votes of both Houſes of Parliament, diſſanuling his Majeſties illegall Commiſſion of Aray.

Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament aſſembled, that this execution of the Militia for Leiceſter-ſhire, with theſe Votes, be forthwith publiſhed in Print.

Ioh. Brown Cler. Parliam.

LONDON, Printed for George Lindeſay, and for all thoſe who truly love and honour the King and Parliament, and deſire their Amity and Unity. July 5. 1642.
A Relation of the execution of the Ordinance of Parliament touching the Militia.

ON Saturday the fourth of June the Earle of Stamford came to Leiceſter, where his Lordſhip iſſued out his warrants to all the head Conſtables to ſummon all the Trained, and deſired all the private men within their ſeverall diviſions to appeare before him, or his Deputies at the Towne of Leiceſter on Wedneſday following. Afterwards the very ſame Saturday, came a meſſenger from Yorke with a writ to the high Sheriffe, to ſend forth his Majeſties Proclamations to the contrary. Notwithſtanding the warrants being ſent out by the head Conſtables, the Countrey came in, both Trained Souldiers, private men and Voluntiers, farre beyond expectation, who generally declared themſelves for the King and Parliament.

But the ſaid Earl, thought fit again the week following to appoint the five companies of the Trained Bands to appeare ſeverally in ſuch convenient places as might be moſt for their eaſe, and leaſt chargeable, and thereupon they came.

The firſt on Tueſday, June the fourteenth, to Broughton-Aſhley, where appeared above an hundred Voluntiers, and the Trained and private men, all ſave onely out of one diviſion, the head Conſtable thereof being perſwaded by the Parſon of the Towne, where he lives, refuſing to ſend out his warrants; and yet out of that diviſion, the Trained Souldiers and private men in many Townes came in without warning.

The ſecond, on Wedneſday at Kibworth, where there was a very good appearance, except ſome of the Clergy, with above an hundred Voluntiers.

The third, on Thurſday at Melton Mowbray, where they made: generall appearance.

The fourth, upon Friday at Ruinborough, where the appearance was very good, conſidering how many great Papiſts and ill affected people live thereabouts.

The laſt, on Munday at the Coptoake, there was a generall appearance of the Trained and private men with two hundred Voluntiers at the leaſt. And in every one of theſe places, very many of the Countrey men came to the ſaid Earle, and deſired him to helpe them to armes for their owne defence, and the publicke ſafety.

And after his returne home from that daies Muſter▪ he was advertiſed that Richard Hawford, Sir Iohn Bale Knight, Iohn • ate Eſquire, had prevailed with Mr. Major of Leiceſter to ſet a guard upon the remainder of the Magazine left at that place, and that one of that worthy Gentlemans ſervants ſhould watch the ſame, together with divers deſperate fellowes of that Towne; the Earle repaired thither, accompained with the Lord Ruthen, Sir Arthur Haſelrig Mr. Thomas Bramour, and divers other Gentlemen of good worth in that County, and commanded the Major to remove away the remainder of the Powder, Match and Bullets, and put it into a place of more ſtrength and ſafety.

But on Wedneſday the fifteenth of June, as the ſaid Earle returned from Kibworth, he heard at Leiceſter that Mr. Henry Haſtings Eſquire, was immediately before come thither from Yorke with a commiſſion of Aray. So the ſaid Earle having firſt given advertiſement thereof to the Parliament, removed very early the next morning a great part of the Magazine from the Towne of Leiceſter for more ſecurity to his owne houſe. That day being Thurſday, Maſter Haſtings cauſed the under Sheriffe (in the abſence of 〈◊〉 high Sheriffe) to ſend forth warrants in the high Sheriffes name, to the whole County, as well Trained Souldiers, private men and the Clergy ſhould come to Leiceſter according to his commiſſion, there to be muſtered upon the Wedneſday following. In the interim, the ſaid Earle having notice given him from divers perſons, of many menacing words caſt forth againſt him, tending to the hazard of his life, and deſtruction of his houſe; on Munday the ſaid Earle ſet a guard about his houſe of an hundred and fifty of his neighbours, tenants and ſervants, who hearing the report, came and offered themſelves to doe him ſervice, whom he maintained at his owne charge.

On Tuſeday early in the morning a meſſenger from the high Court of Parliament, did attach the under Sheriffe for ſending forth warrants by vertue of the commiſſion of Aray, and with a ſufficient guard carried him away to the Parliament.

In the afternoone Maſter Haſtings being newly returned againe from Yorke, came to Loughborough, and hearing that the under Sheriffe was gone, ſent out againe other warrants himſelfe to ſummon all the Townes neare his abode to come to him at Loughborough betimes the next morning, & being the Maſter of certain Cole-mines he cauſed all his horſes belonging to the engines, to be in a readineſſe, and there raiſed about one hundred Collyers out of Darbiſhire, whom he had armed with Pikes, Muskets and Calivers, and few or none of the Trained Bands comming into him▪ he aſſembled his friends (many of them Papiſts & ſuch others as are ill affected towards the proceedings of Parliament) at Loughborough on Wedneſday morning, where, and at Aſhby-de-lazouch he bought up all the powder and old troopers ſadles that on the ſuddain could be got: when all were come in together, he made proclamations that whoſoever wanted armes ſhould be furniſhed from Garradon Abbey, and other Popiſh places, as is credibly repotted; and ſo they marched with drums and colours towards Leiceſter, eight miles diſtant, himſelfe ſtill marching before them when they came neare a Towne.

Within three miles of the Towne of Leiceſter, he cauſed powder, match and bullets to be delivered to every Musketier, and commanded by a Sergeant that every man ſhould charge with powder and bullet, which was done immediately, and match lighted, and ſo himſelfe marched in the head of them into the Towne of Leiceſter, and commanded they ſhould not diſcharge till the word of command was given.

The Earle of Stamford having intelligence of his march by Scouts which he ſent abroad, might have laid his ambuſcado, and by the advantage of the way have cut them all off, for the ſaid Earle was furniſhed with about an hundred and fifty Musketiers and ſhot, and twenty good horſe well mounted with carabines and piſtolls, beſides the neighbouring Townes came running in, offering their lives and fortunes at his diſpoſe, and in effect, the whole County ready and willing to have beene raiſed at his command.

The provocations were great from Mr. Haſtings, and his troops conſiſting of horſe as well as pike men and musketiers, who gave out by the way (to the terror of the people that came affrighted and gave intelligence to the ſaid Earle) that they would fetch away the Magazine from him, fire his houſe, have his heart bloud, and never leave him till they had made him turne up the white of his eyes. Yet the ſaid Earle choſe rather to ſtand upon his guard at home, then to ſally out and levie a warre, well weighing with himſelfe the miſery that might have enſued, not to this County alone, but to the whole Kingdome.

When Mr. Haſtings and his company were come into the field, but not in the place where by the warrant he had appointed the Countrey to meet (very few of the Trained Bands obeying that ſummons) having made a ſpeech, and therein pretended his affection to his Countrey, that he had not a Papiſt in his company, and that his deſire was to avoid the effuſion of bloud, he began to read his Commiſſion of Aray.

Thereupon the high Sheriffe cauſed the Votes of both Houſes of Parliament to be read, wherein his Commiſſion was voted illegall: So a Meſſenger from both Houſes of Parliament did preſently attach him as a delinquent, as alſo ſome others of the Commiſſioners that were preſent with him, by vertue of a Warrant from the high Court of Parliament. Then notwithſtanding his foreſaid Oration, divers of his Company both horſe and foot did cock their Match and draw out their Piſtolls, and preſented them towards the high Sheriffe: Maſter Haſtings and the reſt being much danted at the unexpected courage and ſpirit both of the high Sheriffe and the Meſſenger, ſaid after they had executed his Majeſties Commiſſion they would appeare at the Parliament; but the horſe preſſing upon them (conſiſting chiefly of the foure delinquents their Captaines, Officers, and Servants, with others, Papiſts and unknown perſons, reſcued them, and ſhot at the Meſſenger, and two Butchers of Leiceſter throwing Mr. Haſtings on horſeback, he drew out his Piſtolls and marched directly with the reſt of his company to his Inne, and ſhut up the Gates.

The Earle of Stamford hearing of the Reſcue, ſent fome of his Servants to Leiceſter, to give command to every man that had any Souldiers in his houſe to ſeize their Armes when they were aſleep. In the meane while Maſter Haſtings and the reſt hearing what men the ſaid Earle had in a readineſſe, and apprehending that Mr. Sheriffe might require his aide, did all thereupon very fairely runne away that night at a leven of the clock. So it hapened that all or moſt of their Armes were ſeized upon according to the ſtratagem propoſed, and are now remaining at the diſpoſe of the ſaid Earle of Stamford, the which ſhall bee imployed as both Houſes of Parliament pleaſe to command.

It is to be remembred that Mr. Haſtings had his man at Leiceſter ready upon the comming downe of the Earle of Stamford to carry him word, and that hee immediatly poſted away to Yorke, and brought back with him Proclamations, which he diſperſed about the Country, writing himſelfe upon the backſide in the nature of a warrant that it was to be conveyed from towne to towne, and publiſhed in every place.

That the day before the Country was to come in, that he came himſelf to Leiceſter & Maſter Major and the Aldermen being met in the Towne Hall to adviſe about the appearance of the trained ſoulders in the Towne (which Maſter Major promiſed on Saterday before ſhould come in, if the Earl of Stamford would grant him a warrant which was granted) Maſter Haſtings came to the Hall, and ſent for Maſter Major from his brethren, and ſo changed his reſolucion that hee utterly refuſed to iſſue out any warrants, for which Maſter Haſtings ſince hath procured a letter of thanks from the King to the Major.

Notwithſtanding the backwardneſſe of the Major, about 100. men, many of the Majors Bretheren, and of the Company of the Burrough, with others well affected to the King, Parliament, and Kingdome, and the ſafety of them, came as volunteers well Armed, and many others offred in a ſhort time to provide themſelves with Armes, to be ready at the next Summons of the Earl of Stamfords to be trained and exerciſed.

Die Sabbathi 18. Iunii 1642.

Reſolved upon the Queſtion by the Lords and Commons aſſembled in Parliament.

THat this Commiſſion of Aray for Leiceſter is againſt Law and the Liberty and property of the Subject.

Die Lunae 20. Irunii, 1642.

Reſolved upon the Queſtion, &c.

THat all thoſe that are Actors in putting the Commiſſion of Aray in execution, ſhall be eſteemed as diſturbers of the peace of the Kingdome, and betrayers of the liberty of the Suject.

Iohn Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.
A NARATION Of the Service performed by Iohn Chambers, and James Stanforth, by command of both Houſes of Parliament touching the Militia.

ON Saturday the eighteenth of this inſtant June, 1642. they received at the riſing of the Houſe of Commons their warrants againſt the ſeverall Delinquents therein named, viz. Henry Hastings Eſquire, Sonne to the Right Honourable the Earle of Huntington, Henry Haſtings of Humerston Eſquire, Sir Richard Hawford Knight, Maſter Pate, Sir John Bale Knight, and Maſter Gregory the Under-Sheriffe of the County of Leiceſter.

On Munday the 20 of the ſaid Moneth, they came by eleven of the clocke in the morning to Broadgate, in the ſaid County, to the Houſe of the Right Honourable the Earle of Stamford; where they were informed that his Lordſhip, together with the Lord Ruthin, and Sir Arthur Haſlerigg, were training of Souldiers at a place called C • pt Oake, three myles diſtant from the Lord Stamfords houſe, where the ſaid Chambers and Stanforth waited till the evening, when they returned from the Muſter, and preſently tooke horſe as the Lords, Sir Arthur Haſlerigg, and others then preſently did, and waited on them to the Town of Leiceſter; where they attended the ſaid Lords: and Sir Arthur Haſlerigg, who received information that Sir Richard Hawford had prevailed with Thomas Ruddier the Maior there, to ſet a Guard on the remainder of the Magazine, and they having ſent for the ſaid Maior and Juſtices of the ſaid Town of Leiceſter, removed the ſame from the South-gate, into a ſtrong Tower called Neworks-Gate neere the Town; by the approbation of the ſaid Maior, and Juſtices who were then preſent that evening, and the next day they waited for further command from their Lordſhips, and Sir Arthur Haſlerigg; who being at Leiceſter; where they heard that Maſter Henry Haſtings, ſir Richard Hawford, and others, intended to come in a Warlike manner againſt them the day following being Wedneſday, the 23. of the ſaid June, after the Lords, and Sir Arthur Haſlerigg had fixed the Votes of both Houſes on the In-Gates, where they the ſaid Maſter Hastings, and the other Delinquents were to lye, and had done what was poſſible in the buſineſſe for the time preſent. About nine of the clock in the morning they departed to the Lord Stamfords, leaving the ſaid Chambers, and Stanforth, together with one Thomas Horton, one of the ſaid Sir Arthurs ſervants at Leiceſter, to wait on the ſaid High-Sheriffe Archdale Palmer Eſquite, to mannage the buſineſſe, as the Sheriffe and they were required.

On the Wedneſday aforeſaid, about eight of the clock in the morning, the High-Sheriffe came to Leiceſter, attended on by men Armed with ſwords and javelins to keep the Kings Peace there; that being in an Inne called the Hearon in Leiceſter; the ſaid Chambers ſaw a Barrell brought in by a Porter, which he deemed to be Gunpowder, which doubts to ſatisfie, the Porter was examined: whereupon he confeſſed, the Barrell was filled with Gun-powder, and that it was ſent thither by Maſter Andrew Hawford. Son to the ſaid ſir Richard Hawford; which Powder, the High-Sheriffe then ſeized upon, by power of an Order of the Honorable Houſe of Parliament, Dated the eleventh day of June aforeſaid.

That about ten of the clock the ſaid day, one Maſter Walter Haſtings mounted on a Bay ſtone-horſe, with a great ſaddle and Petronels, in a Warlike manner Rid into the yard of the ſaid Inne, and with him the Lord Lovelace, and one Maſter Killegrew (as they were informed) who traverſing up and down the ſaid Yard on horſebacke, the ſaid Walter Haſtings ſwore that he would eat up the Lord Stamford; to which one of the ſaid gentlemen replied, leave one bit for me, or to the ſame effect; and then the ſaid Haſtings made a ſhort diſtracted ſpeech to the people ſaying: What, my friends and countrymen, ye ſtand for the King and the Haſtings, who have ever been true to the Crown: The people anſwered, we are all for the King and the Parliament. Then the ſaid Haſtings required the ſaid Sheriffe to read His Majeſties Proclamation, which (with an oath of God damn him) he the ſaid Hastings ſwore the Sheriffe had received; Whereunto the Sheriffe modeſtly replied, it was not true; which done, he the ſaid Hastings departed, and the reſt of his company, in an outragious and uncivill manner, ſwearing and curſing as they rid out of the ſaid Inne.

About two of the clocke of the ſame day, they the ſaid High-Sheriffe, Chambers, and Stanforth, had intelligence that the ſaid Delinquents, or moſt of them, with all their Troops and Foot Souldiers, to the number of about 300, were met in a Commou or green, called the Horſe Faire neere the ſaid Town, whither they repaired, attended on by the ſaid Sheriff, men on Foot, and found the ſaid Parties there, met ſome of them on great Horſes, with Petronels, and the reſt Armed with ſwords, Muskers, Caleevers, Pikes, and Halberts.

Maſter Henry Hastings, alighted and told the Sheriffe, and the reſt; he was come thither to execute his Majeſties Commiſſion of Array, to himſelfe and others, then granted for that County, and then tendered to the ſaid Sheriffe two bundels, the one of Proclamations, the other of books, with an impoſition on the Sheriffe to read and publiſh the ſame; Maſter Hastings ſwearing, he was the Kings body and Soul; and the ſaid Sheriffe being often and very uncivilly preſſed by the ſaid Maſter Hastings, to read and publiſh the ſaid Proclamations, made this anſwer: I cannot performe His Majeſties ſingle commands, till I have acquainted the Parliament therewith, nor do any thing contrary to their Votes, I am for the King and for the Parliament, (and if I periſh, I periſh.) Whereupon the ſaid Chambers produced the laſt Votes of both Houſes concerning the illegality of the Commiſſions of Array, and read the ſame plainly and openly, endeavouring thereby to let the people hear them ſo read. And likewiſe read the laſt Declaration of both Houſes concerning the Militia, concluding with theſe words; God ſave the King and Parliament: which words the people plauſibly reiterated (except the ſaid Henry Hastings, who (as before) againe ſaid, he was the Kings body and ſoule;) and then and there the ſaid Chambers drew forth the Warrants of both Houſes, and intreated the peoples ſilence, read them openly, and called the Delinquents Maſter Henry Hastings, Sir Richard Hawford, Sir John Bale, Maſter John Pate, they being then and there preſent and within hearing (as the ſaid Chambers was informed) requiring them at their utmoſt perils to yeeld their obedience to the power of the ſaid Warrants; and the ſaid Chambers required the Sheriffe to keepe the Kings peace, and to be aiding and aſſiſting unto him the ſaid Chambers in this due execution of the ſaid Warrants. To prevent and utterly hinder the due execution whereof, the ſaid Maſter Haſtings began to read the Kings Commiſſion, which being in Latine, and he not being ready therein, did there indevour to comment upon the meaning thereof in Engliſh, which being altogether then unable to doe, one Maſter Edward Palmer the Towne Clarke of Leicester, tooke the ſaid Commiſſion out of his hand, ſaying, it ought to be read, who read it in Latine, to which moſt of the people gave eare, but anſwered nothing. That done, the ſaid Chambers laid a ſtrict command on the ſaid Sheriffe to have a ſpeciall care of the ſaid Delinquents, and required them likewiſe to obey: which words the ſaid Sir Richard Hawford hearing (being very neere to the ſaid Chambers) anſwered thus, viz. When this his Majeſties great buſineſſe is over, then Ile come to you Maſter Sheriffe, and give ſuch ſecurity for my attendance on the Parliament as ſhall be fitting. Maſter Haſtings alſo willed the ſaid Chambers to repaire to the Angell in Leicester, where all the Delinquents (as he ſaid) intended to lodge that night, where he ſhould have civill deportment from them; which he much doubted, ſeeing their cariage before in the Field to be ſo outragious

Immediately after that Maſter Haſtings pretended he would divide the Troopers and Souldiers into foure parts, and call them by their names; but having ſevered them for his owne advantage, to gaine his Horſe, he was (by two rude Butchers, one by name Henry Cotes, as the ſaid Chambers was informed) lifted up into his great Saddle, and a Petronell ready cockt given into his hands, by one of the ſaid Butchers. Then the Cavaleers and the reſt of the Souldiers joyning with the rude multitude, and about foure and twenty Parſons in Canonicall Coats, well horſed, rid all towards the Towne with loud exclamations, a KING, a KING, others, for the KING, for the KING, in a ſtrange and unheard of manner; Captaine Worſley giving the Word of command to the Souldiers, Make ready, Make ready; which as they were providing to doe, a ſudden and extraordinary aboundance of raine falling, the Souldiers were hindred from firing.

Then the ſaid Maſter Walter Hasting endeavoured to ride over the ſaid Chambers, who to prevent that, got up a high banke, whereon a rude fellow ſtanding ſtrooke him with a club on the breaſt, and with the violence thereof the ſaid Chambers fel backward into a ditch, but as ſoone as his ſtrength ſerved him to recover himſelfe, he made all the haſte he poſſibly could towards the Towne to eſcape murthering: then they followed Maſter Sheriffe, Chambers and Stanforth crying out at the Cap, at the Cap, which was at that time on Chambers his head, and one of the perſons endeavoured to ride over the ſayd Sheriffe, another of them would have ridden over the ſaid Stanforth, and Maſter Walter Hastings gave fire at Chambers with one of his Petronels, but the ſame did not diſcharge; ſo they got to the ſaid Inne with much hazard, who afterwards were in forced, for their owne ſafety, to ſtand upon their guard; and being very much tyred, were unable that night to doe any further ſervice, except the writing of a Letter, which Chambers did, and recommended the ſame to the Lord Stamford, and the reſt to ſatisfie what done, and to have further direction what was fitting after to be done therein; which directions about one of the clocke in the morning were, that the ſaid Chambers and Stanforth ſhould by the aſſiſtance of the ſaid Sheriffe, and the Major, and Juſtices of Leicester, uſe their beſt power and endeavour to ſurprize the ſaid Delinquents: But they too ſenſible of their ill carriage and miſdemeanour, privately in the evening had got away, leaving the Souldiers behinde them. About two of the clocke the ſaid morning, the ſaid Chambers and Stanforth, with the aſſiſtance of the Juſtices and other Towneſmen, with about forty perſons more, made ſeverall ſearches in Innes and other drinking-houſes, where they found many ſouldiers laid in bed, ſome on the bed, but moſt of them diſtempered with drinke; and then ſeized on their Armes, and cauſed them to be carried to the Sheriffe in the ſaid Inne, viz. one great Saddle, three Petronels, and about one hundreth Pikes, one Launce, above threeſcore Muskets and Caleevers, about twenty Swords, and foure long Peeces about ſeven foot in length. All which the ſaid Chambers and Stanforth, and others of the Sheriffes men, ſearching, found charged ſome with Bullets, ſome with halfe Bullets, and others with gooſe ſhot very deepely and dangerouſly; which amunition being left in the Sheriffes cuſtody, part of them were delivered to ſome of the traine Band, and the reſt preſented by the ſaid Chambers to the Lord Stamford.

Then the ſaid Chambers being further informed that Maſter Henry Hastings had procured about an hundred and twenty Colliers out of Darbiſhire, to attend him to Leicester; upon the like ſearch, the ſaid Chambers with Stanforth being accompanied with the ſaid Juſtices and Towneſmen, found two of them, who confeſſed they were poore Darbiſhire Colliers, neither trained men, nor men that had at any time before that borne Armes for any other, and that they and their fellowes were commanded to come to Leicester in aid of his Majeſty, and their Maſter the ſaid Maſter Hastings; which ſaid Colliers never appeared before the Sheriffe to demand or receive their Armes, but got privately away: the Major in the whole progreſſe of this buſineſſe, ſeemed backward to doe any thing for the Parliament, and as forward to further Maſter Hastings in the buſineſſe aforeſaid. The effect of which proceedings the ſaid Chambers and Stanforth thought fit humbly to preſent to the conſtruction and grave conſideration of this Honorable Aſſembly; ready alwayes to proſtrate themſelves and ſervice at your further commands,

John Chambers, James Stanforth. FINIS.