A Declaration by direction of the committee at Yorke to their deluded and oppressed countrey-men also the letters with the propositions and articles sent to the Earle of Newcastle upon which he entred this county, and his answer thereunto : with observations thereupon.

A Declaration by direction of the committee at Yorke to their deluded and oppressed countrey-men also the letters with the propositions and articles sent to the Earle of Newcastle upon which he entred this county, and his answer thereunto : with observations thereupon.

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A Declaration by the Committee at York, to their deluded and oppreſſed Countrey-men.

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To the Right Honourable, and my Noble friends the Nobilitie and Gentrie now aſſembled at York for his Majeſties preſent ſervice. Propoſitions in anſwer to your Letter of Invitation.

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The Anſwer of the Nobility and Gentry of Yorkſhire, aſſembled at York for His Majeſties Service to the Propoſitions ſent unto them by the Right Honourable the Earle of Newcaſtle.

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Obſervation.

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A DECLARATION By Direction of the COMMITTEE AT YORKE, TO Their deluded and oppreſſed Countrey-men.

ALSO The Letters, with the Propoſitions and Articles ſent to the Earle of Newcaſtle, upon which he entred this County, and his Anſwer thereunto.

With Obſervations thereupon.

Printed at Yorke by Tho. Broad. 1645.

A Declaration by the Committee at York, to their deluded and oppreſſed Countrey-men.

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WHen the Royall preſence and the traine of a number of Malignant Nobility was lately among you, when Courtly, curious, and cunningly penned Language was written, and uttered in your hearing, when you ſaw ſo many of the Gentry of this County your Neighbours and Land-lords flock to Yorke, and adhere to, and aſſiſt the conſpirators and contrivers of that oppoſition and force againſt the Parliament of England, which ſince hath broken forth, and been manifeſted to all the Kingdome. It is no great wonder though the Common ſort were [Page] deceived and came up in ſuch flockes to Heworth-Moore to doe ſervice to the golden Idoll. But do but look a few years beyond that, and you may ſee ſeverall oppreſſions upon the Subject by all manner of Monopolies and Extortions of money; Lawes trodden under foot, Juſtice ſet to ſale in every Court, from the higheſt Bench in Weſtminſter-hall, to the Seſſions and Commiſſion of Sowers in the Countrey. The purity of the Proteſtant Religion ſtained with Popiſh, Arminian, and other new invented Doctrines, and that by Authority, and out of Pulpits; and the true Worſhip of God turned into apiſh and popiſh inventions of men: Popery grew faſt and received favour, and the true Proteſtant Miniſters ſuppreſſed and diſgraced. And Parliaments (which were the proper and onely remedy to help all this, and the reſt of the diſeaſes in the politicke body) not onely abandoned, but by Proclamation declared a high crime, for any one to ſay there ſhould be a Parliament [Page] called, and there was none in foureteene yeares; in which time the diſtempers of the Kingdom by ſuch miſguidance grew ſo deadly, eſpecially by the Scotiſh Army raiſed in defence of that Nation, and brought into this to prevent inroades into their owne, by the forces raiſed by inſtigation of the Prelaticall party, that in the end this Soveraigne Parliament was ſummoned by due courſe of Law, and ſo eſtabliſhed as never Parliament was before, by the higheſt confirmation this Kingdome can give, and not to be diſſolved againſt their wills, unleſſe by the ſword of Traytors. When this Parliament had ſitten a while, and had beene courted by granting ſeverall convenient Lawes to ſweeten the bitterneſſe was paſt: This bridle of Tyranny and ſoveraigne purge of the Common-wealth, & Churches Maladies, could no longer be indured, by the Prelaticall and Malignant party, and that which no Jeſuiticall craft could diſſolve, is reſolved upon, the Sword muſt, [Page] and after many bitter reviling words from York in Declarations and Anſwers againſt the Parliament, (of which the Law ſayes, No man ought to thinke diſhonourably) Within this unhappy County, (and by it) which will be an infamy to the Actors for ever, notwithſtanding all the applawces for it by the Court, as they had many; the firſt allowed Arms were taken up, and the Commands of Parliament diſobeyed, and their Meſſengers and Officers with Scorne abuſed, and the Judgement of that moſt Honourable Court which is the eye and reaſon of the Common-wealth in the queſtion of the Militia contemned, and the opinions of private men admired and advanced, which the Lawes of this Kingdome never appointed, nor is of any value. When the King by the aſſiſtance of the Malignant Gentry of this County whoſe names are hereafter mentioned, had in order to theſe opinions of flattering aſpiring Lawyers about the Throne, of which it never wanted, more (then a good many) [Page] had ſeiſed upon the Militia of this County, the King with ſome of that Militia departs into the other neighbour Counties to doe the like, and by the ſame Gentry the firſt Illegall and unjuſt Aſſeſment of eight thouſand pound is put upon the Countrey to maintaine ſome part of that Militia left behind, to ſuppreſſe the Lawes, and the reſt of the Gentry, who obeyed the Judgement and Direction of the Parliament; but this was oppoſed as a thing againſt Law, ſo much bragged on, ſhould be the ſquare of Government, and an oppreſſion which made but way for a greater, as in ſhort time it proved, riſing from 8000. to 30000 l. by month, and afterwards to 80. thouſand l. per menſem. When theſe Gentlemens unlawfull powers aſſembled at Yorke could not defend ſuch their unjuſt proceedings, nor their perſons from the Juſtice of the Parliament, nor the forces raiſed to ſuppreſs theſe treſpaſſes and trayterous acts againſt the State and Law, they conſpire to call into the [Page] County the Earle of Newcaſtle, then under cenſure of Parliament for High-treaſon, and a Semi-papian and an Athiſticall perſon, as was more declared afterward by that horrid crew he brought in with him, and they preſſe him by arguments of Service to the King and his own Honour to come to their aſſiſtance, which was in truth to protect themſelves againſt the Juſtice of the Parliament. Newcaſtle entertaines the motion, upon termes of horrible oppreſſion to the Countrey, and to ſerve the Queene. And theſe oppreſſours of their Countrey agree to all, and eſpecially to that Propoſition about the Queene, and promiſe any further contribution to that good ſervice. And by a ſecond Letter, magnifie the Earle of Newcaſtle for his entertaining the invitation, and make vows of honour and obedience to his Lordſhip, and tell of their diſtreſſes for Loyalty to the King, when they are about traiterouſly to deſtroy both the Law, and the Parliament, the fountain and [Page] bulwarke both of Law and Juſtice, and conſequently the Kingdome, and ſo to make him a King of bruites and not reaſonable men. This Lord thus courted, checks at one Article, omitted, which was the maine one to inrich his Popiſh Tyrannical Officers and Minions with a full pay; and if that be granted, then his little Lordſhip is in a huge diſpoſition to be really the faithfull Servant of theſe complotters and enemies to the State, as he afterwards proved, being the Leader, (Judas like) to theſe betrayers of Chriſt and his Cauſe, but are ſince fallen backward to the ground as that Band of men did. At the Rendition of Pomfret Caſtle there was found the Originall Letters by which this bargaine was made with the Earle of Newcaſtle by the Conſpiratours to ſell their Countrey, and all that was of worth in it to that Popiſh Commander and Army: which Letters being ſhewed to the Commitees for that County attending at York, and by them duely conſidered of, it was [Page] agreed and thought fit that thoſe Letters ſhould be Printed, and a Declaration upon them, that poſterity might ſee who had been the chief deſtroyers of their Country.

The Letters are theſe being examined by ſome of the Committee appointed for that purpoſe, and the Originalls remaine in ſafe hands to be ſeene by any man that ſhall deſire it.

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My Lord,

IT is the deſire of us, and the moſt of the Gentry of this County to crave aſſiſtance from your Lordſhip in this time of Mr. Hotham's infeſting the Countrey; which favour we ſhall alwayes acknowledge from your Lordſhip, and we are the bolder in this buſineſſe, becauſe we know it to be a great Service to his Majeſty, by the preſervation of this County, and will be much to your Honour, to preſerve in peace and ſafety.

My Lord, Your Lordſhip [...] moſt humble Servants.

York, Sept. 26. 1642.

Savile▪

George Wentwo [...]th

[Page] William Savile

Tho. Gower, Vi. Co.

Henry Slingsby

Peter Middleton

Iohn Key.

Iobn Ramſden

Fardinando Leigh

Iohn Mallery

Francis Nevill.

Tho. Ingram

Iohn Goodricke.

Richard Hutton.

William Ingram.

Robert Rockley

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Noble Gentlemen,

I Have received from you a Letter of invitation by the hands of Sir Mar. Langdale, and Mr. Aldburgh, and ſhall (for the eſteeme and affection I beare in generall to the Country, being my native Countrey, and in particular to many of you to whom I have the Honour to be knowne) be ready to contribute my beſt aid and aſſiſtance in that worke, ſince it is likely to conduce to his Majeſties Service, and peace and quiet of all his good Subjects, and to conclude this agreement, I have ſent you incloſed certaine Propoſitions, which by way of Articles ſhould be drawne, and ſigned and ſ [...]aled by you, and as many more as you ſhall ingage in [Page] that worke, which I ſhall expect from you before I march. And ſo preſenting my Service to you all, I remaine,

Newcaſtle, Sep. 30. 1642.

Your moſt faithfull Servant, W. N.

To the Right Honourable, and my Noble friends the Nobilitie and Gentrie now aſſembled at York for his Majeſties preſent ſervice.
Propoſitions in anſwer to your Letter of Invitation.

FIrſt, that I have all your conſents and promiſes that the Army be paid whileſt they are in that County.

That an Aſſeſſement be laid upon the Countrey to enable you for that undertaking, and that if money be not gotten in time, that I may have free Billet for the Souldiers, for which Billet you are to ingage your ſelves to the Quarters, and that the Officers be paid according to his Majeſties preſent eſtabliſhment, out of that Aſſeſment.

[Page] That there be ſome of the Gentry of that Country appointed as a Committee, enabled by the reſt of the Gentry, to agree and conclude of ſuch further Propoſitions as may happen to be neceſſary for this Service, and not here mentioned, and to march along with the Army, whoſe councell and aſſiſtance from time to time I am reſolved to uſe.

That I have aſſurance that all manner of Proviſions fit for an Army, be prepared and brought to the Army the firſt day it enters.

That ſince this Army was levied, a purpoſe to guard her Majeſties perſon, that it ſhall not be held a breach of any engagement betwixt us, if I retire with ſuch numbers, as I ſhall thinke fit for that ſervice.

W. N.

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My Lord,

WEE have received from your Lordſhip an Anſwer to our Letters of [Page] Invitation, (Noble as your ſelfe) which ſhall we hope make you the Maſter of ſuch a worke of Honour, as beſides your great Service it will be to his Majeſty, ſhall both enoble your ſelfe farther and oblige us. We have ſigned and ſent unto your Lordſhip, Articles proportionable to your Lordſhips deſire (as we conceive,) beſides a particular power to thoſe Gentlemen now with you, more fully to declare our ſelves. My Lord, beleeve this, That wee ſuffer here no diſtreſſes, but for our Loyalty to the King, and your Lordſhips favour to us will equally oblige both; therefore, Good my Lord, make all poſſible ſpeed to march hither, or to ſend ſome force before, leſt a little delay make all our endeavours fruitleſſe; and in the generall, beleeve that their is nothing in the power of us, or of this County, which ſhall not faithfully ſerve you, and more you cannot expect from,

My Lord, Your moſt faithfull and humble Servants.

H. Cumberland

Savile

Tho. Gower, Vi. co.

William Savile

Henry Griffith

Henry Slingesby

Edward Stanhope.

Iohn Key

John Mallery

Ferdinando Leigh

William Ingilby

John Ramſden

George Wentworth

Conyers Darcy

Robert Strickland.

William Wentworth.

Ingram Hopton.

Iohn Goodricke.

William Wentworth.

John Batty.

Richard Hutton

Francis Monckton

Robert Rockley

W. Thornton

The Anſwer of the Nobility and Gentry of Yorkſhire, aſſembled at York for His Majeſties Service to the Propoſitions ſent unto them by the Right Honourable the Earle of Newcaſtle.

1. THat your Lordſhip ſhall have our conſents and promiſes, the Army which your Lordſhip ſhall bring with you into this County for the defence thereof, ſhall be paid by this County.

[Page] 2. There is an Aſſeſſement of eight thouſand pounds already laid upon this County, which ſhall be levied as ſoone as by your Lordſhips aſſiſtance we are enabled to doe it, and that till money be gotten in, your Souldiers ſhall have free billet, for which we will engage our ſelves to the Quarters; and for the payment of your Officers for the Army, it is referred to the Committee for this County, who have Inſtructions and power to treat and conclude with your Lordſhip in that particular.

3. There ſhall be a Committee of ſome of the Gentry of the County appointed, and enabled by the reſt to agree, and conclude of ſuch further Propoſitions as may happen to be neceſſary for this ſervice, not here mentioned, and to march along with your Lordſhips Army, whoſe councell and aſſiſtance wee deſire your Lordſhip may uſe, the names of which Committee wee ſend your Lordſhip herewithall, who are appointed to attend you at Newcaſtle, and [Page] to march along with your Army, when you enter into the County.

4. That aſſoone as we have notice of your Lordſhips march, we will uſe all poſſible means to bring to your Army all ſuch proviſions, as this Countrey can afford.

5. We are tender of the ſafety of her Majeſties perſon, that we ſhall not onely conſent to your Lordſhips performance of that ſervice, but will alſo contribute our utmoſt endeavours to aſſiſt your Lordſhip therein.

6. Laſtly, we have appointed our Committee to be, Sir Edward Osborne, Baronet, Sir Marmaduke Langdale Knight▪ Francis Tindall and Richard Aldburgh Eſquires, and given them Inſtructions and power to treat with your Lordſhip and to conclude in ſuch particulars as may further conduce to this Service, or in theſe Propoſitions admit a doubtfull interpretation,

H. Cumberland

Savile

Tho. Gower, Vi. co.

George Wentworth

Conyers Darey

Robert Strickland.

[Page] William Savile

Henry Griffith

Henry Slingesby

Edward Stanhope

Iohn Key

John Mallery

Ferdinando Leigh

William Ingilby

John Ramſden

Iohn Savile.

William Wentworth.

Ingram Hopton.

Iohn Goodricke

William Wentworth.

John Batty.

Richard Hutton

Francis Monckton

Robert Rockley

Francis Nevill.

Walter Haukeſworth.

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My Lords and Gentlemen,

I am to give you many thankes for your favourable Letter by Mr. Aldburgh, and the ſigning ſo far my deſired Articles, which had no other end, then the better to enable me to ſerve you. And I beſeech you give me [...] as I intend faithfully to ſerve you, ſo to deale clearly and freely with you, which I hold a duty; The truth is, I am very ſorry you pleas'd to leave out the Article for the Officers pay, or coldly refer'd it to your Committee, being the principall thing in all the Articles, for you know the Souldier [...] is encouraged with nothing [Page] but money, or hopes of it, and truely yeſternight when I was going to bed, there came Collonels and Lievtenant-Col. and ſaid, they heard you had left it out, and for their parts, that they muſt thinke, that if you were ſo cantious not to grant it is paper, before we came in, they doubted very much of it in money, when they were there, and that the workman was worthy of his hire, and ſuch like diſcontented words; ſo the truth is, rather then not come cheerfully to ſerve you, I will not come at all, for I ſee before-hand I ſhall either disband with a Mutinie, or fall of plundering without diſtinction, either of which would be deſtructive to me: and beſides, I hold my ſelf free, ſince my Articles are not ſign'd for I never underſtood any of thoſe Articles to be referr'd to the Committee, but ſuch things as we could not remember, and the preſent occaſion offer'd. Could I pay them, or his Majeſties you ſhould not have had ſuch an Article, but ſince that cannot be, [...]ou will pardon me in telling you how I am capable to ſerve you▪ and how not, and ſo I reſt in a huge diſpoſition to be really

Newcaſtle, Oct. 30. 1642.

Your moſt faithfull Servant, W. N.

Obſervation.

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IT is plaine out of the firſt Letter that theſe Gentlemen began with a falſe Inſinuation, to terme themſelves the moſt of the Gentry of Yorkeſhire, who are not the fourth part of them. In it they call Captaine Hothams coming to Doncaſter, which was by command of the Parliament of England to aſſiſt the Lord Fairfax to ſet up the Militia, (an infeſting the Country) They invite Athiſts, Papiſts, and who ever will to come to joyne with them, the better to enable them to oppoſe the reſolutions of the Parliament, and call it great Service to the King and preſervation of the Country, which was the ruine of the Country that bred them, and more ſervice to the Pope then the King. That Lord ſo invited, yeelds preſently to that bait they call Honour, but inthralls them with Articles to oppreſſe the Country by Aſſeſſements which no Law warrants, by Free-quarter which the knowne Lawes forbid to be taken without Authority of Parliament, [Page] and they pawne their cred [...] poore County ſhall pay for all, and [...] did. They are carefull to guard her Majeſties perſon, who had no care for the five Members of Parliament. They tel that Lord, he ſhall be Maſter (as they hope) of a work of Honour, &c. which was to burn Bradford, much of Yorke, and numbers of other houſes; to rob, plunder, and impriſon the well-affected of the County. They would have his Lordſhip beleeve they ſuffer no diſtreſſe but for loyalty to the King, which was but a ſconce for their own protection from the Juſtice of Parliament▪ In the ſecond Letter, They tell that Lord his favour to them ſhall oblige the King, and promiſe there is nothing in the County ſhall not faithfully ſerve him, ſo he will ſerve their turns, and in a great part they performe it; their bodies, their eſtates, their wives, their daughters, were his ſervants, and his ſervants ſervants too: nay, their conſciences, the Goſpell, and true Miniſters of it were made to ſerve that Papiſticall [Page] crew. The proud Haman, becauſe he had all things but one granted him, by their Articles, (which was his Officers pay) that not granted or coldly referred to a Committee, without this alſo hee lightly values all the reſt, and will not come to their aſſiſtance. Thus Countrymen you ſee how you and all yours, what ever is deare to any of you, hath beene bought and ſold by theſe Gentlemen, who in ſtead of peace and preſervation to the Countrey, have brought in War, Bloudſhed and ruine upon it; and in ſtead of Honour to his Lordſhip, both he and they like blazing comets are gone out in a ſtinch, which will laſt for ever.

It was thought fit to publiſh in Print one Letter more, found in the ſame place, which is the proper hand writing of Cap. John Htham, written to the Enemy when he was the profeſt ſervant to the Parliament, Hear the Letter.

My Noble Lord,

I have found out a way to doe his Majeſty reall Service, and [Page]to be your Servant without ſcandall; for I confeſſe nothing went hard, but that I could not come in to your Lordſhip in ſuch a condition as befitted him that you eſteem worthy your friendſhip. I ſhall deſire you would by this Bearer ſend me a ſafe conduct for forme ſake, not that I deſire or care for it: if you could write me but a word what my L. Fairfax hath done, I could make great advantage of it in this buſineſſe, for I thinke you will ſee ſuch a conſiderable party brought to the King, as hath not beene yet; all which he is to thank you for. I ſhall add no more becauſe I ſhall wait on you ſo ſoon, but to deſire the countenance of your good opinion, to

Lincolne, Aprill 15. 1643

Your moſt affectionate ſervant, John Hotham.

By this ſecret contrived treaſon of his againſt the Common-wealth, and for which he ſuffered death is more diſcovered, and that righteous ſentence cleared and ratified.

FINIS.

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A Declaration by direction of the committee at Yorke to their deluded and oppressed countrey-men also the letters with the propositions and articles sent to the Earle of Newcastle upon which he entred this county, and his answer thereunto : with observations thereupon.

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— A Declaration by direction of the committee at Yorke to their deluded and oppressed countrey-men also the letters with the propositions and articles sent to the Earle of Newcastle upon which he entred this county, and his answer thereunto : with observations thereupon., Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676..

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