To the right honourable the knights, citizens and burgesses ... the humble petition of the officers and souldiers... Glocester, ... 1645
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HI \d 'v, LY: © HONOURABLE The Knights, Citizens and Bur- | ſeſembled in_ _ PARLIAMENT: ' The bank Petition of the Officers and Souldiers of the Regiments of Foot, of the Garrison of Gloucester. | | Hunbly speed, | DES. | wew Hat with equal patience: as faithful- .nefſe, they have a long time expected who 7A Arrears, which it pleased the Parliament Py ſomewhat above two years since to provide them, That the pay of the Officer ;., *ever since, hat! |r been ( through the necessity of the common Souldier) kept back, the whole County under the Parliaments: power, being not able to pay both, whereby at least fifty; thousand pounds, 1s due to our Petitioners; Thar they have adjudged the rights of pay- nient, till should please The God: Barkley Discovery should be. 6 fa) be reduced, That the Souldicry, generally, have been constrained to accept of small allowances in stead of their pay, twelve pence a week being the scantling, that many times, they were inforced to content themselves with all; That the weekly contribution, in the whole, is much inferior, to the charge of Horse and Foot most required to be kept and maintained there; That with much industry, they exposed the lives of many of their friends, and themselves to any hazard, for reducing of the Garrison of Barley, the very hopes whereof, has so long sustained, epooping resolution. But in conclusion, that place being reduced, they understand, it is the solicitous endeavor of some, to alleviate that whole Division, (almost half the pay of the Garrison) from your Petitioners, (notwithstanding several Ordinances of Parliament to the contrary) and to have it conferred upon other forces, which if obtained, One of the Regiments of Foor, and most part of the Horse, must be disbanded, and consequently Gloucester, Treasury, and all other parts of the County, which always have been, and now is the Frontier to Hereford, Monmouth Gothers, worteſter, and Oxford, must of necessity fall and be a to the prey of the Enemy, and your Petitioners wholly deficient of satisfaction of their great arrears, and of any present maintenance for their sovereignty. And therefore humbly pray , that the City and , County of Gloxcefter, fo well deſerving, may not bee | thereby ruined , which cannot but tend to the great dif-ſervice of .the Parliament and. Kingdome , And that the bread allorted to your Petitioners , may not bee taken from: their- _ theirmouthesto feed others, who have not ſerved the _ Parliament wich more faithfulneſſe or affe&ion, bur - that they may receive the reward of their paticat expe- Rations, in enjoying the whole Contributions of the County of Glouceſter, according to ſeverall Qrdinan- ces of. Parliament already made 1n that behalfe : premiſſes will more clearly ap- _ peareinand by the Remonſtrance hereunto res Gr o _ whichandother the ( the And your Petitioners further. pray, that the Money allotted for cloathing of the common fouldiers of | both the Regiments laſt Winter, and no part thereof received, may ( accord ing to ſeverall Ordinances of Parliament in that beh _ vided, ater. the ſouldiers may- be clothed oO receive ſome fruit of many forepaſk. Winter, and promiſes made unto them, the better to enable them made) be forthwirh pro- his to doe further ſervice for the Parliament, their Coun- . try and Kingdome, _' And your Petitioners ſhall ever pray,G'e. | . Thenames of the Officers that ſubſcribed, Charles Blunt. Peter Criſpe. willam white. ' Robert Malary. _ PV lliam For fter. FohnVPYard. | ' John Brotherton, Chreſtopher Elſinge, Savard Kydar. | Thomas Pury $0 | Robert Stevenſon.” - © Richard Mathenes,. Humphrey Matheves.. | Tſaze Dobſon, Jrilliam Sing leton, A | Thomas Chapman.. Edvard Riſall, Ed. Nurſe. william Clarck. A 2 Je | ; ' : , x "_ % * 7, ” v RN - - mn *” OE * ws * A ? »/ . "T3 ” - : : F cy pt Ir I ee en __r—_— | C — ahi ob rafceyehratiees Fo#14240$4224 & Ss ” S550 0556 SS) FRO SI OARAAS PODS PISA VRP SIS TNY v * The humble Remonſtrance + be Aﬀilitia of the Garriſons of Gloa- eefer: tothe Honourable Houſe | es ol. of Commons. ery Mpramis chat the two Regimetits of: Foote now in ';Glogrefter were in; arreares:and- great .exigences for - want-,of money -before: the :Serge, but upon the faithfull ſervice of that City, the Parliament was pleaſed the fifteen of September 1643.to order that the Arrears. of that Garriſon ſhould be forthwith caſt up, and paid unto ther, which being accordingly done by the Auditors for them, there was due to theEarle of Sta-fords- Regiment, almoſt thirteen thouſand pounds, and to Col- lonel Stephers Regimentalmoftifix thouſand:pounts, in the who a3 LEE thouſand pounds, which as yet is wholly unpaid. _ - 2. Thatever fince the Officers of both the ſaid Revi- ments have beene i in continwll Arrears, nalefſe ſome ſmall al Barkeley eviſion , the reſidue being. etther under. the power of the Enemy, or elfe.in thoſe parts of the Goun- ty that 2re much impoveriſhed, beſides there is'due at - this preſent to the ſaid Regiments above fifty thouſand pounds, which deſerves the providence of the Patliament z to. Of late by affignari 10NS, "out of part of To determine which way: it shall be discharged: That the next ensuing Winter after the Siege of Gloucester by reason of the unhappy design of Major Backhouse, about the delivery up of six ounces, for a reward of two thousand pounds, whereof he received three hundred pounds in hand, the Enemy were so generally invited to that purchase, that six or seven thousand pounds of them quartered in the said County of Gloucester, whereby the money, and Forces designed by the Parliament, for that Garrison and County, was altogether hundred from the release intended for that Garrison, the Officers altogether unpaid, and the Common Soldiers necessitated to live up as twenty pence; eighteen pence, or two shillings a week at the most, and thereby the County was not only impoverished, but the Atrears of the said two Regiments very much increased. -4. That for the most part of that year, the Enemy kept nine Garrifons in the said County of Gloucester, whereby the whole County were so much taxed by both parties, that hardly for amount together the said Regiments could receive their weekly pay, and many times were constrained to accept of small allowances for their present maintenance whereby the Arrears still increased. 5. Three parts of four In the whole County are so disabled by Daring almost the whole charge, that unless some addition had timely been made it had been impossible for them to have any longer subsisted, and for the Forest division, which carries a great share in the contribution, it is so totally plundered and spoiled, that they do not, nor can pay the tenth part of their expenses, and for the other two sons the Enemy has so great. 6. Besides the weekly pay and pay which came upon the County, the future expectation of reducing that part of the County did much encourage the needy. I have to say to his Service, which should it be frustrated, would seem very hard and unjust, that other Garrisons who have been better paid should enjoy the fruits of their care and labour. At this time, there being a Regiment of Horses of the Governours, added to Gloquetry Militia, the whole County is divided into affignations for For and Horse, and it has been the work of above a whole year for the Committee to compose and frame a way for the settlement thereof, which should it now be disappointed, would render it self-impossible again to be resisted, the Gentlemen of the Committee seeing themselves through upon impossibilities, much disgrace, the Soldier exceedingly alienated, the residue of the Country, (which have been at continual charge of paying in great part of that share which belonged to others) quite destroyed, and so great a discomposition of the whole work, which now in some measure is regulated: between the Committee and Gloquetry, that the Garrisons must either be sheltered for the future or be. put upon that troubleſome Exigency to folicite the Parliament for weekely maintenance. + 8. The weckely pay of the two Regiments of Foote, and the Governours Regiment of Horſe, with other ne- ceſlary charges incident thereunto, doe amount at leaſt ro lo. 9; ET 2 part in the ene,and the Souldiery neceffitated Oo much to lye upon the other, that it is thought not onely unrea- ſonable,but impoſſible that theyſhould continue fo great | with —_ pm . —— —— - w——_— i — a Fl. a D——_— —_ — + \ ro fifteen hundered pound a wetke, and- the cantributi- ons of the County of 6owrefter, doth in the Whole amount but unto a eleven hundered pound. a' weeke, and the proportion out. of the County intended to Brefod, is thercof ſix hundered pound a'weeke, ſo that five hun- _ dered pounda weeke only will remaine for the mainte- nanceof all the ſaid Glogcefter Forces, which is not fuf- - ficient maintenance but for one Regiment of Foote, and . two Troopesof Horſe, a number 1ncompetent for the preſervation of the Gity of & /oxceſter alone. That at least three hundred Foote must be allowed for the defense of Gloucester, against an approaching Enemy, and five hundred for Twetshaoy, besides five other frontier Garrisons in the said County of Gloucester, and yet the said two Regiments of Foote, do and must maintain those several Garrisons so long until it shall please God, that Oxford, Worcester, Hereford, and Moulton be reduced, which lie so upon the limits of Gloucester, otherwise, if for the present and as things now stand, the Forces should he determined, the Enemy might and would plunder and spoil the Country to the victor the Bay. That the often and frequent marches of the Armies both of the Parliament; and the Enemy in and through the said County of Gloucester, and the keeping of many Garrisons by the Enemy as afore said, together with the late marching of the Scots in and through Gloucester, hath so much impoverished it, especially those parts that bordered near and upon their Leagure, that in case the whole eleven hundred pounds a week shall be paid. Continued it cannot be expected that two parts of the Country can be collected and paid to the said Forces and Garrisons of Gloucester. To take away that division of Barkeley, which does not last half pay the Forces, is not only against the Justice, but also all Ordinances of Parliament made for them at the instance of the Son of Gloucester, who believe they have one as faithful Service for the Kingdom of Gloucester, to whom the Parliament shall be pleased to show greater favors. 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