A TRUE RELATION
Of the severall passages and proceedings of
Colonell Goring at Portsmouth,
and how he is revolted from the Parliament,
who imposed that trust in him, and keeps it for the King.
How he hath shut the Gates, and hath gotten a Garrison of above five hundred men with great store of money and Ammunition beside.
Also hoe the Parliament hath given Order to his excelency the E. of Essex to rayse Forces to demand Portsmouth and the Castle, and to apprehend Colonell Goring as guilty of
High Treason
With severall matters of note concerning Portsmouth, and the Isle of Wight.
Whereunto especially is added a catalogue of the names of the Lords, that subscribed to levy Horse to assist his majesty in defence of his royall Person, the two Houses of Parliament, and the Protestant Religion, with the means, men and Horse, already subscribed unto by severall Counties of this Kingdom, and undertaken for His Majesties service, August 6th 1642
LONDON
Printed by E.G. for John Benson
A TRUE RELATION
of the severall passages and proceedings of Colonell Goring at
PORTSMOUTH
Upon Thursday last, being the fourth of August, the Parliament received letters from Portsmouth, that Colonell Goring hath betrayed the trust reposed in him by the Parliament, and keepes Portsmouth now for his Majesty, and that one of his Captaines went about the Country and inticed divers men to go with him to Portsmouth, to doe an acceptable service, promising great rewards; but when they came there Colonel Goring tendred them a strict Oath to do service for the King, and such as refused to take it were turned back again, and he hath put the Towne in a posture of defence, and shut the Gates, and given command to the Garrison for keeping of the Towne for His Majesty, and he hath got above a 500 of Papists and others that are ill affected to the Parliament into the Towne to assist him, and that on Friday last there were carrying into the Towne 100 Carbines, Saddles, Pistols, and other Amunition, but the Parliament sent after to have them stayd, and that he hath kept 3000l. which he received from the Parliament to pay the arriers of the Garrison, and he refuses to give any money to those that will not take the Oath, and that he hath received 9000l. by the Earle of Portlands brother Master Weston, which Earle of Portland is committed into the custody of the Sherife of London, for feare he should comply with Colonell Goring, and command the Isle of Wight, but the Parliament hath given Order to the Earle of Warwick , to bring some ships hither to ly before it, with command for the safe guarding of the Seas against foraine invasion, and hath given orders that the Earle of Essex shall forthwith appoint Officers to levy Horse and Foote in those places, and forthwith to march with them before Portsmouth to kill, and slay all that oppose their passage, and to demand Portsmouth and the Castle top be delivered up to them, and to demand Colonell Goring, and to apprehend him as guilty of High Treason, and if he be denied to lay siedge against the Towne, and suppresse all that shall oppose them, and require aide of the next adjacent Countrys and the Isle of Wight if occasion requires; the Bishop of Winchester hath sent five Horses completely armed to Portsmouth, Sr. Kenelme Digby was suspected to have plotted, and confederated with Colonell Goring in betraying Portsmouth, and should have gon thither very sudenly, wherefore hee was by order by the House of Commons comitted to a Sergant at Armes. Also the Parliament hath appointed the Earle of Pembrook to the Governer of the Isle of Wight in the room of the Earle of Portland.
Whereas it may be collected by severall Declarations printed in the name of both Houses of Parliament, That the Kings sacred Person, the Protestant Religion, the Lawes of the Land, the Liberty and Propriety of the Subject, and priviledges of Parliament are all in danger.
We whose names are under-written doe voluntarily offer, and severally ingage our selves, according to the following Subscriptions, to assist His Majesty in defence of His Royall Person, the two Houses of Parliament, the Protestant Religion and the Lawes of the Land, the Liberty and Propriety of the Subject, and Priviledges of Parliament; when His Majesty shall have given Commission under the Great Seale, for levying of Forces for those purposes, against all power, Levies and Forces whatsoever, or to be raised upon any pretence whatsoever.
To pay Horses for three moneths, thirty days to the moneth, at two shillings and six pence per diem, still advancing a moneths pay, the first payment to begin so soon as the King shall call for it, after the Commissions shall be issued under the Great Seal. In this Number are not to be reckoned the horses of the Subscribers, or those that shall attend them.
Subscribed by
Horse | Horse | |||
The Prince | 200 | L. Mowbray and Matravers | 50 | |
The Duke of York | 120 | L.Willoughby of Eresby | 30 | |
Lord Keeper | 40 | L. Rich | 30 | |
L.D. of Richmond | 100 | C. Ch. Howard of Charlton | 30 | |
L.M. Hertford | 60 | L. Newark | 30 | |
Earle of Lindsey | 30 | L. Paget | 30 | |
E. of Cumberland | 50 | L. Chandos | 25 | |
E. of Huntingdon | 20 | L. Thanet | 100 | |
E. of Bath | 50 | L. Fauconbridge: to come | ||
E. of Southampton | 60 | L. Paulet | 40 | |
E. of Dorset | 60 | L. Lovelace | 40 | |
E. of Salisbury | 40 | L. Savile | 50 | |
E. of Northampton | 40 | L. Coventry | 100 | |
E. of Devonshire | 60 | L. Mohun | 20 | |
E. of Bristol | 60 | L. Dunsmore | 40 | |
E. of Westmoreland | 20 | L. Seymour | 20 | |
E. of Berkshire and L. Andover | 30 | L. Grey of Ruthin | 20 | |
E. of Monmouth | 30 | L. Capell | 100 | |
E. of Rivers | 30 | L. Falkland | 20 | |
E. of Newcastle | 50 | M. Comptroller | 20 | |
E. of Dover | 25 | M. Secretary Nicolas | 20 | |
E. of Carnarvan | 20 | M. Chancellor of the Exchequer | 20 | |
E. of Newport | 50 | L. Chief Justice Banks | 20 | |
Yorkshire doth raise, arme, and pay for three moneths | 500 | |
Leicestershire, levies, armes and payes | 400 | |
Lincolnshire, payes, armes and Levies foure troops or | 300 | |
Divers gentlemen of the Commons House of Parliament have voluntarily | ||
subscribed to pay three moneths | 464 | |
Nottinghamshire, levies, armes, and payes three months | 200 | |
Herefordshire, raises, armes, and payes six moneths | 169 | |
The Kings Domestic servants pay for three months | 100 | |
The totall of the Horse | 4284 | |
Sir Bevill Grimfield undertakes for Cornwall | 500. |
The Bishopprick of Durham hath subscribed to contribute in money | |
3000l. hoping to make it up six thousand, | |
Newcastle are subscribing also with great chearfulness. | |
Hertfordshire hath sent in money | 3000l. |
Flintshire, Glamorganshire, and the whole Principality of Wales | |
hath likewise subscribed for great quantities of Horse and money. | |
Kent hath subscribed for | 1000l. |
The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, have already sent | |
His Majesty a voluntary summe of | 6000l. |
These were subscribed unto by the Gentry of the said severall counties, who was summoned by His Majesty to meete at Yorke on Thursday last, where the King and the Lords sat in the Chapter House, and the Gentry in the Deanery, being August 4, 1642