THE CENSURE OF THE EARL OF BERKSHIRE BY THE LORDS IN PARLIAMENT. Also the EXAMINATION of four men being Masters of ships, concerning the great Oneal being landed in Ireland, having commission under the Great Seal of England to kill and slay the English and Scots in that Kingdom, and afterward to come into England against the Protestants here.  
Likewise a Relation of the Earl of Essex his marching forward with his Forces against the Cavaliers.  
WITH The manner of Baron walter's being taken, and rescued again the by the Cavaliers, five of them being slain.  
LONDON, Printed for J. Johnson. Septemb. 20. 1642.   

THE CENSURE OF THE EARL OF BERKSHIRE, By the LORDS IN PARLIAMENT.  
Also the great Oneals landing in Ireland, with a Commission to kill and slay the English and Scots there, and after to come into England against the Protestants here.  
Likewise a true Relation of the Earl of Essex his advancing forward with his Forces against the Cavaliers: With the manner of Baron walter's being taken and rescued again by the Cavaliers etc. five of them being slain.  
THe honourable House of Parliament taking into consideration the great number of Delinquents that are now in this Kingdom, many of them sheltering themselves under his Majesty's protection, and divers others that have been lately taken and brought up to London, and imprisoned, resolved with all convenient speed they could to proceed legally against them, provided that their proceed against them should not interrupt the great and weighty affairs of this Kingdom; and thereupon on Wednesday last, being the foureteenth day of this instant month of September, according to an Order of the House of Peers, the Earl of Berkshire, being prisoner in the Tower, was brought to the Bar, and examined concerning his coming into the County of Oxford to a place called Watlington, with some other persons of quality, with an intent to put in Execution the Commission of Array, and to seize upon the Magazine that lay in that town. Whereupon the said Earl pleading that although he through the want of a right information concerning the state and condition of things as they now stand in difference between the King and Parliament, had most unfortunately been drawn away from the service of the House for a time, yet he made many protestations and declarations of his most sincere and hearty desire and endeavour to serve the King's Majesty and Parliament in any thing that might be thought acceptable; and humbly submitted himself to their Lordships. After which (he being commanded to withdraw) their Lordships had some private debate of the matter, and considering that it was the first action that was undertaken by his Lordship of that nature, and that he had raised no forces, he was called again into the House, and upon his humble submission, as aforesaid, he was enlarged out of prison, but confined to his own house, and is to appear again (at the pleasure of the Lords) upon six hours' summons.  
Upon the fifteenth day of this month at a Conference of both Houses, were read the examinations of four men upon oath taken at Plymmouth, signifying that the great Oneale that hath been beyond sea many years, is now landed in Ireland, and hath brought over with him divers ships laden with men and ammunition, to aid and assist the Rebels in Ireland, and that they said they had received a Commission from his Majesty under the broad Scale of England, to kill and slay all the English and Scots in that Kingdom, that should resist them: and that when they have done there, they have the like commission for England, but the Parliament have another opinion of his Majesty, and hope that if any such Commissions are, they have been obtained by some sinister means without the knowledge or privity of his Majesty, Sir Endymion Porter (not being a sworn Officer, and one that is disaffected to the King and Kingdom) having for divers months together had the custody and possession of the great seal of England.  
Great cause therefore had the L. Keeper to make some excuse for himself, by signifying unto the Parliament, that those illegal Commissions and Proclamations lately sent forth under the great Seal, were not passed by him, and although in that respect he hopes for favour, yet it is probable that now he reputes he had not followed the example of the Bishop of Chichester, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the time of Henry the third, who when the King sent to him for the Seal, he refused to deliver it to his Majesty, but resigned it up into the hands of the Parliament, thinking it most proper, that those which had power over all causes, should likewise have the disposing of the Great Seal of England. But I shall not further insist upon this point, therefore I will return to the next particular of my discourse, because in these times men rather delight in novelties, then in antiquity, and these times require that men should rather study how to save their heads, then to turn over books.  
The Cavaliers persisting in committing many great outrages in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and other parts of this Kingdom, the Parliament have sent Letters and Instructions to the Earl of Essex, Lord General of the Army, to advance his Forces from Northhampton, to march into Leicestershire, & from thence into Nottinghamshire, for the settling of the peace of the Kingdom, carrying a petition with him from both Houses of Parliament in behalf of themselves and the whole Kingdom, declaring that they have no intent to levy war against his Majesty, but desire the peace of the Kingdom, the preservation of the true Protestant Religion, the Laws of the Land, the Privileges of Parliament, and the liberty and Propriety of the Subject, against those evil Counsellors and Actors that go about to violate and overthrow the same.  
On Saturday last, being the tenth of this instant month, Baron Walter, being a great Delinquent, was taken at Broadway in the County of Worcester, by the means of one M. Stevens, a very religious man, being chief, Constable, & in regard the Sabbath was then approaching, he was kept all that night and all day on sunday at the said Stevens his house: but (notice thereof being presently given to the Cavaliers which came that night out of Oxford, they came on sunday night to the said town of Broadway, and beset the said Stevens his house, and demanded that the said Baron should be delivered unto them: which being denied, they set upon the house, threatening to beat it down: but the said Stevens having some muskets in his house which had been taken from the lord Lovelace, began to charge upon them out of the windows, and killed four or five of them, and perceiving that they could not enter the house without the hazard of many of their lives, they presently set fire on his barns, stables and outhouses, and burned them down to the ground, which put the country into such terror and amazement (not knowing the number of the Cavaliers, nor what strength they had, fearing lest the whole town should have been fired by them) that many of them began to intercede that the Baron should be delivered unto them: whereupon, with condition of their departure without further injury to the town, he was delivered unto them: after which they went towards Worcester, and have plundered many honest men's houses in the country, and seized on their arms: and it is credibly reported, that they have entered into Sergeant Wild's house at Droit (a worthy Member of the House of Commons) and have plundered the same.  
FINIS.