The Earl of Carberyes PEDIGREE: WITH Their Titles, and honourable Endowments.  
ALSO, A copy of a Letter, with the Charge and Articles, sent from the Committee of Pembroke, to the Committee for Compositions at Goldsmith's Hall, against the said Earl, and other grand Delinquents of the County of Carmarthen.   printer's or publisher's device 
Octob: 3 London. Printed in the Year 1646.   

The Earl of Carberery his Pedigree.  
THe said Earl was created Baron of Emlim at Oxford, and sat there in the Junto (the better to distinguish him, because he hath been by many taken for the Earl of Cherbery) he is nephew to the late Walter Vaughan, (Plod-all) brother to Sir Henry (Act-all, now prisoner in the Tower for all) brother to the late Sir John (Countenance-all) father to the said Carbery, and brother to honest Richard (Tell-all) who hath been grievously persecuted, imprisoned and plundered by them all, for his affection to the Parliament.  
And yet for all these alls, the said Earl is about London, making all the friends he can to get him off of these alls; it seems they are so sharp, and prick so sore, that he cannot rest long in one place; yet he keeps his brazen face, and brags that he hath got a pardon for all, and like to be in as great command as ever he was: which if it should be true (as God forbidden it should) than woe be to poor Carmarthenshire, especially those who exhibited these Articles to the Committee there; for they are like to pay for all: but I hope the Parliament will be better advised, and prevent that, by disabling him and all his compliances for bearing any office or authority in the Country; he may very well pay a large Composition, for he ha●h extorted large sums of money of the Country since these Wars began, besides two or 3000. l. of Ship-money, and other monies which he had of the Countries in his hands before.   

The copy of a Letter from the Committee of Pembroke, to the Committee for Compositions at Goldsmiths Hall.  
Honourable,  
SInce our accesses into this County of Carmarthen, we find here an insolent tyrannical Gentry, consisting of one intolerable trunk, the branches dispersing over the face of the Country, and a servile oppressed Commons, holding their fortunes (yea their lives) at will of their Grand Signior. Ease and liberty they would gladly enjoy, but think it capital to open their mouths, and profess so much. Authority we have to minister some remedy, and fidelity, inclination, and spirit enough, to put it in execution. But the brave designs and joyful success of our major-general requiring his whole power in the bordering Counties, leaves us unable to encounter with these sons of Anak, their very countenance proclaiming nothing but malignancy and opposition. The happy Issue of our Major General's endeavours, the total reducement of Cardigan, Radnor and Brecknock shires to King and Parliaments obedience, rounding this Country with our friends trusty and faithful, is become the security to hold us together without danger of life so long in this place, though we dare only receive charges and examine witnesses against principal Malignants, and not offer to make assay of sequestrations without a strong power to second us. We send herein the copy of a Charge brought into us against some few of them which though it be short & much vented in generals, yet the witnesses & Records testify particulars so horrid as we never imagined could be practised by Christians, hence flowed the violent streams of misery that overwhelmed Pembrokeshiere, and all the Parliaments friends in this part of Wales, there is nothing but abhorring the Nationall Covenant, and a general desire of power to revolt.  
We humbly offer these intimations to prevent mistakes if any of them sew for composition, and if the destroyed County of Pembroke should be designed to receive any recovery for spoils, the chief agents in the ruin might be descried, and be made proportionably sharers in the repair, we crave pardon for this our boldness, and devote ourselves  
Carmarthen 29. Nourm. 1645. Your humble servants 

Tho: powel.  
Sam. Lort.  
John Lloyd.  
Griff. White.  
T. Rowen.  
john Lort.  
Georg. Will. Griffith.  
john Mathins.     

Articles exhibited the 10. day of November 1645. to the right Worshipful the Committee established for the King and Parliament within the three Associated Counties of Pembroke, Carmarthen, and Cardigan, for discovery of the malignancy (against the authority of Parliament) of Rich: Earl of Carbery, Rice Rudd Baronet, Sir Henry Vaughan, Sir Edward Vaughan, Knights, John Vaughan of Llanely, Lodowicke Lewis, Henry Middleton, Tho. Philip's, Esquires, and Edward Lloyd Gent.  
1. THe said Earl of Carbery was in time of peace a merciless oppressor of the Commons within the said Counties, made advantage of the beginning of these present Wars cherished the troubles to make commodity thereof, undertook the illegal Commission of Array, in opposition to the Parliament, and suppressing their friends and adherents, usurped the command in chief and sole power of those Counties to his own hands, introduced additional forces out of other parts of the Kingdom to his assistance, made these Counties the constant seat of war for 3 years past, to the utter undoing of the well-affected Inhabitants, and damage of the Country of 500000. l. at the least, and all the other Delinquents in times both of peace and war have been the principal and constant instruments for acting the said Earls design, diligently subservient to his ambition, and avarice, his abettors in ruining the Country, and proportionable sharers in the spoils.  
2. The Delinquents and their faction to disinable the Country of opposition to their purposes, did in the months of October and November, 1642. disarm all the Trained Bands of the County of Carmarthen, and possessed themselves of all the Arms there in the common store, with the Trained Bands Arms, amounting in all to 3000. Arms, and raised a Regiment of foot soldiers to serve in them against the Parliament, and in pretence of the Soldiers present maintenance, extorted xl. s. a piece at least, of every the Trained Band men, of some more, when they were stripped of their Arms, amounting to 2000 and above, the like course they held as far as they could prevail in the other two Counties.  
3. For further exhausting the wealth of the Country to convert to their own private commodity, the Delinquents in January following, pact a Grand Jury of men, observant of their countenances, and of special relation and dependency upon the said Earl and Baronet Rudd, to serve in the quarter Sessions then holden in Carmarthen shire, and prepared a presentment and had it engrossed before hand, to serve their turn for raising money and suppressing the Parliaments friends, and overawed the Jury to deliver the same to the Court without oath or any examination or evidence, as the act of the Jurors upon their oaths that presentment, designed 2600. I. of the Country's money to be sequestered to the Earl of Carbery.  
4. In levying that unjust imposition by the Earl and some others of the Delinquents warrants upon pretence that Walter Grundy, persons known to affect the Parliament, and thereby come to be the object of the Delinquents fury, withstood the payment of about 9 sh. imposed upon Hugh Grundy their father; the said Thomas Philip's, Edward Lloyd, with one hundred other persons in their company the 25. of June, 1643. being the Lords day in the morning, forced an entrance into the house, murdered Walter, dangerously wounded Ralph, carried him prisoner to Carmarthen, indicted, arraigned and condemned him of high Treason at the great Sessions in August following, the house plundered to the value of 200. I. and Mary Grundy their sister in house with them imprisoned, and Thomas Philip's by warrant of the Delinquents immediate after the presentment, and by colour thereof seized the real estate of 100 l. value per annum, and personal estate of 500 l. of Evan Thomas mentioned by the presentment to be illaffected to the then government of the Country, and made strict search for his body to have murdered or proceeded against him as a Traitor, but that he escaped by flight to the Parliaments forces in Pembrookeshire.  
The said Earl by the advice of the other Delinquents constantly since the increase of the troubles, procures persons servilly obsequious to his commands, be they never so inhuman, to authorise Sheriffs and other officers in Carmarthenshiere, for better establishing and support of his tyranny and supplement of means to feed the profuseness and luxury of all the Delinquents, by undoing of some, and exposing of many hundreds of innocent persons to perish for want of food.  
Praying the persons of the Delinquents may be secured to receive their trial by Parliament, the injuried by them recompensed out of their estates, and the residue sequestered according to Ordinance of Parliament.   
FINIS.