The New made Colonel Or IRELAND'S Juggling Pretended Reliever. By John Naylier, late Quartermaster to Captain Bray. JER. 9.5. And they will deceive every one his Neighbour, and will not speak the Truth: They have taught their Tongues to speak Lies, and weary themselves to commit Iniquity. LONDON, Printed by J. M. in the first Year of England's Declared Freedom, 1649. The New made COLONEL, OR, IRELAND'S Juggling pretended Reliever: IN A Narrative of the Actions of Mr John Reynolds, in his Practice to overthrow England's best Friends. THE Almighty Creator of the World who hath Created all things, and amongst the rest of things, the Heart of mankind; (which particular part of his Creation, he hath reserved the knowledge of to himself only) puts me upon a Manifestation of the present sad thoughts of my heart, to all those men of the world, (that this may concern) for there is in my apprehension, no other way for man to make his fellow Creatures acquainted with the thoughts of his heart, then verbally by words expressing himself, or by his Pen to make known to others what he is inwardly filled withal; therefore finding myself very much pressed in Spirit, by the unjust deal of those men, which have pretended to the highest Principles of Justice; I have thought good to ease my present trouble, by this course of writing, although but a poor ease to my mind, as in relation to my satisfaction. Therefore as a Narrative of the Cause of my present trouble of mind, I shall here lay down the Cause, as in the presence of God, which shall judge both me and the Causers thereof. WHen in the latter end of Forty seven, and in the beginning of Forty eight, there was such a general Apostasy from Principles of Justice, that we were almost overrun by those Enemies of the Nation (the Cavaliers) that (those which had engaged for the Nation, were become the scorn of most men) than I say, we began to fix our eyes upon those men which had contended highest for the Nation's freedom, that we might engage under such men once again, to try whether God would prosper us in venturing to bring down those the people's professed Enemies; when looking curiously about us, we found out Captain Reynolds, a man much looked upon by the honest party, for one that had stood and contended (with suffering) for our Birthright; and then finding that he was in employment to raise Men and Horses for the Kingdom's Service, as Major to a Regiment in Kent, under the Command of Sir Michael Levesey, we than I say, began cheerfully to engage with him, conceiving that God had thrown a great advantage into our hands: But further, when I myself with many others came to hear that there was a Commission to be given to Captain William Bray, to Command a Troop in the aforesaid Regiment; we were most of us filled with Comfort, that such men, that were so excellently Principled, should now after their sufferings, come to be trusted with Commands; Whereupon with a great deal of cheerfulness we engaged with Captain Bray, and although there was never any such precedent before, we at our own proper cost did raise a Regiment of Seven Troops to engage against the Common enemy, when afterwards we did engage several times cheerfully, not looking upon the many breaches of promise which we found, both from some of those that were highest in our esteem upon the account of Justice, and others likewise which we less trusted too; but waved. Capitulating when things of public concernment called for our engagement; although we had large experience before how many were usually flattered in time of emergency, and slighted with a Supernumary slighting (when the Rod was from the back of those Fools that did it) but with cheerfulness we went on, looking only at the power of God then present amongst us to Conquer; and did, although blame worthy for so doing, Acquiesce in those men whom we confided in to be of our and the honest parties Principles: But now behold the Map of our misery drawing up, for when the great and our good God had prospered us with Victory for all our last Summer's Service, and that we had served them faithfully all the Summer through; now began the enemies of our and the Kingdom's peace to work their wits how they should bring us into ignominy, which they first contrived by infusing into the Committee, that some of us, especially Captain Bray's Troop, were Levellers, and men that were of dangerous Principles to the quiet of the Nation; whereupon they presently bethink themselves of shutting their hands of us first, with another Troop which had a great many men of honest Principles in it, (although led by an acqiescing Captain) now we that had no sinister intents in us, but were merely upon the account of Justice to the Nation, did quietly march away out of Kent, to be led like sheep to the slaughter, or that which is worse, to be the tools or instruments to make one ambitious man great, that formerly had pretended nothing as his Interest but Salus populi suprema Lex, and all the Principles of Justice that can be thought upon; I say, then at our dismission from the County of Kent's Service, it was pretended to us by our Major Reynolds, that we should march into Hartfordshire there to quarter until we saw what became of the Treaty then with the King in the Isle of Wight, which we thought would be over within a matter of three weeks; when that being ended, we should either not need to stand at all, in respect of the present and speedy execution of justice; or if there were need, we should stand upon the same account with the rest of the Army under the Lord Fairfax: But having waited the aforesaid time and longer, we then received an Order from the Major, to march toward Pontefract, and to take Peterborough in the way, there to make an Halt until the Major should come up to us; which Command we obeyed, moving to and fro, because we would not be more burdensome to the Country then needs must; But alas, all this while we were mistaken, for he (who we thought would have proved so faithful to us, and in us to the Commonwealth) was a juggling, by entertaining a motion from the Committee of Darby-house to transport us for Ireland, as if we had stood upon a Mercenary account, to have engaged upon any Design that might make him a Colonel, or yield us money; (and to the end that we should juggle as well as he, he sent us down an Order that we should propound Irish terms to the Troops, and with such as would entertain the said terms, to march to Southam in Warwickshire in order to a further march toward Ireland) but when we saw his Order, we did so far abominate his juggling design, that we never so much as propounded it, although it had been easy to have persuaded some of his Creatures with us in high Command to have done it. But when the upshot came, that the Soldiery could no longer acquiesce, but that they would by the Consent of Captain Bray, who alone stood with them (without any Captain in the Regiment) I say, when they would no longer rest to burden the Country with Free quarter, without knowing what ground it was upon; they chose them men as Agents to meet, and to consider about it, when in all the several meetings they found still an opposition in his Creature Captains. to any other thing then an acqiescing in what the said Major Reynolds could do; by which means we most basely deceived the expectation of all our honest friends, who expected that we would not be the last that should declare for the people's Rights, knowing our former approved forwardness; but by the means of such men of the highest places amongst us, we were forced to a silence in standing for, or declaring for the People's Rights, until we were anticipated by the Armies general Remonstrance, and so justly judged by our honest friends for men of low and cowardly spirits, and so lost ourselves in the account of honest men, that I fear many of them give us up for final Apostates, although they have no reason, save our being overruled, by the flattering villainy of Reynolds, to judge so of us. But at the last it came to this, That through the mighty importunity of those that were Friends to our Old Principles, viz. Justice; we at last got an Address concluded upon, to be delivered to the Lord Fairfax: And the three Troops then under Reynolds, upon the Account of Justice, did choose them out men as Agents, to deliver the aforesaid Address: For mark, than we had no Mercenary Troops amongst us, but we were entangled with Mercenary Apostate Officers of Reynolds his own Creatures, that made all our endeavours (as to public concernment) void and frustrate for a great while together: But at last we had gotten an Address consented to, that might render us to stand upon the pure account of Justice: which time I myself with others were appointed to come to London with the aforesaid Address; when coming toward Windsor, we found a great part of the Army by Order that day to Rendezvous upon Hounsloe-Heath in order to their march into London; but that night the Army's Headquarters being kept at Hamersmith, we stayed there to speak with Major Reynolds, to hear what satisfaction he would give us for our being led up and down the Land, upon what account we knew not as in relation to his intentions, because as I have said before, we stood merely upon the account of Justice to this Nation, and he was bargaining to sell us to the Committee of Darby-house for Four pounds a man and Horse, and complete Arms, for the Service of Ireland; (for so his own Order sent down to us to propound to the men specifies in words:) But he made Answer again, That he thought that we had more wit than so to think that he had any intent for Ireland, but merely was using his wits to keep honest men together for the good of the Nations Interest: But then I asked him, Why he cold Lieutenant Spilman, a honest man, That his intentions was really for Ireland according to his pretences? He made me Answer again, That he had given private intimations to all the Officers of the Troops, That he never intended any such thing as a Commanding of men into Ireland; but that he, what he was then doing, was merely to hold Correspondency with Darby-house Committee for a time, until he should have opportunity to provide for honest men: The belief of which, he the easier fastened upon us, because we reflected upon his former Contending for the Nations just Rights, but the sequel will show both the Levity of our over Credulity, and the wickedness of his Apostasy; for the very next morning, viz. the same morning that the Army marched into the City, he came to a house in Hamersmith where Capt. Bray, myself, and others quartered that night; I say he came to us by four of the Clock in the morning, and told us, That now he had got Orders for our Receiving into the Army, and that he had then an Order for one of us to March away to the Troops, to Command them to March out of Oxford-shire where they than were, to march into Hampshire in Order to the safe guarding of the King then being in Hurst Castle; which Order, together with * His violence against those he had juggled with, viz. The Committee of Darby-house, that he said at Hamersmith, That he hoped to have his Bond of Six thousand pounds from them before night, which was that morning the Army marched into London, or else he hoped to cut the throats of some of that Committee, etc. the employment designed to us, begot in us a respective belief of his integrity to his former principles, and an acquiescency in his future Care for us. But when we had stayed in Hampshire, being sometime upon the particular Guard of the King, I say, when we had stayed a great while there, both until, and after the King was fetched away, without any Care taken for pay for us, that so we might, as the rest of the Army did, pay our quarters, and not be so burdensome to the Country; we at last were written to by Reynolds, That he had Established Six Troops into the Army, which he pretended still was his greatest Care to provide for honest men, so as to keep them together. But yet his great promises, compared with his slight performances, wrought a continual suspicion again in the Troops, that he was rather a Juggler then a real Friend to the Nation. Yet notwithstanding, upon his further Order we marched into Worcester-shire, where by the way, we met with two other Troops, that had been upon his Juggle of the Four pounds a man for Ireland; and there, what with the men's hatred and detestation of his double dealing, and the oppression of the Country, together with their own poverty, they had reduced one of the aforesaid Troops to a very small Company of men, and their Troop made up again of such as they could get, of any principles whatsoever; and these men we were fain to join withal, and they to have the Command in Chief over us in Worcester-shire, which made us not to suspect without cause, that we should meet with such deal as indeed now we have found. For after we had lain upon the Country without provision of pay made for us a great while, to the people's sad oppression, we began again to stir, to Petition the House of Commons, being the more induced thereunto by Captain Bray's being snatched from us without any thing laid to his Charge; which actions we had many reasons to believe was by a strong influence of Reynolds upon those that put another in his Command. But when it was endeavoured all that possible could be, to draw the whole Regiment to a Conjunction in the aforesaid Petition, we found so many acquiessing Officers and Soldiers, to stand against it, that Captain Bray's own Troop were fain to do it singly of themselves; and they were so sensible of their being abused by Reynolds his juggling, that it produced this succeeding Letter to be sent to him, in the name, and with the Subscriptions of Captain Bray's Troop. Sir, WE little thought that the Product of our Patience would have begot so desperate an entrenchment upon Ours and the People's just Rights, as that now our great and unwearied pains, hardships, losses, and costs, should bring forth nothing but the only things that we have endeavoured and fought against, viz. Iniquity, Injustice, and all the concomitants of wickedness, which we see wrapped up in your deal with us. Have we been more unfaithful than the other Troops to the Nation? Have we ventured our Lives under your Command less than they? Have our Principles swarved from the Foundation of a just Being more than they? Remember that there is a just God that sees your heart and ours, in the remembrance of which, it must needs be horror enough to your Conscience without naming particulars; but yet we must name some for the manifestation of Truth: Have not you cost us (we mean this Troop) near upon a Thousand pounds amongst us in Charges, to wait for the good which we expected from your former professed Principles? but now all the use that we see you have made of all our Charge and Patience, and what ever else, is now at last, but to make yourself a Colonel out of the sad ruins of the Nations and our Rights and Estates: Nay, would you but yet rest passive, it might give us some ease of mind; but you are so active, that we have just cause to suspect that you have had an influence upon a Captain in the Regiment, to propound to us, That now at last we should be thrown from the Colours, all except Forty or Fifty, without righteous and just satisfaction, after our 25 week's patience, without one penny of Pay, and then the Troop to be made up again of such as you shall bring or send down, to reap the fruit of all our Labours. But we give you to understand in time, That we carry not such ignoble Spirits about us, whatever you may judge of our silence hitherto, as to admit any other Captain to Command us, be he what he can be, until you have either proved Captain Bray Treacherous in his Trust, or Deficient in the Charge he hath upon him; for we wear our Swords to vindicate the Nation from injustice, and shall we be first begun withal, to have such unparalleled mischief thrown upon us? No, we are resolved rather to expire in our Being, before we will prostitute our Consciences to any Tyrant or Usurper's will; we will fly to the Law of Nature and Reason first, and therefore we thought good in time to let you know our Resolutions, that you might not flatter yourself in things that you can never accomplish, no nor the greatest power on Earth; for whatever you may think of us, we have yet our veins full of English blood, although we have so long stood still to the admiration of all honest men. Will. Hashup, Lievt. Chr. Chesman, Corn. joh. Naylier, Quart. Aust. Whitny, Corp. Rob. Harbison, Corp. joh. Bastin, joseph Pepit., john Martial, Edw. Bastin, Will. Scott. Sam. Ganer, Sam. Howlt. Fran. Lee, Dan. King, Tho. Satchel, joh. Wright, Rob. Painter. Fra. Haslelup, William. Bastin, joh. Lethe, Tho. Grimes. joh. Hardey, Gilb. Games, Rich. Hill, R. Sanders, R. Harrison, T. Richards, V Stephenson, Ed. Avery, Hen. Bugbey, T. Robbinson, Rich. Robbins, George Betten, G. Spooner, T. Anderton, joh. Franson, joh. Allin, Rob. Abbitt, Will. Blithe, Chry. Booth, jam. Trigg, Will. Smith, Hum. Budds, R. Partridge, S. Mowbray, Will. Howel, joh. Parr, joh. Lasey, I, Rustal, Tho. Linnel, Tho. Flafer, I. Washburne, I. Cornelius, Dau. Chentin, Will. Sidwel, Tho. Roe, R. Ellegood, N Westwood, Han. Dawson, jer. Stephenson, H. Philpot, Ed. Taylor, Will. Haddock Rob. Bence, Will. Gilbert. I. Ellington, Att. Boothe, Will. Morden, joh. Mutlow, Rob. Bulgey, joh. Price, Ralph Phillips, joh. Elvins, joh. Burges. THis Letter being Subscribed by Captain Brays Troop, whose names are Subscribed; but when I came to London with others that the Troop entrusted, we were persuaded by our Friends not to Print this Letter to the public view of the world, because they did suppose Reynolds was not yet an absolute Apostate: But at my going down again to my Colours, I found enough of him to conclude him an Apostate. For, in the time that we were at London, there came down a Lieutenant, pretending himself to be in Commission under one Airs, who told Captain Brays men, That the said Airs was to have that Troop: which men being startied, and wondering that Captain Bray should be taken from them without first showing them a Reason; and besides that, they were Commanded to deliver up their Colours to a man they never saw, and he not there then neither: The said Troop were Resolved to maintain their Colours like Soldiers, and not to be affronted as they were Commoners, but to deny the Surrender of their Colours until they were satisfied in the aforesaid premises: Whereupon they marched presently away to another Division of the Regiment then being in Shropshire, under the Command of one Captain Chaplain, whom they solicited to stand for them in the obtaining of Justice; but the best entertainment they found from the said Chaplain was, That he denied to give them any Order for Quarter; and more than that, he forwarned the Country to give them any Quarter; so that instead of protecting them until Justice were done upon them, he enforced them to Resolve to lie in a Field near Welch-Felton in Shropshire, until the people of the Town came courteously out to them, and invited them into their houses, and gave them Quarters in their own Charity; telling them, That they wondered to see such Soldiers as they were, that were so patiented in their abuses. But now Reynolds the newmade Colonel, that he might get them again into his clutches, made fair weather to certain of the Troop that went to him, and sent an Order to them that they should come back to a Regiment Rendezvous which he had appointed to be at Keynton in , desiring them that they would be sure to be all at the said Meeting, that so he might see all his honest Pree Commoners, (for that was his own expression) by which we thought he would have proved loving to us according to his former professed Principles, which we were the rather induced to believe, because he gave us an Order under his own hand, for quartering near the Regiment, promising us, That he would protect us from any harm that any body should offer to us: Moreover, telling us, That if any Order should come to him, (or to any other that he could heat of) he would be sure to give us notice of it; (which were apparent signs to us, that his hea●●●●s upright towards us,) but now mark what fell from him at the said Rendezvous, he there gave us leave to propound our Greivances, which for order sake we did by the mouth of two Soldiers chosen out by general Consent, where we desired, That according to the General's Order, the Troop as it stood, entire under Captain Bray, might be delivered into the hands of the new Captain Ayres. with our own Colours, which he granted to us; But while we were making our Muster-rowls to that purpose, he and the new Captain had so juggled, that he fell from that Order of his own again, and Mustered a new Troop of men that had been many of them in Pay in other places, while we served six Months without one penny of Pay; and so these new men come now to reap the fruits of our Labours. And I am informed, That he hath sent up word, That his Regiment hath unanimously engaged for Ireland: You may judge, for he propounded such Terms to his own Troop, desiring them to signify their forwardness by holding up their Hats or their Hands; but I could not see one man hold up either Hat or Hand but himself and some Officers that followed him about the Field; at length he Commanded his Colours to march out, and those that excepted of Irish terms to follow the Colours, and then indeed there was one man of his own Troop that did draw out after his Colours upon that account. Now you may see what it is for a Troop or Regiment to be unanimous in his Sense; and for the Major's Troop, they were so unanimous, that he was fain to draw out a Party of Captain Ayres his new men to Guard their Colours; for he hath so discontented the Regiment by taking away most of the chiefest Principled men that were their Officers, that I can see but few of the oldest Soldiers of the Regiment that do not conclude him an Apostatised Knave: And for my own part, being with him at Banbury, the last time I saw him, Charging him with a thing that he had promised but the day before, and he told me himself, That his Promises were sealed with Butter; which indeed I found by woeful experience. Now Reader do but judge what hope 〈◊〉 have of good from such men in Chief Command, that make no more of their word, then to profess openly, That they are not bound by their word. They talk much of Jesuits, and strange nicknames else that they have for men of honest Principles, but judge whether this do not resemble (Garnett by name) a professed Jesuit, who being told. That King James would find out Papists by His Oath of Allegiance being imposed upon them: Garnett made Answer again, That King James should know, That the Oath of Allegiance was subject to a Paper Dispensation. Thus have I Deciphered to thee, the Apostasy of this man, merely to that end, That other honest men may not for the future, be liable to be deceived by him, as I, and many other honest men have been. FINIS.