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J.G. Hodgson.    

THE HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE OF S R. Francis Willoughby KNIGHT: Therein setting forth his faithful services, his many sufferings, and his earnest desires to spend the rest of his days in the Service of the Parliament, against the Rebels of Ireland.  
Honourable,  
I Have served in the Wars with honour and reputation 47. years, 25. whereof I spent in the service of the States of the United Provinces, under the command of the Lord General Vere: the rest being 22. years, I have spent in the Kingdom of Ireland, where I have had many and honourable Commands: And first, as Governor of the Cities of Cork and Lymerick, and a Counsellors place of that Province of Munster. After that, I was by the then Lord Deputy of that Kingdom, commanded to take upon me the government of the Fort of Gallaway, and to repair and finish the same, which was by me perfected in two year's time, and made one of the compleatest Forts in that Kingdom. I was also made Deputy Governor of the County and Town of Gallaway, having both Marshal and civil government conferred upon me (under the broad Seal of that Kingdom) as also made a Privy Counsellor of that Kingdom, and being by accident in Dublin at the beginning of that horrid Rebellion (and on that very day) I was by the then Lords Justices (viz.) Sir William Parsons, and Sr John Burlace, commanded to take into my charge and care the Castle of Dublin, that important piece, And by their Commission made Governor thereof, with promise of twenty shillings per diem, but I never received any thing in six year's time; After that I was made Major General of the Army, and a Colonel: All which places I have from time to time discharged with all duty and faithfulfulnesse, And which is so certified by men of honour, who were the chief Governors and Counsel of that Kingdom in the time of my employments and service, and to whom my service was best known; which Certificate of theirs is hereunto annexed; And I finding, to my unspeakable grief, that some malicious persons have secretly wounded my reputation to the most honourable, the Houses of Parliament, by which I have, and do much suffer, I can but wish he or they had had more honesty, then to possess the Parliament with such falsities and untruths (or had so much worth in them) as to have accused me to my face, which if they had done, or would yet do, I make no question, but am confident, that my innocency, shall not only clear me, but also shame my Accusers; And so much I dare be bold to say, that there lives not that man, that can justly accuse me of any the least crime committed against the most Honourable, the Houses of Parliament of England, or of any disservice ever done unto my Country in all my life, and doubt not of making it good against any whatsoever, if thereto admitted.  
I was one of the Commissioners employed 17. months ago from the marquis of Ormond and Council of Ireland for the rendering up of the City of Dublin, and all other the Forts and Fortresses then under the command of the said marquis, into the hands of the Parliament of England; which journey myself, and the rest of the Commissioners (viz.) Sr Gerrard Lowther, Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Sr Paul Davis; Clerk of the Counsel cheerfully undertook in the deep of winter, upon our own charges, out of our zeal to do the Parliament service; which great and happy work, by the blessing of God hath well succeeded since, to the contentment of the Parliament, and to the great comfort of all the distressed Protestants of Ireland, although as yet nothing have been by the Parliament allowed us, or to any of us (for any thing known to me) for our pains and charges in the negotiating of so happy a work, notwithstanding others that came after us but with particular Letters, have been bountifully rewarded by the Parliament.  
The right honourable the Committee at Derby house were pleased within few days after I came over, as aforesaid, to make choice of me to send over into Ireland, with letters of credence to the marquis of Ormond and Council, As also with private Instructions of comfort to the distressed Protestants at Dublin and elsewhere, assuring them of speedy succours to be sent unto them for their relief, and Commissioners to follow, to treat with the marquis of Ormond; which journey I also most cheerfully undertook, and speedily performed, finding at my landing the Army of the Rebels before the City of Dublin, ready to swallow them up, but my unexpected arrival there, gave so general a satisfaction to all the Protestants, that both Inhabitants and soldiers with undaunted resolution wrought in the trenches, and watched night and day for the safety of, and defence of that City, which otherwise had been in great danger to have been lost; And when the Parliament Commissioners came over, and I finding (contrary to my hope) that Treaty to prove fruitless for that time, I desired leave of the Commissioners to come away with them, which being by them granted unto me, I left all I had there, both fortunes and Estate, and came over with them.  
I have attended here 17. months at great charges, a Petitioner unto the most Honourable the Houses of Parliament for some moneys taken from me out of Gold-smiths-Hall by a misinformation, as also to know your Honour's pleasures concerning my places of Command, which I held in Ireland and had long enjoyed by Commission from his Majesty and the Parliament, which was the Major General's place, the government of the Castle of Dublin, and an old standing Company of Foot, which Company I have had this nineteen years, (as before recited) and was armed at my own charge, And although the Parliament have been pleased a quarter of year since (for the relief of the extreme necessity of my wife and children) to order me seven hundred pounds, to be paid out of the moiety of Gold-Smiths-Hall not engaged, (in course) which money, I humbly conceive, was in lieu of that taken from me, which if it be so meant, is short of what I ought to have 250. li. as by good certificate from the Wardens and Company of Goldsmiths, ready to be produced, may appear; Yet such are the vast sums that Goldsmiths-Hall is charged with already, that the Treasurers say, that in a long time nothing can be expected from thence; which I having made known by Petition to the Parliament, they have been pleased on the 17. of Febr. 1647. to order interest to be paid every six months, till the money may come in course to be received, And although this good work of theirs adds but little comfort to my great and present pressing wants yet I am most humbly thankful to them for it.  
I have for the most part of the rebellion of Ireland served the Parliament upon my own charge, having by just Accounts made up and signed by the chief Governors and Counsel of that Kingdom of Ireland ready to be produced, above twelve thousand pounds due unto me, which I shall humbly leave to the pleasure of the Parliament to be considered of, in what measure they think fit.  
At the entreaty of the Lords Justices, and Council (viz.) Sr. William Parsons, and Sr. John Burlace, I kept my own Company five weeks upon my own charge in time of want of money, they promising me payment assoon as Treasure came from the Parliament of England, and for which I have their Order ready to be produced; but I never received one penny of it, being a hundred and ten pounds.  
At the request of the same Lords Justices, and Counsel, in times of want; I sent into the store, which Sr. Philip percival, Victual Master General received (as is acknowledged under his hand) Beefs at half value, amounting to an hundred and thirteeen pounds, and for which I have also an Order, but never received any satisfaction for them, Which Order is ready to be produced.  
The Fort of Gallaway being my Government, and I being commanded, as is before recited, to reside in Dublin Castle, I left my son there with much of my goods▪ which Fort being after besieged by the Rebels, my son sent unto me in a Trunk an hundred forty nine pounds of mine, that I left there at my coming away, the Ship in which it came, being put into Kinsale, the Lord of Inchequin being in want of money for the Army under his Command, and conceiving there had been some greater sum in the Trunk, caused the said Trunk to be broken up, and finding no more money in it, took that out, and as his own Letter makes mention, employed it to the use of the Army, for which no satisfaction hath as yet been made unto me, only one twenty pounds of it he paid, and no more.  
And now having made known unto your Honour, my employments, and partly my sufferings, both in Ireland, and here in England, I having served faithfully against the Rebels of Ireland (as is well known) l●st one of my sons there in that Service, spent and lost my whole Estate, to a great value, in that Service, only what is yet remaining lies in the Rebels Quarters, from whence I can draw no succour for the relief of me and mine at present, nor have not done these six years, And against whom I desire to spend the rest of my days in the service of the Parliament of England, not doubting, but as formerly, I shall be found able to do my Country good and acceptable service, And therefore my humble suit unto your Honour is, that when my Petition to this purpose shall be presented to the most Honourable, the Houses of Parliament, That you will please to vouchsafe me your favour and furtherance in the justness of my cause, And in regard that in the late settlement of the Army in the Province of Leinster, I find no man of Quality but enjoys what Commands he before held (yea some fare better than ever they had before) And for that there is not, nor cannot be any exceptions justly taken against me, That I may be by the favours of the Parliament, continued in my Commands, which I have so long had, and so faithfully served for, It being without all Example, That a man of my quality and employments should be laid aside, no offence being justly proved against me (employments honourable, Sir, is the chiefest thing I desire) That as I have lived with honour, so I may die, which granted unto me, I shall leave my great and dearly earned Arrears (justly due unto me) to the pleasure of the most Honourable, the Houses of Parliament, to be considered of, as in their grave wisdoms they shall think fit.  
But if the Parliament have otherwise resolved (as I hope they have not) and will not continue me in my employments, or any part of them, Than I most humbly beseech your Honour, to stand my friend, that I may be by you and them held worthy of some part of my great and dearly earned Arrears, As also my truly disbursed monies for the advancement of their service in Ireland, whereby I may be in some measure enabled for the future, to provide for my wife and children, that we perish not, I having nothing left me in the world to subsist on, but your noble favours, and that I have in Ireland, which lies in the Rebels Quarters, as before mentioned. To recover which, I shall have no encouragement to go thither, if not employed by the Parliament; To the furtherance of which, I humbly implore your favour, and humbly desire your speedy Answer, I not being able to subsist here any longer, nor well know whither to go.  

That I have always carried myself like an honest man, this Certificate will show to all men.  
AT the request of Sir Francis Willoughby Knight, we do hereby certify, that he hath served long in the Kingdom of Ireland, and in eminent places and commands, as Colonel, and Governor of the Fort of Gallaway, and from the beginning of the rebellion there, he hath been entrusted with the Castle of Dublin, and Major General of the Army there; In all which employments he hath served industriously and faithfully against the Rebels, until the cessation, which began in September, 1643. And aswell before as since the cessation we have well observed his carriage to be such, and so moderate, as we conceived to be free from any ill affection to the Parliament of England, And to our knowledge he is much impaired in his Estate by that service, having received but little pay, And for the most part living upon his own stock, having to our knowledge great arrears due unto him; All which we humbly certify whom it may concern.  


Sir William Parsons, than one of the Lords Justices of Ireland.  
Edward Lord Brabason, a Privy Counsellor of that Kingdom.  
Sir George Shirley Lo: chief Justice of the King's Bench, and a Privy Counsellor.  
Sir Gerrard Lowther, Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and a Privy Counsellor.  
Sir Adam Loftus, Vice-treasurer, and Treasurer at wars, and a Privy Counsellor.  
Sir Paul Davis, Clarke of the Counsel, Sr. Philip Persivall,  
Sir Dudley Loftus, Sr. Edward Povey, Sr. William Anderson,  
Sir Francis Slingsby, Mr. Bisse, Recorder of the City of Dublin,  
Mr. Theodore Scout, Mr. Thomas Mawle.     

That I was so well esteemed of by the Honourable Committee of Derby house, as to be employed into Ireland, as aforesaid, this will show.  
Whereas Sir Francis Willoughby Knight, is now dispatched hence with Letters, and other directions to the City of Dublin, of great importance, which requires all expedition, These are to require all Officers at Land, and all Commanders of Ships at Sea, not only to permit and suffer him to pass in this his journey, but also to be aiding and assisting unto him, in providing of him, and his servants with post horses at the usual rates, and in taking up a Ship, or other convenient Vessel for his speedy passage by Sea, whereof they are not to fail, as they will answer the contrary,  
Westminster the 19.th of October. 1647. 

The Lord Lisle.  
The Lord Wharton.  
Mr William Perpoint.  
Sir Gregory Norton.  
Mr Densill Hollis.  
Sir Philip Stapleton.  
Sir John Temple.  
Sir John Clotworthy.  
Mr Thomas Challenor.     
FINIS.