THE Remonstrance and Declaration of George Cha●berlaine Gent. declaring to the World all passages concerning his lawful Marriage with jone Helena, sole daughter and heir of Andrew Helena Esq late of the County of Devon. deceased since whose decease one Samuel Massey married the Widow of the said Andrew Helena, being Mother of the said jone Helena, and how the said Samuel Massey drew in the said George Chamberlain to marry with his said daughter in law both by his and his wives, and the said jones consent, and by Articles of Agreement under hand and seal; And also how the said Samuel Massey and his said wife, since and before the said marriage, hath defrauded the said George Chamberlain of above six hundred pounds in money, besides Watches, Rings, jewels, and Apparel for his wife, and how, and by whom, and by what means the said Mr. Chamberlain should have been poisoned, with other foul and notorious misdemeanours by the said Massey, and his said wife, perpetrated against the said George Chamberlain, by keeping his said lawful wife from him; and by divers frauds in offering the said wife of the said George Chamberlain in marriage to divers persons, since she was lawfully married to the said George Chamberlain, by which practice the said Massey did delude and defraud divers and several persons of several valuable sums of money, together with other remarkable passages, of absolute transcendent knavery, acted by the said Massey, and fit to be discovered and made known to the view of all men.  
IN and before the month of November, in the year of our Lord, 1651. The said Samuel Massey and his wife, and Mistress Joan Helena, Masseys' daughter in law, being sole daughter and heir of one Andrew Helena, by the said Masseys' wife, all of them being then in the Strand, and fame speaking her to be heir at Law unto about 2000 l. per annum free-hould lands of inheritance, besides many thousand pounds due unto her for the arrearages thereof, divers young Gallants and others were Suitors unto, and highly and costly Courted the said Massey and his wife, to admit them but to see or be suitors for marriage unto their said daughter, whereby much money by many persons was spent, upon the said Massey, and his wife and daughter, in feasting and entertainments, besides many costly Watches and Rings, were presented to the said Massey and his wife from several persons, hoping thereby and by their means to Ingratiate and degree themselves into the favour and liking of the young Lady, so that the said Massey and his said wife for a time, did drive on a very pretty trade, until such time that it begun to be too commonly known to be a meare cheat; but before the Market was quite done, one Master John 'Samine had gotten Intelligence of that great pretended heirs estate and wealth, and he being no less full of desire than credulity, makes means to the said Massey that Master Samines brother in law, Master George Chamberlain, might have the sight of his daughter in law, and that he might be a suitor for marriage unto her, which accordingly was assented unto. This assent begets an Interview and meeting between Master Chamberlain and his friends, and Mistress Joan Helena, and her friends: it so pleased God a liking was had between them, the said Master Chamberlain and Joan Helena, and by the consent of themselves, and friends on all parts, the said Massey her father in law, being her Guardian by order of Chancery, and the said Mistress Joan Helena being above the age of fourteen years, and so consequently of the full age in law to consent to marriage, on the eighteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord 1651. There were Articles of agreement entered into, sealed and duly executed, by and with the consent of the said Joan and her mother, by and between the said Samuel Massey of the one part, and the said George Chamberlain on the other part, to this effect hereafter following. First, That is to say, that the said George Chamberlain by God's grace and providence did intent to marry and take to wife Joan Helena sole daughter and heir of Andrew Helena Esquire, deceased, and daughter of the wife of the said Samuel Massey, on or before the first day of May then next following. Secondly, that the said Massey and his wife during their lives, and the life of the longest liver of them, should hold and enjoy one full third part, in three parts to be divided, of all such Manors, Messages, Lands, and Tenements, as should be recovered in the right of the said Joan Helena, as heir to her said late Father Andrew Helena, or as heir unto one Walter Helena, and Else Helena deceased. Thirdly, it was agreed by and between the said parties, that all such Rents, Arrearages of Rents, Issues, and profits whatsoever, that should be recovered in the right of the said jone Helena, should be equally divided between him the said George Chamberlain and the said Samuel Massey and his wife, if the said marriage do take effect. Fourthly, that out of the fines and profits of the estate when it shall be recovered, the said George Chamberlain shall pay unto the said Samuel Massey, the full some of 1000 l. Fiftly, that the said George Chamberlain shall lend and pay unto the said Massey the full some of 500 l. and that the said Massey shall secure the repayment thereof by statute of 1000 l penalty, if the said marriage take no effect, by or before the aforesaid first day of May, and that if the said marriage take effect, the said five hundred pounds not to be repaid, for in truth that money was paid towards the young Gentlewoman's education, and for bearing the charge of the recovery of the estate due unto her. Sixthly, it was fully agreed by and between all the said parties; That the said Massey and his wife should permit and suffer, the said George Chamberlain with their free and Voluntary consents to be a suitor for marriage unto the said Joan Helena with freedom at all fitting & convenient times, and that the said George Chamberlain should enter into one statute of the penalty of 2000 l. to the said Massey, to perform the Articles of agreement in all points, which was accordingly performed and entered into. Seventhly, That if the said marriage took no effect, by, or before the foresaid first day of May in the Articles of agreement mentioned, that then it was agreed that the said Massey should repay the said 500 l. without Interest unto the said George Chamberlain, within six months after the said first day of May, and that if the said marriage did take effect according to the said Articles of agreement, that then the said 500 l. to be quit to the said Massey, etc. After which said Articles of agreement so sealed and duly executed, all fair and friendly societies, meetings, and invitations, to feast and enjoy each other societies of themselves and friends reciprocally, with all Joy and amicable love on both parts: after which it was unanimously agreed, by the full and free consent of the said Joan Helena, and the said George Chamberlain, and by the full and free consent of the said Massey and his wife, and by the consent of the friends of the said George Chamberlain, that on the fift day of the month of February than next after the date of the said Articles of agreement, which was just two months and 17 days after the Articles of Agreement were sealed: That then, and upon the said fift day of February, there should be a lawful marriage had, and solemnised, by, and between the said George Chamberlain and the said Joan Helena, which accordingly was lawfully and willingly had and performed, by a lawful Minister in a lawful Church, the doors being open at a lawful hour, the said Massey her Father in law, and her natural Mother being then personally present, and the said Massey and his wife bringing her thither in company, with the said George Chamberlain in a Coach for that purpose, and the said Massey her Father in law, in the presence of her natural Mother, and by and with all their consents, the said Massey giving her in marriage in the said Church, unto and to be the lawful wife of the said George Chamberlain, in the presence of divers credible witnesses, Into which sacred bonds of marriage, she the said Joan Helena did enter into, with the said George Chamberlain, with all cheerfulness and willingness, and did answer the Minister, with such a willing, forward, and audible voice, to the admiration of all the spectators of that marriage: and that it may appear when and where, and by whom they were so lawfully married, you shall have next following, the Certificate printed, under the Minister, and Parish-Clarks hands, of the said Parish, to testify their said lawful marriage.  

Here followeth the true Copy of the true Certificate of the lawful Marriage had and solemnised between joane Helena, and the said George Chamberlain, attested under the hands of the Minister and Clerk of the Parish Church where they were lawfully married, as followeth, etc.  
But first you must take notice, that the said Massey had received the aforesaid sum of five hundred pounds of the said George Chamberlain.  
THese are to certify whom it may concern, that George Chamberlain and Joan Helena were lawfully married as man and wife together, at, and in the Parish Church of S. Margaret's Pattens, London, near Towerstreet, the fist day of the month of February, in the Year of our Lord, One thousand, Six hundred, Fifty, and One, as appeareth by the Register Book of the said Parish Church, whereunto we have subscribed our hands, the day and year abovesaid.  


Robert Chamberlain, Minister.  
William Prescot, Parish Clerk.     

Hereafter followeth such Copies of Depositions as prove the said Marriage, sworn before a Master in Chancery, and recorded in that Court.  
RObert Chamberlain, Minister of God's Word, and William Prescot, Parish Clerk of the Parish of Margaret's Pattens, near Tower-street, London, do make Oath, that on the fift day of the month of February, which was in the year of our Lord, One thousand, Six hundred, Fifty, and One, George Chamberlain and Joan Helena were very lawfully & willingly by their free consents, without any force or fraud, which at that present appeared to us, according to the constitution of the Laws of England, married together, & so became lawfully man & wife, which solemnity of Marriage was performed by this Deponent Robert Chamberlain, in the foresaid Parish Church, the Church doors being open, about the hour of ten of the clock in the morning of the same day, and in the presence of divers persons, and especially in the presence, and with the consent of the natural Mother of the said Joan, and also of Samuel Massey, the reputed Father-in-law of the said Joan, who at that present time gave her in Marriage to the said George Chamberlain. And these Deponents do further make Oath, that the foresaid Joan, at the time of the said Marriage, with the greatest cheerfulness, plainness, forwardness, and extraordinary willingness, did answer unto all things which on her part were to be performed, as in relation to the form and ceremonies of the said Marriage.  


Robert Chamberlain, Minister.  
William Prescot, Parish Clerk.    
Sworn the last day of July, 1653.  
ROBERT AYLETT.   

IOhn 'Samine of London, Merchant, and Elizabeth his wife, do make Oath, that they these Deponents were personally present at and in the Parish Church of Margaret Pattons, near Tower street, London, on the fifth day of the month of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty and one, about the hour of ten of the clock in the morning of the same day, at which time and place they these Deponents did see joane Helena, willingly and very cheerfully intermarry and take to be her lawful Husband one George Chamberlain Gent. which said marriage was so had and solemnised between them, by and with the full and free consent of the natural Mother of the said joane, and in her mother's presence, and by and with the consent of one Samuel Massey father in law and Guardian unto the said joane, whereby the said George Chamberlain and joane Helena became lawful man and wife, and the said Massey gave her in marriage in the Church unto the said George Chamberlain.  


john 'Samine.  
Elizabeth 'Samine.    
Sworn this last day of july 1653.  
ROBERT AYLETT.   

GEorge Lambert of London, Salter, doth make Oath, that on the fifth day of the month of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty and one, he this Deponent was personally present, at and in the Parish Church of Margaret's Pattens, near Tower street, London, about the hour of ten of the clock in the morning of the same day, in company with one George Chamberlain Gent. and one joane Helena, at which time and place he this Deponent was present, and did see the said George Chamberlain, and the said joane He'll lawfully intermarried together, by one Robert Chamberlain, a Minister of God's word. And this Deponent doth make Oath, that the said Marriage was had and solemnised between them, by the free consent of the said joane, and of her natural mother, and her father in law Samuel Massey, who gave her in the Church to be the said Mr. Chamberlains wife, in the presence of her said natural mother: and the said joane did then say over after the Minister the words which belong to the consummation of Marriage, with willingness, plainness, and cheerfulness, to the admiration of this Deponent.  
George Lambert.  
Sworn the second of August 1653.  
ROBERT AYLETT.   

IOhn Titus, Gent. maketh Oath that one Samuel Massey about five months since did contract with this Deponent for the Marriage of his Daughter in Law, Mrs. Joan Helena, and withal told this Deponent, that there was a drunken contract made between his Daughter and one Mr. George Chamberlain, which if it could not be nulled by Law, than the said Massey said that he this Deponent, and one Major Bishop should prepare a dose of deadly poison, and the said Massey said, that he would give it to the said Mr. Chamberlain himself, which would not only make his Daughter free for this Deponent, but keep him the said Massey from being troubled for divers sums of money which he owed unto the said Mr. Chamberlain. And this Deponent further deposeth, That the said Massey since hath combined with one John Nelson, sent to make a supposed Marriage between the said Mr. Chamberlain and the said Mrs. Helena void. And that the said Massey hath made a contract to that purpose with the said Nelson, as this Deponent verily believeth. And further the said Massey desired this Deponent to send him word from London when the said Mr. Chamberlain was to go into Devonshire, upon which notice being so given, the said Massey vowed to give him the said Mr. Chamberlain such an entertainment, as should suddenly take him out of this world.  


John Titus.  
Witness John 'Samine.    
Sworn the 21. of March, 1652.  
ROBERT AYLETT.   

IOhn Bishop, Gent. maketh Oath, that one Samuel Massey being in company of this Deponent, and one Mr. John Titus, the said Samuel Massey did desire the said Mr. Bishop and Mr. Titus to prepare an effectual dose of poison, which the said Massey with his own hands would give unto one Mr. George Chamberlain; and by that means to be freed from many troubles which were then upon the said Massey by the reason he had a desire to marry his Daughter to another man.  


John Bishop.  
Witness John 'Samine.    
Sworn the 21. of March, 1652.  
ROBERT AYLETT.   

WHen the foresaid Samuel Massey caused an assault to be made upon, and wounded the person of the said George Chamberlain in the quiet possession of his said Wife in Chancery Lane, in Trinity Term, 1652. by which means he the said Massey gained away the Wife of the said Mr. Chamberlain, and conveyed her to a private Lodging, to the house of one Mr. Halsey, unknown unto the said Mr. Chamberlain, she the Wife of the said Mr. Chamberlain did then and there say and acknowledge, that she should never enjoy any comfort or happiness in this world, unless she might enjoy the Company and society of the said Mr. Chamberlain, who was then her lawful Husband; as then, and as divers other persons of worth and quality that will depose the same, or words to the like effect, both at that, and at several other times spoken by herself, and upon her own accord and free will.   

Moyses' Holebrooke of Islington in the County of Middlesex doth make Oath, That he this Deponent in the later end of the year of our Lord, One thousand, Six hundred, Fifty, and One, did serve one George Chamberlain, Gent. as his then servant, which said George Chamberlain was then lately before that time married unto one Mrs. Joan Helena, a young Gentlewoman, Daughter in Law unto one Samuel Massey of Laurence Clift, in the County of Devonshire. And this Deponent doth make Oath, that the said Joan and George Chamberlain, for above the space of ten weeks together did live as man and wife together, and so declared themselves to be, and this Deponent coming many mornings to wait on the said George Chamberlain in his said Chamber, he hath found the Chamber door bolted, and the door being unbolted, he hath found the wife of the said George Chamberlain with him in the said Chamber, undressed and in secret privacy as man & wife; & the said George Chamberlain hath acknowledged that although his said wife was not then full 15 years of age, yet he the said George Chamberlain had knowledge of her body as his Wife. And this Deponent doth further make Oath, that he this Deponent hath bought and paid for divers necessaries for the said Wife of the said George Chamberlain both by his and her consent, and at the cost of him the said George Chamberlain; and that at the departure of her said Husband out of the Country for London, she did shed many tears for his absence and desired his enjoyment.  
The mark of Moses (-) Holebrooke.  
Sworn the 6. of August, 1653.  
ROBERT AYLETT.   

IOhn Sessons of Houghton parish in the Bishopric of Durham, Gent. doth make Oath, That one George Chamberlain Gent. having lately made a very sad complaint unto this Deponent, that he the said George Chamberlain having lately intermarried and taken to be his lawful Wife one Joan Helena, sole Daughter of one Andrew Helena, deceased, and informing this Deponent, how that his said Wife was shifted from place to place, and hidden and detained from him, whereby he could not have her, nor enjoy her as his said Wife, nor could he have any access unto his said Wife, either by word or Letter, and that the said George Chamberlain had lately discovered that his said Wife was in the house and hands of one Colonel Gravener at the Mews, near Charingcross; where, and to which place the said Mr. Chamberlain desired and prevailed with this Deponent to carry a civil Letter from the said Mr. Chamberlain unto the said Col. Gravener, concerning the delivery of the said Mr. Chamberlains Wife unto her said Husband; and also desired this Deponent to present and deliver one other godly and loving Letter unto his the said Mr. Chamberlains Wife; which Letters, the one of them this Deponent did deliver to the hands of the said Col. Gravener his own hands, and the other Letter from the said Mr. Chamberlain, directed to his said Wife, the said Col. Gravener did refuse to deliver, or to suffer this Deponent to deliver the same Letter unto the wife of the said Mr. Chamberlain; & he the said Col. Gravener did acknowledge unto this Deponent, that one Mrs. Joan Helena was in his house; but whether she were the Wife of the said Mr. Chamberlain or not, he said he did not know; but if that she was the Wife of the said Mr. Chamberlain, the marriage was illegally had, and did absolutely deny to have the Letter from her Husband delivered unto her, and seemed very angry with this Deponent for bringing the said Letter, and gave some threatening speeches that he would have and obtain an Act of Parliament for the dissolving the said marriage between the said George Chamberlain and the said Joan his now wife: And the said Col. Gravener did then threaten to secure this Deponents person, if in case he this Deponent did trouble him with any more Letters of this nature, yet this Deponent hath upon earnest request of the said George Chamberlain, and pitying his condition, in being deprived of his Wife by a strong hand, did once more adventure to deliver a second Letter to the said Col. Gravener, which Letter the said Colonel did absolutely refuse to receive.  


John Sesson.    
Sworn the 10. of August. 1653.  
ROBERT AYLETT.  
This Affidavit doth manifest that Col Gravener did refuse all civil Applications by Letter to himself, or to Mr. Chamberlains Wife from the said Mr. Chamberlain.   

BY all which the foregoing premises you see a lawful marriage, fairly gained by the full and free consent of the said Joan, her natural Mother, and of her father in law, the said Massey her Guardian, and as truly proved by the foregoing depositions, by honest persons of quality, and known honesty and integrity, who were at the foresaid marriage, and who also well know that after the said marriage, the said George Chamberlain was at a great charge, for the appareling of his wife with rich attire, as Satin Gown and Petticoats, and the like, and that they lived in the Country as man and wife together, for about ten week's time, or a quarter of a year, and his said wife accepted of a Watch from him, and all other necessaries as her lawful Husband: and so owned him in all points, until the said Samuel Massey and his said wife, for their own base sinister ends, and for filthy lucre sake, did most wickedly and unjustly detain my said lawful wife from me, contrary to the laws of God and man; Since which time of their wicked separation, the said Massey and his wife have confederated themselves with one Colonel Gravenor, who liveth at the Mewse near Charen-Crosse, who now do go about to that horrid act of nulling of the said lawful marriage, and so consequently the cursed separation of that my dearly beloved wife, in whom my soul delighteth, with a resolution to rend my said lawful wife from me by the hand of power, intending to marry her to some other person, to enrich themselves, because my said wife is in a capacity to recover a valuable estate in law, which if ever recovered, I hope to manage it with prudence, if the Lord will allot it to me, in providence, so that in the next place I am (although very unwilling) yet vastly necessitated to make this my Declaration public to the world, thereby not only to clear my Innocence from any fraud, or force, by me intended or acted, in the obtaining of the said lawful marriage, but also to unmask to the public view, all those hell-hatcht, black, and horrid practices, and unparraleld, Insufferable, Injuries, oppressions, cozenages, and frauds that the said Massey the father in law and his wife, with their horrid adherents have practised, and do daily put in action, to rob and disrobe me of my lawful wife, whom God by his holy ordinances hath lawfully made my wife, and that if by the power of the potency, and the arm of flesh rended from me, will make me cry out with David, judge and revenge my cause O Lord; and I am confident, that if God shall be pleased to suffer them to prevail against me, to deprive me of my lawful wife, yet the Lord for that fact will shower down the Viols of his Just vengeance upon the pates of them, their wives and children, that shall act, though never so secret, for such a horrid separation of man and wife.   

Here followeth the true and perfect discovery of what will be made manifest, and evidently proved against Samuel Massey and his wife, and others their hellish abettors of his black conspiracies, against my innocent self and wife, only to ruin me, and to enrich himself, and those his conspirators, that take part with him in this hellish design, etc.  
THat the said Samuel Massey, before the said marriage between the said Master Chamberlain and his now wife did take effect, did invite one John Titus Gent. to be a suitor for marriage unto the now wife of the said George Chamberlain, by which means he the said Massey defrauded the said John Titus, of a rich Watch, a rich Sword and Belt, and a Gilded Dagger, and several other valued things, besides the expense of much money, And that the said John Titus travailing beyond the Seas, and in the interim, the said marriage between the said George Chamberlain and the said joane Helena taking effect, And the said Master Titus, after the said marriage returning into England, the said Massey most fraudulently and wickedly, persuaded the said Master Titus that the said joane Helena was not legally married unto the said George Chamberlain, but that it was only a drunken contract that might easily be avoided; and the said Massey did persuade the said john Titus, that the said joan Helena did passionately love him, and that he had oftentimes heard her declare, that Master Titus was her first love, and that she could never have any hearty affection for any other person in the world besides himself, and therefore with all strong and delusive persuasions, invited the said John Titus to be a suitor for marriage unto the said Joan Helena, which in truth the said Massey well knew to be the lawful wife of the said Master Chamberlain; by which wicked and undue practice, the said Massey defrauded the said John Titus of, and drew the said John Titus to expend above the sum of two hundred pounds' currant money; and that when the said John Titus discovered the frauds of the said Massey, and that the said Joan Helena was very lawfully married unto the said George Chamberlain. And then the said Massey did use means to poison the said George Chamberlain, unto which horrid plot and practise he the said Massey did invite the said John Titus, and one John Bishop Gent. with all secrecy, to consent, and to prepare the said poison, and he the said Massey affirming that he would give the said Master Chamberlain the said poison with his own hands.  
THat since the foresaid marriage took effect, between the said George Chamberlain and the said Joan Helena, the said Massey hath willingly, falsely, fraudulently, and corruptly, had divers conferences and communications, with divers persons and their agents, both in the Counties of Devon. and Cornwell, and other places, and also with divers other persons, in and about the City of London, for, and concerning a marriage for the self same Jone Helena, now the lawful wife of the said George Chamberlain, and the said several persons of quality, to the great damage and oppression of the said Master Chamberlain.  
That the said Massey, since the foresaid marriage, so had, and solemnised between the said George Chamberlain and the said Joan Helena, that is to say, in the month of February last passed, did enter into some Articles of Agreements, or Covenants in writing, that the said wife of the said George Chamberlain, should within convenient time, Intermarry, and take to be her husband, one John Nelson Gent. as in and by the said Articles remaining in the hands of the said Nelson and Massey, or one of them may at large appear: and that the said Massey in Hillary Term last passed, did enter into one Judgement in the Court of upper Bench at Westminster, of the penalty of ten thousand pounds to the said Nelson, to perform the said Articles: By which horrible and wicked practices, the said Massey having the said Master Chamberlains wife in his keeping, and hiding her from place to place where the said George Chamberlain cannot find her, nor have access unto her, either by word or letter, he the said Massey by adulation, and base flattery, hath alienated the heart and affection of the wife of the said George Chamberlain, and hath and still doth offer and expose her to no better than public sale for marriage unto divers persons, to the great damage, wrong, and heavy oppression of the said George Chamberlain.  
That the said Massey and his said wife, by their practice and conspiracy with Mr. Dike, the Master Keeper of Newgate, and other Confederates since the Month of February last passed, did conspire to hid, keep and detain the lawful wife of the said George Chamberlain from him, and to effect their wicked and unlawful purposes, they the said Confederates did hid, detain, and keep the wife of the said Mr. Chamberlain, in secret manner in the dwelling house of the said Mr. Dike, at or near Newgate, London, and when the said George Chamberlain had discovered his said wife to be there, than the foresaid Conspirators, Massey, and Dike, with much subtlety and secrecy, caused the wife of the said Mr. Chamberlain to be conveyed unto Vintner's Hall, and to be put in the custody of some friend of the said Mr. Dikes, and being there not long before she was discovered to be there, than the wife of the said George Chamberlain, was by the conspirators conveyed away from thence unto the golden Sugar-loaf in Holborn; and not thinking her to be hidden safe there from her lawful husband, she was thence conveyed and hid and kept at Wimbleton, at the house of one Mr. William Massey, a kinsman of the said Samuel Massey, and all to the great wrong and heavy oppression of the said George Chamberlain, and contrary to the Laws of God and man.  
You are to take notice that under the colour of Mr. Chamberlains wife, being a reputed great heir to about 2000l. Lands per annum, and so declared by that black-sould, treacherous, false father in law Samuel Massey, all these horrible plots, practices, and unheard of villainies do proceed; The first cause and ground of his villainy arising because Mr. Chamberlain would not suffer himself to be cozened of 250l. more in money, over and above the foresaid five hundred pounds before paid unto the said Massey by the said Mr. Chamberlain, which 250 l. being refused to be parted withal by the said Mr. Chamberlain, to the said Massey, he the said Massey for that and for no other cause at all, did settle upon a resolution, and did protest and declare, that the said Mr. Chamberlain should never have his said wife, but that the said Massey and his said wife would keep and hid her from him, and would utterly dissuade her against the said George Chamberlain her lawful Husband, which will be proved upon Oath by sufficient and good witness.  
But now to return where the old Kennel of Foxes have left the young one, at Wimbleton; for by this time it must be believed, that at the Academy and University of Newgate, in the Jaws of a Jailor, there must needs be infused into her tender ear such sordid literature and learning, as is able to separate man and wife, and so consequently to undo body and soul, to bring about the wicked ends of those Conspirators.  
Being now lodged at Wimbleton, notice thereof is given unto the said Mr. Chamberlain that she is there, and that a person of Honour, a Lord of this Nation, by the false information of her Father in Law, is invited to believe her a great Heir, and not married, is to give her a visit for marriage, and that if the marriage take effect, the conspirators shall have 12000 l.  
Then Mr. Chamberlain her Husband is advised and doth apply himself to the Lord Chief Justice, who grants his Warrant to take the said M●ssey for his misdemeanours; Mr. Chamberlain with the Warrant takes a Coach and goes with the Warrant to Wimbleton, takes a Constable with some other friends, and in a peaceable manner searches the house of William Massey for the body of the said Samuel Massey, and in that search finds his lawful wife, courts her into the Coach, and brings her to London, as was just and lawful so to do; the perfidious Father in Law, and the rest of the Conspirators have notice of this sudden change, they use instruments to be in the Chamber with them, to keep man and wife from lying together, or from having any private conference; the Conspirators pretend a force and a Riot, and charge the husband and the wife before a Justice of the Peace, one Mr. Peter Bradshaw; this Justice, it being Sessions time at Hicks Hall, directs a Constable to bring Mr. Chamberlains wife in custody to that Sessions, which was the very last Sessions held in July 1653. there the said Joan is brought, and her husband goes in voluntarily, expecting good justice to be done; and for that it did appear to that Court, and for all there were divers witnesses to prove that the said Master Chamberlain and the said Joan were lawfully married together, and so became lawful man and wife, yet by the strong influence of one Colonel Gravener, who now liveth in the green Mews by Charing-cross, and who formerly did live in Pater noster row, London, I say by this Colonel's procurement, the said Mr. George Chamberlain was taken from his lawful wife, and committed to the New Prison, when if there was any force or Riot at all, the fact was committed in Surrey at Wimbleton, and not in Middlesex  
So that the said Colonel G●avener taking part with the said Massey, the father in law, having gotten the lawful husband of the said Joan in the Goal, being a courteous, kind Gentleman, doth take away the lawful wife of the said Mr. Chamberlain from him, and in his Coach carries her away, without any lawful Warrant or Authority whatsoever, to his house at the Mews, where she is now mewed up from her husband: my conscience tells me that there is not such another courteous person in this Commonwealth, that hath such a conscience to take away a man's lawful wife from him, and to imprison him, and to measure out so much and so large London measure of oppression; and although he be reported to be Quartermaster General to this noble Army, yet that ever Heroic, and honoured Lord General, nor all, nor any his worthy Officers of the Army will be pleased to think it fit or reasonable, that Quartermaster General Gravener should be so wanton with his wits, or so far to go beyond his Commission, as to rend man and wife asunder, and then to take up quarters for another man's wife, whether her husband will or no; it is not the way to be Quartermaster, but to be whole Master of another man's wife; therefore every man had need have a care of his wife, if the Col. go on with such a trade, and if he go so far beyond his Commission, it may please the noble Governors of this Nation to give him a Writ of ease.  
But to take a man's Wife from him in the face of a Court, under the colour of Justice without any Warrant, and when a noble Parliament and honourable Council of State is sitting, nay when this Nation and all the eyes of Christendom are upon our Supreme Authorities, expecting Justice to be done to every man, poor and rich; and Judgement to flow like a mighty stream; at this time that is expected, that the weary and heavy laden should be eased, & the wrongs of the oppressed should be righted; 'tis strange that at this time, and so near the Supreme Authority, the Parliament of England, the said Col. Gravener should attempt to do so irreligious an act, as to part man and Wife.  
Now the said wife of Master Chamberlain, being at the whole Master General's house at the Mewse, it is fit the lawful husband of her, Master Chamberlain should know of her welfare, and how she doth do, or how, or by what way he may enjoy her, to live in the fear of the Lord comfortably together, as man and wife ought to do, and upon a strict inquiry, Mr. Chamberlain hath discovered that the Master Goalor of Newgate, the said Massey the father in law of the said Master Chamberlains wife, this noble Colonel Gravener, and a blunt, rich, able person, well friended and well moneyed, and well reputed, whose name shall go free, and be yet and at this time exempted, if he prove to be a peacemaker, have all of them together, with some other persons that may be named and shamed in time, set up a resolution in a contentious way, as they call it, to bring the said Mr. Chamberlain and his miswandred wife together, or at least some what near unto one another, and in order thereunto the foresaid confederates by their foresaid confederacy having gotten the said Master Chamberlains said lawful wife into the power of the Army (as the said Massey reports) (and which no wise man will believe, that the noble Army will patronise or protect any such horrid thing) and in order to this their new design they the said conspirators have framed penned, contrived, abetted, and fomented a false, untrue, and scandalous Petition, in the name of the said Mr. Chamberlains wife, to the honourable Council of State against her foresaid lawful Husband the said Master Chamberlain, and against divers other innocent persons, and by the insinuating power of some or one of the aforesaid conspirators, that transcendent and incomparable Col Gravener, did procure a Warrant from the said honourable Council of State, for to apprehend and secure the person of the said George Chamberlain, and other innocent persons, as namely Robert Chamberlain, Minister of God's word, which was that Minister that did marry the said Mr. Chamberlain and his said wife together, William Prescot the Parish Clark, John 'Samine and his wife, George Lambert, and all others that were at the foresaid Solemnity, or which could prove the lawful marriage of the said Mr. Chamberlain and his lawful wife together; but it is to be noted, that the name of that Fox Massey must be also put into that Warrant, and it must be contrived to avoid suspicion, or that the plot may not be discovered, but that it may be so carried on, that the said Massey may draw in the said Mr. Chamberlain, and all his foresaid friends together at some known place of meeting, and that then he the said Massey might betray them all, and that then a file of Musketteres might come in and take the said Massey, and all the rest together.  
Now the Warrant is under Seal, the Marshal General, that gallant clear honest hearted man, is prepared to execute the said Warrant with some Soldiers, Although no person named in that Warrant had any relation, as being a soldier or capable as being a prisoner of war, but to make it the greater terror and bugbear, nothing is wanting but that Judas part of Massey to be acted, Massey as being set on by the fury of his thirsty, villainous revenge, Cloaks his knavery under the species of a fair pretence, Courts Mr. Chamberlain and his friends to a fair compliance of the ending of all differences between them by indifferent men; Mr. Chamberlain assents thereunto, a meeting of all parties is had, for the end of settling peace and unity between both parties the third of August 1653. at the Paul head Tavern near Doctor's Commons, Mr. Chamberlain by himself and friend Engage that no affront or surprisal either by Sarjeant, or by soldiers shall be offered, to Massey, Massey and his friend one Mr. Leigh do engage, that Mr. Chamberlain nor his friends should come by any damage, nor surprisal by any Officer, Sarjeant, or soldier during the time of that treaty, Massey, binds up his Engagements by many execrable oaths, wishing that his flesh might rot from his bones, and that his Wife and Children might for ever perish, etc. If he meant any ill, or if any Sarjeant or Soldier should interrupt that Treaty for peace; the Treaty for that peace thereupon proceeded, and all parties being met for that purpose, then, and not till then did that black Villainy of the said Massey and the rest of the conspirators appear, for in the debating of the business, in comes the Marshal General, with Graveners' man, who pulled the Warrant out of his pocket, & six Soldiers, musketeers, with a Warrant from the Council of State, obtained by the said Gravener, and the consent of Massey, and the rest of the conspirators, and the Warrant not mentioning any crime at all, the said Marshal and the said Soldiers, forced the said George Chamberlain and others his friends to the Marshals prison at the Muse, where they have remained prisoners ever since the third day of this present August 1653. And being there restrained, and kept prisoners by the Marshal General, and by the soldiery, the said Massey again insinuated himself into the society of the said Mr. Chamberlain, he being a prisoner, and offered unto him, that if he would pay unto the said M ssey the sum of one hundred pounds in money, that then he the said Mr. Chamberlain should have, & enjoy his said wife, and that he, the said Massey and his wife, would join together and would reduce her out of the hands of the said Gravener, and deliver her to the said Mr. Chamberlain, that they may enjoy each other, and live as man and wife together; and the said Massey having made the said offer at the house of the said Marshal General, whilst he was a prisoner, he the said Massey did send for a quart bottle of Sack at his own charge, and did there with drink unto the said Mr. Chamberlain by the name of his son Chamberlain, and to his wife, being the daughter in law of the said Massey, whereby it is evident that Mr. Chamberlain is deprived of his said wife by a strong hand only, and for no other cause but for that the said Mr. Chamberlain will not suffer himself to be defrauded of any more money by the said Massey, Mr. Chamberlain, upon all Masseys flatteries, will not be defrauded of any more moneys by the said Massey, Massey he works by Gravener to continue Mr. Chamberlain prisoner, Mr. Chamberlain, endeavours to send letters to his lawful wife, Gravener denies the reception of them or the delivery of any letter unto her, yet acknowledged that the said Mr. Chamberlains wife by the name of Joan Helena is in his house: Mr. Chamberlain Courts Gravener with several Letters, one whereof he receiveth, the other he denieth to receive; both Letters are herewith printed, together with the said Mr. Chamberlains Letter to his Wife, at Graveners' house, that the world may know, that the said Mr. Chamberlain hath left no fair way unacted, unattempted, or undone for the reducing, and regaining of his said lawful Wife, unto the cohabitation of the said Mr. Chamberlain her husband; all which applications proving fruitless, the said Mr. Chamberlain was enforced to set forth to the view of the world this modest following Declaration, wherein Col. Graveners' name was not at all mentioned.   

To the Honourable Colonel Gravener, at the Mews these present.  
Honoured Sir:  
YOU are the person by the report of divers, that have in your habitation, a Gentlewoman that you call Mrs. joane Helena, which in truth is my most dearly beloved and lawful wife; I have sent her by this Bearer a Letter from myself, and do desire that you would be pleased to permit that Letter to be safely delivered by this bearer to her own hands, leaving the success thereof to the searcher of hearts. Sir, it would be a great obligation unto me, and a great manifestation to the world of your honour and integrity, if you would either deliver me my wife, or admit and command that I might have her delivered unto me, or might have a safe and fair access for conference with my wife: Truly Sir, you will find for all the false aspersion of my enemies, that she is my true and lawful wife, nor will God bless the seperators of man and wife; and therefore I desire you in the fear of the Lord, and as you expect to answer it at the great and terrible day of judgement, and as you expect a blessing from Heaven upon you and yours, and as you hope to enjoy what ever is dear unto you, Do not, oh do not, patronise, promote, abet, or countenance, the rending of my lawful wife from me; a curse must follow the contrivers thereof, I hope you are none, yet vastly suspected by some; be pleased to do yourself that honour, and me that right, but to have a fair and friendly examination of the truth of all things in controversy, and then I am confident your noble soul will inform you, that I have been vastly abused; Sir, be pleased to suspend your judgement until you know the truth of things, and where you do not know the truth, charity invites you to think the best, and leave the rest to the searcher of all hearts; and then I hope, I shall find you a noble sold person towards me, and hope to have just cause to manifest myself to be, Sir,  
Your servant, and ever honourer, Geo. Chamberlain. july 27. 1653.   

The true Copy of a Letter sent by George Chamberlain, Gent. unto his Wife, being by divers dangerous persons and practices unduly detained from him. To his dearly honoured and beloved Wife, Mrs. Joan Chamberlain, these with fidelity present.  
My faithfully beloved Wife:  
GOD by his providence hath made you my lawful Wife, nor shall I ever by any means whatsoever, whilst I live, be drawn to leave you or forsake you; and therefore in the name of God, and in obedience to all his holy Commands, I do hereby with all faithful affection entreat you speedily to admit me to speak with you, and with the forgetting of all unkindnesses to enjoy you: what can you desire of me, as in relation to your own happiness, or concerning your Fatherlaws freedom, or your Mother's future felicity, but you may absolutely command my just rights in the enjoyment of you as my dear beloved Wife, will be your Father's Freedom and your Mother's felicity? and therefore be not cruel to them, when the sweet smiles of a faithful heart by you my dear Wife, together with your desired self thrown into the arms of me your faithful Husband, may yet make up the breach of all unhappy differences; let no voice nor power flatter you into a belief of dissolving that sacred knot of marriage that Heaven hath knit between us, and let God shower down the Viols of his just vengeance upon all those that seek that horrid separation; remember my Deer how sweetly and solemnly in that sacred Bands of Marriage in the presence of God and Man you were lawfully married to me; remember your then solemn Promises you made to me before the Lord, keep those Promises, for God will not be mocked, and in the name and fear of the Lord return unto me, which am resolved faithfully to receive you, carefully to love you, plentifully to provide for you, and most contentedly and charitably to pass by all things, any thing of injury from any person or persons. This (my Love) is the way to Peace, this is the way to Love, and this is the true way to draw down the blessing of the Lord upon us, which can only make us happy both in this life, and also to eternity; be so kind to your own soul as to consider what the Lord hath given me leave to write to you, and the great God of all hearts incline you to return me your Answer (like the innocent Dove with the Olive branch) with sweet tidings, which will be great joy to my soul to see the return of my innocent misled and almost lust Lamb into my bosom, which are the hearty desires and prayers of,  
Your faithful loyal loving Husband, GEO. CHAMBERLAINE. July 27. 1653.  
This Letter above written I sent unto my wife the 27. of July, 1653. unto her, to the house of Col. Gravener, at the Mews, who hath and doth most unjustly keep my said wife from me, and now hath most wickedly by foul practice, caused me to be kept prisoner at the Martial General's house at the Mews, for no cause at all; wherefore I am enforced to make this public Declaration to the world hereafter following.  
George Chamberlain.   

The Declaration of George Chamberlain, Gent. to all persons of this Nation, concerning the undue practice of divers persons which do most unjustly and illegally detain his lawful Wife from him, for their own sinister ends and purposes, etc.  
WHereas according to the known Laws established in this Nation, I George Chamberlain Gent. have lately and lawfully intermarried and taken to be my wife Joan Helena, sole daughter and heir of Andrew Helena Esquire, of the County of Devon. her late Father, deceased, which said Joan my said wife, is by the foul practice and conspiracy of one Samuel Massey, who married the mother of the said Joan, and by the undue means of the said mother, persuaded and prevailed withal to withdraw, absent, and hid herself, from me her lawful loving and faithful husband; and she being so unduly kept from me and seduced by evil Counsel and most destructively advised against me by the said Samuel Massey and his wife, and others their Agents and Confederates, by base flattery and adulation, whereby she is now prepared not only to deny me to be her lawful husband, but also to believe that the said lawful marriage shall be nuled and made void, and she be put in a capacity to marry with some other person of honour, so that those cursed Counsels and Instruments have wrought a resolution in her tender years not to live or cohabite with me her lawful husband: and as being bound in conscience, so with great care and diligence have I sought all lawful ways and means, and made all uncessant and civil applications both by letters and otherwise for the begetting of a true understanding whereby I and my said wife might have enjoyed each other with comfort, and in the fear of the Lord, as man and wife ought to do, all which my most faithful endeavours proving fruitless by reason of that hell hatched, black destroying influence, and sordid interposition that the said Massey and his wife and their flattering false hearted instruments and Agents have had and practised upon my too much credulous and misled wife, being altogether in their unhappy custody, and shifted from place to place unknown unto me, I am now with great grief of hart, constrained to publish & Declare to the world these my unparallelled and heavy oppressions above said; and to the end the said Massey and his said wife shall no longer delude any young gallant by exposing their daughrer (my lawful wife) to sale, under the notion of a young great heir, which the said Massey and his wife have done since she hath been my lawful wife; and since she hath been rended and torn from me. And therefore I the aforesaid abused George Chamberlain do hereby publish, declare, and make known to all people that the foresaid Joan is my real and lawful wife, & that the said marriage was had, and solemnised between us according to the known laws of this nation, & by & with the free and full consent of herself the said Massey her father in Law, & her natural mother, and before them and in their presence and in a lawful Church, & by a lawful Minister without force or fraud: for in truth before the said marriage did take effect, I the said George Chamberlain did pay unto the said Massey and his said wife, in consideration of the cost that they had been at in the education of my said wife, the full and just sum of five hundred pounds' currant money, which the said Massey and his said wife received accordingly. Besides I bestowed above one hundred pounds currant moneys in apparel & other necessary accommodations for my said wife: and therefore, through God's assistance, I do speedily resolve to use all lawful ways and means to reduce my said lawful wife to her sweet cohabitation with me, that we may live together in the fear of the Lord, and to gain her out of the hands of those destroying flatterers, whose accursed keeping man and wife asunder, God will never bless. I do further declare sincerely from my heart, that I never gave my said dearly beloved wife any just cause, by word or deed, to withdraw her desired self from my society, but am resolved by God's Grace, faithfully to love and honour her, and plentifully to provide for her all the days of my life, according to God's holy Laws and Commandments. And further I declare and publish my free resolution by God's Grace to pass by, and bury in eternal oblivion all former prejudices whatsoever, either by her tender too much credulities, or by her harkening more to the voice of flattery than the heart of loyalty, nor shall I take advantage of any thing heretofore perpetrated by her mother or father in law against me, unto whom I shall yet have a civil and very tender regard, if complied withal in time, and shall obliterate all former unkindnesses, with these strong weapons of true love and gentle courtesies, wherein I hope all persons and power, both military and civil, understanding the candour and truth of the premises will abhor to take part with those, who most indirectly go about to separate myself and my dearly beloved wife, whom God by his holy orders hath lawfully joined together.  
Lastly, I do hereby further Declare, that from the day of the date hereof, I do give public notice and warning to all people whatsoever, that they do not lend or trust my said Wife for any moneys, wares, goods, or chattels, food, or raiment, or for any other thing whatsoever, without my Warrant and authority first had and obtained in writing, at their and every of their perils. All which I have been most tenderly unwilling to declare to the world, but that I am enforced thereunto, by reason of those malignant advisers that have a vast prevailing influence upon my Wife, and daily go about to implunge her in great and vast debts, thereby to supply and bring about their wicked purposes, and contract great debts upon me to hasten my overthrow, which they desire. Dated under my hand this 28. day of July, 1653.  
GEORGE CHAMBERLAINE.  
The full substance of this Declaration above written is fully proved upon oath, by seven substantial honest and undeniable Witnesses, and by God's grace shall be maintained to be full of Candour and truth, with hazard of the life and fortune of myself her lawful Husband.  
George Chamberlain.   

To his honoured and dearly beloved Wife, Mrs. joane Chamberlain, these with fidelity present, at Colonel Graveners' house in the Mews.  
My most dear Wife:  
HAD I not been debarred of all civil applications, (by Colonel Gravener) in my personal waiting on you, or in the delivery of my Letters, I doubt not but that I should have given you so clear a demonstration of my true integrity, and so plainly have disclosited the wicked conspiracies of these most hell-hatcht Incendiaries (which now I fear sit at the stern of thy tender years, and seek this accursed dissolution between us) that their most suttlest inventions could never have had power to have made these delusions penetrate upon thy tender and innocent soul. Truly, my Love, I hope you cannot but be sensible before this, how these irreligious counsellors endeavour to make a prey of thee and thy reputation, to bring about their ungodly and selfish designs, which tends to no other purpose then the destruction both of thy body and soul. And therefore, my heart, it is my soul's desire, that thou wouldst shun these abominable advices, and return into the bosom of thy dearest Husband, which at present (for thy sake) is exposed a Prisoner at the Marshal General's house in the Mues, not far from thee, (or at least a civil visit) where thou shalt receive the best of welcomes, from him that dares challenge no longer a being, than he is most cordially devoted in his inclination to be, My Dear,  
Thy most affectionate, and I hope inseparable Husband, GEORGE CHAMBERLAINE. August 8. 1653.   

These to the Honoured Colonel Gravener present.  
SIR,  
BY a person of civility and quality, I did present you with a Letter from myself, thereby inviting you no longer to detain my lawful wife, under that fallacy of Mrs joane H●le; I have printed some papers unwillingly to the view of the word, declaring her to be my lawful Wife, of which I am confident you cannot be ignorant; but to leave you without excuse of that knowledge, I have desired and prevailed with this Gentleman to present one to you. Sir, under your good favour, I did take it unkindly from you, that a Gentleman of your quality, honour, and fame, should not permit, or in charity promote the delivery of that Letter that this Gentleman was pleased by your permission, and my direction, to deliver to my misled Wife, unjustly detained from me and harboured in your house. Sir, I pray God it be not palpably proved, that you have some valuable self ends and interest as in relation to the endeavouring to deprive me of my lawful Wife. I am most confidently assured, that it stands not with the Laws of God, nor of this Nation, nor with the honour nor honesty of any conscientious Christian, to be the means, the aider, a better, or separater of man and wife. Sir, I charge you before the face of Heaven, to consider what I have writ, and to lay it to heart, and to examine your own conscience therein, and to write me back a civil answer like a good Christian, and like an honest man; For let me be rendered to you never so inconsiderable by the basest of depraving tongues, yet know, that I will not by you, or by any man else, be fooled out of, or from that Wife that God by his Ordinance hath lawfully made mine, which is the unalterable resolution of Sir,  
Your servant and abused friend George Chamberlain. Broomly Hall this 2. of Aug. 1653. near Stratford Bow.   

To the Honoured Colonel Gravener, these present.  
Honoured Sir,  
THrough that Civil respect I have to yourself, being (as I am informed) a member of this worthy Army, to whom under God we must ascribe all praise, for our lives, liberties, and fortunes; I have thought good once more to invite you to a clear understanding, whereby you might not be led unto utter darkness, through the false lights of self interest, or misinformation, which will but add torments to the afflictions of a burdened conscience: I presume you spend not your time so irreligiously, but that you are very sensible what a bitter curse the Lord hath laid upon the seperators of man and wife; as in many places of God's word doth appear (therefore if you cannot have so much civility to me, to return me my lawful wife, which you most impiously and illegally detain from me, being under the protection of your roof, besides your unjust confining me to the most heavy, and unheard of oppression of imprisonment, for no other cause then demanding my best of rights, my most lawful wife) be so kind to your own soul, as not to draw down the just curse of the Lord upon you. Pray, summon all your intellects, and examine whether Heaven be to be purchased with money, or by obeying the command of Almighty God: O then hazard not unspeakable, nay undeterminable comfort in your future life, by wilfully drawing down Gods Just vengeance upon your head. It is not I that say it, but the great God of all hearts, whom at this time hath permitted me to write this Letter unto you that you might know, it is not yet too late to repent of evil doing. But as the Lord hath commanded us to deal unto all men, as we would be dealt unto ourselves, if we expect the comfort of his sweet smiles upon us; Therefore in obedience to his most Holy and divine commands, my charity bids me not to believe these wicked actions proceed from your natural inclinations, but are rather infused into you, by harkening to the base adulations perpetrated by Samuel Massey, and his black society, who as I am informed is very often in your company: Therefore I must confess, I cannot much wonder why you so violently persist in evil doing, associating yourself, certainly with the most corruptest of villains, which is long since proved by Affidavit before a Master in Chancery, The best of Judgements may be corrupted if but one party heard; but to leave you without excuse: This is to remember you that I have formerly made all civil and modest applications, thereby to invite you to have a Just sense of my honest cause (but instead of a kind return of my civilities, I have ranckounterd many of your threa●s; And so likewise hath Mr. Sisson who delivered my Letters, wherein some of them you have been as good as your word, but as to what else can be done unto me, I defy all those black instruments that attend your ears, with delusive falsities presuming by your power and means, to snatch away my just rights from me) To which purpose I now write this Letter, and in point of Charity advise you to balm up the deep wounds that will lie upon your reputation if not your conscience, by reuniting and delivery of my wise into that safe harbour the bosom of a Cordial loving husband, and that Immediately, or else you must expect I shall no longer lie under this agony without giving the world a true account, who are the Patrons of so foul a practice, wherein I cannot avoid your name, my unwillingness to bring you upon the stage, made me spare you in my first Declaration, lest the world should read your hypocrisy so often venturing your life to suppress what you now must promote, the great tyranny and oppression is inflicted upon the most innocents'. Sir, thus do I make a Civil return for your unkindness, in your secret practices, in the endeavouring not only my ruin in this transitory life, but the loss of the soul of that innocent and misled Lamb, my Wife. Sir, believing the foulness of your practice may be vailed by the darkness of your Judgement, being clouded with false informations, I shall commit you to your Prayers to God, that he may brighten your understanding, so that you may tread no longer in the paths of ignorance, if not wilfulness, which are the most humble and hearty desires of,  
(Sir) Your most injured, and most oppressed servant, GEORGE CHAMBERLAINE.  
This Letter was sent as by directions, but produced no effect.   

YOU are to understand, that during the time of this Controversy, there hath been used by Massey, and the rest of the Confederates, all those knacks of Knavery that mortals can invent to null this lawful marriage, and to defraud that honest Mr. Chamberlain of his lawful Wife, as namely the said Massey, and those his hell-hatched Conspirators did lately cause a Petition to be preferred by and in the name of the said Mr. Chamberlains Wife, by the name of Joan Helena, against the said Massey, and his Wife; by which Petition there was a Commission under the great Seal obtained for the avoiding and dissolving of the said marriage, if good witnesses could have proved any thing material for to have ground equity for the Lords Commissioners to have decreed the avoiding of the said marriage; but that trick, although cunningly and strongly carried on by power was quickly discovered, so that they durst never execute that Commission, for fear it would make for their greater condemnation; so that, that Commission is now out of date, and will not be owned.  
The next plot set on foot was, that Massey and his Wife alleged, that Mr. Chamberlain had never lain with his Wife nor known her, as her Husband; to this Mr. Chamberlain answereth, that he hath known his Wife carnally, as a Husband ought to do, and doth offer for the deciding of that controversy, by putting it to the trial of Midwives, or a Jury of Women: this (propose) did very much trouble Massey and his Wife; for if Mr. Chamberlain her Husband had not been there, the question would be who had been there.  
This stabbing question puts Massey to advise with the best of his old female acquaintance and Counsel about London and the Covent-Garden, where he did find advice to deceive a whole Jury of Midwives, as he conceived; which advice was, to make surfling or restringent water with Alum, and some other ingredients, and to make application by injection thereof unto and into the secret parts, as per direction, etc. and that without doubt will so contract her body, as that it shallbe hardly discernible whether she had ever known man or not, probatum est, ut dicitur: This will be proved by good witness.  
Thus you see that Massey and his Conspirators have been traced out in all their several unheard of frauds and villainies; and it is desired, that all things herein set forth and declared, may be by authority drawn into examination and proof, that the Practisers, and Actors therein may be made exemplary, and that the Noble and Supreme Authority, the Parliament of the Common wealth of England will provide remedy against such practices and oppressions for time to come, and that no person whatsoever shall hereafter dare to make use of the Authority of the honourable Council of State, and of their Warrant, to imprison men's persons by the Soldiery, or otherwise to bring about their own ends, and unjust designs, as the said Col. Gravener hath done in this Case, by imprisoning the person of the said George Chamberlain and others upon his business and account, ever since the 3. of August 1653. until this present of they being all freeborn persons of this Nation, and ought not so to be imprisoned by the Laws of this Commonwealth, which is their right and inheritance, and that the Justice of those Laws ought not to be denied to any freeborn man of this Commonwealth of England.  
Thus have I declared the sad Case and Condition of me the said George Chamberlain, who have patiently (through the Lord's Mercy) hitherto under gone all those heavy oppressions formerly related, with as much brevity, and through the mercy of my God, notwithstanding this my hard imprisonment at the Mews, do expect and hope for a speedy and happy deliverance, to the comfort of my soul, and to the shame of those Conspirators that se●l thy ruin. Dated from my Prison in the Mews, near Charing-Cross this day of August 〈◊〉.  
GEORGE CHAMBERLAINE.