| Description | (a) he has imprisoned divers persons well affected to Parliament, without lawful cause, and released others more lawfully imprisoned, for private ends (b) he takes upon himself to sole disposal of public money which he misemploys by giving pay to such as in no way deserve it, denying payment to many of the most faithful (c) by disposing money as above, he has raised the worst party to such a number that, by his own confession, the county cannot possibly maintain all and yet he is raising such forces still to the terror of honest men (d) he has delivered honest men and drawn them to act as committees by vowing they were of the Committee though in truth they were not, and has denied, deterred and hindered some who were lawfully of the Committee - he has alone and with others of his observant Committee, translated things privately which concerned the whole Committee, and will not abide to concur with a regular Committee in the execution of the ordinances of Parliament (e) he has fomented and countenanced notorious and rude behaviour by his officers and soldiers against many of the Committee (f) he has disobeyed authority in not allowing maintenance of the garrison of Bolsover, according to the command of the Committee of Both Kingdoms (g) he had some of his observant Committee have laid unjust and unequal taxation upon several parts of the county (h) being informed of great danger of the delivery of Wingfield Manor by treachery, a very strong but unnecessary garrison, he has taken no course for the safety of it (i) he has expressed much envy and malice towards honest commanders who cannot with good conscience flatter him (j) he has prescribed and enjoined a protestation most unfit and illegal to several commanders of horse in this county and he denied pay to non-subscribers (k) he has often neglected and denied assistance to Col. Ashenhurst and other friends, to fall upon the enemy in the county when fit opportunities were offered - he appointed Col. Ashenhurst a rendezvous at Bakewell in the midst of enemy forces and failed him to the danger of his ruin (l) besides his increasing of rude and cavalierish soldiers, he gives yet greater cause to honest men to fear, by his speeches as by his actions, having withheld all the lately arrived ammunition from Captain Mellor an approved honest man, and has committed the same to the keeping of one who is very unfit (m) he is a frequent swearer, perjurer and scoffer of religious men, and practices protection of loose and dissolute persons - he had disseised honest men of their estates and spared malignants |