Articles of impeachment exhibited against Col. Robert Gibbons and Cap. Richard Yeardley, late governors of the Isle of Jersey;: wherein the several impeachments, notorious actions, high misdemeanours, abominations and oppressions, are laid open, detected, and made publick to the admiring world; as also, a remedy for the people, against the heavy yoke of such tyrannical oppressours, in this juncture of miraculous restauration, after so long a bondage, wherein the little finger of some appeared heavier then the whole loins of others.

SIR,

I Have taken the opportunity, by a Boat now going for England, with Mr Pemell, the Chirurgion of this Garrison, who is sent with an Address of the Souldiery here, to the Lord Fleetwood, and Council of the Army, to let you know, that without diffi∣culty, you cannot imagine how much the dejected, almost dying spi∣rits of the well-affected people of this Isle have been revived, and the joy they have had by that unexpected, and almost miraculous restau∣ration of the famous long-Parliament, to the exercise (once again) of their supreme trusts, from which they had been so long interrupted. And that which hath added to their joy and content, is the Advice we have received from London, which doth intimate to us, that there is very great probability, that the people of this poor Island (after their long bondage and misery,) will be delivered from the heavy yoak of their present oppressors, to wit, from Col. Robert Gibbons, and Captain Richard Yeardley his Deputy, who, we are credibly in∣formed, appeared in London, and elsewhere, notorious enemies to that happy restauration. It is here affirmed, that Lieut. Col. Mason, is in nomination to be our Governour: we hear a very good report of him, and that he is a professed enemy to Tyranny. In case he doth take care to have Officers under him, that may be thus qualified, it will be an honour to him, and great satisfaction to all the faithful of this place, who have very much suffered under the others; and would have im∣fallably suffered in a higher degree, in case this sudden alteration of things had not happened: the Bayliff and others being very much threatned, and that onely for having signed a Procuration here to some of their faithful Patriots in London, which tended onely for the good and safety of the whole Island. Benjamin Dumaresy, the late Protector's Atturney General in this Isle, was very active against the said Bayliff, and others well affected, in opposing the same in the

behalf (as he pretended) of his Master the Protector, and the said Gibbons and Yeardley, to whose service he was very zealous against the publick good.

Having seen by divers good things publisht in print, that there are yet (after so long Apostacy) some hopes of just liberty, it hath encouraged me to send you here inclosed, those Articles of high misdemeanours against the said Gibbons and Yeardley, who (in the life of the old Protector, so called) were sent to the President of his Council; but nothing being done therein, 'tis judged fit, not onely by my self, but by several other honest people of this Isle, that they might be made publick; for the performance of which, I leave it to your Judgement and Discretion, remaining

Honoured Sir, Your affectionate Friend and Servant, A. B.

Jersey 24. of June 1659.