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The heads of severall petitions delivered by many of the troopers against the Lord General and some other officers of the army.: With the answer which Mr. Pym made to the severall heads or petitions, before the committee on Tuesday, October 5. 1641.

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The heads of severall petitions delivered by many of the troopers against the Lord General and some other officers of the army.: With the answer which Mr. Pym made to the severall heads or petitions, before the committee on Tuesday, October 5. 1641.
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London :: Printed for Iohn Thomas,
1641.
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Soldiers -- England
Great Britain -- History, Military
England and Wales. -- Army -- Early works to 1800.
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"The heads of severall petitions delivered by many of the troopers against the Lord General and some other officers of the army.: With the answer which Mr. Pym made to the severall heads or petitions, before the committee on Tuesday, October 5. 1641." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A86145.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.

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October the 5. 1641.

THE HEADS Of the Petitions delivered by the Troopers against the Lord Ge∣nerall and some Officers of the Army; With Mr. Pyms answer there∣unto.

VPon Tuesday last the Com∣mittee received divers other Petitions from severall Troopers, viz. from the Troopers of Sir Thomas Lu∣cas Colonell: And of his Brother Sir Charles Lucas Serjeant Major, most of which agreed in their particulars mentioned in their severall Petitions, viz. That the Kings Majestie did freely of his Royall goodnesse give unto the Petitioners their horses, and that they desired

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to be resolved from Mr. Committee.

  • I. Whether it lay in my Lord Generals po∣wer to give away 5. l. unto the Colonell▪ and Captaines out of their pay.
  • II. Secondly, they Petitioned for monies de∣ducted for Armes.
  • III. Thirdly, they Petitioned for moneyes for powder and shot, which they paid for; either upon exercise or service, which was allowed their Officers from the King.
  • IIII. They Petitioned for moneyes which was deducted by their Officers for dead horses; And lastly they desired to have redresse from the Committees, and that they might be suf∣fered to travaile into forraigne parts, there were some other particulars then alledged by the Troopers against their severall Captaines for money which they tooke from the Troo∣pers for Armes lost in the skirmish.

Vpon the receipt of the said Petitions for answer thereunto; kept the Committees in han•• all that day, and about 12 of the clocke, M••. Pym chiefe Committee, and 6. others of t•••• Committees went to the Lords and desir•••• their Censure, and about one houre after they returned, and Mr. Pym then desired that the Troopers might be called in where the Com∣mittee for the House of Commons sate, 〈◊〉〈◊〉

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then told them he had an Order from the Lords to answer the particulars mentioned in their Petitions.

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