A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



nailed to the Ipswich pillory. 1 Sir Lionel Tollemache sent to Laud a copy 

 of the scandalous paper found alongside of it. Small wonder that in the 

 exciting election of 1640 the Puritan candidates, Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston 

 and Sir Philip Broke, were returned. The county " was full of the cries of 

 the poor for work, and food, and their curses and threats came daily to every 

 ear and told of sadder consequences at every door. Sixteen thousand people 

 assembled to march to the House of Commons to petition for help and also to 

 have the worship of God settled in a purer fashion. The question of the 

 control of the militia and the management of military matters had already 

 been hinted at when Sir Lionel Tollemache and Sir Robert Crane refused to 

 sign muster-master warrants for fear of embroiling themselves with Parliament. 

 Now the question had become the crucial one, and Sir Thomas Jermyn was 

 said to have been one of those who would have used the levies to overawe 

 Parliament. 



By 11 August, 1642, Parliament had voted that the king's commis- 

 sioners of array were to be accounted traitors, and the militia of Suffolk was to 

 be turned out in the cause of the Commons. 3 On the 1 8th Sir Roger North 

 and Sir Wm. Spring were ordered to secure the powder magazine at Bury. 

 Landguard Fort, under Captain Sussex Camock, was in their hands ; but he 

 was half-hearted, and allowed 4 one ship full of ammunition to slip by 

 him. Parliament appointed new deputy-lieutenants — Sir William Castleton, 

 Sir John Wentworth, Sir Robert Broke, Sir William Soame, Sir Thomas 

 Barnardiston, Thomas Baker, Brampton Gurdon, William Rivett of Bildeston, 

 Robert Brewster, John Gurdon, Nathaniel Bacon, Francis Bacon, William 

 Bloyes, and Thomas Blosse for Aldeburgh. Thomas Tirrell of Gipping, Edmund 

 Harvey, and Francis Brewster were added 11 May, 1643. They were to 

 hasten the contributions of loyal subjects for the defence of king and Parliament 

 in horse, money, or plate. Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston was sent down by the 

 House to set things going. The deputy-lieutenants were to exercise the usual 

 military authority and to appoint colonels and captains. Ipswich 5 was to be 

 fortified, and John Blomfield and Samuel Dunken rode to Colchester to find 

 an engineer to do this, while the burghers enrolled themselves as volunteers 

 under 6 Edward Bedwell, and undertook to watch for the king's ships. In 

 December, 1642, the papists and others having successfully tried the experi- 

 ment of association, 7 Parliament ordered the association of the eastern 

 counties for their mutual defence against the said Papists. 



In February, 1643, the deputy-lieutenants were ordered to subscribe 

 the warrants for the association. After two or three attempts they arrived at 

 the following : 



We whose names are hereunder written do profess freely and [with] willingness to join 

 in the association and do further promise to use the uttermost endeavours for assembling the 

 inhabitants of the several counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Hertford- 

 shire, and by our own example and persuasions to further the effectual association of the said 

 counties according to the Ordinance of Parliament and to return an account thereof. 8 



1 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1640, p. 518. 



s Petition of the Clothiers and other Inhabitants of the county of Suffolk, 1 642. 



3 House of Commons Journ. 18 Aug. 1642. ' Ibid. 28 Nov. 1642. 



5 Bacon, Annals of Ipswich, 23 Nov. 1642. 6 Commons Journ. 28 Nov. 1642. 

 ' Rushworth, Hist. Colled. 1708, iv, 603, 17 Dec. 1642. 



6 Tanner, MSS. Bodl. Lib. 9940. Rushworth gives a ' form of association,' but the one in the Tanner 

 MSS. is that actually signed by the Suffolk commissioners. 



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