POLITICAL HISTORY 



The deputy-lieutenants for Bury signed it : Thomas Gippes, alderman, 

 Thos. Chaplin, John Briggs, and Samuel Moodye ; and for the body of the 

 county, John Heveningham, 1 William Spring, William Soame, William 

 Barrowe, and Robert Brewster. The committee for Suffolk sat at Bury, and 

 had very wide powers, both administrative and coercive. 2 They could enter 

 into the houses of Papists and of all delinquents or such as had not contributed 

 to the cause or who had executed the king's commission of array, and of all 

 clergymen who had publicly preached against or reviled the proceedings of 

 Parliament. They were to make a list of these malignants and delinquents, 

 and in it must have been the following : Sir Frederick Cornwallis of Brom- 

 hall, Major Thomas Staunton of Staunton, Sir Charles Gawdy of Croweshall 

 Debenham, Henry and Edward Warner of Mildenhall, Captain Nicholas 

 Bacon of Culford, Benjamin Cutler of Ipswich, Lord Windsor of Stoke by 

 Nayland, Sir John Pettus of Chester Hall, John Hervey of Ickworth, Arthur 

 Denny of Palgrave, Edward Rookwood of Euston, Francis Cheney of Eye, 

 Robert Gosnold of Otley, Samuel Gooch of Bradfield, Arthur Heveningham 

 of Heveningham, Sir Thomas Glemham of Glemham, and his son Sackville, 

 John and William Le Hunt of Little Bradley, Lord Willoughby of Parham, 

 Richard Bowie of Kersey Priory, Sir Thomas Jermyn of Rushbrooke, 

 Edmund Cooke of Herringfleet, George Gage of Hengrave, Nicholas Garnish 

 of Micklefield, Lawrence Britton of Hitcham (a known agent for the king), 

 Thomas Webb of Cowling, Thomas Easton of Thorndon. The same families 

 as had been persecuted for their religion under Elizabeth suffered under 

 Parliament : Sir Edward Sulyard of Haughley Park, John Bedingfield of Gis- 

 lingham, Henry Foster of Copdock Manor, Francis and Dorothy Everard of 

 Great Linstead, Anne Lomax, Sir Thomas Timperley of Hintlesham, and his 

 son Michael, Sir Francis Mannock of Gifford's Hall, Stoke by Nayland, 

 Lady Carill of Lavenham, Sir Edward Golding of Eye, James Harrison of 

 Ipswich, Henry Nuttall of Swilland, Charles and Lady Lettice Tasburgh of 

 Flixton, John and Edward Daniell of Acton, Lady Mary widow of Sir 

 Walter Norton, and Nicholas Daniel her brother, Edward Chaplin of Farn- 

 ham St. Martin, Thomas Allen, Oldring's House, Lowestoft, Reginald Rouse 

 of Badingham, Henry Yaxley of Yaxley, Francis Yaxley of Melles, Sir Roger 

 Martin of Long Melford. All these suffered sequestration. 3 



The county was at first assessed 4 at a monthly charge of £5,000, of 

 which Ipswich paid £150, Southwold £20, and Dunwich £5 5/. In 1646 

 it was assessed at £7,070, to which Ipswich contributed £ 212 - The 

 money was to be paid in weekly instalments. The Papists' estates contributed 

 largely to the amount. The earl of Manchester was in command of the asso- 

 ciation and ordered 5 Lothingland to be garrisoned but his warrant was over- 

 ridden by that of the commissioners, who 'conceived themselves not only his 

 judges but reformers of what actions of his they pleased to see fit.' The county 

 was denuded of horses to mount home and London troopers, and while monev 

 1 flowed from it, but little was returned to pay the soldiers there. The committee 

 were a set of ignorant civilians who grumbled at having to send their com- 

 panies beyond their borders. That the county could be defended at York 



1 This signature is very indistinct, but John Heveningham was an active Parliament man. 

 * Rushworth, Hist. Coll. ed. 1708, iv, 604. * Cal. of Com. for Compounding, 164.3-60, passim. 



4 Add. MSS. 1 91 7 1, fol. 36 et seq. 4 Tanner, MSS. Bodl. Lib. 99+1. 



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