his excellencies letter of the 30 of ianuary, 1643 to the earle of forth, upon that letter sent to him from the prince, duke of yorke, and divers lords and gentlemen at oxford. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a38658 of text r212020 in the english short title catalog (wing e3320). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 2 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a38658 wing e3320 estc r212020 99835086 99835086 39739 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a38658) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 39739) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2170:13) his excellencies letter of the 30 of ianuary, 1643 to the earle of forth, upon that letter sent to him from the prince, duke of yorke, and divers lords and gentlemen at oxford. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. forth and brentford, patrick ruthven, earl of, 1573?-1651, recipient. 1 sheet ([1] p.) for laurence blaiklocke, at temple-bar, printed at london : febr. 10. 1643. [i.e. 1644] signed at end: essex. a letter from the earl of essex to the earl of forth, enclosing a copy of the solemn league and covenant. order to print dated 8 february 1643. the year is given according to lady day dating. reproductions of the originals in the british library and the henry e. huntington library and art gallery. eng england and wales. -parliament -early works to 1800. solemn league and covenant (1643). -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. a38658 r212020 (wing e3320). civilwar no his excellencies letter of the 30 of ianuary, 1643. to the earle of forth, upon that letter sent to him from the prince, duke of yorke, and essex, robert devereux, earl of 1644 238 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-10 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2004-11 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2004-11 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-01 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion letterhead his excellencies letter of the 30 of ianuary , 1643. to the earle of forth , upon that letter sent to him from the prince , duke of yorke , and divers lords and gentlemen at oxford . my lord , i received this day a letter of the 29th of this instant from your lordship , and a parchment subscribed by the prince , duke of yorke , divers lords and gentlemen . but it neither having addresse to the two houses of parliament , nor therein there being any acknowledgement of them , i could not communicate it to them . my lord , the maintenance of the parliament of england , and of the priviledges thereof , is that for which we are all resolved to spend our blood , as being the foundation whereon all our lawes and liberties are built . i send your lordship herewith a nationall-covenant , solemnly entered into by both the kingdomes of england and scotland , and a declaration passed by them both together , with another declaration of the kingdome of scōtland . i rest , your lordships humble servant , essex . essex-house , januar. 30. 1643. febru. 8. 1643. it is his excellencies pleasure this letter be forthwith printed . io. baldwin , secretary to his excellency . printed at london for laurence baiklocke , at temple-bar . febr. 10. 1643 : his excellencies letter of the 30 of ianuary, 1643 to the earle of forth, upon that letter sent to him from the prince, duke of yorke, and divers lords and gentlemen at oxford. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a84107 of text r212020 in the english short title catalog (thomason 669.f.7[63]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 2 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a84107 wing e3320 thomason 669.f.7[63] estc r212020 99870677 99870677 161044 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a84107) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 161044) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 245:669f7[63]) his excellencies letter of the 30 of ianuary, 1643 to the earle of forth, upon that letter sent to him from the prince, duke of yorke, and divers lords and gentlemen at oxford. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. forth and brentford, patrick ruthven, earl of, 1573?-1651, recipient. 1 sheet ([1] p.) for laurence blaiklocke, at temple-bar, printed at london : febr. 10. 1643. [i.e. 1644] signed at end: essex and dated: essex-house, januar. 30. 1643. a letter from the earl of essex to the earl of forth, enclosing a copy of the solemn league and covenant. order to print dated 8 february 1643 and signed io. baldwin, secretary to his excellency. reproductions of the originals in the british library and the henry e. huntington library and art gallery. eng england and wales. -parliament -early works to 1800. solemn league and covenant (1643) -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. a84107 r212020 (thomason 669.f.7[63]). civilwar no his excellencies letter of the 30 of ianuary, 1643. to the earle of forth, upon that letter sent to him from the prince, duke of yorke, and essex, robert devereux, earl of 1643 238 2 0 0 0 0 0 84 d the rate of 84 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the d category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-09 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-10 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2007-10 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion royal blazon or coat of arms his excellencies letter of the 30 of ianuary , 1643. to the earle of forth ▪ upon that letter sent to him from the prince , duke of yorke , and divers lords and gentlemen at oxford . my lord , i received this day a letter of the 29th of this instant from your lordship , and a parchment subscribed by the prince , duke of yorke , divers lords and gentlemen . but it neither having addresse to the two houses of parliament , nor therein there being any acknowledgement of them , i could not communicate it to them . my lord , the maintenance of the parliament of england , and of the priviledges thereof , is that for which we are all resolved to spend our blood , as being the foundation whereon all our lawes and liberties are built . i send your lordship herewith a nationall-covenant , solemnly entered into by both the kingdomes of england and scotland , and a declaration passed by them both together , with another declaration of the kingdome of scotland . i rest , your lordships humble servant , essex . essex-house , januar. 30. 1643. febru. 8. 1643. it is his excellencies pleasure this letter be forthwith printed . io. baldwin , secretary to his excellency . printed at london for laurence blaiklocke , at temple-bar . febr. 10. 1643 ▪ a proclamation by his excellency robert earle of essex. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a74972 of text r212026 in the english short title catalog (thomason 669.f.7[66]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 1 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a74972 wing e3326 thomason 669.f.7[66] estc r212026 99870681 99870681 161047 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a74972) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 161047) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 245:669f7[66]) a proclamation by his excellency robert earle of essex. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed for t.g., london : 1643. [i.e. 1644] a proclamation by the earl of essex commanding all officers and soldiers of his army to repair to their quarters. dated at end: given under my hand and seale at armes this twenty eight day of february, 1643. order to print signed: j. baldwin secritary to his excellency. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng great britain -militia -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. a74972 r212026 (thomason 669.f.7[66]). civilwar no a proclamation by his excellency robert earle of essex. essex, robert devereux, earl of 1643 155 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2009-01 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2009-01 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a proclamation by his excellency robert earle of essex . robert earle of essex &c. captaine generall of the army , imployed for the defence of the protestant religion , king , parliament , and kingdome . it is my expresse vvill and pleasure , and i doe hereby streightly charge and command all officers and souldiers of horse , foote , and dragoones , belonging to the army , under my command , that they and every of them , after proclamation hereof made in london , or else where , doe forthwith repaire to their severall colours , and quarters , upon paine of death . given under my hand and seale at armes this twenty eight day of february , 1643. it is his excellencies pleasure that this proclamation be forthwith printed and published . j. baldwin secritary to his excellency . london , printed for t. g , 1643. a letter sent from his excellency, robert earle of essex, &c. to the lord maior of london. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a84108 of text r210999 in the english short title catalog (thomason 669.f.5[77]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 2 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a84108 wing e3321 thomason 669.f.5[77] estc r210999 99869740 99869740 160790 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a84108) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 160790) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 245:669f5[77]) a letter sent from his excellency, robert earle of essex, &c. to the lord maior of london. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. 1 sheet ([1] p.) septemb. 19. 1642. london, printed for william gay, [london] : [1642] requesting a loan of £100,000 for the use of the army. -thomason catalogue. with engraved border. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -finance -early works to 1800. a84108 r210999 (thomason 669.f.5[77]). civilwar no a letter sent from his excellency, robert earle of essex, &c. to the lord maior of london. essex, robert devereux, earl of 1642 390 3 0 0 0 0 0 77 d the rate of 77 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the d category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-12 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2007-12 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter sent from his excellency , robert earle of essex , &c. to the lord mador of london . my lord and gentlemen , i received so great expressions of affections both to the cause , and to my selfe , from the city of london , at my departure from you , that i cannot dispaire , but to obtaine my suit from you , that shall be an advantage to the common wealth ; upon a true judgement of the condition of our affaires , and of that of the enemy ; i am confident that we may bring this businesse to a quicke and happy conclusion , god doth blesse us with so good successe daily ; and the other part by their plundering and burning of townes and houses , grow so odious that they grow weaker ▪ wee stronger everywhere ; yet are we in one great straight , and such a one , as if it be not speedily remedied , may quash all our hopes , and endanger that peace and libertie which we so much labour for ; our treasure , which must maintaine our army ▪ growes neere an end ; and you well know our army consists of such as cannot be kept one day together without pay : what a ruine it would bring upon us all , if a disbanding should happen , i leave to your judgements : my desire unto you is , that you would supply us with a speedy loane of one hundred thousand pounds , which i am confident would ( with gods blessing ) bring these unhappy distractions to an end quickly : your citie hath hitherto had the honour , next to god , to be the chiefest saftie of the kingdome and parliament ; this will render you to all posteritie the finishers of this great worke . if any thing of particular love or respect to me may be any argument herein , i shall take it for the greatest honour that hath befalne me , and will oblige my selfe to acknowledge it by the utmost and most faithfull endeavour of from the rendez-vouz at northamton , 15. septem. 1642. your faithfull friend essex . septemb. 19 ▪ 1642. london , printed for william gay . the copy of a letter written from his excellency to the county of warwick. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a84099 of text r211122 in the english short title catalog (thomason 669.f.5[85]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a84099 wing e3313 thomason 669.f.5[85] estc r211122 99869855 99869855 160798 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a84099) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 160798) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 245:669f5[85]) the copy of a letter written from his excellency to the county of warwick. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed for h. blunden, london : october 13. 1642. letter dated and signed: worcester, october 2. 1642. essex (i.e. robert devereux). calling on the trained bands and volunteers to resist the march of the kings forces on coventry. -thomason catalogue. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng warwickshire (england) -history -17th century -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. great britain -militia -early works to 1800. a84099 r211122 (thomason 669.f.5[85]). civilwar no the copy of a letter written from his excellency to the county of warwick. essex, robert devereux, earl of 1642 464 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-12 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2007-12 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the copy of a letter written from his excellency , to the county of warwick . gentlemen , i have advise that the kings forces are upon their march towards coventry , i need not minde you of the lamentable distresses which must attend every man which falls into their hands , and the particular danger , if the city of coventry be taken ; therefore that all the kingdome may know that the professions of your love to religion , liberty , and countrey are not in vaine , be now encouraged to shew your selves gallantly for the defence thereof , and raise all the trained bands and voluntiers of your county to defend the city of coventry , and your county from any violence by opposing their comming thither : i have also written to raise up the county of northampton for your defence ; i have also written letters to the counties of leicester and darby , to advise them also to gather head , to hinder their passage into your countrey : and now being confident that upon the receipt hereof , that you will instantly fall upon the worke , lest delayes herein may become your owne prejudice , i bid you farewell , resting worcester , october 2. 1642. your most assured friend , essex . gentl : if upon your rising i may perceive your carefulness for your own preservation , and give me intimation thereof , i shall doe my part to give you such assistance as shall become me , and may be sutable to the occasion . october 10. 1642. sir , i received your letter the last weeke , and i blesse god for the good newes that it brought with it , concerning 〈◊〉 victory of manchester men , which shewes that the cause , and not the strength of armes must winne the day . vvee have intelligence here , that to morrow both the armies pitch for battell , i should be glad to heare of peace ; but if his majesties heart be so hardened , that we must have vvar , i pray god that the right side may bring away the trophy . i have inclosed a true copy of a letter that his excellency writ to the counties of darby , and warwicke ; my lord say sent it to our quarter sessions , with a letter of his owne , to advise the countrey to be ready in armes to hinder their comming amongst us , for it is their constant course every night , to ride out by two or three hundreds , and to pillage and plunder townes and villages . london printed for h. blunden , october 13. 1642. a proclamation by his excellency robert earle of essex, &c. captaine generall of the army imployed for the defence of the protestant religion, king, parliament, and kingdome. together with a letter from a gentleman of quality residing in the army, concerning the advancement of the army towards oxford. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a84112 of text r1862 in the english short title catalog (thomason e49_30). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a84112 wing e3327 thomason e49_30 estc r1862 99860439 99860439 112559 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a84112) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 112559) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 9:e49[30]) a proclamation by his excellency robert earle of essex, &c. captaine generall of the army imployed for the defence of the protestant religion, king, parliament, and kingdome. together with a letter from a gentleman of quality residing in the army, concerning the advancement of the army towards oxford. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. gentleman of quality residing in the army. [2], 5, [1] p. printed for t. g., london : 1644. this proclamation to prevent plundering is dated 26 may, 1644. reproduction of the original in the british library. annotation on thomason copy: "may 28". eng england and wales. -army -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. a84112 r1862 (thomason e49_30). civilwar no a proclamation by his excellency robert earle of essex, &c. captaine generall of the army imployed for the defence of the protestant religio essex, robert devereux, earl of 1644 458 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-07 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2007-07 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a proclamation by his excellency robert earle of essex , &c. captaine generall of the army imployed for the defence of the protestant religion , king , parliament , and kingdome . together with a letter from a gentleman of quality residing in the army , concerning the advancement of the army towards oxford . london , printed for t. g. 1644. robert earle of essex , &c. captaine generall of the army imployed for the defence of the protestant religion , king , parliament , and kingdome . whereas these countries have beene very much afflicted and oppressed by the enemy , and we are now come to relieve them of their hard bondage . it is therefore my expresse will and pleasure , and i doe hereby straightly charge and command all officers and souldiers of horse , foot , and dragoons , belonging to the army under my command , that they and every of them doe forthwith after proclamation hereof made , forbeare ( notwithstanding any pretence whatsoever ) to plunder or spoile any of the goods of the inhabitants of these countries , or offer any violence or other prejudice unto them , upon paine of death without mercie . given under my hand and seale this 26 of may , 1644. essex . a letter from a gentleman of quality residing in the army , to his friend in london . sir , the armies are this day on their march . yesterday the lord roberts marshall generall of the field marched with a party of horse and foot ( by his excellencies order ) and possest themselves of abington , which the enemy the day before quitted , and retreated to oxford ; truely ( blessed be god ) the enemy flies before us and durst not oppose . the countrey where we now are , are in a very poore condition , and truly the enemy dealt so inhumanely with them , that they have almost stript them of all they had in this towne ; as i am informed , some of them ript up sows bellies great with pigges , and did other incredible acts of worse nature , besides ravishing three mayds ; and when they had done this , they said they would do what other mischiefe they could , because they had but a short time to raigne . herein is his excellencies proclamation to save all that is left by the enemy , which is very little . i rest , your assured friend . blewbery , may 26. 1644. in the morning . sir william waller was this day at sutton , which is between oxford and abington . finis . a letter from his excellency robert earl of essex to the honourable house of commons concerning the sending of a commission forthwith to sir william waller : wherein his excellency declareth himself to be confirmed in the justnesse of the cause, so long as he hath one drop of blood in his veins. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a38656 of text r9070 in the english short title catalog (wing e3318). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a38656 wing e3318 estc r9070 12147093 ocm 12147093 54976 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a38656) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 54976) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 242:e81, no 28) a letter from his excellency robert earl of essex to the honourable house of commons concerning the sending of a commission forthwith to sir william waller : wherein his excellency declareth himself to be confirmed in the justnesse of the cause, so long as he hath one drop of blood in his veins. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. 7 p. printed for laurence blaiklock, [london] : january 13, 1644. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng waller, william, -sir, 1597?-1668. a38656 r9070 (wing e3318). civilwar no a letter from his excellency, robert earl of essex, to the honorable house of commons: concerning the sending of a commission forthwith to s essex, robert devereux, earl of 1644 623 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-09 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2004-10 andrew kuster sampled and proofread 2004-10 andrew kuster text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-01 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter from his excellency , robert earl of essex , to the honorable house of commons : concerning the sending of a commission forthwith to sir william waller : wherein his excellency declareth himself to be confirmed in the justnesse of the cause , so long as he hath one drop of blood in his veins . published by authority . printed for laurence blaiklock . january 13. 1644. a letter from his excellency robert earl of essex , to the honorable house of commons : sir , i received an order the last night , to desire me forthwith to send a commission to sir william waller , to command the forces of kent , surrey , sussex and hampshire , according to an ordinance of both houses ; i am so ready for the advancement of the present service he is now ingaged in , and my will to satisfie the desire of the honorable house of commons , as that i have sent down a commission accordingly : but finding expressions in that order that might intimate a neglect in me , and being confident of mine own integrity to serve both houses , and to preserve the good opinion of the house of commons , i shall acquaint you that i sent a commission by mr. nicolls , which he kept some dayes , and then wrote earnestly to mee for another more ample ; i wondring why hee should keep it so long , and then send for another , deferred my resolution , untill i came up ; but this order intervening , prevented mee of asking the reason : it is true , the commission was not according as i usually grant them ( but it gave him full authority for the present service . ) for the reasons of my limitations in the former commission , i forbear to give them ; but whensoever the houses shall command me , i shall be ready to make it appear , i did no more then i ought to do , having received so great a trust from the parliament , in the discharge of my duty , and then to submit to their further pleasures . sir , i shall desire you to beleeve , it shal be my greatest care , so to carry my self , as that i may give a reall accompt of my actions , whensoever it shall please the parliament to require it . the charge i took , was not by my seeking ( i knowing my own imperfections ) but not in the least way of fidelity and constancy , and it was a great incouragement to me , the noble and free offers of both houses , to live and dye with me ; which hath put a great confidence in me , that i shall never want your just protection and assistance ; and that you will take care of that army that hath shewed so much faithfulnesse and resolution in your services , and that god hath been pleased of his infinite goodnesse so to protect ; and for my own part , i am every day so confirmed in the justnesse of the cause , that let the strength i have be never so weak , i shall never desert the cause , as long as i have any blood in my veins , untill this kingdom may be made happy by a blessed peace ( which is all honest mens prayers ) or to have an end by the sword , which is the intention of your assured friend , essex . essex-house , this 2. of jan. 1643. finis . the examination of joshua hill, taken at northampton, in the presence of the earle of essex, generall of the army, the 14th of september. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a84226 of text r210998 in the english short title catalog (thomason 669.f.5[76]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a84226 wing e3719 thomason 669.f.5[76] estc r210998 99869739 99869739 160789 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a84226) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 160789) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 245:669f5[76]) the examination of joshua hill, taken at northampton, in the presence of the earle of essex, generall of the army, the 14th of september. hill, joshua, 17th cent. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. harper, augustin. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed for edward husbands, and john franke, london : 1642. order of the house to reprint the examination of joshua hill, describing the exactions of the cavaliers at nottingham, and the deposition of augustine harper of market harborough on september 9, plundered by cavaliers. -steele. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng military offenses -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. a84226 r210998 (thomason 669.f.5[76]). civilwar no the examination of joshua hill, taken at northampton, in the presence of the earle of essex, generall of the army, the 14th of september. hill, joshua 1642 452 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-12 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2007-12 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the examination of iosvah hill , taken at northampton , in the presence of the earle of essex , generall of the army , the 14th of september . the king sent a letter to master major of nottingham , requiring one thousand pound : and particular warrants to divers private men for two hundred pounds a man , and other severall summes . if this was not paid , the cavaliers threatened to plunder . after , his majesty was pleased to send the lord newarke to master major to double the thousand pound . captaine legg said , that he thought nettingham men were a generation of devils : and said , if he knew a round-head , he would knocke him over the pate . the house of one mistresse piggot was plundred by warrant from his majesty . the trained bands of the county of nottingham being summoned in by warrant from the lord newarke , were all disarmed by cavaliers : threatening any one that refused , to pistoll him . serjeant bowne , and alderman toplady , have used all possible endeavours to have taken away the life of one master hooper , steward to the countesse of clare , in charging of him with high treason , for not delivering up the armes of his lady . there were in and about nottingham near 500 irish , very many commanders , irish and papists , and increased daily . september 14th iosvah hill . september 9th 1642. these are to certifie all those whom it may concerne , that i augustine harper of market harborow , being taken by the cavaliers , who tooke away my mare , saddle and bridle , and all the money in my purse , and being brought before the lord of carnarvan to be examined . notwithstanding , they had no just occasion against me , did abuse me with ill language , calling me round-headed rogue , and that i was an enemy to the king , to which i answered , that i was as good a subject to his majesty or his lordship , he called for a booke , and said , he would try that , and did tender me an oath , whether i would fight for the king against the parliament , which i refusing to take , was committed to the custody of the cavaliers . augustine harper . witnesse to the same , andrew gill. ordered to be printed , together with the examination of augustine harper taken at northampton , 9 th september . london , printed for edward husbands , and john franke . 1642. the earle of essex his loyaltie and love to his king and countrey. vvith his five propositions propounded to his armie, at his late siege at shrewsbury. wherein is apparently manifested his faith and love to god and his countrey. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a84437 of text r15869 in the english short title catalog (thomason e123_17). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a84437 wing e74 thomason e123_17 estc r15869 99859934 99859934 112038 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a84437) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 112038) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 22:e123[17]) the earle of essex his loyaltie and love to his king and countrey. vvith his five propositions propounded to his armie, at his late siege at shrewsbury. wherein is apparently manifested his faith and love to god and his countrey. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. [8] p. printed for g.k., london : oct. 20. 1642. signatures: a⁴. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -campaigns -early works to 1800. shrewsbury (england) -history -siege, 1642 -early works to 1800. a84437 r15869 (thomason e123_17). civilwar no the earle of essex his loyaltie and love to his king and countrey.: vvith his five propositions propounded to his armie, at his late siege essex, robert devereux, earl of 1642 847 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-09 elspeth healey sampled and proofread 2007-09 elspeth healey text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the earle of essex his loyaltie and love to his king and covntrey . vvith his five propositions propounded to his armie , at his late siege at shrewsbury . wherein is apparantly manifested his faith and love to god and his countrey . london printed for g. k. oct. 20. 1642. the earle of essex , his loyaltie and love to his king and countrey , with his propositions propounded to his army , at his late siege at shrewsbury . his excellence the earle of essex , still endeavouring for the good & welfare of his king , and a peace and fraternity to and amongst his subjects , having had severall parties , and more debates concerning our now conditionall estate , yet finding no love from thence but meere opposition , and still thirsting more and more for the effusion of blood , of the malignants of this now distressed kingdom of england , and still craving from our soveraigne lord the king a faire reconciliation , ( without more effusion ) betweene himselfe and his parliament , and having informarion that the kings most excellent matie. intends with all expedition to seize into his custody , as many and so many of the strongest holds and forts of this kingdome , as possibly he may , leaving therein a sufficient garison of men and arms to oppose the happie and hoped proceedings of this parliament , our lives , liberties , estates and priviledges are more and more endangered . his excellence out of his especiall love , and abundant care of the good of his king , parliament , & kingdome , caused sufficient aid of men and arms , to be dispatcht and conveyed to all such cities , ports , forts , and strong holds as mght prejudice the good effects of this parliament , and therein sufficient garrison , to oppose the malignants of this agrieved kingdome , to the comfort and good of all countries , especially the well affected partie of this common-wealth . and therefore in especiall wise did admonish and impart these ensuing particulars , for the better satisfaction of every particular conscience : 1. that the sufferances we have undergone are reduced into two heads : the first concerning god , the next the common-wealth . 2. and as it is the first cause concerning god , so it deserves to be the first fruits of our labour , being the first and immediate honour due to god , and of great weight and validitie , and more inestimate then this vast vniverse . therefore we ought to serve in gods cause to draw a blessing on our king and kingdomes cause . 3. the common-wealth hath for a long time groaned under a most heavy burden ; and the poore distressed subject sadly laments , stil hoping to be relieved , he being scarce able to distinguish between law and power : the one of great consequence , and a branch of tranquility , law and government , yet abused ; the other a power which over-ruled that law and government cum privilegio . 4. that god having weighed his cause , finding it stuft and ramm'd with manifold works of satan , and more and more endeavouring still to creep in , he in especiall wise took upon him his owne just and irreproveable cause , and raised us as instruments for so good a worke . and that being performed , our king is not onely blest by a rich possession , in enjoying the blessed and plenteous flowing of the gospel , but also an eternity hereafter . therefore as you are members of god , and subjects to our soveraign lord the king , first in gods name put to your helping hands for gods cause , your king and kingdomes cause , and for a confirmation of that hoped blissefull comfort ( the gospel ) which shall bring us and our posterity in the future to eternitie , and for a blessed and comfortable raigne to our deare soveraigne , and his royall progenie , the good and comfort of our present condition , the liberty , priviledg , and freedome of a christian subject , and for a happy and blessed union betweene king and people : and therein we are ever honoured , and our selves worthy to be called gods children . here in is manifested and made known the faith and love of so good a subject , both in gods cause , his king and kingdoms cause , and it is hoped that no honest indifferent subject , that aimes at the well and peacefull raign of our soveraign , and the peace & wel-fare of this common-wealth , can any way repine or be offended , but rather adde to their love and loyaltie , from hence a better portion . god save the king and parliament . finis . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a84437e-160 a tyrannical government , if perfected . tvvo proclamations by his excellency robert earl of essex .... essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a69981 of text r11336 in the english short title catalog (wing e3339). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a69981 wing e3339 estc r11336 12152106 ocm 12152106 55067 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a69981) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 55067) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 243:e92, no 14) tvvo proclamations by his excellency robert earl of essex .... essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. 7 p. printed for iohn frank ..., ... [london] : march 8, 1642. concerns recruitment for the parliamentary army. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng england and wales. -army -recruiting, enlistment, etc. a69981 r11336 (wing e3339). civilwar no tvvo proclamations by his excellency robert earl of essex; captain generall of all the forces raised, or to be raised for the defence of the essex, robert devereux, earl of 1643 676 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-11 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2005-01 judith siefring sampled and proofread 2005-01 judith siefring text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion tvvo proclamations by his excellency robert earl of essex ; captain generall of all the forces raised , or to be raised for the defence of the king and parliament , and kingdom . printed by the command of his excellencie . essex . march 8. 1642. london , printed for iohn frank , and are to be sold at his shop next door to the kings head tavern in fleetstreet . robert earl of essex , captain generall of all the forces raised , or to be raised for the defence of the king and parliament , and kingdom . i do hereby require and command all colonells , captains , and all other officers of the severall regiments of horse , foot , and dragoons , or of the severall troops of horse , dragoones , or foot-companies in the armie under my command , that they , and every of them do within sixteen dayes after this proclamation shall be published by the provost-marshall generall of the army , recrute their severall regiments of horse or foot , and severall troops of horse and dragoons , and companies of foot to their first compleat number ( the troops of horse and dragoons having horses allotted unto them for their recrutes ) upon pain of cashiering . and i do hereby declare , that all such officers as shall so recrute their severall and respective regiments or companies of foot , shall have such reasonable allowance for the recruting of them , as is , or shall be agreed upon by the counsell of war in that behalfe . and i do likewise hereby require and command all the sayd colonells , captains , and other chief officers having any command of horse or foot , to give just account to the commissaries of the musters at the next muster of all such arms as are now remaining in their custody ; as also of all such other arms as shall be delivered for the recruting of the severall regiments , troops , or companies ; which sayd arms shal be from time to time accounted for by them , to the end that all such arms as shal be wanting upon the severall musters from time to time ( and shall not appear to be lost in actuall service ) shal be supplyed to the sayd regiments , troops or companies by the severall and respective officers belonging to them . given under my hand and seal at arms , this twenty fourth day of february , 1642. robert robert earl of essex , captain generall of the army raised for the defence of his majesties person , the parliament and kingdom . to all whom it may concern : i do hereby strictly will , require , and command all officers and souldiers of horse or foot now under my command , that within two dayes after this proclamation shal be published by the provost marshall-generall of the army , they and every of them do repair to their severall quarters , there to abide , and to perform the duties of their severall places , and that they nor any of them do presume upon any pretence whatsoever , to depart from their severall quarters without especiall licence first to be by them and every of them obtained from my self , and that under the penalty of cashiering . and i do further require and command all the chief officers of the severall regiments of horse and foot , to certifie unto me from time to time the particular names of such severall officers and souldiers under them , who either neglect or wilfully contemne this command , commanding all officers and souldiers to be obedient hereunto , as they will avoyd the penalty of cashiering as aforesayd , and will answer the contrary at their uttermost perils . given under my hand and seale at arms , this twenty fourth day of february , 1642. finis . tvvo letters the one from his excellencie, robert earl of essex, to anthony nicoll, esquire, a member of the house of commons : the other from vvarwick-castle to sir samuel luke at his quarters, concerning the state of the city of gloucester. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a38663 of text r40256 in the english short title catalog (wing e3337). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a38663 wing e3337 estc r40256 18779967 ocm 18779967 108355 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a38663) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 108355) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1651:33) tvvo letters the one from his excellencie, robert earl of essex, to anthony nicoll, esquire, a member of the house of commons : the other from vvarwick-castle to sir samuel luke at his quarters, concerning the state of the city of gloucester. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. bridges, jo. 7 p. printed for edward husbands, [london] : sept. 1, 1643. the second letter signed: jo: bridges. place of publication suggested by wing. reproduction of original in the university of illinois (urbana-champaign campus). library. eng nicoll, anthony. luke, samuel, -sir, d. 1670. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. a38663 r40256 (wing e3337). civilwar no tvvo letters: the one from his excellencie, robert earl of essex, to anthony nicoll, esquire, a member of the house of commons. the other fr [no entry] 1643 519 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-10 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2004-11 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2004-11 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-01 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion tvvo letters : the one from his excellencie , robert earl of essex , to anthony nicoll , esquire , a member of the house of commons . the other from vvarvvick-castle , to sir samuel luke at his quarters : concerning the state of the city of gloucester . ordered by the commons in parliament , that these letters be forthwith printed : h : elsynge , cler. parl. d. com. printed for edward husbands , sept. 1. 1643. to my much respected friend , anthony nicoll , esquire . sir , the cause of our lying still to day was , that the clothes and arms might be disposed , but principally , that col : harvey might not be too far engaged , who is marching after with the associated forces , and i hope , will be neer us to morrow night ; and then i doubt not , but we shall march without stop or stay . by the inclosed , you 'l see what i hear from warwick . your assured friend , essex . for the honorable , sir samuel luke , at his quarters . honorable sir , i sent an answer to yours of the 26. this morning , and in obedience to his excellencies commands presently dispatched away a messenger to gloucester ; since which time ( i. ) this day about twelve of the clock , came hither two substantiall men from the town ; by whom i perceived , none of those messengers i formerly sent , came into the town ; yet they assured me , the town was in a very good condition , and full of courage , having every day put the enemy to much losse . yesterday morning upon an outfall they killed sir jacob astley ( as the souldiers report ) i heard by a prisoner , that a man of principall respect was killed : it was agreed between them and the governour , at their coming away , that in case relief were coming , they should this night , about twelve of the clock , make fires upon bredon-hill ; which the town was to answer , by doing the like upon the colledge-steeple ; wherupon i shewing them your letter for their satisfaction , accommodated them with horses , and sent them speedily away , to put their designe in execution . sir , i finde , the kings foot there are few , and those in very ill condition , so that whensoever the town makes a sally , the quarter they fall upon , runs without striking a blow ; the town hath not lost above ten persons , of men , vvomen , and children , slain . if in any thing i have a capacity to serve you , if you please to honor me with your commands , you shall finde ready and cheerfull obedience from sir , your affectionate humble servant , jo : bridges . warwick-castle , 28. aug. about 9. at night . finis . a proclamation to prevent plundering by robert earl of essex, &c. captain generall of the army raised and imployed for the defense of the protestant religion, king, parliament and kingdom. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a84113 of text r211689 in the english short title catalog (thomason 669.f.7[11]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a84113 wing e3328 thomason 669.f.7[11] estc r211689 99870395 99870395 160993 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a84113) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 160993) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 245:669f7[11]) a proclamation to prevent plundering by robert earl of essex, &c. captain generall of the army raised and imployed for the defense of the protestant religion, king, parliament and kingdom. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed for edw: husband, london : 1643. signed and dated: given under my hand and seal at armes, this twenty fourth day of april. 1643. essex. at end of document: it is his excellencies pleasure that this proclamation be forthwith printed. rob: chambers, secr. annotation on thomason copy: "may. 8.". reproduction of the original in the british library. eng pillage -great britain -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. a84113 r211689 (thomason 669.f.7[11]). civilwar no a proclamation to prevent plundering: by robert earl of essex, &c. captain generall of the army raised and imployed for the defense of the p essex, robert devereux, earl of 1643 777 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-12 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2007-12 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion ¶ a proclamation to prevent plundering : by robert earl of essex , &c. captain generall of the army raised and imployed for the defence of the protestant religion , king , parliament and kingdom . whereas i am informed , that severall insolencies and outrages have been of late committed by some troopers , and other souldiers belonging to this army , without the approbation or allowance of my self , or the officers of the army , to the great prejudice of many the inhabitants of this county of berks , and counties adjacent ; i do hereby publish and declare , that if any officer or souldier , horse or foot belonging to this army , shall ( after proclamation hereof made by the provost marshall generall of the army ) upon any pretence whatsoever , seize , take , imbezell or purloin any the horses , mares , oxen , cows , calves , sheep , or any other the goods of any the inhabitants of this county , or other the adjacent counties , either papist or malignant , or other ill-affected person whatsoever , without speciall and particular warrant from my self ; that every such person so offending , shall undergo and suffer such punishment by death or otherwise , as the nature of the offence shall require : but in case any the officers or souldiers shall seize or take any the horses or goods of any person or persons whatsoever , coming or sending supply of necessaries for the army , that such person or persons so offending , shall suffer death without mercie . and if any officer or souldier of this army shall by vertue of any warrant , seize or take away the horses or goods of any person or persons whatsoever , and shall not within two dayes next after the seizing of them repair unto my quarter , to certifie unto me in writing whose horses and goods have been so seized , and by whose warrant , that they may be brought hither to be disposed of by me , such person or persons so offending , shall be deemed and accounted guilty of the breach of this proclamation , and shal be proceeded against accordingly . and i do hereby further declare , that if any the horses or goods of any person or persons inhabiting within this county , or any other adjacent counties have bin unjustly seized or taken from them or any of them , upon his or their just complaint made unto me , i shall give present order for the restitution of them according to justice . and lastly , i do will and require all and every the high constables of the severall divisions within the counties of berks , southampton , and oxon , that they do forthwith upon , and after proclamation hereof made , make out severall warrants to the petty constables , for the assessing and taxing of the severall parrishes with such quantities of provision of all sorts as they are stored with , and to make , and returne a certificate within three dayes of such assessements , what severall quantities are assessed upon the said parrishes , with the names of such persons as shall refuse to provide and send provisions to the army as aforesaid , which certificate is to be delivered into the hands of two or more of the commissioners appointed to receive the same , that such further order may be taken with the persons so refusing as shall be thought fit . and i do hereby declare , that i expect that the severall inhabitants of the said severall counties should readily contribute their assistance herein , which i doubt not but they will do with the more cheerfulnesse , it being for the supply of this army which is raysed for the defence of the king , parliament , and kingdom , the preservation of gods true religion , and the just rights and liberties of the subjects from violence and oppression . and i do hereby will and require all the officers and souldiers of this army , and all others whom it may concern to be obedient hereunto , as they and every of them will answer the contrary at their uttermost perill : given under my hand and seale at armes , this twenty fourth day of april . 1643. essex . it is his excellencies pleasure that this proclamation be forthwith printed . rob : chambers , secr. london , printed for edw : husbands . 1643. a letter written from his excellency robert earle of essex vnto the speaker of the house of commons relating the true state of the late skirmish at chinner, between a party of the kings, and parliaments forces, on sabbath day the 19th of june, 1643. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a38660 of text r31447 in the english short title catalog (wing e3323). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 6 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a38660 wing e3323 estc r31447 11983033 ocm 11983033 51899 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a38660) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 51899) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1008:16) a letter written from his excellency robert earle of essex vnto the speaker of the house of commons relating the true state of the late skirmish at chinner, between a party of the kings, and parliaments forces, on sabbath day the 19th of june, 1643. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. 7 p. printed by richard bishop for lawrence blaiklock, london : 1643. reproduction of original in the huntington library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. a38660 r31447 (wing e3323). civilwar no a letter written from his excellency robert earle of essex unto the speaker of the house of commons. relating the true state of the late ski essex, robert devereux, earl of 1643 925 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 c the rate of 11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-09 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2004-10 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2004-10 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-01 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter written from his excellency robert earle of essex vnto the speaker of the house of commons . relating the true state of the late skirmish at chinner , between a party of the kings , and parliaments forces , on sabbath day the 19th of june , 1643. ordered by the commons in parliament , that this letter bee forthwith printed and published . hen. elsynge cler. parl. d. com. london , printed by richard bishop for lawrence blaiklock at the sugar loafe neare temple barre , 1643. a letter sent from his excellency robert earle of essex , directed to the speaker of the house of commons . sir , there being some of my horse that had an encounter with the enemy yesterday being sunday , i thought fit to give the house an accompt of the particulars of it , knowing how apt many are to mis-report things to our disadvantage . about two of the clock on sunday morning the enemy with about 1200. horse and a great body of dragoons fell into a town called porcham , where one troop of horse ( being colonell morleyes ) was quartered , of which they took the greatest part , and from thence went not farre to a another village called chinner , where they beat up some of the new bedfordshire dragoons and took some of them prisoners , and three of their colours ; and some of the officers behaving themselves very well , and defending the houses wherein they were ; they set fire on the town ; these being out quarters , the alarum came where major gunter lay with three troops ( viz. ) his own , captain sheffields , and captain crosses , whom he presently drew out and marched towards the enemy ; colonell hampden being abroad with sir samuel luke and onely one man , and seeing major gunters forces , they did go along with them , colonel dulbeir the quarter-master generall did likewise come to them : with these they drew neare the enemy , and finding them marching away , kept still upon the reare for almost five miles . in this time there joined with them captaine sanders troop and captain buller , with fiftie commanded men , which were sent to chinner by sir philip stapleton , who had the watch here that night at thame : when he discovered the fire there , to know the occasion of it he likewise sent one troop of dragoons under the command of captain dundasse who came up to them . there were likewise some few of colonell melves dragoons that came to them : at length our men pressed them so neare , that being in a large pasture ground they drew up , and notwithstanding the inequality of the numbers , we having not above 300 horse , our men charged them very gallantly , and slew divers of them ; but while they were in fight , the enemy being so very strong , kept a body of horse for his reserve , and with that body wheel'd about and charg'd our men in the reare , so that being encompassed and overborne with multitude , they broke and fled , though it was not very farre ; for when i heard that our men marched in the rear of the enemy , i sent to sir philip stapleton , who presently marched toward them with his regiment ; and though he came somewhat short of the shirmish , yet seeing our men retreat in that disorder , he stopt them , caused them to draw into a bodie with him , where they stood about an hour : whereupon the enemy marched away . in this skirmish there were slain fortie and five on both sides , whereof the greater part were theirs . they carried off the bodies of divers persons of qualitie . on our side maior gunter was killed , but some say he is prisoner and so hurt ; a man of much courage and fidelitie , his bravery engaging him and his small partie too farre : colonell hamden put himself in captain crosse his troop , where he charged with much courage , and was unfortunately shott thorow the shoulder . sir samuel luke thrice taken prisoner , and fortunately rescued : captain crosse had his horse killed under him in the middest of the enemy , and was mounted by one of his owne men , who quitted his own horse to safe his captain . captain buller was shot in the neck , who shewed very much resolution in this fight , taking one prisoner after he was shot . mounseir dulbeir with captain bosa and captain ennis did likewise carry themselves very well . we likewise lost two colours , viz. maior gunters , and captaine sheffeilds ; no prisoners of qualitie were taken by the enemy , but captain sheffeilds brother . prince rupert was there in person , and the runagado hurry . we took prisoner one of the earl of berks sons , captain gardener , the late recorders sonne of london , and captaine smith , with some others of qualitie , and divers prisoners . sir , this is the true relation of what passed in this businesse . i rest , your assured friend , essex . thame 19. iune , 1643. finis ▪ to the kings most excellent maiesty the humble petition of the lords and commons in parliament sent by sir philip stapleton to his excellency the earle of essex, and by him presented to his sacred majesty. england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a38140 of text r42011 in the english short title catalog (wing e2373). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a38140 wing e2373 estc r42011 23226587 ocm 23226587 109494 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a38140) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 109494) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1700:30) to the kings most excellent maiesty the humble petition of the lords and commons in parliament sent by sir philip stapleton to his excellency the earle of essex, and by him presented to his sacred majesty. england and wales. parliament. stapleton, philip, sir, 1603-1647. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. [2], 8 [i.e. 4] p. printed for f. coules, [london] : september 27, 1642. imperfect: p. 3-6 lacking in numbering only. "ordered by the lords and commons in parliament that this petition be forthwith printed and published: hen. elsygne [sic], cler. parl. d. com." reproduction of the original in the bodleian library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. great britain -politics and government -1642-1649. a38140 r42011 (wing e2373). civilwar no to the kings most excellent maiesty: the humble petition of the lords and commons in parliament: sent by sir philip stapleton, to his excell england and wales. parliament 1642 874 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-09 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2004-10 jonathan blaney sampled and proofread 2004-10 jonathan blaney text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-01 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion to the kings most excellent maiesty : the humble petition of the lords and commons in parliament : sent by sir philip stapleton , to his excellency the earle of essex : and by him to be presented to his sacred majesty . ordered by the lords and commons in parliament that this petition be forthwith printed and published : hen. elsygne , cler. parl. d. com. printed for f. coules . september 27. 1642. the humble petition of the lords and commons in parliament , to his sacred majesty : sent by sir philip stapleton to his excellency the earle of essex , and by him to be presented to his majesty . wee your majesties loyall subjects , the lords and commons in parliament , cannot without great grief & tendernes of compassiō behold the pressing miseries , the eminent dangers , and the devouring calamities which do extreamly threaten , and have partly seized upon both your kingdomes of england and ireland , by the practises of a party prevailing with your majesty , who by many wicked plots and conspiracies have attempted the alteration of the true religion , and the ancient government of this kingdome , and the introducing of popish idolatry and superstition in the church , and tyranny and confusion in the state , and for the compassing thereof , have long corrupted your majesties councels , abused your power , and by suddaine and untimely dissolving of former parliaments , have often hindred the reformation and prevention of those mischiefes . and being now disabled to avoide the endeavours of this parliament by any such meanes , have traiterously attempted to over-awe the same by force ; and in prosecution of their wicked designes , have excited , incouraged , and fostered an unnatural rebellion in ireland , by which , in a most cruell and outragious manner many thousands of your majesties subjects there have bin destroyed . and by false slaunders upon your parliament , and malicious and unjust accusations have indeavoured to beginne the like massacre here . and being through gods blessing therein disappointed , have ( as the most mischievous and bloody designe of all ) drawne your majesty to make warre against your parliament , and good subjects of this kingdome , leading in your person an army against them , as if you intended by conquest to establish an absolute and illimitted power over them , and by your power and the countenance of your presence have ransacked , spoyled , imprisoned and murthered divers of your people , and for their better assistance in their wicked designes , doe seeke to bring over the rebels of ireland , and other forces beyond the seas to joyne with them ; and wee finding our selves utterly deprived of your majesty protection , and the authors , councellors , and abbettors of these mischiefs in greatest power and favour with your majesty , and defended by you against the iustice and authority of your high court of parliment , whereby they are grown to that height and insolence as to manifest their rage and malice against those of the nobility and others who are any whit inclinable unto peace , not without great appearance of danger to your own royall person ; if you shall not in all things concur with their wicked and trayterous courses , have for the just and necessary defence of the protestant religion of your majesties person , crown , and dignity , of the laws , and liberties of the kingdome , and the priviledges and power of parliament , taken up armes and appointed and authorized robert earl of essex to be captain generall of all the forces by us raised , and to lead and conduct the same against these rebells and traytors , and them to subdue , and bring to condigne punishment . and do most humbly beseech your majesty to withdraw your royal presence and countenance from these wicked persons , & if they shall stand out in defence of their rebellions and unlawfull attemps , that your majesty will leave them to be supprest by that power which we have sent against them , and that your majesty will not mixe your own dangers with their's ; but in peace , and safety without your forces forth-with returne to your parliament , and by their faithfull councell and advice compose the present distempers & confusions abounding in both your kingdomes and provide for the security and honour of your selfe and your royall posterity , and the prosperous estate of all your subjects , wherein if your majesty please to yeeld to our most humble and earnest desires , wee doe in the presence of almighty god professe that we will receive your majesty with all honour , yeeld you all due obedience and subjection , and faithfully endeavour to secure your person and estate from all dangers , and to the utermost of our power to procure and establish to your selfe , and to your people , all the blessings of a glorious and happy reigne . finis . c r diev et mon droit . royal blazon or coat of arms the earle of essex his speech in the partilrie garden to the souldiers on tuesday last with his majesties propositions to the citizens of london likevvise terrible and blovdy news from yorke concerning the great affront which was given to the said city by the cavileers and how the citizens gave them a repulse and shut up the gates : whereunto is annexed, londons resolution for the defence of the king and parliament. speech in the artilrie garden to the souldiers on tuesday last essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a38662 of text r17460 in the english short title catalog (wing e3335). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 6 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a38662 wing e3335 estc r17460 13037568 ocm 13037568 96840 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a38662) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 96840) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 259:e200, no 54 or 259:e200, no 55) the earle of essex his speech in the partilrie garden to the souldiers on tuesday last with his majesties propositions to the citizens of london likevvise terrible and blovdy news from yorke concerning the great affront which was given to the said city by the cavileers and how the citizens gave them a repulse and shut up the gates : whereunto is annexed, londons resolution for the defence of the king and parliament. speech in the artilrie garden to the souldiers on tuesday last essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. 8 p. ... printed for thomas baley, [london?] : july 38, 1642. "londons resolution for the parliaments defence" : 259:e.200, no. 55. the earle of essex speech is not included in the eight pages. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng great britain -history -charles i, 1625-1649. london (england) -history -17th century -sources. a38662 r17460 (wing e3335). civilwar no the earle of essex his speech in the artilrie garden to the souldiers on tuesday last. with his majesties propositions to the citizens of lo essex, robert devereux, earl of 1642 1035 4 0 0 0 0 0 39 d the rate of 39 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the d category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-09 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2004-10 judith siefring sampled and proofread 2004-10 judith siefring text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-01 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the earle of essex his speech in the artilrie garden to the souldiers on tuesday last . with his majesties propositions to the citizens of london , likevvise terrible and blovdy news from yorke concerning the great affront , which was given to the said city , by the cavileers , and how the citizens gave them a repulse and shut up the gates . whereunto is annexed , londons resolution for the defence of the king and parliament . ioh. bro. cler. par. hen : els. parl. d. com. july . 28. printed for thomas baley . 1642. his maiesties propositions to the citizens of london . wherin he declares his royall intentions concerning the said city . by wofull experience we have knowne and found , the rebellions insurections & wicked pollicies and stratagens of these most hellish papists , and malignant party are grown to such a head that it is feared , without the great mercy of god , we are like to indure the hardest censure , and bloudy devises : they possiblely can inflict upon this our kingdom ; for these counties viz. yorkshire , lincolnshire , lancashire , are so greviouslie perplexed , with the feare of a civill warr , which still these cavileers with oaths and threats , do daily insist to the fears of all good christians ; they are now growne to so insolent and turbulent spirits , being countenanced with the smiles of many peers , of this kingdome , and they are growne to such a higth that they began to vse such lacivious actions that the inhabitants of these parts , are growne to a most miserable thinking daly and hourely when these men will cease upon their goods , and they began since his majestie went into l●ncolne , and beverly , to vse many outrages against the city . wherevpon the citizens of yorke foreseing the danger that would ensue , caused the gates to be shut up , they having a long time groaned under the dominering of the cavileers . the truth whereof was reported to the honourable house of commons , on saturday last the sixteenth of iuly , both houses taking into consideration the militia , of the kingdome propounded and ordered , that it is against the lawes , and liberties of the kingdoms , that any of the subiects thereof should be compelled by the king , to attend him at his pleasure but saith as is bound therto , and the lords and commons , in parliament doe declare . that it is both against the lawes of the land and the libertie of the subiect , for any messenger or officer , to cease upon any his maiesties subjects . and likewise declare that it ●s against the publique peace of the kingdome , and that the same be forthwith printed and published , and assigned vnder the clarks hand his royall majesty likewise declareth that neither the testimony of , so many of our lords now with vs can credit , with divers men that they proceed to levie men , and money , and raise horse . therefore wee are not to be misliked if after so many gratious expositious vpon considerable purposes and reasons , which they answer by ordering that wee answer to be reason and so appear to leavie warr against us . and therefore wee make such provision , that as we have beene forst from london , and kept from hvl wee may not be surprized at yorke , but in a condition to bring iustice on these men , who would perswade our people that their religion is in danger , because wee will not consent , it shall be in their power , and that their votes and liberties are in danger , because wee will allow no iudge of that liberty , but the knowne power of the land . yet whatsoeuer prouison , wee shall be compelled to make for our securitie , wee shall be ready , to lay down ▪ so soone as they shall have revoked their orders which they have made , and submit those persons , who have detained our townes carried away our armes , and put the militia in execution contrary to our proclamation , to that triall of innocencie , and to which they were borne . and if this be not submitted wee shall with as good a conscience , and wee beleeve wee shall not want , the good affections of our subiects to that end , proceed against those who shall prepare to exercise that pretended ordnance of the militia , and sr. iohn hotham who keeps our towne of hul from us , as wee would resist persons that come in a farre greater way ; and therefore wee shall repose and require our city of london to obey our commands , and not to be misled by those men who are led desperat by their fortunes who tell them that their religion , liberty , and propertie , is to be preserved by no other way but by their disloyalty . therefore wee propound unto them that they are now at the brincke of the riuer , and may draw their swords when nothing pursues them but their owne evill consiences . his royall majesty likewise declareth that the worth and glory of the city is not like to be destroied any other way but by rebelling against us , or their wives and children to be exposed to uiolence and villanie , but by those who make their appitite and will , their measurs and guid to all their actions . and his royall and sacred majesty doth likwise againe propound and declare that he is resolued to proseed against all those persons that shall assist by furnishing of horse , men , and plate as against the disturbers of the publike peace of the whole kingdome in generall protesting that for his one parte his intenciones are royall as alredey hath b●e published and declared to all the world . most hapy and wellcome newes from his excellencie the earle of essex wherein is declared the true and full relation of two famous victories obtained by the parliament forces : the first, fought by the lord of rochford at twyford, ian. 15 where with 700 men, he routed all the kings army consisting of about 1500 who came to burne the said towne : the second, fought by collonell chomley at hurst, ian. 17 neere reading, where with 300 men he gave battle to 2000 of the kings forces, which sallied out of reading with a resolution to take and pillage hurst of all their corne and hay : declaring the manner of their first meeting, and how after 4 or 5 houres fight they fored them to retreat, killing 300 of the cavaliers and taking 60 horse with the losse of twenty three men. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a38661 of text r22219 in the english short title catalog (wing e3324). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 6 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a38661 wing e3324 estc r22219 12229366 ocm 12229366 56612 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a38661) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 56612) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 242:e85, no 30) most hapy and wellcome newes from his excellencie the earle of essex wherein is declared the true and full relation of two famous victories obtained by the parliament forces : the first, fought by the lord of rochford at twyford, ian. 15 where with 700 men, he routed all the kings army consisting of about 1500 who came to burne the said towne : the second, fought by collonell chomley at hurst, ian. 17 neere reading, where with 300 men he gave battle to 2000 of the kings forces, which sallied out of reading with a resolution to take and pillage hurst of all their corne and hay : declaring the manner of their first meeting, and how after 4 or 5 houres fight they fored them to retreat, killing 300 of the cavaliers and taking 60 horse with the losse of twenty three men. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. n. n. [8] p. printed for t. rider, london : 1643. signed: n.n. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng cholmley, hugh, -sir, 1600-1657. dover, john carey, -earl of, 1608-1677. hurstmonceux (east essex) -history. twyford (berkshire) -history. a38661 r22219 (wing e3324). civilwar no most hapy and wellcome newes from his excellencie the earle of essex: wherein is declared the true and full relation, of two famous victorie essex, robert devereux, earl of 1643 968 1 0 0 0 0 1 3110 f the rate of 3110 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the f category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-11 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2005-01 jonathan blaney sampled and proofread 2005-01 jonathan blaney text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion most hapy and wellcome newes from his excellencie the earle of essex : wherein is declared the true and full relation , of two famous victories obtained by the parliament forces . the first , fought by the lord of rochford at twyford , ian. 15. where with 700. men , he routed all the kings army , consisting of about 1500. who came to burne the said towne . the second , fought by collonell chomley at hurst , ian. 17. neere reading , where with 300. men he gave battle , to 2000. of the kings forces , which sallied out of reading , with a resolution to take and pillage hurst of all their corne and hay . declaring the manner of their first meeting , and how after 4. or 5. houres fight , they fored them to retreat , killing 300. of the cavaliers and taking 60. horse . with the losse of twenty three men . london , printed for t. rider . 1643. the proceedings of the earl of essexs forces , neere reading : from twyford , neere reading , it is informed by a true and reall relation , that the lord of rochford , and colonell chomley , lying there with their forces , consisting of about seven hundered men ; colonell avston , a great and notorious papist , and commander in chiefe over the kings forces , which are quartered in reading ; issued out of the towne , and gave an alarum against twyford , upon sunday last being the eight of of this instant moneth of janvary : their forces that gave the alarum were commanded by captaine fawcet , and captaine avston , cozen to the aforenamed colonell , and came up all in a brest , within halfe a mile of the towne of twyford ; where they assaulted the same , with three-hundered and twenty men , thinking at that time to have gained the town , and to have cut off all the parliament forces that lay therein ; but their hopes were sone frustrated , and their expectation quite dissolved ; for the lord of rochford , and colonell chomley , being there quartered with about seven hundered men ; issued out of the towne , and drove their forces up to twyford greene , where they had planted two small drakes , and raised a good bre●●-work , and there they set their men in batailia array , where colonell chomley behavied himselfe very valiently , and after an houre spent in consultation upon the bussinesse ; colonell chomley gave order , that captaine tvrner should move forwards , and advance towards the enemy , which he did accordingly ; and according to the commission that he raceived from his colonell . he set upon the enemy with a hundered and twelve men , doing great execution ; and after an hours fight , colonell chomley marched downe to assist him . and the lord of rochford his forces wheeeled about , and assaulted them upon the left wing ; which proved very advantagious to them , and very prejudicall to the other party . thus they being by the great wisdome and policy , drew close to the enemy both in the front and left wing , they fell to battall , where after three houres fight , they obtained the victory , killing about an hundered and thirty of the cavaliers , and utterly routed the enemies left wing ; and put all the rest to flight . making them retreate to their forces at reading . all which through the assistance of almighty god was performed , with the losse of about twenty men : for which victory all good christians send up their prayers to the great god of battell for the same . colonell skippon , colonell of a regiment of red-coates ; and sergeant major generall of the whole army , is resolved to advance from maiden-heade , where they now lay quartered , and to march towards reading , where he intends to assault the same , and to beat the cavaliers out of the towne ; they give continuall alarums to each other and it is thought the kings army in reading is not able to subsist long . this is the true and perfect relation of the last skirmish , betwixt the two armies neere reading , and by the next post ( courteous reader ) thou shalt have a more full relation of all the proceedings . from twyford , jan . 16. 1643 sent in a letter from that worthy commander , n. n. vpon tuesday night last , about 4. of the clocke in the afternoone colonell chomley having drawne about 200. of his men , over a place called about 2 miles from reading , the enemy sallied out of the towne , with about 1100. men , and there gave our men a charge at their very workes ; insomuch that at the first begining of the battell our men had the worst of it ; and were much daunted , seeing such a strong army come against them whereupon colonell chomley for the encouragement of all his men , put on his armour , and stood in the front of the battle at least an houre , doing great execution with his sword and halfe-pike , and after some three hours and a halfes fight , the cavaliers retreated , leaving behind them of their dammee bretheren at least 200. and 25. where our men with 200. obtained the victory , taking about 60. and odde of the enemies horse , with the losse of about 23. men . finis . a vvorthy speech spoken by his excellence the earle of essex in the head of his armie before his arrivall at worcester on saterday last, being the 24 of september, 1642 : vvherein is declared every particular order and duty which his excellence expects to be performed both by his commanders and souldiers : with a royall protestation taken by his excellence and by him prescribed to be taken throughout the armie. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a38664 of text r13103 in the english short title catalog (wing e3340). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 6 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a38664 wing e3340 estc r13103 13018008 ocm 13018008 96598 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a38664) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 96598) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 259:e200, no 64) a vvorthy speech spoken by his excellence the earle of essex in the head of his armie before his arrivall at worcester on saterday last, being the 24 of september, 1642 : vvherein is declared every particular order and duty which his excellence expects to be performed both by his commanders and souldiers : with a royall protestation taken by his excellence and by him prescribed to be taken throughout the armie. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. [8] p. printed for henry fowler, london : sept. 29, 1642. imperfect: portrait lacking on film. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng great britain -history -charles i, 1625-1649 -sources. a38664 r13103 (wing e3340). civilwar no a vvorthy speech spoken by his excellence the earle of essex. in the head of his armie, before his arrivall at worcester, on saterday last, essex, robert devereux, earl of 1642 972 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-09 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2004-10 judith siefring sampled and proofread 2004-10 judith siefring text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-01 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a vvorthy speech spoken by his excellence the earle of essex . in the head of his armie , before his arrivall at worcester , on saterday last , being the 24. of september , 1642. vvherein is declared every particular order and duty which his excellence expects to be performed both by his commanders and souldiers . with a royall protestation taken by his excellence , and by him prescribed to be taken throughont the armie . london , printed for henry fowler . sept. 29. 1642. a vvorthy speech , spoken by his excellence the earle of essex . gentlemen and fellow soldiers , which are at this time assembled for the defence of his majestie , and the maintenance of the true protestant religion under my command , i shall desire you to take notice what i that am your generall shall by my honour promise to performe toward you , and what i shall be forced to expect that you should performe toward me . i do promise in the sight of almighty god , that i shall undertake nothing , but what shall tend to the advancement of the true protestant religion , the securing of his majesties royall person , the maintenance of the just priviledge of parliament , and the liberty and property of the subject , neither will i ingage any of you into any danger but ( though for many reasons i might forbeare ) i will in my owne person runne an equall hazard with you , and either bring you off with honour , or ( if god have so decreed ) fall with you , and willingly become a sacrafice for the preservation of my country . likewise i doe promise that my eare shall be open to heare the complaint of the poorest of my souldiers , though against the chiefest of my officers , neither shall his greatnesse ( if justly tax'd ) gaine any priviledge , but i shall be ready to execute justice against all from the greatest to the least . your pay shall be constantly delivered to your commanders , and if default be made by any officer , give me timely notice , and you shall find speedy redresse . this being performed on my part , i shall now declare what is your duty toward me , which i must likewise expect to be carefully performed by you . 1. i shall desire all and every officer to endeavour by love and affable carriage to command his souldiers , since what is done for feare , is done unwillingly , and what is unwillingly attempted can never prosper . likewise t is my request that you be very carefull in the excercising of your men , and bring them to use their armes readily and expertly , and not to bussy them in practizing the cerimonious formes of military discipline , onely let them be well instructed in the necessary rudiments of warre , that they may know to fall on with discretion , and retreate with care , how to maintaine their order , and make good their ground . also i doe expect that all those which volluntarily ingaged themselves in this service , should answer my expectation in the performance of these ensuing artickles . 1. that you willingly and cheerefully obey such as ( by your owne election ) you have made commanders over you . 2. that you take speciall care to keepe your armes at all times fit for service , that upon all occasions you may be ready when the signall shall be given by the sound of drumme or trumpet to repaire to your colours , and so to march upon any service where , and when occasion shall require . 3. that you beare your selves like soldiers , without doing any spoile to the inhabitants of the country , so doing you shall gaine love and friendship , where otherwise you will be hated , and complained off , and i that should protect you , shall be forced to punish you according to the severity of law 4. that you accept and rest satisfied with such quarters as shall fall to your lot , or be appointed you by your quartermaster . 5. that you shall ( if appointed for centries or per-dues ) faithfully discharge that duty , for upon faile heereof , you are sure to undergo a very severe censure . 6. you shall forbeare to prophane the saboth , either by being drunke , or by unlawfull games for whosoever shall be found faulty must not expect to passe unpunished . 7. whosoever shall be knowne to neglect the feeding of his horse with necessary provender , to the end that his horse be disabled or unfit for service , the party for the party for the said default , shall suffer a month's imprisonment , and afterward be cashiered as unworthy the name of a souldier . 8. that no trooper or other of our soldiers shall suffer his paddee to feed his horse in the corne , or to steale mens hay , but shall pay every man for hay 6. d. day and night , and for oats 2. s. the bushell . lastly , that you avoid cruelty ; for it is my desire rather to save the life of thousands , then to kill one , so that it may be done without prejudice . these things faithfully performed , and the justice of our cause truely considered let us advance with a religions courage , and willingly adventure our lives in the defence of the king and parliament . finis . new propositions propounded by the earle of pembrook, the earle of northumberland, the earle of essex, and the earle of holland ; to the lord major, aldermen, and common councell of the city in guild hall, on saturday being the 11 day of june, 1642 ; in the behalfe of all the commons in england ; whereunto is annexed many remarkeable passages with the numbers of horse that they have underwrit ; together with the substance of a letter sent from holland ; wherein is declared that there are many hundreds of carbines, 3000 great saddles, 300 barrels of powder, 8 pieces of ordnance which is conceived to be bought with part of the money borrowed upon the jewels of the crowne, and to be transported to england ; also a declaration from both houses of parliament concerning the ordering of the militia, directed to the deputy lievtenants of the respective counties throughout all england and dominion of wales. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a54000 of text r187042 in the english short title catalog (wing p1121). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 7 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a54000 wing p1121 estc r187042 12669929 ocm 12669929 65469 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a54000) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 65469) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 252:e150, no 24) new propositions propounded by the earle of pembrook, the earle of northumberland, the earle of essex, and the earle of holland ; to the lord major, aldermen, and common councell of the city in guild hall, on saturday being the 11 day of june, 1642 ; in the behalfe of all the commons in england ; whereunto is annexed many remarkeable passages with the numbers of horse that they have underwrit ; together with the substance of a letter sent from holland ; wherein is declared that there are many hundreds of carbines, 3000 great saddles, 300 barrels of powder, 8 pieces of ordnance which is conceived to be bought with part of the money borrowed upon the jewels of the crowne, and to be transported to england ; also a declaration from both houses of parliament concerning the ordering of the militia, directed to the deputy lievtenants of the respective counties throughout all england and dominion of wales. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. holland, henry rich, earl of, 1590-1649. northumberland, algernon percy, earl of, 1602-1668. pembroke, philip herbert, earl of, 1584-1650. [8] p. printed by t. fawcet, london : june 14, 1642. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng great britain -history -charles i, 1625-1649. a54000 r187042 (wing p1121). civilwar no new propositions. propounded by the earle of pembrooke. the earle of northumberland. the earle of essex. and the earle of holland. to the lo [no entry] 1642 1173 14 0 0 0 0 0 119 f the rate of 119 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the f category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-11 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2005-01 judith siefring sampled and proofread 2005-01 judith siefring text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion new propositions . propounded by the earle of pembrooke . the earle of northumberland . the earle of essex . and the earle of holland . to the lord major , aldermen , and common councell of the city in guild hall ▪ on saturday being the 11. day of june , 1642. in the behalfe of all the commons in england . whereunto is annexed many remarkeable passages with the numbers of horse that they have underwrit . together with the substance of a letter sent from holland . wherein is declared that there are many hundreds of carbines , 3000 great saddles , 300 barrels of powder , 8. pieces of ordnance , which is conceived to be bought with part of the money borrowed upon the jewels of the crowne , and to be transported to england . also a declaration from both houses of parliament , concerning the ordering of the militia , directed to the deputy-lievtenants of the respective counties throughout all england , and dominion of wales . ordered that this be printed and published . hen. elsing . cler. parl. d. com. london , printed by t. fawcet . june 14. ▪ 1642. new propositions . severall propositions have lately been propounded by the lords and commons in parliament to the kings most excellent maiesty , they leaving no way unattempted , to gaine his majesties royall favour , and the peace of the kingdome , witnesse those 19. propositions lately sent to yorke and presented to his maiesty , yet neverthelesse all their endeavours find a bad successe and all their care is rewarded with discourtesie , for it is too apparent that his maiesty intends to raise warre against the parliament , for information is given to the house that severall persons have endeavoured 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 forces , promising great rewards to those that would be ayding in that service , likewise the lords and commons received a letter from holland , which the eare of northumberland read in guild-hall , that there is at this time at amsterdam many thousands of carabines and pistols . three thousand great saddles , 300 barrels of powder , 8 ▪ pieces of ordnance , making ready to be sent to england , for this designe , and it is thought to be bought with part of the mony borrowed on the jewels of the crowne , likewise a chaine of pearle and other jewels sent backe , money being denyed to be sent on them , by reason of the sate order made by the parliament to the contrary . these and the like assurances of danger , caused the lords and commons now resident in parliament to publish severall propositions in generall , to all the kingdome . this was also the 〈◊〉 that d●duced these noblemen to make these other propositions to this honourable citie , that being cheifely concerned in this businesse . the above named earles , comming to the hall where the lord major and aldermen , with the common councell of the citie were assembled . the earle of northumberland read those propositions which were published by the authority of parliament , after which the said earle declared upon what grounds they did proceed , and their causes of feare , which were cheifly these . 1. because his maiesty by the perswasions of the malignant 〈◊〉 ▪ doth endeavor to force a dissolution of the parliament , to which end , by severall persons , and in severall counties , he hath endeavoured to raise armes . 2. that these forraigne preparations of ●rmer , purchased with the iewels of the crown , can portend nothing lesse then such a dangerous designe . 3. that those armed cavaleers at yorke committing severall outrages already on his maiesties subiects , giving out severall words against the parliament , both dangerous and scandalous , is a free declaration of their intents , what they intend to put in act , if they once gaine strength by their supposed forraigne supplies . to these they added these propositions . 1. whether it stood not for the better security of the citie in generall , to venture a proportionable stocke for the maintenance of forces to defend and secure the generall from the danger of such intended stratagems . 2. whether it were not much better for those that had plate or money to put it into a generall stocke , the faith of the whole kingdome being ingag'd for the returne of it , then to let such plate or moneys be made pillage and prey to the enemies of the kingdome . to which propositions they added these reasons . that for such moneys or plate so ventured if the kingdome stood , they were assured to receive the value againe with interest , and the rest of their estates secured , but on the contrary they could neither keepe that , nor ought else , their lives and estates running on equall hazard . these propositions with the reasons were generally liked , and condiscended unto . likewise the said earles declared that they have underwrit for foure hundrd horse , die sabbati 4. junij . 1642. it is this day ordered by the lords and commons in parliament ▪ that the deputy-lievtenants of the severall and respective counties within the kingdom of england and dominion of wale● , 〈…〉 members of the house of commons , be hereby required and enjoyned to be present at the dayes , and places which are , or shall hereafter be appointed by the lord lievtenants , or their deputies , for the 〈◊〉 , mustering , and exercising of the in●●bitants of the said counties , according to the authority given unto them by an ordinance of both houses of parliament . and it is further ordered , that all deputy-lievtenants , aswell those that are members of the house of commons , as others , shal give such dispatch by preparing of warrants ▪ commissions ▪ or letters , and subscribing of the same as the service shall require ; and that such as shall refuse , or neglect so to doe , that their names be certified unto us by 〈◊〉 fellow-deputies , or any one of them that shall or doe performe the said service . and it is further declared ▪ that it is the intention of both houses , for the better incouragement of so good a worke , so much conducing to the safety of his maiesties person and kingdomes that some of their members at the times and places appointed , or to be appointed for the execution of the said ordinance , shall be sent down to give their personall attendance upon the said service . ordered to be printed ▪ hen. elsinge cler. parl. d. com. finis . prince robert his speech to the earle of essex the morning before hee marched forth with his forces and his excellences answer thereunto : also the manner of his marching out with his forces from northampton on munday sept. 19 and the numer thereof : likewise the manner of the disarming of the papists and ill-affected persons in lincolnshire, by the earl of lincoln and gentry of the county, and causing them to subscribe for money and horse for the king and parliament with the like proceedings in yorkshire. message to the earle of essex the morning before hee marched forth with his forces rupert, prince, count palatine, 1619-1682. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a57914 of text r17461 in the english short title catalog (wing r2309). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 7 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a57914 wing r2309 estc r17461 13037583 ocm 13037583 96842 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a57914) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 96842) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 259:e200, no 59) prince robert his speech to the earle of essex the morning before hee marched forth with his forces and his excellences answer thereunto : also the manner of his marching out with his forces from northampton on munday sept. 19 and the numer thereof : likewise the manner of the disarming of the papists and ill-affected persons in lincolnshire, by the earl of lincoln and gentry of the county, and causing them to subscribe for money and horse for the king and parliament with the like proceedings in yorkshire. message to the earle of essex the morning before hee marched forth with his forces rupert, prince, count palatine, 1619-1682. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. [2], 6 p. ... printed for t. cooke, london : septemb. 21, 1641. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. a57914 r17461 (wing r2309). civilwar no prince robert his speech to the earle of essex the morning before hee marched forth with his forces: and his excellences answer thereunto. a rupert, prince, count palatine 1642 1232 2 0 0 0 0 0 16 c the rate of 16 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-10 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2004-11 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2004-11 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-01 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion prince robert his speech to the earle of essex the morning before hee marched forth with his forces : and his excellences answer thereunto . also the manner of his marching out with his forces from northampton on munday sept. 19. and the number thereof . likewise the manner of the disarming of the papists and ill-affected persons in lincolnshire ( by the earl of lincoln and gentry of the county ) and causing them to subscribe for money and horse for the king and parliament , with the like proceedings in yorkshire . london , septemb. 21. printed for t. cook . 1641. prince roberts message to his excellency the morning before hee marched forth with his forces , and his excellencies answer thereunto . also the manner of the disarming of the papists and ill-affected persons in lincolnshire , and causing them to subscribe to finde money and horse for the parliament , with the like proceedings in yorkshire . on munday the 19. of september the earle of essex having received letters from the parliament to advance his forces from northampton caused drums to be beated up at foure a clock in the morning , to call the souldiers together ▪ and about six of the clock in the morning all the colonels and commanders attended on his excellency , signifying that their soulders were in a readinesse to march with his excellency : which they had no sooner done , but there came a message from prince robert to his excellency the earle of essex , intimating that he had received certain information , that the said earle of essex was in a trayterous manner raising forces against his majestie and had advanced forward and approached neere unto his majesties person with force and armes making warre against his majesty and his good subjects , and that he heard the said earle intended to march tewards coventry which if he did he would give him the meeting at dunsmore heath and would bee well provided against his comming thither . whereuppon his excellency retourned answer , that the manner of his raising those forces that were then with him ready to march under his command was a thing not now to bee disputed upon betweene them , the occosions ▪ and legality thereof being already determined by both houses of parliament , neither had he undertaken that comand with an intent for to leavy forces or make warre against his majesties royall person but to obtaine a peace betweene his sacred majestie and his great counsell of parliament and all the rest of his majesties faithfull dutifull and most loyall subjects against any persons whatsoever that should oppose and resist the same and that hee feared not to meete the said prince in any place that hee should appoint or make choice of . and thereupon about ten of the clock the same day his excellency advanced his forces , consisting of about two and twenty thousand horse and foot , intending to march about eight miles that night ; which the countrey people inhabiting thereabouts having intelligence of , came in great multitudes to expresse their true love and unfained affection to his excellency and his honourable person , and also to shew a testimony of their love and earnest desire of the good successe of that cause which he had undertaken , the greatest part of the gentry of that county coming thither in great pompe and state to attend his excellency , and marched before him out of the towne , and the meaner sort of people expressed themselves with great acclamations of joy , to see his excellency accompanied with such a number of brave , resolute , able men , which number the countrey would have been glad to have doubled , their affection was so great to this service . it is credibly reported , that the kings majesty is gone into staffordshire , and from thence is intended to take his journey unto shrewesbury , because some of his carriages are gone thitherward already , where also his majesty expects great supplies of aid and assistance to come out of north-wales , about two thousand of them being come down into shropshire and cheshire already , but none of them dare come into the town of shrewsbury , because the townsmen do threaten to beat them out againe if they come thither , or at least to do by them as the citizens of chester did by three hundred welchmen that the lord strange had bileted there , who when they went forth of the city to exercise , shut the gates against them , and kept them out . it is reported his excellency will march with forces directly towards coventry , and in his passage thither hee is to march over dunsmore heath , where it is conceived that the great challenger prince robert will play least in sight ; for he knowes it is not firing of houses that will there serve his turne , which is the way wherein he shews his greatest valour : but he might have done better to have retorted that peece of art upon the spaniard , who by that meanes wrought the great ruine in the palatinate . the earle of lincolne , with many gentlemen and free-holders in the county of lincolne , considering the dangerous estate in which this kingdome now stands , have gathered together in that county , and have searched all the papists and ill-affected protestants houses of any worth in that county , and have not onely taken away their armes , but have also forced them to subscribe to maintaine horse and moneyes for the king and parliament , so that this county is now secured for the parliament , the greatest part of the countrey being so much incensed against the cavaliers that they say , if any of them come againe thither , they will be their executioners . in yorkshire they are very quiet , sir iohn hotham having lately defeated some troops of the earle of cumberlands . the city is all for the king and parliament , they hope that other countreyes will take warning by their ignorance for at the first they being ignorant of the cause of the devision betweene the king and parliament and of the insolent behaviour of the cavaliers had some relish of an indifferent good opinion of their cause which made many of them decline from the parliament at that time which being now better informed are for it , and although this county sends forty members to the parliament , and there is not above three or four of them that hath continued firme and constant to the house yet now we hear diverse of them are changed in their opinions and would gladly be received againe into the house , wee are here about to take the course amongst those that are popishly affected and of the malignant faction , as they have done in lincolnshire and although we shall not tender any oath of association yet we intend to make such a tye between them and the parliament that they shall not get off without forfeiture of that which they will be unwilling to loose . finis . terrible nevves from york declaring the barbarous actions of the cavaliers at yorke in plundering the houses, seizing the goods and imprisoning the persons of those citizens that refuse to contribute money to maintaine a war against the parliament : having already plundered above twenty citizens houses and imprisoned diverse of the aldermen for not contributing money to maintain the foresaid war : also how they cruelly threaten to kill diverse godly and religious ministers in the said city if they will not preach as they would have them : also the earle of essex his instructions to the counties of derby, northampton, warwick, and diverse other counties, to stand upon their guard and raise the power of the counties to withstand the cavaliers and prevent the like miseries and calamities in other parts of this kingdome. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a64419 of text r15172 in the english short title catalog (wing t773). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 6 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a64419 wing t773 estc r15172 12392588 ocm 12392588 61023 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a64419) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 61023) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 248:e123, no 14) terrible nevves from york declaring the barbarous actions of the cavaliers at yorke in plundering the houses, seizing the goods and imprisoning the persons of those citizens that refuse to contribute money to maintaine a war against the parliament : having already plundered above twenty citizens houses and imprisoned diverse of the aldermen for not contributing money to maintain the foresaid war : also how they cruelly threaten to kill diverse godly and religious ministers in the said city if they will not preach as they would have them : also the earle of essex his instructions to the counties of derby, northampton, warwick, and diverse other counties, to stand upon their guard and raise the power of the counties to withstand the cavaliers and prevent the like miseries and calamities in other parts of this kingdome. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. [2], 6 p. printed for th. thompson, [london] : october 19, 1642. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. york (england) -history, military. a64419 r15172 (wing t773). civilwar no terrible nevves from york: declaring the barbarous actions of the cavaliers at yorke, in plundering the houses, seizing the goods, and impri [no entry] 1642 1142 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 b the rate of 9 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the b category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-09 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2004-10 andrew kuster sampled and proofread 2004-10 andrew kuster text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-01 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion terrible nevves from york : declaring the barbarous actions of the cavaliers at yorke , in plundering the houses , seizing the goods , and imprisoning the persons of those citizens that refuse to contribute money to maintaine a war against the parliament , having already plundered above twenty citizens houses , and imprisoned diverse of the aldermen , for not contributing money to maintain the foresaid war . also how they cruelly threaten to kill diverse godly and religious ministers in the said city , if they will not preach as they would have them . also the earle of essex his instructions to the counties of derby , northampton , warwick , and diverse other counties , to stand upon their guard , and raise the power of the counties to withstand the cavaliers , and prevent the like miseries and calamities in other parts of this kingdome . printed for th. thompson . october 19. 1642. terrible newes from yorke : wherein is shewed the barbarous actions of the cavaliers in plundering the houses of the citizens of york , who refuse to contribute money towards the maintaining of a war against the parliament . also the lord generall his instructions to the counties of derby , northampton , warwick , and divers other counties , for preventing the like miseries in other places . the miseries of this kingdome are almost growne to a height , the malignant party now hath begun to plunder the city of yorke , and have already plundered above twenty houses in the said city for not contributing towards the designes of the cavaliers to maintaine a warre against the parliament : diverse aldermen that refused are committed , and one alderman that was intrusted by the act of parliament for gathering up of money for the parliament , and hath a thousand pound in his hands , hath but seven houres given him to consider whether he will deliver up the money , or be plundered and imprisoned . moreover they threaten the best ministers about the city , that they will be the death of them , unlesse they preach as they would have them : they have carried sir john bourchier to yorke : the lady melton being about to send her goods by water towards hull , had all her goods , money and plate , to the value of a thousand pound , taken by the souldiers as they were putting into the bark ; they will suffer none of any degree whatsoever to depart the city without lending of money . ) the ●hi●ft cavaliers that beare sway in the city of york are sir 〈◊〉 wortley , sir marmaduke langdale , sir john kay , m. francis nevill and others ; the earle of cumberland stands for a cipher , they do what they please without his advice . there is a thousand foot and three troups of horse marched towards cawood where m. hotham is , and sir thomas glemham hath an intent to force him thence , so that if the other regiments of foot that the parliament hath appointed for the securing of that county come not to aid them , m. hotham must of necessity retreat to hull . certain delinquents revenues are to be made stop of : two pensions of the duke of richmond , one of 2100 : l. per annum , another of 1400. l. per an. to the lord willoughby of eresby , 1000. l. per an. to the earl of bristol 2000. l. per an. to the l. grandison , 500. l. per an. &c. the english fleet lately lying before galloway , which is the strongest towne they have , except limbrick , and there laid siege to it : so the lord of of clenrikard came downe and conferred with our lord forbes , and the merchants of the towne : they strongly replied , and said , that they were the kings loyall subjects , and had not offended in the least thing , but that the souldiers in the kings fort had done them wrong : but had the king sealed to our commission , we should have found enough against them , that we might truly have made an onset upon the towne : wee were so neere the towne with our garrison , that we could heare them plainly call our parliament rogues , parliament-dogs , and puritan-dogs : so you may very well conceive what subjects they are . on the third and fourth day we re-fetcht aboard our souldiers , and the sixth day wee set saile from gallaway to go to limbrick , and on the ninth day we arrived in limbrick river , and on the two and twentieth day we laid siege to the knights of the elmes castle , that is to say in english , the knights of the valley ; the which castle we plaid upon two dayes and two nights with two demi-canons : so the second day we entred the castle , slaying all we found alive : but when we came to burie them we found but eighteene or twentie , the rest made an escape and got into the woods : there came a great army of the irish within sight of the castle ; there marched out betwixt four and five hundred , and when they began to approach , the irish men fled , and durst not stand : we tooke in this castle a thousand bushels of wheat , three or foure thousand vveight of butter , besides barley , malt and salt beefe : this castle vve took on the three and tvvcntieth of september vvith the losse of five men , a trouper and a footman in the pursuit after the first landding , and three other after vve came under the castle vvals , tvvo common souldiers , and the master of captaine thompsons ship . the lord generall hath sent instructions to the counties of derby , warwick , northampton , & divers other countreys in those parts to raise the power of the counties , and stand upon their guard , to secure themselves from the cavaliers , who plunder every place where they come without distinction of persons : for the cavaliers endeavour to come towards london , and plunder by the way , hoping that the lord generall cannot remove fast enough to prevent them , but his excellency hath sent ten peeces of ordnance and two thousand men to stop their passage at coventry , that they may not passe that way : the counties of northampton and warwick are already in a warlike posture , and furnished to oppose the cavaliers . finis . the parliaments resolution to the citizens of london concerning his majesties proceedings wherein they declare their full will and pleasure to unite themselves with the citizens of london, and to enter into a solemne oath with god to defend the truth against the popish army england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a38047 of text r16373 in the english short title catalog (wing e2151). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 9 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a38047 wing e2151 estc r16373 12545598 ocm 12545598 63042 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a38047) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 63042) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 210:16) the parliaments resolution to the citizens of london concerning his majesties proceedings wherein they declare their full will and pleasure to unite themselves with the citizens of london, and to enter into a solemne oath with god to defend the truth against the popish army england and wales. parliament. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. [8] p. printed for richard vvest, london : december 17, 1642. eng balfour, william, -sir, d. 1660. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. winchester (england) -history, military. a38047 r16373 (wing e2151). civilwar no the parliaments resolution to the citizens of london concerning his majesties proceedings. vvherein they declare their full will and pleasur england and wales. parliament 1642 1503 4 0 0 0 0 0 27 c the rate of 27 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-10 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2004-11 john latta sampled and proofread 2004-11 john latta text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-01 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the parliaments resolution to the citizens of london , concerning his majesties proceedings . wherein they declare their full will and pleasure to unite themselvs with the citizens of london , and to enter into a solemne oath with god to defend the truth against the popish army in this kingdome . likewise joyfull news from winchester , being the truest relation of the great battle fought upon thursday last by a great part of the kings army , against the said city and how by the assistance of sir wil. balfourd with 200 horse , the citisens obtained the victory , taking 500 horse , 7. pieces of ordnance , 25. commanders , and 700. common souldiers , with losse of 50. men declaring also , how the earle of essex hath sent propositions to the kings majesty for an accomodation of peace . together with his majesties answer thereunto . ordered by the lords and commons assembled in parliment , that this resolution be forthwith printed and published , and read in all churches and chappels within the kingdome of england and dominion of wales , by the parsons , vicars , cnrates of the same . io. brown cler. parl , december 17. london , printed for richard vvest . 1642. the resolvtion of the lords and commons assembled in parliament concerning their uniting themselves with the well affected party of the city of london , for the preservation of the peace thereof , and the maintainance of gods true religion . wee the lords and commons in this present parliament assembled , do in the presence of almighty god , for the satisfaction of our own consciences , and discharge of that great trust which lyes upon us make this declaration to you . and for the avoiding of bloud , we directed the directed the earle of essex lord generall , by him selfe or others in some safe and honourable way , to cause to bee delivered an humble petition , wherein we doe desire nothing from his majesty but that he would returne in peace to his parliament : and by their faithfull counsell and advice compose the distempers and confusions abounding in his kingdomes , as hee is bound to doe , we therin professing in the sight of almighty god , which is the strongest obligation and assurance that any christian , and the most solemne publike faith which any such state , as a parliament can give , that we would receive him with all honour , yeeld him all true obedience and subjection , and faithfully endeavour to defend his person and estate from all danger , and to the uttermost of our power to establish to him and to his people all the blessings of a glorious and happy reigne , as it is more largely expressed in that petition . for the delivery of which petition , his excellencie hath twice sent unto the king , humbly desiring a safe conduct for those who should bee imployed therein , but his mtjesty refused to give any such safe conduct , or to receive this humble and dutifull petition , by any addresse of the earle of essex , saying , that if justice had been done , the gentleman which brought the second message , could not expect his liberty . by all which , and many other evidences and inducements , we are fully convinc'd in our judgments and beliefe , that the kings councels and resolutions are so eng●ged to the popish partie for the suppression and extirpation of the true religion , that all hopes of peace and protection are excluded , and that it is fully intended to give satisfaction to the papists by alteration of religion , and to the cavaleers and to the cavaleers and other souldiers , by exposing the wealth of the good subjects especially of this city of london , to be sackt plundered and spoiled by them . also his majesty being now growne stronger , and able as he conceives to make good his owne ends by armes , his confidence in the papists doth more clearly appear , persons imprisond for priests and iesuites have bin released out of the gaole of lancaster , profest papists have bin invited to rise and take up armes . we are also credibly informed , that divers jesuits in forreign parts , makes great collection of mony for the furthering of his maj. designs , here against the parliament , and that great means are made to take up the differences betwixt some princes of the roman religion , that so they might unite their strength for the extirpation of the protestant religion , wherein principally this kingdome and the kingdome of scotland are concerned , as making the greatest body of the reformed religion in christendome , and best able to defend themselves , and succour other churches . for which reasons , we are resolved to enter into a solemn oath and covenant with god , to give up our selves and fortunes in his hands , and that wee will to the uttermost of our power and judgement maintain his truth , and conform our selves to his will . that we will defend this cause with the hazzard of our lives against the kings army , and against all that joyns ▪ with them in prosecution of this wicked design , according to the form to be agreed upon by both houses of parl. to bee subscribed by our hands ▪ and that we will for the same ends associate our selves , and unite with all the well affected in the city of london , and other parts of his majesties dominions . we do also expect our brethren of scotland , according to the act of pacification , whereby the two kingdomes are mutually bound to suppresse all debates and differences to the disturbance of the publique peace , that they will help and assist us in defence of this cause , which if the popish party prevail , must needs either involve them in that alteration of religion which will bee made here , or ingage them in a warre against this kingdome , to defend their own religion and liberty : and we doubt not but the god of truth , and the great protector of his people , will assist and inable us in this our just defence , to restrain the fury and malice of those that s●ek our ruine , and to procure end establish the safety of religion , and fruition of our laws and liberties in this , and all other his majesties dominions ; which we do here again professe before the ever-living god to bee the chief end of all our counsels and resolutions , without ony intention or desire to hurt or iniure his maiestie , either in his person or iust power . from winchester it is signified by letters to the house of commons , that upon thursday last a great part of his maj. army commanded by the l. herbert and digby , assaulted the aforesaid city , but the townsmen having notice of their comming , set their men in battle array , mounting their ordnance , and placing two pieces at each gats north , west , east and south , and when the enemy were within half a mile of the city , they discharged two warning pieces at them , but yet they adventured up to the gates , and gave a desperate charge , placing their ordnance against the same , thinking to have beat them open by force ; but the bullets came so fast amongst them out of the city , that they soon retreated from the gates , and began to shoot very furiously on the west side of the city , but before this bloody skirmish was ended , col. hurrey and sir vvil . balfourd came in with their troopes of horse , and with most noble and discreet courage fell on , fighting for the space of five hours , and at last wonne the victory , taking about 500 , horse , 7. pieces of ordnance , 25. commanders , and 700. common sodliers , with the losse of 50. men : so great a victory with so little losse , was heaven pleased to confer on our party : for which , due thanks be tendred to the giver of all conquests in the field . ordered by the lords and commons assembled in parliament , that this declaration shal be forthwith printed and published , and read in all churches and chappels within the kingdome of england and dominion of wales , by the parsons , vicars , or curates of the same . jo. browne cler. parl. hen , elsyng , cler. parl. d. com , exceeding joyfull nevves from the earl of essex, being a true and reall relation of his incompassing the kings army neare the city of oxford, decemb. 7, and the great skirmish which they had at the same time also how sir john meldrum, and collonell langham drew out their two regiments of blewcoaths, seven troops of horse, and 9 pieces of ordnance, and got beyond oxford : and there set their men in battle array, raising two half-moons and planting their ordnance against the cavaleers : likewise the proceedings of the e. of essex since his departure from the earl of northumberland, e. of holland, e. of pembroke, and the lord sey, at windsor, decemb. 5, and what skirmishes he had in his march towards oxford. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a38991 of text r19291 in the english short title catalog (wing e3759). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 7 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a38991 wing e3759 estc r19291 12442074 ocm 12442074 62107 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a38991) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 62107) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 249:e129, no 25) exceeding joyfull nevves from the earl of essex, being a true and reall relation of his incompassing the kings army neare the city of oxford, decemb. 7, and the great skirmish which they had at the same time also how sir john meldrum, and collonell langham drew out their two regiments of blewcoaths, seven troops of horse, and 9 pieces of ordnance, and got beyond oxford : and there set their men in battle array, raising two half-moons and planting their ordnance against the cavaleers : likewise the proceedings of the e. of essex since his departure from the earl of northumberland, e. of holland, e. of pembroke, and the lord sey, at windsor, decemb. 5, and what skirmishes he had in his march towards oxford. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. [8] p. ... printed for h. blundo [i.e. blunden], [london] : decemb. 9, 1642. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng laugharne, rowland, d. 1676. meldrum, john, -sir, d. 1645. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. a38991 r19291 (wing e3759). civilwar no exceeding joyfull nevves from the earl of essex being a true and reall relation of his incompassing the kings army neare the citty of oxford [no entry] 1642 1273 10 0 0 0 0 0 79 d the rate of 79 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the d category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-11 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2005-01 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2005-01 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion exceeding joyfull newes from the earl of essex being a true and reall relation of his incompassing the kings army neare the citty of oxford , decemb. 7. and the great skirmish which they had at the same time . also how sir john meldrum , and collonell langham drew out their two regiments of blew-coaths , seven troops of horse , and 9. pieces of ordnance , and got beyond oxford , and there set their men in battle array , raising two half-moons , and planting their ordnance against the cavaleers . likewise the proceedings of the e. of essex since his departure from the earl of northumberland , e. of holland , e. of pembroke , and the lord sey , as windsor , decemb. 5. and what skirmishes he had in his march towards oxford . decemb. 9. printed for h. blundo . 1642. his maiesties resolution concerning his marching towards worster and salisbury , and so to york . his majesty having seriously weighed and considered the present estate and condition of these west and southerne counties , and likewise of the proceedings of his excellencie the earle of essex , who is now in a speedy pursuit of his gracious maiesty and his army , and doth use all possible means he can for to rescue his royall majesty from the cavaleers , who doth now detain and keepe his person by violence , and opposition . the cavaleers 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 excellencie is resolved to follow and pursue them , and to let no time of opportunity slip , they do therfore most earnestly desire his majesty that he would be pleased to leave these parts , and to b●take himselfe towards the northern parts of this kingdome , together with his mayn army , that so they may relieve his majesties true and loyall subjects , which are now incompassed and surrounded by the parliament forces , under the command of the lord fairfax , sir i. hotham , and captain hotham . they further declared to his majesty , that if his highnesse were in those parts with his army , it would prove very advantagous to all his forces , by reason that arms and ammunition , and all other warlike provision might the better be conducted unto them from forrein parts . and that he might also put in execution his designs against hull , who having gathered a great power and strength in those parts , his majesty might the easier beleag●er hull , and so bring the inhabitants thereof to due obedience and subjection . but his excellencie having 〈◊〉 informa●ion and intelligence of the cavaleers intention , and that they did 〈◊〉 to withdraw his majesty 〈…〉 his great councell the high court 〈…〉 towards hull , to be revenged upon sir iohn hotham . his excellency to prevent and stop their passage , sent to the counties of norhamton , warwick , bedford , darby-shire , and divers other places , that they should ra●se all the strength they possible could , and oppose , kill and slay all that should come against them , and that they should raise as many horse for dragoons , as they could . his excellency is likewise resolved to pursue and march after them , with his traine of artillery , and hath sent to those forces which lye about worster to be in a readinesse , and to have a watchfull eye to the kings party , that they do not passe that way . his excellency hath also sent to the lord of stamford the like message , desiring him to be in a readinesse , and to have a diligent care that the kings party do not enter into those parts , or in that county ; because it is reported and given out , that the lord digby is comming that way , and is resolved to give him a charge about the city of hereford . but the lord of stamford hath strongly fortified himself about the said city , and is able with one thousand men to hold play against ten thousand . this is a perfect relation of his majesties resolution concerning his advancing towards the north to besiege hull . a most reall relation of the proceedings of the e. of essex , since his departure from windsor , decemb. 5. from the earle of northmmberland , e. of holland ▪ e. of pembroke , l. wharton , and the lord sey . upon monday last his excellency advanced from windsor , where hee tooke his leave of these worthy peers , namely , the earl of northumberland , the earl of holland , the earl of pembroke , the lord wharton , and the lord sey , who went to take their leaves of his excellencie , before hee set forward his iourney . upon monday towards evening he overtook his forces , where they marched most part of that night , because his excellencies desire was to be as neer the kings army as he could for fear the kings army should get ground of him and his army , and the more because hee would execute the desires of both houses of parliament , and the citysens of this honourable city . upon tuesday his excellencie marched to stoken-church , where he found some opposition , there being about three thousand cavaleers billeted near to the said town , but after one hours fight the kings army retreated , and his excellencies forces pursued them as farre as aston in oxfordshire , killing about two hundred of them , with the losse of eight men , and another or two wounned . upon wednesday his excellency marched to tedstot ten miles on this side oxford , and hath strongly intrenched himself there , making many breast-works and half-moons , and hath also sent colonell goodwyn with his regiment of foote and five troopes of horse towards abington , where they now lye with undanted valour and courage , although the enemy be within one mile of them . colonell sir iohn meldrum , and colonel langham with their two regiments of blew are also got beyond oxford , and have taken up their quarters neer to woodstocke , being about sixe miles from oxford , having also seven troopes of horse , and nine pieces of ordnance , and about four small drakes , the enemy being near unto them . sir iohn meldrum and colonell langham hath planted their ordnance against the kings army for their own saf●guard and defence , and hath also raised three half-moones , for the safeguard of their forces . his majesty being now surrounded and incompassed by his excellencie the earl of essex , it is very probable there will be a suddaine battle ; for both armies are making of great preparation for the same , and most of their forces are drawn up to a head . the cavaleeas giues out speeches that the troopers of our side for the greatest part , are resolved to stand as nuters , but that is false , for both horse and foot have entred into an association to ass●st each other , and to fight it out to the last man . the lords and commons assembled in parliament do declare , that all souldiers that do commit any offence or contempt , contrary to their orders , shall b● severely punished , according to law . john brown cler-parliamentorum finis a letter from his excellencje the earl of essex to the gentlemen, freeholders, and other well-affected people in the county of essex. also, an order of the house of commons in parliament for a contribution for sick souldiers under the command of his excellencie. together with two other orders of the committee of the house of commons and citie of london, for reducing newcastle, and the parts adjacent. ordered by the commons in parliament assembled, that these be forthwith printed and published. hen: elsynge cler. parl. d. com. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a84104 of text r22708 in the english short title catalog (thomason e55_3). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 8 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a84104 wing e3317 thomason e55_3 estc r22708 99871819 99871819 155252 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a84104) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 155252) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 10:e55[3]) a letter from his excellencje the earl of essex to the gentlemen, freeholders, and other well-affected people in the county of essex. also, an order of the house of commons in parliament for a contribution for sick souldiers under the command of his excellencie. together with two other orders of the committee of the house of commons and citie of london, for reducing newcastle, and the parts adjacent. ordered by the commons in parliament assembled, that these be forthwith printed and published. hen: elsynge cler. parl. d. com. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. england and wales. parliament. house of commons. aut 8 p. printed for edw. husband, london : june 17. 1643. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng soldiers -england -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -sources -early works to 1800. a84104 r22708 (thomason e55_3). civilwar no a letter from his excellencje the earl of essex to the gentlemen, freeholders, and other well-affected people in the county of essex.: also essex, robert devereux, earl of 1643 1291 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 b the rate of 8 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the b category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-05 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-06 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2007-06 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter from his excellencje the earl of essex to the gentlemen , freeholders , and other well-affected people in the county of essex . also , an order of the house of commons in parliament for a contribution for sick souldiers under the command of his exeellencie . together with two other orders of the committee of the house of commons and citie of london , for reducing newcastle , and the parts adjacent . ordered by the commons in parliament assembled , that these be forthwith printed and published . hen : elsynge cler. parl. d. com. london , printed for edw. husband june 17. 1643. a letter sent from his excellency the earl of essex , to the gentlemen , freeholders and well-affected people in the county of essex . hearing of your readinesse to assist in this great cause with your persons and purses , for the defence of religion and liberty , and what ever is deare unto us , and of your willingnesse to rise generally , and to joyn with other counties , to deliver your selves from that slavery and misery that our enemies would bring upon us . i do with much joy receive your resolutions , and count it a speciall mercy of god , that makes his people sensible of their dangers , and willing to hazard their lives for him , and do judge it the most hopefull means of concluding these unhappy distractions of the kingdom . therefore i desire you to assure your selves of all assistance from me that the army can afford , and my earnest desire is to helpe you in it . and i desire such may appear in this cause , as have most interest in it ; such of whose constancy and courage wee may be assured , men of religious lives and affections fittest to bear arms for truth of religion , men of estates to defend those estates that the enemy seeks to devour : the employment is not too mean for the best men , and then we shall hope for successe when such put their hands to the work ; for assure your selves , the loosnesse and inconstancy of the souldiers , amongst others is one cause of the continuance of the warre . i desire you to provide your selves as well as you can with arms and necessaries , and to bring six weeks pay in your purses , considering that the march is long , and but a moneth of that may be spent in service ; when that time is expired , we hope you may returne home with peace ; if we shall entreat your further helpe , we shall provide for you as well as god will enable us . chuse commanders your selves , colonells and captains , when we shall heare their names we shall send them commissions , and when you shall come near us , we shall send some able and experienc't commanders from our army to assist you . doubt not of your country in your absence , we shall take a course for the securing and quieting of the malignants ; your safety is in being in arms , it will be your happinesse to fight with your enemies at distance , and so keep them from spoyling that as yet peaceable and flourishing county . if god stirre the hearts of people to appeare generally , and to prosper our endeavours , wee hope the successe will be happy and comfortable . stoken church , 9. june , 1643. your assured friend , essex . die lunae , 12. junii , 1643. whereas it hath pleased almighty god , to send a visitation of sicknes amongst the souldiers in the armie raised for the king and parliament , wherby the lord generall hath bin enforced to send backe many of thosefick souldiers , to be billited in some remote houses and towns , some myles distant from london , untill it shall please god to restore them health & ability to return again to his army ; wch souldiers by reason of this their sicknes must needs be in great want of many things necessary for them in such cases , although there hath been what could be conveniently spared sent them by the parliament ; it is therfore ordered by the commons assembled in parliament , that there shal be a collection made ( on thursday next , being the day appointed for publick thanksgiving ) in all the parish churches in and about the city of london , contained in the weekly bills of mortality , for and towards reliefe of the said distressed sicke souldiers , by the churchwardens and other officers of the said parishes , and the monies by them so collected , to be paid unto wil : greenhill , john pocock , john randall , and rich : hutchinson , citizens of london , or any two of them , at tallow-chandlers hal neer dowgate in london ; on saturday next to be distributed for the reliefe of the said sick souldiers , in such manner as the committee appointed bythe house of commons for maymed souldiers shall appoint ; and it is likewise hereby ordered , that all ministers of the said severall parishes , shall earnestly perswade the people to contribute to this so pious and honorable a work ; it being for those that have and will be ready again ( when god shall enable them ) to hazard their lives for the defence of all our lives , liberties , and religion . hen. elsynge , cler. parl. d. com. 13. june , 1643. it is this day ordered , that the major of boston mr edward tilson , arthur empson , thomas welby , mr ellis , mr tooley , mr. green , & mr. coney be assistants to this committee for the town of boston & parts adjacent in the county of lincoln , to do & execute all the instructions mentioned in the ordinance of both houses of parliament made this fifth day of iune 1643. for the speedy raising of forces for the towne of newcastl● , and regulating the trade of coal there . and it is further ordered , that mr. edward tilson shall be treasurer for the monys contributed & raised in the sayd towne & county , and is to keepe books of accompts of all mones received by vertue of the sayd ordinance ; and is to receive such allowance for charges as by this committee shall be held reasonable & fit . and all moneys by him the said treasurer received , he is from time to time to give an accompt chereof to this committee , ane pay the same as shal be directed by this committee , to such others as in the said ordinance is mentioned . edward gilbert clerke to this committee . 13. iune 1643. at the committee of the house of commons and city of london , for reducing newcastle , and the parts adjacent . it is this day ordered ; that the lord major of london be desired to cause the ordinance of both houses of parliament for regulating the coale trade at newcastle to be published by evry minister in every parish churh in london and the suburbs thereof , upon thursday next ; and the committees in every vvard are appointed forthwith to take subscriptions , and collect the money according to the sayd ordinance . edward gilbert clerk to this committee . fjnjs . a letter from the earl of essex to his highnesse prince rupert concerning the putting to death of souldiers come out of ireland taken prisoners : with his highnesse answer thereunto. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a38657 of text r27352 in the english short title catalog (wing e3319). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 13 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 7 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a38657 wing e3319 estc r27352 09818654 ocm 09818654 44174 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a38657) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 44174) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1356:26) a letter from the earl of essex to his highnesse prince rupert concerning the putting to death of souldiers come out of ireland taken prisoners : with his highnesse answer thereunto. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. rupert, prince, count palatine, 1619-1682. 10 p. printed by robert barker and john bill, bristoll [avon] : 1645. reproduction of original in the cambridge university library. eng rupert, -prince, count palatine, 1619-1682. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. ireland -history -1625-1649. a38657 r27352 (wing e3319). civilwar no a letter from the earl of essex to his highnesse prince rupert concerning the putting to death of souldiers come out of ireland taken prison essex, robert devereux, earl of 1645 2276 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 b the rate of 4 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the b category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-10 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2004-11 john latta sampled and proofread 2004-11 john latta text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-01 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter from the earl of essex to his highnesse prince rupert , concerning the putting to death of souldiers come out of ireland taken prisoners . with his highnesse answer thereunto . bristoll , printed by robert barker , and john bill , printers to the kings most excellent majesty : mdc.xlv . a letter from the earl of essex , to his highnesse prince rupert . sir , the two houses of parliament have received information , that because the committee at shrewsbury caused thirteen irish rebels taken in hostility against the parliament to suffer death , according to an ordinance of parliament herewith sent ; therefore by your expresse commands thirteen english protestants , who had quarter given them by your officers that took them prisoners , were notwithstanding murthered upon coole blood ; and that you have resolved to proceed in the same manner for the future ; a relation and resolution so strange , that the truth thereof might justly be suspected , were it not certified by letters from that committee of the 24. of march last , to the speaker of the house of commons , and by a letter of the 23. of march sent to the same committee by your direction , and subscribed by one ralph goodwin your secretary ( as i am informed ) which doth own and avow the fact . and therefore the two houses of parliament being deeply affected with such cruell massacres committed upon their protestant bretheren , whose lives they value as their own , have commanded me to acquaint your highnesse , that it is evident by undoubted proof , that the rebels of ireland ( what ever they pretended to some on this side the sea ) did really intend by that odious rebellion , to wrest that kingdom , for ever , from the crown of england , to the utter deshereson of the king , and his posterity , and to extirpate the english nation , and protestant religion . and for that purpose have sollicited , by their agents , the bringing over of powerfull aids from forraign parts , to assist them in this their intended conquest ; and have set up the spanish colours publiquely , both at wexford and galloway ; have caused their captains , officers , and others , to make oath before their titular clergy , that they shall not suffer any english , or protestant to live in that kingdom , that they prosecuted this horrid designe by murthering , hanging , drowning , burning alive , and sterving , within few moneths in one province , one hundred fifty four thousand of harmlesse brittish protestants , men , women , and children , without distinction of age , or sex , without any provocation given , but living securely by them , in a full and setled peace . that the king first by proclamation attested by his own royall signiture and privie signet , hath proclaimed them traytors , and rebels ; and since that time , both king and parliament , by four severall acts of parliament , have declared and stiled them in the same manner . and further , his majesty , by act of parliament , hath consented , that all pardons granted to them , or any of them before attainder , shall be void . now that such bloody barbarous miscreants , so odious both to god and men , so obnoxious to law and justice ( even by the judgement of both sides ) coming out of ireland ( where they neither did give nor receive quarter ) to burn and lay waste this kingdom , as they have done that , should after all this be admitted to receive quarter here , and consequently be made equall in exchange with the english nation , and protestants : the lords and commons of the parliament of england , cannot with religion , honour , or justice , in any sort consent unto it : and have commanded me to let your highnesse , and all other commanders on that side know , that if hereafter , upon executing the irish rebels , in pursuance of that just ordinance , any unjust pretext shall be made , to murther , in coole blood , any officer , souldier , or seaman in the service of the parliament , that the two houses have resolved , and do hereby declare , that for every officer , souldier , or seaman so causelesly massacred , they shall , and must ( though with deep sorrow and reluctancy ) cause so many of the prisoners remaining in their power to be put to death in the same manner . and therefore do earnestly desire your highnesse , and all other your inferiour commanders , to forbear by such prodigious cruelty , to embase the value of the english nation , which they are confident will be recented with indignation , even by those english protestants , who are for the present deceived into arms against the protestant religion , and the parliament of england : to whom they shall be ready to allow quarter , and equall exchange as before , and for whom they daily pray , that almighty god would open their eyes , and reduce them into the right way . sir , this being all i have in command , i take my leave , and remain your humble servant essex . westminster the 4. of aprill 1645. die jovis 24. octob. 1644. the lords and commons assembled in the parliament of england , do declare , that no quarter shall be given hereafter , to any irish-man , nor to any papists whatsoever born in ireland , which shall be taken in hostility against the parliament , either upon the sea , or within this kingdom , or dominion of wales ; and therefore do order and ordain , that the lord generall , lord admirall , and all other officers and commanders , both by sea and land , shall except all irish-men , and all papists born in ireland out of all capitulations , agreements , and compositions hereafter to be made with the enemy : and shall upon the taking of every such irish-man , or papist born in ireland , as aforesaid , forthwith put every such person to death . and 't is further ordered and ordained , that the lord generall , lord admirall , and the committees of the severall counties do give speedy notice hereof to all subordinate officers and commanders by sea , and land respectively , who are hereby required to use their utmost care and circumspection , that this ordinance be duly executed . and lastly , the lords and commons do declare , that every officer and commander by sea or land that shall be remisse , or negligent in observing the tenor of this ordinance , shall be reputed a favourer of that bloody rebellion of ireland , and shall be lyable to such condigne punishment , as the justice of both houses of parliament shall inflict upon him . jo. browne cler. parliam . his highnesse prince rupert's answer to the aforesaid letter . my lord , i received your lordships letter of the 4. of this moneth on the 11. and cannot but wonder , that it should seem strange to the two houses , that i should cause those prisoners which were taken in arms against his majesty to be used in the same manner , and by the same measure , as his majesties good subjects taken prisoners in the act of their duty , are used by those that take them . those souldiers of mine , which were barbarously murthered , in cold blood , after quarter given to them , at shrewsbury , were those who during the time they were in ireland served his majesty stoutly , constantly , and faithfully against the rebels of that kingdom , and after the cessation there , were by his majesties command transported to serve him in this , where they honestly performed the duty of souldiers ; and therefore i were unworthy of the command i hold under his majesty if upon so high a provocation , and so unheard of an act of injustice , as the putting those poor honest men to death , i had not let the authours of that massacre know , that their own men must pay the price of such acts of inhumanity , and be used as they use their brethren : and therefore i caused the like number ( to whom quarter was no otherwise given then to the former ) to be put to death in the same manner as had been done at shrewsbury . how the rebellion in ireland began , and with what circumstances of blood and cruelty it hath been carryed on , ( the odiousnesse whereof , and of all other rebellions is apparent , and all good men must abhorre ) is not applicable to this argument ; ( i wish the temper of this kingdom had been , or yet were such as might be applyed to the composure of that ) your lordship hath in that army many souldiers , who served his majesty in that kingdom of ireland , yet to those souldiers when taken prisoners , quarter is given , and observed on this side , the like must be expected from you ; and if it should be otherwise , and that quarter should be denyed to all those who have been proclaimed traytors and rebels , or who by act of parliament are such , this war will be much more mercilesse and bloody then it hath been , or then any good man , or true englishman can desire to see it : i am sure such rigour shall be prevented by all the interest and power i have . neither can that threat and menace in your lordships letter , of the resolution to use such prisoners as shall be taken of his majesties army for the future , make any other impression in me , then of grief and sadnesse of heart to see such injustice and inhumanity , a proceeding contrary to the laws of nature and nations , contrary to the rules and customs of warre in any part of the christian world , so deliberately and solemnly resolved , declared , and published . if there should be an ordinanc● made that there should be no quarter given to any souldiers under my command , and an expectation that those under yours should receive quarter , would your lordship expect that i submit to such an ordinance , this is the case . i have taken prisoners of those who have taken arms against his majesty of all nations , english , scotch , irish , french , dutch , walloons , of all religions & oppinions that are avowed by christians , and have always allowed them quarter , and equall exchange , ( how unequall soever the quarrell & contention is , & what judgement soever the law hath determined upon such persons ) and shall do so still , hoping that almighty god will open the eyes of those who have been strangely deceived into arms against , and to the scandall and destruction of the protestant religion , ( in which all men know i have bin born , & for which they have reason enough to believe i will dye ) and the parliament of england , assembled by his majesties command , and of which his majesty is the head , and will recover and reduce those , who out of ambition or malice have made those paths , in which the other have trod , to their piety towards their maker , and their allegiance towards their soveraign : but if the contrary course shall be held , and any prisoners under my command shall be taken , executed , and murthered in cold blood , under what senselesse and unjust pretence soever , for every officer and souldier so causelesly and barbarously murthered , i will cause so many of the prisoners remaining in my power to be put to death in the same manner , and i doubt not but the blood of those miserable men , who shall so suffer by my order , as well as of those who shall be butcher'd by that ordinance your lordship mentions , shall be required at their hands , who by their cruell examples impose a necessity upon other men to observe the rules they lay down . and i cannot but expresse a great sense to your lordship , that since his majesties gracious offers and importunity for peace will not be hearkned unto , by these prodigious resolutions expressed in your lordships letter , the warre is like to be so managed , that the english nation is in danger of destroying one another , or ( which is a kind of extirpation ) of degenerating into such an animosity and cruelty , that all eliments of charity , compassion , and brotherly affection shall be extinguished . i hope they whose opinions and resolutions your lordship hath imparted to me , will take these animadversions into serious consideration from my lord your humble servant rupert . finis . the copy of a letter sent from his excellencie robert, earle of essex, to mr. pym, a member of the house of commons also a order for the printing of edw. nicholas his letter, his majesties secretary, to sir will. boswell his majesties resident with the states of the united provinces ... together with the true relation of the passages at sherbourn-hill, which have relation to the aforesaid letters. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a38653 of text r36199 in the english short title catalog (wing e3311). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a38653) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 104170) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1592:2) the copy of a letter sent from his excellencie robert, earle of essex, to mr. pym, a member of the house of commons also a order for the printing of edw. nicholas his letter, his majesties secretary, to sir will. boswell his majesties resident with the states of the united provinces ... together with the true relation of the passages at sherbourn-hill, which have relation to the aforesaid letters. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. nicholas, edward, sir, 1593-1669. [2], 5 p. printed by l.n. for e. husbands and j. franck and are to be sold at their shops, london : 1642. "ordered by the commons that this be forthwith printed and published. h. elsynge, cler. parl. d. com." imperfect: print show-through with loss of print. reproduction of original in the british library. eng boswell, william, -sir, d. 1649. pym, john, 1584-1643. great britain -history -charles i, 1625-1649. a38653 r36199 (wing e3311). civilwar no the copy of a letter sent from his excellencie, robert, earle of essex: to mr. pym, a member of the house of commons. also a order for the p essex, robert devereux, earl of 1642 2048 6 0 0 0 0 0 29 c the rate of 29 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-11 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2005-01 judith siefring sampled and proofread 2005-01 judith siefring text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the copy of a letter sent from his excellencie , robert earle of essex : to mr. pym , a member of the house of commons . also an order for the printing of sr edw. nicholas his letter , his majesties secretary , to sir will . boswell his majesties resident with the states of the united provinces , whereby the notorious falsities of that letter may appeare to the world , and how as well forraigne states as the good people of this kingdome are misled and abused by the false informations of the wicked and malignant counsellours that are about his majestie . read the marginall notes . together with the true relation of the passages at sherbourn-hill , which have relation to the aforesaid letters . ordered by the commons , that this be forthwith printed and published . h. elsynge , cler. parl. d. com. london , printed by l. n. for e. husbands and j. franck and are to be sold at their shops in the middle-temple , and next door to the kings-head in fleet-street . 1642. a copy of a letter sent from his excellencie robert earle of essex , to mr. pym , a member of the house of commons . mr. pym , you will finde in master secretarie nicholas letters , what strange fictions they make concerning this army , ( it is true they did plunder those that were thought malignant or papists ) but since my comming downe , i heard not the least complaint that way , i have beene in many armies ; but never saw any quieter , or freer of disorder . all that i know one souldier ( a great many being about him ) , called to me as i was at sir philip stapletons window in the market place , and told me he had not his 5. ● . i presently called him up , called for a serjeant , he presently fell upon his knees and asked pardon ; at one of the ports a company being at the guard that wanted a captain , demanded of me his leivetenant might be captaine ▪ i presently commanded him to follow me , which he did , fell upon his knees and asked pardon . they have the articles read , the advocate saying at the end , god blesse the king and parliament ; they cryed god blesse the parliament : i never saw any drunk since my comming hither . and i am as confident as i can be of any worldly thing , if they be payed it will be ● brave army , i confesse there is a defect in some regiments of the foot officers ; the foot have a generall muster this day . r. essex . sir edw : nicholas his letter to sir william boswell . sir , i wrote to you on munday before our coming away frōnottingham , to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the eleventh currant , & to give you part of the newes we had then . on tuesday his majestie marched with his banner from nottingham , with five hundred horse and five regiments of foot ; and twelve peeces of artillery : the trained bands met him at about seven miles hence , five hundred whereof offered themselves to attend his majestie : and being received are billetted with the army , and the rest are disarmed . being arrived here his majestie understood the newes of a second blow given to the e●rle of bedford , by the lord a marquesse hertfords forces , whereof two hundred horses and three hundred dragoones , were sent in pursuit of him ; and about yevell met with about a like number . sir william balfoures son in a bravado rode out single from his troope , brandishing his sword , as if he would dare somebody to combate with him : whereof colonell lunsford giving notice to young stowell , telling him there was honour for him , he straight made up : balfoure discharged his pistols at some distance , but stowell reserved his till he might be surer of his marke : which he did so well , that he fired the others buffe at his brest ; and with a quicke blow with his sword , b made an end of the duell and his adversary , and so returned to his troope full of the honour he went for . in the encounter of the two horse-bodies ; the marquesse lost fifteene men , and the earle above an hundred , to whose assistance a body of two thousand foot appearing , the marquesse his forces retreated in very good order . sir iohn byron with as many schollers as could get horses , and armes hath left oxford by his majesties directions , and is marched to worcester , where he is to expect the kings orders . meane while the universitie is discharged , and each man hath provided for himselfe . his majestie removes hence to morrow to vxester , whither the artillery , and traine with eight hundred dragoones , and some foot advanced yesternight , and more of our horse and foot are following this day . whither we shall bend our course from thence , we shall know there , his majestie now giving out his gifts but overnight . i shall not now trouble you more , than that our army is in very good heart , and the earle of essex his men are very mutinous , saying still that they are all fellow traytors ; insomuch as he stirrs not with them out of northampton . i heare the parliament hath now lately received a ship or two laden with armes from holland , for which i am very sorry ; that so ill a cause should have any countenance , from so neere allyes . i am sorry now to heare that portsmouth is rendred . i am derby 15. septembris . 1642. sir , your affectionate friend and servant . edw : nicholas . a relation of the actions of the parliaments forces , under the command of the earle of bedford , generall of the horse , against those which came from sherbourn unto babel-hill , neer unto yerrell , upon wednesday the seventh of this instant sept. 1642. upon tuesday the sixt of september , the parliaments forces did rise from before sherbourn , and went that night unto yerrell , a towne being foure miles distant from sherbourn ; where we lay on wednesday to refresh our selves , upon which day it pleased god to give us a great taste of his goodnesse , to the great shame and losse of the enemie : about two of the clock in the afternoone there appeared a great body of their horse and foot upon a great hill within a little mile of the towne called babel-hill , and so was it truly to them a babel of confusion . upon which we presently put our selves in array as well as we could , to make good all the out-wayes , and guard the magazine , which to doe we found but very few men , and more pikemen than musquetiers , for the musquetiers found themselves to be most imployed upon all occasions , and therfore they principally shifted away , and we sent out to that side where the enemie appeared , three troops of horse , and some musquettiers , they standing still at the top of the hill , braving of us , and calling us rogues and round-heads , our men went up the hill to charge them , captaine aiscogh one way , captaine tomson another way a little after him , and captain balfour a third , and our musquetiers after as fast as we could ; aiscogh came up to them first , and charged one of the troops through and through , and charged the second , but then was glad to wheel about ; by that time tomson came in to him , and upon the sight of him all the enemies horse began to shog a little , and our two troops coming to charge , they turned and ran away , disbanded and routed , and ours followed upon the execution , and killed many of them , they think about eighteen or twenty , some very well habited , who seemed to be persons of qualitie , and their foot who had played upon our horse and foot comming up the hill , were left to our mercy , our foot and horse killing them , and they running away like dogs ▪ he that commanded them was one bamfield a serjeant major , who is taken prisoner , and with him about a score of his common souldiers , the rest that commanded the foot are beleeved to be slain ; amongst them one hussey a captain , for his commission was found in his pocket , himself clad in plush , balfours troop was forced to fetch a great compasse , for it is a very high hill , and ill way , who could not come in soon enough ; if the night had not come on and a very darke one , we had made a great execution amongst them , for their whole strength of horse was there , five or six troops and most of their foot , sir ralph hopton was there with his troop , captain digby , and sir francis hawley with theirs , and the lord paulet , sir iohn paulet , sir iohn stowell , sir thomas lunsford , colonell asburneham , sir iohn barteley , colonell lawdy , and lievtenant colonell lunsford were there : we do verily beleeve that some of them are come short of home , for they came in the night before the moone rose with lanthorns and candles , and fetcht away the bodies of them of qualitie , we onely found the next morning twenty or thirty of our men ; there were but five lost in all , and a very few , not above three hurt , all ( but one ) of the slain , are of captain aiscoghs troop , who hath shewed himself a very valiant yong man ; we desire to know what must be done with the prisoners , whom , till we receive order , we will take care shall be safely kept : thus it hath pleased the good god of heaven , who is the great god of battailes to blesse us , whose name we cannot sufficiently magnifie for his goodnesse to us , bringing on the enemy in their great jollity and strength , to be so shamefully defeated by an handfull of us , and those who were tired out with extraordinary sufferance of watching and cold ; blessed be his name for it . finis . this was extracted out of a letter sent to the parliament from dorchester , the tenth of september , signed by bedford , denzill hollis , iohn northcot , george chudley , walter earle , thomas wroth , alexander popham , charles essex , william strode , io. pine , cle. walker , hugh rogers , ro. hartin . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a38653e-240 a the falsitie of this relation is referred to bee discovered by the relation of the truth of that proceeding subscribed by the earle of bedford and other officers that were present at the action , where the shamefull defeat the marquesse of hartfords forces suffered by a very few of my lord of bedfords is truly declared . b when this narration was read concerning captaine balfour , the speaker informed that captaine balfour that morning was with him to signe a warrant for post-horses for him to ride towards sherbourn , and this relation is so far from truth that yong stowell ranne away ▪ and captain balfour returned after he had chased him victoriously . a copy of a letter from the earle of essex, by order of the pretended houses of parliament, to prince rupert with his highnesse answer thereunto. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a38652 of text r8995 in the english short title catalog (wing e3310). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 13 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a38652 wing e3310 estc r8995 13274503 ocm 13274503 98707 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a38652) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 98707) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 453:20) a copy of a letter from the earle of essex, by order of the pretended houses of parliament, to prince rupert with his highnesse answer thereunto. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. rupert, prince, count palatine, 1619-1682. [2], 6 p. printed by leonard lichfield ..., oxford : 1645. reproduction of original in huntington library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -sources. a38652 r8995 (wing e3310). civilwar no a copy of a letter from the earle of essex, by order of the pretended houses of parliament, to prince rupert: with his highnesse answer ther essex, robert devereux, earl of 1645 2293 6 0 0 0 0 0 26 c the rate of 26 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-10 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2004-11 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2004-11 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-01 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a copy of a letter from the earle of essex , by order of the pretended houses of parliament , to prince rupert : with his highnesse answer thereunto . oxford , printed by leonard lichfield , printer to the vniversity , 1645. for his highnesse prince rupert generall . sir , the two houses of parliament have received information , that , because the committee at shrewesbury caused thirteen irish rebels , taken in hostility against the parliament , to suffer death , according to an ordinance of parliament herewith sent , therefore by your expresse commands , thirteene english protestants who had quarter given them by your officers that took them prisoners , were notwithstanding murthered upon coole bloud , and that you have resolved to proceed in the same manner for the future . a relation and resolution so strange , that the truth thereof might justly be suspected , were it not verified by letters from that committe of the 24th of march last , to the speaker of the house of commons , and by a letter of the 23. of march , sent to the same committee by your direction , and subscribed by one ralph goodwin your secretary , ( as is informed ) which doth own & avow the fact . and therefore the two houses of parliament , being deeply affected with such cruell massacres committed upon their protestant brethren , whose lives they value as their owne , have commanded me to acquaint your highnesse , that it is evident by undoubted proofe , that the rebels of ireland ( what ever they pretended to some on this side the sea ) did really intend by that odious rebellion , to wrest that kingdom for ever , from the crowne of england , to the utter disherison of the king & his posterity ; and to extirpate the english nation and protestant religion , and for that purpose have sollicited by their agents , the bringing over of powerfull aydes from forraigne parts , to assist them in this their intended conquest ; and have set vp the spanish colours publiquely , both at wexford , and gallway ; have caused their captaines , officers and others , to make oath before their titular clergy , that they shall not suffer any english , or protestant , to live in that kingdom . that they prosecuted this horrid designe , by murthering , hanging , drowning , burning * alive , and starving within few months , in one province , one hundred fifty four thousand of harmles brittish protestants , men , women , and children , without distinction of age or sexe , without any provocation given , but living securely by them in a full and setled peace . that the king first by proclamation attested by his own royall signature , and privy seale , hath procl●●ed them traytors and rebels ; and since that time , both king and parliament , by foure severall acts of parliament , have declared and stiled them in the same manner ; and further his majesty by act of parliament , hath consented , that all pardons granted to them or any of them , before attaindor , shall be voyd . now that such bloody , barbanous miscreants , so odious both to god and men , so obnoxious to law and iustice , ( even by the judgment of both sides ) comming out of ireland , ( where they neither did give nor receive quarter ) to burne and lay wast this kingdom , as they have done that , should after all this , be admitted to receive quarter here ▪ and consequently be made equall in exchange with the english nation , and protestants ; the lords and commons of the parliament of england , cannot with religion , honour , or justice , in any sort consent unto it . and have commanded me to let your highnesse , and all other commanders on that side know , that if hereafter , upon executing the irish rebels , in pursuance of that just ordinance , any unjust pretext shall be made , to murther in coole blood any officer , souldier , or seaman , in the service of the parliament ; that the two houses have resolved , and do hereby declare , that for every officer , souldier , and seaman so causelesly massacred , they shall and must ( though with deep sorrow and reluctancy ) cause so many of the prisoners remaining in their power , to be put to death in the same manner . and therefore do earnestly desire your highnesse , and all other your inferiour commanders , to forbeare by such prodigious cruelty to embase the value of the english nation , which they are confident will be resented with indignation , even by those english protestants , who are for the present , deceived into armes against the protestant religion , and the parliament of england , to whom they shall be ready to allow quarter , and equall exchange as before , and for whom they daily pray , that almighty god would open their eyes , and reduce them into the right way . sir , this being all i have in command , i take my leave , and remaine your humble servant essex . westminster the 4th of april , 1645. the copy of the order mentioned in the foregoing letter . die iovis , 24. octob. 1644. the lords and commons assembled in the parliament of england , doe declare , that no quarter shall be given hereafter , to any irish-man , nor , to any papists what soever , borne in ireland , which shall be taken in hostility against the parliament , either upon the sea , or within this kingdom , or dominion of wales ; and therefore doe order and ordaine , that the lord generall , lord admirall , and all other officers and commanders , both by sea and land , shall except all irish-men and all papists borne in ireland , out of all capitulations agreements and compositions , hereafter to be made with the enemy ; and shall upon the taking of every such irish-man , or papist borne in ireland , as aforesaid , forthwith put every such person to death . and t is further ordered and ordayned , that the lord generall , lord admirall and the committees of the severall counties , doe give speedy notice hereof to all subordinate officers and commanders by sea and land respectively , who are hereby required to use their utmost care and circumspection , that this ordinance be duly executed . and lastly , the lords and commons doe declare , that every officer and commander by sea or land , that shall be remisse or negligent in observing the tenor of this ordinance , shall be reputed a favourer of that bloody rebellion of ireland , and shall be lyable to such condigne punishment , as the iustice of both houses of parliament shall inflict upon him . io. browne cleric . parliamentor . for the earle of essex generall . my lord , i received your lordships letter , of the fourth of this moneth , on the eleventh ; and cannot but wonder that it should seem strange to the two houses , that i should cause those prisoners , which were taken in armes against his majesty , to be used in the same manner , and by the same measure , as his majesties good subjects , taken prisoners in the act of their duty , are used by those that take them . those souldiers of mine that were barbarously murthered in cold bloud , after quarter given to them at shrewsbury , were those , who , during the time they were in ireland , served his majesty stoutly , constantly and faithfully against the rebels of that kingdome , and after the cessation , they were by his majesties command transported to serve him in this , where they honestly performed the duty of souldiers ; and therefore i were unworthy of the command i hold under his majesty , if upon so high a provocation , and so unheard of an act of injustice , as the putting those poore honest men to death , i had not let the authors of that massacre know , that their owne men must pay the price of such acts of inhumanity , and be used as they use their brethren : and therefore i caused the like number ( to whom quarter was no otherwise given , then to the former ) to be put to death in the same manner as had been done at shrewsbury . how the rebellion in ireland began , and with what circumstances of bloud and cruelty it hath been carryed on , ( the odiousnesse whereof , and of all other rebellions is apparent , and all good men must abhorre , ) is not applicable to this argument , ( i wish the temper of this kingdome had been , or yet were such as might be applyed to the composure of that ; ) your lordship hath in that army many souldiers , who served his majesty in that kingdome of ireland , yet to those souldiers when taken prisoners , quarter is given , and observed on this side , the like must be expected from you : and if it should be otherwise , and that quarter should be denyed to all those who have been proclaimed traytors and rebels , or who by act of parliament are such , this warre will be much more mercilesse and bloudy then it hath been , or then any good man , or true english-man can desire to see it ; i am sure such rigour shall be prevented by all the interest and power i have . neither can that threat & menace in your lordship's letter of the resolution to use such prisoners as shall be taken of his majesties army for the future , make any other impression in me , then of griefe and sadnesse of heart , to see so much injustice and inhumanity , a proceeding contrary to the lawes of nature and nations , contrary to the rules and customes of warre in any part of the christian world , so deliberately and solemnely resolved , declared , and published . if there should be an ordinance made , that there should be no quarter given to any souldiers under my command , and an expectation that those under yours should receive quarter , would your lordship expect i submit to such an ordinance ? this is the case . i have taken prisoners of those , who have taken armes against his majesty , of all nations , english , scotch , irish , french , dutch , walloones , of all religions and opinions that are avowed by christians , and have alwayes allowed them quarter , and equall exchange ( how unequall soever the quarrell and contention is , and what iudgement soever the law hath determined upon such persons ) and shall doe so still , hoping that almighty god will open the eyes of those who have been strangely deceived into armes against , and to the scandall and destruction of the protestant religion , ( in which all men know i have been borne , and for which they have reason enough to believe i will dye , ) and the parliament of england , assembled by his majesties command , and of which his majesty is the head , and will recover and reduce those , who out of ambition or malice have made those pathes , in which the other have trod to their piety towards their maker , and their allegiance towards their soveraigne : but if the contrary course shall be held , and any prisoners , under my command , shall be taken , executed , and murthered in cold bloud , under what senselesse and unjust pretence soever , for every officer and souldier so causelessely and barbarously murthered , i will cause so many of the prisoners remaining in my power , to be put to death in the same manner ; and i doubt not but the bloud of those miserable men , who shall so suffer by my order , as well as of those who shall be butcher'd by that ordinance your lordship mentions , shall be requi●ed at their hands , who by their cruell examples 〈…〉 upon other men to observe the rules they lay downe . and i cannot but expresse a great sense to your lordship , that since his majesties gracious offers and importunity for peace will not be hearkned unto , by these prodigious resolutions expressed in your lordships letter , the warre is like to be so managed , that the english nation is in danger of destroying one another ▪ or ( which i● a kind of extirpation ) of degenerating into such an animosity and cruelty , that all elements of charity , compassion , and brotherly affection , shall be extinguished . i hope they , whose opinions and vesolutions your lordship hath imparted to me , will take these animadversions into their serious consideration , from your lordship's servant rupert . april , the 15th , 1645. notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a38652e-110 * the letters from his maiesty, and from the officers of his majesties army, to the earle of essex at lestithen, inviting him to peace and his refusall thereof england and wales. sovereign (1625-1649 : charles i) this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a31965 of text r17824 in the english short title catalog (wing c2420). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 19 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 7 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a31965 wing c2420 estc r17824 11936259 ocm 11936259 51187 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a31965) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 51187) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 229:e8, no 26) the letters from his maiesty, and from the officers of his majesties army, to the earle of essex at lestithen, inviting him to peace and his refusall thereof england and wales. sovereign (1625-1649 : charles i) charles i, king of england, 1600-1649. essex, robert devereux, earl of, 1591-1646. [2], 10 p. printed by leonard lichfield ..., oxford : 1644. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. a31965 r17824 (wing c2420). civilwar no the letters from his maiesty, and from the officers of his majesties army, to the earle of essex at lestithen, inviting him to peace, and hi england and wales. sovereign 1644 3101 7 0 0 0 0 0 23 c the rate of 23 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2004-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-11 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2005-01 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2005-01 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the letters from his maiesty , and from the officers of his majesties army , to the earle of essex at lestithen , inviting him to peace , and his refusall thereof . oxford , printed by leonard lichfield , printer to the vniversity . 1644. there cannot be a better expedient for removing the calamities and miseries of this languishing kingdom , then cleerly and plainly to informe the world , and the consciences and understandings of all men , who they are that will not suffer the blessing of peace to returne to us . for however the inclinations of many are so seduced , and their understandings so corrupted , that they are not , or seem not , to be convinced of the horror and odiousnesse of this rebellion , yet none have owned so much blood-thirstinesse , so much folly & inhumanity , as to declare to the people , that peace is not good for them , ( though they have used all possible designes and engines of wit , malice , and perjury , to involve them in a desperate and eternall warre ) presuming that whatsoever absence there is of courage and conscience , of religion and loyalty , that they are yet too wise and decerning in their own interest , bare-faced to affect famine , ruine and desolation , and therefore in the middest of their blood and rapine , in the very act of invading and infesting the kingdom with forraigne forces , and basely betraying the wealth , blood , and honour of their country to strangers , they would faine be thought solicitous and importunate for peace . vpon this ground , and for this reason ( how perverse soever the hearts of many are to the cleerest evidence , and how insolently soever even this overture was entertained , and since scornfully commented on ) 't is necessary to publish to the world , the last attempt made by his majesty , to prevent the further effusion of christian english blood , with all the circumstances both of the sending and reception , that all men may see the difference between the spirit and temper of a just and gratious king , and of men whose pride and ambition have broken the bounds prescribed to them by law and religion ; and how hard it is for persons who have once assumed and usurped a power too great for them , to quit and depart from that power , though they see it inconsistent with the preservation of themselves and their country ; and that all men may confesse ( what iudgement soever it shall please god to lay upon this miserable kingdome ) that he , to whom he intrusted it , left no means unattempted , that either publique consultations , or private conjectures could think expedient to redeeme it from those iudgements ; and that himselfe descended ( notwithstanding the greatest discouragement and provocation that ever prince endured ) in his princely and fatherly care of his people , to all imaginable arts and offices , which might remove the present , or prevent the growing mischiefes . his majesty having alwaies principally chosen ( though he hath consented to , and embraced all councells and occasions that looked that way ) those seasons to desire and solicite for peace , in which he might be understood to have some advantages in warre , ( witnesse his messages and declarations after the battell at edge-hill , after his taking of bristoll , after the reliefe of newarke , ) no sooner freed himselfe from the attendance of sir william wallers army ( having routed a considerable part of it , taken tenne peece of cannon , and some principall officers prisoners ) and put himselfe into the head of an army much superior in common understanding to the force he was to contend with ; then he considered how to prevent that effusion of blood , which a battell would produce , and to procure such a peace , as seemed to be wished by those , with whom he was to fight , and was the same he had alwayes desired . it was too evident upon so many , and a very late refusall , that such an overture would meet with nothing but scorne and insolence at westminster , where without forme or liberty of debate , councells , and resolutions are imposed by the fury and violence of those , who are too much concerned in the guilt and benefit of the rebellion , to submit themselves to the old lawes and government . and many were of opinion that the earle of essex himselfe was so conscious of being made an instrument of so much misery and devastation to his country , so sensible of the condition of the nobility , gentry , and commons of england , of the religion , lawes , and liberties of the kingdome , by this invasion of the scots , that he would willingly embrace any opportunity to relieve and redeeme himselfe , and his fellow subjects from that thraldome , and captivity he could not but see designed for them , and to preserve the religion , lawes , and priviledges of parliament , which he was bound and trusted even by his commission of generall to defend , and which he saw without a speedy peace could not be preserved . hereupon his majesty having drawne his army to liskard within very few miles of the earles forces , on the sixth of august vouchsafed to send a letter , all written with his owne royall hand , to the earle of essex ( then at listithen ) in these words . essex , i have been very willing to believe , that when ever there should be such a conjuncture as to put it in your power to effect that happy settlement of this miserable kingdome , ( which all good men desire ) you would lay hold of it . that season is now before you , you have it at this time in your power to redeeme your country and the crowne , and to oblige your king in the highest degree , ( an action certainly of the greatest piety , prudence and honour ) such an opportunity as perhaps no subject before you hath ever had , or after you shall have . to which there is no more required , but that you joyne with mee heartily and really , in the setling of those things which we have both professed constantly to be our only aimes . let us doe this , and if any shall be so foolishly unnaturall as to oppose their kings , their countries , and their own good , we will make 'em happy ( by gods blessing ) even against their wills . the only impediment can be want of mutuall confidence , i promise it you on my part , as i have endeavour'd to prepare it on yours , by my letter to hertford from evesham . i hope this will perfect it , when ( as i here doe ) i shall have engag'd unto you the word of a king , that you joyning with me in that blessed worke , i shall give both to you and your army such eminent markes of my confidence and valour , as shall not leave a roome for the least distrust amongst you , either in relation to the publique , or to your selfe , unto whom i shall then be liskard aug. 6· your faithfull friend . jf you like of this , hearken to this bearer , whom j have fully instructed in particulars , but this will admit of no delay . this letter was delivered by the lord beauchamp ; the earle having read it , master richard ( who attended on the lord beauchamp ) told him , that he was to desire a safe passe for mr harding to come to him , who had authority from his majesty to make particular propositions in order to peace ; his answer was , he would not permit mr harding to come to him , neither would he have any treaty with the king ; whereupon mr richard replyed , that he was commanded from his majesty to let him know his very earnest desire of peace , to prevent that ruine and desolation which would inevitably ensue this unnaturall warre ; that the peace his majesty desired , should be established by the settlement of the true protestant religion , the lawes of the land , the liberties of the subject and the priviledges of parliament , and that the earle might be assured that this was his majesties reall intention , his majesty would give any security he could propose , as well by the trust , power , and confidence he would put in himselfe , as by any other the most solemne way of engagement that could be devised . the earle seeming not moved with what was said to him , was then desired to returne an answer to his majesties letter , he replyed he would make none , and so turned away . this strange neglect of his majesty and his message , produced no other effect with his majesty then an opinion , that there could be no reason , for a man to refuse all that he pretended to desire , but onely a doubt in the security of the promise , which no man could so well aske , as his majesty himselfe could offer , and therefore his majesty was pleased , that they by whose assistance he was principally to manage the warre , should be his security for a peace ; and so the next day after his majesty understood what reception his letter had , this other , under the hands of the chiefe officers of his army , was sent to the earle of essex , in these words . my lord , wee having obtained his majesties leave to send this to your lordship , shall not repeat the many gratious messages , endeavours and declarations which his majesty hath made , and have been so solemnly protested in the presence of god and men , that we wonder how the most scrupulous can make any doubt of the reall , and royall performance of them . but we must before this approaching occasion tell your lordship , that we bear armes for this end only , to defend his majesties knowne rights , the lawes of the kingdome , the liberty of the subject , the priviledge of the parliament , and the true protestant religion against popery and popish innovations ▪ and this being the professed cause of your lordships taking armes , we are confident , that concurring in the same opinions and pretences , we shall not by an unnaturall warre weaken the maine strength of this kingdome , and advance the designe of our common enemies , who long since have devoured vs in their hopes . my lord , the exigent of the time will not suffer vs to make any laboured declarations of our intentions , but onely this , that on the faith of subjects , the honour and reputation of gentlemen and souldiers , we will with our lives maintaine that which his majesty shall publiquely promise in order to a bloodlesse peace , nor shall it be in the power of any private person to divert this resolution of ours , and the same we expect from you ; and now we must take leave to protest , that if this our proffer be neglected , ( which we make neither in feare of your power , nor distrust of our owne , but onely touched with the approaching miseries of our nation ) that what calamities shall oppresse posterity , will lie heavy on the soules and consciences of those that shall decline this overture ; which we cannot hope so seasonably to make againe , if this conjuncture be let goe ; and therefore it is desired that your lordship , and six other persons may meet our generall to morrow ( at such an indifferent place as you shall think fit ) attended with as many ; or if you shall find that any way inconvenient , to come in person , that then your lordship will appoynt such or so many to meet with the like number from hence , that may consider of all means possible to reconcile these unhappy differences and misunderstandings that have so long afflicted the kingdome . and for the security of your lordship , and those that shall come with , and be employed by your lordship , we doe engage our faith and honour , and doe expect the same from your lordship , desiring withall your very speedy answer , which must be a guide to our proceedings . concluding , that if this shall be refused , we shall hold our selves justified before god and men , whatsoever shall be the successe , so we rest from the army the 8. of august . 1644. your lordships humble servants maurice . tho. wentworth . lindsey . lo. hopton , northampton . cleveland . tho. blagge . joseph bamfeild . anth. thelwell . joh. owen . tho. stradling . robert howard . john stocker . edw. porter . gil. armestrong . rich. nevell . tho. pigat . jo. browne . ad. scroope . amy pollard . ia. hamilton . rich. thornhill . io. topping . ja. dundasse . giles strangewayes . r. smith . iames cary . brainford . percey . jacob asteley . rich. cave . bar. stewart . barnard asteley . theo. gilby . will. leighton . will. murrey . tho. blackwell . tho. bellingham . richard page . bar. jenckes . hen. miller . rich. fielding . tho. weston . paul . smith . g. mouldsworth . phil. honywood . tho. culpeper . william leake . jo. luntler . io. monck . cha. fawlke . rich. samuell . arth. slingsby . geo. goring . joseph wagstaffe ▪ tho. basset . char. lloyd . geo. lisley . will. saint leger . hen. lunde●ford . barth. fell . hen. shelley . tho. paulet . thom. kyrton . anth. brochet . devery leigh . david ▪ stringer . ja. mowbray . cha. compton . ed. nott. alex. standish . io. ridech . io. steward . io. gambling . io. grienvile . arth. heningh●● . iames haswell . will. maxwell . this indeed procured an answer , ( which his majesties could not ) but such a one as would not suffer the bleeding wounds of this poore kingdome to be closed up : the earle hath onely power to kill , murder , and destroy : none to save , cherish , and protect , or to joyne with those that can . the answer was this . my lords , in the beginning of your letter you expresse by what authority you send it . i having no power from the parliament ( who have employed me ) to treat , cannot give way to it without breach of trust . my lords , i am ▪ lestithen , aug. 10. 1644. your humble servant , essex . for his highnesse prince maurice , and the earle of forth . let the world now judge , without looking back upon that blessed flourishing condition this kingdome enjoyed , before these men frighted our peace from us , at a time when we wanted nothing but gratitude to god and the king , to acknowledge the fullest measure of happinesse that ever nation was possessed of ; onely reviewing those very gratious messages and sollicitations on his majesties part for an accommodation from that at nottingham to this present ; i say , let the world iudge who they were that procured this warre , and who they are that will not suffer the warre to have an end ; who it is that endeavours and desires to preserve the true reformed protestant religion , and who to confound and destroy it with all licence , impiety , and prophanation ; who it is that would maintaine and defend the lawes of the land , by which the liberty and property of the subject is established , and who it is that cancells all those lawes , and subject's the freeborne subjects to the most unlimited , lawlesse , arbitrary power and servitude that ever christian state groaned under ; lastly who it is that labours to uphold and vindicate the priviledges of parliament , and who to dissolve and pull up parliaments by the rootes , by usurping an unnaturall power not belonging to houses of parliament , and confounding that power which in truth doth belong to them , with admission of forreigners and strangers , and abridging themselves of their owne rights , by which onely parliaments can consist . if there be courage and conscience enough to take these things to heart , and the preservation of these be indeed the end and resolution of all good men ( and without the preservation of them no happinesse is to be hoped for ) they will in a peremptory and constant love of peace joyne with those who endeavour peace , and not suffer men who grow fat ●nd rich with the blood and spoiles of their brethren , and whose greatnesse and authority cannot be preserved but by these distractions , to sacrifice their poor country to their owne pride , covetousnesse and ambition . however let the contrivers of this most unnaturall and unparalelld rebellion assure themselves , however god may permit them to be instruments of his vengeance upon this unhappy kingdome , that as he hath already shewed his iudgements in a very exemplary manner upon many of the principall of them , so he will not suffer one of them to live to receive the fruit and benefit of his prosperous wickednesse . finis . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a31965e-90 lord brook . sir iohn hotham . m. hambden . m. pym . m. fiennes . m. arthur goodwin . m. iohn hotham , &c. 