to the constables and overseers of [blank] by vertue of a warrant to me directed from the standing committee at chelmsford ... essex (england) this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a62716 of text r220683 in the english short title catalog (wing t1393b). 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 a62716 wing t1393b estc r220683 99832079 99832079 36548 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. a62716) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 36548) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2100:03) to the constables and overseers of [blank] by vertue of a warrant to me directed from the standing committee at chelmsford ... essex (england) 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [london? : 1642] title includes opening words of text. place and date of printing from wing. a directive required by the authority of parliament to prepare for local defence against a possible invasion from ireland. reproduction of the original in the harvard university library. eng england and wales. -parliament. -proceedings. 1642. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. ireland -history -rebellion of 1641 -early works to 1800. essex (england) -defenses -early works to 1800. a62716 r220683 (wing t1393b). civilwar no to the constables and overseers of [blank] by vertue of a warrant to me directed from the standing committee at chelmsford, ... essex 1642 385 1 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. 2008-01 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-02 elspeth healey sampled and proofread 2008-02 elspeth healey text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion to the constables and overseers of _____ by vertue of a warrant to me directed from the standing committee at chelmsford , intimating that the lords and commons assembled in parliament considering the oppressions and miseries that now doe threaten the utter ruine and desolation of this kingdome in generall , and of this , and the other associated counties in particular , ●…nd how necessary it is that all men well affected that have any compassion towards their afflicted countrey should now put themselves into a present posture of defence , by raising forces of horse and foot for the defence of the association from the invasion of irish rebels , popish and other ill affected persons , have for these and many other waighty reasons by an ordinance bearing date the fifth of july last , ordained and declared that this county among others shall be put forthwith into a posture of defence . these are therefore to require you by the authority aforesaid to returne the names , at the time and place hereafter appointed , of all persons vvithin your precincts vvho are vvorth one hundred pounds or more in lands or goods , or in lands and goods together ; to the end they may be charged severally vvith horse and armes , so as no person be charged vvith an harquibushire or light horse unlesse he hath an hundred pounds per annum in lands , or be vvorth one thousand two hundred pounds in goods and lands ; nor vvith a dragoone unlesse he be vvorth foure hundred pounds in goods , or forty pounds per annum in lands ; nor with a foot-armes , unlesse he be vvorth an hundred pounds in goods , or ten pounds per annum in lands . you are likevvise required to publish to all men , that this extraordinary charge and imposition of armes , according to the expresse words of the ordinance it selfe , shall continue no longer then during these times of imminent danger , and shall be no president for the future . and you are to make returne hereof unto the deputy-lieutenants at the signe of the _____ in _____ on _____ being the _____ day of next ensuing by nine of the clock in the morning . the case of richard hutchinson, esq; against sir eliab harvey, return'd to serve as burgess for malden, in the county of essex, in the place of sir thomas darcy, deceased. appointed to be heard on the 10th day of january. 1694 approx. 2 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b02602 wing c970 estc r222070 52211923 ocm 52211923 175492 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. b02602) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 175492) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2739:2) the case of richard hutchinson, esq; against sir eliab harvey, return'd to serve as burgess for malden, in the county of essex, in the place of sir thomas darcy, deceased. appointed to be heard on the 10th day of january. hutchinson, richard, esq. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [london : 1694] caption title. publication data suggested by wing. reproduction of the original in the lincoln's inn library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng hutchinson, richard, -esq. -trials, litigation, etc. harvey, eliab, -sir -trials, litigation, etc. england and wales. -parliament. -house of commons -contested elections -early works to 1800. elections -corrupt practices -england -essex (england) -early works to 1800. essex (england) -politics and government -17th century -early works to 1800. broadsides -england -17th century. 2008-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-04 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-05 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2008-05 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the case of richard hutchinson , esq against sir eliab harvey , return'd to serve as burgess for malden , in the county of essex , in the place of sir thomas darcy , deceased . appointed to be heard on the 10th day of january . sir eliab , according to the poll declared by the bayliffs of the town , had voices 159 richard hutchinson , esq 127 of these , sir eliab had free-men made contrary to a known , unrepealed by-law 73 the aforesaid richard hutchinson esq of such men , only 2 so that sir eliab had , legal voices , but 86 and the said richard hutchinson , esq 125 according to which , the abovesaid richard hutchinson esq had a true majority of 39 besides , sir eliab had minors 3 the said richard hutchinson esq had also a greater majority than as aforesaid , if the 16 clergy-men who voted for sir eliab , and the other free-men made on purpose to vote for him , since the death of sir thomas darcy , ( some of which were made since the delivery of the precepts ) were set aside . however , the foul and partial practices of the bayliffs , in giving honorary freedoms to them that would promise to vote for sir eliab , and denying freedoms to them who had right to be made free , unless they would make such promise ; and in delaying the election for near a month , at sir eliab's desire , in suffering him to appoint the hour of proceeding to a choice , and to govern the court at the poll , which was called over according to a list contrived to serve him , in over-ruling all just exceptions , and absolutely denying a scrutiny , though demanded , and insisted on : together with the bribery , menaces and force used on that side , it is conceiv'd , will be sufficient to make void sir eliab's election , if the aforesaid richard hutchinson , esq had not a true majority , as above . the humble petition and resolution of the county of essex (presented to the right honourable the lords and commons assembled in parliament, and read in both houses the 17 of this present june, 1642 : with the answer thereunto annexed, and commanded by the lords to be forthwith printed and published). this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a44993 of text r661 in the english short title catalog (wing h3445). 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 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a44993 wing h3445 estc r661 13065051 ocm 13065051 97053 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. a44993) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 97053) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 742:25) the humble petition and resolution of the county of essex (presented to the right honourable the lords and commons assembled in parliament, and read in both houses the 17 of this present june, 1642 : with the answer thereunto annexed, and commanded by the lords to be forthwith printed and published). england and wales. parliament. house of lords. england and wales. parliament. house of commons. 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 32 x 40 cm. printed june the 18 for joseph hunscott and john wright, london : 1642. broadside. caption title. reproduction of original in huntington library. eng england and wales. -parliament. essex (england) -history. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. broadsides -england -london -17th century a44993 r661 (wing h3445). civilwar no the humble petition and resolution of the county of essex. (presented to the right honourable the lords and commons assembled in parliament, [no entry] 1642 909 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. 2007-11 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-02 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-02 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the humble petition and resolution of the county of essex . ( presented to the right honourable the lords and commons assembled in parliament , and read in both houses the 17. of this present june , 1642. with the answer thereunto annexed , and commanded by the lords to be forthwith printed and published ) humbly sheweth ; that we having with joy and admiration , observed the wife and gracious passages and proceedings of this parliament : and the pious , tender , and affectionate care of your honours , for the preservation of the peace and honour of his most excellent majesty , and these three thrice hapily united kingdomes ; represented to the world in your severall ordinances , declarations , votes and remonstrances , sufficient to stop the mouth ( if it were possibly ) of envie and malignity it selfe , cannot but with griefe and indignation wonder to heare , that there should yet be found and that even about the regall throne , such unnaturall and evill affected spirits , and malignant counsellours , who , desirous to swimme to the haven of their ambitious hopes , in the blood of their dearest friends and countrymen , doe continually instill into his majesties royall breast , a sinister conceit , and mis-interpretaion of your most humble and loyall affections , and noble actions , and undertakings . wherefore we understanding ( not by mis-information of flying reports , but ) by the late votes and declarations of both your honourable houses , that his majestie seduccd by wicked councell , intends to make warre against the parliament : that so to do is a breach of the trust reposed in him by his people , contrary to his oath : and that whosoever shall serve , or assist him in such warres , are traytors by the fundamentall law●s of this kingdome . and withall perceiving your most christian & heroicall resolutions to persist in your honourable endeavours : for the publique safety , though you should ( which god avert ) perish in the worke , wee thought it our duties humbly to represent to your honours , the faithfull affections and invoyable resolutions of our soules to stand or fall , live or die , together with you : according to our protestation . thus with our hands upon our swords , wee stand ready at your command , to performe our vowes to god and oathes of fidelity of his majesty , in taking up arms against those false flatterers , and traytors : who abuse his royall favour , intending under the glorious title of his name and standard , to fight against the peace and honour of their soveraigne , against religion , and the lawes : and to make a prey and spoyle , of three flourishing kingdomes at once : and to spend our dearest blood in the defence of the lives , & liberties of our country men ; the lawes which are the life of our liberty , and peace ; religion more precious then both ; and the king and parliament : in whose libes lie bound up the life of all the rest . whosoever is otherwise affected , we hold him not worthy the name of a souldier but a proditor of his king and countrey to all posterity . lastly finding a multitude of well affected people , whose hearts are good to joyne with us , but want arms , we most humbly crave , that restitution may be made of those armes , which were taken out of their county , either out of the store lately arrived from hull , or otherwise as to your most excellent wisdome shall seeme best . the lords answer to the essex petition . my lords have taken your petition into consideration , and receiv much contentment in the good affections you have expressed , and doe give you hearty and extraordinary thanks , thus seasonably and necessarily for the good of the king and kingdome , and of their lordships encouragement in the performance of their duty ; and my lords doe assure you , that god willing , they resolve to insist in their former declared resolutions , for the upholding the true religion , the kings authority in the highest court , which by sundry late declarations and practices to abuse the people , they find so much vilified and invaded , the priviledges of parliament , free course of justice , the lawes and peace of this kingdom , notwitkstanding any dangers and hazards that for that cause can befall them . that for the manifestation of their good affections , and their lordships kind acceptations thereof , they have commanded your petition and the answer , to be forthwith printed and published . iohn browne , cleric . parliament . this resolution was presented to the trained bands , and companies of voluntieres , who appeared at dunmow : jun. 10. 1642. and was received with universall approbation by holding up of hands , throwing up of hatts , and acclamations : professing , that they held them unworthy to live , that should dislike it . and it was within three dayes after subscribed with ten thousand hands . london printed iune the 18 for joseph hunscott . and john vvright 1642 a speech spoken vnto his excellence the earle of warwicke by captaine farres in the behalfe of the whole county of essex ; with his excellence his gracious answer thereunto giving all his souldiers generall satisfaction not long before they marched forth from london towards branford ; as allso, a true relation of the last battail at branford the 12 of november, betwixt his maiestyes army and the parliaments forces ; and how the cavaleers swore god damme them the devill was in their powder. farres, captain. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a40963 of text r19072 in the english short title catalog (wing f523). 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 a40963 wing f523 estc r19072 12441833 ocm 12441833 62094 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. a40963) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 62094) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 248:e127, no 9) a speech spoken vnto his excellence the earle of warwicke by captaine farres in the behalfe of the whole county of essex ; with his excellence his gracious answer thereunto giving all his souldiers generall satisfaction not long before they marched forth from london towards branford ; as allso, a true relation of the last battail at branford the 12 of november, betwixt his maiestyes army and the parliaments forces ; and how the cavaleers swore god damme them the devill was in their powder. farres, captain. warwick, robert rich, earl of, 1587-1658. 7, [1] p. printed for tho. vvatson and iohn fares, london : 1642. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. essex (england) -history -sources. a40963 r19072 (wing f523). civilwar no a speech spoken vnto his excellence the earle of warwicke, by captaine farres, in the behalfe of the whole county of essex. with his excelle farres, captain 1642 1504 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. 2006-11 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-11 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-01 celeste ng sampled and proofread 2007-01 celeste ng text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a speech spoken vnto his excellence the earle of warwicke , by capiaine farres , in the behalfe of the whole county of essex . with his excellence his gracious answer thereunto giving all his souldiers generall satisfaction not long before they marched forth from london towards branford . as allso a true relation of the last battail at branford the 12. of november : betwixt his maiestyes army ond the parliaments forces , and how the cavaleers swore god damme them the devill was in their powder . london printed for tho. vvatson and iohn fares . 1642. captaine farres speech to the earle of vvarwick my lord , i must desire your pardon , if my words deliver too much truth , and thereby offend : you have withdrawne from you the hearts of the essex souldiers , who came with willing mindes to performe noble service ; but the change of their captaines hath also changed their affections ; neither will they be commanded by any other but those worthy gentlemen in whose wisedome , courage and fidelity they dare boldly confide . my lord , that action cannot thrive that is discouraged at the beginning ; and souldiers doe not ( like the moone ) decrease in honour , and afterward shine with full glory . honour is a tender thing , and once lost , is lost for ever , and not to bee restored . though i complaine unto your honour in the name of the rest of the captaines , i doe but undergoe the hazard to expresse their discontent , rob'd of that they held so deare , their places being the reward of their own merit , and sealed unto them by the constant love of the people . our essex souldiers , my lord , are all men of able estates , whose zealous affections to their king and countrey , hath thus led them forth , to give a cleare testimony of love and valour in their perfect service . vnkindnes doth wound desert deepest , and deserved honour is the reward of vertue , that doth create and confirme courage , and taken away , a souldier becomes a despised thing , consider therefore my lord , that a captaine so well beloved of the people , can suffer no iniury without mutinous repining , from whence doth spring the greatest danger of an army . i am engaged my lord , amongst the rest , and must speake the truth before i goe to defend it , drawne thereunto by my friends dishonour and my owne , being discarded from those places which the people in their good affection had designed us . lastly , my lord , if my speech seem to be of a course and rugged threed , an iniured souldier is farre from flattery , and i must tell you , we scorne that our hearts should give place to any captaines , in being right and true to our king and countrey , this honour wee cannot lose , living or dying : therefore think it a high indignity to resigne our captainships . the earle of vvarwicke his answer to captaine farres speech . captaine , your words are so farre from displeasing mee , that i love your free speech , it being comely in a souldier to deliver his thoughts without disguise of words , and to utter truth in a plaine and cleare manner . if your essex souldiers be offended at the election of other capta●nes , let them consider that the present occasion doth require men bred in warre , and experienced in those affaires ; neither can the other captaines grudge , that the common-wealth should receive benefit by their service , since if this warre may thrive in the prosecution thereof , it matters not who have beene principall actors therein . their love unto their countrey deserves highly to bee commended , and their cheerfull undertaking to assist this action , doth magnifie their brave resolutions . but give mee leave to say , that those other captaines nurst at the breast of warre , are growne exceeding quick-sighted in military discipline , and being long trained up in the schoole of warre , deserve to bee ranked in the chiefest file of honour . in holland they have hazzarded their lives , and spent some blood to gaine a perfect knowledge in all warlike discipline ; yet i preferre them not as men of greater ability , much lesse loyalty then the other captaines ; but antiquity of service ought to have some preheminence . you may informe the rest of the captaines , whose mindes you have delivered , that i beleeve them to bee men not inferior to those in courage , but as knowing , as full of heroick spirit , as the other captaines , and would doe as far in the defence of their countrey as the other ; yet since they and the other cannot serve both in the same places , let them thinke it no dishonour in point of warre , to suffer the common-wealth to bee served by others as well as themselves : their free intent is as acceptable as the deed . there hath been alwayes contentions about such matters , but without any disgrace : for i doe not accuse their sufficiencie , but thinke them as worthy in all degrees of valour , as the other which are elected . perswade therefore the souldiers to be well affected to those captaines : for you and all men ought to preferre the good of the common-wealth before private respect , or any particular places in the warre , since all our actions should move to one end , which is the defence of our king and our countrey . the souldiers welcome to london . welcome as day , when after a long night of fearfull tempest , land appeares in sight to the glad mariner , whose ship doth bring rich fraight to shore , & his own land to him . such is the joyfull passion , or more sweet , when kindred friends , and dearest lovers meet after great dangers past , with welcome breath , to tye loves knot , which the pale hand of death was thought to have unty'd ; and now , though late , welcome home souldiers that have scap'd warres fate . the aged persons now cast off all feare , and have more joy then their weake age can beare , stooping beneath it , while their sonnes doe tell of renton battell , and what there befell , while tides of passion in their besomes rise , of all that heare what they behold with eyes . great is warres horror , and the bare relation doth stirre the minde to wonder and compassion . friends now salute , as if they meant to dye within their armes , whose loving company they wanted long , despairing that they were living ; for love is full of carefull feare . frinds are so full of joy , that both while dayes and nights are spent in stories to the praise of our brave souddiers , that have done above the reach of fancy , and doe binde our love first to their merit , while for service they shall have a kingdomes thankes besides their pay . on saturday the 12 of november , prince robert using the advantage of the mist , which was that morni●g e●treamly thicke , brought up his forces to brainford , where 〈◊〉 was most valiantly opposed by my lord roberts regiment on the bridge , who beat them off , and with great resolution maintained the bridge till they had spent all their powder and 〈◊〉 , at which time it pleased god that colonel hampden and colonel hollis regiments came in , who very manfully set upon them , and slew many of them , with the losse of a very few on our side . on sunday the 13. of november no feat of warr was done , only there came up two small shipps to branford , who hearing the cavaliers were there , shot at them , who were answered againe by the cavaliers . this day also the ●●●ty sent 89. carts and vvagous laden with all mauner of provision , unto the army . there were taken prisoners also , two of his majesties guard , whereof one was shot in the legge . sir kenhelme digby was taken as a spy in viewing the workes at mile-end . the cavaliers in their fight on last saturday , were not afraid to sweare , god damne them , they beleeved the divell was in their powder , their bullets would not goe halfe way , finis . the declaration of sir thomas glenham, sir marmaduke langdale, and sir philip musgrave, in the north of england concerning the counties of essex and kent and their resolution and proceedings thereupon; as also touching the army. likewise a great fight at pontefract castle in yorkshire, betwixt the parliaments forces and the cavaliers, and the number that were slain and taken prisoners; as also, the taking of the said castle, with all the ordnance, armes, and ammunition. with a list of the chief commanders belonging to the parliaments forces. col. fairfax. col. roads. col. bethel. col. aldred. col. legere.. [sic] col. cholmley. col. lassels. col. wastell. glemham, thomas, sir, d. 1649. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a86030 of text r202294 in the english short title catalog (thomason e446_29). 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. 12 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 a86030 wing g849 thomason e446_29 estc r202294 99862634 99862634 161791 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. a86030) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 161791) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 70:e446[29]) the declaration of sir thomas glenham, sir marmaduke langdale, and sir philip musgrave, in the north of england concerning the counties of essex and kent and their resolution and proceedings thereupon; as also touching the army. likewise a great fight at pontefract castle in yorkshire, betwixt the parliaments forces and the cavaliers, and the number that were slain and taken prisoners; as also, the taking of the said castle, with all the ordnance, armes, and ammunition. with a list of the chief commanders belonging to the parliaments forces. col. fairfax. col. roads. col. bethel. col. aldred. col. legere.. [sic] col. cholmley. col. lassels. col. wastell. glemham, thomas, sir, d. 1649. langdale, marmaduke langdale, baron, 1598?-1661. musgrave, philip, sir, 1607-1678. 2, [6] p. printed for r.w., london : 1648. the words "col. fairfax. .. aldred." and "col. legere. .. wastell." are bracketed together on title page. annotation on thomason copy: "june 8th". reproduction of the original in the british library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -campaigns -early works to 1800. kent (england) -history -17th century -early works to 1800. essex (england) -history -17th century -early works to 1800. a86030 r202294 (thomason e446_29). civilwar no the declaration of sir thomas glenham, sir marmaduke langdale, and sir philip musgrave, in the north of england concerning the counties of e glemham, thomas, sir 1648 1928 18 0 0 0 0 0 93 d the rate of 93 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the d category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-08 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-08 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2009-01 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2009-01 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the declaration of sir thomas glenham , sir marmaduke langdale , and sir philip musgrave , in the north of england concerning the counties of essex and kent and their resolution and proceedings thereupon ; as also touching the army . likewise a great fight at pontefract castle in yorkshire , betwixt the parliaments forces and the cavaliers , and the number that were slain and taken prisoners ; as also , the taking of the said castle , with all the ordinance , armes , and ammunition . with a list of the chief commanders belonging to the parliaments forces . col. fairfax . col. roads . col. bethel . col. aldred . col. legere . col. cholmley . col. lassels . col. wastell . london : printed for r. w. 1648. the declaration and proclamation of colonell bonivent , and the rest of his majesties commanders in the north , wherein is declared , their resolution and protestation , concerning their present engagement for the king . honoured sir , divers great commanders ( in these parts ) begins to appear visible and active for the king , and have declared the grounds and reasons of their taking up armes in this second engagement , having taken an oath and protestation for the prosecuting of this their present design to the utmost , and to take all oportunities whatsoever for the promoting thereof : in pursuance whereof colonell bonivent ( formerly groom of the stable to sir marmaduke langdale ) with a party of officers and souldiers , to the number of one hundred , consulted together for the surprizall of pontefrast castle , and at the last resolved to put themselves into a disguised posture , and to act their design in the habit of country-men , which they did , and upon thursday last , being market day , they came from severall parts , and met at the lower town , and the plot being laid and the time and hour appoined , about 20 of them came up to the castle gate on horseback , with sackes under them , and their armes unseen , and discoursed with the centinels , and immediatly their confederates in the castle , and their associates at the lower town , made their appearance neer them , who upon a sudden cast down their sacks , and rushed in at the gates , major cotterell the governour receiving this allarm , with about 30. men charged them in the castle yard , but could not regain what was lost , the rest comming up so violently , insomuch that the enemy hath unhappily become masters of this impregnable castle , and hath taken about 60. prisoners , 3000. armes , 80. barrels of gunpowder , match and bullet proportionable , two culverins , one demic●lverin , one morterpiece , two cullers , 600. weight of cheese ; and great store of other victualling . but before they became sole masters thereof , they lost at the least 8 of their men , for major cotterel fought gallantly , beating them back as far as the outmost gate , but it was his hard chance there to receive a wound , which gave a great advantage to the enemy , and his body was there seized on , the rest of his men retreated to the queens tower , and ●eld the enemy in dispute for the space of one hour , killing some of them , but at the last were forced to yeeld upon quarter . from the north we heare ▪ that our forces are very success●full against the enemy , and that major carter hath possessed himself of bainy castle , upon which sir marmaduke langdale took an allarm , and is retreated towards carlisl● , westmerland being thereby freed of his forces . colonell harrisons regiment of foot , and colonel twisletons of horse , are to march towards bainy castle , and about ten dayes hence to ingage langdale , if possible . we are now somewhat quiet about helmsly , they are raising the trained bands in this county , and have nominated their offic●●s . viz. for the west riding , col. roads , and col. fairfax . in the east-riding , col bethel , col. aldred , and col. legere . in the north-riding , col. cholmley , col. lassels , and col. wastel , they have also chosen their other officers , which hath caused langdale , gle●ham , musgrave , and the rest , to declare , that if the essex and kentish men doe not prevaile against the army in the south , they cannot proceed on with their designs in the north , for if once the southern and northern army should joyn , they are not able to fight them in the field . they have further declared , that what they now act is by the authority and power of the prince of wales , but murmures very much against the scots , especially against duke hamiltons party , york 5. may , 1648. propositions from westmerland touchin the kings army in the north . sir , the enemies of god and this kingdoms peace are now in arms in our county of westmerland ; after their surprisall of carlisle they marched into us , and possessed themselves of appleby , the gentlemen of our country before their generall sir marmaduke lang●ale his advance , summoned in our county for , and after united wi●h them ; their strength at first despicable , is now increased . the foot generally arrayed and forced trained bands of westmerland and cumberland . their quarters are at kendale , kirkby , and the frontiers of lancashire : their carriage as well as design full of malignancy which sufficiently evidences the falslnesse of their special pretences ; they plunder divers persons ( of whom many of us are examples ) well affected to the parl. notorious malignant ministers formerly ejected do thrust us from our congregations , advance the book of common prayer , erect and use the condemned ceremonies sometimes in fashion of cringing , bowing , &c. resolve to cut off the parl ▪ and their adherents , if god prevent not , having our hopes very much inlightned by your advance , we are here humbly in reference to the premises to beseech , that as your own tendernesse of the kingdoms peace we are confident doth and will oblige you , you will vouchsafe to send your assistance in this distressed estate of the kingdome , the more speedily the enemy is discountenanced , the lesse danger being likely to fall upon us : the advance and engagement of that briggade of horse with you , as our onely hopes to see the honest party in the north relieved , and those publike enemies of god brought th punishment : what way to do this , wee dare not presume to advise , if your power may extend to command the foot of lancashire , we conceive it would be much for your advantage ; if not so , your conjunction with gen. lamberts horse may be a more facile and speedy way of deliverance , if it may be appoin●ed upon our borders , to this we have these encouragements , in respect of their small number of horse and forced foot : the resolution of many lancashire horse to joyne with you , if you can give them any order , the especiall confidence we have of god to acknowledge you in this undertaking , and our owne resolution to serve the parliament and you , in our utmost endeavours . for the right valiant colonel blackmore , governour of warrington . signed by divers of the gentry and inhabitants in the county of westemerland . postscript . by letters out of lancashire , it is certified , that sir marm. langdale is in westmerland , and hath with him there 16 troops of horse and 2000. foot , the report is , that he hath taken the magazine in that county , wherein was 4000. armes ▪ and great store of powder , many honest people are forced to fly hither out of that county ; yet are we no wayes discouraged , but are resolved to march towards langdale to prevent his comming further into these parts , and wee doubt not but by the 1. of june col. harrisons briggard of horse will in all consist of about 4000 horse and foot . the copy of a letter from the city of york . sir , i doubt not but a short time will produce fresh comforts , for the high sheriff of this county hath declared his great forwardnesse and resolution to raise forces for the opposing of all that shall obstruct the peace thereof , which hath frustrated the designs of many , but with some taken effect ; for col. bonivont , the la●e governour of sandall , hath most unhappily seized on the strong castle of pontefract , together with all the arms and ammunition , and taken divers prisoners ▪ and wounded the governour . it is a businesse of great concernment , and if not timely reduced , will much retard the work in hand ; but we heare , that maj. gen. lambert hath designed a considerable number of horse and foot for the blocking of them up , and hindering provisions from going into them . divers of the adverse party flockes thithar apace , and they entertain all that comes , having store of armes and provisions . tuesday . the ordinance for indempnity for the essex men in general , which are in arms , and shal upon publication thereof , lay down past yesterday , and this day was ordered to be published at chelmsford ▪ where the greatest part of the essex men do now recide , and there is some cause to believe that they will presently depart to their own homes , especially if that report be true that the l. goring is gone away from bow to unite himself with langdale , but of that i have not any certainty , for it was o●●erwise the last night . the l. gen. fairfax was this morning at rochester , and hath sent col . rich his reg. of horse , and some troops of dragoons towards canterbury and dove● , for that intelligence was brought , that some disturbances continued thereabouts . if the essex men lay not downe , and do not take the benefit of that ordinance , his excellency with the rest of his army is expected to cross the river into that county . there are divers ships designed to fetch in those five which are revolted ; they were sayling towards the isle of wight , and by a tempest ▪ are said to be carryed neer upon the coast of the irish seas , the men which are gone in them , are much divided amongst themselves , when any other ships appear , it is believed , that lendall the bostons mate which took on him as vice-admiral , will by the rest that are with him , be brought to answer for his great and dangerous presumption . imprimatur g. m. finis . essex's excellency, or, the gallantry of the freeholders of that country being a short account of the brave british behaviour of those worthy freeholders, in the choice of their knights to serve in the next parliament : together with the truly noble lord gray his speech at the close of their choice / published by an eye-witness of their most noble courage for the example of their neighbouring counties. eye-witness of their most noble courage for the example of their neighbouring counties. 1679 approx. 30 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a38666) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 96467) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 737:20) essex's excellency, or, the gallantry of the freeholders of that country being a short account of the brave british behaviour of those worthy freeholders, in the choice of their knights to serve in the next parliament : together with the truly noble lord gray his speech at the close of their choice / published by an eye-witness of their most noble courage for the example of their neighbouring counties. eye-witness of their most noble courage for the example of their neighbouring counties. 8 p. s.n., [london : 1679] caption title. reproduction of original in the university of illinois (urbana-champaign campus). library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng england and wales. -parliament -elections. elections -england -essex. essex (england) -politics and government. 2006-11 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-11 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-01 celeste ng sampled and proofread 2007-01 celeste ng text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion essex's excellency : or the gallantry of the freeholders of that county . being a short account of the brave british behaviour of those worthy freeholders , in the choice of their knights to serve in the next parliament . together with the truly noble lord gray his speech at the close of their choice . published by an eye-witness of their most noble courage for the example of their neighbouring counties . as long parliaments have been heretofore the great mischief & ruin of the free-born english man's liberty , which this nation in general began to he very sensible of , by the abundant evils that had like to have befallen the good people of england , even almost to the overthrow of all propriety and priviledges , as well as religion , which the all-wise god , out of pity to this nation , hath how at last put an end unto , by an unexpected hand of providence : so did there lately seem to threaten as great an evil by burdening the counties with the choice of too frequent parliaments ; and the cause of this fear did not arise in the hearts of wise men without some cause ; for drinking and revelling , being grown into both fashion and custom in many places of this kingdom , both burroughs and counties , as necessary qualifications to make a wise representative , gentlemen indeed , those that are really such in their sober deportment and carriage , began to grow weary ; though they could not but see , that nothing but utter destruction must at last most certainly swallow up both them and their posterity , in some short time , in case persons were chosen ; as only obtained their elections by drinking and feasting the country . for wise men well know that such excessive charges was so unreasonable a thing to be born by any honest person , that hath no other end than his countries good , that it could not but be imagined long since that those persons that got such their elections by those waies and means , had another end in it , and designed repayment again in a private and unjust way out of the peoples pockets , by selling their votes at a dear rate for the raising of money , and in other matters of great moment . nay , some persons , and not a few , to the eternal infamy of both them that paid , and them that received such wages of unrighteousness , were grown to that excess after they were sent up members to the late long parliament , that they received yearly more money for selling their country , than it cost them to be so elected ; so that at last to be once got a parliament man , was grown a sure way both of profit and honour , though purchased out of the poor peoples hearts blood ; for those men to have good places , or large pensions , would and did as easily part with their countries liberty , and the peoples freedom and right , as well as their money ; and , which may easily appear , if we consider their domineering over their equals , and despising law , and longing for seats in the late long parliament , to be continued to them and their heirs for ever . but not to trouble you further with their ill proceedings at this time , since we have yet room for hopes that we shall have once more an english parliament that will look into such miscarriages , and give a due reward to such offenders in the late long parliament , who either for places or pensions , sold their votes and their country at a cheaper rate than esau did his birth-right . but as to the gallantry and nobleness of divers of the gentry of essex , as well as the whole body of the freeholders , there take this short narrative ; the writ being directed for the choice of two knights for the shire , tuesday last , the 12th . of this inslant august was appointed the day , being the first county-court ; and whereas sir eliab harvey , and collonel mildmay were former members in the last good parliament . collonel mildmay did sometime before the day of election intimate to sir eliab harvey his intentions to stand to be one of the knights of the shire ; and that as they had been both chosen before , he believed the country would now do the like freely ; but though the collonels interest in the county was looked upon by all to be that which brought them both to be so easily elected before ; yet sir eliab ( as is believed ) trusting either to his own interest , or the interest of the duke of albemarle . and some other of the gentry . did absolutely refuse to joyn himself with collonel mildmay ; but on the contrary , was resolved to sland alone , that now his interest with the duke , and some of the gentry , and sir thomas middleton , was sufficient not only to be chosen knights of the shire himself ; but a●so wholly to lay aside and disappoint the collonel of his intentions ; and in effect under hand to oppose his election , which was thought to be more easily done , because the collonel , like the old english-man , was resolved not to be at any cost or charges in the obtaining his election , thinking , as indeed it is a burden sufficient to serve their country as their member , and not vainly to throw away his estate , as well as his labour to be their servant too ; for that his noble spirit well knew , that he that served his country faithfully , deserved the thanks of his country , without spending his estate to be chosen : but some were not idle all this time , since the dissolution of the last parliament , to reproach , vilifie and abuse that worthy person , collonel mildmay ; yet the summe of all their malice could reach no higher , after all , but to reproach him for a phanatick , a name too common in the mouths of our half protestants , and so little understood by them ; but too too grateful to the papists , by which they have most maliciously branded every sober person in england with that name ; nay , a man can hardly pass through the streets with sobriety in his face , but he is branded for a phanatick ; and by some that would make us believe they are protestants themselves ; but if phanatick does denote a mad man , as i have understood it alwaies did , till within the compass of twenty years last past , then i am sure it is as false an aspersion cast on that worthy person , as that was which was cast upon the apostles , that they were mad-men for preaching the resurrection from the dead , and judgment day to come ; but let such , whoever they are , know , it is a thousand times more honourable to be called by them phanaticks than good christians , a thing i fear they are very little acquainted with more than the name : but there we leave them where they most delight , and proceed to tell you , that some of the tribe of levi both before and at this election were very zealous , against this worrthy person coll. mildmay ; for one of them standing by a papist , that voted against the collonel , cryed , well done , he did not doubt but that they should agree well enough in the main , though not in all points . some sent their paper-pellet to all their neighbourhood , and especially to their own club of the long robe , and did incourage and threaten them upon their obedience to their diocessian , that they should not fail , but make all the interest possibly they could , that collonel mildmay might not be chosen , but all hands for sir thomas middleton , whom they knew would never fail their cause , nor their church , which was all those gallions cared for , no matter what became of their country ; it was the liberties and sauciness of the lay-men they hated ; and they must be brought into blind obedience to them , and pin their faith on their sleeves , or else all was undone , and the king and country lost ; this was their cry and exhortation ; and my lord duke supposing his interest in the country to be made greater by slanding up against collonel mildmay , with all his power and might , both in his person and friends , engages all against the collonel , and musters up all to come and give their vote for middleton against mildmay . but the day being come , the roads were every where filled round chelmsford with vast numbers of gentry and freeholders , the night before there not being room enough in that town for lodging , and in the morning by seven of the clock coll. mildmay came from his house to the place near the hop-ground , with about 1000 gentlemen and free-holders , where met him my lord shandish with about 1000 more , all on horse back , crying out ▪ a mildmay , a mildmay , with many vollies of acclamations ; presently after the ever noble and renowned lord gray met the collonel in a most sumptuous habit , with his led horses in rich trappings , and about 2000 horse attending him ; then the lord gray with the collonel began to march into the town , where they were met with near 2000 horse more , and so passing through the towm into the field in very good order , with their mouths loudly hollowing for a mildmay only , and crying out . god bless my lord gray , they there rested for about an hour , while they drew up in a posture to be viewed , and being then all got together , was not esteemed less than 6000 men . not long after came into the town sir thomas middleton , with about 150 or 200 horse-men , and my lord duke and sir eliab harvey with about 400 men more , accounting their servants and attendants ; and sir eliab came into the field near to coll. mildmay : but the collonels men being angry that sir eliab should espouse another interest , and not joyn with the collonel , resolved unanimously as one man , that they would only give one voyce for the collonel , and reserve the other for such a person as the collonel should please to nominate to them himself : which being resolved , the collonel with his company drew out of the field to the town-house , and riding several times about it , with an incredible shout for a mildmay , a mildmay , that scarce the like was ever seen at any election ; and the hour being come for the writ to be read , the collonel goes to the town-hall , and being told the high sheriff was ready , made a short speech to the people to this effect . gentlemen and friends , since i see you judge me worthy to serve you as a member in this next parliament , i promise you , according to the best of my understanding , faithfully to discharge that trust you so unanimously intend to repose in me ; and since you judge me a fit person , i hope you may give some credit to my recommendation of another person to joyn with me in that service , which i shall name with your leave , and if you approve of , and judge him worthy also , though he be not here , yet he may soon be sent for to come among you : to which all the people gave a great shout , and cryed , name him , name him ; which then the collonel did , and told them , john lomott honeywood , esq ; a person of a very good estate in this county , was in his judgment a very honest and worthy person , and one that he did verily believe would serve them faithfully : which the people liking , immediately with a great shout cried , send for him , a honeywood , and a mildmay , and none else ; and so the word being given out among the free-holders , and the collonel with them surrounding the market-places two or three times , that the people might be all informed of the second person , every man at last ( which was within the compass of half an hour ) cryed out as much a honeywood as a mildmay ; and mr. honeywood being come up to the company , he and the collonel , with sir eliab harvey , and sir thömas middleton went into court , where the sheriff was ready , and the noble lord gray did the collonel and mr. honeywood the honour to enter into the court with them , to see matters fairly carryed , which otherwise might not have been : the duke of albemarle on the other side , and some of the gentry were pleased to be in court also ; and the writ being read about ten of the clock at the high sheriffs command , who in all the occurrences of the whole action carryed himself like a worthy gentleman , and did endeavour as much as could be to prevent any disorders in the election : the writ being read , and demand being made who they would chuse for their knights of the shire , was immediately answered by the whole people with loud cryes . a mildmay , a mildmay , and no courtier nor pensioner ; and then silence being made again , and demanded who they would have for the other person , they did as unanimously cry out , a honeywood , a honeywood , a good protestant ; and it could hardly be perceived , that any there present of the electors were of an other mind , or took so much as notice of sir eliab harvey , or sir thomas middleton , ( except their servants , and those that came along with the duke , and his attendants ) but notwithstanding the great inequality both in the field and the place of elections , as it is before expressed , yet sir eliab harvey and sir thomas middleton demanded the poll ; and before the beginning of the poll. sir eliab harvey was pleased to tell the people , that coll. mildmay had broke his promise with him ; but in what , was not then understood , otherwise than it was suspected he meant , that coll. mildmay ought not to have joyned with any other person but him , but the collonel giving ear to what was said by him ▪ declared to the people , that he never was in the least guilty of leaving sir eliabs interest , or designing so to doe , or under any promise to joyn with him whatsoever ; for that it was so far from any such thing ▪ that he told him ; sir eliab , i wonder you should charge me thus , when you know the contrary ▪ that i did desire you to stand with me , and to joyn interests together , to save the countrey trouble and charges ; and you absolutely denyed it , and always returned me answer , you must not , nor would not joyn with any : which words of the collonel were attested in the court to be true , by a very worthy gentleman , that averred to his knowledge , the collonel had ●ought to sir eliab , and was absolutely denyed . these words passing ▪ the poll was begun , and each person that stood had his clark to take the poll , which began about eleven a clock that day , where was such excessive thronging of the free-holders , being eager to be polled ; that the court was fain to adjourn several times that day to ease themselves ; the tumult being great , and the countreymen fearing some trick might be put upon them , would not leave the place at no rate , crying out . it was a shame that any gentleman should offer to stand a poll at so vast a disproportion , since the whole countrey was for mildmay and honeywood , and wondred that sir eliab harvey , and sir thomas middleton , and the duke ▪ would oppose the countrey , who was all but as one man ; but sir eliab harvey in reply to coll. mildmay then told the people , that now he did declare he would joyn with sir tho. middleton ; but after a little space , when he was informed that coll. mildmay had never joyned with any man till he came to the place of election , and saw him joyn with sir thomas middleton , then sir eliab harvey very worthily told the people , he would not at all concern himself in joyning with any man whatsoever . and no sooner was the poll begun , but some persons that would be thought both to be gentlemen , and the wisest justices in the county , in opposition , and as it then should seem to warrant no other than to breed a disturbance , first on the bench gave coll. mildmay and his party very reviling language , as pitiful inconsiderable phanaticks , and the like , and such words as only befitted a railing person in his pulpit ▪ or a drunken god-damme , telling them they had none but a company of clowns , and that the collonel had never a gentleman among them , nor any person that was a gentleman would offer to set up such persons to be parliament-men , and the like : which proceedings did enrage the free-holders , and made them cry out , they were better men than themselves ; and all their abuses and tricks could not perswade nor affright them from standing up for their countreys good ; and then told them , none but papists and half-protestants would abuse such men . but those of sir thomas middleton's party , and such especially as polled for him , were not content with giving ill language of the basest sort , but upon the bench did all they could to make disturbances , by violences offered to the collonels person , one of them having the impudence ( who calls himself a knight ) to take him by the hair or the nose , to provoke the collonel to strike , that so there might be a quarrel , so as to make a disturbance and evacuate the election , or at least prolong the poll , which was aimed at on purpose to tire out the countrey-people , it being harvest-time , and also they hoping , that they bearing their own cost and charges , would send them home the sooner ; so that by delaying the poll , they might at last be in some equality with the collonel , and when the collonel well answered that person , and they saw that would not doe , and that the noble lord gray began now to be sensible of their abuses and designs , the next thing they undertook , was to quarrel with the lord gray himself ; but the person that did that being a peer , and the noble lord gray vindicating his honour with that peer , and giving him an answer suitable to a challenge said to be sent him . i shall not further repeat that matter : but when that would not do their work neither , then some of the justices of the peace ( as they pretended themselves ) for the promoting their cause , fell upon the clark that took the poll for coll. mildmay , and a wrathful fellow , to shew his kindness to his friend the duke , and the other persons that stood against the collonel , in his abundant wisdom , justice and manhood , assaulted the said clark , and struck him several times , upon pretence the clark did not doe his duty by standing bare to his worship , though then the court was shut , ( and the sheriff not there , which only made the court ) and committed the person into custody for calling the clergy-men priests ; although he could not but well know , it is a title they all own , and would fain be termed such ; and the clark must be carried to prison , and the books he had taken the poll in must by all means be taken from him , which was indeed thought to be the design of the quarrel , to get the books from him : then a worthy person which did only intimate his mislike of these things , by interposing himself , was abused . but these proceedings , though very prejudicial to the persons that bore them , yet were no advantage to their own party , for the worthy free-holders were the more incensed against them ; and if the wisdom of my lord gray , the sheriff and the collonel , had not been great , these proceedings might have caused great mischiefs ; but the countrey-men were so sensible of the brave courage and gallantry of my lord gray that no sooner was he , the collonel and mr. honeywood leaving the court to go to their lodgings at all times , but they all as one man , attended them with great shouts , crying , god bless my lord gray for standing for the countrey-men ; and then crying out , a mildmay , a honeywood : but when the other party went from the court , there was silence enough . thus the poll continued from tuesday about eleven a clock till about nine on the friday following : where in all that whole time the freeholders zeal was so great . that they never abated of their courage ▪ and like noble english men , worthy eternal honour , lay in town at their own cost and charges , and scorned to put their members to two pence charge ; but divers of them did help and assist one another , and with that willingness and chearfulness , that it is beyond expression , which other counties having so good an example , i hope will take pattern by , and scorn to be treated by the members they chuse , but will bear their own charges , and not discourage honest men , which would serve them , were it not for the excessive charges , as well as burden . these worthy freeholders would often say , that it was the high way to make men pensioners and knaves , to put them to charges to be chosen ; and so constant were these men in their resolutions of chusing those worthy gentlemen , that they would call out to the court oft times when they were so thronged , and almost stifled to death , that they would not be tired out notwithstanding the discouragements they met with sometimes from the court in preferring other persons that came in fresh to be polled before them . and they would often say , if we stay this month we will not be tired out , and other times cryed out most bitterly in the streets against the pensioners in the late long parliament , that had almost sold them for slaves : and at other times when they were told they would lose their corn on the ground if they stayed longer , they made this bold answer , that they would rather trust god with ●●eir corn , than trust the devil to chusetheir parliament-men . for that they did now clearly see that all was at stake , and that they had too long pinn'd their faith on other persons sleeves ; with a multitude of such other hearty expressions , too tedious here to be related . but on friday morning , about seven of the clock , no person almost appearing to poll against the collonel , and proclamation being made three times , that all persons should come in to poll , or else the poll would be shut up ; about eight of the clock all being polled that appeared , the poll was shut , and the court adjourned till one that day , till the books were cast up , which was done by that time , in presence of divers persons appointed by the sheriff to see the same fairly done ; but the duke , with sir thomas middleton , and sir eliab harvey withdrawing from the court after the poll was shut up , it was thought fit to send to them to be present at the casting up of the same ; but sir eliab harvey immediately left the town , and sir thomas middleton did not appear himself , but sent a person to inspect the poll ; but no sooner was the poll closed , but news was brought there were about 500 came to the town on purpose to be polled for collonel mildmay and honeywood , and many hundreds more that day came in for that purpose . it was given out over night that the poll would be continued several daies longer , and so divers persons went home and returned as occasion offered ; but the poll being call up , was found to be one thousand five hundred ninety two for coll mildmay , 1517 for mr honeywood , six hundred sixty nine , for sir eliab harvey , 754 for sir thomas middleton , among which were some persons that were convicted papists , and above 200 of the tribe of levi some of which , to the dishonour of their profession behaved themselves , to say no worse of them , not like sober men , there being so much good liquor in the town , and the generosity of those they took part with , being too much abused by them : but notwithstanding the two knights men ; were nobly kept and entertained , and no manner of entertainment given by the other side ; yet the difference was so great , and would have been as much more , had the poll continued longer ; but the poll continued for the two knights to the last man. but the sheriff returning to the court at the time according to custom , proclaimed collonel mildmay , and mr. honeywood duely elected , and then indentures were sealed in court ; after which the lord gray calling to the freeholders in a very handsom speech to this effect delivered himself . gentlemen , your zeal you have shown for your liberties ; and the countries good at this election , and your gallant carriage and behaviour , is never enough sufficiently to be commended ; and that which more highly commends you , besides the pains you have taken in attending the hardships that have been put on you , is that you have born your own charges of this election your selves , and have not been chargeable to the gentlemen you have chosen , but have wisely considered ; that such as make it a trade to bear the counties charge , and feast them to be chosen , do fetch the same out of the country mens pockets another way , which tends to the ruin of your estates and liberties : and i hope this good president will be imitated by our neighbouring counties ; therefore i shall say no more to you at this time , but wish you still to continue your zeal and courage for the maintaining your liberties , and the protestant religion . at which the freeholders gave a great shout , crying out , god bless your honour , and all good english-men that will stand up for the peoples liberties ; and then the knights in two chairs were carried round the town , and brought to their lodgings with an innumerable company of people shouting and crying . a mildmay and honeywood ; which being done , my lord gray and the sheriff dined at the collonel's chamber , with some other of his friends , and the people attended on horse-back to wait on my lord gray and the collonel , and mr. honeywood out of town , which was done about five of the clock , with near five hundred horse ; but i must not forget to relate one passage which was committed by a person that was against the collonel , and one that call'd himself a gentleman , ) that while my lord gray and the rest were at dinner , a little before they were taking horse to go out of town , a poor country-man going along the streets , by the door where the opposites lodged , and crying out , a mildmay and honeywood , he seeing the country-man's zeal , knock'd him down , and broke the country-man's legg , and afterwards fled to the inn for shelter ; but the country-man's friends acquainted the lord gray and the collonel with the action , they immediately ordered the person that did the fact to be seized , which was done , and he committed to goal , and ordered the poor man to be carefully lookt after ; which ill action ought not to be laid to the charge of any but malicious persons ; and indeed so much of malice did appear by the words and actions of those that polled against the collonel , that a sober man would blush to hear ; and among the rest was given out , that no gentleman , or like a gentleman , would appear on the collonel's side , which was so notoriously false , that by the very . book wherein their names were entered , can testifie there were as many gentlemen of estates , and men of quality appeared for the collonel , as they had , and rather more , except clergy , my lord howard , my lord gray , with sir eliab harvey himself , and divers other lords and gentlemen , making up the numbers of freeholders on the collonel's side . this being the true account , though not drest up in terms of art , or varnished with a florid stile , is hoped will be acceptable to those honest freeholders ; and when other countries shall see the brave courage and wisdom of this county of essex , in the choice of two such worthy men , in spight of all opposition , that they will imitate their pattern , and no more suffer themselves to be feasted , and drunk out of their reason , which is the reason that ill men are too often representatives in parliament , which never designed by their entertainments given to the county , but to be doubly and trebly reimburst out of their electors pockets , which way doth inevitably indanger the loss and liberty of the whole nation in general . and now good country-men , do but consider nothing can so soon enslave you and your posterity , as the choice of ill members in parliament ; for to have your throats cut in the face of law , is a thousand times worse than the the force of arms ; and assure your selves , they are worse than the papists , or at least no better , that would go about to perswade you to submit to any thing short of your just rights and liberties . finis . 