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<P>The COPIES Of the Kings Letter, and Generall Order for the &s;urrender of all his GARISONS: And &s;everall other Letters between Sir <HI>William Brereton,</HI> and Sir <HI>Thom. Tild&s;ley,</HI> about the overtures for the &s;urrender of LITCHFIELD to the <HI>PARLIAMENT.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The&s;e Papers being examined, are Printed and publi&s;hed according to Order.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>F. L. June</HI> 19. 1646.</P>
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<HEAD>Sir <HI>THOMAS TILDSLEYES</HI> and Colonell <HI>Baggots</HI> to Sir <HI>William Bre|reton,</HI> touching the Woemen that were &s;ent to their Husbands in the Clo&s;e.</HEAD>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_YOur la&s;t nights night worke which might well be a&s;hamed of the light is an act of &s;o much barbarity &s;o remote from Nature, Lawes, Chri&s;tianity, and &s;o dangerous to your Soules, that we cannot &s;uffer you to &s;leepe in it another, and pray you may not harden your hearts to Counterfeit it for our parts we are &s;ecure that neither the blood of tho&s;e Inno|cents if &s;hed can be &s;aid to&punc; our Charge nor dare we faile to let you under&s;tand to whom it mu&s;t be imputed.</P>
<P>You have turned out of their Habitations &s;undry poore Woemen and their Innocent Children whom you &s;hould have rather relieved) upon us that are now freed from all Obligati|ons to relieve the Harbourle&s;&s;e, or feed the Hungry, It is not un&s;u&s;pected al&s;o that Gods vi&s;iting hand is upon &s;ome of them, which if being true their hou&s;es are fitte&s;t for them as is by Law appointed and we have no better warrant to entertaine them then to be de&s;perate, and tempt God. Our Re&s;olution is neither to receive the&s;e nor any others, you are unchri&s;tianly re&s;olved to expo&s;e to death, we are all ab&s;olved from the dutie and the &s;inne that may grow by the neglect of it, and advi&s;e you to think upon it &s;eriou&s;ly with a beleif of a time when God will make Inqui&s;ition for blood. And &s;oe we recommend them to your reception or other di&s;po&s;all upon more Chri&s;tian thoughts. And we further wi&s;h you to take of the vice&s;&s;i|tude of &s;ubblnary affaires, and that your party may be capable for though we will not menace to be your imitators in &s;o bad
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an example, yet we will not for our better di&s;charge omit to te<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> you, that there has bin knowne many an Adombethed in the world, and the ju&s;t God hath his wonderfull ju&s;t retaliations&punc; And &s;oe having done our duty both to the mi&s;erable expo&s;ed and your Soules, we pray God to keepe you from &s;o mercile&s;&s;e unrea&s;onable and wilfull a wretchedne&s;&s;e as you are acting up|on tho&s;e innocent Woemen (who upon our engagments as we are Gentlemen and Souldiers) have not done any thing this &s;iedge prejuditiall to your Cau&s;e by intelligence, or other|wi&s;e that we know of. If this may not &s;atisfie you we &s;hall &s;end two or three Gentlemen to meet the like number of yours to di&s;cu&s;&s;e the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e by word of worth, lea&s;t this extreamity &s;hould be&punc; occa&s;ioned by &s;ome mi&s;take, in the meane time re|maining</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your &s;ervants.
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<ITEM>Tho. Tild&s;ley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Her. Baggot.</ITEM>
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<DATELINE><HI>Litchfield</HI> Clo&s;e <HI>May</HI> 28. 1646.</DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A Letter &s;hot by an Arrow out of the Clo&s;e into the Towne, written by Sir <HI>Tho. Tild&s;leys</HI> owne hand.</HEAD>
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<P>VVHereas for our con&s;tant per&s;i&s;tance in our loyallty in de|fending and maintaing his Maje&s;ties Garri&s;on of <HI>Litch.</HI> according to our duty, we have vi&s;ibly &s;een the ble&s;&s;ing of God in our protection again&s;t the fury of the enemy hitherto which hath &s;o farre enraged him that not being able in a manly way to pre|vaile again&s;t us, he hath betaken him&s;elfe to barbarous and in humane attempts, and &s;uch as have never yet bin practi&s;ed by Chri&s;tians bloods, the thru&s;ting poore innocent Woemen and Children (no way engaged with quarrel) upon the danger which they dare not looke upon them&s;elves, expo&s;ing them either to famine or their mercile&s;&s;e &s;word. We do hereby de&s;ire the Coun+try to take notice that the King is now in the head of a verie powerfull Army con&s;i&s;ting of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">0000, Men which by Gods a&s;&s;i|&s;tance may re-&s;ettle him and all his Royall Subjects in their Rights, and we doubt not but will &s;peedily relieve us. If there|fore the Country &s;hall &s;uffer the enemy to go on in their barba|rous way and bring any more Woemen for their Relation to us and a good Cau&s;e into this danger, or &s;uffer tho&s;e to continue in it whereby they may innocently peri&s;h as is threatned they mu&s;t expect we &s;hall be enforced to a cour&s;e contrary to our di&s;po&s;itions, and if God &s;hall enable us, we will endeavour to
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make all men and their Wives that con&s;ent to their proceed|ings, and indeavour not to hinder the &s;am<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ee<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e tho&s;e my&s;e|ries which are now unju&s;tly inflicted upon us and ours and this we de&s;ire all that have relation to this Gari&s;on to take notice of and publi&s;h.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Signed by the generall con&s;ent of the whole Gari&s;on, <DATE>27. of <HI>May</HI> 1646.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Another Letter to Sir <HI>William Brereton,</HI> from Sir <HI>Thomas Tild&s;ley</HI> and <HI>Bagot,</HI> touching the Women.</HEAD>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Gentleman of our party have met with yours out of hopes to have created a right understanding about the women forced by you wi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hin our &s;lighted works, but your Commi&s;&s;ioners preten|ding to have no in&s;tructions from you to agitate that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e made the Treaty &s;hort and fruitle&s;&s;e, Th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y &s;eem to make you a party in this uncivill act where we can hardly per&s;wade our &s;elves to fix it, un|le&s;&s;e you own it your &s;elfe: Wee beleive you to bee a man of &s;o much honour, that you will neither begin nor continue an example which would imply &s;o great a thir&s;t of bloud, and produce con&s;equences of greater inhumanitie then becomes them, though of different per|&s;wa&s;ions in &s;ome things yet linkt together in many common Obliga|tions, e&s;pecially that great one of Chri&s;tianitie, which makes pro|fe&s;sion of better things; We have tryed all other meanes, and they failing we make this la&s;t particular addre&s;&s;e to your &s;elfe as having the greatest command of your partie here, de&s;iring you to under|&s;tand we are re&s;olved to defend the place like men, and &s;hall be ready to encounter tho&s;e attempts that you &s;hall make upon us in a manlike way&punc; We cannot think our &s;elves bound either in honour con&s;cience or rea&s;on to pester our &s;elves with tho&s;e multitudes of women that you pre&s;&s;e upon us many of them having no relation at all to us, and few or none to this place of an engagement. Be&s;ides wee have no en|tertainment here but what is fit for Souldiers, and if we &s;hould re|ceive them to a dyet &s;o unnaturall, to there weake bodies wee &s;hould expo&s;e them to de&s;truction as unevitable as by famine, we are there|fore re&s;olved that we neither can nor will adant them least we &s;hold contract the guil<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> of their deaths upon our &s;elves and we thinke our &s;elves bound to prevent it in you, and if it be po&s;&s;ible all other the ill
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con&s;equences of it, by this timely prevention. We hope you will take it into a &s;ad and &s;erious con&s;ideration, and &s;ince you are re&s;olved to be our enemy to have &s;o much regard to your owne honour at lea&s;t as to &s;hew your &s;elfe a gallant one, and not to &s;taine your &s;elfe with the&s;e inhumanities which will render you accompt at the latter day, but will le&s;&s;en your e&s;teem in the reputation of the world e&s;|pecially to us who (what ever opinion we have of your Cau&s;e) will have a great one of you&punc; if you pro&s;ecute it nobly.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> Since Captain <HI>Stone</HI> has lo&s;t civility &s;o farre that he will not an&s;wer a letter to a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, wherein he wholly rely<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d upon his word yet we are confident you wil enforce the 3. En&s;ignes to perform their parralls which they cannot deny And if Captaine <HI>Heskith</HI> be e&s;ca|ped, propo&s;e &s;ome faire exchange for the pri&s;oners we relea&s;ed upon your word. <HI>Re&s;ting,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Servants,
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<ITEM>Heroy Bagot.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Sir William Breretons an&s;wer to divers former Leeters &s;ent out the Clo&s;e from Sir Tho. Tild&s;ley and Colo. Bagot.</HEAD>
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<P>GEntlemen, Yours of the 28. of this month I received, and two former &s;o full of impertinencies and in&s;ivilities that I intended not to ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e vouch&s;afed any an&s;wer, were it not &s;o that you might conclude I had nothing to reply in ju&s;tification and defence of that which you term barbarous and inhumane which may be mo&s;t ju&s;tly retorted upon your &s;elves for not admitting tho&s;e acco&s;&s;e to their husbands whom the Lawes of God and man have joyned together, &s;ome whereof were never cea&s;ing to Petition for admi&s;&s;ion to them; By all or mo&s;t whereof I con|ceive you might receive &s;uch abundant information of the con|dition of your affaires abroad as might bring you to a more right under&s;tanding thereof, and teach you not to di&s;per&s;e &s;uch &s;illy and &s;en&s;ele&s;&s;e untruths as were tho&s;e papers &s;hot into the Town are &s;aid to be &s;igned by the con&s;ent of the whole Gari&s;on, dated 27. and 28. of this in&s;tant <HI>May,</HI> a Copie whereof is inclo&s;ed.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t whereof that I ever &s;aw was written by Sir <HI>Thom, Tild&s;leys</HI> own hand but &s;igned by none, wherein there is nothing more true then that which is mo&s;t fal&s;e, That the King is in the head of an Army, con&s;i&s;ting of 30000, men, which you doubt not but will &s;peedily relieve you, and yet in the meane time you not onely refu&s;e to give entertainment to the Wives of tho&s;e
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with you (who&s;e affections to you and your cau&s;e &s;o farre prevai|led with them, as to for&s;ake their Lives, Families and e&s;tates) but you doe al&s;o detaine other mens Wives, de&s;ired from you by their Husbands) affirming your Gari&s;on to be &s;ufficiently able to entertaine whom you plea&s;e to admit.</P>
<P>You pretend this to be an unpara<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">leld and unpre&s;iden<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ed act of cruelty, wee can put you in mind of much more cruelty pra|cti&s;ed by your par<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y in <HI>Che&s;ter</HI> when the wives and children of tho&s;e husbands with us we<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e not onely &s;ent out before the Citie was be&s;ieged, but after the &s;uburbs were taken, divers per&s;ons &s;ent forth, and their hou&s;es and whole e&s;tates of great value<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> well before the &s;iege as after the taking the &s;uburbs &s;ei&s;ed upon, which we have not yet done to tho&s;e we have &s;ent into you for their Families remaine po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of their hou&s;es and e&s;tates, as when they left the &s;ame.</P>
<P>If there were any violence offered to any of tho&s;e wom<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n that were &s;ent (for children none were &s;ent but &s;uch as went on their own acord) we mu&s;t charg the &s;ame upon your &s;core who taking away a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">l their provi&s;ions left many of them to a merci<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">es enemy (as you terme us) &amp; di&s;claim any &s;uch charge to proceed from us further then in &s;ending tho&s;e wives to their husbands, whom God hath joyned together, and were fitter to be with them then with us.</P>
<P>You &s;ay Gods vi&s;itting hand is upon &s;ome of them&punc; It is more then wee know or believe, but &s;ure wee are that you or &s;ome of you threatned, and did accordingly &s;end among&s;t us &s;ome of tho&s;e with you that were vi&s;ited with the Plague.</P>
<P>And whereas you lay to our charge the barbarities and inhu|manities committed by&punc; Vs, I cannot but believe you have for|gotten what hath bin practi&s;ed by your &s;elves in fiting all <HI>Bacon</HI> &s;treet, whereby you advantaged us much, but your &s;elves no|thing, for you may &s;ee God hath made better provi&s;ion for us] and in burning and ruining diver&s;e hou&s;es of your friends in the City <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ohing at all to your advantage or our prejudice.</P>
<P>You aggravate much the battering downe of your &s;peere-Steeple, not con&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">dering how much our men were galled and annoyed from thence in &s;everall places, and how much you had defiled the &s;ame with bloud, what your &s;elves had purpo&s;ed and endeavoured by undermining and battering downe the Chapell Steple [which &s;till &s;tands with its wounds, to witne&s;&s;e again&s;t
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you the little re&s;pect you give to tho&s;e places which you call the hou&s;e of God further then they may be &s;ervieable to your owne ends.</P>
<P>You in&s;i&s;t much upon the defacing the antiente&s;t Monument of Chri&s;tian piety in the Kingdome, and will not &s;ee the hand of Gods Iu&s;tice upon the &s;ame for the Ignorance and Super&s;ti|tion that hath bin nouri&s;hed and preached in that place the guilt whereof is further encrea&s;ed by being made u&s;e of to bee your only refu&s;e both for your &s;elves, and tho&s;e with you and your Magazine, and therefore the mo&s;t proper object to be de|moli&s;hed by us, &s;eeing it had bin formerly &s;o abu&s;ed by others, and now &s;o much prophaned by your &s;elves whom God it &s;eems hath heardened, becau&s;e he purpo&s;eth to di&s;troy you other|wi&s;e, he would not &s;uffer you to re&s;i&s;t in your ob&s;tinatene&s;&s;e, when you cannot but know your &s;elves incapable of reliefe, and that the longer you hould ou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the wor&s;e condition, you mu&s;t expect &s;eing you di&s;cover nothing at all therein, but perver&s;e|ne&s;&s;e and frowardnes, and cannot but either know or may know that it is as un&s;ouldier-like as indi&s;creet, for you to attempt to hould out that place, now that you have no &s;how of reliefe and that the King hath wholly put him&s;elfe upon the Parliament.</P>
<P>In your la&s;t you &s;ay you beleeve mee to be a man of &s;o much Honour as that you cannot per&s;wade your&s;elves to fix upon me this (as you call it) incivill act, and you acknowledge me the Commander of the &s;aid forces here whereas formerly in your Letter of the 13. of <HI>Aprill,</HI> directed to Adjutant Generall <HI>Leu|than</HI> you Speak &s;cornefully and much more in your An&s;wer to my fir&s;t, Dated <HI>March</HI> 9. which if you had remembered, might have &s;pared you the Labour of cen&s;uring or reflecting that upon me which you then ju&s;tified to be Souldier like in your &s;elves.</P>
<P>And whereas you de&s;ire I would take notice you are re&s;ol|ve<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> to keep that place where you are in a Warlik way, you may hereby be a&s;&s;ured that by Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance there &s;hall be as man|like and Souldierlike attempts and endeavours u&s;ed for cor|recting your in&s;olencies, and reducing you to d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e obedience of the Parliament, if not of making you examples to the world for your de&s;perate folly, ob&s;tinatene&s;&s;e, and imprudence in main|taining this hold, when you cannot but know there is no hopes of reliefe, and render your &s;elves every day more and more un|capable of the Parliaments Clemency which you have &s;o often
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repeated which I de&s;ired might have bin extended to you, I &s;hall therefore once further advi&s;e you forthwith to &s;ubmit to the mercy of the Parliament, that &s;o that ruine which is other|wi&s;e inevitable fall not upon you, the prevention whereof if you willembrace the &s;ame is &s;till de&s;ired by</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your &s;ervant Brereton,</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Litchfield <DATE>May 29. 1646.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>From the Campe at Rainhill.</HI>
Since which time Sir <HI>William Brereton</HI> hath plaid with his Morter peeces and Batteries again&s;t the Clo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e, and hath made &s;everall breaches into divers hou&s;es in the Clo&s;e, and Sir <HI>William</HI> loo&s;eth no advantage that may begained upon any opportunity.</HEAD>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>Charles Rex.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>HAving re&s;olved to comply with the de&s;ignes of the Parlia|ments in every thing which may be for the good of the Sub|jects, and leave no meanes una&s;&s;aid for removing of differences be|tweene us, therefore we have thought fit, the more to evidence the realty of our intentions of &s;ettling a happy and firme peace, to require you upon honourable conditions, to quit tho&s;e Townes and Castles, and Forts intru&s;ted by you, to us, and to disband all the forces under your &s;everall Commands.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Newca&s;tle <DATE>the 10. of Iune 1646.</DATE></DATELINE>
To our Tru&s;ty and welbeloved Sir <HI>Thomas Glemham,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Til&s;ley,</HI> Colonel <HI>Henry Wa&s;hington,</HI> Colo. <HI>Thomas Blague</HI> Governours of our Townes, and Citties of <HI>Oxford Worce&s;ter Litchfield,</HI> and <HI>Wallingford,</HI> and all other Commanders of any other Townes, Ca&s;tles, or Forts with in the Kingdome of England, or dominion of Wales.</CLOSER>
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