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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>HIS MAIESTIES SPEECH</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">At <HI>Shrew&s;bury,</HI> on <HI>Michaelmas</HI> Eve la&s;t, to the Gentry and Com|mons of the County of <HI>Salop,</HI> there A&s;&s;embled. <DATE><ADD>Octob: 6 1642</ADD></DATE></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IT, is &s;ome benefit to me from the In&s;olencies, and misfor|tunes which have driven me about, that they have brought me to &s;o good a part of my Kingdome, and to &s;o faithfull a part of my people; I hope neither you nor I &s;hall repent my comming hither, I will doe my part that you may not: And of you, I was confident before I came; the re&s;idence of an Army is not u&s;ually plea&s;ant to any place, and mine may carry more feare with it, &s;ince it may be thought (being Robbed and &s;poyled of all my owne, and &s;uch terror u&s;ed to fright and keepe all men from &s;upplying me) I mu&s;t onely live upon the ayde and reliefe of my people; but be not af|fraid, I would to God my poore Subjects &s;uffered no more by the In&s;o|lence &amp; violence of that Army rai&s;ed again&s;t me (though they have made them&s;elves wanton even with plenty) then you &s;hall doe by mine, and yet I feare I cannot prevent all di&s;orders; I will doe my be&s;t; and this Ile pro|mi&s;e you, no man &s;hall be a lo&s;er by me if I can helpe it; I have &s;ent hither for a Mint, and will melt down all my own Plate, and expo&s;e my Land to &s;ale or morgage, that if it be po&s;&s;ible I may bring the lea&s;t pre&s;&s;ure upon you. In the meane time I have Summoned you hither to invite you to doe that for me and your &s;elves, for the maintenance of your Religion, the law of the Land (by which you injoy all that you have) which other men doe again&s;t Vs: Doe not &s;uffer &s;o good a cau&s;e to bee lo&s;t for want of &s;upplying me with that, which will be taken from you by tho&s;e who pur&s;ue me with this violence, and whil&s;t the&s;e ill men &s;acrifi&s;e their Money, Plate, and ut|mo&s;t indu&s;try to de&s;troy the Common-Wealth, be you no le&s;&s;e liberall to pre&s;erve it. And a&s;&s;ure your &s;elves if it plea&s;e God to ble&s;&s;e me with &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e, I &s;hall remember the particular a&s;&s;i&s;tance every man here gives me, to his advantage; However, it will hereafter (how furiou&s;ly the minds of men are now po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed) be honour and comfort to you, that with &s;ome charge and trouble to your &s;elves, you did your part to &s;upport your King, and pre&s;erve the Kingdome.</P>
<P><HI>I de&s;ire M. Sheriffe, and the re&s;t of the Gentlemen, to di&s;tribute them&s;elves in that Method, that they may be&s;t receive the expre&s;&s;ions which you &s;hall make of your be&s;t affections, the which I will have particularly pre&s;ented to me.</HI></P>
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<P>London Printed for H.S. 1642.</P>
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