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<P><HI>OLD ENGLISH BLOOD</HI> Boyling afre&s;h in <HI>LEICESTERSHIRE MEN:</HI> Occa&s;ioned by the late barbarous inva|&s;ion of the <HI>SCOTS. As appears by this Letter from my</HI> LORD GREY, To Major Generall SKIPPON.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>H.</HI> for <HI>Giles Calvert,</HI> at the black &s;pread-Eagle, at the We&s;t end of <HI>Pauls.</HI> 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>OLD ENGLISH BLOOD Boyling a fre&s;h in LEICESTERSHIRE MEN: Occa&s;ioned by the late barbarous <HI>Inva&s;ion of the Scots.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_BEcau&s;e your ancient and well appro|ved faithfulne&s;&s;e &s;peakes it &s;elfe through the Kingdome; I have thought good to communicate the &s;tate of our affaires in this County unto you: which is thus.</P>
<P>When wee under&s;tood that our <HI>proclaimed ene|mies</HI> (the <HI>Scots)</HI> were drawing towards us, even to fall upon this Nation when it was weak; as hee did, on his Brother (and this <HI>E&s;a</HI> is <HI>Edom, red and</HI>
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<HI>bloody)</HI> or as tho&s;e brethren in <HI>iniquity,</HI> did upon the <HI>Shechamites,</HI> when they were &s;ore. We thought all lay at &s;take, and the God of our mercies awa|kened us here, to &s;ee what might be done for our &s;afety; wee tryed what volunteers would appear, which were not a few, that tendred them&s;elves and their own hor&s;es, and tho&s;e that wanted wee hor&s;ed upon tho&s;e that were di&s;&s;enters; in&s;omuch that (by the ble&s;&s;ing of God) wee have mounted a con&s;iderable number for &s;o incon&s;iderable a County, and &s;hall be able to march with a good &s;trength very &s;uddenly: and this cour&s;e we have and doe propound with all earne&s;tnes to all our neighbouring Counties; not waiting upon the cu&s;tomary way of pay and quarter, which would retard us, and &s;uch a work as this.</P>
<P>Wee had our men &s;o willing to goe forth as if they &s;hould finde theit <HI>wages in their worke;</HI> yea, though in the highe&s;t of their harve&s;t, and this un|&s;ea&s;onable weather; At our meeting a March be|ing propounded, they cryed, ONE AND ALL.</P>
<P>Sir, Wee are pre&s;t forwards hereunto by the violent call of nece&s;&s;ities &s;urrounding us; nor can wee be blamed for neglecting &s;ome punctilioes, &s;ince &s;elfe-&s;afety, and our pre&s;ent pre&s;ervation admit no delay.</P>
<P>It would rejoyce our hearts to &s;ee Engli&s;h blood &s;tirring in the veignes of men at this juncture; pro|fe&s;&s;ing
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to your &s;elfe that your honourable carriage in order to the good of this poor &s;hattered Nati|on makes us to a&s;&s;ure you, we can (through mer|cy) readily live and dye with you upon your pi|ous and noble principles.</P>
<P>I have inclo&s;ed &s;ent you a Copy of the la&s;t from <HI>Lanca&s;hire,</HI> whereby you may judge of the inhumane temper of the enemy, and the &s;ad con|dition of our friends.</P>
<P>I wi&s;h every Tribe in <HI>I&s;rael</HI> had this laid at their doors. Alas <HI>(Sir)</HI> did the&s;e men bring to us more Holines, Ju&s;tice&punc; Truth, and faithfulne&s;&s;e, or ra|ther did they not undermine that Go&s;pel, they &s;ay they come to &s;ettle; wee would meet them with open armes and bended knees: But I wi&s;h their in|viters hither doe not feel to their co&s;t the ill con|&s;equence of the bargaine.</P>
<P>Sir, (with our worthy Neighbours in the Ea&s;t|erne A&s;&s;ociation, or any others like minded) wee re&s;olve (by Gods help) rather to dye free Eng|li&s;h men, then to live <HI>hewers of wood, and drawers of water</HI> to ba&s;e men who&s;e mercies are Cruel|ties.</P>
<P>Our Hor&s;e appearing la&s;t Munday at our Ren|dezvouz, were neer three thou&s;and, all of this County; who expre&s;&s;ed much forwardne&s;&s;e in this &s;ervice, ambitiou&s;ly de&s;iring to be in action, waiting only upon a call, which we daily expect from our friends in the North, and for which wee
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making our &s;elves ready upon an hours warn|ing.</P>
<P>My reque&s;t unto your &s;elfe, and all hone&s;t Eng|li&s;h hearts is, that you &s;end us all the help you can through your prayers; and I be&s;eech you to conti|nue to improve your intere&s;t in Heaven and Earth to pre&s;erve a Kingdome, that mu&s;t be &s;aved a|gain&s;t its will, for which God hath &s;o immediat|ly and even miraculou&s;ly &s;poken from Heaven within three or 4 months la&s;t pa&s;t, in curbing the malice of men, appearing in &s;uch de&s;perate tu|mults every where: The Great Monnuments whereof remain in the&s;e places, <HI>viz. London, Nor|wich, South-Wales, Kent, Bury, Willoby, King&s;ton, Needs, Hereford, Shrop&s;hire, Stafford, Nottingham, Woodcraft, Scarborow Yarmouth, Tinmouth, Cum|berland, Bristall, I&s;le of weight, Chester, Exceter, North-wales</HI> and <HI>Cambridge,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Oh that men would &s;ee the&s;e wonders, and bow before the Lord that hath &s;miten them, and trem|ble before his foot-&s;tool.</P>
<P>To who&s;e grace I commend you, and all the faithfull with you. I remain</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Sir, </SALUTE> <SIGNED>Yours really to &s;erve you Thomas Grey.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE>August 24. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE><POSTSCRIPT>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>SInce I degan to write the <HI>Scots</HI> are beaten, twelve thou&s;and pri&s;oners are taken; their Ar|my broken: three thou&s;and Hor&s;e of theirs where Duke <HI>Hambleton</HI> is, we are this morning pur&s;uing with my forces, who bend towards the North: but are in de&s;perate confu|&s;ion, wee hope to give agood ac|compt of them.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours, Thomas Grey.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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