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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B071013.apex.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The Copy of a Letter &s;ent from the Committee at <HI>Lincoln,</HI> to the Hou&s;e of Commons, directed to the Speaker of the &s;aid Hou&s;e, and &s;ub&s;cribed with the names of the &s;aid Committee.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_SUch is our earne&s;t de&s;ire, to manife&s;t our obedience to the Commands of both Hou&s;es, That we cannot omit any opportunity to adverti&s;e you of our fir&s;t dayes proceeding, and &s;ucce&s;&s;e therein. The Lord <HI>Francis Willoughby</HI> appointed by the Ordinance of Parliament, to be Lord Lievtenant of this County, had by his Warrant, &s;ummoned the chief Con&s;tables to attend him ye&s;terday, the la&s;t of <HI>May,</HI> in this place, to give him an account concerning the Arms of the Trained-Bands and Ammunition, within their &s;everall hundreds, and Wapentakes; which &s;ervice accordingly they performed with all readine&s;&s;e and alacrity, even beyond our expectations, there being the fulle&s;t apparance of them that we have ob&s;erved upon any occa&s;ion heretofore, &s;o as a|bout four&s;core in this great County, not above two or three of them were ab&s;ent; Neither did the Kings Proclamation (publi&s;hed on purpo&s;e as we conceive, throughout the County, and which &s;ome had officiou&s;ly fixed upon the Gates of the Inne where we met;) nor this inclo&s;ed Letter from His Maje&s;ty &s;ent to the old (but as we hear new re-e&s;tabli&s;hed Deputy Lievtenants, under the Earl of <HI>Lin&s;ey,</HI> who likewi&s;e hath a Commi&s;sion under the broad Seal, for the Lievtenancy of <HI>Lin|coln&s;hire,</HI> as we are informed, any whit deterre, or hinder them. We have already delivered forth Warrants to tho&s;e head Con&s;tables for Mu&s;ters to be held (for the more conveniency) in &s;everall places of this County, at each of which, God willing) we all of us intend to be a&s;si&s;tant, the rather becau&s;e we under&s;tand that our pre&s;ence here doth not a little comfort and revive the &s;pirits of all hone&s;t and well affected per|&s;ons in this County; who&s;e forward good examples will (we doubt not) be a means to draw the re&s;t to a more ready conformity. In which hopes we are further incouraged by this dayes tryall in the Citie, finding, be&s;ides the Trained-Bands thereof, a like number of Volunteers well and compleatly Armed, who are ready to make tender of their Service, for the defence of His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, the Parlia|ment, and the Kingdom, according to their late Prote&s;tation. The&s;e are our fir&s;t beginnings in your &s;ervice, which we humbly &s;ubmit unto you, and &s;o remain</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Lincoln,</HI> <DATE>1. <HI>Junii.</HI> 1642.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your affectionate Friends and Servants,
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<ITEM>W. Armyne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edw. Ac&s;&s;cough,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho Hatcher,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;to. Wray,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Antho. Irby,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Joh. Broxolme.</ITEM>
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<P>Ordered by the Hou&s;e of Commons, that this be forthwith Printed.</P>
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<P>June <HI>6.</HI> London, <HI>Printed for</HI> Jo&s;eph Hun&s;cott. <HI>1642.</HI></P>
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