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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<P>THE EARLE <HI>OF</HI> ESSEX <HI>HIS</HI> Loyaltie and love TO HIS <HI>KING</HI> and <HI>COVNTREY.</HI>
VVith his five Propo&s;itions pro|pounded to his Armie, at his late Siege at <HI>SHREWSBURY.</HI>
<HI>Wherein is apparantly manife&s;ted his faith and love to God and his Countrey.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>London</HI> Printed for <HI>G. K. oct.</HI> 20. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>The Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> his loyaltie and love to his King and Countrey, with his propo&s;itions propounded to his Army, at his late &s;iege at SHREWSBURY.</HEAD>
<P>_HIS Excellence the Earle of E&s;&s;ex, &s;till endeavouring for the good &amp; welfare of his King, and a peace and fraternity to and among&s;t his Subjects, having had &s;everall parties, and more debates concerning our now conditionall e|&s;tate, yet finding no love from thence but meere oppo&s;ition, and &s;till thir|&s;ting more and more for the effu&s;ion of blood, of the Malignants of this now di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> and &s;till craving from our &s;overaigne Lord the King a faire reconciliation,
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(without more effu&s;ion) betweene him&s;elfe and his Parliament, and ha|ving informarion that the Kings mo&s;t excellent Ma^t^i^e. intends with all ex|pedition to &s;eize into his cu&s;tody, as many and &s;o many of the &s;tronge&s;t holds and forts of this Kingdome, as po&s;&s;ibly he may, leaving therein a &s;ufficient Gari&s;on of men and Arms to oppo&s;e the happie and hoped pro|ceedings of this Parliament, our lives, liberties, e&s;tates and priviledges are more and more endangered. His Ex|cellence out of his e&s;peciall love, and abundant care of the good of his King, parliament, &amp; Kingdome, cau|&s;ed &s;ufficient aid of men and Arms, to be di&s;patcht and conveyed to all &s;uch Cities, Ports, Forts, and &s;trong holds as mght prejudice the good effects of this Parliament, and therein &s;ufficient
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Garri&s;on, to oppo&s;e the Malignants of this agrieved Kingdome, to the comfort and good of all countries, e|&s;pecially the well affected partie of this Common-wealth.</P>
<P>And therefore in e&s;peciall wi&s;e did admoni&s;h and impart the&s;e en&s;uing particulars, for the better &s;atisfaction of every particular con&s;cience:</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>That the &s;ufferances we have un|dergone are reduced into two heads: The fir&s;t concerning God, the next the Com|mon-wealth.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>And as it is the fir&s;t cau&s;e con|cerning God, &s;o it de&s;erves to be the fir&s;t fruits of our labour, being the fir&s;t and immediate honour due to God, and of great weight and validitie, and more ine&s;timate then this va&s;t &V;niver&s;e. Therefore we ought to &s;erve in Gods
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cau&s;e to draw a ble&s;sing on our King and Kingdomes cau&s;e.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>The Common-wealth hath for a</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">A Tyranni|cal Govern|ment, if per|fected.</NOTE> <HI>long time groaned under a mo&s;t heavy burden; and the poore di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Subject &s;adly laments, &s;til hoping to be relieved, he being &s;carce able to di&s;tingui&s;h be|tween Law and Power: the one of great con&s;equence, and a branch of tranquility, Law and Government, yet abu&s;ed; the other a Power which over-ruled that Law and Government</HI> cum privilegio.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>That God having weighed his cau&s;e, finding it &s;tuft and ramm'd with manifold works of Satan, and more and more endeavouring &s;till to creep in, he in e&s;peciall wi&s;e took upon him his owne ju&s;t and irreproveable cau&s;e, and rai&s;ed us as in&s;truments for &s;o good a worke. And that being performed, our King is not onely ble&s;t by a rich po&s;&s;e&s;sion, in en|joying
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the ble&s;&s;ed and plenteous flowing of the Go&s;pel, but al&s;o an eternity here|after.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Therefore as you are Members of God, and Subjects to our Soveraign Lord the King, fir&s;t in Gods name put to your helping hands for Gods cau&s;e, your King and Kingdomes cau&s;e, and for a confir|mation of that hoped bli&s;&s;efull comfort (the Go&s;pel) which &s;hall bring us and our po&s;terity in the future to eternitie, and for a ble&s;&s;ed and comfortable raigne to our deare Soveraigne, and his Royall Progenie, the good and comfort of our pre&s;ent condition, the liberty, priviledg, and freedome of a Chri&s;tian Subject, and for a happy and ble&s;&s;ed union betweene King and people: and therein we are e|ver honoured, and our &s;elves worthy to be called Gods children.</HI></P>
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Here in is manife&s;ted and made known the faith and love of &s;o good a Subject, both in Gods cau&s;e, his King and Kingdoms cau&s;e, and it is hoped that no hone&s;t indifferent Subject, that aimes at the well and peacefull raign of our Soveraign, and the peace &amp; wel-fare of this Common-wealth, can any way repine or be offended, but rather adde to their love and loy|altie, from hence a better portion.</P>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King and Parliament.</CLOSER>
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