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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>&leaf; The Copy of a Letter, &s;ent from Two thou|&s;and Youthfull Citizens, to the Menacing Mar&s;hall of the Kings-Bench, Sir <HI>John Lenthall.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IT is not unknown to you, that many of your right-de&s;pi&s;ing faction have wrongfully termed us irregular Round-heads, and &s;elf-will'd Seperati&s;ts; but our well grounded Actions, &s;hall publi&s;h to the world, as well the &s;erenity of our inten|tion, as the verity of your delu&s;ion; For though we be Round-headed, we are not hollow hearted; And if we do affect retired &s;eparation, it follows we mu&s;t hate an in&s;inua|ting Companion; &s;uch as you are, and would be, could you illegally get (where your conver&s;ation's not de&s;ired) an unju&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;sion; which (notwith&s;tanding your power with the Judges, and many unmanly me|nacies) your &s;ini&s;ter endeavour &s;hall never obtain; We being unanimou&s;ly re|&s;olved at an houres warning, to meet you armed, and give <HI>Battalia</HI> to the Sheriff of <HI>Surrey,</HI> if he be &s;o fool-hardy as to a&s;si&s;t you in the ju&s;tification of &s;o palpable an injury. For we (who are the reall honourers of the Name, and memory of the <HI>Middletons)</HI> will not &s;ee the &s;onne of that never enough honoured Father, who was the glory of our City, unju&s;tly &s;uffer by a litigious Jackallent; but in vindication of his lawfull Title, will unhou&s;e our &s;welling veines of every warm tennantable drop within them. Therefore in due con&s;ideration of our fixed re&s;olution, we friendly do advi&s;e you, at length to leave of all your hate procuring undertakings, that make you de&s;picable to the knowing world, and only, to attempt hone&s;t and noble things that are bravely ju&s;tifiable, and that alone can return you amiable to tho&s;e, who are rather, the de&s;irers of your conver&s;ion, then confu&s;ion.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>Dated die Martis, &s;ecundo Martj, Anno Revocationis Primo.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your friends, or otherwi&s;e, as you make them, <HI>Middeltoni-Anti-Lenthalliani.</HI>
MIDDLIILLLII.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>March <HI>4.</HI> London, <HI>Printed by</HI> John Raworth. <HI>1641.</HI></P>
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