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<P>NEVVES OVT OF THE LOVV-COVNTRIES, Sent in two Letters: The one to the Earle of NEW-CASTLE, The other to Captaine CRISPE, Now re&s;ident with his Maje&s;ty&punc; Declaring the likelihood of Civill warres to be betwixt the Prince of Orange, and the States of the United Provinces.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t printed at Oxford for <HI>William Web,</HI> and &s;ince r<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="over-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">pri<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="over-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="over-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">d in London. 1643.</P>
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<P>_MY Lord, &s;ince the departure of Collonell <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o|ring</HI> (from who&s;e happier expr<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ions I doubt not but you have received the humble acknow|ledgements, and a&s;&s;urances of my &s;ervice to your Honour) we have here but little newes, is worthy your Honours ob&s;ervance. His friends with what &s;trength they can produce are making their be&s;t di&s;patches to &s;econd him. We have our hearts in <HI>England,</HI> though our bodies be in <HI>Holland,</HI> and our bodies are making what &s;peed they can to overtake our hearts. The eyes of the Princes of Chri&s;tendome are looking on you, and know not well what to re&s;olve upon, but &s;tand a while at gaze, and wait on the events that doe attend you. We heard of &s;ome defeats were given you, but we dare not be &s;uch cowards to your Honour and your cau&s;e as to believe it, e&s;pecially &s;ince <HI>At<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="over-inked" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> hath credibly informed us that in &s;pight of winter and oppo&s;ition you have cut your way through your thicke&s;t enemies, and with gallant re&s;olution and &s;ucce&s;&s;e do increa&s;e in numbers, as you adv<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="2 letters">ce mo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">e neare unto his Maje&s;ty. If you could di&s;pence with &s;o much honor, as to forbear your hand a little from your &s;word and take your penne into it, it would bring great &s;atisfaction to us to under&s;tand the newes betwixt <HI>Oxford</HI> and <HI>London,</HI> a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="over-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">d to be informed therein from a per&s;on of your eminence a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="over-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">d authority. The affairs move here in the &s;ame condition as they doe with you, and are almo&s;t &s;ick of the &s;ame di&s;tempers. The Prince hath kept a private Chri&s;tmas at <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="over-inked" EXTENT="2 letters">eda,</HI> and though he hath been oft invited to the Hague, he cannot be induced to take his journey to it, and thinks him&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="over-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">lf &s;afer gar|i&s;oned in his ow<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> town then befriended in the Queens Court.
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Count <HI>Erne&s;ts</HI> Sonne hath been much wrought upon, with what friends and &s;trength he could make to a&s;&s;i&s;t his Maje&s;ty of <HI>England,</HI> but being not to be per&s;waded thereunto, he told the Prince of <HI>Ora<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="over-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">ge</HI> very re&s;olutely, that he would not adventure his <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">onour, nor his life in that quarrell, nor lo&s;e a drop of bloud among parricidiall &s;words, and gave the Prince who &s;till importuned him to that &s;ervice &s;uch bold and unre|&s;pective words, that the Prince forgetting all moderation with his clo&s;ed hand &s;truck him on the cheek, who not enduring the indignity betook him&s;elf unto his &s;word, and making a full thru&s;t again&s;t the Prince had de&s;perately endangered his life had not the vigilance, and fidelity of &s;ome that &s;tood by pre|vented the mi&s;chief which was pointing at his life. There was al&s;o &s;ince that one <HI>Gray</HI> an Engli&s;h man, and a &s;ouldier &s;ome|times in Collonell <HI>Culpepers</HI> Regiment, who &s;uffered ju&s;tly the &s;trappado for &s;peaking &s;candalous, and traiterous words a|gain&s;t the Queen of <HI>England,</HI> and did not blu&s;h to affirm and compare her to the late Queen of <HI>France</HI> her Mother, &s;aying, that in this re&s;pect &s;he was like unto her, and where&s;oever &s;he came, that divi&s;ion, warre and ruine did attend her, a&s;cribing the difference betwixt the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> and the States to her re&s;iding among&s;t them. I could willingly write out the o|ther houre, and inlarge my &s;ervice to your honour, but I know <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">n the&s;e active times you look on men, and not on papers, and having not the lea&s;ure to peru&s;e them, I &s;hould rather torment you, then delight you: I &s;hould therefore be a very bad &s;ub|ject and &s;inne again&s;t his Maje&s;ty and the common good, &s;hould I withold you any longer from your great imploy|ment which cannot have a more able &s;upporter then your &s;elf, nor a more faithfull votary then he who is my Lord,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Honous mo&s;t humble and con&s;tant &s;ervant.
S. R.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THE di&s;tempers of the&s;e times are great, con|trary windes and mindes blowing from all the corners of the Chri&s;tian world&punc; I doe by the opportunity of the fir&s;t Bark committed to the winde and Seas, acquaint you with our di&s;tra|ctions equall in many re&s;pects unto yours. We have heard of much dangerous oppo&s;ition again&s;t your King, and it is our wonder, that you &s;hould turn your countrey into an Anarchy, and rend power from the King to inve&s;t your &s;elves with <HI>Democraticall Diade<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="over-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">es:</HI> while they labour to keep the free li|berty of the E&s;tates of Holland, they would maintaine their old Rights, and keep the Prince of Orange onely titular, and depending upon their will, limiting his power to bee &s;ubor|dinate to popular Regality, a &s;oleci&s;me and contradiction in nature; your affairs move upon the &s;ame hinge. But the Prince of Orange that is a knowne Souldier, and hath de&s;erved much of the E&s;tates, will not brooke this oppo&s;ition; but finding that the common people e&s;teeme Princes and Souldiers only in the field, and doe forget their brave &s;ervice, accounting them for &s;ervice, only their &s;ervants, and then prove ungrate|full: Be&s;ides, a Prince incen&s;ed can endure no vulgar weak|ne&s;&s;e, &s;trong onely in ba&s;e thoughts and contempt of Princi|palities, as your plebeians are in England. From the&s;e mo|tives much di&s;turbance is like to proceed: For when vulgar &s;trength and Principality meet, they are like torrents, that mutually oppo&s;e one another. The&s;e growing evils are nou|ri&s;hed by malignants, as you have; &s;ome declare them&s;elves for the Prince, &s;ome for the States: and I know not whether they have learned the Art of oppo&s;ing Princes, by adhering to your Parliament; but beleeve it, we fore-&s;ee what horri|ble
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mi&s;chiefes the Fates have plotted again&s;t us, and what blood mu&s;t be drawne from our owne veines, or rather vani|ties, pride and ambition, and competition for prerogative, drawing us on to murther one another, as you (according to intelligence given us) did at Kenton battell: Our hopes are weake concerning any pacification; but our feares are great that the Low-countries have &s;een their be&s;t and mo&s;t flouri|&s;hing daies: for warre doth &s;hut up all trading and commerce; and where it doth once enter, it de&s;troyes whole kingdomes, it brings in wretched mi&s;ery, and all &s;orts of ineffable cala|mity. What pa&s;&s;ionate words can declare the bleeding &s;tate of a kingdome di&s;tracted by civill warre? Our daily intelli|gence of your affaires, doth make great impre&s;&s;ions of feare in us, that our di&s;agreement between the Prince of Orange and the States, will at la&s;t (as your contention in England did) break out into a civill warre. In regard of the firme league be|tween England and Holland, and the good &s;ervice our coun|trey hath done unto that Kingdome, by fru&s;trating the con|tinuall de&s;ignes of many Spani&s;h Fleets, and &s;inking their tal|le&s;t &s;hips in the mercile&s;&s;e &s;eas, I per&s;wade me, that the report of the&s;e growing di&s;&s;entions among&s;t us, will make &s;ome be|gin to compare your pre&s;ent &s;tate with ours. Prerogatives claimed on both &s;ides, doth thru&s;t us on to fight, and our great power flatters us, that we have both right unto that which we pretend. The Prince and the States are united and &s;eparated, as the King and Parliament are in England, by the affection of the people, and I fear that this our divi&s;ion can bring nothing but ruine. Ioyne with us therefore in your prayers, that it would plea&s;e God to &s;ettle and compo&s;e the di&s;tracted con|dition of your Kingdome, to e&s;tabli&s;h your King in peace, and the generall affection of his &s;ubiects, and vanqui&s;h all his ene|mies
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in his owne Army; and that our countrey looking on your calamity, may clearly behold it &s;elfe, and what wee &s;hall be if we fall out about words. It is a &s;trong peece of the Di|vels &s;ubtilty, to provoke nature to &s;hedding of blood, let the cau&s;e be never &s;o good, his ends are clo&s;e and private, and de|&s;truction of kingdomes is that whereat his malice doth chief|ly aime. But we hope ambition &s;hall not make us butcher and murther one another, as you have done: And &s;ince &s;ome part of Englands &s;trength mu&s;t needs live and dye with Hollands happine&s;&s;e, let your prayers be&s;eech heaven for peace in both countries, to prevent our warre, and &s;et a period to yours.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your loving obliged friend,
H. R.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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