<!DOCTYPE ETS PUBLIC "-//UMDLPS//DTD EEBOPROOF 2.0//EN">
<ETS>
<TEMPHEAD>
<REVDESCR>
<CHANGE>
<DATE>01-17-08</DATE>
<RESPSTMT>
<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
<RESP>MURP</RESP>
</RESPSTMT>
<ITEM>**Added TEMPHEAD, checked ID, and added TYPEs to DIVs in order to validate.  
**Checked for GROUP tags. 
**Proofed title page(s). 
**Checked ^s.  
**Checked I / J.
**Checked oe for ae ligatures.
**Reviewed structure. 
**Checked placement and completeness of PBs.  
**Checked for duplicate pages. 
**Checked for missing pages. 
**Checked spacing of foreign GAPs.
**Checked for #s, @s,  --s, mdash;, q;s, Esabque;, frac;, etc. 
**Corrected $s by inserting the appropriate character(s) and / or GAP DESC(s). 
**Checked for amp;cs with incorrect spacing. 
**Checked for OPENERs, SALUTEs, CLOSERs, DATEs, DATELINEs, SIGNEDs, TRAILERs, BYLINEs, ARGUMENTs, EPIGRAPHs, etc.
--Removed SALUTE from CLOSERs and included text under SIGNED.
--Placed TRAILER just before end of BODY.
**Checked for TABLEs and LISTs.
**Checked for LBs. 
**Checked for startqs, endqs and Qs. 
**Checked proofsheets and made corrections. 
DONE 01-17-08.</ITEM>
</CHANGE>
</REVDESCR>
</TEMPHEAD>
<EEBO>
<IDG S="marc" R="UM" ID="A89595">
<STC T="W">M80</STC>
<STC T="T">E114_24</STC>
<BIBNO T="umi">99873284</BIBNO>
<VID>125749</VID>
</IDG>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<FRONT>
<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P>CERTAIN INFORMATION <HI>FROM</HI> DEVON AND DORSET: CONCERNING THE COMMISSION OF ARRAY.</P>
<P><HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 27. printed for <HI>H. Blunden.</HI> 1642..</P>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<P>_LOving Brother, I de&s;ire to relate unto you &s;omething from hence. The la&s;t weeke Ma&s;ter <HI>A&s;hford</HI> came to Town with Ma&s;ter <HI>Culme</HI> the Sheriffe, and by all probability to reade the Commi&s;&s;ion of Array, for they brought it with them, and produced it, and made War|rants to &s;end abroad, for the &s;topping of our Mu&s;tering this weeke, and &s;ent for our Con&s;table to publi&s;h them, and they had &s;ome clau&s;e of the Array in them, very &s;trange ones they were, as ever were knowne&punc; But our Con&s;table, <HI>Walter Challis,</HI> would not reade them: yet after many jeares, and proud and peremptory words of theirs, e&s;pecially from Ma&s;ter <HI>A&s;hford,</HI> hee tooke one of them, and by advi&s;e, &s;ealed it up, and &s;ent it to Lieutenant <HI>Bamfield.</HI> Wee expected an hot day, for here was pre&s;ent al&s;o Ma&s;ter <HI>Ickland</HI> of <HI>Culme-John,</HI> of the &s;ame party, and Ma&s;ter <HI>Wil|loughby</HI> of <HI>Pey-Hemby,</HI> but Ma&s;ter <HI>Willoughby</HI> would not &s;et his hand to the Warrants by no meanes, but went away before them. And Ma&s;ter <HI>Saint-Hill</HI> &s;ent hither his Sonne in Law, Ma&s;ter <HI>Hankcock,</HI> a young man that lives in hou&s;e with him, we &s;uppo&s;e to carry backe newes of what was done, for he did the like at <HI>Exon</HI> A&s;&s;i&s;es the weeke before, he &s;ent this Gentleman out to meet the Lord of <HI>Bathe</HI> when he came to <HI>Exon</HI> with his Commi&s;&s;ion. Be&s;ides, wee the more &s;u&s;pect Ma&s;ter <HI>Saint-Hill,</HI> for that he would have had in all the Armes of his Pari&s;h into his owne cu&s;tody, being their Captaine: And hath in his hou&s;e at
<PB N="4" REF="3">
this pre&s;ent, three Ladies come to his hou&s;e the la&s;t weeke, with &s;ome two or foure Cart loades of Provi&s;ion, &s;ome &s;ay Munition too, be&s;ides much Cattle, they came out by Sherborne, and wee &s;uppo&s;e Ma&s;ter <HI>Coventry</HI> is at this hou&s;e, for hee &s;ent privately to Ma&s;ter <HI>Sanders</HI> to be there, but he would not entertaine him becau&s;e of his Chil|dren, and we &s;uppo&s;e him therefore either at <HI>Brad|much,</HI> or at Ma&s;ter <HI>Chanons.</HI> Wee fearefully ex|pected the Lord of <HI>Bathe</HI> here, with the Cavaliers, to &s;econd this project of Ma&s;ter <HI>A&s;hfords,</HI> and the Sheriffe: wherefore we had extraordinary Ward|ing, and our Townes men &s;hewed a great deale of undaunted courage, and oppo&s;ed them very much, both in word and deed: and Ma&s;ter <HI>Prow&s;e</HI> &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">w|ed excellent valour and wi&s;dome herein, and is made Captaine, and incites the whole Pari&s;h mightily, and taketh care for the fencing of the Towne with Walls, and Chaines, and Ordnance: <HI>Thomas Sumpter</HI> al&s;o is a very great in&s;trument of good. <HI>Hunnington</HI> men, and <HI>Arotry</HI> are exerci&s;ed to day, and &s;o are to pa&s;&s;e away for Sherborne&punc; <HI>Taunton</HI> men are gone already, and our men are to be mu&s;tered on Thur&s;day next, Baronet <HI>Pri|deaux</HI> is our Colonell, wee are likely to have ma|ny Volunteeres out of this Pari&s;h. We are very &s;orrowfull Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Hartford</HI> is &s;o great an ene|my to us, my Brother can informe you of that at Sherborne better then my &s;elfe, and of Sommer|&s;et I believe you have heard, and I feare we may have too much to informe you of here, for this Towne is envyed very much, both by Ma&s;ter
<PB N="5" REF="3">
<HI>A&s;hford</HI> now, the Sheriffe, and the confederate Pa|pi&s;ts thereabout them, we believe, but e&s;pecially by a &s;trangers lodging here at <HI>Henry Skinners</HI> this quarter of this yeare for &s;helter, he an&s;wered the Ju&s;tices, that hee is a Darby Shire man, and <HI>Thornecombe</HI> he named him&s;elfe&punc; but (now I thinke on it) you know him&punc; by all probabilities hee &s;hould be a Je&s;uit, a Rebell of Ireland, or a di&s;con|tented Cavaliere, for he hath &s;hewed him&s;elfe &s;o, and the whole Towne and Pari&s;h doe thinke &s;o of him now&punc; for the be&s;t affected at length que&s;tion|ing him, he began to bee very <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1+ letters">ffe, and told &s;ome at his going away, (which was at the beginning of the ri&s;ing in the North) that he would remember them, when they did thinke he was dead and gone, and his own brother was in the head of the Rebels there, and indeed we doubt him to be chiefe of the Troopes hereabouts. Hemb-fort hath been watch|ed day and night, fearing they &s;hould take that place, the whole Country by turne have done it: And Sir <HI>Tho: Drew</HI> is very much again&s;t this Ar|ray, grounding on that wi&s;e mans &s;peech in Parlia|ment again&s;t it, and &s;ayes it is altogether illegall, and will die upon it, and when occa&s;ion &s;erves, we believe he will &s;hew it, as about the Hill he hath declared his minde already, and he hath much Ar|mour in his hou&s;e, enough for 30. men at lea&s;t.</P>
<P>Ma&s;ter <HI>Saint-Hill</HI> &s;ayes the&s;e Ladies are come for &s;helter, becau&s;e of the troubles at Sherborne, but we doubt him, becau&s;e of the Armes which the Pari&s;h boldly oppugne him in, and re&s;olved to &s;et a Watch about his hou&s;e when the&s;e came.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your very loving Brother, T. M.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Collomptonii, <DATE>Aug. 22. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="6" REF="4">
<OPENER><DATELINE>Dor&s;et, <DATE>Augu&s;t 22. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THE Marque&s;&s;e would faine remove to the King, but feares his intercepting, therefore offers the Countrey to remove if they will afford him a Guard for his &s;afe convoy, but it will not be granted by the Counties; they have beene much pre&s;t unto it by the Ju&s;tices and Gentry, for the mo&s;t part of our Gentry are for the King: Wherefore the Marque&s;&s;e hath given out his War|rants this day to the Ju&s;tices to bring in the Traine bands to him, or to have them in readine&s;&s;e to keep the peace, he &s;tanding upon his Guard in the Ca|&s;tle, where he makes great provi&s;ion, being in feare that he may be &s;oone &s;et upon by the Earle of <HI>Bed|ford,</HI> and he hath but two pieces of Ordnance in the Ca&s;tle, and about 400. very good Hor&s;e, and not aboue 100. Foot as yet come to him: I wi&s;h the Marque&s;&s;e go not from thence, for that there is very great and ha&s;ty provi&s;ion made and intended again&s;t him. We have 6. pieces of Ordnance in our Towne, be&s;ides 2. Morter pieces, and three &s;mall bra&s;&s;e pieces, and to morrow is expected 2.
<PB N="7" REF="4">
great pieces more from <HI>Lyme,</HI> many Hor&s;e &s;ent in hither, and a thou&s;and men expected from Devon|&s;hire; and its thought that the Earle of Bedford will &s;hortly be at Sherborne with neare 20000. the Marque&s;&s;e is &s;aid to expect the King very &s;pee|dily for his a&s;&s;i&s;tance. <HI>Lime, Waine,</HI> and <HI>Poole</HI> doe fortifie them&s;elves again&s;t the Cavalieres.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your very loving Brother.
H. L.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</BODY>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
</ETS>
