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<NAME>Jonathan Blaney</NAME>
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<P>A PAPER DELIVERED Into the LORDS Hou&s;e BY THE Earle of ESSEX LORD GENERALL, At the offering up of his COMMISSION:</P>
<P>Publi&s;hed by Authority.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>Thomas Hewer.</HI></P>
<P>1645.</P>
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A Paper delivered into the Lords Hou&s;e by the Earle ESSEX, Lord Generall, at the offering up of his Commi&s;&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>_HAving received this great Charge in obedience to the commands of both Hou&s;es, and taken their Sword into my hand, I can
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with confidence &s;ay, that I have for this now (almo&s;t) three yeers, faithfully &s;erved you, and I hope without lo&s;&s;e of my Honour to &s;elfe, or prejudice to the Pub|lique, &s;upported therein by the goodne&s;&s;e of God, and the fide|lity and courage of a great many gallant men, both Officers and Souldiers. But I will neither trouble you nor my &s;elfe, by re|peating either the difficulties, or danger, we have ouercomed, or the &s;ervice that I have done you.</P>
<P>I &s;ee by the now comming up of the&s;e Ordinances, that it is the de&s;ire of the Hou&s;e of Commons, that my Commi&s;sion may be va|cated, and it hath beene no parti|cular re&s;pect to my &s;elfe, (what|ever
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is whi&s;pered to the contary) that hath made me thus long omit to declare my readine&s;&s;e thereto, it being not unknowne to divers men of Honour, that I had re&s;olved it, after the action of Gloce&s;ter, but that &s;ome impor|tunities (pre&s;&s;ed on me with ar|guments of publique advantage, and that by tho&s;e of unque&s;tiona|ble affection) over-ruled me therein; I now doe it, and returne my Commi&s;sion into tho&s;e hands that gave it me, wi&s;hing it may prove as good an expedient to the pre&s;ent di&s;tempers as &s;ome will have it believed, which I &s;hall pray for with as hearty a zeale as any can de&s;ire my doing this, which I now doe.</P>
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I thinke it not immode&s;t that I intreat both Hou&s;es, that tho&s;e Officers of mine, which are now laid by, might have their <HI>debenters audited,</HI> &s;ome con&s;iderable part of their arreares payd them, for their &s;upport, and the remainder &s;ecured them by the Publique-faith; and that tho&s;e of them that remaine que&s;tioned, may be brought to &s;ome &s;peedy triall, whereby they may receive ei|ther the puni&s;hment or ju&s;tifica|tion that is due to them; under which notion I remember onely three, of whom I mu&s;t te&s;tifie, that they franckly and couragi|ou&s;ly have adventured their lives, and lo&s;t their blood for the Publique, and that with conti|nued
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fidelity, for ought ever I could ob&s;erve.</P>
<P><HI>My Lords, I</HI> know that jealou|&s;ies cannot be avoyded, in the un|happy condition of our pre&s;ent affaires, yet wi&s;dome and charity &s;hould put &s;uch re&s;traints there|unto, as not to allow it, to become de&s;tructive. <HI>I</HI> hope that this ad|vice from me is not un&s;ea&s;ona|ble, wi&s;hing my &s;elfe and my friends may (among&s;t others) par|ticipate the benefit thereof, this proceeding from my affection to the Parliament, the pro&s;perity whereof <HI>I</HI> &s;hall ever wi&s;h from my heart, what returne &s;oever it brings me, <HI>I</HI> being no &s;ingle ex|ample in that kind, of that for|tune <HI>I</HI> now undergoe.</P>
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