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<HEAD>A COPY OF A LETTER VVHICH <HI>Ma&s;ter Speaker</HI> is ordered by the Commons hou&s;e of Parliament, to &s;end to the Members of that Hou&s;e, that are now Re&s;iding in their &s;everall Counties, to further the Advancement of the Adventure for IRELAND.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>BY the appointment of the Hou&s;e of Commons, I am to let you know, that they have &s;ent unto the Sheriffe of your County, both the Acts concerning the &s;peedy reducing the Rebels in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and likewi&s;e the Names of &s;uch Members of this Hou&s;e, as have &s;ub&s;cribed here in <HI>London</HI> to this Adventure, and the &s;ummes they have Adventur'd; requiring him together with the Ju&s;tices of Peace of the &s;ame County, to communicate the &s;ame with the be&s;t advantage in the &s;everall divi&s;ions, and that no encouragement might be wanting to a worke &s;o Pious in it &s;elfe, &s;o nece&s;&s;ary to the Peace of both Kingdomes and to the e&s;tabli&s;hing and a&s;&s;uring the true Prote&s;tant Re|ligion therein, and &s;o beneficiall to &s;uch well-affected Per&s;ons as &s;hall adventure. They have commanded me to re|quire you to repaire to the Sheriffe, and to a&s;&s;i&s;t him the be&s;t wayes you can, to encourage and advance this worke, and not doubting of your Publike affections, they a&s;&s;ure them&s;elves, that you apprehend the nece&s;&s;itie and con&s;e|quence of the worke &s;o neerely, that you will with &s;uch alacritie, as becomes a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of this Nature; Propound your owne Example to the Gentry, and other well-affected per&s;ons of your County, and &s;ub&s;cribe to the Adven|ture in &s;uch a Proportion, as may be&s;t &s;tand with your owne Occa&s;ions; not having more to &s;ay, but that the Hou&s;e will expect an account from you herein, I re&s;t.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>I. <HI>Aprill,</HI> 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A COPIE OF A LETTER VVHICH <HI>Ma&s;ter Speaker</HI> is ordered by the Commons Hou&s;e of Parliament, to &s;end to the &s;everall Sheriffs of this Kingdome.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>BY order of the Hou&s;e of Commons, I am directed to giue you notice that divers well affected per&s;ons to the publque good have under-written great &s;ummes of monie for the &s;peedy reducing of the Iri&s;h Rebels to their obedience to his Maje&s;tie, and the Crowne of <HI>England,</HI> and for the advancing of a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of &s;o gene|rall concernment, and tending not only to the common good of both Kingdomes, &amp; the &s;etling of the true Pro|te&s;tant Religion there, but to the particular advantage of the Adventurers; The Hou&s;e doth hold fit to leave no way omitted, that may advance and further &s;o good a worke. And for that purpo&s;e have commanded me here|with to &s;end you two Articles of Parliament made for the &s;tating of the Rebels Lands upo~ the Adventurers accor|ding to the proportion of their re&s;pective adventures. And likewi&s;e the names of &s;uch Members of the Hou&s;e who have already &s;ub&s;cribed to this Adventure, and the Summes they have adventured, which they have done to the intent you &s;hould communicate the &s;ame for the better encouragement of others for following their pious exam|ples, and therefore they have commanded me to recommend it unto your be&s;t care, that you together with the Ju&s;tices of Peace (to whom you are to give notice of this Letter) may in your &s;euerall Devi&s;ions communicate the &s;ame to men of the be&s;t qualitie of your Countie, and u&s;e your be&s;t diligence to per&s;wade them to contribute to &s;o nece&s;&s;ary a worke, which (with Gods a&s;si&s;tance) is not only a mo&s;t ready and likely way to reduce the Re|bels, and &s;ecure the peace and &s;afetie of this Kingdome, but to retribute an ample benefit to the Adventurers. And you are likewi&s;e to &s;ignifie unto them that who &s;hall &s;ub&s;cribe and intere&s;t them&s;elves in this Adventure, they are conceived by the Hou&s;e of Commons to be per&s;ons heartily affected to the publique Weale. Sir, your care|full endavours in this &s;ervice will bee very acceptable to the Hou&s;e, and &s;o I re&s;t.</P>
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