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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>HIS EXCELLENCIES Letter of <DATE>the 30 of Ianuary, 1643.</DATE></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">TO THE EARLE OF FORTH&punc; Upon that Letter &s;ent to him from the Prince, Duke of Yorke, and divers Lords and Gentlemen at <HI>Oxford.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My LORD,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Received this day a Letter of the 29^t^h of this in&s;tant from your Lord&s;hip, and a Parchment &s;ub&s;cribed by the Prince, Duke of <HI>Yorke,</HI> divers Lords and Gentlemen. But it neither having addre&s;&s;e to the two Hou&s;es of Parliament, nor therein there being any acknowledge|ment of them, I could not communicate it to them.</P>
<P><HI>My Lord,</HI> the maintenance of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> and of the priviledges thereof, is that for which we are all re&s;olved to &s;pend our blood, as being the Foundation whereon all our lawes and liberties are built.</P>
<P>I &s;end your Lord&s;hip herewith a Nationall-covenant, &s;olemnly entered into by both the Kingdomes of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> and a Declaration pa&s;&s;ed by them both together, with another Declaration of the Kingdome of <HI>Scotland.</HI> I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips humble &s;ervant, ESSEX.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>E&s;&s;ex-hou&s;e,</HI> <DATE>Januar. 30. 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Febru.</HI> 8. 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>IT is his Excellencies plea&s;ure this Letter be forthwith printed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Io. Baldwin, Secretary to his Excellency.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at <HI>London</HI> for <HI>Laurence Blaiklocke,</HI> at Temple-bar. <HI>Febr.</HI> 10. 1643&punc;</P>
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