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<P>A CONTINVATION OF THE TRVE NARRATION OF THE Mo&s;t ob&s;ervable Pa&s;&s;ages in and about <HI>Plymouth,</HI> from <HI>Ianuary</HI> 26. 1643. till this pre&s;ent; Wherein you may ob&s;erve how the Lord doth alwaies work, for that poore, and remote Garri&s;on. TOGETHER WITH The Letter of Sir <HI>Richard Greenvile,</HI> with the An&s;wer to it, as al&s;o the burning of a booke inclo&s;ed in his Letter by the hand of the Hangman, the Book being intituled, <HI>The Iniquity of the Covenant.</HI> With the di&s;covery of a &s;hee Traytor together with the Articles prooved on oath again&s;t Her at a Councell of WARRE. <HI>Publi&s;hed by Authoritie.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>I. D.</HI> for <HI>Francis Eglesfield,</HI> and are to be &s;old at the &s;igne of the Marigold in <HI>Pauls</HI> Churchyard, <HI>May</HI> 10. 1644.</P>
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<HEAD>The Preface to the Reader.</HEAD>
<P><HI>PLymouth,</HI> being a Towne farre remote, and the pa&s;&s;age being by Sea, an account of Gods workings (for <HI>Plymouth)</HI> again&s;t the Enemy, cannot &s;o &s;peedily be given as might be wi&s;hed and expected, be&s;ides the Commanders (being more de&s;irous to &s;erve their God and Country, then to gaggle like hens on the laying of every Egge) are contented to be &s;ilent, untill there is enough acted to fill up a Relation. Now there|fore not willing that Gods mercies &s;hould be &s;tifled, but publi&s;hed for his glory, and the heartning of &s;uch as &s;tand up couragiou&s;ly, for the Lord again&s;t the mighty, this en&s;uing Narration (as a continuation of the mo&s;t ob&s;ervable pa&s;&s;a|ges in and about <HI>Plymouth)</HI> is thought fit to be publi&s;hed.</P>
<P>Our la&s;t ended Decemb. <HI>25.</HI> and this begins Ian. <HI>26.</HI> for in the Interimour great care was, and &s;till is, to fortifie the Towne, in pulling down Hedges, without our Works, in re|pairing decayed and ruined Out-works, in building new, where they are wanting, and running Brea&s;tworks from worke to worke: Two new works are made, two repaired that fell down, Decemb. <HI>25.</HI> at night, the very night, after the enemy remo|ved the &s;trait &s;iege, and let not the world wonder, that we lay &s;till a month, without encounters, when we had &s;o many hun|dred hedges, to pull down, and <HI>3.</HI> miles of ground, to be new fortified again&s;t the Enemy, be&s;ides the &s;leighting of the Enemies works.</P>
<P>If none of this had bin Nece&s;&s;ary, it might have bin need|full to refre&s;h &s;uch a tyred, and almo&s;t worne-out Garri&s;on, it being common in the winter, for the poore Souldiers to en|dure <HI>6.</HI> or <HI>7.</HI> nights duty, without releife, be&s;ides their hard bickerings, and encounters with the Enemy.</P>
<P>But if the world knew, what rubs again&s;t action hath lain in the way, it would not wonder that, that gallant garri&s;on hath given no better account to the Parilament, how-ever take this Narration for a truth without que&s;tioning it, and ble&s;&s;e God for this, and pray for them that are (by Gods a&s;|&s;i&s;tance) re&s;olved to doe more.</P>
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<HEAD>A CONTINVATION of the true Narration of the mo&s;t ob&s;er|vable pa&s;&s;ages in and about <HI>Plymouth.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>January</HI> 26. 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe Enemie lying at <HI>Plympton,</HI> and at <HI>Buckland,</HI> and in other Pari&s;hes in their Quarters, &s;allied out and fell on &s;ome of our Men, that were abroad in the Country, but when we heard of it we drew forth our hor&s;e, Major <HI>Hal&s;ey</HI> commanding in Chiefe, fell upon the Enemie in <HI>Tamerton</HI> 4 miles from the Towne, where we tooke nine hor&s;es, and nine Pri&s;oners, and one &s;laine.</P>
<P><HI>February</HI> 24. Captaine Lieutenant <HI>Chafin</HI> was &s;ent out with a party of hor&s;e to fall upon the Enemies guard at <HI>Tre|nimans</HI> or <HI>Trenl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">mans</HI> Iumpe 4. miles from the Towne where we beate them off their guard, and tooke 25. hor&s;e, and one Pri&s;oner, and lo&s;t but one hor&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>March</HI> 15. One of Col. <HI>Goulds</HI> men, and &s;ome others go|ing into the Country, upon &s;ome occa&s;ions, the Enemy came upon them and tooke the Colonels man (&s;ince redeemed) and when the Alarum came into the Towne, Major <HI>Hal&s;ey</HI> commanding in Cheife, we drew forth our hor&s;e and pur|&s;ued the Enemy to <HI>Trenimans</HI> Iumpe, where we fell upon their guard, and beate them out of their guard hou&s;e, &s;lew 3 of their men, and tooke 10 hor&s;e, and &s;ix Pri&s;oners, 2 Drums and 9 Muskets, and lo&s;t not a man.</P>
<P><HI>March</HI> the 20^<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">^h, Captaine Leiutenant <HI>Chafin</HI> Comman|ding
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in Cheife, was &s;ent out with a Party of 60. hor&s;e and fell upon the Enemies guard afore&s;aid, where we beate them out of their guard, and pur&s;ued them about a mile upon the Downe towards <HI>Tani&s;tocke,</HI> and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> about ten men of them, and tooke ten Pri&s;oners, one Captaine, one Leiutenant, one Quarterma&s;ter, and tooke thirty hor&s;e be&s;ides what was wounded of the Enemy, and ran away over the Hedges for&s;aking their hor&s;es, and we lo&s;t but one hor&s;e and two men wounded, and &s;o returned &s;afe home to <HI>Plymouth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>March</HI> 27. That Unparraled (in re&s;pect of the We&s;t) Colonell <HI>Gould</HI> parted this life, being cald to Ie&s;us Chri&s;t to have a Crowne of Gold, &s;et on his head, for his golden acti|vity, and fidelity, and undefatigable Patience and expence, to help the Lord again&s;t the Mighty, in purging the Church and Common-wealth, being lamented of all but malicious and ambitious Malignants.</P>
<P>By his death, the affaires of the Towne likely to be out of order, a Commi&s;&s;ion was granted to the Major of <HI>Plymouth,</HI> Colonell <HI>Crocker,</HI> Lieutenant Colonell <HI>Martin</HI> for the ordering of the affaires of the Garri&s;on, untill a Comman|der in Chiefe was &s;ent from the Parliament.</P>
<P>The command of the I&s;land, remaining in the hand of Captaine <HI>Henry Hat&s;ell,</HI> a Captaine of &s;uch known inte|grity, that though enuious &s;tomacks, may raile again&s;t him yet they cannot draw off the affections of the well affected in <HI>Plymouth,</HI> from a high e&s;teeme of his approoved valour and fidelity.</P>
<P>The command of the Fort, is in the hands of Captain <HI>Samuel Birtch,</HI> who intends to keepe them, as they have &s;ignified to the Parliament, for them and none el&s;e, the Gar|ri&s;ons of both prote&s;ting the &s;ame con&s;tancy and fidelity.</P>
<P>The 16 of <HI>Aprill</HI> (the Major of <HI>Plymouth</HI> and Colonell <HI>Crocker</HI> having transferr'd the power they had from Colo|nell <HI>Wardlaw,</HI> unto Lieutenant Colonell <HI>Martin</HI> alone)&punc; Intelligence being brought that the Enemy (neere 500.) drew neere us, and quartered at Saint <HI>Bud<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">aux</HI> (common|ly called Saint <HI>Buttocks,</HI> two miles from <HI>Plymouth</HI> on <HI>De|von&s;hire &s;ide)</HI> Lieutenant Colonell <HI>Martin,</HI> &s;ent out about
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600. Commanded Mu&s;quetiers, with &s;ome Hor&s;e, to fall upon them, 17. Colours being &s;ent to face <HI>Plymton</HI> (a grand quarter of the Enemie) In the meane time, but our forlorne hope of Hor&s;e, (by mi&s;take of the guides, went one way, and the body of foot another, notwith&s;tanding our foot comming up undi&s;covered fell on the Enemie, and put them to flight, killed two of them, and took in Saint <HI>Budeaux</HI> Tower, and in their flight 44. pri&s;oners, be&s;ides Leiutenant <HI>Corey,</HI> &s;ometimes &s;ervant to Sir <HI>Bevile Greenvile,</HI> Leiutenant Colonell <HI>Porters</HI> En&s;igne, three Barrels of Powder 20. hor&s;e above a 100. armes, Major Collins, Captaine <HI>Vacy</HI> of <HI>Ta|merton,</HI> Captaine <HI>Tavernor</HI> hardly e&s;caping by rea&s;on of the ab&s;ence of our hor&s;e; mo&s;t of the&s;e pri&s;oners having taken the Covenant, and have taken up armes for us &s;ince.</P>
<P>We have omitted one barbarous act of Sir <HI>Richard Greenvill,</HI> (that Runnagado) committed the weeke before, who having taken two of our Souldiers, going out into the Country, inforced one to hang the other pre&s;ently at the next tree they came to, the Cavaleers di&s;patching the Sur|vivor, Skellum <HI>Greenvile</HI> &s;itting on his hor&s;e beholding the &s;pectacle.</P>
<P><HI>Aprill</HI> 19, 200. Musketiers with &s;ome hor&s;e were com|manded to fall on the Enemy, at <HI>Newbridge</HI> (in the way to <HI>Plympton)</HI> and the command was, that our forelorne hope &s;hould not fall on untill the Releife was in &s;ight, but di&s;obeying the command fell on when the reliefe was a mile behind, yet they beate them from hedge to hedge, and one brea&s;tworke on this &s;ide the bridge, but their Powder being &s;pent and the greate&s;t part of the Enemies forces at <HI>Plymp|ton</HI> comming into the reliefe, our forlorne having &s;pent their Powder they were compel'd to retreit, but fairely without the lo&s;&s;e of a man only two or three wounded.</P>
<P><HI>Aprill</HI> 27. 40. foot &s;allyed from <HI>Prince Rocke,</HI> to <HI>Plumlet</HI> mills, a quarter of the Enemie lying in a Creeke again&s;t <HI>Prince Rocke,</HI> the Enemie fled like Hares, and our Men tooke 16 foot, Armes, one Drumme, five Hogs, five Cowes.</P>
<P>As our Forces have not beene altogether idle and &s;ucce&s;|le&s;&s;e at Land, &s;o they have not of late beene loyterous at Sea,
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our Remora's being removed, for our Seamen at three &s;e|verall times have fallen on the Enemies Country and brought away a 100. &s;heepe.</P>
<P><HI>Aprill</HI> 25. the Packet boate tooke a Barke loaden with Iri&s;h Cloath, Tallow, Hides &amp;c. and &s;ince this another boate hath taken a Hoy loaden with three Butts of French wine, wherein were three Grand <HI>Corni&s;h</HI> Cavaleers, and it is with|out exception, that if our Ships might have Commi&s;&s;ion to land men on the Corni&s;h &s;hoare, we &s;hould not onely helpe <HI>Plymouth</HI> to many nece&s;&s;aries, but al&s;o fill the <HI>Corni&s;h</HI> hands &s;o full with watering their owne &s;hoare that they &s;hould have little liberty and le&s;&s;e heart to fall on <HI>Devon&s;hire</HI> or <HI>Plymouth.</HI></P>
<P>We cannot conceale what we have by our intelligencers from the Country.</P>
<P N="1">1. We are informed that Skellum <HI>Greenvile</HI> hath &s;eized on the Lord of <HI>Bedfords</HI> E&s;tate, and Ma&s;ter <HI>Cuttiners</HI> E&s;tate, and &s;ent him Pri&s;oner to <HI>Exon,</HI> making havock of his goods and Corne.</P>
<P N="2">2. That the &s;aid Runnigado <HI>Greenvile</HI> builds very much at <HI>Fitzford,</HI> (I hope Ca&s;tles in the aire, or hou&s;es without foundation) and boa&s;ts that he little doubts of having <HI>Plymouth</HI> &s;peedily, but the Garri&s;on, and <HI>Plymouth</HI> will not beleeve him.</P>
<P N="3">3. That the Enemie indeavours all he can to rai&s;e Forces, to fall on <HI>Plymouth,</HI> and carry them Ea&s;t-wards, threatning to hang &s;uch as refu&s;e, and having pre&s;&s;ed &s;ix in <HI>Lifton</HI> Pati&s;h (according to which Proportion, their whole number of pre&s;&s;ed men will amount to 2500. men in the whole County) they were compelled to &s;end a guard with them to <HI>Exon.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. That there were lately expected 7000. to appeare at <HI>Exon</HI> (as the Cavaleers report) but there appear'd but 700. which &s;o mooved Sir <HI>John Berklies</HI> wor&s;hip that he pre&s;&s;ed the Con&s;tables; a fit reward for their Activity.</P>
<P N="5">5. That the generallity of the Country (notwith&s;tanding the Oath,) are well affected to the Parliament, but want &s;ome force to countenance them in the Country to cut the Cava|leers throats, to free them&s;elves of their iron bondage.</P>
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6. That <HI>Arundell</HI> of <HI>Chiddock</HI> in <HI>Dor&s;et&s;hire,</HI> a Papi&s;t is carrying his goods into <HI>Cornwall,</HI> and hath &s;ei&s;ed on the Pious Lord <HI>Roberts</HI> ch<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ldren, and committed them to &s;afe cu&s;to|dy at <HI>Bodmin,</HI> this is confirmed once and aga<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n.</P>
<P N="7">7. That the Lord <HI>Mohun Edgcombe</HI> and <HI>lane</HI> are returned from the Feminine Junto at <HI>Oxford.</HI></P>
<P N="8">8. That it is reported that the Queen is at <HI>Exon,</HI> whence &s;ince her invi&s;ible arrivall, divers warants have been i&s;&s;ued out to command the Train bands to make their per&s;onall appea|rance, and to bring all fat cattle into the City, whereby it is likely they expect a Seige.</P>
<P N="9">9. That the Kings Privie Seales are abroad to make up a 100000.^l. given (in words) to his Maje&s;ty, for the re<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">uting of him&s;elf, &amp; his de&s;troying Army, by the perjur'd Junto at <HI>Oxon</HI></P>
<P N="10">10. That the County is ordered to prepare 3. Sub&s;idies, &s;pee|dily, which they cannot well dige&s;t, you may vi&s;ibly &s;ee the mi&s;ery of the County, let not the Countries Patriots be for|getful of that County, that have expended aboue 150000^l. for their defence, let it not &s;eem &s;mall that it &s;its in du&s;t and a&s;hes like a widow looking for &s;ome to helpe, but none appeares; You may &s;ee how God hath pre&s;erved that poor Garri&s;on at <HI>Plammouth,</HI> being as it was &s;aid of <HI>Brittain, Divi&s;os orbe</HI> I hope <HI>non cura et amore,</HI> of &s;uch as have the care committed to them. Let it &s;eeme mo&s;t equall to them, to take care of their ne|ce&s;&s;itated friends that account not their lives too dear for them; and it cannot but be very pious for the gods on earth to imi|tate the God of heaven, in taking care for <HI>Plimmouth</HI> town and Garri&s;on.</P>
<P><HI>Aprill</HI> 25. The Con&s;table of <HI>Edg-Buckland</HI> was brought in hither who had a warrant from St. <HI>Thomas Hele</HI> (not all of the wi&s;e&s;t) requiring the appearance of his Pari&s;hionets with their armes at <HI>Modbury,</HI> and for the providing of new arms (if they can get them) in the place of &s;uch as are wanting.</P>
<P>It cannot be &s;uperfluous to give intelligence of Gods gra|cious di&s;covery of feminine Malignants and traitors in <HI>Plim|mouth,</HI> one whereof is committed to the Ca&s;tle for holding cor|re&s;pondency with the Enemy.</P>
<P>The Articles prooved again&s;t her on Oath are, fir&s;t that &s;he
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hath &s;ent &s;uits of apparrell to one <HI>Collens</HI> a runnigado of <HI>Plimmouth,</HI> who endeavored with <HI>Pike</HI> his confort to betray the towne, as in our former narration we have expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P N="2">2. That by me&s;&s;age &s;he di&s;covered to the Enemy what &s;tore of Powder was in the town.</P>
<P N="3">3. That &s;he invited the Enemy to a&s;lault the Towne.</P>
<P N="4">4. That &s;he de&s;ired Major <HI>Harris</HI> (a Cavaleer) to quarter in her hou&s;e, <HI>viz.</HI> when the Town was taken.</P>
<P N="5">5. That &s;he &s;econded her former invitation with intreaties of a &s;pecdy on&s;late, fal&s;ely informing them that the Prote&s;tant Reli ion (&s;ince our covenanting) was decaying and breathing its la&s;t ga&s;pein <HI>Plimmouth.</HI></P>
<P>For the other Virago we &s;hall let her &s;leep for a while, that her &s;hame and doom may be the heavier.</P>
<P>It is not to be omitted to &s;ee how providence watcheth ouer the towne, for though ever &s;ince the gaining of Mount <HI>Stanfort</HI> the enemy hath daily continued &s;hooting into the towne. Some daies &s;cores of great &s;hot liberally &s;pent, yet the hurt that they have done is but a trifie, and the People &s;o far from being affrighted, that they &s;lighted it being hardned, our boates daily going into the Sound, and to <HI>Milbay</HI> under the mouth of the Cannon, and within le&s;&s;e then Musket &s;hot.</P>
<P>It is worth knowing for imitation, that Col. <HI>Gould</HI> hath much purged the Carri&s;on, from &s;wearers, drunkards, and ab|hominable livers, cau&s;ing the town and Garri&s;on to be very carefull in ob&s;erving the Lords day, daies of humiliation, &amp; to be frequently pre&s;ent at the ordinances of the Lord of Ho&s;ts.</P>
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<HEAD>Sir <HI>Richard Greenviles</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<HEAD>For Col. <HI>Gold,</HI> together with the Officers and Souldiers now at the Fort, and Towne of <HI>Plimmouth,</HI> The&s;e.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THat it may not &s;eeme &s;trange unto you, to under&s;tand of my being ingaged in his Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, to come a|gain&s;t <HI>Plymouth</HI> as an Enemy, I &s;hall let you truely know the occa&s;ion thereof. It is very true, that I came from <HI>Ireland</HI> with a de&s;ire and intention, to look after my own particular
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fortune in <HI>England,</HI> and not to ingage my &s;elf in any kind, in the unhappy difference bet wixt the King, and the pretended Parliament now at <HI>London.</HI> But chuicing to land at <HI>Liver|poole,</HI> the Parliaments forces there, brought me to <HI>London,</HI> where I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e I received from both the pretended hou&s;es of Parliament, great tokens of favour, and al&s;o impor|tunate motions to ingage me to &s;erve them, which I civilly refu&s;ed: afterwards divers honourable per&s;ons of the preten|ded Parliament, importuned me to undertake their &s;ervice for the Government and defence of <HI>Plymouth:</HI> unto which my an&s;wer was, that it was fit (before I ingaged my &s;elf) I &s;hould under&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd what meanes they could &amp; would allow &amp; pro|vide for the effectuall p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rformance of that &s;ervice, upon that a Committee appo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nted for the We&s;t, thought fit with all &s;peede to &s;end a pre&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nt reliefe of Men and Munition to <HI>Ply|mouth,</HI> which with very great difficulty was brought thither, being the la&s;t you had, afterwards there were many meetings more of that Committee, to provide the means that &s;hould give <HI>Plymouth</HI> reliefe, and enable it to defend it &s;elf, and not|with&s;tanding the earne&s;t de&s;ires, and endeavours of that Com|mittee accordingly, I prote&s;t before God, after &s;ix moneths expectation, &amp; attendance on that Committee by me, I found no hopes or likelyhood of, but rea&s;onable means for the reliefe and defence of <HI>Plymouth,</HI> which made me account it a lo&s;t Town, &amp; the rather becau&s;e I being by Commi&s;&s;ion, Leiut. Generall to Sir <HI>William Waller,</HI> had an ordinance of the Par|liament for the rai&s;ing of 500. hor&s;e for my Regement at the charges of <HI>Kent, Surry. Su&s;&s;ex, Hamp&s;hire,</HI> who in 3 moneths time, had not rai&s;ed 4 Troopes, and my own Troope, when I left them having 2 months pay due to them, could get but one month, for which extraordinary means was u&s;ed, being a fa|vour none el&s;e could attain, it being very true, that the Parlia|ments forces, have all beene unpaid for many months, in &s;uch &s;ort, that they are grown weak, both in Men and Monies, and have by only good words kept their forces from di&s;banding. The proce&s;&s;e of &s;o long tune &s;pent at <HI>London,</HI> made me and many others plainly &s;ee the inquity of their Policy, for I found Religion was the cloak for Rebellion, &amp; it &s;eemed not &s;trange to me, when I found the Prote&s;tant religion was infected with &s;o many independants and Sectaries of infinite kinds, which
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would not heare of a peace, but &s;uch as would be in &s;ome kind as pernicious as was the warre. The Priviledges of this Parliament I found was not to be bound by any of the former, but to lay them a&s;ide &amp; alter them as they advantaged their party. This &s;eemed &s;o o|dious to me that I re&s;olved to lay my &s;elf, as I have done, at his Ma: feete, from whence &amp; his mo&s;t ju&s;t cau&s;e, no fortune, terrour or cruelty, &s;hall make me &s;weru, in any kind: and to let you &s;ee al&s;o what hath formerly pa&s;t, I have &s;ent you the&s;e inclo&s;ed. Now for a farwell; I mu&s;t wi&s;h, and advi&s;e you, out of the true and faithfull love and affection, I am bound to beare toward mine own Coun|try, that you &s;peedily con&s;ider your great charges, lo&s;&s;es, &amp; future dangers, by making and holding your &s;elves enemies to his Maje|&s;tie, who doth more truly de&s;ire your welfare and &s;afety, then it &s;eemes you doe your &s;elves, wherefore, (as yet my friends) I de&s;ire you to re&s;olve &s;peedily of your Propo&s;itions for peace, by which you may &s;oone injoy your liberties, contents, &amp; e&s;tates, but on the contrary, the contrary which with a &s;ad heart I &s;peake; you will very &s;oon &s;ee the effect of. Thus my affection urgeth me to impart unto you, out of the great de&s;ire I have, rather to regaine my lo&s;t old friends by love, then by force to &s;ubject them to ruine, and in that con&s;ideration I mu&s;t thus conclude.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Fitzford</HI> <DATE>18 <HI>Martij.</HI> 1643.</DATE></DATELINE>

<SIGNED>Your loving friend Rich. Greenvile.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>In Sir <HI>Richard Greenviles</HI> letter was inclo&s;ed a book Intituled, <HI>The iniquity of the Covenant,</HI> which was burnt in the Market place, by the hand of the common Hangman, according to the or|der of the Councell of Warre, &amp; a Proclamation that if any per&s;on had any of tho&s;e books and did not bring them forth they &s;hould be accounted and dealt withall as enemies to the &s;tate and Town.</P>
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<HEAD>The An&s;wer of the Commanders of the Garri&s;on of Plymmouth to this Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THough your Letter meriting our highe&s;t contempt and &s;corne, which once we thought fit by our &s;ilence, (judging it unworthy of an an&s;wer) to have te&s;tified. Yet con&s;idering that your &s;elf intends to make it publique, we offer you the&s;e lines, that the world may &s;ee what e&s;teeme we have of the man, no|torious for Apo&s;tacy and Trechery, &amp; that we are ready to di&s;pute the ju&s;tne&s;&s;e and equity of our cau&s;e in any lawfull way, whereto the Enemy &s;hall at any time challenge us, you might well have &s;pared the giving us an account of your di&s;&s;imulation with the
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Parliament, we were &s;oone &s;atisfied &amp; our wonder is not &s;o great that you are now gone from us, as at fir&s;t when we under&s;tood of your ingagement to us: &amp; to tel you truth, it plea&s;ed us not &s;o wel to hear you were named to be a Governor for this place, as now it doth to know you are in arms again&s;t us; we accounting our &s;elves &s;afer to have you an enemy abroad, then a pretended friend at home: being per&s;waded that your principles could not afford cor|diall endeavors for an hone&s;t Cau&s;e. You tell us of the pretended hou&s;es of Parl. at <HI>London</HI> a thred-bare &s;candal &s;uckt from <HI>Aulicus,</HI> who&s;e reward, or a Bp. ble&s;&s;ing, you may chance to be honoured w^t^h for your Court-&s;ervice: &amp; how they make Religion the cloak of Rebellion, a garment which we are confident your Rebellion wil never be clad with: you advi&s;e us to con&s;ider the great charges we have beene at, and the future dangers we runn our &s;elves into, by making our &s;elves enemies to his Maje&s;ty, who more de&s;ires our good then we our &s;elves; &amp; thence would have us propo&s;e condi|tions for Peace. That we have bin at great charges already, we are &s;ufficiently &s;en&s;ible, &amp; yet re&s;olve that it &s;hall not any way le&s;&s;en our affections to that Cau&s;e, with which God hath honoured us, by making us in&s;truments to plead it again&s;t the malicious Adver|&s;aries. If the King be our enemy, yet <HI>Oxford</HI> cannot proove that we have made him &s;o. That his Maje&s;tie de&s;ires our wel-fare, we can ea&s;ily admit, as well, as that its the mi&s;cheivous Councellors &s;o neere him, who render him cruel to his mo&s;t faithful &s;ubjects: &amp; as for our propo&s;ing conditions of peace, we &s;hall mo&s;t gladly do it when it may advance the publique &s;ervice; but to do it to the ene|mies of peace, though we have bin thereto formerly invited, yet hath it plea&s;ed the di&s;po&s;er of all things, to pre&s;erve us from the nece&s;&s;ity of it, &amp; to &s;upport us again&s;t all the fury of the inraged e|nemy: the &s;ame God, is &s;till our rock &amp; refuge, under who&s;e wings we doubt not of protectio~ &amp; &s;afety, when the Seducers of a King &s;hall die like a candle, and that name which by &s;uch cour&s;es is &s;ought to be perpetual in honor, &s;hal end in ignominy: forthe want of mony to pay the Parliaments &s;ouldiers, though it be not &s;uch as you would per&s;wade us; yet certain we are their trea&s;ury had now bin greater, &amp; hone&s;t men better &s;atisfied but that &s;ome as unfaith|full as your &s;elfe, have gone before you inbetraying them both of their tru&s;t &amp; riches. Whereas you mind us of the lo&s;t condition of our town, &s;ure it cannot be you &s;hould be &s;o truly per&s;waded of it, as they are of your per&s;onall, who &s;ub&s;cribe them&s;elves, and &s;o re|maine friends to the faithfull.</P>
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