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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>The Copy of a LETTER FROM Duke Hamilton, TO THE MINISTERS AT <HI>LANCASTER,</HI> With their ANSWER to the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Publi&s;hed by Authority.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for <HI>Edward Hu&s;band,</HI> Printer to the Honora|ble Hou&s;e of Commons. <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 25. 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>FOR SUCH MINISTERS Of this Shire as are now at LANCASTER, And have lately for&s;aken their own DVVELLINGS.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Reverend Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_BEing informed that divers of the Mini&s;try of Lanca&s;hire, upon the cau&s;le&s;s apprehen&s;ion of receiving injury from this Army, have lately for&s;aken their Charge and Benefices, and are now at Lanca&s;ter, to the inconveniences of them&s;elves
<PB N="4" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 7 -->and Pari&s;hioners, for the which I am grieved; and that they &s;hould &s;o far mi&s;take our intentions in coming hi|ther, it being for &s;ettling Presbyterian Government according to the Cove|nant, liberating and ree&s;tabli&s;hing His Maje&s;ty, and for other ends conducing to the good &amp; Peace of the Kingdom, according to the Declaration herewith &s;ent, and not to harm any (much le&s;s) the Mini&s;ters of this Countrey; I there|fore thought good to certifie, that &s;uch as have &s;o ab&s;ented them&s;elves, may freely and without fear return to their &s;everal Dwellings, to exerci&s;e tho&s;e duties belonging to their Callings, without any prejudice to their Per|&s;ons, Families or Goods from any in this Army; and if any of them be plea&s;ed to repair unto me, I doubt not
<PB N="5" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 7 -->but to give them that &s;atisfaction, that they may clearly &s;ee, none &s;hall &s;tudy more the happine&s;s and pre&s;ervation of this Church according to the <HI>Cove|nant,</HI> then</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your a&s;&s;ured good Friend to &s;erve you, HAMILTON.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Hornby,</HI> <DATE>10 <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Excellency,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WE acknowledge our &s;elves but weak men, and therefore &s;ubject to mi&s;takes, but are not &s;atisfi|ed of any in having our pre&s;ent abode at Lanca&s;ter, it being incredible to us how we &s;hould have &s;afety and free|dom with your Army, knowing our old Enemies of Religion and the Kingdoms peace are with your Excel|lency: VVe have all taken the Cove|nant, and are zealous for ree&s;tabli&s;hing His Maje&s;ty, and doubt not the reality of the intentions of the two Hou&s;es of Parliament, according to their late De|clarations, nor yet of the &s;ettling <HI>Pre&s;|byterian Government,</HI> whereof we have lately had good a&s;&s;urance in this coun|ty,
<PB N="7" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 8 -->and how much we &s;hall own it (un|to the death) is known to all the world in our late <HI>Te&s;timony to the Truth of Je|&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> &s;ub&s;cribed by us, together with the re&s;t of our Brethren of this <HI>Province,</HI> unto which Truth we pray nothing may be acted prejudicial by your Excellency, and re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Lanca&s;ter,</HI> <DATE>10 <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your humble Servants,
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<ITEM><HI>Tho: Whithead.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iames Schoulcroft.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io: Iaques.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Pet: Atkin&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io: Syll.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edw: A&s;ton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho: Denny.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io: Smith.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sam: Elwood.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho: Fancet.</HI></ITEM>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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