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<P>The Navall Expedition, OF The Right Honourable, <HI>ROBERT,</HI> Earle of <HI>WARWICK,</HI> (Lord High Admiral of ENGLAND) again&s;t the Revolted SHIPS: Being a true and perfect Relation of the whole Ex|pedition, from their fir&s;t &s;etting out from <HI>Chatham,</HI> to their returne againe into the <HI>Downes.</HI> ALSO A Narrative or briefe Relation of the &s;eyerall Acts of Gods Providence to the Parliaments Fleete, under his Lord&s;hips Command in the &s;aid Expe|dition: Together with a dete&s;tation of that Scandalous Pamphlet of Joyning or Adhearing to the <HI>PRINCE</HI> his Fleete.</P>
<P><HI>All which is Publi&s;hed by the &s;everall and Re&s;pective Commanders under his Lord&s;hip in Vindication of his Honour, and them&s;elves: To which they have all &s;et their Hands.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>Matthew Simons,</HI> for <HI>Hannah Allen,</HI> and are to be &s;ould at her Shop, at the Crowne in <HI>Popes-head</HI> Ally. 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>THE Navall Expedition, OF The Right Honourable, <HI>Robert</HI> Earl of <HI>Warwicke,</HI> (Lord High Admirall of ENGLAND) a|gain&s;t the revolted Ships.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen wee call to minde tho&s;e many acts of Gods providence and goodne&s;&s;e, which was manife&s;ted from time to time to the Parliaments Fleet under the Command of the Right Honourable <HI>Robert</HI> Earl of <HI>Warwicke,</HI> Lord High Admirall of <HI>Eng|land</HI> in the late expedition again&s;t the revolted &s;hips, who had mo&s;t perfidiou&s;ly betrayed their tru&s;t, as al&s;o their owne con&s;ciences in violating and breaking tho&s;e Oaths and Prote&s;tations which the Officers and Marriners of the &s;aid &s;hip, had formerly taken to be true to the Parliament and Kingdomes.
<PB N="4" REF="3">Therefore wee &s;ay, having had much experience of Gods love and goodne&s;&s;e in the &s;aid ju&s;t undertakings for the Kingdomes, We thought our &s;elves obliged from that duty wee owe unto Al|mighty God the Author of this great mercy, and to all Chri&s;ti|an good men who are lovers of truth and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and al&s;o their Countreyes liberties, not to be altogether &s;ilent in this, but to &s;peake and publi&s;h &s;orth &s;omething of it to the World, that all &s;uch who feare the Lord, may prai&s;e his Name with us, who have been eye-witne&s;&s;es of Gods power and goodne&s;&s;e in ow|ning of us, and wee doe verily believe it may convince many, who were then great Enemies to our late proceedings, if they &s;hall &s;eriou&s;ly lay to heart the following particulars.</P>
<P>As fir&s;t, when our Lord Admirall went to <HI>Chatham,</HI> to or|der the &s;etting out of &s;hips appointed for that &s;ervice, It is not unknown to many, that his Lord&s;hip had many Enemies who laboured night and day as much as in them lay to ob&s;truct the &s;etting forth the &s;aid Fleet, and yet many of the&s;e would be ac|counted faithfull Members to the Parliament and Kingdome, but they at that time proved them&s;elves to be the Kingdomes greate&s;t Enemies.</P>
<P>Secondly, There was great endeavouring in all places to hin|der the Sea-men from engaging tho&s;e wicked Revolters, and to accompli&s;h this if it had beene po&s;&s;ible, there were great and large promi&s;es made to &s;everall Marriners in ca&s;e they would forbeare Engaging in that Cau&s;e of God, which they them&s;elves and many thou&s;ands had long &s;erved in, and &s;o long as they con|tinued faithfull to their Engagements, Gods ble&s;&s;ing and favour was &s;till upon them in their undertakings.</P>
<P>Thirdly, The falling off of the Sea-men, was (as it were) univer&s;all in all places, for that a mighty &s;pirit of Errour and Delu&s;ion had po&s;&s;e&s;t them, in&s;omuch as they were for a time gi|ven over to &s;trong delu&s;ions to believe lyes, and &s;o farre blinded in their judgements, that many or mo&s;t of them went again&s;t their owne Intere&s;t, in &s;tanding for tho&s;e who re&s;olved to joyne with the Iri&s;h or any Sea-rover what&s;oever, to accompli&s;h and
<PB N="5" REF="3">bring to pa&s;&s;e their wikced de&s;ignes. And certainly this was the very roade to have de&s;troyed all Trade: and that &s;ailing, Mar|riners with their Families in a &s;hort time might beg their bread: and to confirme the truth of this, we doe believe many can &s;peak by &s;ad experience, who have &s;uffered in the lo&s;&s;e of their &s;hips and goods which were &s;urprized by the Revolters, and &s;ince that what a Harve&s;t hath the Iri&s;h had upon the Merchant and owner, even unto the undoing of &s;ome, and all this principally occa&s;io|ned by the revolt of the &s;aid &s;hips.</P>
<P>Fourthly, The malice, rage, and madne&s;&s;e of many was &s;o high again&s;t all who engaged under his Lord&s;hip, that their mouths were filled with cur&s;ings, railings, and revilings, &s;aying many of them, that our going forth would prove our de&s;truction. And this our Enemies were confident of, though (ble&s;&s;ed be God) we were per&s;waded to the contrary, knowing the Cau&s;e to be Gods Cau&s;e wee engaged in: But notwith&s;tanding all this Oppo&s;ition and Malignant working, there were a number of faithfull and cordiall men, who&s;e hearts God drew forth to en|gage with his Lord&s;hip, and for others who were (un&s;table in their mindes) as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, wanting principles to cary them out in &s;uch a time, when &s;o much difficulty appeared: and for the&s;e many of them as they were taught, did often &s;ay, that they would never engage again&s;t their Brothers, as they called them. But when the Prince his Fleet came up into the River with a full a&s;&s;urance of having mo&s;t or all the &s;hips which then were with his Lord&s;hip. Wee &s;ay at that time of their comming up, Almighty God was plea&s;ed then to &s;hew his pow|er in changing the hearts of many who were un&s;table, in&s;o|much that they immediately re&s;olved as one man to live and dye with his Lord&s;hip again&s;t the Revolters, though then they in number for &s;hipping and men were more then his Lord&s;hip, the Port&s;mouth Fleete not then being joyned with him, and this great worke of &s;etting the hearts of the men right, was imme|diately done at the very time they had fir&s;t fight of the Enemy, and wee mu&s;t acknowledge this to be Gods owne worke, for none hath power over the hearts of the Sonnes of men but him|&s;elfe, being able to change them as he plea&s;esh. At that time
<PB N="6" REF="4">his Lord&s;hip called a Councell of Warre, finding much gal|lantry and re&s;olution among&s;t his men, that it was then re&s;ol|ved to fight the Revolters; which accordingly had been done, had not the Almighty prevented the &s;ame by a &s;uddaine gu&s;t of winde which came downe upon them and us, and in this was a &s;peciall hand of Providence; For had there beene an Engage|ment at that time in the place wee and they were in, being a|mong&s;t the Sands, in all probability, it would have hazarded all or the lo&s;&s;e of the greate&s;t part of both the Fleetes, but this was prevented by the hand of Heaven.</P>
<P>Fifthly, As his Lord&s;hip had much experience of the Coun|ter-workings of Enemies, &s;o wee the re&s;pective Commanders of <HI>Port&s;mouth</HI> and <HI>Harwich</HI> &s;hips under his Lord&s;hips command, had &s;ufficient Experience of Malignant Agents working among&s;t our men, as they had opportunity to meete them a&s;hore, fil|ling their heads with lyes and fal&s;ities, as telling them the Prince had forty States-men of Warre with him, many Danes &s;hips, and the like, but this was not all; for they had variety of lyes, which they daily &s;pread among&s;t them, purpo&s;ely to di&s;tract them, and breake our De&s;igne of comming forth if they could, which horrid wicked lying &s;pirit, then working in all parts, wee confe&s;&s;e occa&s;ioned many di&s;turbances among the men, to the griefe and &s;adning the &s;pirits of all hone&s;t men who beheld the &s;ame: but the ble&s;&s;ing of God being upon our Endeavours, who were the re&s;pective Commanders, wee brought the &s;hips to Sea &s;o &s;oone as wee had Order from his Lord&s;hip to &s;aile towards him, and the twenty &s;eventh of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> was the day the <HI>Port&s;|mouth</HI> Fleet &s;et &s;aile from that Harbour, which in number great and &s;mall were tenne: And the la&s;t of the &s;aid moneth, the &s;aid Fleet came to an Anchor off of the place called the <HI>Long-&s;and</HI> head, the Revolters being then betweene the Lord Admi|rall and the <HI>Port&s;mouth</HI> Fleete, and about eight in the night they pa&s;&s;ed by, onely the <HI>Swallow</HI> their Rare-Admirall, and the <HI>Con&s;tant-Warwicke</HI> came in among&s;t the <HI>Port&s;mouth</HI> Fleet to tell them lyes, &s;aying they were of the Lord Admirall his Fleete, and therefore advi&s;ed &s;ome whom they then &s;poke withall, to wey their Anchors and follow them, for that his Lord&s;hip
<PB N="7" REF="4">(as they &s;aid) with his Fleet was gone after the P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">nce to the Norward: but none of this treachery or lyes of their would take with the Commanders they then &s;poke withall, God giving them more wi&s;dome then to believe lyes, being that which their perfidious De&s;igne both by Sea and Land hath been carryed on by.</P>
<P>The next day being <HI>Friday</HI> the fir&s;t of <HI>September,</HI> God brought the two Fleetes to a happy conjunction, at which meeting there was great &s;houting among the men for joy: and wee are confident that newes of our joyning gladded the hearts of all hone&s;t men &s;o &s;oone as they heard of it: but as for the Enemie, it was apparant, they were filled with feare, as al&s;o enfatuated in their mindes and judgements, o|therwi&s;e certainely they never would have pa&s;&s;ed by the <HI>Port&s;|mouth</HI> Fleete as they did, without attempting to doe &s;ome|thing upon them, in regard they had advantage and &s;ight of them before night, in that they knew them to be the &s;aid Fleete; yet they were mi&s;taken in them, and knew them not to be the Revolters' till they were pa&s;&s;ed by.</P>
<P>In this very act of Providence among all others, we cannot but acknowledge God in it: But &s;uch was the enemies feare, God bringing the 2. Flee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;o neere a conjunction as that they would not abide to &s;ee their uniting, knowing the &s;ame would prove de&s;tructive to them, which undoub|tedly, had Providence ordered their &s;tay one day longer up|on our Coa&s;t, by Gods ble&s;&s;ing wee &s;hould have given them their fatall blow, but their time not being come, in that their Iniquity and Sip is not yet at the height, they had liberty at that time to e&s;cape, and &s;o fled into <HI>Holland</HI> Do|minions: But after the joyning of the Port&s;mouth Fleet with the Lord Admiralls, his Honour &s;haped his cour&s;e for the DOWNES, and after &s;ome &s;hort &s;tay there, at a Councell of Warre, re&s;olution was taken to &s;ayle for HOLLAND, and the &s;eaventeenth of <HI>September,</HI> wee &s;et Sayle out of the DOWNES with our Fleete
<PB N="6" REF="5">the Nineteenth wee arrived at GOREE in HOL|LAND.</P>
<P>Now at our going over, many of the Fleet had not much Victuall in, and after &s;ome time of our being there, the Winde comming faire, a Councell of Warre was called, to debate whether we &s;hould there continue longer or no, and it was then re&s;olved, that wee &s;hould clo&s;e with the Opportunity then pre&s;enting for our returne to ENGLAND, and in this wee did then Vote as wee were then per&s;waded in our judgements, would bee for the be&s;t, but no &s;ooner had wee taken this re&s;olution, but GOD Almighty the very next day that wee were to &s;ayle, cau&s;ed the Winde to &s;hift, which prevented our going out at that time, and wee further ob&s;erved the Winde had beene three dayes fayre before, and all that time no re&s;olution taken for &s;ayling from GOREE, and this wee &s;peake of, that it may appeare to all hone&s;t men, as it hath to us, to bee GODS owne worke in detaining of us &s;o long in HOLLAND, which wee hope hath not beene to no purpo&s;e, as &s;ome are ready to &s;ay:</P>
<P>But as GOD was plea&s;ed to change the Winde at that time for our &s;tay, &s;o hee did immediately alter the mindes of the re&s;pective Commanders, in letting them &s;ee, that it was his will and plea&s;ure they &s;hould abide longer there, whereby they might &s;ee more of his Almighty power, in breaking the &s;trength of a de&s;perate, perfidious, wicked, proud, in&s;ulting Enemy; For certainly all they which knew them, will &s;ay as much of them, being great and de&s;perate Bla&s;phemers of the ble&s;&s;ed name of GOD, deri|ders of goodne&s;&s;e, and all &s;uch who profe&s;&s;ed the &s;ame, drinking till many of them dyed as it were in the place, we &s;ay the&s;e crying &s;innes were common among them, and will GOD who is a GOD of holine&s;&s;e, pro&s;per and ble&s;&s;e &s;uch in tho&s;e unju&s;t wayes they are now upon? We leave this to all Chri&s;tian men to judge.</P>
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<P>6ly. As God was plea&s;ed to order our &s;tay longer in tho&s;e parts then we determined, &s;o hath he clearely let us &s;ee it was for good to a poor di&s;tracted Kingdome. For <HI>Novem|ber</HI> the fifth in the night, the <HI>Con&s;tant Warwick</HI> broke away from the Revolters, and came to our Fleet, (and the eight of that current, we weighed with our Fleet from <HI>Goree,</HI> and went up to tide before <HI>Helvord</HI> Sluce among the Revolters, the wind then being at <HI>North Ea&s;t,</HI> but &s;alling calme, all the Fleet could not get up that night, though part did. The &s;ame night the <HI>Hind</HI> Frigot broke from them al&s;o, at both the&s;e they &s;hot guns, but did them no harme. The next day being <HI>Thur&s;day,</HI> we got up with the re&s;t of our Fleet, but the Enemy being amaz'd and &s;truck with feare, as it plainly appeared to us by their working, for that &s;ome let &s;lip their Cables, others cut and left their Anchors behind them, which after were taken up by our Fleet, and after this valiant act of theirs, they run their &s;hips a&s;hore at the head of the &s;luce, where they lay two or three daies expo&s;ed to all weathers. But for the &s;hips called the <HI>Love</HI> and <HI>Satisfa|ction,</HI> the&s;e after &s;ome &s;hort di&s;pute were both delivered up, and not any man hurt in the action, though both of them man'd with Soldiers and Seamen. And that which is re|markable in this, &s;ome of them ingeniou&s;ly acknowledged that feare fell upon them.</P>
<P>7ly. By our &s;taying there, the greate&s;t part of their men run from them, and got &s;ome of them over into <HI>England,</HI> o|thers into <HI>Oftend,</HI> and many came away in our Fleet, &s;o that when we left them, they were in no condition to &s;et forth the foure Navy &s;hips this winter, their De&s;ign being much broken, which was for <HI>Ireland,</HI> and for future we hope will be prevented if God permit. Now hath not God in all this, fru&s;trated the expectations of many, as namely tho&s;e e&s;pecially, who boa&s;ted high of their Intere&s;t in the Seamen, a&s;&s;uring them&s;elves and Prince with his Adherents, that if the Revolters did but appeare where the Lord Admi|ralls Fleet was, all or mo&s;t of his &s;hips would come and joyne with them. But expertence we hope by this time hath made
<PB N="8" REF="6">that per&s;wa&s;ion, of theirs, to appeare to be fal&s;e, and to be on|ly fictions, from the workings of their own carnal back&s;liding heart, and as experience may convince them &s;o we heartily de&s;ire it may all others who were and are hone&s;t yet through unbeliefe and di&s;tru&s;t di&s;paired of &s;ucce&s;&s;e, not con&s;idering God hath the hearts of all men in his hands, and the Cau&s;e being his own, certainly the Lord was ingaged to fit In&s;tru|ments to doe his own worke, his Glory, and the deliverance of his poore People being concern'd therein. Had not the Almighty a&s;&s;ured the hearts of many of us, who ingaged in this Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, certainly we &s;hould never have undertaken the &s;ame, but we were made confident of &s;ucce&s;&s;e, knowing we had Gods enemies to deale withall, being &s;uch who had betrayed their Tru&s;t, their own Con&s;ciences, and as much as in them lay, the Cau&s;e of God, and their Countries Liber|ties, yea to &s;uch to whom &s;ome of them became a &s;corne them&s;elves, being ca&s;t off as men not fit to be tru&s;ted, &s;uch was the Ju&s;tice of God upon them for their perfidiou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and in this the promi&s;e of God was made good, as the Pro|phet &s;ayes, <HI>the pit which they have digged for others, them&s;elves are fallen into.</HI> Therefore be convinced all you Enemies who are fighters again&s;t God and his people, for you may &s;ee if any thing of God be in you, that all your wicked and treacherous De&s;ignes, he him&s;elf hath broken from time to time, both by Sea and Land, and &s;till will doe attempt what you can, for tho&s;e hom you fight again&s;t have an Intere&s;t in God, and are a praying people, with weapon we meane the &s;pirit of Prayer, whowever derided by &s;uch de&s;perate wretches as you are, is that which will overthrow all your De&s;ignes, God having an Eare to the prayers of his people. Read the &s;torie of King <HI>Pharoah</HI> and his Ho&s;t, and ob&s;erve the &s;tory well, you &s;hall &s;ee what became of them who fought again&s;t God and the Deliverance of his people, but we &s;till pray, and wi&s;h that the Lord would awaken all &s;uch as are Enemies to his glory, that they may at length &s;ee if it bee his will. For it will not be &s;ufficient for you to &s;ay in the great day of the Lord Chri&s;t, that you &s;ought for a King or a Prince, but remember what the Lord &s;aith by the Prophet
<PB N="9" REF="6">in the P&s;almi&s;t, a place often cited by the Royalli&s;ts of our times, though much abu&s;ed and wre&s;ted by them, for there is nothing in the Text for their purpo&s;e. The words are, <HI>[Tench not mine anointed, nor doe my Prophets no harme] For I will</HI> (&s;aith the Lord) <HI>rebuke even Kings for their &s;akes, who are my people.</HI> Would the Arme of fle&s;h have done your worke? certainly you have had enough of that from time to time, but alas it is vaine, tru&s;t not in it, for you may &s;ee it hath failed you al along, e&s;pecially in this la&s;t great De&s;ign of yours, wher|in you boa&s;ted high, that all the Kingdomes were for you. We mu&s;t acknowledge through the perfidiou&s;ne&s;&s;e of ba&s;e &s;pirited men, who <HI>Judas</HI> like, betrayed their tru&s;t, you had gotten a great part in the Kingdomes. But you have &s;een on may it God will plea&s;e to let you, that its even all come to no|thing, and &s;hall in a &s;hort time we are confident all fal&s;e you, for that we know the God of heaven is ingaged again&s;t you, therefore you &s;hall not pro&s;per, plot what you can, for he who hath begun the glorious work of REFORMATION, is able and will perfect the &s;ame, to his own glory, and the Kingdomes good, in de&s;pight of all oppo&s;ition of men and Devills. Now God is, and hath been our &s;trength, whom then &s;hould we feare.</P>
<P>8ly. Can any rationall man thinke or conceive, that it can any wayes be for the honour of our Nation, to have any part of the Navy, under the Command of a Foraign Prince, as he is who is their Admirall, '<HI>Pr. Rupers</HI> a wicked wretch, who hath bin an In&s;trument of much ruin &amp; &s;poil to our Na|tion in the late War, as by &s;ad experience many Families can &s;peak, it having been wholly ruinated and de&s;troyed by him. Others put to death as hanged by his command, when no of|fence hath bin given by tho&s;e who have innocently &s;uffered under him, and the&s;e horrid cruel wicked acts of his were done only to &s;atisfie his divili&s;h will, but we are a&s;&s;ured the righte|ous God will one day reckon with him, and all &s;uch blood|thir&s;ty ones for all their wickednes, and though they have hi|therto e&s;caped the &s;word of Ju&s;tice which was due unto them,
<PB N="10" REF="7">we are confident the Divine hand of God will one day over|take and reach them.</P>
<P>9ly, and la&s;tly. We have endeavoured in this, to give a brief and perfect Relation of tho&s;e many acts of Gods provi|dence, which happened to us in our late proceedings again&s;t the Revolted Ships. And now we hartily wi&s;h, that as Almighty God hath owned us by Sea, and the Army by land, he would now put it into the hearts of the Parliament, to exe|cute Ju&s;tice and Judgement upon the Kingdoms enemies, and were this once effectually done, we are confident it would de|terre men, from attempting to doe &s;uch horrid villanous acts as the&s;e; in carrying away part of the Kingdoms &s;trength into the Ports of a forraigne Nation, to be di&s;po&s;ed of by a forraign Prince. But we may ju&s;tly &s;ay, the want of executing with the &s;word of ju&s;tice hath occa&s;ioned this and much more, to the expending of the Kingdoms Blood and Trea&s;ure.</P>
<P>We know the&s;e lines will di&s;ta&s;t &s;ome, who have cau&s;e e|nough to be a&s;hamed, in that they were very active, a&s;much as in them lay, to hinder the &s;etting forth of that Fleet under his Lor&s;hip, which God hath owned and ble&s;&s;ed hitherto in de&s;pight of all oppo&s;ition of malignant and malicious Spirits, and hath made u&s;e of the Fleet as an in&s;trumentall cau&s;e of good to the&s;e poore &s;haken Kingdoms. But if it be objected by any that the Revolters are not as yet all reduced, therefore you might have forborn to &s;peak any thing of the action till the whole work had bin accompli&s;ht. To this, we &s;hall give this an&s;wer, That if Men will eye Providence in their actings, then certainly we have done a&s;much as was allotted by the Almighty at this time; For, we mu&s;t con&s;ider Gods Enemies are bounded, having their &s;tation &s;et, and further they can|not nor &s;hall not goe, if &s;o this may quit all, and teach us pa|tiently to wait Gods own time, for the bringing downe his and our enemies; had we been free to have acted in that place where we were, by Gods ble&s;&s;ing the whole worke of Redu|ction would have been perfected. For certainly never did
<PB N="11" REF="7">more re&s;olution appeare among men, then God gave in gene|rall to our whole Fleet, who were athir&s;t to &s;ee them out of the Port, where they might be free to fall upon them. But we may ju&s;tly feare the Lord hath re&s;erved the remaining part of the&s;e Revolters, to be a further &s;courge to this Nation, yet we verily believe the time of their Reigne will not be long; For, wee doubt not but God almighty will &s;till have in&s;truments to &s;tand fa&s;t and clo&s;e to his cau&s;e in all times of &s;treights and difficulties whatever; <HI>For, the back &s;lider in heart &s;hall be filled with his own wayes,</HI> for times of difficulty is Gods only oportu|nity to &s;hew him&s;elf that it may appeare to be him&s;elf, who worketh all our workes in us, and for us, and this is that which will teach us to give all the honour pray&s;e and glory to him|&s;elfe, who is the Author and Fountaine of all good, being due to no other in the world, which we hartily de&s;ire to do in this.</P>
<P>Now to conclude, we cannot omit to &s;peake &s;omthing of that gallantry, faithfulnes, and re&s;olution, which God was plea&s;ed to give to our Generall, the Lord Admirall, yea &s;o much that his Lord&s;hip was willing to part with all relati|ons to doe his Country Service, Therefore we are, and &s;hall be ready at al times (if God permit) to witnes, that al tho&s;e many fal&s;e &amp; &s;candalous reports of joyning with the Princes Fleet, as namely, that fal&s;e and &s;candalous Pamphlet entituled; <HI>The Lord Admirall and his Officers Declaration,</HI> to be utterly fal&s;e, being a piece of &s;ome Ie&s;uiticall &s;pirit or other, and we are ve|ry confident his Lord&s;hip hath bin as faithfull in this under|taking of his, as any whoever &s;erved the Parliament and Kingdomes, If &s;o, certainly all hone&s;t men have cau&s;e to ble&s;&s;e God for him, who hath bin a in&s;trument of &s;o much good in regaining of lo&s;t Affections, and who &s;o freely and cheerfully hath offered to &s;acrifice his life in the cau&s;e of God for his Countries liberties, and as the Lord was plea&s;ed to fill the heart of our ge|nerall the Lord Admirall with re&s;olution, integrity
<PB N="12" REF="8">and faithfullnes notwith&s;tanding all tho&s;e Calumnies ca&s;t upon him, by his and our enemies, &s;o we cannot but acknowledge that the Lord was as gracious to all under his Lord&s;hips co~mand, in making them faithful in their &s;everall places to the executing their re&s;pective duties, as they were commanded by his Honour, that we may truly and ju&s;tly &s;ay his Lord&s;hip, and all tho&s;e under him were cordially united as one man to live and dye together.</P>
<P>Now to &s;hut up all, as we have had many pledges of the Almighties love and favour unto us, and not on|ly to us, but to the Army in their undertakings, again&s;t the Kingdomes Enemies; So our prayers &s;hall bee, that God who is wi&s;edom it &s;elf, would fill the hearts of Parliament, Army, and Navy, whereby they and we may &s;till be acted, united, and carried out with re&s;olu|tion and interity for the good of the publique, and to this Wee doe heartily &s;ub&s;cribe.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Downes, <DATE><HI>December</HI> 23. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED><PB N="13" REF="8"><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Haddock</HI> Vice Admirall.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Moulton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Harri&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Andrew Ball.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Willoughby.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iames Peacock.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Mildmay.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Anthony Young.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Fernes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Branley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frances Penro&s;e.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Owen Cox.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Coppin.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Peirce.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Lambert.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Pacy.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jo. Bowen</HI> junior.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Nick&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Edwyn.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Deakins.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Ingle.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Charles Salton&s;tall.</HI></ITEM>
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