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<P>A Worthy SPEECH Made by The Right Honourable the Lord <HI>Brooke,</HI> at the election of his Cap|taines and Commanders at <HI>Warwick</HI> Ca|&s;tle, as al&s;o at the delivery of their la&s;t Commi&s;&s;ions.</P>
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<P>February the 26. Printed at London for <HI>Iohn Vnderwood.</HI> 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>A VVorthy Speech made by the Right Honourable the Lord <HI>Brook,</HI> at the election of his Captaines and Commanders at <HI>Warwick</HI> Ca&s;tle.</HEAD>
<P>_GEntlemen, Country-men, my noble friends and fellow Souldiers, I have a few words to deliver to you which may de&s;erve your attentions; and will I hope meet as good welcome &amp; acceptation from you, as they came from me, with the true zeal to your &s;afeties and the wel-fares of the afflicted Countrey: we behold the flouri&s;hing and beauteous face of this Kingdome, over-&s;pread with the lepro&s;ie of a Civill War: In which, &s;ince we are forced for the &s;afeguard of our lives, the pre&s;ervation of our liberties, the defence of Gods true Religion <HI>(invaded by the practi&s;es of Papi&s;ts and Malig|nants)</HI> to become actors: I doubt not but each of you will play your part with that noble re&s;olution and Chri&s;tian cou|rage as the greatne&s;&s;e and meritoriou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the work does challenge. No man is born for his own u&s;e only, &s;aith that
<PB N="4" REF="3">great Common-wealths-man of the <HI>Romans, Cicero,</HI> his friends and Countrey-men claim an ample &s;hare in his abili|ties, as your friends, your Countrey, nay your Religion and God him&s;elf demands in yours. And &s;urely it would be both unnaturall and impious to denie &s;uch powerfull &s;uitors your a&s;&s;i&s;tance. I need not remon&s;trate what it is you are to fight for, the Cau&s;e is &s;o open and obvious to every under&s;tan|ding. It is for your wives, your children, and your &s;ub&s;tance, your lives and liberties, nay that which is more powerfull to move mens affections, the te&s;timony of good con&s;ciences, and what ever can be to humane frailty deare and precious; all the&s;e, as if they &s;ought the way to new mi&s;chiefes through the old ones, are pointed at by the Popi&s;h malignants now in arms again&s;t us: they have plundered our neighbours, ra|vi&s;hed their e&s;tates out of their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, and committed inhumane and unheard of barbarou&s;ne&s;&s;e in every place where the tempe&s;t of their fury has had licence to &s;hew it's malice: And can you imagin they would &s;tay there, that their in&s;atiate avarice &amp; thir&s;t of bloud wil be quenched and appea|&s;ed with the&s;e petty &s;poiles: No Gentlemen, they aim at you, at all our ruines, de&s;olations, &amp; deaths, are machinated by the&s;e vipers, who would knaw a pa&s;&s;age to their ambitions, throgh the intralls of their mother the Common-wealth; who&s;e de|&s;truction they have pur&s;ued as craftily and violently, as is po&s;|&s;ible to be expected from per&s;ons of &s;o much acrimony and &s;pleen to the Subjects liberties, and aver&s;ion of true Religion and all goodne&s;&s;e: per&s;wa&s;ions to valiant men, as I know you to be, are u&s;ele&s;&s;e, and if I thought there were any of you that was not incited more by the ju&s;tice of the quarrell, then my Oratory to fight in this Cau&s;e, &s;urely I &s;hould rather wi&s;h his room then his company; for if the Nobility and brave|ry of the Cau&s;e bee not &s;ufficient to animate cowards, and
<PB N="5" REF="3">make the meane&s;t &s;pirits couragious. I know not what po&s;|&s;ible can &s;tir up mortal men to put on undaunted re&s;olutions: Behold your wives with teares in their eyes, and their little infants at their brea&s;ts or in their hands, imploring &s;afety and defence from your armes, and &s;hould you de&s;ert them and expo&s;e their innocence to the rapine and fury of the Ma|lignants. I doubt not but they would be ready to meet you as tho&s;e Roman Matrons of old did their flying per&s;ons and husbands, and aske if they thought to creep againe into their mothers wombs and hide them&s;elves. Nay, which &s;hould be more prevalent, to excite your courage to fight this good fight for the Lord of ho&s;ts; your Religion and freedome of your Con&s;ciences, which far tran&s;cends your corporeall liberty, invoaks you to &s;tand up it's champions a|gain&s;t tho&s;e Papi&s;ticall Malignants; who would &s;trike at God through the very heart of his known truth, &s;o long pra|cti&s;ed among&s;t us: And &s;urely nothing can be dearer to any of Con&s;cience, then the &s;ecurity of this his Con&s;cience, and it's unvaluable freedome: you have viewd and heard my good friends and Countrey-men, with what &s;everity and &s;pight|fulne&s;&s;e the&s;e adver&s;aries to all truth and humanity, have de|populated the neighbour Townes and Countreyes, leaving them neither money nor victualls, and which is wor&s;e, de|priving them of all means to &s;upply tho&s;e nece&s;&s;ities, or recti|fie tho&s;e wants, by carrying away their cattell and hor&s;es, the in&s;truments of their husbandry and tillage: expect you the &s;ame mea&s;ure, Gentlemen, if you quit not your &s;elves like men: and whereas the going again&s;t the King may &s;tagger &s;ome re&s;olutions, I &s;hall ea&s;ily di&s;abu&s;e you from tho&s;e vaine &s;urmi&s;es and incertain imaginations, 'tis for the King wee fight, to keep a Crown for our King, a Kingdom for our Sove|raign &amp; his po&s;terity, to maintain his known rights and pri|viledges,
<PB N="6" REF="4">which are relative with the peoples liberties, from a &s;ort of de&s;perate State incendiaries, that in &s;eeming to fight for his Maje&s;ty brandi&s;h open arms again&s;t his &s;acred Crown and Dignity. For if you will but ob&s;erve the men of whom the adver&s;e army is compounded, you &s;hall find them eyther notorious Papi&s;ts or Popi&s;hly affected per&s;ons, and then be convinced in your own rea&s;ons, if it be po&s;&s;ible, that tho&s;e men &s;hould take up arms in the Kings defence whom by &s;o many divelli&s;h plots and helli&s;h &s;tratagems, have &s;ought not onely his precious life, but the lives of his Predece&s;&s;ors Queen <HI>Eli|zabeth,</HI> and his Father of &s;acred memory, as that never to be forgotten powder plot &s;hall for ever te&s;tifie to their &s;hame &amp; confu&s;ion of face: wherein they would at one blow not only have de&s;troyed our pious King that now reignes <HI>(and long may he live and reign over us)</HI> but his Father, brother, and all the royall Progeny with the chiefe of the Nobility of the Kingdome. And if the&s;e men be competent per&s;ons to be intru&s;ted with the Kings &s;afety, who have &s;o apparantly &s;ought his ruine, let all indifferent men be judg, or that Pa|pi&s;ts and Je&s;uited per&s;ons will ever fight to maintaine that Religion which they manife&s;tly oppugne in their lives and doctrines, and have both by foraign and dome&s;tick treache|ries &s;ought to root out from the face of the earth, as by 88. and other of their attempts is manife&s;t and per&s;picuous, that they &s;hould be patriots to keep our lawes and religion from violation or alteration, who&s;e Ju&s;tice points them out for di&s;turbers of the publique Peace, and renders them able to puni&s;hments in their e&s;tates and per&s;ons, as notorious and convicted Malefactors; as well we may believe the light is a friend to darkne&s;&s;e, or that the warring Elements &s;hould cea&s;e their perpetuall difference, as allow that paradox.</P>
<P>But I would not, Countrymen, be too tedious to you. And
<PB N="7" REF="4">touching the&s;e Gentlemen, who being &s;trangers come hither to proffer us their &s;ervice, and in te&s;timoniall of their abili|ties and that they have been Commanders in the Germane Warrs, have here produced their &s;everall Certificates.</P>
<P>I mu&s;t needs thanke the Gentlemen for their kind proffer, and yet de&s;ire licence to be plaine with them, hoping they will not take it as a di&s;paragement to their vallours, if I tell them we have now too woefull experience in this Kingdom of the German warres; and therefore cannot &s;o well approve of the ayde of forraigne and mercinary auxiliaries. In Ger|many they fought onely for &s;poile, rapine and de&s;truction, meerely money it was and hope of gaine that excited the Souldier to that &s;ervice: It is not here &s;o required as the cau&s;e &s;tands with us; Wee mu&s;t rather imploy men who will fight meerely for the Cau&s;e &s;ake, and beare their owne char|ges, than tho&s;e who expect rewards and &s;alaries, for by &s;uch meanes we &s;hall never have a conclu&s;ion of the&s;e warres; for mercenaries, who&s;e end is meerely their pay, whereas their &s;ub&s;i&s;tance rather covet to &s;pin out the warres to a prodigi|ous length, as they have done in other Countries, then to &s;ee them quickly brought to a happy period; wee mu&s;t di&s;|patch this great work in a &s;hort time or be all liable to inevi|table ruine. I &s;hall therefore freely &s;peake my con&s;cience, I had rather have a thou&s;and or two thou&s;and hone&s;t Citizens that can onely handle their armes, who&s;e hearts goe with their hands, than two thou&s;and of mercinary Souldiers, that boa&s;t of their forraigne experience. For &s;uch make money meerely the end of their endeavours, without looking into the Ju&s;tice of the Cau&s;e, when tho&s;e well-affected Citizens being acquainted with the cau&s;e which is for Almighty God, their Religion, the Lawes of the Land, the Subjects Liberty and &s;afety wil now be a means to be incouraged &amp; be anima|ted
<PB N="8" REF="5">to goe on couragiou&s;ly in this great work, (knowing that good deeds are rewarded in them&s;elves) if God bee not plea&s;ed to give a bles&s;ing to the work in hand by a faire and hone&s;t Accommodation betweene his Maje&s;ty and Parlia|ment to give a ce&s;&s;ation to the&s;e warres. And yet I heare of many who will neither lend their money nor give their ayde and a&s;&s;i&s;tance in this &s;o weighty a matter, <HI>(as I have &s;aid be|fore;)</HI> yet looke to bee defended and kept from violence as well as tho&s;e men which &s;o freely and voluntarily contribute to the great charges, why &s;hould &s;uch men &s;tand, and onely looking on like ciphers, yet hoping to have &s;hare and benefit in the common good; when other men both take the pains, hazard their lives, and &s;pend their e&s;tates for them and theirs, what man would not give the twentieth part of his e|&s;tate to &s;ave the other nineteen from being taken from him, nay, and it may bee his life too. And &s;o I &s;hall con|cinde my Speech, and turne into prayer this my Di&s;cour&s;e; That God Almighty will ari&s;e and maintaine his own cau&s;e, &s;cattering and confounding the devices of his enemies, not &s;uffering the ungodly to prevaile over his poore innocent flocke. Lord, we are but a handfull in con&s;ideration of thine and our enemies, therefore O Lord fight thou our battailes, goe out as thou did&s;t in the time of King <HI>David</HI> before the Ho&s;ts of thy &s;ervants, and &s;trengthen and give us hearts, that we &s;hew our &s;elves men for the defence of thy true Religion, and our owne and the King and Kingdomes &s;afety.</P>
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