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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>A LETTER OF High con&s;equence, Principally concerning the indamaging of this our Kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> &s;ubver&s;ion of Religion, and many more Papi&s;ticall divi&s;ions compi|led, and directed to Colonell <HI>Lunsford</HI> &s;catte|red in the Church of Saint <HI>Paul,</HI> and &s;ince come to publicke view.</P>
<P>As al&s;o certaine Articles whereby the &s;aid <HI>Lunsford</HI> is convinced of high Trea&s;on, both to the King, State, and Hou&s;e of Parliament.</P>
<P>Printed in the yeare 1642.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>A Letter of high con&s;equence, princi|pally concerning the indammaging of this our Kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> &s;ubver&s;ion of Religion, and many more Papi&s;ticall divi&s;ions, compiled and directed to Colo|nell <HI>Lunsford,</HI> &s;cattered in the Church of Saint <HI>Paul,</HI> and &s;ince come to publicke view.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Renowned Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WEe are generally joyfull beyond expre&s;&s;ion, to heare of the honor His Maje&s;tie hath been plea&s;ed to conferre upon your &s;o well de&s;erving &s;elfe, though we mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e we are no le&s;&s;e &s;orrow|full for the unexpected commo|tion of that ungoverned Commonalty which have beene the occa&s;ion of &s;uppre&s;&s;ing your power, the which by the guidance and carefull diligence of your &s;everity and au&s;tere demeanor, might have been a great furtherance to our pre&s;ent de&s;ignes, which neverthele&s;&s;e, although extenuated &amp; le&s;&s;ened by this pre&s;ent hinderance of lo&s;ing that preroga|tive and place of honour of being Lieutenant of the Tower, wee make no que&s;tion but the lu&s;tre of
<PB N="2" REF="3">knighthood which his Maje&s;ty hath beene plea&s;ed to tran&s;plant &s;ince upon you, will bee a meanes to extoll and &s;trengthen your authority, to the ayding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting of our poore brethren there with you: of which wee &s;hall not onely be mindefull, but al&s;o by our indulgent and vigilant indevours be ready to graunt and imploy our furtherance in what&s;oe|ver you &s;hallbe plea&s;ed upon &s;erious confederation to put in practi&s;e for their reliefe and e&s;tabli&s;hing of the Catholicke faith and &s;upremacy of the Church of Rome; let me intreat you in the behalfe of all the re&s;t of our wellwi&s;hers, to be diligent in the pro&s;ecution of your intended enterpri&s;e, and to make as much expedition in the &s;ame as may po&s;|&s;ibly be conceived, unle&s;&s;e the per&s;picuo&s;ity of our more curious than wary enemies pry into the &s;ecrets of our intentions through our too much tedi|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e and &s;lackene&s;&s;e in the performance of this our &s;o nece&s;&s;ary undertaking. Privacy will be like|wi&s;e expedient, and a &s;peciall care ought to be had in electing &s;uch as you may impo&s;e tru&s;t in: you know our enemies, therefore I need not &s;pecifie them; as for our friends, we have a faulkon, and pep+per is very dear to us, (you under&s;tand me): you may draw together &s;ome forces of our friends under pre|tence again&s;t us, his Maje&s;tyes favour towards you will bee &s;ufficient to blinde the intellect of the people who&s;e eies are already dimmed with the vaile of ignorance. Make your &s;elfe as &s;trong as you may: as or the charges, we will be corre&s;pondent in de|fraying of them: if any &s;currilous &s;pirits &s;hould &s;candalize you and endeavour to defame your per|&s;on
<PB N="3" REF="3">with opprobrious &s;peeches, of a &s;u&s;pition of &s;ome illegall intents, you may &s;oone helpe that, for you are not without tho&s;e on your &s;ide who will bee more ready to a&s;&s;i&s;t, then you to command, and are of &s;ufficient ability to re&s;i&s;t a meane power, yea a greater then a &s;udden commotion or a tumultuous rabble can proidve again&s;t you: as for what &s;hall be wanting in you, &s;hall bee made good by our endea|vours, and what you begin wee will end.</P>
<P>As for the pre&s;ent, we have been lately &s;cattered, by rea&s;on of a &s;udden approach of the Scots upon us, &s;o that we have lo&s;t &s;ome of our Officers, and &s;ome thou&s;and &s;ouldiers. Captaine <HI>Denis Carley</HI> dyed volorou&s;ly, and Captaine <HI>Thurlongking</HI> with Lievtenant <HI>Matchet,</HI> who&s;e names with us &s;hall bee eternized for ever, who cho&s;e rather to dye valiant|ly in the defence of the Church of Rome, then to yeeld them&s;elves pri&s;oners to the Hereticke Scots; I will cea&s;e to &s;peake further of them, whom wee daily lament: We are now gathering up our &s;catte|red forces, and make no que&s;tion but to be of ability to give them battell &s;peedily: Our eyes are upon you in behalfe of brethren, we know there is no want of valour, power, wi&s;dome, a&s;&s;i&s;tance, or what&s;oever may be available for the de&s;igne in you or your friends; be valiant for the truth then: in &s;o doing, you &s;hall joy us, deliver our brethren, and prove your &s;elfe an everla&s;ting, reall and con&s;tant friend to the Church of Rome.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>G. Sartwell,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Redmond,</ITEM>
</LIST> your friends,
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<ITEM><HI>E. T.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>W. S.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>M. O.</HI></ITEM>
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joyne.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Articles of high con&s;equence again&s;t Colonell <HI>Lunsford,</HI> late Lieutenant of the Tower.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>1 THat he hath trecherou&s;ly con&s;pired again&s;t this City of London, to &s;ubvert the &s;ame, and endeavoured to plant the ordnance in the Tower again&s;t it, diver&s;e labourers being found there tran&s;porting Powder, and other Ammuniti|on to the Bulwarke, and high Tower.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 That he hath laboured to alienate the Parli|ament from the King, &s;peaking invective words, and &s;candalous a&s;per&s;ions again&s;t them, &amp; by this means to make them become odious unto his Maje&s;ty.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 That he hath endevoured to &s;ubvert the fun|damentall lawes of the Kingdome, to the utter de|molition of the State.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 That he hath &s;tudied with great &s;edulity to advance the See of Rome, and to &s;upplant the pure &s;anctitie of the Prote&s;tant Religion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5 That he hath introduced many Popi&s;h inno|vations and Idolatrous &s;uper&s;titions into our Church, labouring to bring &s;chi&s;maticall divi|&s;ions and Hereticall opinions among&s;t the peo|ple.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6 That he hath endevoured to maintaine th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB REF="4">Epi&s;copall Hierarchie &amp; prelaticall Primacie, op|po&s;ing the determinations of the Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7 That he hath gathered a regiment of hor&s;e being all Papi&s;ticall adherents, with an intent if that they cannot obtayne the fruition of their &s;o de|villi&s;h intentions, to innovate the Popi&s;h Religion, that then to force it in ho&s;tile manner, and there|upon have linked them&s;elves in the Iri&s;h Co|venant.</ITEM>
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