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<P>A LETTER TO The Hono^b^l^e <HI>William Lenthal</HI>
<ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Speaker to the Honorable Hou&s;e of Commons, From the
COMMISSIONERS Imployed by the PARLIAMENT For the Reducing of NEWARK: Together
with The SUMMONS of the Commi&s;sioners of both Kingdoms to the Governour, for
de|livering up of the &s;aid Town for the u&s;e of the KING and PARLIAMENT.</P>
<P>And the Governours ANSWER thereunto.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="appointment to print">
<P><HI>APpointed by the Honorable</HI> William Lenthal
<HI><ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>; Speaker to the Honorable Hou&s;e of Commons, to be
forthwith printed and publi&s;hed.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
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<P>London: Printed for EDW. HUSBAND, Printer to the Honorable
Hou&s;e of Commons. April 6. 1646.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB REF="2">
<PB N="3" REF="2">
<HEAD>TO The Honorable <HI>William Lenthal</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>
Speaker of the Honorable Hou&s;e of COMMONS.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_ON Saturday we met with the Earls of <HI>Lothian</HI> and
<HI>Dunfermlyn,</HI> the Lord <HI>Bal|carris,</HI> Sir <HI>David Hame,</HI> Sir
<HI>Thomas Carre,</HI> Sir <HI>Tho: Ruthen,</HI> Mr. <HI>Glandon|non,</HI> and
Mr. <HI>John&s;ton,</HI> Committees of the Parliament of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and
did that day agree upon, and &s;end Summons into <HI>Newark;</HI> We have here
inclo&s;ed &s;ent you copies of our Sum|mons and the An&s;wer; and &s;ince the
merey of the Parliament is neglected, we hope by &s;uch other means as God and
you have put into our hands, ere long to reduce that place.</P>
<P>The York&s;hire Committee have written unto us, to be
di&s;ingaged of the promi&s;e of repayment what the Counties of Lincoln,
Leice&s;ter and Nottingham &s;hould for the pre&s;ent lay out for the Quarters
of their
<PB N="4" REF="3">Hor&s;e (in
regard their Ordinance was expired, and that they &s;en&s;ibly finde by
experience, they are like to expect no more moneys con&s;iderable, &s;o long as
the Scotch Hor&s;e continue tho&s;e heavy burdens upon the County) We therefore
(and for that without pre&s;ent payment the&s;e Countreys cannot long pro|vide
for their Hor&s;e) &s;hall be nece&s;&s;itated to &s;end them into York&s;hire,
and the Line being now fini&s;h|ed, we hope they may be &s;pared without much
pre|judice to the &s;ervice. Colonel <HI>Poyntz</HI> doubts not but &s;uddenly
to turn the cour&s;e of the River Trent, which ran clo&s;e under Newark, and
will in a little time turn the River <HI>Smite</HI> into a new channel, that
their Mills may not be helpful to them, or the water hinder the approaches on
the North &s;ide Trent. The field-Officers have viewed the mo&s;t convenient
place for Forts to &s;hoot either into the Town or Sconces, which are in
preparation, and will &s;peedily be fini&s;h|ed: We &s;hall lo&s;e no time to
make a good end of this &s;ervice; and we be&s;eech the Hou&s;e, that their
promi&s;ed and often Ordered payments to the three Companies of the I&s;le of
Ely and the other Forces may be duly ob&s;erved. We have received a Letter from
the Committee of the Ea&s;tern A&s;&s;ociation, which declares their great care
and pains for payment of their Garri&s;on Souldiers, and we hope the exe|cution
of their Orders will not be neglected.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your humble Servants,
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>W: Pierrepont,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho: Hatcher,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>W: Armyne,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edw: A&s;coughe.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="summons">
<PB N="5" REF="3">
<HEAD>The Summons to <HI>Newark.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WE the Committee of both Kingdoms being &s;ent and authorized,
to u&s;e our be&s;t Endeavours for the reducing the Town and Garri&s;on of
<HI>Newark;</HI> do hereby (in the Name of both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of
<HI>Eng|land,</HI> and for the u&s;e of the King and Parliament) de|mand of
you, That you forthwith &s;urrender the &s;ame into their hands: It is the
pious care of the Parliament, to pre|vent the effu&s;ion of Chri&s;tian blood,
the wa&s;ting of the Countrey, and the de&s;truction of Towns. We &s;hall
e&s;teem our &s;elves happy in being In&s;truments to avert tho&s;e
Mi&s;e|ries; and &s;hall therefore grant to you, the Gentlemen with you, and
the Town, Honorable and fair Conditions; which if you &s;hall now neglect, and
will let nothing but experi|mental &s;ufferings declare unto you your
unavoidable ruine; You are to give an accompt to God, to this pre&s;ent age,
and to po&s;terity, for all the blood that &s;hall from henceforth be &s;hed,
for the wa&s;ting your Native and neighbouring Coun|ties, and de&s;truction of
&s;o con&s;iderable a place: You may not, nor can any in rea&s;on expect (and
mo&s;t a&s;&s;uredly on the faith of hone&s;t men, you &s;hall not hereafter
obtain from us) &s;uch terms as we are now willing to afford you. We &s;ent no
Summons until you and all with you might &s;ee, we were able by force to attain
what we much rather de&s;ire by Trea|ty; the Parliament have 16000 Hor&s;e and
Foot at pre&s;ent before your Town, Souldiers of Experience, United, and in
Health and Courage; This is no way mentioned, as if we tru&s;ted in the Arm of
Fle&s;h (God the Lord of Ho&s;ts
<PB N="6" REF="4">hath
manife&s;ted, that we figh: his Battels) but to &s;hew you the va&s;t expences
which will be occa&s;ioned by the continu|ance of this Singe (for which your
E&s;tates mu&s;t an&s;wer) and that your holding out may not further tempt the
Al|mighty: And though you &s;hould not regard your own ruine, though &s;ome
others &s;hould be of that your opinion, &s;hall yet that wealthy Town be
&s;acked, and others peri&s;h with you that &s;ee their own mi&s;ery and would
avoide it? A Prudent man, a Souldier cannot live or die in reputation or peace
of Spirit, to maintain a place not &s;o long temable, as till is can be
relieved, of which you cannot have the lea&s;t hope: Flatter not your &s;elves,
relief is not to be had; <HI>Che&s;ter</HI> was neerer Succours, and
con&s;iderable Armies for them in the We&s;t and in <HI>Wales,</HI> now
&s;carce &s;een what remains of either. Was not that &s;trong City of mo&s;t
great import|ance? were they not very often promi&s;ed? did not all
A&s;&s;u|rances to be relieved come to them? They had none: That place is
&s;urrendred. Your Wealth, if you rightly con&s;ider in what &s;tate you are,
promoves your certain and &s;udden de&s;truction: You are prepared in &s;ome
things for defence, you know (and we know) you are not for &s;ome other.</P>
<P>Con&s;ider the&s;e things &s;eriou&s;ly, and you cannot but
through them, &s;ee your ruine to be inevitable, if you do not avoide it, by
accepting what is now offered. We will expect your An&s;wer on Munday next by
eleven of the Clock in the forenoon at <HI>Balderton.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Balderton,
<DATE>March 28. 1646.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Signed in the Name, and by the Warrant of the Committee
of both Kingdoms, by <HI>Rutland Lothian.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>For the Governor of the Town and Garri&s;on of
<HI>Newark,</HI> the Gentlemen there, and the Mayor, Aldermen, and
Burge&s;&s;es of that Town.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
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<PB N="7" REF="4">
<HEAD>The Governor of <HI>Newarks</HI> An&s;wer to the Summons,
<HI>March</HI> 31. 1646.</HEAD>
<P>HAving received a Paper &s;ub&s;cribed by the Committee of both
Kingdoms, directed as to a Committee-Governour, by putting the Gentlemen and
Corporation in equal Commi&s;&s;ion with me (though the joyning us together was
with the inten|tion to divide us) I &s;hall in An&s;wer thereof, de&s;ire you
to reflect upon the Kings Letter of the 23 of <HI>March,</HI> &s;ent to the two
Hou&s;es of Parliament (which I received from your own Quarters) where, in a
full compliance with all their de&s;ires, upon the mo&s;t Gracious Conditions
that ever Prince propounded, He offers to disband His Forces, and to
di&s;mantle His Garri&s;ons: To what end then do you demand that of the
Steward, whereof the Lord and Ma&s;ter makes a voluntary tender? I conceive it
my duty to trace His Commands, not to out-&s;trip them: So that though Honor
and Con&s;cience would permit the De|livery, yet Civility would retard it,
lea&s;t His Maje|&s;ties Act of Grace be fru&s;trated by my over ha&s;ty
&s;peed. I &s;hall wave the Arguments wherewith you endeavour to evince my
con&s;ent: I am neither to be &s;truck into Apo&s;tacy, by the mention of fair
Condi|tions in a Mi&s;ty Notion, nor to be frighted into di&s;|honor, by your
running Divi&s;ion upon the fate of
<PB N="8" REF="5"><HI>Chester;</HI>
For as I do not mea&s;ure my Allegiance by my Intere&s;t to the former, &s;o I
do di&s;dain that pover|ty of Spirit, as by re&s;emblance of <HI>Chester,</HI>
to &s;uffer by example: I can be Loyal without that Copy, and I hope this
Garri&s;on &s;hall never be the tran&s;cript of their Calamity. You may do well
to u&s;e your fortune mode&s;tly, and think not that God Almighty doth applaud
your Cau&s;e, by rea&s;on of your Victo|ries, or that he hath not a
Ble&s;&s;ing in &s;tore for Ours. Whereas you urge the expence of the Siege,
and the pre&s;&s;ures of the Countrey in &s;upporting your charge there
(&s;ince occa&s;ioned by your &s;elves) I am not con|cerned; yet in order to
their ea&s;e, if you will grant a Pa&s;&s;e to &s;ome Gentlemen to go to the
King and re|turn, I may then know His Maje&s;ties plea&s;ure, Whether according
to His Letter, He will winde up the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e in general, or leave me to
&s;teer my own cour&s;e; then I &s;hall know what to determine: other|wi&s;e I
de&s;ire you to take notice, that when I received my Commi&s;&s;ion for the
Government of this place, I annexed my life as a Label to my Tru&s;t.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>J. Bella&s;y&s;e.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Newark,</HI>
<DATE><HI>March</HI> 31.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>To the Committee of both Kingdoms.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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