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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A LETTER From EDINB&V;RGH, <DATE>NOVEMBER 30.1643.</DATE></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Giving full &s;atisfaction to all men why the <HI>SCOTISH</HI> Army is not yet Ad|vanced into <HI>ENGLAND.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My true and constant Friend,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Give me leave to u&s;e this compella|tion of you who lives in the mid&s;t of &s;o many changes and changlings. Suffer me al&s;o to entreat you to afford me a little of your patience (if it be not all &s;pent) till you have peru&s;ed and pon|dered the&s;e few lines, expre&s;&s;ing the conditi|on of our affaires here, and then pronounce your &s;entence.</P>
<P>Ma&s;ter <HI>Hatcher</HI> and his Company with the Treatie, and the Money, came to <HI>Leith</HI> road <HI>November</HI> 21. &s;o long a time it plea&s;ed God to keep him on Sea, and thereby by ex|erci&s;e our patience.</P>
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<P>The publicke Orders to the Shyres con|cerning the generall Randevous (which is ap|pointed to be upon the 29. of <HI>December</HI> at <HI>Hairlaw,</HI> a place foure miles from <HI>Berwicke</HI>) were exped upon the fourth day after the arrival of the Ship, which was <HI>Novemb.</HI> 25.</P>
<P>The neere&s;t Regements are appointed to march pre&s;ently towards the borders, there to quarter and exerci&s;e them&s;elves, and to meet with the Cavaleeres, if any of them &s;hall appeare till the day of Randevous.</P>
<P>Con&s;ider with your &s;elfe, what time you will allow for &s;ending the Orders to the Shires, to call the Committees of the &s;everall Shires, to bring together the Souldiers to their Colours, and to march as farre as <HI>Bar|wicke,</HI> from which &s;ome of the Regiments are no le&s;&s;e then a hundred miles di&s;tant; af|ter you have impartially con&s;idered the&s;e and other &s;uch nece&s;&s;ary duties and di&s;tracti|ons, you will not condemne us of delayes or &s;lackne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Ireland</HI> hath al&s;o bred us at this time, much trouble and hinderance, for upon the very day of Ma&s;ter <HI>Hatcher</HI> his arivall, Commi&s;&s;i|oners came from <HI>Ireland,</HI> expre&s;&s;ing the un|&s;upporable
<PB REF="2"><!-- PDF PAGE 59 -->&s;ufferings of our <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Army: One of them &s;wore to my &s;elfe, that being pre&s;ent at a Parade, he did &s;ee a whole Re|giment, whereof &s;carcely one hundred had either &s;tockings or &s;hooes, but all bare-leg|ged and bare-footed in this &s;ea&s;on of the yeere; and yet poore &s;oules, they are ready to take the Covenant, and to &s;pend their lives again&s;t the Ce&s;&s;ation, if they had ne|ce&s;&s;aries for their lives furni&s;hed unto them.</P>
<P>Our Councels were to&s;&s;ed betwixt two extremities, upon the one hand to bring them away, was to give up that Kingdome into the hands of Papi&s;ts and Rebels; to &s;uffer the poore Prote&s;tants there either to be driven forth, and to come upon us for re|liefe, or their throats to be cut by their bar|barity, which hath de&s;troyed &s;o many alrea|dy; and to make the Rebels &s;trong and uni|ted for invading the&s;e two Kingdomes. Up|on the other hand, to keepe them there, and to feed them with promi&s;es, and really to &s;tarve them, as we have done for a long time were to fall in the like barbarity.</P>
<P>In this perplexity, we have beene forced to di&s;patch from <HI>Air</HI> 4000 bolls of meall,
<PB REF="3" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 60 -->which we had provided for the We&s;tern Re|giments, and are providing other nece&s;&s;aries to be &s;ent unto the with diligence. This hath bin an unexpected &amp; untimeous, but a nece&s;|&s;ary diver&s;ion of our councels from the great bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. And hath taken up a great part of our time, which the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Comi&s;&s;ioners here doe know; and the wi&s;e there cannot but ac|knowledge.</P>
<P>The act of publike faith is al&s;o concluded, and &s;ent up that there be nothingwanting on our part: No &s;ooner did the Committee of the convention of E&s;tates re&s;olve upon the day of generall randevous, but the Commi&s;&s;i|oners of the generall a&s;&s;embly in their meet|ing at <HI>Edenbrugh,</HI> have appointed a publike fa&s;t and humiliation for a ble&s;&s;ing from Hea|ven upon our expedition, which is to be &s;o|lemly kept in the Army, &amp; in all the Kirks of the Kingdome <HI>Jan.</HI> 7. being the Lords day, and the wedne&s;day following according to the warning &s;ent to all the Presbitaries and the particular cau&s;es expre&s;&s;ed therein, which I have herewith &s;ent unto you.</P>
<P>Thus have we revolved with our prayers and endeavours to joyne in the cau&s;e of God and to wait for his ble&s;&s;ing for &s;ucce&s;&s;e.</P>
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