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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<FIGDESC>a cavalier armed with musket and rapier stands over a lion outside a town</FIGDESC>
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<P>A LETTER FROM THE KINGS MAJESTIES COURT, OF THE KINGS Comming towards LONDON, and was ye&s;terday at SION HOUSE.</P>
<P><HI>His Maje&s;ties &s;peech to the Duke of</HI> York <HI>there.</HI></P>
<P>The Re&s;olutions of his Excellency Sir <HI>THOMAS FAIRFAX And the Councell of Warre concerning the Kings Maje&s;ty.</HI></P>
<P>AND His Excellencies MESSAGE to the Officers and Souldiers in the North, &s;ent by Major Generall <HI>Lambert,</HI> and by him delivered at a Generall Randezvou&s;e.</P>
<P>Printed at <HI>London</HI> by <HI>Robert Ibbit&s;on,</HI> 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>A LETTER FROM THE KINGS MAJESTIES COURT, Of the Kings comming toward <HI>Lon|don,</HI> and was ye&s;terday at <HI>Sion hou&s;e.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Have received your Packet, with the <HI>Or|ders</HI> of the <HI>Committee</HI> and the <HI>Hou&s;e,</HI> what nece&s;&s;ity of Moneyes is here, you have I doubt not &s;ufficiently been adverti&s;ed from Mr. <HI>Cre&s;&s;et;</HI> I &s;uppo&s;e that your Honour cannot but think that it is now full time that his Maje&s;ty have a new &s;upply of Cloathes, and &s;ome Jewels, and other Ornaments for His Royall per&s;on.</P>
<P>Al&s;o for a further &s;upply of Pewter, and
<PB N="2" REF="3">Pans, and Kettles, and divers other nece&s;&s;a|ries for the Kitchin, of &s;ilver, for his Maje|&s;ties u&s;es, and Linnen, and other nece&s;&s;aries, which are wanting to accommodate his Ma|je&s;ty, which I doubt not but there will be a large &s;upply of.</P>
<P>The Lieutenant Generell <HI>Crumwels</HI> Regi|ment is now &s;et to guard his Maje&s;ty, which the King doth well approve on.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty hath &s;everall of his Chaplains come to him, as Dr. <HI>Hammon,</HI> Dr. <HI>Hol&s;worth,</HI> Dr. <HI>Goffe,</HI> and others, ye&s;terday according to the Court cu&s;tome, the Book of Com|mon-prayer was u&s;ed at <HI>Oatelands,</HI> and his Maje&s;ty had a Sermon preached in the fore|noone, and Evening prayer in the After|noone.</P>
<P>This morning his Maje&s;ty ri&s;e very early, and called for the Commi&s;&s;aries and the Of|ficers of the Guards, to appoint him &s;ome Hor&s;e to attend him to <HI>Sion-Hou&s;e</HI> (which is the way to <HI>London,</HI> where his Highne&s;&s;e the Duke of <HI>York</HI> is, with his Brother and Si&s;ter, attended by the Earle of <HI>Northumber|land,</HI>) whither his Maje&s;ty told them he was re&s;olved &s;peedily to goe.</P>
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<P>The Commi&s;&s;ioners made all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed to get them ready, and a Troope of hor&s;e were, pre&s;ently appointed to attend his Maje&s;ty, and about &s;even of the clock in the morning all were made ready, and the Offi|cers and Souldiers mounted, to attend his Maje&s;ty, and at that time this morning his Maje&s;ty took Hor&s;e.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty had Major <HI>Titus</HI> his Querry rid bare before him, and the Lord <HI>Mounta|gue,</HI> Sir <HI>James Harrington,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Commi&s;&s;ioners rid with his Maje&s;ty, with divers Gentlemen of tho&s;e appointed by the Parliament to wait upon his Maje&s;ty. And one Troop of Lieutenant Generall <HI>Crumwels</HI> Regiment of Hor&s;e rid a di&s;tance off, and in this po&s;ture his Maje&s;ty pa&s;&s;ed this morning about half an houre pa&s;t &s;even a clock from <HI>Oatelands</HI> towards <HI>LONDON.</HI></P>
<P>A little after eight a clock this day (in the morning) his Maje&s;ty came hither, with the Commi&s;&s;ioners and Guards, and rejoyced much to &s;ee his Children, giving the Earle of <HI>Northumberland</HI> thanks for his great care of them.</P>
<P>Many things pa&s;&s;ed between the <HI>King</HI> and
<PB N="4" REF="4">the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> as to inquire into his and his Brother and Si&s;ters health, and content, and the like, in all which his Maje&s;ty recei|ved much &s;atisfaction.</P>
<P>The Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;ent into the Coun|try Towns therabouts, to fetch in provi&s;ions for the <HI>Kings</HI> dinner, which was brought in pre&s;ently. And his Maje&s;ty dined here this day with his Children, which hath much plea&s;ed the Country herabouts, that his Ma|je&s;ty is come &s;o neere his Parliament.</P>
<P>I &s;uppo&s;e that his Maje&s;ty will return back again to <HI>Oatelands</HI> to night, for here is no pro|vi&s;ion for &s;tay here, and be&s;ides, we are ve|ry &s;en&s;ible of what danger it will be to the <HI>Kings</HI> per&s;on to draw any neerer to <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>When tho&s;e things propounded by the Army, and determined by the Parliament, and their Conclu&s;ions pre&s;ented to his Ma|je&s;ty for the Royall a&s;&s;ent, his <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> will come to <HI>London,</HI> to &s;it with the Parliament by free con&s;ent of all &s;ides, which (in regard of the long time it will take up) it is de&s;ired that the Parliament-Hou&s;es will make no delay therein, but come to a conclu&s;ion, what it is that they will pre&s;ent to his <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> as is de|&s;ired
<PB N="5" REF="4">by Sir <HI>Thomas Fair&s;ax,</HI> and the Army.</P>
<P>Some things are re&s;olved upon by the Ge|nerall and the Councell of his Army, in re|ference to the <HI>King,</HI> as his <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> is adverti&s;ed by tho&s;e &s;ent from his <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> to the Army, as to the injoyment of his Rights, the conti|nuance of Monarchy, the company of his Con&s;ort, and Children, and other things much &s;atisfying his <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> which is pa&s;t the account at pre&s;ent, From</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips humble Servant.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Dat. SYON HOVSE,</HI> <DATE><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 23. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A Me&s;&s;age from his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> delivered by Major Generall <HI>Lambert,</HI> to the Officers and Souldiers in the North.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen and fellow-Souldiers,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>HIs Excellency Sir</HI> Thomas Fairfax <HI>hath commanded me to repaire to the&s;e parts, and
<PB N="6" REF="5">take upon mee the charge and conduct of the Forces of his A&s;&s;otiation.</HI></P>
<P><HI>His Excellency is very &s;en&s;ible of your love, and re&s;pects to him, &amp; hath commanded me to a&s;&s;ure you of the like from him to you.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And that however the proceedings of the Army have bin ob&s;tructed (by rea&s;ons of the late differ|ence,) not unknowne to you, &s;o that he could not (as yet) procure a &s;ettlement of pay for you, yet His Excellency hath thought of you, and is re&s;olved to take care for you equally with his own Army.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Sent from his Excellency Sir</HI> Thomas Fairefax <HI>by</HI> M.G. LAMBERT.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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