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<NAME>Megan Marion</NAME>
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<P>A LEARNED SPEECH <HI>SPOKEN TO</HI> HIS EXCELLENCY THE EARL <HI>OF</HI> ESSEX, <HI>UPON</HI> His departure from <HI>Northampton</HI> to <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> concerning the pre&s;ent expedition.</P>
<P><HI>By that learned and religious Divine, and Mini&s;ter of GODS Word,</HI> M. Thomas Springham.</P>
<P><HI>ALSO</HI> A true Relation of the pre&s;ent proceedings of his Excellency and his Army in their march from <HI>Northampton</HI> to <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> to meet with the KINGS Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P><HI>Printed for</HI> Tho. Cooke. <HI>Septemb.</HI> 27. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A SPEECH Spoken to the EARLE OF ESSEX, upon his departure from <HI>Northampton:</HI> BY <HI>M. Thomas Springham,</HI> Mini&s;ter of GODS Word.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>GREAT SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Doe not come about with my &s;mall ta|per to &s;et forth the glory of our mid|day Sun: It were high folly in me, if I did &s;trive to add more lu&s;tre to you our Star new ri&s;en from the Ea&s;t. I come, and I may boldly &s;ay, all good people come, to powre forth their glad hearts at your ap|proaching. You cannot but know, and I cannot but &s;peak, the dark mi&s;ts of mi&s;ery we a long time have been wrapt in: night &s;pread her wings over us, and would have
<PB N="2" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 63 -->&s;oone &s;uffocated the life wee enjoyed, had not your Name, before your Pre&s;ence, like the day-break, &s;hined in our hearts, and ex|pelled tho&s;e mi&s;ts that dwelt upon us. Our pa&s;t &s;orrowes doe not a little contribute to the activity of our joyes, that our Lord &s;hines here: griefe and &s;orrow have not la|&s;ted for an age; and though <HI>Nocte pluit tota</HI> (yet) <HI>redeunt &s;pectacula man&egrave;:</HI> &s;orrow la&s;teth for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. I need not &s;peak the hearts of I&s;rael, my Lord &s;ees and reads them in their faces: they dare boldly adventure to pa&s;&s;e over <HI>Scylla,</HI> or <HI>Charibdis,</HI> or enter into the <HI>Cyclops</HI> cave, having you, their <HI>Jo&s;hua,</HI> to march on before them: and not onely the mighty men of valour love and admire you, but al&s;o as my Lord &s;eeth, the great affecti|on of the whole people is bent on you, as well here, as in that great City, the <HI>Phenix</HI> of the world, from whence you came, now bur|ning in the flames of her affection towards you. From you all joyntly look for &s;afety, well-being, nay being it &s;elfe. You are the Planet that mu&s;t give life unto us by your &s;weet influence. Suffer not tho&s;e Comets to reigne over us that threaten to powre forth their malignity into all our quarters, from whom &s;ave us, or we peri&s;h. Pardon what danger our feares make, it is not in any
<PB N="3" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 63 -->di&s;tru&s;t to our Lord. But lea&s;t I &s;eeme to others to forget what mo&s;t ought to be in|tended here, and they &s;ay to me,</P>
<Q><BIBL>2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 19.10. </BIBL><HI>Why &s;peak you not a word of bringing the King back?</HI></Q>
<P>Then let not my Lord be angry if I add one word:</P>
<Q><BIBL>2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 19.41. </BIBL><HI>Goe with the men of I&s;rael to the King, and &s;ay unto the King, Why have our brethren, the men of Judah, &s;tollen thee away? and have brought the King and his hou&s;hold, and all Davids men with him?</HI></Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 19.43. </BIBL><HI>Go, for ye have ten parts in the King, and ye have more right in David then they,</HI></Q>
<P>And I, though the meane&s;t and wor&s;t of all the Prophets (yet no fal&s;e one) doe bid my Lord go forth and pro&s;per.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The Copie of a Letter which was &s;ent with the fore-going &s;peech, &s;hewing the truth of it, dire|cted to</HI> M. William Piggot <HI>dwelling in Crutched Friers in London.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I thought, the la&s;t letter I &s;ent you would be the la&s;t I &s;hould &s;end from North|hamton; for, we expected daily when wee &s;hould march forwards: I &s;hould not have troubled you at this time if I had not
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<PB N="4" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 65 -->this token to &s;end you, a thing of much value in the judgement of all the auditors; it is a Spech this morning &s;poken by that learned and religious Teacher M. <HI>Thomas Springam</HI> before his Excellency on a mi&s;take, he think|ing (and we all thought no le&s;&s;e) my Lord would have departed at that time, becau&s;e he commanded his whole Army to be drawne up in a body, which he did onely to &s;ee the full &s;treugth thereof. By much entreaty I procured this Speech from M. <HI>Springam;</HI> it is his own hand writing, and I &s;hall entreat you to re&s;erve a copye of it (if you part with it) for me, if it plea&s;e God to &s;end me a &s;afe returne: for none hath a coppy of it, becau&s;e the Gentleman (this bearer) was in &s;uch ha&s;te, that he could not &s;tay tiil it could be copied out: As &s;oone as he had ended his Speech, the people gave a great &s;houte and my Lord gave him (and all) thanks for there courteous entertainment, and &s;aid, their cour|te&s;ie was &s;uch unto him as that he would not leave them as yet, this is all worth the wri|ting at this pre&s;ent, when I have any thing els worth the writing, you &s;hall not faile to heare from me, till which I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your true friend and Co&s;en, <HI>Nathanael Warters.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>There were Letters read in the Hou&s;e of Commons upon the 22. of September, de|claring that the Queene is coming for <HI>Eng|land,</HI> and intends to be here within fifteene dayes, for which purpo&s;e three or foure &s;hips are providing to come with her, and it is &s;up|po&s;ed that &s;he will bring over &s;ome &s;tore of Ammunition, with many Cavaliers. It is reported that the Kings Maje&s;ty is coming a|way from <HI>Shrewsbury</HI> towards <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> and on Thur&s;day a Po&s;t came to the Hou&s;e with Letters from the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> intimating that his Excellency had received intelligence by a Letter from M. <HI>Fines,</HI> that Prince <HI>Robert</HI> was neer unto <HI>Worce&s;ter</HI> with about five hun|dred hor&s;e, with whom <HI>M. Fines</HI> had had a skirmi&s;h, at which skirmi&s;h four of <HI>M. Fines</HI> his men were &s;lain, and eight of Prince <HI>Ro|berts;</HI> and withall, that Prince <HI>Robert</HI> had burned and fired diver&s;e hou&s;es thereabouts, whereupon his Excellency on Thur&s;day a|bout twelve of the clock marched with his Forces from <HI>Warwick</HI> towards <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> con|&s;i&s;ting of foure and twenty thou&s;and Hor&s;e and Foot, it being reported that His Maje|&s;ty was gone thither, and that Prince <HI>Robert</HI> and his Forces were marched thither: in which Letter al&s;o his Excellency &s;heweth the rea&s;ons which moved him to march towards <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> which was well approved of by
<PB N="6" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 66 -->the Parliament, &s;ome Eortifications being making, and diver&s;e Peeces of Ordnance al|ready brought into the &s;aid City. Upon Thur&s;day al&s;o the Petition to His Maje&s;ty, together with the In&s;tructions to his Excel|lency the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> for the ordering of his Army, and how far he &s;hould hive com|mi&s;&s;ion to encounter with the enemy, and the Proclamation for pardon to all &s;uch as within ten dayes &s;hould come in and lay downe their armes, excepting &s;ome per&s;ons therein by them named: all which were ful|ly agreed upon (and di&s;patched to be &s;ent to his Excellency) by both Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment.</P>
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