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<P>A LETTER Sent by Mr. Henry Iarmin, Now re&s;ident in PARIS, TO Mr. VVilliam Murrey, OF His Maje&s;ties Bed-Chamber: As it was intercepted at Sea by Captaine JAMES MORGAN, Captaine of the good Ship, called the <HI>Mary-Ro&s;e of Bri&s;toll.</HI></P>
<P>Wherein is expre&s;&s;ed the full and reall intentions of the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Iarmin,</HI> and the other Engli&s;h Fugitives in <HI>France,</HI> again&s;t the proceedings of the Honou|rable, the high Court of <HI>Parliament</HI> here in ENGLAND.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> printed for <HI>James Job&s;on. Ian.</HI> 26. 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>A Letter &s;ent by Mr. <HI>Henry Iarmin</HI> to Mr. <HI>William Murrey</HI> of his Maje&s;ties Bed-Chamber.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Hone&s;t Will:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IT will &s;eeme &s;trange to thee, to receive any tydings of me from France; as it did appeare miraculous to mee, to heare the &s;tate of all affaires in England from thee by the la&s;t Po&s;t, that intelligence I hope will hope, if you care to direct and ma|nage it, &s;o that it may meet no interception. I would not write back to you by the &s;aid me&s;&s;enger, le&s;t my letters might have arrived &s;ooner at London to the Parliament, than to thee at Oxford, and &s;o fortunately encountring a man of Sir <HI>Ralph Hoptons</HI> at Paris, where I am now, who brought me &s;ome Expre&s;&s;es from his Ma&s;ter out of the We&s;t of England; I thought be&s;t by him, both for the &s;ecuritie and &s;uddenne&s;&s;e of the conveyance, to &s;end back by him an an&s;wer of thy former letter, and my true re&s;pects to thee my deare <HI>Will,</HI> whom &s;ince my departure I have &s;till worne about my heart.</P>
<P>I am exceeding glad that his Sacred Maje&s;tie is &s;o well and &s;trongly &s;eated (as I am enformed he is) at Oxford, and hope his Councell will advi&s;e him there to continue, till all the turbulent bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of the times be reduced to an happy
<PB N="4" REF="3"> period, I hope, and &s;o does all the re&s;t of his &s;ervants here, who &s;uffer in his Maje&s;ties cau&s;e, that Hee will not want &s;trengths at home to &s;ettle Him in his wonted Royaltie at White-Hall, where wee had all rather be attending his Sa|cred Per&s;on in our former garb and greatne&s;&s;e, than live here like Honourable Exiles at Paris; for that is (tru&s;t mee) the be&s;t account the French men make of us.</P>
<P>Concerning the managing your dome&s;tick affaires, and the pro&s;ecution of the pre&s;ent war in England, it were a needle&s;&s;e pre&s;umption for me to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">dventure on advi&s;ing you. I know his Maje&s;tie hath &s;o many able head-pieces about Him, that were I there pre&s;ent, I &s;hould blame my mode&s;ty, &s;hould I intrude mee on any coun&s;ell in the directing tho&s;e affaires, which certainly had my &s;ucce&s;&s;e an&s;wered my in|tentions, or my power my will, had by the cour&s;e I &s;haped, been at far more &s;etled rate than now they are, His Maje|&s;tie had never been driven to the&s;e &s;traights, nor the Parlia|ments endevours &s;ucceeded &s;o pro&s;perou&s;ly. But they were bla&s;ted in the bud of their expectation and progre&s;&s;e, and &s;o no more can be &s;aid of them; but that were like too early fruit, ea&s;ily &s;haken downe to earth, and there betrayed to rottenne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>For the &s;ervices which my &s;elfe, and others of his faith|full mini&s;ters here in France, under the umbrage of ba|ni&s;hment, have endevoured in the advancement of His Maje&s;ties pre&s;ent wars; I &s;hall give thee a &s;hort and reall account, &s;uch as may befit the integritie of my heart to the King, and my affection to thee my friend. I have for mine owne part, having by rea&s;on of the Queens commends, and the intere&s;t of my former acquaintances be&s;t credit in this Court, employed my whole &s;tudies to ingage the King of France to the &s;uccours of the King our Ma&s;ter, as I have by former letters advi&s;ed thee. But during the life of the Car|dinall <HI>Richelieu,</HI> who for what cau&s;e I know not, was &s;till adver&s;e to my proceedings, my &s;uits and endevours were ca&s;t again&s;t the wind, and &s;o vani&s;hed. Since his decea&s;e, I
<PB N="5" REF="3"> have found my addre&s;&s;es in that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and ea&s;ilier enter|tained both by his Maje&s;ty of France and his Councell, who notwith&s;tanding by a politike preten&s;ion of con&s;erving the league inviolable between the Kingdomes of England and France, have waved my de&s;ires &s;o, that have not &s;uted to &s;o full an effect as I aimed them. I find this Nation flexible e|nough, I meane the great ones of it, to give eare attentively to the King our Ma&s;ters wants and &s;ufferings; but when I urge them home for a &s;upplement to tho&s;e wants, with a complementall courte&s;ie they an&s;wer; They could heartily wi&s;h the differences between his Maje&s;ty and Parliament were fairly compo&s;ed, and that to work that compo&s;ition, they would willingly engage their King to employ his ut|mo&s;t powers; but &s;till with that clau&s;e, Saving the amitie between our Kingdome and the Kingdome of England: &s;o that verbally I may define, ready to &s;erve the King, but cordially the Parliament, which hath &s;o much afflicted me, and di&s;compo&s;ed my little patience, that I have often in plaine termes intimated to them, the great di&s;parage|ment it would ca&s;t upon the dignitie of Kings in generall, to bee forced to &s;tand to the arbitrements of their &s;ubjects, they have an&s;wered me flatly, they under&s;tood not how mat|ters went between the King of England and his Parliament, whom they believed to be far better in&s;tructed in the lawes of the Kingdome and the prerogative of our Kings, again&s;t which, it was not likely they would attempt any thing, then they which were &s;trangers. And-when I reque&s;ted there might be &s;ome ayds of men and ammunition &s;ent over by the King of <HI>France,</HI> as te&s;timonies of his love to his Maje&s;tie of <HI>England,</HI> they have replyed, that with all their hearts they would be yeelding to the transferring any &s;uch &s;uc|cours, but that they did believe their King could not in his wi&s;dome, con&s;idering his pregnant nece&s;sities, being ingaged in &s;everall parts of his Dominions again&s;t the powerfull for|ces of the <HI>Spanyard,</HI> tran&s;mit any of his &s;oldiers as auxiliaries hither, &s;ince he was &s;carce furni&s;hed with men enow to keep
<PB N="6" REF="4"> the field and maintaine his frontier garri&s;ons again&s;t his ad|ver&s;arie, that &s;o many ways infe&s;ted, every part of the Realm of <HI>France,</HI> wearyed &amp; di&s;heartned with the&s;e circum&s;tantiall delayes, which were indeed flat denyalls. I was re&s;olved to cea&s;e any further pro&s;ecution of that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, determining with my &s;elfe to re&s;t my &s;elfe here in a quiet bani&s;hment; and &s;ince I could no other way advantage his Maje&s;ties af|faires, as much as I would by my prayers, till now with|in the&s;e late dayes: the <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Spanyard</HI> both tyred with the tedious expences of their precedent wars, began to ef|fect &s;ome treaty and overture of peace, which if it be once (as I hope it will be ratified between them) I &s;hall not doubt to procure his Maje&s;ty very con&s;iderable ayds out of the&s;e parts. To facilitate the effecting of which, I have &s;pared no paines, no diligence, nor omitted any co&s;t which was with|in my abilities, to the favorites and Minions of the Court of <HI>France,</HI> to endeare their Ma&s;ter to the King our Ma&s;ters a&s;&s;i&s;tance.</P>
<P>I have remon&s;trated to them the many indignities which have been offered to his Maje&s;tie, his royall Con&s;ort, their Kings &s;i&s;ter, and all their royall Progenie, by expelling them from the Court at <HI>White-hall,</HI> &s;ince which time, her Maje&s;ty hath beene forced to live in the manner of an exile in <HI>Hol|land</HI> at the <HI>Hagne.</HI></P>
<P>I laid before them the many &s;traits and grievous exigents which the King our Ma&s;ter was brought into by the di&s;obe|dience of his Subjects, being deprived of his revenue and magazines, and how acceptable &s;uch &s;upplies of his pre&s;ent wants would arrive to him, and in what an eternall obliga|tion of friend&s;hip it would indeare his Maje&s;ty to the King and State of <HI>Franch</HI> to receive &s;uch demon&s;trations of their aptitude to his reliefe, as were men and ammunition.</P>
<P>Many other motives, &s;uch as either my wit or judge|ment in the Kings pre&s;ent affaires could prompt mee to, did I intimate unto them; by all which I thinke (for I have no a&s;&s;urance but imaginary, on which I can build no certainty)
<PB N="7" REF="4"> I have won &s;o much on the King of <HI>France</HI> and his Councell, to intend &s;ome &s;uccour to the King our Ma&s;ter: For &s;ince that time, Ships fit for &s;ervice have been &s;tayed in all the ports of <HI>Normandy</HI> and <HI>Britaine,</HI> and the adjoyning parts; choyce of all the able Mariners made for manning the &s;aid ve&s;&s;ells; &s;tore of harne&s;&s;e and millitary provi&s;ion &s;ent to the forementioned parts, and the mo&s;t &s;ignall Commanders in <HI>France</HI> commanded to give their attendance thereabouts: 15000. well experienced &s;oldiers being provided for the fur|ni&s;hing tho&s;e Ships, whither they are bound is not yet divin|ged, but the rumour goes for <HI>England,</HI> which if it be &s;o, and that they can get &s;afe landing there, and joyne with his Ma|je&s;ties pre&s;ent forces, wee may then a&s;&s;uredly hope the be&s;t, and that his Maje&s;ty will be victorious over all his enemies.</P>
<P>But in troth, deare <HI>Will,</HI> wee can but onely flatter our &s;elves with the&s;e hopes, as men doe which with it &s;hould be &s;o, but not affirme it &s;o; many pregnant rea&s;ons indu|cing me to thinke the contrary, as the infallible knowledge the State of <HI>France,</HI> of the prevailing power of the Parlia|ments forces and their &s;trength <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">, where the <HI>French|men</HI> are no wayes &s;o good &s;ouldiers as they are at land, nor to be held comparable to the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> who now are reported here, to guard the Coa&s;ts of <HI>England</HI> and the narrow Seas.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides, it may be a fine tricke of <HI>French</HI> policy, while&s;t the <HI>Spanyard</HI> is amazed with the pre&s;ent overture of peace to beat him at his owne weapon (craft) to provide this Na|vie, and the&s;e &s;ouldiers in &s;tore for the &s;uccour of the King, &s;o to have them in readine&s;&s;e upon all occa&s;ions (which are not unlikely to fall out) of breaking of this treaty of peace, to fall upon the <HI>Spanyards</HI> townes in <HI>Flanders,</HI> or to &s;et forth for the inva&s;ion of &s;ome other of his Dominions at the approach of the Spring, till when, they cannot be rigged nor in readine&s;&s;e to &s;et out; &s;uch trickes there are frequent in the actions and policies of State, but wee hope the be&s;t; and if the&s;e provi&s;ions be really intended for the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of his Maje&s;ty, I &s;hall thinke my inforced di&s;continuance
<PB N="8" REF="5"> from my Countrey and friends fortunate, &s;ince by it I have beene an in&s;trument to promote his Maje&s;ties peace: how|&s;oever, my kind <HI>Will,</HI> I wi&s;h with all my heart matters had never proceeded to this unluckie heighth betweene his Ma|je&s;ty and his Parliament, then had wee enjoyed one ano|thers company in peace at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> and the&s;e mi&s;eries never been inflicted on our owne unhappy Countrey, where, &s;o all matters were fairly compo&s;ed betweene his Maje&s;ty and the Parliament, I could heartily wi&s;h my &s;elfe in my former condition, that I might be happy in the &s;ociety of thy &s;elfe and all my other friends, to whom I de&s;ire thee to doe my be&s;t commendations; and as my la&s;t <HI>Encaric<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">mento,</HI> and &s;o of mo&s;t con&s;equence to be performed, I de&s;ire thee to let his &s;acred Maje&s;tie know, that I pro&s;trate my life at his roy|all feet, wi&s;hing no longer to enjoy life, then I &s;hall ever &s;trive to be e&s;teemed his Highne&s;&s;e humble&s;t and loyalle&s;t Subject and &s;ervant, and thy true friend,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. I.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Paris, <DATE>19. Ianuary, Stilo Novo.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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