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<P>A MESSAGE AND DECLARATION SENT FROM Colonel <HI>Whaley,</HI> to the Right Honou|rable WILLIAM LENTHAL E&s;quire, Spea|ker of the Hou&s;e of Commons, CONCERNING The Kings Maje&s;ties Royall Per&s;on, and Engagement. Together with his <HI>Demon&s;tration</HI> and <HI>Pro|po&s;als,</HI> touching His Gracious Maje&s;ty, and Mr. <HI>John A&s;hburnham</HI> [now attending His Royal Per&s;on in the I&s;le of <HI>Wight.</HI>]</P>
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<P><HI>THis Me&s;&s;age and Declaration is appointed to be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed, by Order and Command of the &s;aid Colo|nell</HI> Whaley.</P>
<P>DECEMBER, 7. 1647.</P>
<P>Imprinted at <HI>London</HI> for <HI>George Whittington,</HI> at the Blew Anchor in Cornhill necre the Royall Exchange, 1647.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>A Letter from Colonel <HI>Whaley</HI> to <HI>William Lenthal,</HI> Speaker of the ho|nourable Hou&s;e of Commons.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Am bold to affirme to you, that my engage|ments for the Parliament have bin with faith|fulne&s;&s;e and truth undertaken, and though I have alwayes &s;et a h&iuml;gh price of the Hou&s;es fa|vour&punc; endeavouring to an&s;wer it by di&s;charging the duty of my place and tru&s;t; yet I ever abhorred &s;ini&s;ter and unlawfull wayes, e&s;pecially &s;uch abho|minable ones, as to ing a iate my &s;elf with them, by untruths, it is not God and my owne Con&s;cience a|lone, that will ju&s;tifie me in this, but with confidence I may pre&s;ume, all the Godly in the Army that knowes me, &s;o far as man can judge, will te&s;tifie the &s;ame: Therefore, being now accu&s;ed by M. <HI>A&s;hburn|ham</HI> in a letter to you, for the not declaring his Maje|&s;ties di&s;ingaging him&s;elf by him [as hee &s;aith he did] to me, the tenderne&s;&s;e of my reputation, bo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">h with you and all hone&s;t men in the kingdome puts me up|on it, to write &s;omething in an&s;wer to his <HI>Letter,</HI> that this gro&s;&s;e failing, <HI>I &s;hould &s;peak another language,</HI> did
<PB N="2" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 54 -->not I think his memorie failed him, may appear both to you him&s;elf, and the kingdome.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>A&s;hburnham</HI> in the beginning of his <HI>Letter</HI> &s;aith he was the occa&s;ion, that drew on his Maje&s;ties En|gagement how this &s;hould be I cannot imagine, for the <HI>King</HI> made his Engagement to mee at New mar|ket, which I made known to the Generall and Offi|cers, when Mr. <HI>A&s;hburnham</HI> was in <HI>France.</HI> I confe&s;&s;e as I did declare, the King voluntarily renewed his Engagement at <HI>Wooburn,</HI> but that M. <HI>A&s;hburnham</HI> had &s;o much as a hand in that, it is more then ever I heard.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>A&s;hburnham</HI> further &s;aith, that &s;oone after <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ee came to wait on his Maje&s;tie at <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oburn,</HI> Col. <HI>Wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ley</HI> came to me, as he &s;aid by command from the Armie, to de&s;ire I would give my word, that his Maje&s;tie would not depa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">t from them w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">thout their con&s;ent, &amp;c. I hat I &s;pake to Mr. A&s;hburnham to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ngage him|&s;elf for the Kings &s;afe abiding with me. I will not de|ny, I have affirmed as much, but I am exceeding con|fident, I did it not in the name of the Armie, for I had no &s;uch Commi&s;&s;ion and it hath ever beene my eare to keep to my Commands.</P>
<P>That Mr. A&s;hburnham found me walking b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> the River &s;ide, and there did di&s;ingage him&s;elf from his former Engagement, I have already declared, but that I &s;hould &s;ay, then the King doth &s;o too, and he &s;hould tell me, you are to under&s;tand it &s;o, 'tis as true as the rea&s;on he backes it with: For he &s;aith, to &s;hew you, that Colon II Whaley rightly apprehended what I meant, hee &s;oone after went to the Head Quarters, where he declared unto them (as I am credibly in|formed)
<PB N="3" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 54 -->that the King and my &s;elfe had withdrawne our words, &amp;c.</P>
<P>As to this, the Generall and all the Councel of War then met, are my witne&s;&s;es, I told them no &s;uch thing, I acquainted them indeed M. A&s;hburnham had taken off his Engagement but when they asked me, whether the King hath done it, I an&s;wered, as I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">id you in the Hou&s;e upon the &s;ame Que&s;tion, which is in my Narrative, and left it to them to judge; and therefore I mu&s;t return this upon Mr. A&s;hburnham, and u&s;e it as an Argument agai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t him, That if the King did command him to take off his Engagement, he did not di&s;charge his Tru&s;t for had he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, I &s;hould &s;ooner have acquainted the Generall and Officers that the King had di&s;charged him&s;elfe, it being of greater weight then that Mr. A&s;hburnham had.</P>
<P>I &s;hould like wi&s;e have made known &s;o much to his Excellencie in my Letter, when I writ to him, that Mr. A&s;hburnham had di&s;&s;ingaged him&s;elfe.</P>
<P>And &s;ince he goes about to prove his a&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rtion, by circum&s;tances <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ll further make is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">pp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ar, how lit|tle they make for him, had Mr. A&s;hburnham taken off the King from his Engagement, he would have acquainted the Lieutenant Generall and Commi&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n|ry Generall with it, as wel as with his own di&s;ingag|ment, but they affirme to me the contrary, for about the &s;ame time, that Mr. A&s;hburnham di&s;ingaged him&s;elf, when he pretends he took off the Kings al&s;o, he went to putney to &s;peak with the Lieutenant Ge|nerall, and Commi&s;&s;ary Generall, they refu&s;ing to &s;peak with him, he &s;ent them word, hee would &s;tand engaged for the King no longer, and gave this for his
<PB N="4" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 55 -->rea&s;on, There was &s;o much Scotch &s;poken at the Court, but not one word of di&s;obli|ging the King.</P>
<P>I &s;hall likewi&s;e appeale to all that knowes me, whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">her they conceive me to be &s;o &s;im|ple, and of &s;o poor a &s;pirit, that when the King had per&s;onally engaged him&s;elf to me, J &s;hould remain &s;atisfied, that Mr. A&s;hburn|ham &s;hould tell me the King withdrew his Engagement, certainly I &s;hould have known the Kings plea&s;ure in it, J was never at &s;uch a di&s;tance from the King, neither wanted &s;o much boldne&s;&s;e, to ask him a que&s;tion of &s;uch concernment.</P>
<P>Mr. Speaker,</P>
<P>I think J have &s;ufficiently demon&s;trated, to you, and J doubt not, but it will &s;atisfie all indifferent men, that if the King did com|mand Mr. A&s;hburnham, as it &s;eemed to him he did, to take off his Engagement, he hath not di&s;charged his-tru&s;t; and this for the clearing my owne integrity J have done,</P>
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<P>And the Righteous GOD that &s;hall judge us all, knowes J have related the truth; and whatever men believe, J matter not, it is not the prai&s;e of men J &s;eeke, my witne&s;&s;e is with God, J remaine</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your very humble and faithfull Servant,</SIGNED> 
For the Right Honourable WILLIAM Lenthal E&s;quire, Speaker of the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons.</CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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