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<P>TRVE INTELLIGENCE FROM Lincolne-shire.</P>
<P>Di&s;covered by a Letter to a private Gentleman.</P>
<P>Pre&s;ented to the view and con|&s;ideration of the peaceably minded.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>W. M.</HI> 1642. <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 22.</P>
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<HEAD>TRUE INTELLIGENCE from Lincolne-shire, di&s;|covered in a Letter to a priuate Gentleman.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>TO cleare you from the mi&s;re|ports of our County of <HI>Lincolne,</HI> I &s;end you this as a true, and unpartiall relation of what hath pa&s;&s;ed in it &s;ince the Kings be|ing here.</P>
<P>The greate&s;t part of the con&s;iderable Gen|try then grounding their Actions upon the two Hou&s;es of Parliament, Voteing the ne|ce&s;sity of putting the Kingdome into Po|&s;ture, and encourraged by their example, did &s;ub&s;cribe to maintaine &s;ome Hor&s;es for three Monethes, to be in redine&s;&s;e for the defence of His Maje&s;ties ju&s;t Prerogative,
<PB N="4" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 114 -->the Prote&s;tant Religion, the Libertie, and propriety of the Subject, with the ju&s;t Pri|veledges of Parliament, and peace of this Countie; And have now &s;ent tho&s;e Hor&s;es to <HI>Lincolne</HI> (the Ceate of the Countrey) as a guard for tho&s;e parts, and fitte&s;t place to give reliefe to and pre&s;ent the re&s;t in peace, which (through Gods ble&s;sing) might bee effected (were it not for &s;ome &s;trange in&s;olencies by men of de&s;picable condition) with as great a calme as can be wi&s;hed, there having been nothing acted, or attempted by any of the Commi&s;sioners of Array which can be con|&s;trued a di&s;turbance, but on the contrary, they have declind the contention for the publique Magazen, which hath beene the fir&s;t blowne &s;parke in other Counties. And I am confident their future endavours will bee onely the pre&s;ervation of peace within them&s;elves, in that they re&s;olve (having thus farre di&s;charged their duties both to the King, and the two Hou&s;es of Parliament) not to embarque further by &s;ending any Forces out of the County to aide either &s;ide, but as much as in them lies; to indeavour Ac|commodation,
<PB N="5" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 114 -->This (being conver&s;ant with the profe&s;sons of them all) I am able know|ingly to averre, and withall to give a&s;&s;urance that they would not have drawne their Hor&s;es together but for the&s;e rea&s;ons, which I collected at their debates.</P>
<P N="1"><LABEL>I.</LABEL> That in &s;o great a County, They would not exerci&s;e and make them fit for Service, as in other places; where they meet with conveniency of re|turning to their hou&s;es when called to that duty.</P>
<P N="2"><LABEL>II.</LABEL> For that &s;ome in this County have had Actuall violences offered upon them, by &s;ome of Sir <HI>Iohn Hothams</HI> Souldiers; And others have beene threat|ned to have their Hou&s;es burnt by them: in&s;o|much as the People of tho&s;e Parts that lye upon, and about <HI>Humber,</HI> are in continuall Feares, and readie to leave their dwellings; if they have not the countenance of &s;ome little Fort to defend them.</P>
<P N="3"><LABEL>III.</LABEL> The reine of Governement hath beene of &s;lack|ned, as now tis cutt in peeces among&s;t us, many
<PB N="6" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 115 -->men of de&s;perate Fortunes, and more wicked re|&s;olutions live to geather, without the acknowledg|ment of any Law, &s;o as no Legall pre&s;&s;e can be at|tempted to be &s;erved upon them; But they re&s;i&s;t it in a Warlike maner, accumulating all maner of In&s;olencies, by adding to their Rebelion, violences upon mens Hou&s;es, goods, and Lands, Burning Stealing, and deva&s;tating of them, &s;o as the men of Fortunes had need &s;erve them again&s;t &s;uch Spirits.</P>
<P N="4"><LABEL>IIII.</LABEL> This being a Maritine Countie, and &s;o expo|&s;ed to the impre&s;sions of Forces from a broad, as well as to dangerous con&s;equences of Tumults, and In&s;urrections from within, and not able &s;o|dainely to gather any power to re&s;i&s;t the one, or &s;uppre&s;&s;e the other (it being &s;o large, and unpeo|pled a Countrey) there &s;eemes a kinde of nece&s;|&s;ity (in the&s;e times of di&s;traction, and threatning mi&s;cheifes) to have &s;ome in a continuall readine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P N="5"><LABEL>V.</LABEL> Mo&s;t of the adjacent. Counties being full of Souldiers, they may attempt &s;uch outrages upon us, as will call for a pre&s;ent re&s;cue and help.</P>
<P>Upon all which the Gentlemen conceive them|&s;elves not onely invited, but nece&s;siated, to what they have done, with a hope it will receive good
<PB N="7" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 115 -->approbation from all others, that are not &s;ome way malignants either again&s;t the King or Par|lament, From which number I accquitt you, and (for my owne particular) do wi&s;h from my Soule, Reformation; or Ruine to him that is not de&s;irous (by all Iu&s;t and Honourable wayes,) to advance the Pro&s;perity of both. So concludes and re&s;ts,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Freind, and Servant, M. P.</SIGNED>
<DATE><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 15. 1642.</DATE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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