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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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A mo&s;t learned and Religious Speec<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;poken by Mr. <HI>Pym,</HI> at a conference of both Ho<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;es of Parliament the 23. of this in&s;tant Moneth of Septem<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"></P>
<P>Declaring unto them the nece&s;&s;ity and benefit of the union of his Maje&s;ties three Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland in matters of Religion and Church Government.</P>
<P>Al&s;o certaine Pa&s;&s;ages at a Committee in the Exchequor Chamber concerning Coyning of Farthings now in the hands of the Lord <HI>Mowbray,</HI> and <HI>Montravers:</HI> Together with &s;ome remarkable Pa&s;&s;ages from Che&s;ter, and words betwixt Prince <HI>Robert</HI> and his Excellence <HI>Robert</HI> Earle of E&s;&s;ex.</P>
<P><ADD>Sept: 30 1642</ADD> <HI>Henry El&s;ing</HI> Cler. Parl. D. Com.</P>
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<FIGDESC>depiction of Mr. Pym</FIGDESC>
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<P>London Printed for <HI>Iohn Otwell.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A Learned</HI> And Religious Speech &s;po|ken by Ma&s;ter <HI>Pym</HI> at a conference of both Hou&s;es of Parliament the 23. of this in&s;tant Moneth of Septem. Declaring unto them the nece&s;&s;ity and benefit of the Union of his Maje&s;ties three Kingdomes, England, Scotland and Ireland, in matters of Religion and Church Government, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>_MY Lords,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>your Lord&s;hips may ob&s;erve that the Di&s;tractions of this Kingdome have beene fomented by the Ie&s;uiticall and Prelaticall Faction, di&s;con|tented Courtiers, and &s;elfe lovers, and how
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that this Ie&s;uiticall &amp; Prelaticall Faction have not only threatned ruine to the Kingdom of Ireland, but to all other the reformed Chur|ches, as is evidenced by their late practices, how nece&s;&s;ary it is therefore for your Lord|&s;hips, and the reformed Churches to unite your &s;elves together I referre to your Lord|&s;hips con&s;ideration; how&s;oever according to the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in me by the Hou&s;e of Commons, I am commanded humbly to pre&s;ent to your Lord&s;hips, not onely the &s;ence of the&s;e great di&s;tractions, but the meanes how to compo&s;e them; which as they have taken into their con&s;ideration are the&s;e.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, that one directory or forme of Prayer &s;hould be ob&s;erved throughout the three Kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland.</P>
<P>Secondly, that there &s;hould be one Ca|techi&s;me taught of in&s;truction of youth.</P>
<P>3. That the A&s;&s;embly of Divines for Re|formation of Religion and Church Lytur|gy
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&s;hould convene (as was formerly inten|ded) with all &s;peed, and to that end his Ma|je&s;ty &s;hould be petitioned to pa&s;&s;e a Bil that &s;o the di&s;tractions of this Kingdome concer|ning Church governement &amp; Liturgy might be &s;emented and united, and the 3. King|domes being under one government, might agree in di&s;cipline and unity of &s;pirit: And for the better effecting of this act of Refor|mation, it is de&s;ired by the Hou&s;e of Com+mons, that &s;ome of the mo&s;t able and judici|ous Divines of the Kingdome of Scotland, and of other the reformed Churches &s;hould joyn in this A&s;&s;embly, and that a Remon|&s;trance of the&s;e their de&s;ires &s;hould be made to their Brethren of Scotland, all which was granted. Then the Lord <HI>Mandevill</HI> reported the ab&s;ence of the great Seal being entru&s;ted in the hands of a common per&s;on, &amp; from the Lord Keeper, was a great delay in the exe|cution of Iu&s;tice, and that divers things had pa&s;&s;ed under the great Seal prejudiciall to the Common-wealth &s;ince his <HI>Maje&s;tie</HI> had
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taken it from the Lord Keeper, which was referred to the con&s;ideration of the Hou&s;e of Commons.</P>
<P>The L. <HI>Moubray</HI> and <HI>Maltrevers</HI> his agent appeared in the Exchequer chamber before a Committee, with his patent concerning the coyning of farthings, &amp; confe&s;t that the charge of the coyning of 30. pounds worth of farthings in materialls and &s;ervants wages mounted to 6-8 and Sir <HI>H. Mildmay</HI> and one of the committee alleadged that coy|ning Was a flower of the crown, how&s;oever if the Subject could make appear that there was an abu&s;e either in the creation or execu|tion of the patent, it was to be vacated, and thereupon the informers were left to their further defence.</P>
<P>There was lately notice given to the Par|liament, that his <HI>Maje&s;tie</HI> is neer Che&s;ter in|tending to joyn him&s;elfe with the Forces of the Lord <HI>Strange</HI> and the Lord <HI>Rivers,</HI> which they have ray&s;ed in Che&s;ter, Lanca&s;hire, and Wales, and &s;o to march towards Worce&s;ter
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to ray&s;e the &s;iege, the Parliaments forces have made again&s;t Sir <HI>Iohn Byron</HI> and the Ca|valliers.</P>
<P>That his Excellency the Earl of E&s;&s;ex ha|ving in&s;tructions and directions from both Hou&s;es to attend his <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> with a Petition from them, received a Me&s;&s;age from P. <HI>Robert</HI> to this effect, that for his Petition he might pre&s;ent his <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> him&s;elfe with it when he plea&s;ed, but as for his &s;word he him&s;elf wold an&s;wer it when and where he &s;hould be ap|pointed.</P>
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<HEAD>More newes from Worce&s;ter.</HEAD>
<P>WHen Prince <HI>Robert</HI> came to Worce&s;ter about 11, of the clock, <HI>Sept.</HI> 23. as was thought to fetch away tho&s;e Forces that lay at Worce&s;ter, much endangered by the L. Generalls forces which were come neer the City, about 10. troops, and al&s;o 200. dragoneers drawn into an advan|tagious plot of ground to prevent the Cavalliers flight, were &s;trongly a&s;&s;aulted by Pr. <HI>Roberts</HI> forces, &s;uppo&s;ed to bee in number &s;ome 6000. hor&s;e, they valiently di&s;charged again&s;t the Cavalliers, and had a very bloody fight, untill it came to the &s;words point, Colonel <HI>Fines</HI> pi&s;tole I their chiefe Commanders, Prince <HI>Maurice</HI> hand cut off and de&s;perately wounded, and Prince <HI>Robert</HI> is &s;hot through the thigh as it is reported, the Parliaments forces being &s;eparated were forced to retreat, the L. Generals forces being not come to a&s;&s;i&s;t them</P>
<P>Al&s;o about 10. of the clock at night, Prince <HI>Roberts</HI> forces fled over the bridg towards Ludlow with many o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the City with them, and forced Captaine <HI>Wingat</HI> whom they tooke pri&s;oner to ride before them naked.</P>
<P>The next day his Excellence po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed him&s;elfe of the Ci|ty which was almo&s;t ruinated by the Cavalliers, but God be pray&s;ed they are departed thence, the Cavalliers have done much mi&s;chiefe by plundering and di&s;arming per&s;ons well affected to the Parliament, and making them to flye for their lives, if a &s;peedy cour&s;e be not taken, the Kingdom will be in great danger.</P>
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