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<P>Certaine OBSERVATIONS Of both Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament,</HI> Concerning Two LETTERS The One from the Lord DIGBY, TO The QVEENES Maie&s;ty, The other From Mr. <HI>Thomas Eliot,</HI> at <HI>York,</HI> to the Lord <HI>Digby</HI> in HOLLAND.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a Note of &s;uch Armes, as were &s;ent for by his Maie&s;ty, out of <HI>Am&s;terdam, under his</HI> owne hand.</P>
<P>Together with diver&s;e pa&s;&s;ages of the Marqu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e <HI>Harford,</HI> and M. S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="4 letters">d, at the Generall A&s;&s;i&s;es, in the County of Somer&s;et,</P>
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<P><HI>Du Lunae</HI> 1. <HI>August,</HI> 1642.</P>
<P>Ordered that the&s;e two Letters with the Ob&s;ervation<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> upon the &s;ame, be forthwith publi&s;h d in Print.</P>
<P>Hen. El&s;yng Cler. Parl. D. Com.</P>
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<P>London, Printed for <HI>Iohn Wright.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<PB N="6" REF="2">
<HEAD>A Note of the Armes &s;ent for by the King from <HI>Am&s;terdam.</HI></HEAD>
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<HEAD>C. R.</HEAD>
<ITEM>TWo hundred fire-locks.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Foure Pieces of Cannon for Battery, viz.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Cannon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Demi-Cannon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Two whole Culverin.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Two Mortars.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Foure Petards.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ten field Pieces of &s;ixe pound Bullet mounted.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One hundred Barrels of Powder.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Round Shot and ca&s;e proportioned to the &s;everall pieces.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Two thou&s;and paire of Pi&s;tols.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One thou&s;and Carabins.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Three thou&s;and Saddles.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Three thou&s;and Musquets.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One thou&s;and Pikes.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>C. R.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Itan de gerre a Am&s;terdam &amp; Bartholetti.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Agent de la langravine de Hen. Wickford.</ITEM>
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<PB N="3" REF="2">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations upon the en&s;uing LETTERS.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Lords and Commons have commanded the&s;e en&s;uing Letters and Notes to be Prin|ted, The Copy of a Letter written by the Lord <HI>Digby</HI> to the Queene, the tenth of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, of his owne hand-writing: An originall Letter written to the Lord <HI>Digby,</HI> by Ma&s;ter <HI>Thomas Elliot,</HI> from <HI>Yorke</HI> the 27. of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t, two notes of Armes, the one of which is partly His Maje&s;tie owne hand, both found among my Lord <HI>Digbies</HI> papers: In the Letter of the Lord <HI>Digby</HI> to the Queene, it may be ob&s;erved, how he di&s;covers his venemous heart to this Kingdome, in that malicious cen&s;ure, that we area Countrey unworthy of her; unworthy indeed to be &s;o often de&s;igned to ruine and de|&s;truction, to be undermined and circumvented by &s;o many plots and devili&s;h projects of Je&s;uites and Prie&s;ts, and other the mo&s;t factious and Malignant &s;pirits i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Chri&s;tendome; by which we had been often ruired and de&s;troyed, if God wonderfull Mer|cy had not pre&s;erved us: And we call his divine Maj &s;ty to wit|ne&s;&s;e, that we have never done any thing agai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t the per&s;onal &s;afety or Honor of her Maje&s;ty, onely we have de&s;ired to be &s;e|cured from &s;uch plots, from &s;uch mi&s;chievous Engines, that they might not have the favor of the Court, and &s;uch a power|full influence, upon his Maje&s;ties Councells, as they have had to the extre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me hazard not onely of the Civill Libertie and Peace of the Kingdome; but of that which we hold much dearer then the&s;e, yea then the very being of this Nation, our Religion whereupon depends the honour of Almighty God and &s;alva|tion of our &s;oules: Let this Lord, who was long among&s;t us, and knew the Grounds of our proceedings and mo&s;t &s;ecret con&s;ul|tations,
<PB N="4" REF="3"> produce any thing (if he can) of undutifulne&s;&s;e, or di&s;repect to her Maje&s;ty, expre&s;t or intended by us.</P>
<P>Another di&s;covery in the Letter is this, that this Lord con|f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h that he writ to his Maje&s;ty with the hardin &s;&s;e which he thought his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ires a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">omplexion required, what this was may well be perceived in a Letter from him&s;elfe to the Queen, h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Prin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed by our direction; his affaires in the judge|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ent of this Lord requir d, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> he &s;hould withdraw him&s;el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e from his Parliament, betake him<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">elfe to &s;ome place of &s;treng h, &s;uch was the Coun&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll he then ga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e him, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> how w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll it hath bin followed every ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> may p rc ive, but what his Maje&s;ties complexion requir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d, that may &s;eeme a g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ter mi&s;terie, and yet this may be c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ct<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d out of that Letter, that his M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">je&s;tie in the apprehen&s; on of this Lord, was too <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nc i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">able to an Ac|commodation with his Parliament, which in a kind of &s;co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne in that Letter is called the ea&s;ie or the &s;afe way, this com<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lexi|on &s;o be&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eming a good Prince, requir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d &s;uch a hardy and vehe|ment provocation to wrath and warre again<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t his Subjects, as this L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rd pre&s;umed to expre&s;&s;e in that Letter, and be&s;ides his Tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hery <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o the Kingd<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me, we may herein ob&s;erve a great de|gree of i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lence and contempt towards <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">his M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">j<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ty, that hee &s;hould da<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e in a Letter to the Queen to tax his M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">je&s;ties com|plexion, with &s;o much as mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dne&s;&s;e towards his people, mu&s;t ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ds be requir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d &s;uch hardy and bold C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">un&s;ell.</P>
<P>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r <HI>Elliots</HI> Letter it may be fir&s;t ob&s;erved, that w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">il&s;t his M j<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ty conte&s;ts with his Parliament for &s;ome qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tionable Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gatives, concerning the Common-wealth, his owne &s;er|va<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ts doe re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lly deprive him of an undoubted Prerogative, of being the &s;overaigne di&s;po&s;er of favours and preferments in his owne Family, which this Gentleman doth expre&s;&s;e in that re&s;o|lution, never to have any place about his Maj<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ty, but by the Q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eene, and may be further ob&s;erved what the&s;e de&s;perate C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">un&s;ells about the K ng are mo&s;t affraid of, and what they thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k mo&s;t hurtfull to them&s;elvs, that his M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">je&s;ty &s;hould be in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l ned to an accommodation with his people; by this they fear to be undone that is, to loo&s;e that prey, the e&s;tates of the Par|liament-men, and other good Subjects, which they have alrea|dy devoured in their owne fancies, and that they expect to bee p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;erved from this undoing by the Queenes interpo&s;ing.</P>
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<P>By the&s;e two n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tes may be ob&s;erved, that at the time while&s;t &s;o many Declarations were publi&s;hed in his Maje&s;ties Name, w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">emne Prote&s;tations of his Maje&s;ties Intentions of ray|&s;ing onely a Guard for his owne Per&s;on, all &s;orts of provi&s;ion for an Army, were made beyond the Se<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s, and this poor K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">g|d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;igned to the mi&s;ery and confu&s;ion of Warre, and under the di&s;gui&s;e of defending the Prote&s;tant profe&s;&s;ion, an Army to be r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y&s;ed in the Intention of the&s;e wicked Coun&s;el|lors, for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing and de&s;truction of the Prote&s;tant Reli|gion.</P>
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<PB N="6" REF="4">
<HEAD>Mr <HI>Elliots</HI> Letter to the Lord <HI>Digby.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>My Lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d,</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOu have ever been &s;o willing to oblig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, that I cannot di&s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ire of your favour in a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e wherein I am much concerned; the King was plea&s;ed to imploy me <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o <HI>London</HI> to my Lord Kee|per for the S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ales, which though after two houres con&s;ideration he refu&s;ed, yet being re&s;olved not to be denyed, my importunity at la&s;t prevailed, which &s;ervice the King hath declared was &s;o great, that he hath promi&s;ed a reward equall to it; it may be the King expects I &s;hould move him for &s;ome place, <HI>which J &s;hall not doe, being re&s;olved never to have any but by the Queen, being already &s;o In|finitly obliged to her for her favours,</HI> that I confe&s;&s;e I would owe my be|ing only to her; nor &s;hall I ever value that life I hold, but as a dept, which I &s;hall ever pay to her commands; the favour which I de&s;ire from your Lord&s;hip, is, that you will ingage the Queen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to write to the King, that he would make me a Groom of his Bed-chamber, which &s;ince I know tis &s;o ab&s;olutely in her power to doe, I &s;hall never thinke of an other way, for which favour neither her Maie&s;ty nor your Lord&s;hip &s;hall ever find a more reall &s;ervant for our affaires they are now in &s;o good a condition, that if we are not undone by harking to an Accomodation, there is nothing el&s;e can hurt us, which I feare the King is too much inclined to but I hope what he &s;hall receive from the Queene, will make him &s;o re&s;olved, that nothing but a &s;atisfaction equall to the in|juries he hath receiv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d, will make him quit the advantage he now hath, which I doe not doubt will be the m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">anes of bringing y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ur Lord&s;hip quickly hither, where you &s;hall finde none more ready to obey your Commands,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Then your mo&s;t faithfull and humble &s;ervant, Thomas Ellyot:</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Yorke <DATE>the 27. of May</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="7" REF="4">
<HEAD>The Lord DIOBIES Letter to the <HI>Queenes</HI> Maj &s;ty.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Hague, <DATE>March <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">0. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>Madam,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IT is the fir&s;t Contentm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nt that I have been capable of this long time, That Your Maje&s;ty is &s;afely arrived in HOLLAND, <HI>With|drawne from a Countrey &s;o unworthy of you.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">uld have waited the fir&s;t upon you, both to have rendred my duty according to my precedence of obligation above others, and to have enform<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">d your M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">je&s;tie the timelie&s;t, of the &s;tate of this pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ce, whither you are comming, both in point of affections and intere&s;ts, but that th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">re &s;he about &s;uch reports that the Par|liament hath de&s;ired your Maje&s;ty not to admit me to your pre|&s;ence, as I dare not pre&s;ume into it without particular permi&s;&s;ion. The ground of their malevolence towards mee in this particular, i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;aid to b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">, upon &s;ome Letters, which they have pre&s;umed to o|pen, directed unto your M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">je&s;ty from me, which I profe&s;&s;e I can|not apprehen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">, for I am certaine, that I have not written to your Maie&s;tie the lea&s;t word that can be wre&s;ted to an ill &s;ence, by my greate&s;t enemies, having not &s;o much as mentioned any bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to your Maje&s;ty &s;ince I left E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">gland. <HI>To the King I confe&s;&s;e I wrote once with that hardine&s;&s;e which I thought hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> affai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">es and complexion <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e|qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">red,</HI> but that letter was &s;ent <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">y &s;o &s;af<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> hands, an I cannot appre|hend the mi&s;carrying of it. However Mad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">, if my mi&s;fortune be &s;o great, as that I mu&s;t be deprived of the <HI>&s;ole comfort of my li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e of waiting on Your Maie&s;ty, and following your fortunes,</HI> I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ch you, let my doome be &s;o &s;ignified unto mee, as that I may retire with the lea&s;t &s;hame, that well may be, to bewaile my unhappine&s;&s;e, which yet will be &s;upportable, if I may be but a&s;&s;ured that in|wardly that generous and Princely heart pre&s;erves me the place of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>(Madam) <HI>Your Maie&s;ties m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t faithfull and m &s;t affectionate humble &s;erva<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="8" REF="5">
<HEAD>True Newes out of Somer&s;et-&s;hire.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Thought good for the &s;atisfaction of Friends in London to &s;ignifie that we have bin in the County of <HI>Somer&s;et,</HI> full of Feare<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">: but the cloud (God bethanked, was &s;oone blown over.</P>
<P>The Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Harford</HI> ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e on the 25 of Iuly, at the A&s;&s;i&s;es to Bath; with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ivers others to execute the Comi&s;&s;ion of Array, where met him dive<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s of our Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n y. The <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> hav ng recei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed a Letter from His Ma|je&s;ty to forward the Commi&s;&s;ion, and to give it in cha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ge, but be decli|ned that as al&s;o t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mmands of the Hou&s;e, for declaring it Ill gall, &s;o in his Charge he &s;ayled betwixt wind and water, very po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iquely.</P>
<P>On Thur&s;day following (having received little incouragement at <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">h</HI>) the Commi&s;&s;ioners got to <HI>Wells,</HI> with the Cavaliers, in the interim a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">h,</HI> the Con&s;tables of &s;ome 21 Hundreds Petitioned t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Iudge to Declar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his opinion concerning the Commi&s;&s;ion, which with &s;ome re|luctancy, being &s;oundly put to it, he concluded to be Illegall; and ac|cording to a branch of the &s;aid Petition, he appointed the Vot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s oft H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to be read in open Court, touching the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">id Commi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>On Fryday the Marque&s;&s;e &s;ent for the Sheriffe from his attendance on the Iudge to <HI>Wells</HI> to require his coun&s;ell and A&s;&s;i&s;tance (being ioyned in commi&s;&s;ion with them (for the Array) who returned the Marque&s;&s;e this An&s;wer, that he had received commands from the Parliament not to joyne but further to &s;uppre&s;&s;e &s;uch their proceedings, who&s;e commands he was re&s;olve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to obey, and further &s;ent him the Con&s;tables petition, with the Iudges an&s;wer, whi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h with the unanimous con&s;ent of the C <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">y, to refu&s;e (except &s;ome di&s;contented Spirits) will coole their fu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r goi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g on t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erein divers of the Coun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y have petitioned h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m to de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">art <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut of their co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ts. And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er <HI>Str<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> a Gentleman of con|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a t fidel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ty to Ki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d Parliament, who in execution of the Militia, and meeting with th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Hartford,</HI> in the execution of the A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">y &s;hewed &s;uch courage, with a few again&s;t his many Hor&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, which the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ou t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y people, &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing with admiration, got up their &s;pirits, and &s;o be|&s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> them&s;elv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t in &s;hort time, they had tre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">e the Marque&s;&s;e pow r, wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">on he left the place: It was certaine, that if the Com|mi&s;&s;ion had taken <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ff ct, the King would hav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n &s;hortly in our parts, and it was intended to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he made the <HI>Aceldama,</HI> you may communicate this for Truth.</P>
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