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<P>THE KINGS PROCLAMATION <HI>AND</HI> DETERMINATION Concerning <HI>THE EARLE OF ESSEX,</HI> and all who go under his command.</P>
<P>With the Re&s;olution of both Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment concerning the &s;aid Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and the &s;ame Proclamation.</P>
<P><HI>ALSO</HI> JOYFVLL NEWES FROM THE EARLE OF WARVVICKE, Concerning his takeing of many &s;hips with Hor&s;e and other Ammunition for VV<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rr.</P>
<P>ALSO, The &s;umme or &s;ub&s;tance of a &s;peech &s;poken by the <HI>Earl of E&s;&s;ex,</HI> at a Conference in the painted Chamber, be|tween the Lords and the Hou&s;e of Commons, in de|fence of his own integrity, and his readine&s;&s;e to proceed in this pre&s;ent cau&s;e.</P>
<P>Joh. Brown Cler. Parl. Hen. El&s;ing Cler. Parl. D. Com.</P>
<P>Printed for <HI>T. Thom&s;on.</HI> 1642. <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 16.</P>
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<HEAD>THE KINGS PROCLAMATION <HI>AND</HI> DETERMINATION Concerning <HI>THE EARLE OF ESSEX,</HI> and all who go under his Command.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">With the Re&s;olution of both Hou&s;es of Par|liament concerning the &s;aid Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and the &s;ame Proclamation.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Al&s;o the &s;umme or &s;ub&s;tance of a &s;peech &s;poken by the <HI>Earle of E&s;&s;ex,</HI> at a Conference in the pain|ted Chamber, between the Lords and the Hou&s;e of Commons, in defence of his owne inte|grity, and his readine&s;&s;e to proceed in this pre&s;ent cau&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>_THe indu&s;trious vigilancie of the Parliament, for the pre&s;ervation and e&s;tabli&s;hment of Religion, for the liberty of the Subiect, and the priviledges of Parlia|ment, we all know, have been mo&s;t violently oppo&s;ed, and in &s;uch extreme
<PB N="2" REF="3">mea&s;ure re&s;i&s;ted, &s;o that His Maie&s;tie hath intended and levied warre again&s;t them.</P>
<P>Whereupon in their owne, and the defence of the common-wealth, they were con&s;train|ed to provide and rai&s;e pre&s;ent &s;trength and de|fen&s;ive power for the vindication of them&s;elves, the Liberty of the &s;ubiect, and the priviledges of Parliament. And upon the&s;e con&s;iderati|ons did make choice of the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> to be Generall, if the&s;e pre&s;ent forces which are rai&s;ed and levied for the generall pre&s;ervation of the kingdome, who hath re&s;olved with his ut|termo&s;t power and endeavours to di&s;charge with all integrity of con&s;cience that tru&s;t im|po&s;ed upon him, and did provide him&s;elfe with as much expedition as could be, with all convenient nece&s;&s;aries fit for &s;o great an imploy|ment.</P>
<P>His Maie&s;ty being informed of this great provi&s;ion which was made again&s;t all oppo&s;ers of the priviledges of Parliament, &s;ent forth a Proclamation, wherein hee proclaimed the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and all that &s;hould any way adhere unto him, or give any aid or a&s;si&s;tance unto him in this imployment, whether that a&s;|&s;i&s;tance were per&s;onall or pecuniary, to be <HI>ip&s;o facto</HI> traytors, unle&s;&s;e (his Excellence) the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> &s;hould lay down his armes within &s;ix dayes.</P>
<P>Vpon the thirteenth of Augu&s;t a Po&s;t came
<PB N="3" REF="3">from <HI>Yorke</HI> unto the Hou&s;e, with a Proclama|tion from His Maie&s;ty, wherein the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and all that &s;erve under his command for this pre&s;ent &s;ervice and expedirion, or any way what&s;oever adhere unto him, were al&s;o pro|claimed traytors, if they did not lay downe their armes within the &s;pace of &s;ix dayes next en&s;uing.</P>
<P>This being read and publi&s;hed in the Hou&s;e of Commons, after &s;ome debate and con&s;ul|tation had thereof, it was put to the Que&s;tion, Whether they would a&s;si&s;t the &s;aid Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> as Generall of tho&s;e forces which were now rai&s;ed, or were to be rai&s;ed for this pre|&s;ent &s;ervice and expedirion, or not: and it was voted with an unanimous con&s;ent, that they would a&s;si&s;t him.</P>
<P>Vpon which a conference was de&s;ired of both Hou&s;es, and their meeting was concluded and had in the painted chamber. At which meet|ing and conference the Proclamation was read, dated at <HI>York</HI> the ninth of Augu&s;t 1642. and after the reading thereof it was declared in the behalf of the whole Hou&s;e of Commons, and all the Commons throughout every Coun|ty within the circumference of <HI>England,</HI> that they had taken into mo&s;t &s;erious con&s;ideration and mature deliberation, the grounds &amp; rea&s;ons that did move and induce them to take up armes, which was for the defence of religion,
<PB N="4" REF="4">the Lawes of the land, the &s;afety of the whole Kingdome, and the priviledges of Parliament. Upon which due con&s;ideration of the afore|named rea&s;ons, they were re&s;olved that all the words of terrour and threatning in that His Maie&s;ties Proclamation, &s;hould not make them de&s;i&s;t from the maintaining of &s;o ju&s;t a cau&s;e, but that thereby they &s;hould double their re&s;o|lution concerning the &s;ame; unto which the Lords voted, and gave their approbation and con&s;ent, it being voted <HI>una voce</HI> in their hou&s;e before. Then the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> &s;tood up, and delivered him&s;elfe in the defence of his integri|ty, and his re&s;olution concerning his pre&s;ent imployment, and declared, that although it had plea&s;ed His Maie&s;ty to proclaime him trai|ror, yet his heart was as true and upright both to his King and Countrey, as any &s;ubiects in <HI>England</HI> what&s;oever. And as the Lords and Commons had promi&s;ed and declared, that they would a&s;&s;i&s;t him, and to their power ju&s;ti|fie his proceedings and undertakings, as Gene|rall for the Army rai&s;ed for this pre&s;ent expedi|tion, &s;o he would u&s;e his be&s;t and mo&s;t faithfull endeavours and skill in the managing and put|ting into execution the tru&s;t they repo&s;ed in him, and that neither threatnings, favour, nor any thing el&s;e &s;hould divert or di&s;courage him from his intentions in the behalf of this cau&s;e, although it were to the hazard and lo&s;&s;e of his
<PB N="5" REF="4">deare&s;t blood. The hou&s;e al&s;o received infor|mation that one M. <HI>Talbot</HI> brother to the Earle of <HI>Shrewesburie,</HI> and &s;ome others imployed in the Commi&s;&s;ion of Array for the County of <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> had &s;ent out warrants to the chiefe Con&s;tables, commanding the trained bands, and all tho&s;e that were charged with hor&s;e and armes, to appeare before them at <HI>Worce&s;ter</HI> on thur&s;day, but the whole County did generally and with one con&s;ent refu&s;e to come, only &s;ome few gentlemen and &s;ome of their tenants appea|red: whereupon this <HI>Talbot</HI> and the re&s;t who were of the &s;ame Commi&s;&s;ion with him, went away very much di&s;contented.</P>
<P><HI>Thur&s;day</HI> Morning the Hou&s;e of Commons being met, an Amba&s;&s;adour came to the Hou&s;e from Hamborough concerning a treaty of di|vers matters of con&s;equence, between the States of <HI>Holland</HI> and the Parliament, and he pre&s;ented &s;ome Lettes to the Hou&s;e from the States, de|claring their true affection to the Parliament; and although there is great plotting in other Countries again&s;t <HI>England,</HI> yet will not be want|ing to u&s;e all po&s;&s;ible meanes for the prevention thereof. Now that the world may &s;ee that God doth alway crown their de&s;ignes with &s;ucce&s;&s;e, who&s;e cau&s;e is iu&s;t, and who&s;e principall aime is for his true Religion and Go&s;pell, and di&s;ap|point the &s;ubtill devices of tho&s;e ill affected &s;pi|rits that oppo&s;e them, is obvious to every eye,
<PB N="6" REF="5">witne&s;&s;e the fru&s;trating of their attempts again&s;t <HI>Hull, Wels, Warwick,</HI> &amp;c. &s;o more e&s;pecially in their manifold enterpri&s;es at &s;ea, as you may &s;ee in a letter from the Earle of <HI>Warwick</HI> upon the twelfth of this pre&s;ent moneth, intimating that he met with two &s;hips coming from <HI>Holland,</HI> the one of them was laden with armour and Ammunition, which being but a &s;mall &s;hip, and &s;wift of &s;aile, could not take it, but the other he drove into <HI>Hull,</HI> which had in it three hundred thou&s;and pound, which was &s;ent from the Queen to His Maie&s;ty, with an intent to land at <HI>Newca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P>Great is the mallice of the enemy, but grea|ter is the providence of God, as hath appeared at this pre&s;ent by the Earle of <HI>Warwicke,</HI> who hath taken diver&s;e &s;hips where in a was troop of Hor&s;e and other Ammunition for Warr.</P>
<P>Al&s;o it is manife&s;t that a Knight named <HI>Ro|per,</HI> was bound and brought to the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> in a Coach from <HI>Kent</HI> and with him 5 or 6 loade of Ammunition which is now in Guild-Hall.</P>
<P>Ordered, that Sir <HI>Iohn Girlington,</HI> Sir <HI>George Middleton,</HI> and Sir <HI>Edward Fitton</HI> be &s;ent for as delinquents.</P>
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<ITEM>Ioh. Brown Cleric. Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. El&s;ing Cler. Parl. D. Com.</ITEM>
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