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A50952	Miltons republican-letters or a collection of such as were written by command of the late Commonwealth of England from the year 1648 to the year 1659 / originally writ by the learned John Milton, secretary to those times ; and now translated into English by a wel-wisher of England's honour.; Literae pseudo-senatûs anglicani Cromwellii. English	England and Wales. Council of State.; Milton, John, 1608-1674.; England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); England and Wales. Lord Protector (1658-1659 : R. Cromwell)	1682 (1682)	Wing M2176B; ESTC R42175	100,274	142

said Ship being in her way thither taken upon the very East India Coast by a certain Ship belonging to the 〈◊〉 East India Company the Ensurer's denyed to fulfill their Contract in paying the ensured Summe and have so far prevailed as to be capable by various delays to elude our People now after the expensive consumption of Six yeares in prosecution of their Right Which in regard they looke upon as an usage of great oppression and injustice and that some obliged for the Payment of the Money agreed for are either already dead or become insolvent We earnestly pray that you would to prevent ●…urther expences in addition to the said Losses be pleased to suffer your equity to be a safe Port and refuge to them after so many Yeares stormy useage and almost Shipwrack in your Court of ●…udicature and that Sentence be with all speed awarded concerning their cause in whose ●…ustice they seeme very confident Wishing in the meane time that happine●…s and prosperity may attend all you undertake to the Glory of God the safety of his Church Your High and Mighty Lordships most affectionally OLIVER Protector c. OLIVER Protector of the Commonwealth of England To the High and Mighty Lords the States of Holland S D. THomas and William Lower lawfull Heires of Nicholas Lower lately deceased on whose account you have had some former trouble giveu you about the ●…des of September last I thinke do bawl now a fresh again alleadging that they still labour under the oppression of their Adversaries who●…e power or other private Intrest has notwitstanding the integrity of their claimes and when that coud not doe our Letters sent in favour of their cause ●…o far prevailed as to hinder them from entering upon the benefit of their Father's will That being rejected by the Court of Holland where the action first began and thrown upon yours pack'd thence to Zee-land and thence hurryed back again to your high Court of Judicatorie to their content accompanyed to each place with our Letters For where the hight and power is there they depend upon the dispensation of Justice proportionably If that fails they are at a losse to know where to cast anchor for reliefe after the pains they undertoke in pursuit of Justice For if they find that this our fourth recomendation of their cause can do no good it will be to little purpose for 'em to extend their hopes any further Wee shall reckon it as a true instance of kindnesse if after so many rejections you let them see that your apprehension of our Authority cou'd contribute somewhat to their Reliefe in bringing their claime to a speedy determination as well altogether as have them believe it to be the intire effect of your own Justice and equity As we can no way dispond of your allowance of the former of which so we are confident that the consideration of our Friendship will incline you to the later Your's c. OLIVER Protector OLIVER Protector of the Republick of England To the most Serene Prince John King of Portugal Most Serene Prince WHereas several Merchants belonging the Brazil Company in Portugal did in the Yeares 1649. and 1650. becom indebted unto sundry English Merchants in a considerable Sume of Money upon the account of freight and Moorage that the said Society respit the Payment thereof pursuant to an order of your Majesties to that purpose notwithstanding that they did truly depend upon the Payment thereof conformable to the Tearmes and conditions of the league lately ratified But fear they may be frustrated in their hope and other meanes of recovering their Right as being informed of your Majesty hayeing seized and sent to the Exchequer their said debt and assigned the repayment thereof upon the moity of your Customes so that the Merchants are like to have no more then the bare Interest of their Money the principal lying in the mean while wholly dead Haveing taken the hardship of which under our strict consideration the conviction of their just importunities prevailed upon our giveing your Majesty this trouble on their behalfe requireing that instant satisfaction be by the Brazil Company made the Merchants of his Republick in reference as well to each ma ns demand respectively as five Yeares Intrest This as it is a thing in it selfe consistent with lustice and conformable with the league lately contracted with you let me on their behalfe desire in an amicable manner that it be complyed with without further delay From our pallace at Westminster July 1656. Your Ma●…esties most affectionally OLIVER Protector of England c. OLIVER P. of the Republick of England To the most Sere●…e Prince Charles Gustavus by the Grace of God King of Sweedland Gothes and Vandalls Great Prince of Finland c. Most Serene King AS the alliance of so great a Prince and so famous for his actions as Your Majesty is hath ●… just Title to the height of our esteeme so that person thrô whose means we have been so strictly allyed I mean that most ●…llustrious Gentleman Christernus Bondur your Embassadour Extraordinary must have been upon that very consideration necessarily gratful and welcome unto us Whom therefore having laudably discharged this Embassy we cou'd not dismisse hence without accompanying him with a Testimony of our being highly satisfied in the rest of ●…is singular vertues as being one who seemes to entert●…ine a bel●…efe that this our recommendation of him may add ' considerably to that value and esteeme which he is already in possession of with Your Majesty in reference 〈◊〉 particularly to the diligence and prudence he exerted in this affair What remaines to be further transacted we have resolved to send Your Majesty an Embassadour soone about Whose health God in the mean time preserve for the defence of his Church and that of the Kingdome of Sweedland From our Court at Westminster July An. Dom. 1656. Your Majestie 's most affectionally OLIVER Protector of the Republick of England c. OLIVER Protector of the Repbul of England c To the most Serene Prince Lewis King of France Most Serene Prince Friend and dearest Consederate WE have had a petition in the names of Richard Baker and severall other Merchants of London and his Associates wherein they humbly complaine that an English built Ship called the Endeavour William Jopp Master and hired into their service was about the 21. of Novemder 1655. set upon in her way between a place called the Palm and the Island of Tenerif where shee put out for London from seized by four French Vessels who in appearance looking like Merchant-men but arm'd like Men of War and under the chiefe comand of one Egedius de la Rocke carried her with her whole freight consisting in Medera wines to the East Indy's whether they said they were bound together with most o●… the Mariners saveing fourteen which they landed upon the shore of Guiny Which the said Egidius declared the inten●… of to be to prevent

Bait being the Estate which he mainly and originally gaped at lies under our Jurisdiction as also that the cognisance of the whole cause and consequently it's Judgment does in our opinion properly belong to us alone Let him repair hither with his claime let him comence his Suit here and make out the right he pretends unto her being his wife This brings your Excellency in the mean time an earnest Repetittion of what has been already very often pressed by our Envoy at Brussells that the afflicted and forlorn maiden the honesty of her exactation the surreptitious method wherein shee was conveyed from out of her Country by theft be prevalent Inducements to you to take care of her being in safety permitted to repaire home Which not onelywe who if there be occasion for it shall make a suitably ready expression of our aknowledgments but even humanity and modesty it selfe which ought to influence the disposition of all good and valiant men and engage them in the de●…nc of the honour chastity of her sex se●…me with united petition to call for Dated at Westminster March 28. 1650. To the most Serene Prince JOHN the IV. King of Portugall THE consideration of your Majesties honourable Reception of and curteous speedy audience allowed unto our Embassadour hath induced us to let you know by the quick dispatch o●… this our second that we accept thereof very kindly and that our purposes contain nothing more venerably to observe with deeds as well as words then the inviolable support without we be first provoked to contrary dealings of the peace alliance commerce which we are engaged in with severall Nations and which among the rest have been for a long time ratified between us and Portugall Nor has our fleet gone to the River Tagus upon any other different Errand then barely to chastise our Enemies who will not be warned by the many Flights which we so often already instructed them with the experience of and rescue such effects of ours as being by force and Treachery taken away from our people the Murrain of these Reb Ils has carryed into your Ports and especially Lisbone it selfe where they vend the proceed of their theft at open sale But yet we are apt to believe that most of the peoole of Portugall have by their depraved behaviours discovered what sort of persons they are how addicted to impudence fury and madnesse The consideration of which strenghtens our confidence and hopes so much the more of prevailing in the first place with your Majesty in favour of Edward Popham a very worthy Gentlemen whom we have appointed Comander in chiefe of this squadron sent for the overthrow of these Pirats And that in the next place you woud treat them and their Comanders not as persons worthy of hospitality but ●…heeves not merchants but the Bane of thrade and Breakers of Nationall Laws and consequently deny them admittance into or shelter within the pro ection of your Kingdome but rather banish them the limitts thereof But if you shou'd thinke fit to be otherwise inclinable that then we may be at liberty to assault r●…duce and at our ●…ngle charge force them to thatdue subjection from which they have Renegadoes and Rogues like revolted Which as it has been the substance of our former pressing D●…es so this comes to your Majesty as a repetition thereof accompanyed with no lesse fervency and Earnestnesse In which be your compliance the effect either of Justice or complement it will not onely advance and add to the Glory of your j●…stice in all other well governed Nations of the world but oblige us and more particularly the people of England before of no contrary disposition towards the people of Portngall and your family in amore especiall manner Dated at Westminster Aprell 27. 1653. To the Citty of Hamburgh LEtters have more then once interchangeably passed between us and you concerning differences ariseing between Merchants and some other matters also which seemed more particularly to relate to and touch the Dignity of our Republicke But in as much as we apprehend that such matters can be scarcetransacted by letters alone and understanding of the refort of certain seditious Persons thither from Charles Stuart whose Errands consist of nothing so much as to practise wickedness and insolence in order to the defeating and ●…oly removeing the trade which some of knowne affection to their Country drove with your Citty Wherefore having appointed Richard Bradshaw a very noble and worthy Gentleman to go under the Character of our Envoy thither to propose and transact such matter at Large as equally concerne the joint advantage of both Republicks and that in pursuance of our Commssiion and subsequent Instructions to him we pray that you give him speedy audience and in all things cause such provision to be made for the honout and Credit of his Errand as custo●…e has renderend practicable in all Nations to Persons of his Degree Adieu Dated at Westminster Aprill II. 1650. To the Corporation of Hamburgh Most Noble Magnificent and Worthy Gentlemen Dear friende YOur Entertainment to our Resident upon his arrivall with you under that figure has appeared so free affectionate and singular that we owne it as such and earnestly intreat your continuance of that inclination and disposition towards Us. And that the rather for that we are told that those under banishment hence of whom our former letters tooke so much notice do dayly more and more heighten in ●…heir Insolence among you and that not onely in an instance of opprobrious language to our Envoy but an open declaration of some ill designe to be practised upon him This therefore brings an earnest repetition of our recommendation of his safety and due honour to your Care And the sooner you reprove those new as well as old villains and murtherers the more acccptable shall we reckon the act●…on and performe a Deed very much consisting with your power and 〈◊〉 Dated at Westminster Mey 31. 1650. To PHILIP the IIII. King of Spaine WEE are to our great trouble informed that Am hony Ascane lately deputed hence to your Majesty as our Embassadour and as such very civilly and publickly treated in his way thither after haveing vanquished the hardships of a dangerous and tedious journey was upon his first Entry into your Royall Citty stript of all protection filthily sett upon and with his Interpreter John Baptista de Ripa most basily murthered at a certaine ●…nn where he tooke up his quartters yet in as much as we apprehend that not onely we our selves ●…ut your faith and reputation also have been in this action stabb'd ●…nd almost transfixt thro his fides wee do with all imaginable earnestnesse pray your Majesty to see imme diat jus●…ice executed upon such of the Murtherers as are reported to have been already taken and committed to prison their punishments ●…roportioned to their guilt and their abe●…s and confederates who ever they be exemplyed suitable to the quality of this