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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84109	The Earle of Essex his letter to Master Speaker. July 9. 1643. With some briefe animadversions on the said letter.	Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646.	1643 (1643)	Wing E3322; Thomason E64_3; ESTC R1626	4,224	11

THE EARLE OF ESSEX HIS LETTER TO Master Speaker July 9. 1643. With some briefe Animadversions on the said Letter OXFORD Printed by Henry Hall 1643. Master SPEAKER I Would now have given you the true Relation of the skirmish on Sunday last between some of my Horse and the Enemies neare Buckingham but Sir Philip Stapleton and Colonell Goodwin being then upon the place I referre that Relation to them since when being informed that the King had sent more Forces to Buckingham to maintain that Place and bring those parts into contribution and give us battaile there hereupon I advanced with the Armie towards that Town where the Enemie stayed untill the Armie came within two miles of them and then made haste away towards Banburie notwithstanding they had perswaded the People that they would not quit the Place till they had beaten me out of the Countie I then understanding that they were fled held it not fit to go to the Town with mine Armie but sent Colonell Middleton with some Horse to clear that Town and Coast which they did and then advised where to quarter with most conveniencie for our Armie and most readie for the Enemie the Queenes Forces being like to joine with them verie suddenly and that our Armie may better secure the Parliament and Citie of London and Counties adjacent and be more safely supplied with monies from London and lie most conveniently to joyne with the Forces with the Lord Gray in Northamptonshire J was advised to march to great Brickhill as the most fit Place for all purposes The Enemie being so strong in Horse and this Armie being neither recrewted with Horses Armes nor Saddles it is impossible to keep the Countries from being plundered nor to fight with them but where and when they list we being forced when we move to march with the whole Armie which can be but slow marches so that the Countries must suffer much wrong and the cries of poor People are infinite If it were thought fit to send to his Majestie to have Peace with the settling of Religion the Lawes and Liberties of the Subject and to bring unto just Triall those chiefe Delinquents that have brought all this mischiefe to both Kingdomes and as my Lord of Bristol spake in Parliament how we may be secured to have those things performed hereafter or else if his Majestie shall please to absent himselfe there may be a day set down to give a period to all these unhappy distractions by a Battaile which when and where they shall choose who may be thought any way indifferent J shall be ready to performe that dutie J owe you And that it may not bring with it a Treatie the Propositions to be agreed upon between his Majestie and the Parliament may be sent to such an indifferent place that both Armies may be drawn near one to the other that if Peace be not concluded it may be ended by the sword no Officers of the Armie to be of the Committee nor any entercourse to be between them So I am Your assured Friend ESSEX Great Brickhil Iuly 9. 1643. THis Letter will need no Interpreter onely the Reader may please to observe what is now the chiefe taske of the Rebels Armie To secure the Parliament and Citie of London for as that wretched Citie hath been both Midwife and Nurse of this Rebellion which some desperate Male-contents had cunningly begotten so now their Generall must so order his businesse that neither the one nor the other be brought to an accompt for if the Members be disturbed the Contrivance would cease and not to protect their Citizens would stop Contribution and so their Armie and this bloudie Civill War would melt and dissolve into our former happie peace Next consider in what case their Armie now apprehends it selfe who foreseeing Her Majestie would advance out of the North Declared it was not in their power to prevent Her but that maugre all they could do to the contrary The Queenes Forces would suddenly be joyned to the Kings which accordingly was done Her Majestie meeting her Lord and Soveraigne in Keinton Field and thereby manifested that She valued their Forces no more than their lies and slanders Again you may observe what excellent good Masters the Authours of this Rebellion have still approved themselves that their Generall the Earle of Essex whose repute in the world had cast some credit on these mens designes should now be rewarded with so slight and cheap an estimation as if he had been a common stander by For though in the beginning they smooth'd and courted him to undertake their Cause and after to continue him passed a fine Vote That Robert Earle of Essex had deserved so highly that He and his House should be recorded to all Posteritie for their service done to the Common-wealth whereby they heaved Him up to such a value among the people that a meer Letter of his to Isaak Pennington from Northampton was able to command an hundred thousand pounds in foure dayes yet now is he sunke to so low a rate in their affections that He is fain to complain and as here He doth beg not onely for Men Money and Horses but for Saddles and such other particulars as were not wont to finde room in his Excellencies Letters nay and Isaak Pennington's own Chaplain one that for stealing a Gown and his good abilitie in Learning was fain to leave the Universitie doth now preach against Him and whether it will stay at a meer neglect themselves best know Nor is it their Generall 's case alone Sir Iohn Hotham Colonell Essex with others too many now to mention have as amply been rewarded the Colonell imprisoned because he was too fair a Rebell and not so vile an Enemie as that bloudie Coward Nathaniel Fines and Hotham with his Son and Familie imprisoned wounded pillaged of all his vast Treasure though he was the first great Stickler in their Cause and if he opened not the first mouth yet he held up the first hand against His Majestie for without Hotham they might have Voted and gnashed their teeth against the King but gone no farther he being then possessour of His Majesties Magazine But Hotham was rich which as their case stands is against the Priviledges of Parliament they being resolved as Suetonius sayes of Vespasian to make their Agents Sponges to suck in all they can In vità Fl. Vespasiant and after squeeze them for their own use The next thing observable is an ingenuous confession of him that knowes best who is now Master of the Field The Enemie sayes the Earle is so strong in Horse and this Armie being neither recrewted with Horses Armes c. it is impossible to keep the Countrey c. nor to fight with them but when and where they list We being forced when we move to march with the whole Armie to keep our selves from being broken Nor can the Earle confide in those few Forces he hath for he complaines in his late