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A83741	Eight speeches spoken in Guild-Hall, upon Thursday night, Octob. 27. 1642. Printed in the same order they were spoken, one after the other, by the Lo: VVharton, Mr Strode, the Earl of Pembroke, the Earl of Holland, the Lo: Say. Also a letter from Mr. Secretary Nicholas to the Earle of Cumberland.	Wharton, Philip Wharton, Baron, 1613-1696.	1642 (1642)	Wing E262; Thomason E124_32; ESTC R5746	12,270	22

forces came to my Lord Generall and joyned with the rest of the Armie and when the King had drawne his forces up the hill my Lord Generall drew us a matter of half a mile or three quarters of a mile further from the hill that he might be out of the power of the Cannon there we stood to our arms all the night and in the morning drew our selves out againe into the fields but we heard no more newes of the other army more then we saw some scattering men of some three or four troopes of horses on the top of the hill which came to burie the dead and take away some of their Cannon and such things as those were but they came no more down the hill neither that day nor on tuesday though there were divers reports came to us in the Armie and I beleeve came hither that there was fighting on Monday and Teusday yet there was no fighting for the King kept on the top of the hill and we came away on Teusday at four a clocke so that we can assure you there was no more action then was on the Lords day Gentlemen I shall after I have declared this narration to you say no more then this that certainly my Lord Generall himself hath deserved as much in this service for his pains for his care and for the particular successe that was upon it as truly I think ever any Gentleman did and in the next place that as God of his owne immediate providence did thus declare himselfe for the owning of his owne cause so you will not forget to apply your selves to God to give him the glory and to entreat his blessing upon the future successe Master STRODE his SPEECH GEntlemen all as this noble Lord hath tolde you my Lord Generall hath sent him up to you to give you a clear information of what was done he hath given you so cleare a one that there is little left for me to say to you only my attestation and that needes not had that beene all I should have said nothing but in the Innumeration of those regiments that did run away and of his owne I must needs say thus much when they all were away he stayd with us in the service all that night this hold it my dutie to this honourable person it was modesty in himselfe to say nothing I shall crave leave a little further to make you some observation that as God did this great worke and we ascribe to him the honour so you will looke upon the persons by whom he did it In the first place you have heard when as it was 1000 to one but that we had lost the day by running away of the troope of horse and the four Regiments and then the Generall did draw up his own Regiment and then did God begin in them to shew his owne worke and it was not onely in them but by a Regiment raised in Essex and another Regiment raised in this Cittie under the command of master Hollis and another Regiment of my Lord Brookes which had the day upon them these were the men that were ignominiously reproached by the name of Round-heads and by these Round-heads did God shew himselfe a most glorious God And truly Gentlemen they that will report to you the Number of our dead farther then we have reported them to you must finde them many miles from the Armie and then they were men that run away so far that it was no matter who killed them for our men that we could finde any where about the place we cannot finde in all nor thinke above 300 and you 'll say they were well lost that ru● away the boldest men of them that stood were few lost and they that were so lost were lost with a great deale of honour and I beleeve you will have them in more reputation then they that live and run away so that truly I can say no more to you in such a cause as this is that you have undertaken with your purses and with your persons God hath shewed himself with us be you but couragious and we never need doubt it and so we say all The Earl of PEMBROOK his SPEECH MY Lord Maior and you Gentlemen of the City I am commanded and the reason that makes me trouble you at this time with saying any thing is by reason of a Letter I have received from the Committee which I think is a Letter of some consequence and fitting for you to see otherwise I am so ill a Speaker after such a Declaration made to you I have not the boldnesse to say any thing to you but truely though I say little and have a bad tongue yet I have ever had so good a heart to this businesse that I shall ever live and die in it Gentlemen you have shew'd your selves like brave and noble Citizens you have done it with that noblenesse with that alacrity with that love to God King and Parliament that none of your Ancestors before you never shewed more love nor care nor zeal nor performed that you have done better I have onely this to say to you If the times are such not that I think there is any great perill in the Kings Army now for they have told you nothing but truth yet when you have seen this Letter you will finde there is very good cause for you to crown this work which must be by following it with the same zeal love care and noblenesse and alacrity which if you do you may well crown your selves with the name of a glorious City and none more The Letter For his Excellency the Earl of CUMBERLAND Lord Ganerall of His Majesties Forces in the North. MY very good Lord your Lordships of the twentieth of this month I have received by Stockdale and have read it to his Majesty who willed me to fignifie to your Lordship that he is well pleased with your Lordships continuing of the Sheriff in his place albeit he sent a Writ for his discharge his Majesty takes a speciall notice of your Lordships vigilancy and care in the trust he hath reposed in your Lordship as he hath by many very gracious expressions declared at severall times openly upon conference of your businesse in that County Your Lordships care of my Lady Dutchesse of Buckingham is I assure you very well taken by his Maiesty Sir Ralph Hopton and other Gentlemen in the West have raised ten thousand Horse and Foot with which they have already disarmed all persons in Cornwall that are disaffected to the King they have taken Lanceston and are marching into Devonshire to disarm the disaffected there and so intend to come to meet the King at London here are also in Wales about six or seven thousand men levyed for the King which are to be under Marquesse Hartford that will be ready upon all occasions to come to his Maiesty but we hope he will not need their help having given the Earl of Essex such a blow as

they will make no haste again to adventure themselves in that cause against Gods Anointed I shall referre your Lordship to the relation of the Bearer for the particulars To morrow his Maiesty marcheth towards London by Oxford I am so full of businesse as I must crave your Lordships pardon that I write so briefly but I am neverthelesse Edgescot Northampton Octob. 24. 1642. Your Lordships most humble Servant Edward Nicholas The Earl of HOLLAND his SPEECH MY Lord Maior and you Gentlemen of the City It is more by obedience then confidence that I say any thing to you at this time my Lords and the Comittee command me and therefore I shall obey them That that I shall say to you is to observe in the Relation that this noble Lord hath made In the first part of it what deliverance God hath sent you that in a danger and indeed such as I am confident all that were there believe the Cause of Religion and Liberty and all lost you saw what a present turn it had such a one as if it did not give them the victory it gave them the advantage that is certain and truely a very great one especially when it was taken from so unhappy a condition as they were likely to be in wherein God hath shewed us what a danger might have fallen upon us And certainly it is because every man should consider in that danger what he might have suffered and what his cause might have suffered and to give you all by this warning That as he hath now begun to deliver you onely by his hand and by his power he will expect that you will expresse such a thankfulnesse to him for it as now to make his Cause your work and to do it with your hands boldly and with courage For this Letter that you heard read now you see what is threatned against you the least that you must expect is this great Army of the Kings that certainly by the dispositions of those that command it and have great power in it you must know what to expect and what to trust to they intend you no lesse and that is to be believed then the destroying of the City your persons and the preying upon your fortunes This is not all you see that if this doth not prevail or be not powerfull enough an Army must come from the west the preparation of another in the North from all parts of the Kingdom the sword is drawn against you and truly having those ill intentions that they certainly have it is the wisest course they can take for in your City is the strength of the kingdom indeed it is not onely the life but the soul of it if they can destroy you here the rest of the Kingdome must all submit and yeeld and in that yeelding must give over the maintenance of all that is most dear to them Therefore if you will now consider how God hath shewed you first that he hath kept the first blow from you by delivering of you indeed from such an imminēt danger as it could not be believed it could have been recover'd but by himselfe and by the power of his hand this may give you just encouragement to pursue al things that are for his glory for the defence of your Religion and his cause I am confident as you will doe it with thankfulnes and duty and sincerity to him so in wisedom and reason you will seeing with threatnings there are unto you you will defend your selves and your families nature directs you to it as well as piety we only recommend this to you that you may but know it and take it into your thoughts and into your hearts and then wee are confident your hearts will be raysed with so much piety with so much courage and with so much resolution as you wil defend your selves and in defending your selves defend us the Parliament and the Kingdome you may do it you have power and we expect it from your affections Finis The Lord Say and Seale his speech MY Lords and Gentlemen that little that I have to say shal not be to set forth your approaching danger but I shall rather apply my self to stir up your spirits to incourage you and to settle this opinion in you that if you be not wanting unto your selves which cannot be imagined in this cause you will have no cause to feare danger it cannot bee doubted by that which you have heard but that these malignant mischeivous counsellours and these men of desperate fortunes that they have gather'd to them and into whose hands they have put our King that their intentions are that this rich glorious City should bee deliver'd up as a prey as a reward to them for their treason against the Kingdome and the Parliament and that your lives should satisfie their malice your wives your daughters their lust and religion it selfe the dearest thing of all others to us should be made merchandize off to invite Papists to invite forreigners Notwithstanding their intentions let no mans heart bee discouraged you have power enough in your hands to bring all this wickednes upon their own heads through Gods blessing if you will use your hands if you will hold them up to serve your God to defend the true religion of Almighty God to defend your lives to defend this Kingdome and the Parliament you need not feare any thing that can bee done by this broken Army nor feare those things that are here written in this letter nor those things that are falsely buzzed abroad by a malignant party in your City to amaze you there is no feare of danger but in security in sitting still and therefore if you will be stirred up as I cannot doubt we cannot imagine you will to do that that every man both by the law of God and by the law of Nature in this case will bee induced to doe through Gods blessing you shall both honour God maintaine the true Religion save this Kingdome save the Parliament and Crowne your good beginnings that God hath pleased to shew himselfe unto us in this is now not a time for men to thinke with themselvs that they will be in their shops to get a little mony this is a time to do that that you doe in common dangers let every man take his weapons in his hand let him offer himself willingly to serve his God and to maintaine true Religion you may remember what God saith by the Prophet my heart is set upon those people that are willing to offer themselves willingly upon the high places let every man therefore shut up his shop let him take his musket let him offer himself readily and willingly let him not thinke with himselfe who shall pay me but rather think this I 'le come forth to save the Kingdom to serve my God to maintaine his true Religion to save the Parliament to save this noble city and when this danger is overcome I 'le trust the State that

they will have a regard unto whatsoever may be fit either for my reparation in any losse or for my reward doe as you doe in common dangers when there is a fire men aske not who shall pay him his daies wages but every man comes forth of his doores helpes to quench the fire brings a bucket if he have one borrowes one of his neighbour if he have not when the fire is quenched then the City will regard to repayre any man that hath suffered all day that doe you every one bring forth his Arms if he have it if he have it not let him borrow Armes of his neighbour or hee shall bee armed from the State let every man arme himselfe and arme his apprentizes and come forth with boldnesse and with courage and with cheerefulnesse and doubt not but God will assist you for though you bee concerned in all you have yet this is Gods cause that should be your incouragement for they are Papists they are Atheists that come to destroy you they come indeed in the first and principle aim they have to destroy Religion Papists are invited they have Commissions are these men that should defend the Protestant Religion when they are Papists and recusants Therefore if that you shall come forth God will go forth with you he will fight for you he will save you but how he wil not save you without your selves you may remember what was said Curse ye Merosh because they came not out to help the Lord against the mighty he needs not your helpe but he will use your service that he may blesse you and therefore let every man be incouraged let him shew his readinesse let hiw shew his forwardnesse remember what the Scripture saith Heare O Israel God is with you so long as you are with him the Lord will bee with you in this cause for it his cause but then you must shew your selves ready to bee with him but I need not use these speeches to those that have expressed already so much affection as you have done I shall onely incourage you to go on bee not daunted let not malignant parties that goe up and downe and would goe about to informe you that there are these feares and these dangers let them not make you be wanting to your selves feare them not at all I shal conclude with this that that good King said up and be doing and the Lord will be with you Finis The Lord Wharton his second speech GEntlemen I shall trouble you but with a word or two the one is upon part of that narrative which I began withal wherein truly I take my self to be very beholding to that Gentleman that spoke after me that he did not forget to inform you of the extraordinary blessing that God bestowed upon the courage of honest pious and religious men for truely there was very few that did any extraordinary service but such as had a mark of religion upon them That which I omitted to tell you was this that one great cause of the preservation and of the successe of that day was the barbarousnesse and inhumanity of Prince Robert and his Troops who while wee were a fighting not only pillaged of the baggage which was but a poore imployment but most barbarously killed Country-men that came in with their teemes and women and children that were with them this I thinke comes not amisse to tel you because you may see what is the thing they ayme at which is pillage and baggage and plundering and the way which they would come by it is mundering and destroying therfore it wil come in very properly to incourage you to that work which these two noble Lords have so well opened to you which is the standing upon your defence and to that I shall only add this that when you shall have done that in that measure and in that proportion which we do not doubt but you will doe because you have alwayes shew'd your affections and your wisedomes to bee so great in the cariage on of this businesse I say when you shall have so behaved your selves there is no doubt but Gods blessing will bee upon it and you will be sure to have an extraordinary back you will bee sure to have an extraordinary assistance for the Lord of Essex with the whole Army will bee sure to bee on the one side when you with your defence wil be on the other side and when that Army shall lye betweene these two without question they will come to a very short conclusion when you may reap the fruit of your labours that you have beene at to your benefit and your posterities Finis The Earle of Holland his second speeth MY Lord Maior and Gentlemen it is but a word or two that I shall say to you for the shutting up of this the danger hath heene represented to you we must desire you likewise to consider how neere it moves that you must resolve and act both together they conceiv this Army will be at Oxford as this night that is within such a distance as within threee dayes they may march to London it is very necessary for you to provide against this as a danger that may bee very suddenly upon you if they should chance to march before the other Army and with such an advantage as to breake up bridges or any such thing as may hinder the other Army to move presently and suddenly after them Consider how open you are to this danger if you provide not presently for it therefore as we have given you reasons and indeed as you may take almost from your owne reasons to defend your selves that it will be very necessary for you to look upon this as a danger that you wil not lose an hour for the providing against and that is all I shall say unto you Finis The Earle of Pembrook his second speech MY Lord Maior and you Gentlemen I shall onely speake one word to you and that concernes your selves most nearest and you know them better than I a great deale though I have beene a long time bred in the City for many yeares truly you that are Citizens must know it better than I you know you have a great malignant partie in the Citie you have now time and power to looke to them leave no time to looke into it for if you leave that till a time of distraction they will bee a great deale bolder than now they are now you may doe it in time FINIS