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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63476	The true copie of a letter sent from Sir Ralph Hopton, Col. Ashburnham, and Sir Iohn Berkley ; to Mr. Christopher Clarke, Major of the city of Excester [sic] for the laying down their armes, raysed for the Parliament, and the delivering up the city to the King : with the answer which the Major returned to them.	Hopton, Ralph Hopton, Baron, 1598-1652.; Berkeley, John, Sir, d. 1678.; Ashburnham, William, d. 1679.	1642 (1642)	Wing T2621; ESTC R9122	1,618	8

The true Copie of A LETTER Sent from Sir RALPH HOPTON Col. ASHBVRNHAM and Sir IOHN BERKLEY To Mr. Christopher Clarke Major of the City OF EXCESTER For the laying downe their Armes raysed for the Parliament and the delivering up the City to the KING With the Answer which the Major returned to them Published by Command London Printed for I. T. and R. R. 1642. A Copie of a Letter received FROM Sir Ralph Hopton by the Major of EXETER Mr. Major NEither your slight Answer to our last Letter nor your no Answer to our former in which wee sent you a Copie of our Commission nor your neglect of the knowne Lawes in leavying Armes without his Majesties leave nor your imploying those Armes to the destruction of His Majesties good Subjects and such as proceed by His 〈…〉 have that effect upon our minds as to make us with His Majesties usuall mercy and clemency any wayes contracted with you And therefore 〈◊〉 we may satisfie all goodmen not onely of the Justice and Equity of our proceedings but also of that charity and compassion of which there scarce can be any accesse in cases of blood These are to require you once more in His Majesties Name by vertue of our Commission to lay downe your unlawfull Armes and to conforme your selves to the duties of your Allegiance and to be no more a cause by your obstinacie of drawing those calamities upon your Country which even the hearts of strangers bleed to see and foresee in case you shall thinke it fit to accept of your owne safety and the quiet of your Country at no greater price then your returning to the Lawes These are to assure your City and every person in it of imdempnity for our part but in case you shall still continue in Armes without his Majesties Authority and against it These are to call God and man to witnesse that it is you which have broke these Lawes which have hitherto kept this Kingdome in Peace and cannot but expect the bitter fruits of your owne planting As for us so may God blesse us in our proceedings as wee have been farre from giving occasion to this unnaturall Warre and as wee are and ever have been ready to embrace all just wayes of composing it in which way wee are ready to approve our selves Your very loving Friends Ralph Hopton W. Ashburnham Iohn Berkley Alphington Decemb. 30. 1642. The Answer of the Maior of EXETER Gentlemen YOu had no Answer to your first Letter because your Commission whereof you sent me a Copie I conceive had no relation to our City To the second Le●ter signed by Collonell Ashburnham I thought it not fit to give a serious Answer the contents being as farre from my beliefe as your intention for I cannot be perswaded to find those friendly in this City that have invaded the County of Devon with an Army and used the Inhabitants as Enemies And besides this City being committed under our most gratious Soveraigne to my charge and government I should falsifie that trust very much if I should receiue into it numbers of Power to master both it and me For our taking of Armes for our defence even your approach in the manner you came is a sufficient reason if there were no more But the defence of those Lawes and that Government by Parliaments which hath so long kept this Kingdome in happy Peace is the cause of our Arming no more doubting of the lawfulnesse of the Authority then I do of my humble Duty and faithfull Allegiance to his Majesty the Oath whereof I have often taken and ever will keepe To the Authors of this unnaturall Warre all Evill is wished by all good men I doe not impute the beginning of it to you because I know it not I wish I could acquit you of the prosecution while we pray for a blessed reconcilliation between his Majesty and this Parliament and doe our best to defend both There are some that have most unfaithfully perswaded his Majesty to bend his Royall face against that Court to the destruction of the fundamentall Lawes and ruine of the Kingdome That you are a partner in the execution at least of that Designe is my confident beliefe being manifest by your practise your discerting this unnaturall and destructive Warre and joyning with us of this City in prayers to God and Petitions to his sacred Majesty to vouchsafe a concurrence with his faithfull Lordes and Commons in Parliament to give a speedy remedy to these bleeding miseries would cause me really to signe my selfe Your Friend to serve you Christopher Clearke Major FINIS