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A82198	A declaration of the noble resolution of the Earle of Essex his Excellence. Concerning his intention in going forth with this great army, consisting of 60000. now advancing forward under his honourable command; in the defence of the King and Parliament, and the Protestant religion. With an excellent speech delivered vnto his honour, immediately before his departure, by the Lord Roberts, before divers colonells and captaines at Essex House, to encourage the Earle in his proceedings, and the justice of his cause, being undertaken for the generall good of the kingdome. Being thought fit to be published for the satisfaction of well affected persons, and true Protestants.; Resolution of the Right Honourable the Earl of Essex his Excellence, Lord Generall of all his forces for the preservation of His Majesty and Parliament.	Radnor, John Robartes, Earl of, 1606-1685.	1642 (1642)	Wing D722; Thomason E116_25; ESTC R19197	3,374	8

A DECLARATION OF The Noble Resolution of the Earle of ESSEX his EXCELLENCE Concerning his intention in going forth with this great Army consisting of 60000. now advancing forward under His Honourable command in the defence of the King and Parliament and the Protestant Religion With an excellent Speech delivered vnto his Honour immediately before his departure by the Lord Roberts before divers Colonells and Captaines at Essex House to encourage the Earle in his proceedings and the justice of his cause being undertaken for the generall good of the Kingdome Being thought fit to be published for the satisfaction of well affected persons and true Protestants Sep 9 LONDON Printed for T. Banks 1642. A Speech made unto the Earle of ESSEX his Excellency by the Lord Roberts Sonne in Law to the Honourable Earle of WARWICK MY LORD I Know unto whom I speake and therefore the addresse of my Speech shall rather bee a commendation than an admonition to your Honour in matters of Knowledge and Valour your noble Spirit being the Magazine and Armory of knowing magnanimity whi●h together with other vertues inherent in your soule render you the most Illustrious example of true Nobility I need not commemorate here the noble actions of your worthy father whom the Commons doe still remember with a reverend adoration thinking all the prayses and prayers that they can accumulate on the name of Essex to be poore sacrifices of their unfeigned love and affection which being derived from your noble father is now with the same fervour and heat of applause by the generall vote of the people cast upon your Honourable Excellence But because it is but the part of a Schoole Orator to endevour with the Stars of Rhetoricall figures to illustrate the brightnesse of the Sunne to prayse the beauty of the Spring rich in the dowry of nature or generally to shadow out the exact portracture of any thing that carryes in it selfe a compleat perfection it would now appear an extravagant affectation of words to amplifie your Lordships troops of Militant vertues shining in you as in the thrice Honourable Son of Essex valour your breast being pregnant and swelling with all the naturall gifts of a compleat and Heroick Generall It will become me therefore to leave the discourse of your generally acknowledged prayse since the hearts and hands and tongues of the Commons united together doe with the utmost strength of good will crye Vives le Roy Essex God save the King and Essex that goes for the safety of the King and the generall good of the Kingdome This Warre my Lord hath a various object the occasion hath beene formerly manifested the malignant party and instigators thereof are well knowne and distinguished into kinds as Papists and their adherents together with evill Counsellors but we hope and doe beleeve with a faithfull truely grounded confidence that the event shall with severe Iustice teach those revolting fire-brands of dissention that malum Consilium Consultori pessimum Their evill Counsell shall be revenged on them that were the evill Counsellours If your Honour look into the materiall part of this intended warre your Lordship may d●scerne there a Parliament oppos'd and oppressed in right and priviledge nay this Parliament which must under God be the preserver of three Kingdomes This Parliament which is the last hope of the long oppressed Protestant Religion This Parliament which doth preserve the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and doth endevour to correct all injustice and oppression by which also publike dangers and feares are prevented Lastly this Parliament which is the only means to continue us to be anation of free men and not slaves and to be owners of any thing that we may call our own in a word this Parliament which hath so couragiously endeavoured to prevent an inundation of all misery confusion and indeed the very desolation and raine of this Kingdome This Parliament my Lord through an inveterate malice thay desire to destroy but I hope it will destroy the destroyers and be a wall of fire to consume them as it is a wall of brasse to us to defend King and Kingdome us and all we can call ours The clouds that are like to make this foule day of war did first gather very fast together at Yorke there keeping the beames of his Majesties favour from shining upon his Parliament and people and now they threaten a suddaine bloody storme but as clouds full gorged with ●apours do commonly weepe out themselves in showres of raine and having emptied their own substance vanish so it is to be hoped that the great and pious preparations of the Parliament will either dissipate these appearing clouds of civill war or else force them to quench this fire of dissention by them raised even with a showre of their owne bloud But what are strength or forces but motions and dumb showes of war unlesse they receive a quickning vertue from their magnanimous Commanders from your Excellence my Lord the souldiers receive animatioon courage life flame valiant hearts nil desperandum est auspice Christo Duce comite Essexiae they are confident of victory through God and your Excellencies magnanimity they looke on you as the Coriphaeus and sum of valour and the matchlesse Phoenix of a noble father some sacred charm dwels in the name of Essex that with so sweet a violence attracts the iron-hearted souldier to follow your Excellence as their honourable and beloved adamant or rather your constant faithfull heart to King and Country hath given you a fixed seate in popular affection Thus the souldiers do by a loving Sympathy with your honour and your Honours Ancestors derive from you the influence of their courage and forward resolution to attend your Honour while you fetch your Promethean fire from heaven advancing forward with a strong army and with noble intents the safety of the K. the preservation of the Protestant Religion the subduing all malignants the free priviledge of the Subject and the good of the Kingdome and Common-wealth being the only end of this great expedition under you their honourable Excellence There is no greater joy nor happinesse in a Common-wealth in times of apparent danger than to have some heroike Atlas in whose supporting fidelity they may confide and that through the assistance of Almighty God will like another ●oshua undertake to fight their battels There was ever in other Common-wealths an Alcibiad●s a Themistocles and some valiant Captains or other that in the pressures and grievances of the state of their Country took courage to defend it from a civill war and now in these times of distractions when the sword threatens to impose a tyranny on the Subject the divine power hath encited and encouraged the Earle of Essex his Excellence with a free and noble resolution to undertake either a desired pacification between the King and his Parliament if it may be obtayned or else a vindication and revenge against those Cavalliers and malignants that do either seduce the King or oppose the Parliament And as his noble valiant father was so deare unto the people that his name is never mention'd but with much expressions of love and affection as if they would never forget his service in many noble designes so that he may shew that fortes creantur fortibus valour is derived from the Ancestory to the Posterity hath now by the votes of the Parliament and the desire of the Commons buckled on his armout intending to carry a defensive army into the oppressed parts of this Kingdome now pillaged by the outrages of hostility and though he goes forth strongly accommodated with all warlike ammunition and with many troops of Souldiers drawn out of the City and Countrey who with cheerfull willingnesse will declare their courage in this expedition yet his strongest confidence and resolution cousists in the goodnesse and justnesse of his cause It is not to adde more illustrious titles to his name for he hath honour enough derived unto him from his father and also inherent in him by his living vertues but he desires to do service for the King in beating off those flyes and parasites that have whispered so much evil counsel into the Kings eare thereby to alienate his affection from his loyall Parliament and people for it is better in all politicall justice that some ill-affected members should be cut off rather than the whole body of the Common-wealth should perish and besides the liberty of the Subject is precious and ought to be maintained that we may know our own possesse our own keep our own that the Kingdom may not be converted into a countrey of Pesants or slaves as France is where the King at his free will and pleasure exercising an arbitrary power tyrannical government doth upon any accasion squeez his subjects like so many orange if they suffer not themseves to be thus pillaged their goods upon the least resistance are confiscated but if this be not worth defending yet who would not adventure life for that which is the life of his soule the Protestant Religion which is in danger now to be changed againe into Popery should the malignants and papists get the victory On these grounds and reasons the Earle of Essex his Excellence hath undertook the common cause being full of Iustice piety and Religion is now gone forth under the propitious favour of God with a numerous and innumerable army collected out of the City and Countrey well appointed and provided with all sorts of ammunition consisting of 40000 brave and resolute souldiers who advance forward under the command of the said Earle of Essex his Excellence to settle an established peace or confound the malice of these Machavilian counsellors and mischievous bloody Cavalliers who are enemies to the King and Kingdome God blesse and prosper his noble purpose and resolution to the good of the King Kingdome and Commons of England FINIS