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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	people_n	see_v	2,763	5	3.6476	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87796	A coppy of a letter writ from Serjeant Major Kirle, to a friend in Windsor.	Kirle, Robert.	1643 (1643)	Wing K653; Thomason E246_35; ESTC R1286	6,095	8

A COPPY OF A LETTER Writ from Serjeant Major KIRLE to a friend in Windsor SIR YOu were pleased to command a constant account from me as the onely requitall you would receive for admitting me an Officer in the Parliament Army and though divers things have come from us which have been either doubted or contradicted and seeme to have no other credit then the close Committee yet what I am now about to tell you shall run none of those dangers but that with a great deale of confidence you may report both in publique to the House and in private to my friends that I am now at Oxford nor shall your wonder last long for by that time I have declared upon what grounds at first I undertooke that service and upon what reasons I have since deserted it I shall without doubt where there is charity or reason free my selfe from the imputation of dishonour and undeceive others that are as I was seduced About the time these distempers began here I returned from serving the Swede in Germany and the States in Holland in both which Countries I can without vanity say I did nothing to the dishonour of my owne as this absence made me ignorant of the condition of the Kingdome so it rendred me more inclinable to receive an imployment from the Parliament for though neither my youth nor this profession are curious after the affaires of State yet so common were the grievances in that unhappy concture of time when I went abroad that I retain'd the same impressions in me at my comming home especially when I saw the complaints remaine but did not know that the causes were taken away thus possessed with prejudice it was no hard thing for me to believe that the pretences of the warre in themselves so specious and the imployment therein to be full of Honour Justice and Piety and that there needed not the importunity of my neerest friends or an argument from the necessity their former severity had cast upon me nor an invitation from your selfe to seeke for the preferment you speedily procured me How have I behaved my selfe while I was of your minde and in that service will be best judged by those that know that from a Lievtenant I was soon preferred to be Captaine of a Troop raysed to my hand and shortly after to be Serjeant Major to the Earle of Stamfords Regiment of horse what prisoners I took what contribution I brought in what places and Townes I secured appeares by the testimony given of me and the thanks I received from you It is not therefore Necessity has made me leave you to goe to the King from whom you have taken not onely his revenues which should give him bread but the benevolences as farre as in you lies of his People that should maintaine his Army It is not ambition to forsake a certaine benefit for an uncertaine imployment and in justice as doubtfull a pardon It is not malice for any particuler neglect or injury for I must confesse no man recieved greater kindnesse from his superiour Officers or more ample thanks from your selves then I hrve done nocivill humane respect but a perfect discovery of those false lights that have hithetto misled me and the deep apprehension of the horrour which attends the persevering in such errors I must confesse though you would little thinke it that Master Sedgwicke Chaplaine to that Regiment first opened my Eyes and moved me to that refliction upon my self which set me since in the right way not by his perswasions or conversion for I can assure you you may still confide in him but by the spirit not that pretended to of meeknesse and peace but of fury and madnesse he revealed the misery of this warre and in his inspired rage brake the shell Religion safety of the King Liberty and Propriety and shewed us the kernell Atheisme Anarchy arbytrary government and confusion what was meant else by his sawcy and impertinent talking to God Almighty whom he seemed rather to command then intreat what was meant else by his traducing the King and cursing him while he seemed to pray for him and presently with a tone as gentle as his language magnifie the Worthies the Estates assembled in Parliament what was meant else by incouraging violence and sharing in things plundered not had one man given me a just prejudice of the cause but that I saw the whole lump of these pseudo-clergy seasoned with the same leaven who hate and so instruct the people an innocent ceremony but thirst after blood who abhorre learning and Bishops but adore ignorance and devision who while they are severe and therein they doe well against drunkennesse and adultery and they make robbery rebellion sacriledge and murder become vertues because they are in order to effect their designes and truely I had not trusted my eares if the same and much more had not beene confirmed by my eyes for those few Regements then with us were a perfect modell of the whole Army and most certaine I am that all the Officers of no one Company were all of the same opinion what Religion they fought for Some loved the book of Common Prayer and Bishops others were zealous for extemporary prayers and Elders another thought Bishops so many Elders and Elders so many Bishops and therefore they fought to set Jesus Christ in his throne meaning independency Some liked the Chaplaine of the Regement another thought his Corporall preached better some had so much of the spirit they wanted courage and when they should fight thought it better to pray or else declared it was revealed unto them they should be beaten and to fulfill the prophecy threw downe their Armes and one would thinke that every Company had beene raised out of the severall Congregations of Amsterdam who wanted not Scripture for every mutiny who plunder and call it Gods providence who if they cannot prove any of quality to be a Papist yet as he is a Gentleman he shall want grace and that is title enough to possesse the estates of all that are more richer then themselves and in truth had it not beene for this perswasion you might have made riots but not a warre for under the promise of Malignants estates are included not only those that directly take part with the King but all those too that shall not concurre with you in all things hence it is that those were thought meritorious who voted Bishops out of the House of Peeres but are become Malignants because they will not put them out of the Church hence some that contributed with a large hand to this warre received markes of favour but are become Malignants because they wil not give all that they are worth hence those that in tumults creid for justice were worthy of thanks but are become Malignants because they will helpe to depose the King I shall not need to tell what dishonorable and indirect meanes have been used to these ends what burthens have been laid upon