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city_n	john_n	sir_n	thomas_n	57,736	5	10.2379	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86713	The humble acknowledgement and congratulation of many thousands young men and apprentices in and about the City of London, to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax. With his Excellencies answer to the same. Dated at Kingston August 19. 1647. By the appointment of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax. Signed, John Rushworth, Secr.	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.	1647 (1647)	Wing H3367; Thomason E403_1; ESTC R201838	2,130	9

THE HUMBLE Acknowledgement AND Congratulation of many thousands young men and Apprentices in and about the City of London to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax With his Excellencies Answer to the same Dated at Ringston August 19. 1647. By the appointment of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax Signed John Rushworth Secr. Aug 20 LONDON Printed for Laurence Chapman 1647. TO HIS EXCELLENCY Sir Thomas Fairfax Knight Captaine Generall of all the Forces in ENGLAND and WALES The humble acknowledgement and Congratulation of thousands of young men and Apprentices in and about the City of London Most worthy Generall THe extremities of this Nation growing great the Enemies thereof being strong and confident of successe and the visible meanes of our deliverance broken and almost totally consumed then it pleased the good hand of heaven to call forth your Excellency and those worthies with you your faithfull Commanders Officers and Souldiers to save this poore and distressed Kingdome and although at first your strength was small your encouragements few and your enemies many and powerfull yet with all thankfulnesse we acknowledge you were not deterred thereby but over looking all eying that Almighty power by whose providence you were set a part for so great a worke you marched out in his might and became prosperous your enemies fell before you their armies were vanquished their strong holds surrendred to you and the joyfull day of Englands peace and longed for deliverance not onely dawned but showne forth upon us these clouds of feares of ruine of slavery and oppression which had till then beset us began to scatter and in our hopes and expectations were vanishing quite away And when againe our restlesse enemies seeing their open force could not prevaile betook themselves to hellish policy and under the face of friends and actions for common good had laid surer as they hoped the foundations of their own boundlesse power and greatnesse the restauration of their former tyranny and the finall ruine of our Lawes and Liberties and for that purpose had contrived the disbanding and that with disgrace of your Excellencies Army as the onely obstacle in the way of their Designes then it pleased our good God againe to appeare and your Excellency with your faithfull Commanders Officers and victorious Army with their industrious Adjutators became we gratefully acknowledge happy instruments in his hand to discover and oppose those wicked Designes whereby the dying hopes of this distressed Nation againe revived ere long to see a happy settlement of its peace and freedome And when againe our malitious enemies had scattered their poyson in this great Citty expecting the venome thereof would diffuse it selfe not onely here but from hence as from the heart into all the parts of this Kingdome and had thereby so far prevailed as to force the Parliament into a compliance with them to engage many of the Grandees and some of the Youngmen of this City to prepare and act for a new war and in opposition of your Excellency to joyne themselves in a dangerous Bond and engagement and having forcibly gotten the power and Militia of this City into their hands listed and armed many vile and dissolute persons Reformadoes and renegado souldiers and by their hands had begun the tragedy of Warre and bloodshed in this City at the Guildhall thereof upon peaceable and unarmed men and threatned the speedy ruine of the well-affected therein who would not joyne with them in their barbarous and destructive practices Then againe we do with all thankfulnesse acknowledge that your Excellency with your renowned Army became a blessing unto this City and Kingdome and with incredible speed drawing together from parts greatly remote each from other came seasonably to the helpe and deliverance of this City then with all its might acting towards its own ruine and setling the Parliament of England who by the tumults raised and encouraged from that City was dispersed and forced to quit the Houses and depart thence to your Excellency for protection All which your most worthy services for your native country as we cannot but with all joy and thankefulnesse acknowledge so we doubt not but the memoriall of them will be a crown of glory and honour upon your head and upon the heads of your faithfull commanders and souldiers to all posterity And although we could not as we would manifest our hearts in a visible acting for you in this late time of need yet let your Excellency be pleased to accept of our refusals to joyne or comply with any thing bearing a face of opposition to you notwithstanding the threats of death for so doing as an undoubted testimony of our resolution to live and die with your Excellency and your army in setling his Majesties rights the Parliaments priviledges and the peace and freedome of this Nation the which we doe still retaine and shall further manifest as God shall give an oppertunity and your Excellency require it at our hands Gentlemen I Have received your congratulation of the late endeavours of this Army and great successes with which God hath blest us against the open and secret Enemies to the interest of this Kingdome manifesting with many cordiall expressions your good resentment of our late proceedings in prosecution of those publique ends for the accomplishment whereof you have not onely declined and refused compliance with the Kingdomes Enemys but have freely tendered a joynt adventure of your selves with us when occasion shall require All which I cannot but gladly receive with a thankefull acceptance returning the like acknoweldgement of your good and honest offer as you did of our endeavours and doe desire that you will continue still in your severall places the promotion and pursuance of those publique ends afore-mentioned and I doubt not but the same Divine providence that hath been our guide hitherto will still direct us and all honest men going hand in hand with us toward an happy conclusion of our present troubles and distractions and setling of the King Parliament and Kingdom in safe●● peace and freedome Kingston August 19. 1647. By the appointment of his Excellenc●● Sir Thomas Fairfax Signed John Rushworth Sec. For the young men and the Apprentic●s in and about the City of London who subscribed a Paper entituled The humble Acknowledgement and Congratulation c. FINIS