companies of Horse and Dragoons six pieces of Cannon two Mortar-pieces and one hundred and fifty Waggons of Money Provision and Ammunition Mr. Jermin now Earl of St. Albans as Coll. of her Majesties Regiment of guards commanded in Chief over the whole Squadron Sir Alexander Lesley who since indeed ever proved himself a traiterous murderous perfidious and cowardly Scot had the ordering of the Infantry and Sir John Gerrard commanded the Horse Capt. Leg the Artillery and her Majesties self Generalissima with an undaunted and more then Womanlike resolution in the head of her Army But let us look a little into her Majesties native Countrey where that famous or rather infamous Politician Cardinall Richelieu having by his Policies dipped his hands in the blood of so many innocent Peers of France is forced at length himself fato succumbere to yield to that Fate from which no subtilty could reprieve him He was born at Paris of Noble extraction and took his Orders at Rome where Pope Paul the fifth then sitting in the Pontifical Chair looking with earnestness upon his physiognomy told him That he should become the greatest Cheat in the World He was by the Queen Mother first preferred to be Bishop of Larone and then to the Kings Counsel whom she afterwards commended to the Pope who sent him the Cap and after the famous siege and forcing of Rochell by his policy and industry became the prime Minister of State in the Kingdome of France and the King growing up to age insinuated so much into his favour that he postponed filial duty and brotherly affection to his love towards him so his Policy taught him to be ingratefull in the highest degree to those breasts which had first cherished and advanced him His minde was esteemed by most to be of the same colour with his habit wholly sanguine and much of the temper of that Spanish Cardinal who affirmed That Gunpowder in the field gave as sweet a perfume as Incense at the Altar He was observed to be of an irreconcileable nature where he once hated he hated ever pardoning none from whom he either had or judged he might receive an injury The Marshal of Marillacks and many other prime Peers of France are examples of his revenge Yet his Counsels have been by many great Politicians esteemed of high conducement to the affairs of France for by them the Hugonots were suppressed who were looked upon as one of the greatest Weaknesses of France for by them either Forain Princes cherished their Invasions or potent Peers their Rebellions A great scourge he was to the Spaniard but greater to the Duke of Lorrain whom he chased out of his Countrey to seek another habitation He was looked upon as the greatest Incendiary and Fomenter of the Scottish and English Rebellions and Disturbances A man he was of an infinite contriving and sedulous spirit as solid as subtile a thing rare under the Gallick Clime insomuch that many have termed him the wonder and Prodigy of Prudence A mighty Change there was expected to follow in the Government of France upon his death but he had so well instructed his Pupil Mazarine that things went on still in their former frame This Mazarine who succeeded in that grand employment was a Sicilian by birth and are a wily subtile generation of mean Parentage but an highly extended Genius he was first servant to a German Count at Rome who much frequenting Plays at which he was an excellent Artist his servant Mazarincs quick spirit soon learned the Trade and Fortune likewise favouring him in a short time he raised himself to a Stock of a thousand Crowns when leaving his Master he gets into the service of Cardinal Barberino then chief in the Court of Rome by whom being soon observed to be of a nimble wit and tenacious judgement he was first employed in a small Legateship in Italy which place he performing even to admiration and the Court of Rome wanting a person whose cunning policies might circumvent Richelieu's designs in France he is by the Cardinal Barberino's means chosen and sent Legat thither but finding himself outwitted here he thought it better to joyn with Richelieu and become his Pupil to learn more then lose that opinion already had of his judgement And under him he so perfected his experience that it will be a hard question to determine whether his Predecessor before him or he since have managed the affairs of that Kingdom with greater subtilty Not long after the death of his Royal Favourite Lewis the 13th brother to the Queen of England and surnamed the just returning out of Catalonia extreme sad and melancholy bid adieu to the World having yet left behinde him two Heirs Males Children born to the wonder of the world after twenty three years barrenness in his Royal Queen and Consort Infanta once of Spain when he despaired to have seen a Childe of his own Heir to the Crown of France He was a Prince of himself of a very quiet and peaceable temper by which means Richelieu had the greater opportunity to carry on affairs of State as he pleased At his death he declared the Queen Regent or Governess of his young Son the King till he came to age recommending the Cardinal Mazarine whom she had long before received to her for counsel But let us return to the Queen whom we left marching towards the King and whom we may now expect to have met him at Edge-hill The first time which his Majesty had had the happiness for so I dare affirm he accounted it to see her since her forced departure to Holland what joy and congratulations there was at this meeting I leave the Reader to judge In the mean time Monsieur Harcourt came over Ambassador from France to treat of an accommodation between the King and Parliament but his Negotiation was by many rather looked upon as a flourish from the Policy of Cardinal Mazarine to pry into the actions of this great difference he being likely rather to widen that breach which was the Master-piece of Cardinall to make then any way endeavour to close it The Queen being by the King conveyed to Oxford stayed there till the beginning of the next year whilest the Kings affairs went on in a very hopefull posture for the same day that the Queen entred Triumphantly into Oxford was Sir William Waller the City Generall totally routed at Roundaway down and no Army in the field to oppose him had he not unadvisedly set down before the siege of Glocester whilest in the mean time Essex raised another Army and Sir William was recruited by the City the Scots invited in to assist their Brethren of England against the King when had his Majesty directly marched up towards London he had found no force to oppose him and so might have utterly quasht the Rebellion which had been better policy then the in vain attempting that beggerly and disloyal City The Queen
your return for France True it is the deportment of some amongst you hath been very inoffensive unto Me but others again have so dallyed with my patience and so highly affronted Me as I cannot I will not longer endure it This accusation though not determined to any particular made all guilty and every single person was concerned to clear himself Whereupon the Bishop of Menes answered Sir If this accrimination be levelled at me let me I beseech you know my fault while I am here to make defence And Madam St. George said Sir I make no question but the Queen will give me a fair Testimonial to your Majesty But the King replyed no more then I name none and so commanded their speedy return to France This suddain action of the Kings overwhelmed the Queen whose tender years were not yet fit for so harsh an encounter with a great deal of impetuous passion against the King she at first taking it as the greatest extremity of unkindness that having so small a company of her native friends and servants to attend her they should in an instant be all cashiered and in lieu of them she to expect not a Train of Honour but a Guard of disaffected persons not so much to attend her as her actions whereby she should be treated more like a Prisoner then a Princesse That there could not be a higher affront put upon a Daughter of France or Queen of England The King observing her transportation endeavoured by all sweet and gentle perswasions to pacifie her but finding her inexorable he resolves to be so too and therefore the beginning of the next Month the French were all sent packing having their Salaries paid them to a penny and some of them large Gratuities given them contrary to that scandal of a Modern French Historian who writes That they were dismissed without their Wages and appointment Yet the doom fell heavy upon some of them who having sold all they had in France out of hopes to raise themselves Fortunes under the Queen in England were by this cashierment almost totally ruined Their misdemeanours were of several sorts The Ecclesiasticks stood charged with imposing several unhandsome and unbecoming Penances upon the Queen as particularly the forcing her to make a Progress bare-foot to Tyburn there to present her Devotions which action the King said could have no greater invective then the Relation The Bishop of Mends was blamed likewise for contesting with the Earl of Holland about the Stewardship of those Mannors which were setled upon the Queen as her Joynture that Office being conferred on the Earl by the King whilest the other claimed a Grant from the Queen Madam St. George was accused for having endeavoured by cunning insinuations to beget a disaffection between the King and Queen wherein she had gone so far that whatever she suggested found more credence with the Queen then whatsoever the King could alleadge an affront not to be comported And it appeared clearly after their departure that the Queens frowardness proceeded not from any natural disposition or inclination of her own but from their evil counsels and the products of their malicious spirits for ever after the Queen comported her self with so loving a complacencie and complyance that the whole world could not afford a couple more mutually endeared to one another Yet notwithstanding the Majesty of France highly resented the sending away of his Sisters Servants and Domestiques who filled his ears with many lyes and scandals one of which was the aforementioned That they were sent away without their Salary Whereas they had not only their full Debenters paid them but large Rewards besides Yet King Lewis his ears were so open to their complaints that he dispatches the Marshal de Bassompiere extraordinary Ambassador to the King of England to demand the restitution of the Queens Domestiques taxing our King with breaking the 14th Article of the Matrimonial part by which it was agreed That all the Domestique Servants which the Queen should bring over into England should be naturall French and Catholiques chosen by the most Christian King And in case of death she to choose other Catholiques of France provided the King of Great Britain should assent Yet this Embassage proved vain and ineffectual for it could not be expected but that although by the Articles the King of France was to choose the first set of Servants for the Queen yet they could not binde the King not to turn them away in case of misdemeanour for if so his power was so restrained that those Servants might take upon them to contradict his Majesty In sum their re-admission was utterly refused Whereupon King Lewis proceeded to an utter breach of the peace between both Kingdoms by seizing and securing the English Merchants Ships in the River of Bourdeaux and by employing the Vantguard and the other six Ships formerly lent to the French against Rochell contrary to Articles and their first Predestination This War proved unfortunate to the English for their first second and third attempts were all unsuccessefull and the Great Duke of Buckingham who commanded in chief in the first Expedition for relief of Rochell being to set forth again upon the same design was by one John Felton an obscure fellow stabbed to death at Portsmouth The Qu. in the Spring of the year 1629. was delivered of a Child which coming somewhat before its time lived not much above an hour yet having some life in it the Priests which attended the Qu. were very earnest to baptize it but the K. stepping in prevented them and commanded Dr. Web one of his Chaplains to officiate and name him Charls which immediately after he had done the Childe expired But on the 29th of May in the Year ensuing was her Majesty delivered of a Son both living and lively to the surpassing joy and exultation both of the Court and whole Kingdome Heaven it self seeming to rejoyce For at the time when the King rode to St. Pauls Church to give thanks to God for the Queens safe delivery of a Son though it were then neer Noon-day there visibly appeared a Star in the Firmament upon which these Verses were presented Rex ubi Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras Immicuit medio lucida stella Polo Dic divina mihi tractans aenigmata coeli Haec oriens nobis quid sibi stella velit Magnus in occiduo princeps modo nascitur orbe Moxque sub eclipsi regna Orientis erunt Thus Englished by Mr. Sanderson When to Pauls-cross the grateful King drew near A shining Star did in the Heavens appear Thou that consults with Divine Mysteries Tell me what this bright Comet signifies Now is there born a valiant Prince i' th West That shall Eclipse the Kingdoms of the East On the 27 of June following was the Prince baptized at St. James's with most refulgent pomp and Princely Ceremony and named CHARLS the Godfathers and Witnesses at
yet in the mean time will use her utmost power and interest by all ways imaginable to help him She likewise sends another Letter to the French Ambassadour resident to be delivered to the L. Gen. which she directs To her Trusty well-beloved Tho. Lord Fairfax Generall of the Parliaments Forces Therein imploring his aid and assistance to come over to the King her Husband to see him before he should be proceeded against by any Tryall or Charge and to have a Passe for her secure coming and returning This Letter was by the L. Gen. Fairfax sent to the House of Commons but they not so much as deigning to take it into consideration laid it aside And on they proceed in their intended traiterous design against the King her Husband condemning him by their pretended High Court of Justice to be murdered by severing his head from his body before his own Palace-gate of White-hall which accordingly they executed on that black day for ever to be rased out of the Kalender Tuesday the 30 of Jan. to the astonishment of the whole World and grief of all good men But with what unexpressible grief and sorrow to his Royal Consort must be left to imagination no pen being able to express that black cloud of distractions which so sad an accident must necessarily involve her in certainly had she been of the same Religion that those noble Roman Women were who scorned to survive their Husbands her magnanimous spirit had certainly followed their example But since her Religion though it could not restrain her sorrow for her murdered King and Husband restrained her from following him in death she is resolved to spend the rest of her time in Religion and therefore retired her self to the Monastery of Challons where she ceased not daily to lament both his and her own hard Fortune his in coming to so untimely an end by the treachery of his Subjects and her own in surviving him Till at length overcome by the importunities of the King and Qu. Mother of France she came to keep Court though with the most obscurity that could be in Pallace Royal a Pallace built by Cardinal Richelieu at Paris yet never interposing in any matters of Estate except what might be for the Promoting of the interest of her Son King Charles the Second who not only lost his Father but was deprived of his Kingdoms by his Fathers Murderers till it pleased God of late to restore him which sure does in a great measure comfort this disconsolate Princesse though Worlds cannot repair the loss of such a Husband A Prince he was of an incomparable piety and so rare a pattern of Conjugal love that he commanded the Princess Elizabeth the day before his death to tell her mother That his thoughts had never strayed from her and that his love had been the same to the last Nor were her Vertues less resplendant which should I undertake to Characterize I should wrong what King Charles himself hath done I therefore only conclude with this Wish May England ever be happy in such Princes but may never Princes of England be so unhappy in their Governments as the Malice and Rebellion of some men made Them to be FINIS The Queen born Prince Charls his Voyage to Spain His return K. James his Letter to the K. of France Letters sent to the Princess Henrietta Maria King James his Death Prince Charles succeeds Letters of Proxie to the Duke of Chevereux Buckingham and others sent to fetch the Queen K. James his Funerall The Qu. sets forward The Queen puts to sea Arrives at Dover The King and Queen set forward to Londen The Marriage proclaimed Occasion of discontent between the King and Queen The Qu. Servants dismissed Bishop of Menes Madam St. George offer a defence of themselves The Qu. extreamly disturbed at the sending away of her servants The Kings endeavour to pacifie her The French misdemeanours King of France resents the sending away of his Sisters servants Ambassadours sent to demand their restitution But in vain War with France unsuccessefull The Queen brought to bed before her time Prince Charles born The Prince baptized Princess Mary born And Duke of York The Queen raises a Benevolence amongst the Catholiques The Catholiques free supplyes The Collectors of her Majesties Benevolence questioned The Qu. message to the House of Commons The Qu. Mother arrives in England Her death Duke of Glocester born The Marriage of the Princess Mary with the Prince of Orange The Qu. accused of High treason The Queen goes for Holland The Parliaments endeavour to clear themselves The Qu. answer to their excuse The breach betwixt the King and Parliament The Parliament raise Arms The King likewise arms The Queen comes to England The Qu. Letter to the King about her escape at Burlington The Qu. goes to York Advances to Newark Her Majesties Forces Card Richelieu his death His birth extract Character Mazarine succeeds him Lewis 13. dies The Qu. and King meet at Edge hill Ambassadour from France The Qu. at Oxford Sir William Waller routed The Qu. intends to journey to the West Queen proclaimed traitor Sets forward towards the West Delivered of a daughter Queen passes into France Waller and Essex routed Nazeby fight the Kings ruine The King disguised leaves Oxford The Qu. desires to procure Lorrain to assist the King Oxford taken The Scots sell the King The Qu. Letter to the King And to the Lord Fairfax The King beheaded The Qu. goes into a Monastery at Challons
had for neer twenty years distracted and disturbed that Kingdome having been victorious in Four main Battels against the Guisan Faction and at length rooted out all those whose affections were more swayed to the Spaniard then to their natural Prince Yet was he in the end see the instability of humane Glory and Greatnesse by an obscure Villain in one of the principal streets of his chief City of Paris stabbed to death in his Coach in the midst of those triumphs which were prepared for his Queen the Illustrious Maria di Medices who then newly had her brows begirt with the Royal Diadem of France and when he had lyen in readiness a Potent Army in perfect Equipage and composed of stout and able old souldiers which made his Neighbours round about to tremble none knowing on whom the effects of so potent a Force would fall his intended design continuing a riddle to this day He was at his first coming to the Crown very much enclined to the Protestant Profession in which he had for the most part been nurtured but the necessity of his affairs and the strength of the Papists enforced him to make a publique Confession of the Roman Catholique Religion and condescend to them in Ecclesiastical affairs notwithstanding which he was soon after by a young Jesuite who after the fact confessed he did it because he thought him not yet well setled and grounded in the Catholique Faith but too much wavering towards the Hugonots stabbed in the mouth with a knife Which made one of his Confidents prophetically to tell him Sir You may see how just and punctual GOD ALMIGHTY is in his Judgements For I hope you have denyed the Religion you were first nurtured in but from the teeth outwards so he hath struck you there but take heed your heart go not from it for he will strike you there the next time Which proved exactly true The Villain which murthered him could by no extremity of Torments be induced to confess any other then himself abettor of his Crime which he did as he said out of an inward motion he had that King Henry was not yet fully confirmed in the Roman Faith a belief whereof he gathered out of the great benefits and Liberties still continued to the Protestants 'T was but a very short time before his violent death that his youngest Daughter and last Childe the Princesse Henrietta Maria was born So that she had neither the felicity to be an eye-witness of those extraordinary Vertues wherewith her Father was endowed nor the means to imitate them otherwise then as by an everlasting fame they were left to Posterity Yet falling under the care of the Illustrious Maria di Medices her Mother a Princess of most rare endowments to whom likewise the Charge of Government was committed till the succeeding King Lewis the Thirteenth should come to age she was educated suitable to her birth and greatness and those Vertues cherished in her which seemed to be innate as appearing almost in her very Cradle Nor was she less accomplished in that other adorner of Women beauty which though it out-shone not her Vertues yet it made them shine with the greater lustre whilest they likewise seemed to set it forth and blazon it like a cleer and unclouded Sun She was about the age of Fifteen years when Prince Charles first taking that Adventurous and therefore Renowned Journey into Spain to endeavour the conclusion of a Match between himself and the Royal Infanta in his passage through Paris he incognito beheld this Paragon of Vertue and Beauty and though he were then going about a business which must necessarily obstruct his inclinations towards her yet he seemed very much to like her nor was she in her affections lesse propense to him being reported to have said after she had heard about what business he was gone into Spain That he need not have gone so far for a Wife So that it seemed that this Match was concluded on in Heaven which no worldly endeavours could obstruct For after the fruitless endeavours of Prince Charles in Spain to regain the Palatinate without which he could not accept of the Infanta for his Wife King James alwayes saying That there should be no Match unless that were likewise restored for he would not marry Prince Charles in joy and leave his Daughter the Princess Elizabeth in tears was with safety to the great joy of the People returned into England and in stead of an Alliance a War proclaimed with Spain Lewis the Thirteenth King of France sent two Letters fraught with extraordinary expressions and strains of Princely love tacitely inviting some overtures of a Match with France to which King James returned answer thus MOst High most Excellent and most puissant Prince Our most dear and loving good Brother and Cousin and ancient Ally Although his late Majesty of happy memory was justly entituled the Great for having in effect re-conquered by Arms his Kingdome of France although it appertained to him as his proper Inheritance neverthelesse you have made a greater Conquest For the Kingdome of France although it was regained by the Victorious Arms of the King your Father yet belonged to him by Right and he therefore subjugated nothing but what was his own But you have made a greater conquest having by your two last Letters so full of true Cordial courtesie overcome your good Brother and ancient Allie and all the Kingdoms appertaining to him For we acknowledge Our selves so overcome by your brotherly affection that We cannot render you the like Only We can promise and assure you upon the Faith of an Honest man that you shall have power not only to dispose of Our Forces and Kingdoms but of Our Heart Our Person and the Person of Our Son if there be cause Praying you to rest assured that We shall be so far from thinking to cherish or give any countenance to any of your Subjects of what profession of Religion soever that shall forget their natural Devoirs towards you and if We can get the least light of any thing you shall be most faithfully advertized And you may promise your self in like case or in any other that may tend to the honour of your Crown that you shall have power to dispose freely of Our assistance as if the cause were your own and upon this truth that our Interests shall alwayes be common We pray God Most high most excellent and most puissant Prince Our most dear and most loving Brother Cousin and ancient Allie to have you alwayes in his protection This Letter was soon after followed by Letters both from King James and Prince Charles to the Princess Henrietta Maria which she refused to read till she had her Mothers leave which granted she put King James his in her Cushion or Cabinet but Prince Charles his she placed in her bosome which made King James say That though he would denounce War against her for not reading the Letters without her
Mothers approbation yet he must return her thanks for her after ordering them intimating thereby That she would rely and rest upon him but lodge his Son in her heart But before the Conclusion of this Treaty it pleased the Almighty to put an end to King James his dayes a Prince who all his life had kept this Kingdome in a continual Peace and quietness and had often been an Umpire in the difference of Neighbouring Princes who were in as continued Combustions about him whilest himself was never plunged in any War till now lately in one with Spain for the Restitution of the Palatinate Prince Charles upon the death of his Father is immediately declared his lawfull Heir and undoubted Successor whereof by his several Ambassadors he immediately acquaints all the neighbouring Princes But to the King of France he sends over the Earls of Carlisle and Holland not only to acquaint him with his Fathers death but to treat of an Alliance with the Princess Henrietta Maria which Negotiation was concluded in fewer months then Spain had spent years in her Treaty And soon after Letters of Procuration or Proxie were sent to the Duke of Chevereux of the House of Guise for espousing his Mistress and making her his Consort the Ceremony of which was celebrated on Sunday the First of May according to our stile but the Eleventh according to theirs in the Church of Nostre-dame at Paris with a great deal of pomp and magnificence she being given to the Duke of Chevereux in behalf of the King of England by her two Brothers the King and Mounsieur About a fortnight after the Duke of Buckingham put in Commission with the English Ambassadours there is with a train of the best quality to accompany him sent to attend the Queen and to bring her over to her Spouse in England whilest in the mean time King James's Funeral on the 14 of May was magnificently solemnized at Westminster King Charles himself contrary to the old custome attending the Obsequies On the second of June the now Queen of England set forward from Paris and at the Town of Amiens staid fourteen days by reason of the Queen her Mothers sickness and indisposition who would willingly have accompanyed her to the Sea side but at length was forced to leave her here and so with her Brother the Mounsieur she set forward towards Bulloigne a longer passage by sea to England then that of Calais but the infection there forced them to accept of this Here the Queen received the Duke of Buckinghams Mother with a Train of very many Ladies of quality from England whom Mounsieur so much honoured as to condescend to give her a visit at her Lodging for no other reason but her being Mother to the King of Englands chief Favourite and the Dutchess of Chevereux that great Princess both of Match and Blood was forced to give her the precedency The King had commanded a good part of his Navy Royal one and twenty Ships to attend the Queen on which she imbarques but in her passage findes the same rough and tempestuous weather which Mary Queen of Scots found when she was wafted over from Calais This some interpreted as an ill omen and have since taken it as a token of the succeeding tempests of her life Yet on Trinity Sunday the 13 23 of June she arrives at Dover about seven a Clock at night his Majesty the next Morning coming from Canterbury to meet her with joy received her at the top of the Stairs whilest she on her knee endeavouring to kiss his hand he seeming as it were surprized takes her up in his arms and salutes her with reiterated kisses And so conducting her into an inner Chamber after his congratulation of her safe arrival and expression of the sad fears of her danger at Sea finding her somewhat surprized and to let fall some tears to see her self now in the hands of a stranger whom she had never before seen he tells her That she was fallen into the effects of Gods Divine Providence to forsake her Kindred and cleave to her Spouse professing that he would be no longer Master of himself then he was a servant to her The Ceremony here was accomplished and the Duke of Chevereux having rendred her up to his Majesties bosom here and to his bed the same night at Canterbury they the next day set forward towards Gravesend the whole way being laned with millions of people who made the very air thunder with renumerated Ecchoes of God save their Majesties they were likewise accompanyed with a most gallant Train of the English Gentry who came from all parts of the Kingdom to wait upon their Majesties at so great a Solemnity At Gravesend on the Thursday after their Majesties entred into the Barge of State and accompanyed with an infinite number of other Barges and Boats went by water to Somerset-house whilest the Ships all the way being placed in ranks on both sides the River did volly out wellcomes to these two Princes The Third after their arrival at London their Majesties appeared in State to the Nobility both having seated themselves upon their royal Thrones And soon after the Marriage was publiquely proclaimed with excessive joy to all And from thence their Majesties by reason of the great infection then in and about London removed to Hampton-Court Where and in all other places they for many years lived in the greatest content and enjoyment of conjugal love that possibly could be The King most singularly indulgent of his Royal Consort and she correspondent with him not only in personal affection but also in bringing him forth a Progeny of Royal Princes and Princesses The best for Alliance and Stock that ever the Earth had being immediately descended from the blood Royal of England and France allied to the Emperour Kings of Spain and Denmark and all the most potent Princes of the Western World So that if ever any these might most properly be said to be sprung de semine Divûm of the seed of the Gods Yet there happened an accident on the first of July in the year 1626. which not only created a difference betwixt Lewis the thirteenth King of France and his Majesty of England but might likewise have caused a breach between him and his dearly beloved Queen and Consort had not her incomparable prudence taught her how to submit to her Husbands pleasure The King had several times been informed of misdemeanours committed by some of the Queens Domestiques towards her person and his Majesty and therefore on the first of July having the same day sent a Message commanding all the Queens Servants to be there in readiness he came to Somerset-house attended by the Duke of Buckingham the Earls of Holland and Carlisle and other principal Officers and tells them Gentlemen and Ladies I Am driven to that extremity as I am personally come to acquaint you that I very earnestly desire