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A declaration of the Kings most excellent majesties proceeding with his army at Oxford and elsewhere as it was related by a Student from thence.
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W. C.; T. H.
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1642
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Wing D695
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A Declaration OF THE KINGS Most excellent Majesties proceeding With his Army at OXFORD And elsewhere As it was related by a Student from thence LONDON Printed for I. Wright and are to be sold in the Old Baily 1642. The copy of a Letter written from a Student in Oxford to his friend in London Sir IT hath brought much joy unto my heart which languished before under the feelling and apprehension of these civill tumults to understand the good â—ewes of your health and that the malignancy betwixt our old Collegiates Doctor Pickering and Doctor Turner is happily reconciled I know with a labouring desire you almost travaile with this Post to bee informed how the affaires of his Majesty here in Oxford doe advance themselves which I must dispatch in my old and dull way and though I shall offend you with my rudenesse I shall content you with the truth His Majesties forces having for many considerations beene retired from Bâ—nbury were not long since brought nearer unto Oxford and billetted at Bril a high and hilly place and where before it was disforested was fuell and billet enough The situation of it is no lesse knowne unto you then to my self we have often made it our scene of pleasure which must bee now of danger and of terrour to the adjacent Country or to whatsoever forces shall take up armes to unwinter his Majesty from Oxford or offer to invade his Armies Our neighbours in Buckingham shire begin to startle at it and seeing the tempest that threatneth to destroy them they know not which way to avoid it They who were before so obstinate as to refuse Prince Roberts Orders for bringing in victuals to his Majesties Army are now imploying their utmost studies and endeavours in providing victuals for themselves The heighth of the place and the strength of it will over awe the adjacent plaines and the neighbouring hils which before did hold up aloft their proud and unrivall'd heads must bee now taught to stoope to the supremacy of Bril Even Shot-over it selfe bears downe his â—nweildy shoulders and acknowledgeth the sport and chasing of the Deere to be farre inferiour to the honour of Bril and to the game of war Even Wood stocke famous for the delight of Princes and foâ— the fountaine of Rosamond and for her beauties cleeâ—er then that fountaine refuseth to heare the hâ—story and flatterings of her forgotten glories and in glad silence and obedience listens to the commands and thunders of Bril while the Barnes open as hospitality strive who shall first send in the tribute of their graine and the richer houses the tribute of their Plate which trasported to Oxford must receive there an impression as well as Paper The King is the Vicegerent of God the Parliament the Vicegerent of the King and the closer they seeke after peace and the unity of Religion the neerer they arive unto the Essence and the Monarchy of God The Pesants themselves whose churlish understanding lyes onely in the Spade the Coulter and the Flayle whose narrow braine cannot distinguish betwixt a Gospel and a Pamphlet bring in their hands and hearts to the advancement of this great Designe Loyalty is a word of great extent and latitude in nature and striking an impression in the most cruell and most unreasonable creatures too oftentimes convinceth man to be the most unruly beast in all the field Whiles I am writing this my Servitor hath brought mee in the tidings of the great joy in London which hee is informed hath possessed the City for taking the Lord Grandison prisoner at Winchester if he can be as safe from your Pamphlets as his person is from your Dragooners I doubt not but his Honour will bee secure enough You may doe very well to blot him out of your lists and many more Commanders with him whose names and not whose persons you have taken prisoners It would much rejoyce me to heare of your petitions for peace in which every honest and ingenious spirit would here petition with you and joyntly with humbled hearts and the eloquence of bended knees petition all to the great God of peace that this so great a blessing may speedily and really be derived to us for the protection of the true Religion who lifts up her innocent hands to Heaven and from whose eyes raine downe more blood then from her professors wounds to see the distraction horrour of these present times and that shee who doth most lament it should bee accused to occasion this most unnaturall warre For the preservation of his Majesties person and his posterity whose inclinations have beene sutable to his great Fathers and ever more desirous of peace then warre For the advancement of learning the Arts enjoying now their best harmony amidst the sound of the Drum and of the Canon and Armes againe by a rare happinesse finding their best welcome in the habitations of the Muses For the flourishing of the state in generall and of every private person in particular in which he should be as truly glad to see you as you him who is Sir your true friend to serve you W. C. The Answer to the former Letter SIR I Am glad to heare of your health and I am sorry to find you are so mistaken in your letter both in the manner and the matter and which is attended rather with flourish and invention of a Poet then with that easie and naturall grace which a familiar Epistle doth delight in For the matter of it it s temes as farre from truth as substance I must beseech you to excuse my boldnesse for being my ancient friend I am bound to deale uprightly with you you seeme with great glory to advance the retreating of His Majesties forces from Banbury and their retiring unto Brill where you would make us beleeve there is a fort now raysing of great consequence which shall secure the City of Oxford and oppose the neighbouring County and all invadors whatsoever Such a design may be in agitation like enough but it is so far from the modesty of a Sholar to boast of the making of works for the maintainance of warre that it is scarse sutable to the condition of an honest man and in the meane while you pray for peace you observe not in what a lamentable condition this Kingdome is like to be involved by the Papists Army now under the command of the Earle of Newcastle who is maching up towards Oxford to His Majesty with them and it is worth observation that the King of France being a great Catholick hath removed many Papists Councellours and taken Protestants in their places and that the King of England being a Protestant should refuse the advise of his Protestant Parliament and seek unto Papists for his strength and Councell but God I doubt not will preserve his sacred person and speedily in his good time settle him in the eies of his best Councellours and in the hearts of his best Subjects yet I must not forget with