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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37777	The declaration or remonstrance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled with divers depositions and letters thereunto annexed.; Remonstrance of the state of the kingdome, agreed on by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, May 19, 1642	England and Wales. Parliament.; Astley, Jacob Astley, Baron, 1579-1652.; Ballard, Thomas, Lieutenant Colonel to the Lord Grandison.; Chudleigh, James, d. 1643.; Conyers, John, Sir.; Goring, George Goring, Baron, 1608-1657.; Hunks, Fulk, Sir.; Lanyon, John.; Legge,William, 1609?-1670.; O'Connolly, Owen.; Percy, Henry, Baron Percy of Alnwick, d. 1659.; Vavasour, William, Sir, d. 1659.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1517; ESTC R3809	41,214	58

finding him there left word that he must needs come to the Covent Garden to Sir Iohn Sucklings lodging which accordingly he did but not finding him there the same day he was with Captain Billingsley at the Dog Tavern in Westminster at which time he did farther appoint this Examinant upon Wednesday to promise Sir John Suckling a meeting at the Dolphin in Grayes Inne lane about nine of the clock in the forenoon where the same day came some thirty more which were appointed by Sir John Suckling and Captaine Billingsley but neither Sir Iohn Suckling or Billingsley came only there came one and gave them money and so dismist them for the present This Examinant further saith that Captaine Billingsley having notice that he had some store of Armes of his owne told him Sir Iohn Suckling would buy them all if he pleased to fell them Captaine Billingsley likewise told this Examinant that Sir Iohn Suckling had furnished himselfe for money and all the company Iohn Lanyon Quarto die Maii 1641. ELizabeth Nutt wife of William Nutt of Tower-street London Merchant and Anne Bardsey of Tower-street aforesaid widow say that they being desirous to see the Earle of Strafford came to Anne Vyner wife of Thomas Vyner Clerk to the Lievtenant of the Tower whose lodging being neare to the Kings Gallery where the said Earl useth to walk carried them to a back doore of the said Gallery the said Earl with one other being then walking And they three being then there and peeping through the key hole and other places of the doore to see the said Earle did heare him and the said other party conferring about an escape as they conceived saying that it must be done when all was still and asked the said party where his brothers ship was who said she was gone below in the River and heard him say that they three might be there in twelve houres and doubted not to escape if some thing which was said concerning the Lievtenant of the Tower were done but what that was as also where they might be in twelve houres they could not heare by reason that when they walked further off they could not perfectly heare And the said Ms Nutt and Ms Bardsey say that they heard the said Earl then say that if this Fort could be safely guarded or secured for three or foure months there would come aid enough and divers other words tending to the purposes aforesaid which they cannot now remember And further all of them say that they heard the said Earle three times mention an escape saying that if any thing had been done his Majesty might safely have sent for him but now there was nothing to be thought on but an escape And heard the said other partie telling his Lordship that the outward gates were now as surely guarded as those within To whom the said Earle said the easier our escape that way pointing to the East if the said party and some others should obey the directions of the said Earle But what those were they know not but heard the said party answer they would doe any thing his Lordship should command Anne Vyner Anne Bardsey Signum Eliza. E. N. Nut The Superscription of the Letter For my worthy Friend Sir Lewes Dyves Knight at the Earle of Bristolls house in Queen-street London Deare Brother I Hope you will have received the Letter which I wrote unto you from aboard Sir John Pennington wherein I gave you account of the accident of O-Neals man and why I thought fitting to continue my journey into Holland going still upon this ground that if things goe on by way of accommodation by my absence the King will be advantaged If the King declare himself and retire to a safe place I shall be able to wait upon him from hence as well as out of any part of England over and above the service which I may doe him here in the mean time Besides that I found all the Ports so strict that if I had not taken this opportunity of Sir John Peningtons forwardnesse in the Kings service it would have been impossible for me to have gotten away at any other time I am now here at Middle borough at the Golden Fleece upon the Market at one George Petersons house where I will remaine till I receive from you advertisement of the state of things and likewise instructions from their Majesties which I desire you to hasten unto me by some safe hand and withall to send unto me a cypher whereby we may write unto one another freely If you knew how easie a passage it were you would offer the King to come over for some few dayes your selfe God knowes I have not a thought towards my Countrey to make me blush much lesse criminall but where Traytors have so great a sway the honestest thoughts may prove most treasonable Let Dick Sherley be dispatcht hither speedily with such black cloaths and linnen as I have and let your letters be directed to the Baron of Sherborn for by that name I live unknowne Let care be taken for Bills of Exchange Yours Middleborough Jan. 20. 1641. The Examination of Owen Connelly Gent. taken before us whose names ensue the 22. of October 1641. WHo being duly sworne and examined saith That he being at Mommore in the County of London-Derry on Tuesday last he received a Letter from Colonell Hugh Ogemacmahon desiring him to come to Connagh in the County of Monayhan and to be with him on Wednesday or Thursday last whereupon he this Examinant came to Connagh on Wednesday night last and finding the said Hugh come to Dublin followed him hither He came hither about six of the clock this Evening and forthwith went to the lodging of the said Hugh to the house neer the Boot in Oxmantowne and there he found the said Hugh and came with the said Hugh into the towne neere the Pillory to the lodging of the Lord Mac-quire where they found not the Lord within and there they dranke a cup of Beere and then went back again to the said Hugh his lodging He saith that at the Lord Mac-quire his lodging the said Hugh told him that there were and would be this night great numbers of Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Irish Papists from all the parts of the Kingdome in this Towne who with himselfe had determined to take the Castle of Dublin and possesse themselves of all his Majesties Ammunition there and to morrow morning being Saturday and that they intended first to batter the Chimneyes of the said Towne and if the City would not yeeld then to batter down the houses and so to cut off all the Protestants that would not joyne with them He saith further That the said Hugh then told him that the Irish had prepared men in all parts of the Kingdom to destroy all the English inhabiting there to morrow morning by ten of the clock and that in all the Sea-ports and other Townes in the Kingdome all the Protestants should be