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A58443 An honest letetr [sic] to a doubtful friend about the rifling of the twentieth part of his estate T. R. 1642 (1642) Wing R83; ESTC R219434 4,106 8

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AN HONEST LETETR TO A DOUBTFULL FRIEND ABOUT The rifling of the Twentieth part of his Estate Printed at York by Stephen Bulkley 1642. By speciall Command TO HIS MUCH ESTEEMED FRIEND and Kinsman Sir H. W. at his House in Westminster THe indisposition of my body hath confined me to my Chamber we must now therefore discourse by letters your Petition for peace I see is not so happy as to find successe in Parliament at which while I wondred I began to consider the reasons which are diverse as the persons opposing it Therefore you must first observe the opposers and then the reasons will be evident It is not fit the Houses of Parliament should deny the obedient Citizens of London any thing for that may be distastfull to the City nor yet grant the req●est of the Petition for that may be destructive to the Profit of many Members of both Houses and to some even of the City it selfe It was therefore wisely done of my abortive Lord Major and his Zealous Sectaries to attempt the strangling of it in the birth by Committing some that were active about it their Reasons are Reformation of Religion that is abolishing the Booke of Common-prayer as Popish though justified by the Composers Martyrdome imder the Popish tyranny but that will make way for their new doctrines and extemporary bablings next the dissolving of Bishopricks and Deanries will rep●y the mony lent upon the publique faith for advancing the Lords Wa●r for so they miscall Treason and conclude that being the Lords debt it is fittest to be p●id out of the Lords inheritance then Bishop being eradicated Elders may grow up and flourish as in Susannaes dayes And 't is Considerable that the estates of Malignants will be just rewards for the godly laborers in this harvest all which will be lost by a beggerly accommodation Touching the Houses of Parliament which consists of about 140 Lords and 500 Commoners of which not a fifth part do attend in their severall Houses some being voted out others committed for not conforming their Consciences to the sense of the House and very many disliking the proceedings and tumults left the House and repaired to the King with whom a greater part I am sure is then attend both Houses being come to preserve their oathes of Allegiance which is personall to the King Take Sir but a view of such as sit and act the businesse in the Houses of Parliament observe who among them have Commands and places of profit in and about this warre then examine their small estate with their great debt and charge the rich profit of their command with their poor Revenew You may find the Earles of Northumberland Pembrook Rutland Salisbury Holland sitting in the Lords House and in the House of Commons Sir Edward Hales Sir George Stonehouse Sir Alexander Denton M. Edw Waller M. Maynard M. Thomas Cooke Sir Thomas Hutchinson M. Phillips M. Ellis and others all voting for Peace to preserve the Estates they have not find them in the list of Officers to get maintenance All men know my misled Lord of Essex lost the best of his estate in lost Ireland and his whole debt and great Accompt to his Nephew Shirley is to be paid out of a small Remainder hath not my Lord of Warwick sould all he can but yet his creditors take new promises for old debts though he be responsall for 400000 pound prout per accompt are the Lords of Peterborough Stamford Say and Brook necessitous their debts and charges pressing then their commands are double both horse and foot The Lords Hastings Rachford wharton Sr. Iohn Mandevill Peelding Gray of Grooby Sir Hugh Chamley Sir Samuell Luke S●r Iohn Merick M. Nathaniell Fines M. Martin Master Wingate M. Walton M. Cromwell Colonell Venne M. Iohn More and others are men whose credit as appears by Screveners bookes is as great as their estates not invited to Commands by the profit of their places but by their Conscientious zeale to the Cause others of the Houses least any water should run beside their Mill preferre their Sonnes Brothers and neere friends to places and imployments of profit about this warre as M. Pym is sonne Alexander Sir H. Mildemay his brother Anthony my Lord Say his sonne Iohn and others other friends while some men of the House have confest that the pay made them undertake the cause and which of all these save Sir John Merick knowes ought of his place but the profit Nay many of them for the better service fight by their Lieutenants as they pay debts by their suerties and how many of them save two or three which are taken prisoners received a wound or struck one blow in the late battells of Edge and Brainceford what hopes then these men will give their Votes and 12 or 1500 l per ann for a barren peace Will my Lord Major subscribe a Petition that shall take away his toll 12 d for passes out of London or Colonell Mannering the crased Mercer Captain Basse the Lace-man Captain Mason the Button-maker Captain Witherly the Pewterer Captain Capcote the Broaker Captain Lee the Vintner with the Cunnyskin Captain in Southwarke and divers other Debt-compounding-Citizens their pay and protections against Creditors and leave themselves nought but a Goale to live in What can you hope for by your Petition that these men and the like can hinder Now surveigh the Popish and beggerly Lords and Cavaliers for and about the King as the Duke of Richmond the Marquesse Hartford Earles of Cumberland Darby Lindsey Bath Dorset Bridgwater Danby Leicester Devonshire North-Hampton Chesterfield Bristoll Westmerland Barkeshire Newcastle Carnarvon Kingston and Thanet The Lords Mowbray Mountague of Baughton Dainecourt Shandoys Spencer Gray Mohume Dunsmore Newarke Seymore Capell and others Then of the House of Commons Sir Christop Hatton Sr. Jarvas Clifton S. Guy Palmes S. Iames Thin M. Iohn Coventry M. Henry and M. Iohn Bellassey Sir Tho Fanshaw Sir Richard Lewson Sir Thomas Danby Sir Ioh. Packington Sir Ric. Lee Sir Charles le Grosse Mast Catline Mast Holborne Mr Bridgeman Mr Chadwell Sir Iohn Strangewayes his son M. Iohn Dighy Sr Edw Derring Sr Will Widdrington M. Venables Baron of Kinnerton M. Rogers M. Newport Sir Edw Alford M● Whitmore Mr Chitchley M. Edgcomhe M. Tho Fanshaw M. Crook M. Nowell M. Sutton Sr Will. Oagle Sr Will. Poole one hundred more then my paper will hold men of understanding and known integrity which of all these whose age and health would permit adventured not their lives and estates in this warr with the King Now let 's examinine their Religion and you shall find them daily at Sermons and service with the King hearing and practising the same Protestant Religion and Lithergy that saved our Father and hath been in our Church ever since the Reformation and which we have volved by the late Protestation to maintaine then no doubt neither the King nor they are likely to bring in Popery nor be Separatists That they