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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61719	The Earl of Strafford's letter to the King, to pass the bill occasioned by the tumult of the apprentices taken from the original copy.	Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1680 (1680)	Wing S5791; ESTC R18706	1,518	3

THE Earl of Strafford's LETTER TO THE KING TO Pass the BILL occasioned by the Tumult of the APPRENTICES Taken from the Original Copy May it please Your Majesty IT hath been my greatest Grief in all these Troubles to be taken as a Person which should endeavour to represent and set things amiss between your Majesty and your People and to give Counsels tending to the Disquiet of your Three Kingdoms Most true it is that this mine own private Condition considered it had been a great madness since through your Gracious Favour I was so provided as not to expect in any kind to mind my Fortune or please my mind more than by resting where your Bounteous Hand had placed me Nay it is most mightily mistaken For unto your Majesty it is well known my poor and humble Advices concluded still in this That Your Majesty and Your People could never be happy till there were a right Understanding betwixt you and them no other means to effect and settle this Happiness but by the Council and Assent of the Parliament or to prevent the Growing Evils upon this State but by intirely putting your self in your last Resort upon the Loyalty and Good Affections of your English Subjects Yet such is my Misfortune this Truth findeth little Credit the contrary seemeth generally to be believed and my self reputed as something of separation between you and your People under a heavier Censure than which I am perswaded no Gentleman can suffer Now I understand the Minds of Men are more incensed against me notwithstanding Your Majesty hath declared that in your Princely Opinion I am not guilty of Treason nor are you satisfied in your Conscience to pass the Bill This bringeth me into a very great strait there is before me the Ruin of my Children and Family hitherto untouched in all the Branches of it with any foul Crimes Here is before me the many Ills which may befall Your Sacred Person and the whole Kingdom should your Self and the Parliament Part less satisfied one with the other than is necessary for the Preservation of King and People Here are before me the things most valued most feared by Mortal Men Life or Death To say Sir that there hath not been a Strife in me were to make me less than God knoweth mine Infirmities give me And to call Destruction upon my self and young Children were the Intentions of my Heart at least have been innocent of this great Offence may be believed will find no easie Content to Flesh and Blood But with much Sadness I am come to a Resolution of that which I take to be the best becoming me to look upon that which is most principal in it self which doubtless is the Prosperity of your Sacred Person and the Commonwealth infinitely before any mans private Interest And therefore in few words as I put my self wholly upon the Honour and Justice of my Peers so clearly as to beseech your Majesty might please to have spared that Declaration of yours on Saturday last and intirely to have left me to their Lordships so now to set your Majesties Conscience c. at liberty I do most humbly beseech you for the preventing of such Mischief as may happen by your Refusal to pass the Bill by this means to remove praised be God I cannot say this accursed but I confess this unfortunate thing forth of the way toward that Blessed Agreement which God I trust shall for ever establish betwixt you and your Subjects Sir my Consent herein shall more acquit you to God than all the World can do besides to a willing mind there is no injury done and as by God's Grace I forgive all the World so Sir I can give up the life of this World with all Chearfulness imaginable in the just acknowledgment of your exceeding Favour and only beg that in your Goodness you would vouchsafe to cast your Gracious Regard upon my poor Son and his Sisters less or more and no otherwise than their unfortunate Father shall appear more or less guilty of his Death God long Preserve Your Majesty Tower May 4th 1641. Your Majesties most Humble most Faithful Subject and Servant Strafford REader you have here the Loyal and Unfortunate Earl of Strafford's Letter to the Late King shortly you shall have some Occasional Reflections upon the same FINIS London Printed for Thomas Burrel 1680.