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A59382	Severall letters from the committees in severall counties to the honourable William Lenthall Esquire, speaker of the House of Commons, read in both Houses of Parliament, Iune 27, 1642 : wherein, amongst divers other passages very remarkable, is related how the townsmen of Manchester put themselves into arms, and stood upon their defense against the Lord Strange and his forces, who came to seize on the magazine : with an intercepted letter from Sir Edward Fitton, to Sir Thomas Aston at York, discovering a fowl designe of the malignant party : whereunto is added severall votes of both Houses.	Ashton, Ralph.; Brereton, William, Sir, 1604-1661.; Fitton, Edward, Sir, 1603-1643.; Moore, John, 17th cent.; Rigby, Alexander, 1594-1650.	1642 (1642)	Wing S2775; ESTC R22133	7,798	20

here I would zealously perform it in wh●t lyes in my power And I hope His Majestie will send me a Commission for the acting what I do Sir William Brereton will be upon Saturday as I hear at Chester to settle the Militia of this County for the Parliament if he can you know what a spirit he is of and having a company of Roundheads about him may much advantage him about Chester he is so neer unto his Decoy that he may send out his Ducks every way to fetch in others what will be done in contradiction of him I know not for I hear nothing of my Lord Strange's stirring yet nor of any Commission that is come from him Sir I may assure you that the major part of this Hundred of Manchester where I live will stand right And now I will trouble you no further only this I should wish from you to favour me with three or four lines by this Bearer to know what service I may do unto my King And that you will be pleased if there be any News stirring to impart some of it unto me and I shall acknowledge it as an extreme favour done unto me And ever remain Your Kinsman and most true Servant EDWARD FYTTON If my Lord Rivers be at Court I beseech you present my most humble service to him Gawsworth 22 June 1642. Die Sabbati 12 Junii 1641. Resolved upon the Question THat the Clergy of England Convented in any Convocation or Synod or otherwise have no power to make any Constitutions Canons or Articles whatsoever in matter of Doctrine or Discipline or otherwise to binde the Clergy or the Laity of this Land without common consent of Parliament Resolved upon the Question Nullo contra Dicente THat the severall Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiasticall treated upon by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York Presidents of the Convocations for the respective Provinces of Canterbury and York and the rest of the Bishops and Clergy of these Provinces and agreed upon with Kings Majesties Licence in their severall Synods begun at London and York 1640. Do not binde the Clergy or Laity of this Land or either of them Resolved upon the Question THat these Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiasticall treated upon by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York Presidents of the Convocations for the respective Provinces of Canterbury and York and the rest of the Bishops and Clergy of those Provinces and agreed upon by the Kings Majesties Licence in their severall Synods begun at London and York in the yeer 1640. Do maintain in them many matters contrary to the Kings Prerogative To the Fundamentall Laws and Liberties of the Realm To the right of Parliaments To the propriety and liberty of the Subjects and matters tending to Sedition and of a dangerous consequence Die Lunae 27. Junii 1642. ORdered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled That these Votes be forthwith Published and Printed Joh. Brown Cler. Parl. FINIS Honourable Sir MAster Shutleworth and my selfe being in obedience to the commands of both Houses in our way to Lancashire and hearing as we found it true that by colour of a Letter from the King to Sir John Girlington the high Sheriffe of that County publik Summons was given through all or most part of the County that all the Protestant Subjects therein should the next day appeare at Preston to heare read the last Lancashire Petition to the King and his Answer thereunto and his Majesties 2. last Declarations to that of both Houses of the 19. and that of the 26. of May we by the way discharged some with whom causually met of their appearance willed them to do the like to their neighbours and from the Constable of Standish wee tooke a warrant directed to him alone for the summoning of all within that Township which warrnat had that very day being Sunday beene published in Standish Church by Master Chaddock the Parson thereof and we did that night repaire to Preston whither the next morning being the 20. of this instant Iune the high Sheriffe accompanied with the Lord Strange his eldest son a child the Lord Mollineux son in law to the Lord Strange and divers other Gentlemen resorted and thither also then came about five thousand persons upon the said Summons whom the Sheriffe did then draw out to a great Moore adjoyning called Preston Moore but before the Sheriffe went forth we who by the shortnesse of time could conven no other of the Committee or of the rest of the Deputy-Lieutenants acquainted the Sheriffe that we with others as a Committee of both Houses wereby them sent downe for the preservation of the peace of the County and shewed him such parts of our instructions as enjoyned his obedience thereunto and conduced to the present occasion and we demanding he acknowledged that he upon the said Letter had caused the people to be summoned and convened to the purpose aforesaid and shewed us the Letter but not the Declarations we told him we feared the publishing of the Declarations might tend to the raising of a faction or party against the Parliament and we therefore admonished and advised him to forbeare the doing publishing or dispersing any thing of that nature we further demanding he told us that he had a Commission of Array directed to the Lord Strange to himselfe to Sir George Midleton now lately made Baronet at Yorke Sir Alexander Radcliffe Master Tildesley of Mierscough Master William Farington and others and that when the people were drawne together he would acquaint them with that Commission and that he would also proclaim the Kings Proclamation of 27. of May which as hee affirmed he had already caused to be proclaimed in many places we thereupon wished him to forbeare it and afterwards according to our instructions we tendred unto him and required him in the name of the Lords and Commons to read and publish to the people severall Bookes conteining the Declaration of the Lords and Commons concerning the said Proclamation and the supposed Statute d. 7. Edw. 1. as also the Votes of both Houses made the 20. of May last with sundry Articles or Acts of Parliament to confirme the same but he refused to publish them or to receive them from our hands and when the people were assembled he and his under Sheriffe Master Thomas Danfon and Robert Male a Popish Recusant and others did then read unto them the said Letter Lancashire Petition and answer the two last Declarations of the King and the Sheriffe himselfe shewed unto them the Commission of Array under the great Seal of England but before these passages were ended the assembly went away except as we beleve about 6 or 700 persons in whose presence we call'd to the Sheriffe and told him that we were to speake unto him in the name of the Lord Commons assembled in Parliament and were to acquaint him with our instructions concerning his Commission of Array and his intermedling with the Militia of the County but

Severall LETTERS From the COMMITTEES In severall COUNTIES To the Honourable William Lenthall Esquire Speaker of the House of COMMONS Read in both Houses of PARLIAMENT Iune 27. 1642. Wherein amongst divers other Passages very remarkable is related how the Towns Men of Manchester put themselves into Arms and stood upon their defence against the Lord Strange and his Forces who came to seize on the MAGAZINE With an intercepted Letter from Sir Edward Fitton to Sir Thomas Aston at York Discovering a fowl designe of the Malignant Party Whereunto is added severall Votes of both Houses Die Lunae 27. Junii 1642. Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament That these Votes and four Letters be forthwith Printed and Published Job Brown Cler. Parliamentorum London Printed for Ioseph Hunscott and Iohn Wright 1642. To the Honorable WILLIAM LENTHALL Esquire Speaker of the House of Commons These present HONORABLE SIR THe high Sheriff of Lancashire having surprised the Powder and Match at Preston as you have received Advertisements by a Letter herewith sent from M. Rigby who instantly gave notice thereof to M. Ashton of Middleton for prevention of the like in Manchester where o● Barrels of Powder and some few bundles of Match were lodged in a room of a house belonging to the Lord Strange and by him lent for the keeping thereof M. Ashton forthwith repaired to Manchester and then Sir Alexander Ratcliffe and M. Thomas Prestwich two of the Commissioners in the Commission of Array from the King and M Nicholas Mosley and Thomas Danson the under-Sheriff endeavoured to take away that Powder and Match but were prevented by M. Ashton who with Sir Thomas Stanley and others Deputy Lievtenants took it removed it into other places of the Town and thereupon my Lord Strange who had upon Munday last seized and taken away above 30 Barrels of Powder and a great quantity of Match from Leverpool parcell of the Countries Magazine did with many armed Forces repair to a Town called Bury neer Manchester but 20 miles distant from his own house This appearance of his strook a great terrour and amazement into the Countrey so that instantly for their safety and defence the Townsmen of Manchester put themselves into Arms and many of the parts Adjacent came voluntarily in unto them for their assistance being come together we and divers others of the Deputy-Lievtenants mustered and trained them and with them began to execute our instructions for the Militia and then stood in a posture of defence as yet we do And we and our fellow Deputy-Lievtenants though our Forces were for the present much stronger then those of the Lord Strange as we doubt not he well understood did neverthelesse for prevention of effusion of blood send unto him upon Thursday last two and yesterday three of our selves to treat with him and to attone the businesse the result of these Treaties was That his Lordship offered That if we would return the Powder and Match into his hands in the place from whence it was taken then he would deposite them into the hands of some of us and of M. Robert Holt one of his own Deputy-Lievtenants by Commission from the King whereunto we and our fellow Deputy-Lievtenants could not assent so that upon those treaties in those two dayes nothing is yet done therein however yesterday the Lord Strange dismissed divers of his Forces so that but few men did yesterday appear about him which occasioned us and our fellow Deputy-Lievtenants to suffer many of our Forces which came out of the neighbouring Towns to return to their own houses and this morning we have again for the like purpose as formerly sent to his Lordship one of our selves who is not yet returned and since whose departure from us we hear that there are new Proclamations sent from York to be published in this County against us and our proceedings upon your Instructions that the King will be suddenly here with us with great Forces but yet we have seen or heard any of these Proclamations We have this week discovered a foul designe by a Letter from Sir Edward Fitton of Gawsworth in Cheshire Baronet directed to Sir Thomas Aston and intercepted by us which Letter we have here inclosed sent unto you having no other information touching the Contents of that Letter but what is therein contained save onely that Sir Edward Fitton came yesterday very uncivilly amongst us and our fellow Deputy-Lievtenants and required the Letter and he and M. Peter Danyell the younger have given out great threats against some of us for taking and detaining that Letter Our high Sheriff and his fellow Commissioners of Array will readily as we conceive alwayes upon all occasions endeavour the power of the County against our proceedings upon your Instructions These are all whereof we can for the present advertise you onely in regard we dayly expect and fear great Insurrections of popish Protestant professors Papists and other malignant persons which to prevent as also to strengthen us in our proceedings in the Militia we should infinitely rejoyce in the presence of the Lord Wharton our Lievtenant and such other speedy assistance as you should hold meet for Your most humble and faithfull Servants RAPHE ASSHETON JOHN MOORE ALEX RIGBY Manchester in Lincolnshire 25 of Iune 1642. For his truly honoured Friend Sir THOMAS ASTON Baronet at his lodging York present these 27. Junii 1642. Noble Sir I Shall ever acknowledge it as an honour done unto me your poor Kinsman and servant as that you did own me in being so noble and friendly unto me while I continued at York As also the favour you did me in bringing me to kisse the hands of him to whom my life my fortunes and all that hath dependancie on me hath been ever and ever shall be laid at His Majesties feet to do him what service I am able Sir this day I have met with my fellow-Commissioners concerning the Subsidies now in hand we have chosen a Collector for the gathering of them and appointed the Country that they should with all convenient speed pay in the money which I doubt not but will be within the compasse of a fortnight I moved the Commissioners that the Collectors should keep the money in their hands But I found they were unwilling of it I did not presse them over-much to it in regard that this money is to be paid into the Lord Major of Yorks hands as also Yorkshire Cumberland and Westmerland with many other Counties If you look into the Act it will better satisfie you Sir I conceive that if His Majestie would be pleased to send to the Lord Major of York and the Citizens that they should not part with the moneys untill they knew his farther pleasure it might more properly be staid there then here untill His Majestie be satisfied that the money go the true way it was intended But if His Majestie like not that way and that I might know the way how for to stop it