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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71003	A letter from Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, Thomas Scot, Io. Berners and Iohn Weaver, Esquiers delivered to the Lord Fleetwood : owning their late actions in endeavouring to secure the Tower of London, and expostulating his Lordships defection from his engagement unto the Parliament.	Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683.; Scott, Thomas, d. 1660.; Berners, Josias.; Weaver, John, d. 1685.; Fleetwood, Charles, d. 1692.	1659 (1659)	Wing S2893; ESTC R3276	2,041	7

A LETTER FROM Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper Thomas Scot Io. Berners and Iohn Weaver Esquiers delivered to the Lord FLEETWOOD OWNING Their late Actions in endeavouring to secure the Tower of London and Expostulating his Lordships defection from his Engagement unto the Parliament Printed in the Year 1659. A LETTER From Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper Thomas Scot Io. Berners and Iohn Weaver Esquiers delivered to the Lord Fleetwood Owning their late Actions in endeavouring to secure the Tower of London and Expostulating his Lordships defection from his Engagement unto the Parliment SIR UNderstanding you have received some disturbance of late in examining divers persons about a designe to surprize the Tower to save your further trouble we doe hereby freely own our utmost and hearty endeavours to have put that place into more faithful and confiding hands and that by Authoritie from the Council of State who at the passing of that Resolve had the sole Legall Power from the Parliament of ordering directing and disposing of all the Garrisons and Forces of this Common wealth both by Sea and Land An Action so Honest and Honourable as would not onely have given check to your Exorbitances at Wallingford-House and VVhite-Hall but was most necessary to the preserving the Peace and Safetie of this great Citty by giving advantage to them to put themselves into a Regular Posture of Defence and such an Encouragement to the sober Partie amongst them as would through Gods mercy have utterly defeated the Designes of the Common Enemy Sir Let us tell you this Designe was not so vain but that we had by the blessing of God possest that place some weeks since had we not been frustrated by our mistake in the Courage and Fidelitie of a Person whose Opportunitie Interest and Duetie if not Principles gave us better hopes But in this Age we are to complain and wonder at nothing yet we cannot but highly resent the Confidence of sending for one of our number by a party of Souldiers As if Red-coats and Musketts were a Non Obstante to all Law and publique Priviledge not as if that person or any of us are affraid or ashamed to own the Enterprize before any that have a lawfull Authoritie to demand an account of it which we are sure no single Person Juncto or Pack of Men at White-Hall or VVallingford-House have a pretence to Sir We have the witnesse with our own Spirits that we have and doe Cordially wish the preservation and good of you and your Family but if the Lord hath said you shall not hearken but be hardned in your way we must acquiesce in his Providence and with sorrow look upon that Ruine which is flowing in upon you as upon one in whom we thought we had seen some good Sr. consider that in the day of trouble which is certainly comming upon you what support you will have to your spirit when you shall be assaulted with the shame you have brought upon God's people with the breach of Faith to the Parliament from whom you received your Commission with the ruine you have brought upon your native Countrey unlesse the Lord by his own almighty Arme prevent it and with the misery you have led the poor Soldiers into who instead of being the instruments of securing and settling the Peace and Liberty of these Nations enjoying the honour and quiet thereof their arreares fully paid future pay and advancement settled and established in order and with the blessing of their Countrey-men are now become the instruments of nine men's ambition have made the whole Nation their enemies and are exposed again to the hardship and hazard of a new unnaturall War without prospect of ever hoping that the issue of these affaires can leave their new Masters so rich though conquerors as to satisfy their arreares or so secure as to trust preferment in any hands but such whose fanatick principles or personall relations makes them irreconcileable to the publick interest But God we trust has raised up a deliverer having by admirable providence put an opportunity and power into the hands of Generall Monck the ablest and most experienced Commander of these Nations whom he hath also spirited to stand firm for the interest of this Commonwealth as well against a Rebellious party of our own forces as the designes of the common enemy notwithstanding all causlesse and false aspersions maliciously cast upon him being warranted in his present actings by especial Commission and Authourity from the Council of State whereas yours is that only of the Sword Our prayers and earnest request for you and all honest men amongst you are that you may timely joyn with him and partake of the honour and blessing of his actions and your true repentance shall be a greater rejoycing then your defection was a trouble When providence shall have separated the precious from the vile and no have suffered our scumme to boyl in but shall have placed the Sword and Civil Authority in the hands of men of the best and soberest principles Sir be not so farre deceived as to think sober men see not through the mask of this strange new Parliament whose Liberty and safety either of meeting or debating must be at your pleasures who having taken upon you to be Conservators of the cause will onely make use of them as your Assessours and Tax-gatherers The present interrupted Parliament being the sole lawfull Authority and which can onely be hoped to make the Sword subservient to the Civil interest and settle the Government in the hands of the people by successive and free Parliaments lawfully derived to them Sir we have in sincerity given you our sense and shall leave you to him that disposes of all mens hearts and remain December 16 1659. For the Lord Fleetwood late Lieuetenant Generall of the Army Your Servants so far as you shall be found to serve the publick Anth. Ashley Cooper Thomas Scot Io. Berners Iohn Weaver