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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96639	The Lord Willoughby of Parham, his letter to an honorable member of the House of Parliament. His Majesties letter to the Lord Willoughby of Parham. The Lord Willoughby of Parham his letter, in answer, to His Maiesties. With the message of the Lords to the House of Commons upon the said letters. As also the Lord of Warwicks letter to his brother the Earle of Holland. And the declaration or resolution of the officers in the county of Essex, to the Earl of Warwick, lord lievtenant of that county. With the approbation of both houses concerning the same.	Willoughby of Parham, Francis Willoughby, Baron, 1613?-1666.; Warwick, Robert Rich, Earl of, 1587-1658.; England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). aut	1642 (1642)	Wing W2860; Thomason E150_4; ESTC R15128	5,316	18

The Lord Willoughby of Parham his Letter to an Honorable Member of the House of Parliament His Majesties Letter to the Lord Willoughby of Parham The Lord Willoughby of Parham his Letter in answer to His Maiesties WITH The Message of the Lords to the House of Commons upon the said Letters As also The Lord of Warwicks Letter to his brother the Earle of Holland AND The Declaration or Resolution of the Officers in the County of Essex to the Earle of Warwick Lord Lievtenant of that County With the Approbation of both Houses concerning the same Printed for Joseph Hunscott and Iohn Wright Die Jovis 9. Junii 1642. ORdered by the Lords in Parliament That these severall Letters and Resolutions shall be forthwith Printed and Published Joh. Brown Cler. Parliament My Lord I Received a Letter from your Lordship in which the House is pleased to do me a very great Honour farre above any desert of mine and little expected by me for my Lord I well know my obedience tyes me to fulfill their Commands and in that I have done I have done but my duty and that which every honest man ought to do and oweth of right to the Parliament and whosoever hath that principle in him it will dictate to him as much and keep him from other by-wayes And for my own part my heart ever was and shall ever be both forward and ready to obey their Lordships Commands in all things both with Integrity and Industry and Gods curse light upon him and his that carryes any other heart about him My Lord it is too mean a way for me to expresse my acknowledgement in paper to the House for this high favour which I have received by your Lordships Letter I hope to make it appear by my actions that then Lordships see I am not an ungratefull servant It is a great encouragement to these parts their Lordships Resolutions in giving their Commands to have the rest of the Militia put in present execution and truly my Lord it was out of that regard that I did intimate it to my Lord of Essex as holding it a thing much conducing to the publike good and the only remedy to cure these distractions which the Kingdom is in not out of any regard to my self for I know if I suffer in executing their Lordships commands it must be against their wills and when that day comes I will not give a straw for all I have were I but a looker on My Lord as I was this day at Lincoln where I appointed to begin to Muster there came a Messenger from His Majesty with this Letter which I held it my duty to acquaint the House with and likewise my answer and am for Lincoln where as in all other places I shall be ready to serve your Lordship As your most humble servant F. WILLOUGHBY MY Lord ere my Letter was sealed up I could not but give your Lordship an accompt in how good a Posture I found the Trained Bind of Lincoln which was farre beyond my expectation considering the unhappinesse in the sicknesse being dispersed in the Town which hindred the appearance of some But truly my Lord that was fully supplyed by a Company of Voluntiers equall in number and goodnesse of Arms to the Trained Bands Lincoln 6. Iune 1642. 〈◊〉 SOIT QVI MAL Y PEN●● CHARLES REX RIght trusty and welbeloved We greet you well Whereas We understand That you have begun to assemble Train and Muster the Trained-Bands of our County of Lincoln under pretence of an Ordinance of Parliament whereto We have not given our Consent Which is not only contrary to Law but to Our Command and Pleasure signified by Our Proclamation sent to the high Sheriff of that Our County Wherefore That you may not hereafter plead Ignorance of such Our Prohibition We do by these Our Letters Command and charge you upon your Allegiance to desist and forbear to Raise Muster Train Exercise or Assemble together any part of the Trained Bands of that Our County either by your self or by any others imployed under you or by Warrant from you And because you may for what you have already done concerning the Militia of that Our County plead that you had not so particular a Command We shall passe by what you have already done therin So as presently upon your receipt hereof you shall desist and give over medling any further with any thing belonging to the Militia of that Our County But if you shall not presently desist and forbear medling therewith We are resolved to call you to a strict Accompt for your Disobedience therein after so many particular and legall Commands given you upon your Allegiance to the contrary and shall esteem and proceed against you as a disturber of the peace of Our Kingdom Given at Our Court at York the fourth of June 1642. To Our right trusty and welbeloved the Lord Willoughby of Parham SIR AS there can be nothing of greater unhappinesse to me then to receive a Command from your Majestie whereunto my endeavours cannot give so ready an obedience as my affections so I must confesse the difficulty at this time not a little how to expresse that duty which I owe to your Majesties late Commands and not falsifie that Trust reposed in me by your high Court of Parliament through whose particular directions I am now come into this County to settle the Militia according to the Ordinance of Parliament which by the Votes of my Lord Littleton and others in the House of Peers better versed in the Laws then my self passed as a Legall thing and hath since been confirmed if I mistake not by his example and your Majesties Chief Justice Sir John Banks both in accepting their Ordinance and nominating their Deputy-Lieutenants how much farther they proceeded I know not But Sir if the opinions of those great Lawyers drew me into an act unsuitable to your Majesties liking I hope the wart of yeers will excuse my want of judgement And since the Command of the Parliament I am now so far ingaged in their service as the sending out Warrants to summon the County to meet me this day at Lincoln and afterwards in other places I do most humbly beseech your Majesty not to impose that Command on me which must needs render me false to those that relve on me and so make me more unhappier then any other misery can fall upon me These things Sir I once more humbly beseech your Majestie may be taken into your gracious consideration and that you would never be pleased to harbour any misconceit of me or of this action since nothing hath yet passed by my Commands here or ever shall but what shall tend to the honour and safety of your Majesties Person to the preservation of the peace of your Kingdom and to the content I hope of all your Majesties Subjects in these parts amongst which I remain YOUR MAJESTIES Most humble and most dutifull SVBJECT and SERVANT F. WILLOVGHBY THE MESSAGE