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A84109	The Earle of Essex his letter to Master Speaker. July 9. 1643. With some briefe animadversions on the said letter.	Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646.	1643 (1643)	Wing E3322; Thomason E64_3; ESTC R1626	4,224	11

Letter to the Countie of Essex of the loosnesse and inconstancie of his Souldiers by loosnesse he meanes running away from him and by inconstancie running away from before Us when we offer to charge them But the words themselves are full and home And I cannot passe that the Earle is troubled at those horrible outrages done to the Countries and I confesse I am glad to see Him returned to so much sense of his Honour that He findes himselfe aggrieved at these desperate villanies For as He here saith The cries of the poore people are infinite but who have been the Authours or are the Actours in these common robberies shall be recorded to Posteritie to the lasting infamie of these bloudy Hypocrites who cut our throats in courtesie and are not satisfied with our Money unlesse they have our lives And it is no wonder if my Lord be weary of such as these Now if you take notice that the Earle desires them to send to His Majestie to have Peace with the settling of Religion the Lawes and Liberties of the Subject and to bring unto just triall those chiefe Delinquents that have brought all this mischiefe upon both Kingdomes I must needs tell you they are no new words for His Majestie made this motion too often now to mention nay upon an exact survay this very thing hath been called upon by His Majestie above sixscore severall times in His Declarations and Messages that if possible He might have stopped this issue of bloud which since hath run so freely in all parts of this Kingdome But whether the Earles motion for Peace be as reall and cleare as His Majesties was heretofore will not easily be evinced onely it is manifest the Earles thoughts did not so farre abhorre the very name of Peace as others of his Faction for on the reading of this Letter among the remnant in the Lower House such a noise was made and such a dust raised both in the House and among their Faction in the Citie as if the Earle had now perswaded them to remember themselves submit to His Majestie which you will say would quickly have been Voted for another new and horrible Plot. And for bringing Delinquents to a Legall triall let them consider those they have tried already and those they Voted should never be Tried the Earle of Strafford Master Tomkins Master Chaloner Master Yeomans Master Bouchier these to say but so received their Trials and the Lord Kimbolton Master Hollis Sr Arthur Hasterig M. Hampden M. Pym and M. Strode were Declared too innocent to be stained with a purgation Remember for what end the former died and the later lived I say no more And it is worth your notice how he quoats the Earle of Bristol for words spoken by His Lordship in Parliament the words are in that excellent and seasonable Speech made by his Lordship for Accommodation May 20. 1642. which because they are excellent words I shall repeat them The greatest difficultie sayes my Lord of Accommodation may seem to be how that which is agreed upon may be secured for the future this is commonly the last point in Treaties betwixt Princes and of greatest nicenesse but much more betwext a King and his Subjects where that confidence and beleefe which should be betwixt them is once lost and to speak clearly I feare that this may be our case for it is much easier to compose differences arising from Reason yea even from wrongs then it is to satisfie Jealousies which arising out of diffidence and distrust grow and are varied upon every occasion Which Speech the Earle of Essex is pleased now to take up ingenuously confessing it was prudent sober counsell for indeed it foretold them what since we all have felt as any that peruse it may evidently perceive Once more you may observe that the Earle in this His Motion for a Treatie would exclude all Officers of his Armie from being of the Committee for my Lord sees too many decayed Members have Voted themselves to be Colonels and great Officers who being their own Carvers have found sweet and frequent pay-Pay-dayes and would therefore be unwilling to recurre into a beggarly Peace But to trouble you with no more the Earle hath received so small encouragement from His ingratefull Patrons that He wishes a dispatch whether by War or Peace and therefore tels them here that if they have no minde to compose these unhappy distractions fairly that there might be a day set down to give a period to all by a Battaile which if it be agreed upon he sayes He shall performe that dutie which he owes unto them but what that dutie he owes unto them is for he speakes indefinitely and comes not to particulars lies concealed in his own breast And sure I should believe it were not much considering he hath ventured his life and fortune in their service and yet hath arrived at no greater estimate in their eyes than to be next to Mistresse Ven farre inferiour to my Ladie Waller who expects every houre by participation with her Husband to be Ladie Generall FINIS

THE EARLE OF ESSEX HIS LETTER TO Master Speaker July 9. 1643. With some briefe Animadversions on the said Letter OXFORD Printed by Henry Hall 1643. Master SPEAKER I Would now have given you the true Relation of the skirmish on Sunday last between some of my Horse and the Enemies neare Buckingham but Sir Philip Stapleton and Colonell Goodwin being then upon the place I referre that Relation to them since when being informed that the King had sent more Forces to Buckingham to maintain that Place and bring those parts into contribution and give us battaile there hereupon I advanced with the Armie towards that Town where the Enemie stayed untill the Armie came within two miles of them and then made haste away towards Banburie notwithstanding they had perswaded the People that they would not quit the Place till they had beaten me out of the Countie I then understanding that they were fled held it not fit to go to the Town with mine Armie but sent Colonell Middleton with some Horse to clear that Town and Coast which they did and then advised where to quarter with most conveniencie for our Armie and most readie for the Enemie the Queenes Forces being like to joine with them verie suddenly and that our Armie may better secure the Parliament and Citie of London and Counties adjacent and be more safely supplied with monies from London and lie most conveniently to joyne with the Forces with the Lord Gray in Northamptonshire J was advised to march to great Brickhill as the most fit Place for all purposes The Enemie being so strong in Horse and this Armie being neither recrewted with Horses Armes nor Saddles it is impossible to keep the Countries from being plundered nor to fight with them but where and when they list we being forced when we move to march with the whole Armie which can be but slow marches so that the Countries must suffer much wrong and the cries of poor People are infinite If it were thought fit to send to his Majestie to have Peace with the settling of Religion the Lawes and Liberties of the Subject and to bring unto just Triall those chiefe Delinquents that have brought all this mischiefe to both Kingdomes and as my Lord of Bristol spake in Parliament how we may be secured to have those things performed hereafter or else if his Majestie shall please to absent himselfe there may be a day set down to give a period to all these unhappy distractions by a Battaile which when and where they shall choose who may be thought any way indifferent J shall be ready to performe that dutie J owe you And that it may not bring with it a Treatie the Propositions to be agreed upon between his Majestie and the Parliament may be sent to such an indifferent place that both Armies may be drawn near one to the other that if Peace be not concluded it may be ended by the sword no Officers of the Armie to be of the Committee nor any entercourse to be between them So I am Your assured Friend ESSEX Great Brickhil Iuly 9. 1643. THis Letter will need no Interpreter onely the Reader may please to observe what is now the chiefe taske of the Rebels Armie To secure the Parliament and Citie of London for as that wretched Citie hath been both Midwife and Nurse of this Rebellion which some desperate Male-contents had cunningly begotten so now their Generall must so order his businesse that neither the one nor the other be brought to an accompt for if the Members be disturbed the Contrivance would cease and not to protect their Citizens would stop Contribution and so their Armie and this bloudie Civill War would melt and dissolve into our former happie peace Next consider in what case their Armie now apprehends it selfe who foreseeing Her Majestie would advance out of the North Declared it was not in their power to prevent Her but that maugre all they could do to the contrary The Queenes Forces would suddenly be joyned to the Kings which accordingly was done Her Majestie meeting her Lord and Soveraigne in Keinton Field and thereby manifested that She valued their Forces no more than their lies and slanders Again you may observe what excellent good Masters the Authours of this Rebellion have still approved themselves that their Generall the Earle of Essex whose repute in the world had cast some credit on these mens designes should now be rewarded with so slight and cheap an estimation as if he had been a common stander by For though in the beginning they smooth'd and courted him to undertake their Cause and after to continue him passed a fine Vote That Robert Earle of Essex had deserved so highly that He and his House should be recorded to all Posteritie for their service done to the Common-wealth whereby they heaved Him up to such a value among the people that a meer Letter of his to Isaak Pennington from Northampton was able to command an hundred thousand pounds in foure dayes yet now is he sunke to so low a rate in their affections that He is fain to complain and as here He doth beg not onely for Men Money and Horses but for Saddles and such other particulars as were not wont to finde room in his Excellencies Letters nay and Isaak Pennington's own Chaplain one that for stealing a Gown and his good abilitie in Learning was fain to leave the Universitie doth now preach against Him and whether it will stay at a meer neglect themselves best know Nor is it their Generall 's case alone Sir Iohn Hotham Colonell Essex with others too many now to mention have as amply been rewarded the Colonell imprisoned because he was too fair a Rebell and not so vile an Enemie as that bloudie Coward Nathaniel Fines and Hotham with his Son and Familie imprisoned wounded pillaged of all his vast Treasure though he was the first great Stickler in their Cause and if he opened not the first mouth yet he held up the first hand against His Majestie for without Hotham they might have Voted and gnashed their teeth against the King but gone no farther he being then possessour of His Majesties Magazine But Hotham was rich which as their case stands is against the Priviledges of Parliament they being resolved as Suetonius sayes of Vespasian to make their Agents Sponges to suck in all they can In vità Fl. Vespasiant and after squeeze them for their own use The next thing observable is an ingenuous confession of him that knowes best who is now Master of the Field The Enemie sayes the Earle is so strong in Horse and this Armie being neither recrewted with Horses Armes c. it is impossible to keep the Countrey c. nor to fight with them but when and where they list We being forced when we move to march with the whole Armie to keep our selves from being broken Nor can the Earle confide in those few Forces he hath for he complaines in his late