Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	essex_n	sir_n	17,454	5	6.6448	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29310	Two intercepted letters from Sr. William Brereton to the Earle of Essex and M. Pym concerning the rebels affaires in the North : the originalls whereof were sent by an expresse to the Earle of Essex according to His Majesties direction this 8. of July, 1643.	Brereton, William, Sir, 1604-1661.	1643 (1643)	Wing B4373; ESTC R35380	1,299	7

TWO INTERCEPTED LETTERS From Sr WILLIAM BRERETON to the Earle of ESSEX and M. PYM concerning the Rebells affaires in the NORTH The Originalls whereof were sent by an Expresse to the Earle of ESSEX according to His MAJESTIES direction this 8. of Iuly 1643. Printed Verbatim according to the Originalls BY LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity 1643. May it please your Excellence I received this day a Letter from Captain Duckenfield and another from Captain Booth importing that my Lord Fairfax and the Lancashire Forces being joyned and encountring with the Lord Newcastle were routed and pursued to Bradford which Towne also was taken by the Earle of Newcastles Forces and Leedes besieged whereby the Earle of Newcastle is possessed of all Yorkshire except Hull and Leedes The Lancashire Forces being also defeated as I am informed there remaines very few except those small forces We have which are more then sufficiently matched with the Lord Capell to make opposition and resistance unlesse your Excellence in your Wisdom think fit some wayes to provide for the prevention of so great a danger as may ensue upon gathering and increasing of his Forces by subduing and spoyling the Country I hope your Excellence will excuse and pardon what was intended for the assistance of my Lord Grey being necessarily employed for the defence of these parts But if your Lordship Command otherwise I shall account it a part of my duty to obey your Excellency to whom I will alwayes professe to remaine Stafford Iuly 4. 1643. Your Excellences most humble servant WILL BRERETON My Lord Fairfax and his Son it is said are in Leedes where I heare they are distressed Superscribed For his Excellence the Earle of Essex these humbly present Speed Sir I Can doe no lesse then account it a part of my duty to Communicate unto you what I received yesternight from Captain Duckenfield and others touching the bad successe of the Lord Fairfax and the Lancashire men in their encounter with the Earle of Newcastles Forces being routed and pursued to Bradford which Towne was by the Enemies Granadoes set on fire and taken the report whereof struck such a Terror into the Hallifax men as that thereupon they deserted the Town whereby the Earle of Newcastles Forces are become possessed of all that great County of Yorkshire except Hull and Leedes whither the Lord Fairfax and Sir Thomas Fairfax are escaped and wherein it is said they are besieged and distressed It is not to be expected that there can be prevention given to the progresse advance and encrease of this Army unlesse some considerable force can be sent downe to joyne with the Country and to assist and make head there being no more in these parts to resist but only those small forces we have which are sufficiently tasked with my Lord Capells Forces Me thinkes therefore it were high time that you should have sent before this to have entreated the assistance of the Scots whereby prevention might have been given to the losse of many 1000 mens lives and many 1000 pounds worth of Treasure and Goods whereof the Enemy is become possessed will be exceedingly strengthned if you doe not hasten to call them in to our Assistance And if this be not done it is feared that the whole Kingdom may be endangered and certainly all the Northern parts Ruin'd and spoyl'd I beseech the Lord direct you herein to such Resolution as may be most for his own glory and the rescuing of his people out of the hands of their oppressors so prayeth Your most faithfull friend and Servant STAFFORD Iuly 5. 1643. Superscribed For the much honoured M. PYM these Speed Speed Halifax is deserted by Our men the Earles Forces possessed thereof