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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87051	Colonel Hammond's letter sent to William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons, concerning Mr. Osborns late scandalizing the said Colonel, and the rest of the gentlemen now attending the King : which letter was read in the House of Commons. Together with an order of the Commons for the said Osborn to appear within fourty days to make good his allegation. Published by authority.	Hammond, Robert, 1621-1654.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1648 (1648)	Wing H621; Thomason E449_32; ESTC R202525	2,398	8

Colonel Hammond's LETTER SENT To William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons CONCERNING Mr. Osborns late scandalizing the said Colonel and the rest of the Gentlemen now attending the KING Which Letter was read in the House of Commons Together with An ORDER of the Commons for the said Osborn to appear within Forty days to make good his Allegation Published by Authority London Printed for Edward Husband Printer to the Honorable House of Commons June 26. 1648. To the Honorable William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the Honorable House of COMMONS Mr. Speaker HAving lately received knowledge of the unparaleld wicked practices of Mr Osborn from the Right Honorable the Lord Wharton by a Letter which his Lordship sent me directed to him from the said Osborn who hath bin the chief instrument in contriving and acting as far as in him lay the late Design of the Kings intended escape wherein it appears that failing in that his Treacherous purpose and meeting now with new Councellors he proceeds though in a more abominable way by shameful and unheard of Lyes as much as in him lieth to abuse and inflame the disturbed mindes of the people in these distracted times and most unworthily to scandalize me and the rest of the Gentlemen now attending the King and in those things wherein his own heart is a witness that they are of all other most contrary to truth And being since further confirmed That in prosecution of this his audacious villany he hath written publique Letters to both Houses of Parliament asserting such horrid falsities that are hardly fit to be named but by such a wretch whose principle being falseness and treachery knows no limits in wickedness Sir My sence of the ill that in such times as these may accrue to the Kingdom by such Abuses causeth me to send up this bearer Major Rolph though through weakness he be very unapt for Travel whom he avouches for his Author that if you please may be examined who will sufficiently inform you of the great untruths raised by that unworthy person whom I should let pass as not worthy the taking notice of to Time to Shame as it hath those other unworthy Reporters who have spread abroad the late false Report of my Inhumane abusing the Person of the King were not the Publique more then my self concerned in it but the wisdom of your Honorable House doth and I doubt not will more clearly discern the Design driven at in such Reports and will take care for a right understanding of those who have been or may yet be deceived by such abuses For my own particular had I not been thus occasioned by my duty to you and the Kingdom I should have left the clearing of my integrity as formerly so still to the righteous God who if with patience men can wait upon and trust in him will certainly confound and destroy that structure whose foundation is laid in lyes with shame and sorrow to it's wicked builders Sir I have not onely to support and bear me up against these calumnies the testimony of a good conscience but to clear me amongst men it pleaseth God so to order it that upon all occasions given and that before many witnesses the King is so just as to vindicate me from all those Aspersions and so I doubt not will all others that have any sence of honor or truth who have been witnesses to my actions and deportment since His Majesties unexpected coming to this place Sir I conclude with this profession to you as in the presence of God the Searcher of hearts That as all the good of this world could not have hired me to this Imployment could I have avoided it or would you have seen it fit otherwise better to have provided for it so seeing Providence hath cast me upon it or rather it upon me I have and by the assistance of God shal so continue to the utmost of my power and knowledge demeaned my self with all dutiful respect to His Majesties Person with an equal eye to the duty I owe you and the Kingdom in the great trust you have been pleased to place upon me And this with that integrity and evenness that I stand ready to give an account to God and all men of my actions herein This satisfaction to you I finde upon all occasions by constant testimony of your favour to me I need not now give you yet being sensible a little at the wickedness of this most ungrateful unworthy person makes me thus trouble you though I need not Reason it self will plead sufficiently against him that having attempted and failed in such a Design being so principled as such a man must be that for his own interest he should proceed thus to colour his villany as by his late Addresses to both Houses Sir I shall not further trouble you but in most earnest expectation looking for a deliverance from my intollerable burthen which God and a good conscience onely supports a poor weak man to undergo either by a removal of His Majesties Person from hence when to your wisdoms it shall seem safe and fit or by better providing for it by a person or persons more able to undergo it either of which that which may best sute with your affairs is most heartily desired and that with speed if God see it good Till when in the strength of that God who hath carryed me on hitherto and as he shall inable me being sufficiently guarded against the worst that Malice can throw upon me in all constant integrity I shall indeavor to express my self Sir Your most faithful and humble Servant RO: HAMMOND Carisbrook-Castle June 21. 1648. POSTSCRIPT Mr. Osborns Letter to my Lord Wharton which his Lordship sent me I have enclosed in a Letter to the Committee of Derby-house Since I ended this Letter I have examined the three Soldiers who were dealt with to have been assisting in the Kings escape but they all affirm and are ready to make good upon Oath That neither Osborn Dowcet nor any other told them that the Kings life was in danger So that it seems clear a Device of his own to inflame the people Die Martis 20 Iunii 1648. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That the Letter of Richard Osborn of 10th Junii 1648. directed to the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Letter inclosed from the said Richard Osborn of 1o Junii directed to the Lord Wharton be communicated to the Lords And it is Ordered That the said Richard Osborn may have Forty days after the date hereof to come with safety to his person to make good the Allegations mentioned in the said Letters so long as he shall stay here for the Examination and proof of the business And likewise shall have free Liberty to depart without molestation let or hinderance H Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. FINIS