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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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-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