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A58471
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A Second complaint being an honest letter to a dovbtfvll friend : about the rifling of the twentieth part of his estate.
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T. R. Honest letter to a doubtfull friend.; H. W., Sir.
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1643
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Wing R90; ESTC R17879
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A Second Complaint BEING An Honest Letter TO A DOVBTFVLL FRIEND ABOUT The rifling of the Twentieth part of his Estate Reade and burne M DC XLIII To his much esteemed friend and Kinsman Sir H.W. at his house in Westminster SIR THe indisposition of my body hath confined me to my Chamber we must now therefore discourse by lettors your Petition for peace I see is not so happy as to finde successe in Parliament at which while I 〈◊〉 I began to consider the reasons which are divers â—s the persons opposing it Therefore you must first 〈◊〉 the opposors and then the reasons will be evident It is not fit the Houses of Parliament should deny the obedient Citizens of London any thing for that may bee distastefull to the City nor yet grant the Request of the Petition for that may be distructive to the Profit of many Members of both Houses and to some even of the City it selfe It was therefore wisely done of my abortive Lord Major and his Zeelous Sectaries to attempt the strangling of it in the birth by committing some that were active about it the Reasons are Reformation of Religion that is abolishing the Booke of Common-Prayer as Popish though justified by the Compasers Martyrdome under the popish tyranny but that will make way for their new Doctrines and extemporary bablings next the dissolving of Bishopricks and Deanries will repay the money lent upon publique faith for advancing the Lords warre for so they miscall treason to conclude that being the Lords debt it is fittest to be paid out of the Lords inheritance then Bishops being eradicated Elders may grow up and flourish as in Susannaes dayes And it is Considerable that the estates of Malignants will be just rewards for the godly laborers in this harvest all which will be lost by a beggarly accommodation Touching the Houses of Parliament which consists of about 140. Lords and 500. Commoners of which not a fift part do attend in their severall Houses some being voted out others committed for not conforming their Consciences to the sence of the House and very many disliking the proceedings and tumults left the House and repayred to the King with whom a greater part I am sure is then attend both Houses being come to preserve their oathes of Allegiance which is personall to the King Take Sir but a view of such as fit and act the businesse in the Houses of Parliament observe who among them have Commands and places of profit in and about this warre then examine their small estate with the great debt and charge the rich profit of their command with their poor Revenew You may find the Earles of Northumberland Pembrook Rutland Salisbury Holland sitting in the Lords House and in the House of Commons Sir Edward Hales Sir George Stonehouse Sir Alexander Denton M. Edw. Waller M. Maynard M. Thomas Cooke Sir Thomas Hutchinson M. Philips M. Ellis and others all voting for Peace to preserve the estates they have not find them in the list of Officers to get maintenance All men know my misled Lord of Essex lost the best of his estate in lost Ireland and his whole debt and great Accompt to his Nephew Shirley is to be paid out of a small Remainder hath not my Lord of Warwick sould all he can but yet his creditors take new promises for old debts though he be responsall for 400000. pound prout per accompt are the Lords of Peterborough Stamford Say and Brook necessitous their debts and charge pressing then their commands are double both Horse and Foot The Lords Hastings Rachford Wharton Sâ— Iohn Mandevill Feelding Gray of Grooby Sir Hugh Chamley Sir Samuell Luke Sir Iohn Merrick Master Nathaniel Fines Mast Martin Mast Wingat Mast Walton Mast Cromwell Collonell Venne M. John More and others are men whose credit as appears by Screveners bookes is as great as their estates not invited to Commands by the profit of the places but by their Conscientious zeale to the Cause others of the Houses least any water should runne beside their mill preferre their Sonnes Brothers and neere Friends to places and imployments of profit about this warre as M. Pym his sonne Alexander Sir H. Mildemay his brother Anthony my Lord Say his son Iohn and others other friends while some men of the House have confest that the pay made them undertake the cause and which of all these save Sir Iohn Merrick knowes ought of his place but the profit Nay many of them for the better service fight by their Lieutenants as they pay debts by their sureties and how many of them save two or three which are taken prisoners received a wound or struck one blow in the late battels of Edge hil and Branceford what hopes then that these men wil give their Votes and 12. or 1500. l. per ann. for a barren peace will my Lord Major subscribe a Petition that shall take away his toll 12.d for Passes out of London or Colonel Mannering the crased Mercer Captain Basse the Lace-man Captain Mason the Button maker Captaine Witherly the Pewterer Captaine Capcote the Broaker Captaine Lee the Vintner with the Cunnyskin-Captaine in Southwark and divers other Debt-compounding-Citizens their pay and protections against Creditors and leave themselves nought but a Gaole to live in What can you hope for by your Petition that these men and the like can hinder Now surveigh the Popish and beggerly Lords and Cavaliers for and about the King as the Duke of Richmond the Marquesse Hartford Earles of Cumberland Darby Lindsey Bath Dorset Bridgwater Denby Leicester Devonshire North-Hampton Chesterfield Bristoll Westmerland Barkshire Newcastle Carnarvon Kingston and Thanot The Lords Mowbray Mountague of Baughton Daincourt Shandoys Spencer Gray Mohume Dunsmore Newarke Seymore Capell and others Then of the House of Commons Sir Christo Hatten Sir Iarvas Clifton S. Guy Palmes Sir Iames Thinn Mr. Iames Coventry Mr. Henry and Iohn Bellassey Sir Thomas Fanshaw Sir Richard Lewson Sir Thomas Danby Sir Iohn Packington Sir Ric. Lee Sir Charles le Grosse Master Catline Mr. Holborne > Mr. Bridgeman Mr. Chadwell Sr John Stangwayes his sonne Mr. John Digby Sir Edw. Deering Sir William Widdrington Master Venables Baron of Kinnerton Mr. Rogers Mr. Newport Sir Edward Alford Mr. Whitmore Mr. Chuchley Mr. Edgcome Sir John Stowell Mr. Crooke Mr. Nowell Mr. Sutton Sir Will. Oagle Sir Wil. Poole one hundred more then my paper will hold men of understanding and known integrity which of all these whose age health would permit adventured not their lives and estates in this war with the King Now let us examine their Religion you shall finde them daily at Sermons and Service with the King hearing and practising the same Protestant Religion and Liturgie that saved our Fathers and hath beene in our Church ever since the Reformation and which we have vowed by the late Protestation to maintain then no doubt neither the King nor they are likely to bring in Popery nor bee Separatists