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A59382	Severall letters from the committees in severall counties to the honourable William Lenthall Esquire, speaker of the House of Commons, read in both Houses of Parliament, Iune 27, 1642 : wherein, amongst divers other passages very remarkable, is related how the townsmen of Manchester put themselves into arms, and stood upon their defense against the Lord Strange and his forces, who came to seize on the magazine : with an intercepted letter from Sir Edward Fitton, to Sir Thomas Aston at York, discovering a fowl designe of the malignant party : whereunto is added severall votes of both Houses.	Ashton, Ralph.; Brereton, William, Sir, 1604-1661.; Fitton, Edward, Sir, 1603-1643.; Moore, John, 17th cent.; Rigby, Alexander, 1594-1650.	1642 (1642)	Wing S2775; ESTC R22133	7,798	20

here I would zealously perform it in wh●t lyes in my power And I hope His Majestie will send me a Commission for the acting what I do Sir William Brereton will be upon Saturday as I hear at Chester to settle the Militia of this County for the Parliament if he can you know what a spirit he is of and having a company of Roundheads about him may much advantage him about Chester he is so neer unto his Decoy that he may send out his Ducks every way to fetch in others what will be done in contradiction of him I know not for I hear nothing of my Lord Strange's stirring yet nor of any Commission that is come from him Sir I may assure you that the major part of this Hundred of Manchester where I live will stand right And now I will trouble you no further only this I should wish from you to favour me with three or four lines by this Bearer to know what service I may do unto my King And that you will be pleased if there be any News stirring to impart some of it unto me and I shall acknowledge it as an extreme favour done unto me And ever remain Your Kinsman and most true Servant EDWARD FYTTON If my Lord Rivers be at Court I beseech you present my most humble service to him Gawsworth 22 June 1642. Die Sabbati 12 Junii 1641. Resolved upon the Question THat the Clergy of England Convented in any Convocation or Synod or otherwise have no power to make any Constitutions Canons or Articles whatsoever in matter of Doctrine or Discipline or otherwise to binde the Clergy or the Laity of this Land without common consent of Parliament Resolved upon the Question Nullo contra Dicente THat the severall Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiasticall treated upon by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York Presidents of the Convocations for the respective Provinces of Canterbury and York and the rest of the Bishops and Clergy of these Provinces and agreed upon with Kings Majesties Licence in their severall Synods begun at London and York 1640. Do not binde the Clergy or Laity of this Land or either of them Resolved upon the Question THat these Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiasticall treated upon by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York Presidents of the Convocations for the respective Provinces of Canterbury and York and the rest of the Bishops and Clergy of those Provinces and agreed upon by the Kings Majesties Licence in their severall Synods begun at London and York in the yeer 1640. Do maintain in them many matters contrary to the Kings Prerogative To the Fundamentall Laws and Liberties of the Realm To the right of Parliaments To the propriety and liberty of the Subjects and matters tending to Sedition and of a dangerous consequence Die Lunae 27. Junii 1642. ORdered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled That these Votes be forthwith Published and Printed Joh. Brown Cler. Parl. FINIS Honourable Sir MAster Shutleworth and my selfe being in obedience to the commands of both Houses in our way to Lancashire and hearing as we found it true that by colour of a Letter from the King to Sir John Girlington the high Sheriffe of that County publik Summons was given through all or most part of the County that all the Protestant Subjects therein should the next day appeare at Preston to heare read the last Lancashire Petition to the King and his Answer thereunto and his Majesties 2. last Declarations to that of both Houses of the 19. and that of the 26. of May we by the way discharged some with whom causually met of their appearance willed them to do the like to their neighbours and from the Constable of Standish wee tooke a warrant directed to him alone for the summoning of all within that Township which warrnat had that very day being Sunday beene published in Standish Church by Master Chaddock the Parson thereof and we did that night repaire to Preston whither the next morning being the 20. of this instant Iune the high Sheriffe accompanied with the Lord Strange his eldest son a child the Lord Mollineux son in law to the Lord Strange and divers other Gentlemen resorted and thither also then came about five thousand persons upon the said Summons whom the Sheriffe did then draw out to a great Moore adjoyning called Preston Moore but before the Sheriffe went forth we who by the shortnesse of time could conven no other of the Committee or of the rest of the Deputy-Lieutenants acquainted the Sheriffe that we with others as a Committee of both Houses wereby them sent downe for the preservation of the peace of the County and shewed him such parts of our instructions as enjoyned his obedience thereunto and conduced to the present occasion and we demanding he acknowledged that he upon the said Letter had caused the people to be summoned and convened to the purpose aforesaid and shewed us the Letter but not the Declarations we told him we feared the publishing of the Declarations might tend to the raising of a faction or party against the Parliament and we therefore admonished and advised him to forbeare the doing publishing or dispersing any thing of that nature we further demanding he told us that he had a Commission of Array directed to the Lord Strange to himselfe to Sir George Midleton now lately made Baronet at Yorke Sir Alexander Radcliffe Master Tildesley of Mierscough Master William Farington and others and that when the people were drawne together he would acquaint them with that Commission and that he would also proclaim the Kings Proclamation of 27. of May which as hee affirmed he had already caused to be proclaimed in many places we thereupon wished him to forbeare it and afterwards according to our instructions we tendred unto him and required him in the name of the Lords and Commons to read and publish to the people severall Bookes conteining the Declaration of the Lords and Commons concerning the said Proclamation and the supposed Statute d. 7. Edw. 1. as also the Votes of both Houses made the 20. of May last with sundry Articles or Acts of Parliament to confirme the same but he refused to publish them or to receive them from our hands and when the people were assembled he and his under Sheriffe Master Thomas Danfon and Robert Male a Popish Recusant and others did then read unto them the said Letter Lancashire Petition and answer the two last Declarations of the King and the Sheriffe himselfe shewed unto them the Commission of Array under the great Seal of England but before these passages were ended the assembly went away except as we beleve about 6 or 700 persons in whose presence we call'd to the Sheriffe and told him that we were to speake unto him in the name of the Lord Commons assembled in Parliament and were to acquaint him with our instructions concerning his Commission of Array and his intermedling with the Militia of the County but