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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41282	Colonell Fiennes letter to my lord general concerning Bristol	Fiennes, Nathaniel, 1607 or 8-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing F874; ESTC R628	15,613	25

Castle the ballance in my thoughts that caused me to yeeld to that Article which otherwise I would never have done supposing that we should quickly find Armes againe preserving the horses and men of my Regiment of horse and foot which had conditions been kept with me I had preserved I have given your Excellence a true account of the carriage of this unhappy businesse and of the causes of the surrendring of that Citie and Castle together with the conditions whereupon they were yeelded up All which being considered and proved as it shall by many witnesses against whom there can be no exception I hope I shall not only stand clear in your Lordships eyes and the eyes of all the world but that it shall be acknowledged that I have done most faithfull service to those by whom I have been entrusted and that in truth which every indifferent man sees the unhappy disaster which befell Sir William Wallers Army did necessarily involve the fate of Bristol both because I had unfurnished the Citie with men and Ammunition to supply that Army and it was necessary for me so to do because the City was never put into a condition to subsist of it selfe against a Royall Army although I was not wanting to represent the importance of the place and the means how it might be defended in certain propositions which I long since sent to your Lordship and which were by your Excellency earnestly recommended to the Committee but they were not brought to any effect What my care and pains hath been to preserve that Citie having the whole burthen thereof for the providing of Men Arms Ammunition and all sorts of provision cast upon me having armed 3000 foot and 300 horse and paid constantly 2000 foot and a Regiment of Horse for foure or five moneths together without ever having above 4000 pounds from the Parliament and 1700l of the custome moneyes What hath been my toil and labour to get moneyes for these uses without troubling the Parliament how little advantage I have made for my selfe how ready I have been to furnish Sir W. Waller with Men Arms Ammunition Money and all sorts of provision that I may say nothing of the hundreds of his maimed Souldiers that have been cast upon my care and charge I leave to my greatest enemies to speak the truth for I know there cannot be found in the world so great malice as to deny it and I appeal to him that knowes all things to judge between me and those that expect a greater tale of brick from me and will not affoord me straw wherewithall to make it and I shall appeal to your Lordship and all indifferent men whether more could have been done by me when as after the defeat of Sir W. Wallers Army I had left onely 700 men to defend that Citie against two such Armies as came aginst it nor so much as one peny of money to raise more men provide Armes or pay those men I had already yet God inabled me in five dayes to raise and Arm 1000 men more and with those 1700 men and that Ammunition I had left I made that defence that I have done of which I am sure I shall never have cause to be ashamed of nor do I beleeve that your Lordship will be ashamed to own me still as Your Excellencies most humble Servant NATH. FIENNES We whose names are under-written do know the narrative part of this letter to be true according as it is here set down John Horner John Fiennes John Clifton Gabriel Homes Tho. Raulins Henry Archbould John Birch Edward Tyson Robert Johnston Chr. Stokes Robert Bagnall FINIS MERCVRIVS AVLICVS Communicating the Intelligence and affaires of the Court to the rest of the KINGDOME The two and thirtieth VVeeke SUNDAY August 6. YOu heard last weeke of the affrights and terrours which the prevailing faction in the pretended Houses were fallen into by reason of the sad condition of their affaires in most parts abroad and shall now heare of the confusions and distractions they are in at home the Vpper House bandying against the Lower the Lower at a rupture amongst themselves and the Army in as great distemper as both the Houses For it was certified this day and had beene rumoured two or three dayes before that the Lords had ordered that the Earle of Portland and the Lord Conway should be bayled whom formerly they had committed upon a generall impeachment from the House of Commons And though it was much pressed by Master Strode that There would be no sitting for them if those Lords were released and restored to the freedome of their Votes againe yet the Order stood and the two Lords were bayled accordingly foure of the Peeres which heretofore had dearely cherished the proceedings of that House being bound for them which added much unto the heat and fury of their discontent As also that two Bills being sent up to the Lords the one for levying the estates of all whom they stile Malignants according to the newly enlarged Ordinance for Sequestrations the other for the continuance of the weekely Assessements were both rejected by that House Which moved Master Martyn to propose as he had done before on the like occasions that they would passe them of themselves without the Lords whose suffrage and consent he conceived as unnecessary as the Kings in things pertaining to the Commons but wiser heads thought fitter to passe by the motion they being now in no condition for so great a breach As for the Lower House it was also signified that on the rising of the House on Saturday July 29. Master Pym moved that they would heare some Propositions from the Earle of Essex but the House having all that day attended the leisure of the Close Committee without doing any thing would not be perswaded but rose immediately to the great disgust of that Committee who formerly had beene looked upon with more observance But this was but the beginning of a greater storme For at the next meeting it was moved that the Close Committee should be dissolved many considerable men inveighing bitterly against it as the cause of all those miseries which afflict this Kingdome And when that could not be effected it was proposed and carried at the last by the major part that a Committee should be nominated to take an accompt of the Close Committee and of all others which were trusted with receipts or disbursements of money and that none of the Close Committee nor any which had fingered any of the publick moneys was to have a voyce in it it being affirmed in the House that great summes of money had beene drawne from the Citie and Country to the summe of three millions at the least as was before alleadged whereof although the Earle of Essex had not received 300000l Waller and Fairefax both not above 30000l yet the Armies were continually in want of pay And though Strode and others of the Close Committee did oppose it openly saying it called that power