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death_n	great_a	life_n	live_v	12,000	5	5.3253	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34782	A most true and exact relation of that as honourable as unfortunate expedition of Kent, Essex, and Colchester by M.C., a loyall actor in that engagement, Anno Dom. 1648.	Carter, Matthew, fl. 1660.	1650 (1650)	Wing C662; ESTC R18227	90,623	268

and Storme it they could not The Commissioners with the rest of the Gentlemen which were a handsome Company marched on towards Deal carrying with them Colonell Hammons Regiment being by this time compleated to a thousand well Armed and as perfectly resolv'd with Colours Flying of white answerable to the candid innocence of a peace-making Egagement and Col. Hattons Horse with some Dragooners The Gentlemen being about forty were orderly drawn up into a Troop and marching thus all the way upon the Downes gave a very handsome appearance both to the Country on the one side and the Ships then riding at Anchor in the Downes on the other which gave encouragement to both and a disheartning also to the Castles then upon treaty for Rendition Then the Castles discovering so orderly a Body of men advancing towards them sent to the Commissioners to desire that they would not advance any neerer to them till they had concluded their Conditions being on Treaty about them the Articles being drawing up Whereupon a halt was made and a Rendezvouz the party being drawn up and planted an orderly Front towards the Castles The Knights and Gentlemen then leaving them at the Rendezvouz rid away to Deal Towne where the first as indeed most requisite thing they did was the taking care for sending provision to that small Army they left in the Field and afterwards went aboord the Ships to take possession of them and to place such Officers as they thought fit to entrust with their Command Where they were received with great acclamations and expressions of Joy There one might have read in every mans face a perfection of cheerfulnesse as having been a long time like slaves Gally-chain'd to a more than Turkishly condemnation and now happily set free into the glorious liberty of Loyall obedience wherein they expressed themselves so highly devoted to the service of the King and Country as that they would not only be Commanded by Sea but desired they might have first admittance to be listed Ashore but that would not be granted them by the Commissioners for they should thereby have disfurnish'd the Ships and did not perceive they should have any need of them for Land service for now they thought that although they expected nothing lesse then an affront and opposition ere they should have performed what they had undertaken concerning their Petition yet they supposed the County would so unanimously joyne as there should be little want of number able to force through all obstruction whatsoever Foot comming in at that time also very fast from all parts and this happy successe and gallant deportment of the Gentry being so high an incouragement to call them to their aid gave new life and courage to the Commonalty and made them content to leave all rurall occasions to joyne in that so Christian-like and Loyall designe Although there were yet too many that lay lurking in their dunghill dens suttlely to joyne with any Enemy that should endeavour to make a prey of them and help forward upon any opportunity so desperate a ruine as they cared not though it turned to a generall dissolution to the whole Kingdome and a most wretched and untimely fall to their too indulgent gloriously virtuous and unparallel'd patient Soveraigne so their owne Factious Interest might recover to their wished but ignorantly proposed end A nest of other Cockatrices lay brooding also as idlely in the very heart of the County nay too many all over whose dirty Souls were so settled on the lees and puddle of worldly interest as depressed them down to so ignoble and cold a disposition that would not suffer them to look up to Loyall obedience nor permit their capacities to climb so high as a knowledge of that duty they owed to their King and Country though their owne Interest was as much included as anies that was the most active every man being alike concerned in a generall peace and I think according to his quality and condition ought to endeavour as industriously for its advancement many of them knowing as much too yet so wretchedly worldly as to prefer the enjoyment of their Estates though like Jewes under the worst of bondage than like Christians to hazard the impairing them onely for the setled and assured enjoyment of them in the happiest liberty the Golden Age of a Just and Religious peace would give them in the future There were some Deputy Lieutenants also came in for their security more than their Conscience sakes which they slubber'd o're with a counterfeit disguise of dissimulation to purchase a better welcome whom I could name too but shall forbear the comming in and entring the Lists with these Loyall Engagers after they had signed not onely to the Petition but Warrants and Commissions too made a faire retreat and bidding adieu to the danger of proving Loyall Subjects slipt their engaged Coller and stole away to London and may chance deserve a Halter for it hereafter as well as the rest of the greatest Opposers But I suppose ere this though not in respect of their fortunes for which they may rejoyce yet in respect of the better wealth of their Soules they may have undergone so much of repentance as may purchase a pardon from Heaven which my charity makes me hope rather than wish the contrary and they are sensible enough they have a Soveraigne to deal with so farre inheritor of his Fathers Virtues as well as Honours and Prerogative as by his excesse of mercy to mittigate the rigour of Treason and Law against them But to return to our new Sea-Royalists who now not onely thought but express'd also the great happinesse of their chang'd condition saying cheerfully many of them They onely now lived and had a long time as it were laine amazed 'twixt life and death and desired rather to die in the service of their King then to live againe in that of the Parliament All which the Commissioners were much joyed to see and encouraged them on in their gallant Loyalty giving amongst them in every Ship a summe of mony to drink which they as gratefully received and at their putting off to shore gave them from every Vessell many great Shot answered with as many Shouts and Acclamations But many of the Marriners were so eager in prosecuting this new engaged Loyalty that the greatest difficulty in the ordering them proved in the keeping them Aboord being almost Mutinous to come ashore to list themselves for Land service as believing they should not finde any opposition at Sea or if yet not time enough for them to expresse in their actions what they had already done in their words and as absolutely resolved in their hearts as it was the expression of many of them Which to make up the more compleat they afterwards of themselves sent away a Messenger to the Commissioners of the Navy with this Declaration following The Declaration of the NAVY in a Letter to the Commissioners at LONDON Worshipfull THese are to certifie you that