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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40016	A letter sent to the right honourable Edward Earle of Manchester, Speaker pro tempore in the House of Peers. Wherein are truly stated, and reported some differences of a high nature, betweene the high and mighty Prince Charles, Duke of Lorrayne, &c. And the two honourable Houses of Parliament.	Fortescue, Anthony.	1648 (1648)	Wing F1611D; ESTC R213746	4,714	12

and sayled towards Poole where lying at Anchor to take in ballast by Order from the Governour of Poole he was seased upon by a Ship of the Parliament commanded by Captaine Cartridge who brought him into Poole where the Governour kept the Ship for divers moneths and imprisoned the Captaine and his men without any ground at all but upon cavill against his Commission and upon sinister informations caused the Captaine to be sent up to London Prisoner by Order from the Committee of the Admiralty By his meanes that service was wholly lost to his Highesse great dammage and dishonor though afterwards with much and much solicitation the Ship was restored but with excessive charge to his Highnesse both in the clearing of her and making her fit againe for Service His Highnesse still not doubting but to receive full satisfation for these injuries offered him sets out another Vessell under Command of Captaine Faulkner who upon the French Coast tooke a Frenchman and brought him into Dartmouth where the Governor seased upon him and his Prize but at last was content to let Captaine Paulkner depart with his owne Vessell but detained for his owne use and benefit the French Vessell which was an excellent Swimmer and kept all the goods in her and although by Order from his Highnesse I made my addresses to the Committee of the Admiralty for satisfaction yet none could I ever obtaine Neither wanted upon all these severall exigents his Highnesse Letters to both the Honourable Houses demanding restitution in a faire way but so farre was that off as to this houre his Highnesse never received any Neverthelesse his Highnesse not intending in these his intentions for Sea to exclude our Nation sets out Captaine Faulkner againe who taking a French-man not within command of any Fort or Castle of this Kingdome as is pretended which appeared by a shot made from Mount-Batten which reached not Captaine Faulkner by a mile and upward brought confidently his Prize into the Isle of Wight where he was presently seased upon by Colonell Hammond the Captaine and all his men cast into Prison his Prize taken from him and sold before his face which shewed no intention of restoring it to the French had they had any right to it and an inventory sent up to the Committee of the Admiralty of the goods to a very small valuation though the Prize was worth 600li the ship being laden with Wines Rozen Pitch Pruens and the like French Commodities of value All the sollicitation possible I could make in his Highnesse behalfe and withall delivering his Highnesse Letters to both the Honourable Houses filled with much sweetnesse and affection towards this Nation to obtaine satisfaction none ever yet was thought upon nor that there was any such Princeas the Duke of Lorrayne whose Letters were worthy of answer In witnesse still of this high misprission foure of his seamen are yet in extreame misery detayned in the Common-Goale of Winchester where they are ready to perish and both the French Ship and the Dukes also are imbarged and seased upon before the Isle of Wight At the same time Captaine Anderson having received his Highnesse Commission went downe to Portsmouth where having gotten to him some few Sea-men and bought a small Vessell to transport themselves to Ostend there to be put upon a greater Ship no sooner was it knowne that they were to serve under the Duke my Masters Commission having yet never attempted any thing were seased upon and detained in prison for many weeks to the overthrow of that his Highnesse service and the undoing of the poore men after my many sollicitations and many repulses they were at last freed from their most unjust imprisonment but with no consideration had of their losses These several passages of disgrace having beene put upon the Duke my Master with so stiffe a silence in both the Honourable Houses to his Highnesse so many courteous Letters have caused I presume this last Letter of his to both the Houses to make some expression of his resentment in demanding of the Parliament of England whether they desire to have him their Friend or their Enemy And although I my Lord am servant to this great Prince who at this houre commands an Army of his owne of 12000. as gallant men as the Sunne shines upon most of them old Souldiers of understanding as well able to command as of wills ready to obey having borne for many yeares the waight and scoarching of the day who with often graplings have made soft unto their hands the hardnesse of warre glorying more in their honourable Scarrs then in their Scarlets and are at their height of joy when they heare the Trumpets call to a Battell yet am I still an English man and so zealous a Patriot as most willingly would I Sacrifice my life in the continuation of that ancient League and Amity which hath ever beene betweene this Kingdome and the House of Lorrayne that Mother of Princes that Nurcery of Kings whose Royall steame hath extended its flourishing Branches over most of the Thrones of Europe whose now Regnant Heyre the Duke my Master looking upon the rich Ornaments of his Soveraignty values the greatest Juell in it his so neere allyance to our Soveraign Lord Charles King of England France Scotland and Ireland whose present condition he behols with eyes full of affections and cleered from all Mists of mistake I conclude my Lord with my owne disinterest it is not I am confident the pleasure of my Master to call me off from this Station by way of complyance with the Honourable Houses till that abusive attribute of pretended be taken off from me his reall Minister for what judgement can thinke such an imputation should be laid upon me from any doubt in matter of fact as whether his Highnesse ownes me for his Resident or not but rather the doubt seemes to be raysed in matter of his Highnesse Power whether he can constitute any Publique Minister And to question this wil but expresse more more the weaknesse of those who doubt it and make his Highnesse more more reflect upon his own Powers But did the streame run cleere as formerly which now begins to be troubled betweene his Highnesse my Master and the Honourable Houses I should receive those endeavours most joyfully which should effectually obtaine my recalling for the cause of my stay here being now rightly stated the difference appeares betweene his Highnesse the Duke of Lorraine and the Parliament of England and not betweene the Parliament of England and Your Lordships most humble Servant ANTHONY FORTESCUE Resident for his Highnesse of Lorraine April 20. 1648.