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kingdom_n	child_n	death_n	king_n	1,774	5	3.6274	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61716	The Earle of Straffords letter to His Most Excellent Majestie, dated from the Tower, 4 May, 1641	Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1641 (1641)	Wing S5789; ESTC R232623	1,516	8

THE EARLE OF STRAFFORDS LETTER TO HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE DATED FROM THE TOWER 4. May 1641. Anno Domini 1641. The Earle of STRAFFORDS Letter to the Kings most Excellent Majesty dated from the Tower the 4. May 1641. May it please your sacred Majesty IT hath been my greatest griefe in all these troubles to be taken as a person which should endeavour to represent and set things amisse betweene your Majestie and your people and to give Counsells tending to the disquiet of the three Kingdomes Most true it is that this mine own private condition considered it had been a great madnesse since through your gracious favour I was so provided as not to expect in any kinde to mend my fortune or please my mind more then by resting where your bounteous hands had placed me Nay it is most mightily mistaken for unto your Majestie it is well known my poore and humble advises concluded still in this That your Majestie and your people could never be happy till there were a right understanding betwixt you and them no other means to effect and settle this happinesse but by the Councell and assent of the Parliament or to prevent the growing evills upon this State but by intirely putting your selfe in the last resort upon the loyalty and good affections of your English Subjects Yet such is my misfortune this truth findeth little credit the contrary seemeth generally to be beleeved and my selfe reputed as some thing of separation between you and your people under a heavier censure then which I am perswaded no Gentleman can suffer Now I understand the minds of men are more incensed against me notwithstanding your Majestie hath declared that in your Princely opinion I am not guilty of treason nor are you satisfied in your conscience to passe the Bill This bringeth me into a very great streight there is before me the ruine of my Children and Family hitherto untouched in all the branches of it with any foule crimes Here is before me the many ills which may befall your sacred Person and the whole Kingdome should your selfe and Parliament part lesse satisfied one with the other then is necessary for the preservation both of King and people Here are before me the things most valued most feared by mortall man Life or Death To say Sir that there hath not been a strife in me were to make me lesse man than God knoweth mine infirmities give me And to call a destruction upon my self and young Children where the intentions of my heart at least have been innocent of this great offence may be believed will finde no easie content from flesh and blood But with much sadnesse I am come to a resolution of that which I take to be best becoming me to look upon that which is most principall in it self which doubtlesse is the prosperity of your sacred person and the common wealth infinitely before any private mans interest And therefore in few words as I put my self wholly upon the honour and justice of my Peers so clearly as to beseech your Majesty might please to have spared that declaration of yours on Saturday last and intirely to have left me to their Lordships so now to set your Majesties conscience at liberty I do most humbly beseech your Majesty in prevention of mistakes which may happen by your refusall to passe this B●ll And by this means remove praysed be God I cannot say this accursed but I confesse this unfortunate thing forth of the way towards that blessed agreement which God I trust shall ever establish between you and your subjects Sir my consent shall more acquit you herein to God than all the world can do besides To a willing man there is no injury done And as by Gods grace I forgive all the world with a calmnesse and meeknesse of infinite Contentment to my dislodging soul So Sir to you can I give the life of this world with all the cheerfulnesse imaginable in the just acknowledgement of your exceeding favours And onely beg that in your goodnesse you would vouchsafe to cast your gracious regard upon my poor Son and his three Sisters lesse or more and no otherwise than as their in present unfortunate Father may hereafter appear more or lesse guilty of this death God long preserve your Majesty Your Majesties most faithfull and humble Subject and Servant STRAFFORD Tower 4 May 1641.