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A37632 Another declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament concerning subscriptions for bringing in money, plate, and horses together with additions to the former instructions for deputy lievtenants ... as also the copy of a letter sent to Master William Crofts at the Hague by Master Henry Wilmot ... and a letter from the Earle of Warwick to Mr. John Pym ... England and Wales. Parliament.; Warwick, Robert Rich, Earl of, 1587-1658.; Rochester, Henry Wilmot, Earl of, 1612?-1658. 1642 (1642) Wing E1217; ESTC R29998 6,316 10

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ANOTHER DECLARATION OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS Assembled in Parliament Concerning Subscriptions for bringing in Money Plate and Horses Together with Additions to the former instructions for Deputy Lievtenants With a Declaration likewise from them concerning the publishing of divers Proclamations and papers in formes of Proclamations in his Majesties name As also the Copy of a Letter sent to Master William Crofts at the Hague by Master Henry Wilmot but intercepted at Sea by one of the Ships in his Majesties service and sent to the Lord Admirall and delivered to the Commons by the Lords at a conference of both Houses With the substance of two Letters from Rotterdam 4. Iuly Stilo novo 1642. And a Letter from the Earle of Warwick to Mr. Iohn Pym Esq and presented to both Houses of Parliament July 6. 1642. Ordered to be forthwith published and printed H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. London Printed for N. Allen 7. July 1642. A Let●er sent from the Earle of Warwick to Mr. Pym. Mr. Pym BEfore these shall come to your hand I make no doubt but Mr. Nichols of the House of Commons hath made both Houses a Relation of what hath passed here since I received His Majesties Letters for the discharging me of the command of the Fleet wherewith I was entrusted how I called a Councell of War and acqainted them with his Majesties Letters and likewise with the Ordinance of Parliament sent from the Houses for me t● continue my charge I confesse it was a great strait that I was put in between two commands that have so much power over me but when I consider tho great care which I have ever observed in the ●arliaments of this Kingdome for the good and safety of the King and Kingdome and every mans particular in them and that they are that great Councell by whose authority the Kings of England have ever spoken to their Subjects and likewise that the trust of his ●leet for the d●fence of his Majesty and the Kingdomes was committed to me by them and knowing the integrity of my owne heart to his Majestie and Parliament I resolved not to desert tha● charge committed to my trust wherein God blessed be his name for it hath made me hitherto so successefull but to continue it untill J shall be revoked by that authority that hath intrusted me with it which having declared to my Captaines at the Councell of War all of them unanimously and cheerfully tooke the same Resolution excepting five which was the Rere-Admirall Captaine Fogge Captaine Barley Captaine Slingsby and Captaine Wake all which five refused to come upon my summons as having no authority over them and got together round that night to make their defence against me onely Captaine Burley came in and submitted to me Whereupon in the morning I weighed my Anchors and caused the rest of my Ships so to doe and came to an anchor round about them and besieged them and when I had made all things ready I summoned them Sir Iohn Mennes and Captaine Fogge came in to me but Captaine Slingsby and Captain Wake stood out Whereupon I let flye a Gun over them and sent them word I had turn'd up the Glasse upon them if in that space they came not in they must looke for mee aboord them I sent to them by my Boat and most of the Boats in the Fleet. Their answer was so peremptory that my Masters and Saylors grew so impatient on them that although they had no Armes in their Boats at all yet God gave them such courage and resolution as in a moment they entred them tooke hold on their Shrouds and seized upon these Captaines being armed with their Pistols and Swords and strucke their Yards and Top-masts and brought them both in to me The like courage and resolution was never seen amongst unarmed men so as all was ended without effusion of blood which I must attribute to the great God of Heaven and earth only who in the moment that I was ready to give fire on them put such courage into our men to act it and so saved much blood I hope the Parliament will think of some course for all our indemnities and especially for the Officers of the Navie and principally for the Surveyor of the Navie my Vice-Admirall a very able and good man For my selfe I doubt not but they that put me in this imployment will preserve me for serving them faithfully I pray you Sir be a means to Sir Robert Pye and Mr. Green that some money may bee sent us for it hath been often promised but heare not of it The weather continuing stormy so long together that we spend our Masts and top Masts or some detriment or other falls upon us daily so that we are in great extremity for want of money Thus having nothing else to trouble you for the present onely that you will be pleased to acquaint your House of Commons with our proceedings here I bid you farewell and rest Your assured friend to serve you Warwick Instructions for Deputy Lievtenants which are Members of the House of Commons and other Lievtenants of severall Counties concerning the last PROPOSITIONS Together with the Names of the Commissaries who are to inroll and value the Horses and Armes according to the Propositions THat the Deputy Lievtenants of each County which are Members of the House shall have authority to tender the Propositions to the other Deputy Lievtenants of the same County and take their Subscriptions and all such Deputy Lievtenants or any two of them as shall subscribe according to the Propositions shall have authority to assemble and call together all such persons as they shall thinke fit and to tender those Propositions to all such Persons as shall be present or to any persons within their Counties respectively and receive their Subscriptions And the said Deputy Lievtenants or any two of them shall have authority to name such and so many Persons as they shall thinke fit to assemble and call together every person or to repaire to their severall houses or dwellings within their respective Counties and to take their Subscriptions which subscriptions are by them to bee returned to such persons as shall be appointed Receivers in the respective Counties who shall from time to time certifie the summes values or proportions of such subscriptions to the Treasurers of London The said Deputy Lievtenants or the greater part of them shall have power to name Receivers in their Counties and all such as shall either before or after their subscriptions pay or bring in any Money or Plate shall deliver the same to such person or persons as shall be appointed to the said Deputy Lievtenants or the greater part of them under their hands to be Receivers which the said persons so appointed shall cause to be delivered to the Treasurers in London named in the said Propositions and shall receive Acquittances from the said Treasurers in the name and to the use of the severall persons from whom they shall receive such money or
plate and shall deliver such Acquittances to the severall persons to whom they doe belong And all such as make such returnes of Money or Plate shall receive reasonable allowance from the Treasurers for the same according to their discretions All that finde Horses shall presently send them up to London according to the Propositions In those Counties where no Commissions are issued to those that were nominated for Deputy Lieutenants or none have been nominated there the same Authority to be given to such Justices of the Peace or other Gentlemen of those Counties which shall be named by the Knights and Burgesses of those Counties and approved by both Houses as is to the Deputy Lieutenants in the first instruction That the time of notice shall be taken to be from the time that every man hears the Proposition first read by the Authority aforesaid It is ordered that Captaine Barrell Master Lloyd Iohn Smith of London Gent ' and Francis Dowsett of London Gent ' be Commissaries to Inroll and value the Horses and Armes to be raised according to the Propositions ADDITIONS THat any one or more already allowed by both Houses of Parliament to be a Deputy Lieutenant or Deputy Lieutenants in any County or any other two persons or more in every County City or Borough which shall be approved by both Houses shall have power to put the Propositions in execution in all points according to the former Instructions That the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the severall Counties Cities and Boroughs within this Realme be required with all speed to commend these Propositions to their severall Counties Cities and Boroughs respectively to be put in execution That the persons aforesaid may have power to name one or more in each County to take the subscriptions of those who will prepare Horses in readinesse for the ends proposed in the Propositions and to inroll them and appoint Officers and from time to time to view them and to see they be compleatly armed and exercised in the respective Counties That whosoever shall bring in one or more Horses without Arms or Money to finde them may have his or their Horses valued and listed by such as are appointed in the respective Counties the owners of those Horses ingaging themselves to bring them in for the service of the Common-wealth when they shall be required by any Authority to that purpose by both Houses of Parliament That all such Horses as are subscribed by the Members of either House or by the Citizens of London may be shewed and inrolled by Saturday next the ninth of July instant that they may be divided into Troopes and trained A Declaration of the LORDS and COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT VVHereas question hath been made by some persons whether the time for subscriptions of Horse Money and plate according to Propositions lately published by the Lords and Commons in Parliament were not limitted to fourteen dayes after notice given to all within the City of London and sixty miles distant from the said City The Lords and Commons doe declare That they did not prescribe any time for such subscriptions but onely desire such as were within the said City or within such a distance to hasten the bringing in money plate and horses as much conducing to that service And they doe further declare that whosoever shall yet bring in money plate or horses or subscribe to bring in any money plate or Horses according to the said propositions and to the ends therein mentioned shall doe an acceptable service to the common-wealth and shall have the same consideration conditions and protection as is expressed in those Propositions onely it is still desired that it may be done with all convenient speed A Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament Concerning the publishing of divers Proclamations and Papers in forms of Proclamations in His Majesties Name VVHereas severall Proclamations Declarations and Papers in forms of Proclamations have issued out in His Majesties Name commanding Parsons Vicars Curates Sheriffs Mayors Bayliffs and other Officers to publish and proclaim the same being contrary to Law and to dvers Orders Ordinances and Declarations of both Houses of Parliament and much to the scandall and derogation of both the sayd Houses Be it Ordered and declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament That no Sheriff Major Bayliff Parson Vicar Curate or other Officer shall from henceforth publish or proclaim or cause to be proclaimed or published any such Proclamations Declarations or Papers which are or shall be contrary to any Oorder Ordinance or Declarations of the said Houses of Parliament or tending to the scandall or derogation of their proceedings but shall use all lawfull waies and means to restrain and hinder the proclaiming and publishing thereof And all Sheriffs Majors Bayliffs Parsons Vicars and Curates or other Officers that have forborn or refused or shall forbear or refuse to publish or proclaim any such Proclamations Declarations or Papers as aforesaid or have or shall hinder the publication thereof shall be protected by the power and authority of both Houses of Parliament Ordered by the Commons in Parliament That this be forthwith Printed and Published Hen. Elsing Cler. Par. D. Com. A Copy of Mr. Henry Wilmots Letter to Mr. William Crofts at the Hague intercepted at Sea by one of the Ships in his Majesties service and sent up to the Lord Admirall and was delivered to the Commons by the Lords at a conference of both Houses AMongst other Evidences of the disposition and designes of those in credit about the King and Queene a Letter was intercepted at Sea by one of the Ships now in his Majesties service and sent up to the Lord Admirall was delivered to the Commons by the Lords at a Conference of both Houses which was dated the two and twentieth of June from Yorke written by Mr. Henry Wilmot one of those who were privy to the conspiracy of Mr. Iermin and others about bringing up the Army the last yeare and directed to Mr. William Crofts a servant of the Queenes by this Letter it appeares that they have had often conferences of dividing the estates of the Parliament men and that this is the use they intend to make of the forces raised by his Majesty And that they are growne so bold upon his protection as to vilifie and deride the Parliament not only to contemne their summons but shamefully to abuse their messenger with violence and scorne Which Letter followeth in these words For Mr. Crofts at the Hague Dear Will BY these last Letters to the Queen you will finde a great alteration of businesse here the King that very lately appeared almost abandoned by all his Subjects is now become the Favourite of the Kingdome yet I beleeve his enemies are not so neglected as not to be able to raise an Army to oppose him and indeed here lies the jest for they will bee followed just enough to forfeit their estates which I have