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A85817	A speech made by Alderman Garroway, at a common-hall, on Tuesday the 17. of January. Vpon occasion of a speech delivered there the Friday before, by M. Pym, at the reading of His Majesties answer to the late petition. Wjth [sic] a letter from a scholler in Oxfordshire, to his vnkle a merchant in Broad-street, upon occassion of a book intituled, A moderate and most proper reply to a declaration, printed and published under His Majesties name, Decemb. 8. intended against an ordinance of Parliament for assessing, &c. Sent to the presse by the merchant, who confesseth himselfe converted by it. Also a true and briefe relation of the great victory obtained by Sir Ralph Hopton, neere Bodmin, in the county of Cornwall, Jan. 19. 1642.	Garraway, Henry, Sir, 1575-1646.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662. True and briefe relation of the great victory obtained by Sir Ralph Hopton, neare Bodmin.	1643 (1643)	Wing G281; Thomason E245_29; Thomason E245_30; ESTC R1075	21,314	16

is your own Who can secure you that his Majesty may not prevail by force And if he do after so many desires of peace and proffers of pardon who can secure you from an offended P. and a victorious army that your Citizens shall not be destroyed and your City ashes Who can secure you who believe His Maiesties Protestations no better that if he come once aga●ne to governe by the helpe of an army that he may not be tempted to govern alwaies by one and learn of you to declare necessi●e and rule according to those principles which you have taught Hi● to be lawfull by the fundamentall Lawes in times of Necessity and acce●t of no security from future rebellions but such as shall leave us none from future oppressions Who can secure you th●t if the Papists shall have assisted Him in the actuall recoverie of his Crowne by force in so great an exigent and in so great numbers as you would have us thinke they doe that his gratitude to them may not be a temptation to encline Him to such favours towards and trust in them as may in time be more prejudiciall to us and our Religion then Hee may either discover or suspect But who can give you hope if the Rebells prevaile that the close Committee will bee ever content to be private men againe That the Parliament shall not be everlasting and their necessity and your pressures as eve●lasting a● the Parliament and that you shall not suffer more under the Tyranny of many th●n any one how wittie and industrious soever in it can inflict upon you be●●des the perp●tuall danger of warre from abroad from the potent allies to the Crown who for the generall interest of Princes and hope of particular advantages will bee alwayes ready to assist the discontented partie here in the recoverie of the iust Rights of it for the King and his Posteritie and of Schismes and Factions at home and many other evills not to be particularly foreseene which will undoubtedly arise from the totall alteration both of Church and State whereas if such moderate and equall propositions shall be offered as may and ought to produce a Peace either they will be excepted or refused If they be refused your cause will be mended and your Power increased if they be accepted the Armies will be disbanded poore Magna Charta which hath of late beene so ●●u●ht betweene two supposed Necessities will be againe in credit and estimation and will be preserved in it by Trienniall Parliaments and the people having now so full a s●nce of their Liberties and His Maiesty having such experience how much it endangers the Prerogati●e to encroach upon those Liberties and being restored to that sweetnesse of honour and quiet which no reasonable man thus warned will endanger and quit for a possible encrease of unnecessary power there wil be little cause to fear any slaverie for the future and the King will have no more temptation or meanes then I hope he hath will to oppresse us Then the Papists when Peace hath resetled the Lawes will be disarmed by those Lawes to secure us from them for the present and the Law of which His Maiesty hath shewed himselfe so desirous for the education of their children in the Protestant Religion will when it is past secure us from them for the future and then the Government of both Church and State being new setled in the old way the King may againe be honoured the Parliament againe respected Ireland regained and this Kingdome happy Which God of his mercy grant Amen Sir I confesse I have been transported into an unusuall stile and lesse remembred to whom then against whom I writ this But I beseech you pardon me for it since it is my affection to you and desire to disengage so good a man from so ill a cause that hath so transported me Nor would I have hazarded your displeasure and the losse I may sustaine by it if I had not been far more concern'd to save your soule then to inherit your estate And so Sir beseeching you to commond my duty to my Aunt and God to have you both in his h●ly protection I remaine Your most affectionate and dutifull Nephew A briefe Relation of the great Victory obtained by Sir RALPH HOPTON neare Bodmin in the County of Cornwall Ianua●y 19. Anno Dom. 1642. AMongst those fortunate successes wherewith Almighty God hath crowned His Majesties designes for the redem●tion of his Church and State from that calamitous condition in which they have been plunged of late by some factious spirits there is not any more remarka●le then that which hath b●fallen Him in the Westerne parts For if we looke upon the Theatre where this prize was played it is a country most remot● from the power and presence of His Majesty and therefore lesse provided of such help●s by which the sub●ects might receive encouragement in their faith and ●oyalty Next look we on the principa●l Actor and we shall finde he was a stranger to the place a man of no al●iance nor dependance th●re and so by consequence of little power and estimation amongst that p●ople In each regard we must acknowledge his successe or rather His Majesties by him to be more then ordinary and that there is a speciall providence which guides His Maiesties affaires even there where humane reason could conceive least hopes We will not recap●tulate the storie of his carriage there since the first beginning when he was forced to flye to Cornwall for his life and safety like one abandoned to all extremities ●f ill fortune nor make a generall muster of th●se happy accidents which gave him credit and authority amongst the natives of that Countrey These have a long time been the subiects of our tongues and pens The Argument of this relation shall be ●hat notable and signall victory which hee obtained against the Rebels not far from Bodmin that being as the latest so the greatest evidence of Gods blessing on him and his affections and fidelity to Gods anointed How after his retreate from Exeter he was pursued almost to the edge of Cornwall by the Rebels forces and with what courage and felicity he made those flye before him who had followed after him hath formerly been imparted to the Court by letters of unquestioned credit and from the Court communicated to the rest of the Kingdome His purpose was to rest and refresh his souldiers till the spring came on and would have sate downe quietly til then if the unquiet nature of the Rebels or rather their unlucky destinies would have given him leave But they forgetting with what ill successe they had in vain attempted to cut him off in his march through Devonshire gathered their scattered troops together which they encreased by the accession of new forces some from the Garrison at Plymmouth some from other places til they had made themselvs so strong as to adventure once more on their owne destruction In the meane time hee

England Scotland France and Jreland in so sad and distracted a condition And I wonder not when they asked him his Crowne in the Nineteene Propositions that they thought they had made him weary enough of it to part with it for asking Still the Militia is every where press't and Sir Iohn Hotham having before pretended to keepe Hull for the King now keepes the King out of Hull though he offered to enter but with twenty servants he is justified in it by the houses and the houses slander themselves that they may justifie him and acknowledge a direction they never gave Upon this he takes to himselfe a much smaller Guard then they had daily kept together many moneths at Westminster This is voted an intention to leavy Warre against his Parliament and the Sheriffes are ordered to suppresse it All this while to prepare the people to suffer any wrong to be offered the King the Presses and the Pulpits the two seed-plots of this Warre had swarmed daily with slanderous Invectives against his Majestie besides Declarations of a strange nature And if any grave pious Minister did write preach speake or almost thinke for the King he was accused by the factious part of his Parish before the Committee for scandalous Ministers and their meere receiving and countenancing of such an Accusation though their leisure would not admit him to cleare himselfe before them was enough to blast him with the people After this all that could be taken of the Kings or any of His Friends Armes Goods Ships any thing is good prize and as if the Maxime were inverted and He now could receive no wrong who was wont He could doe none they proceed really against Him though in pure civility they pas't no such Vote upon Him as an enemy to the State And at last having protected all Delinquents against Him and the known Law and voted all Delinquents who had refused to become so by submitting to their illegall commands Though the King had for His Guard onely one Regiment of the Yorkeshire Trained-bands and one Troope of Horse Voluntiers of the Gentlemen of that Country And though the King never protected any man till Sir John Hotham was denyed to be brought to a legall tryall yet an Army is voted to be raised to defend them from the King and His Cavaliers and to fetch up his Majesty and His fellow Delinquents Yet to this Vote his Majestie opposes onely His owne Declaration and that of the Lords with Him who saw best what was done towards it being upon the place that he had no such intention as was pretended and till contributions were raised to raise men He desired no contribution to be prepared by His friends for him and till they had leavyed men and mustered them in some number He gave not out so much as one Commission to leavie a man But then not thinking it needfull to stay till my Lord of Essex should come and take Him En Cuerpo that hee might satisfie the world how defensive the Warre was on His part He grants out Commissions but then grant not any to any Papists and takes all possible care and gives all possible Orders that they entertaine no Souldiers of that Religion yet these men who well may couple Peace and Truth together for their actions and words have a long time shewed that they love them alike charge him to the people in daily Declarations with raising an Army of Papists against the Parliament which makes it the lesse strange if his Majestie since confented to have the assistance of some Papists for they are not so many as you thinke for since Hee saw that without their assistance He could not avoyd all the scandall which having it could produce especially since He saw many of that Religion were entertained in their Army having taken at Edge-hill severall Wallons English and Irish of that Religion who confesse of many more And since He saw a great part of the rest to consist of another kinde of Recusants which by the Law of this Kingdome not onely ought not to be armed in it but not toremaine in it at all Well his Majestie is come to N●tt●ngham and though He was confident the Commissions Hee had sent forth would time●y enough bring him in a sufficient Army to beate theirs as the event hath since shewed yet preferring Peace even before Victory it selfe Hee sent twice to desire it I had almost said to petition for it from both Houses How it was received all the world knowes After this he meets them Hee fights with them hee beats them of which the suffering their Ordnance to be taken away next morning before their faces the quitting Banbury which they-came to relieve and marching to London themselves in stead of bringing the King up thither was so g●e●t a proofe as farre out-weighs the single assertion of my Lord Wharton or my Lord Brooke to the contrary Hee is still constant to his Principles and though after a Victory gives a quite other kinde of Answer to their Petition at Colebrooke then they had done to his Message from Nottingham VYhilest the Committee was with Him there part of their Army marcheth out of London That Hee might not be inclosed on all sides hee marches to prepossesse Brain●ford but at the instant sends word of His march and the reason of it to the Houses He found them there he beats them out And if His intention had been to have marcht on and sacked London what altered that intention Could He thinke himselfe so much weaker by the losse of ten men or them so much stronger by the losse of two of their best Regiments besides their losse by water as for that reason to change his minde No Assoone as He found Kingstone quitted behind Him before any approach or notice of any Forces of theirs hee gives orders to march away Hee againe and againe repeats his desire of Peace which is so farre from being accepted that the English Petitioners are threatned hurt and imprisoned for desiring it too and a Scots Army is invited to continue the VVarre But I hope our brethren will remember that those against whom they are called have paid and are to pay them more of the brotherly assistance then those that call them and these men will finde themselves as much de received in their hopes of their owne forraigne Forces as they were in their feare of the Kings and that the Scots will stay till the Danes come To summe up this point If to take away by force all the others just Rights be to begin the VVarre his Majestie is not the Aggressor If to have a Guard first be the beginning of the VVarre as the Replyer pretends certainly this Warre began at London and not at Yorke the first being raised by the power of a Committee upon some thing which after came to nothing fetcht as farre off as Edenburgh If the raising men first by Commissions were to begin it it was begun there too If the