His Excellencies letter of the 30 of Ianuary, 1643 To the Earle of Forth, upon that letter sent to him from the Prince, Duke of Yorke, and divers lords and gentlemen at Oxford. Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84107 of text R212020 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.7[63]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A84107 Wing E3320 Thomason 669.f.7[63] ESTC R212020 99870677 99870677 161044 2248517545

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84107) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 161044) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f7[63]) His Excellencies letter of the 30 of Ianuary, 1643 To the Earle of Forth, upon that letter sent to him from the Prince, Duke of Yorke, and divers lords and gentlemen at Oxford. Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646. Forth and Brentford, Patrick Ruthven, Earl of, 1573?-1651, recipient. 1 sheet ([1] p.) for Laurence Blaiklocke, at Temple-bar, Printed at London : Febr. 10. 1643. [i.e. 1644] Signed at end: Essex and dated: Essex-house, Januar. 30. 1643. A letter from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Forth, enclosing a copy of the Solemn League and Covenant. Order to print dated 8 February 1643 and signed Io. Baldwin, Secretary to his Excellency. Reproductions of the originals in the British Library and the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Solemn League and Covenant (1643) -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A84107 R212020 (Thomason 669.f.7[63]). civilwar no His Excellencies letter of the 30 of Ianuary, 1643. To the Earle of Forth, upon that letter sent to him from the Prince, Duke of Yorke, and Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of 1643 1 238 2 0 0 0 0 0 84 D The rate of 84 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-10 Sampled and proofread 2007-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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HIS EXCELLENCIES Letter of the 30 of Ianuary , 1643. TO THE EARLE OF FORTH ▪ Upon that Letter sent to him from the Prince , Duke of Yorke , and divers Lords and Gentlemen at Oxford . My LORD ,

I Received this day a Letter of the 29th of this instant from your Lordship , and a Parchment subscribed by the Prince , Duke of Yorke , divers Lords and Gentlemen . But it neither having addresse to the two Houses of Parliament , nor therein there being any acknowledgement of them , I could not communicate it to them .

My Lord , the maintenance of the Parliament of England , and of the priviledges thereof , is that for which we are all resolved to spend our blood , as being the Foundation whereon all our lawes and liberties are built .

I send your Lordship herewith a Nationall-covenant , solemnly entered into by both the Kingdomes of England and Scotland , and a Declaration passed by them both together , with another Declaration of the Kingdome of Scotland . I rest ,

Your Lordships humble servant , ESSEX . Essex-house , Januar. 30. 1643.
Febru. 8. 1643.

IT is his Excellencies pleasure this Letter be forthwith printed .

Io. Baldwin , Secretary to his Excellency .

Printed at London for Laurence Blaiklocke , at Temple-bar . Febr. 10. 1643 ▪