A letter sent from His Excellency, Robert Earle of Essex, &c. to the Lord Maior of London. Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84108 of text R210999 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[77]). 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 A84108 Wing E3321 Thomason 669.f.5[77] ESTC R210999 99869740 99869740 160790 2240944723

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84108) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160790) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f5[77]) A letter sent from His Excellency, Robert Earle of Essex, &c. to the Lord Maior of London. Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Septemb. 19. 1642. London, printed for William Gay, [London] : [1642] Requesting a loan of £100,000 for the use of the army. -- Thomason Catalogue. With engraved border. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Finance -- Early works to 1800. A84108 R210999 (Thomason 669.f.5[77]). civilwar no A letter sent from his Excellency, Robert Earle of Essex, &c. to the Lord Maior of London. Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of 1642 1 390 3 0 0 0 0 0 77 D The rate of 77 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 2007-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A LETTER Sent from his Excellency , ROBERT Earle of ESSEX , &c. to the Lord MADOR of London . My LORD and Gentlemen ,

I Received so great expressions of affections both to the Cause , and to my selfe , from the City of London , at my departure from you , that I cannot dispaire , but to obtaine my suit from you , that shall be an advantage to the Common wealth ; upon a true judgement of the condition of our affaires , and of that of the Enemy ; I am confident that we may bring this businesse to a quicke and happy conclusion , God doth blesse us with so good successe daily ; and the other part by their plundering and burning of Townes and Houses , grow so odious that they grow weaker ▪ wee stronger everywhere ; yet are we in one great straight , and such a one , as if it be not speedily remedied , may quash all our hopes , and endanger that peace and libertie which we so much labour for ; our treasure , which must maintaine our Army ▪ growes neere an end ; and you well know our Army consists of such as cannot be kept one day together without pay : what a ruine it would bring upon us all , if a disbanding should happen , I leave to your judgements : My desire unto you is , that you would supply us with a speedy loane of one hundred thousand pounds , which I am confident would ( with Gods blessing ) bring these unhappy distractions to an end quickly : your Citie hath hitherto had the honour , next to God , to be the chiefest saftie of the Kingdome and Parliament ; this will render you to all posteritie the finishers of this great worke . If any thing of particular love or respect to me may be any argument herein , I shall take it for the greatest honour that hath befalne me , and will oblige my selfe to acknowledge it by the utmost and most faithfull endeavour of

From the Rendez-vouz at Northamton , 15. Septem. 1642. Your faithfull friend ESSEX .

Septemb. 19 ▪ 1642. London , printed for William Gay .