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A LETTER to the Honourable Major Slingsby , Lieutenant-Governour of Portsmouth . SIR ,

WE are very desirous that our Actions may be Favourably Construed ; wherefore we have Addressed this to you , with the Sense of the Discourse we had , with His Grace the Duke of Berwicke ; which we hope will neither appear Mutinous nor Disrespectful ; unto which we humbly put our Hands , and desire you to impart it to His Grace ,

Jo●n Beaumont , Thomas Paston , Simon Packe , Thomas Orme , William Cooke , John Port .
A Speech by Lieutenant Coll . Beaumont to his Grace the Duke of Brewick . SIR ,

I Am desired by these Gentlemen , ( with whose Sence I do concur ) to inform your Grace , that we do not think it consistent with our Honours to have Forreigners imposed upon us , without being complained of that our Companies were weak , or orders to recruit them , not doubting but if such orders had been given us , we that first in very ill times raised them hundreds ; could easily now have made them according to the King's Complement ; we humbly Petition we may have leave to fill up our Companies with such men of our Nation as we may judge most sutable for the Kings Service and to support our Honours , or that we may be permitted with all imaginable duty and respect to lay down our Commissions .