Instructions and propositions drawne up and agreed on by divers well affected persons in the city of London and by them referred to the consideration of all the well affected persons of the Kingdome containing divers serious and weighty incouragements to all good men to subscribe according to their ability for the raising of an army of ten thousand men of godly conversation, as additionall forces to the army raised by both houses of Parliament under the command of Robert Early of Essex : for the defence of the true Protestant religion and the liberty of the subject and the protection of the Parliament and city : a worke worthy the consideration of all true and honest-hearted christians and will much advance and expedite the great affaires of the kindome [sic] now in agitation. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B24508 of text R13262 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 6KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B24644 Wing I239 ocm 12072059

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 eng Essex, Robert Devereux, -- Earl of, 1591-1646. London (England) -- History -- Sources. eebo Instructions and propositions drawne up and agreed on by divers well affected persons in the city of London and by them referred to the consideration n/a 1643 8 908 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-04 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-10 Sampled and proofread 2014-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

INSTRUCTIONS AND PROPOSITIONS Drawne up and agreed on by divers well affected persons in the City of London , and by them referred to the consideration of all the well affected persons of the Kingdome . Containing divers serious and weighty incouragements to all good men , to subscribe according to their ability , for the raising of an Army of ten thousand men of godly conversation , as additionall forces to the Army raised by both houses of Parliament , under the command of Robert Earle of Essex , for the defence of the true Protestant Religion , and the liberty of the Subject , and the proctection of the Parliament and City . A Worke worthy the consideration of all true and honest-hearted Christians , and will much advance and expedite the great affaires of the Kindome now in agitation .

Imprimatur ,

Iuly 7. Hen . Walley .

LONDON , Printed for T. Bates , and G. Tomlinson , and are to be sold at their shops , in the Old-baily , and Ludgate-hill . 1643.

PROPOSITIONS .

IF there may be procured Authority from the high Court of Parliament , and the Earle of Essex his Excellency , for the raising of an Army of ten thousand Voluntier Souldiers for the deference of the High Court of Parliament and the Kingdome of England , and the preservation of the Kings Majesties peace , who are godly , or men of honest life or conversation , that will for the present either maintaine themselves , or take the publike Faith for their pay , or shall be maintained by others , who will go in person and see them paid weekly , or send their Money for doing thereof by some of the Contributers , who shall goe in person to see them paid , and that the Commander in Chiefe may be some godly Noble man , or other godly Man of worth , and that the Colonels , Captains , and all other Commanders and Officers may be godly , or men of honest life and conversation , who out of love to the maintenance of the true Reformed Protestant Religion , the good Lawes of our Land , the precious Liberty of the Subject , and just Priviledge of Parliament , and of all well-affected Protestants , which will goe voluntarily upon this Service , and aske no present pay ; or if greater Commanders or Officers , a fourth part of their pay at most ; or if inferiour Officers and common Souldiers part , and will take the publike Faith for the residue ; and that the said Commanders and Officers may have all their Commissions ( being brought ready with Wax so fixed ) freely signed and sealed , without any Fees paid for them . Then we , whose names or marks are here under written for our selves severally , and our own parts onely , doe faithfully promise that we will lend on the publike Faith for doing thereof , such summe or summes of Money weekly , during the space of six moneths , and also such Horse , Armes , and other provision for the said Army , as is or shall be subscribed under our severall hands , and that wee will either goe in person with the said Armes , and pay our said Monies to the said Soldiers our selves , or pay monethly one moneths payment before-hand to some other of these Contributers , who shall goe in person with the said Army to see them paid .

Instructions for all those to observe , who receive a Copy of the promise . FIrst , to procure as many to subscribe as you can with speed . 2. To make Copies of the promise and also of these Instructions , and to disperse them into the hands of honest men , who will be active to receive those Instructions both in the City and Country . 3. To inquire out both Officers , Captaines and Commanders , and Soldiers , so qualified , as the Proposition requires who will goe in this service according to the Propositions or promise , and take their promise in writing thus : viz. J will serve as a Captaine , Lieutenant , &c. to this Proposition , and then subscribe his name . 4. Write downe the names of all such to whom you disperse Copies of these Propositions and Instructions , and also of all such Souldiers , Officers , or Commanders as promise to goe , and of those Contributers who will goe onely to see the money paid . 5. That they in the Country that receive these Instructions send up world to these in the City that sent them the Instructions what they have done therein , viz. What any have subscribed ! 6. That those who promise any money in this worke , must be told that this must not abate any payment they pay towards the maintenance of any payments already imposed by the Parliaments authority . 7. That every actor that shall send to get subscriptions shall first himselfe subscribe money , or promise to go as a Captaine or Officer , or common Souldier in this service , to incourage those whom he shall aske subscriptions from . FINIS .