A
Letter
without
any
superscription
,
intercepted
in
the
way
to
LONDON
.
SIR
,
WE
could
not
till
now
send
you
an
Answer
of
your
Letter
with
any
account
of
our
service
;
for
besides
the
danger
of
conveyance
to
you
,
(
it
being
easier
to
passe
through
the
Cavaliers
,
whom
a
merry
Tale
or
two
of
the
Roundheads
,
presently
reconciles
to
us
,
then
through
our
Army
;
your
Souldiers
being
so
unruly
,
that
they
call
our
good
Lord
Major
nothing
but
faithfull
Isaack
;
and
as
familiarly
rob
those
who
have
his
Passe
,
as
you
would
have
them
doe
the
Papists
.
)
The
truth
is
,
our
meetings
are
not
so
easie
or
so
safe
as
they
have
beene
,
by
reason
many
places
of
the
three
Counties
,
even
where
they
seemed
to
come
readily
into
the
Association
,
grow
every
day
malignant
,
insomuch
,
that
ou●
m●●ting
,
which
you
know
should
have
bin
the
Thursday
before
the
Fast
,
that
so
,
upon
perusall
of
your
Instructions
,
we
might
have
agreed
in
what
manner
to
have
worked
upon
our
Auditories
that
day
;
we
came
not
together
till
Munday
,
and
then
wanted
the
information
of
our
friends
of
Glocester
,
and
the
assistance
of
our
brother
by
Warwick
neither
of
which
came
to
us
so
that
our
Counsels
and
Resolutions
want
much
of
that
vigour
and
perfection
you
might
have
expected
,
which
we
hope
shall
be
supplyed
when
the
Lord
shall
bring
us
next
together
.
In
the
meane
time
we
give
you
such
advertisements
,
and
offer
such
Propositions
to
your
consideration
,
as
in
so
short
a
time
(
for
we
parted
the
next
morning
)
could
be
disgested
,
We
are
much
afflicted
at
the
Distractions
above
;
you
must
take
the
more
care
to
suppresse
the
Munity
,
and
to
compose
all
private
differences
,
lest
if
the
people
,
upon
whose
weakenesse
we
have
wrought
to
advance
the
wonderfull
things
we
have
designed
,
should
now
be
as
mad
against
us
,
as
they
were
for
us
;
and
having
beene
taught
by
us
to
throw
stones
at
the
Bishops
and
their
Adherents
,
should
now
learne
of
themselves
to
teare
us
in
pieces
;
and
if
feares
and
jealousies
,
with
which
we
have
corrupted
mens
loyalty
to
the
King
,
shall
now
divide
us
amongst
our selves
,
and
make
us
feare
and
hate
one
another
:
though
such
accidents
may
fall
out
by
the
subtilty
of
our
enemies
,
yet
the
wicked
will
make
the
people
thinke
it
a
judgement
of
God
Almighty
,
the
beleeving
of
which
will
doe
us
more
mischiefe
,
then
the
thing
it selfe
.
Our
neighbour
who
went
so
long
with
us
,
and
you
know
is
of
so
great
power
with
the
Countrey
,
by
his
notable
opposing
of
Ship-money
,
and
all
the
high
courses
of
that
time
,
doth
us
now
mighty
hurt
,
by
telling
the
people
what
the
Law
is
,
and
that
all
you
doe
is
against
Law
.
He
said
openly
before
much
company
the
other
day
,
Th●t
when
your
declaring
fit
was
upon
you
,
you
cared
neither
for
God
nor
man
.
We
desire
you
to
consider
,
whether
it
be
not
fit
speedily
to
send
for
him
,
and
to
keep
him
in
safe
custody
,
with
the
other
bad
instruments
you
have
taken
from
many
places
;
or
because
there
may
be
many
more
such
mischievous
persons
in
other
Counties
,
and
since
you
have
declared
away
the
twentieth
part
of
their
estates
from
them
,
most
men
begin
villanously
to
enquire
how
the
Law
stands
;
whether
it
be
not
now
time
to
declare
,
That
being
intrusted
by
the
whole
Kingdome
,
rather
to
improve
their
Condition
,
and
provide
new
Liberties
and
Priviledges
for
them
,
then
dully
to
take
care
that
they
be
onely
as
happy
as
their
fore-fathers
;
you
intend
to
avoyd
all
the
old
Lawes
,
and
to
make
better
in
their
places
,
and
that
hereafter
you
will
be
no
more
swayed
by
what
is
lawfull
,
but
what
is
fit
.
Besides
,
that
you
have
pretty
well
prepared
people
to
looke
for
it
,
by
those
excellent
Arguments
you
prescribed
for
the
taking
away
of
the
Kings
negative
voyce
;
you
will
by
this
finde
away
by
degrees
to
fall
in
your
expressions
of
duty
to
His
Majestie
,
which
seeme
rather
to
make
against
you
then
for
you
,
when
they
appeare
not
to
come
from
your
heart
;
and
when
you
have
once
intimated
and
communicated
your
purpose
of
making
a
reall
alteration
in
the
government
,
no
body
can
imagine
the
King
is
to
continue
as
good
a
man
as
he
is
now
,
and
so
any
disrespect
towards
him
will
be
the
more
popular
and
allowed
.
This
Consideration
we
rather
present
to
you
as
a
hint
for
your
grave
wisedomes
to
debate
and
enlarge
,
then
as
any
formed
opinion
of
our
owne
,
which
we
presume
not
to
deliver
;
and
with
the
same
submission
offer
these
following
Quae●e's
to
your
better
Resolution
.
1.
Whether
in
regard
very
many
persons
are
scandalized
at
the
continuance
of
this
Parliament
,
whereby
they
are
out
of
hope
to
be
admitted
to
the
service
of
their
Countrey
;
and
many
of
our
owne
dearest
friends
would
be
glad
to
have
a
more
immeditate
hand
in
the
wonderfull
things
which
are
done
,
and
to
have
the
liberty
for
the
bettering
their
understanding
,
to
make
some
experiments
upon
the
Commonwealth
too
,
it
be
not
fit
to
declare
,
that
though
you
never
intend
that
this
Parliament
shall
be
dissolved
,
yet
by
an
Ordinance
of
both
Houses
you
will
adjourne
every
yeare
for
the
space
of
forty
days
;
during
which
time
,
every
County
and
Burrough
shall
make
a
new
election
,
by
a
Warrant
under
the
Speakers
hand
,
whereby
good
men
may
take
their
turnes
in
the
service
,
and
you
be
quit
of
those
who
will
not
for
feare
or
love
be
of
your
mindes
;
or
if
there
cannot
safely
be
so
long
a
Vacation
,
lest
the
Law
might
then
come
in
credit
againe
and
oppresse
us
;
or
if
there
be
any
doubt
,
that
if
the
Countrey
were
once
rid
of
many
of
the
principall
Members
,
it
would
never
choose
them
againe
;
Whether
for
the
present
it
were
not
fit
by
Ordinance
to
enable
some
good
confiding
townes
,
as
Hull
,
Glocester
,
and
any
other
place
in
which
you
have
Garrisons
,
to
send
foure
or
sixe
Burgesses
:
Since
you
have
setled
the
standing
Committee
,
and
by
that
means
brought
all
businesse
into
a
few
hands
,
you
need
not
care
how
many
you
admit
to
the
House
,
which
is
the
onely
objection
against
the
later
.
2.
Seeing
the
people
are
perswaded
to
follow
us
by
no
Argument
more
then
by
making
them
beleeve
,
that
what
we
doe
is
in
opposition
to
Popery
;
whether
it
be
not
fit
to
declare
all
such
who
come
not
in
and
submit
by
such
a
day
to
be
Papists
.
3.
Whether
it
be
not
time
to
publish
some
Ordinance
against
the
Booke
of
Common-Prayer
,
that
the
spirit
may
have
freedome
and
estimation
;
and
whether
it
be
not
fit
to
ordaine
,
that
any
man
of
gifts
may
preach
and
teach
in
any
places
;
for
though
the
same
be
permitted
,
it
will
not
be
of
that
efficacy
till
it
receive
some
countenance
from
publique
Authority
.
4.
Whether
it
be
not
yet
time
to
declare
your
intentions
of
levelling
degrees
,
that
the
common
people
may
take
the
more
heart
to
second
you
;
and
if
so
,
whether
it
be
fit
to
passe
some
Vote
on
the
behalfe
of
those
few
Noblemen
and
Persons
of
quality
,
whom
you
have
found
true
to
you
,
or
to
secure
their
persons
,
and
transferre
the
trusts
you
have
committed
to
them
to
men
of
our
owne
condition
;
for
as
you
could
never
have
gotten
the
Kings
Navie
,
if
there
had
not
beene
first
care
taken
to
have
removed
so
many
Gentlemen
from
command
,
and
to
preferre
Skippers
and
watermen
to
their
places
;
so
you
will
never
settle
a
through
Reformation
on
Land
,
till
you
have
removed
all
Noblemen
and
Gentlemen
from
pretending
to
priority
in
respect
of
their
quality
.
5.
Whether
it
be
not
fit
to
publish
some
Declaration
or
Vote
of
both
Houses
against
morall
honesty
,
as
well
to
discredit
those
people
,
who
upon
their
reputation
of
living
well
,
oppose
the
common
cause
with
more
credit
and
advantage
with
the
people
;
as
for
the
countenance
of
such
,
who
notwithstanding
their
vitious
and
deboshed
lives
,
are
great
promoters
or
assistants
of
the
good
worke
in
hand
;
which
in
many
places
is
thought
the
worse
of
,
for
the
knowne
villany
and
dishonesty
of
the
Factors
.
6.
Since
the
Reformation
of
the
Church
Government
,
is
not
like
to
be
finished
in
a
long
time
,
especially
if
the
Ceremony
of
the
Kings
consent
to
what
you
enact
shall
be
thought
worth
the
staying
for
;
so
that
Superstition
is
like
to
grow
and
continue
amongst
us
,
whether
it
may
not
be
fit
by
an
Ordinance
of
Parliament
to
make
all
such
children
incapable
to
inherit
,
who
from
this
time
shall
be
Christned
with
the
signe
of
the
Crosse
;
which
may
strike
such
a
terrour
into
their
Parents
,
who
by
seeing
the
strange
things
you
have
done
within
this
last
year
,
will
beleeve
you
may
be
as
good
as
your
words
hereafter
too
,
that
they
will
rather
not
Christen
them
at
all
,
then
incurre
the
censure
of
the
two
Houses
.
7.
Since
you
have
now
published
your
dislike
,
and
hatred
of
all
Newters
,
and
such
who
would
willingly
looke
on
,
and
grow
wise
at
your
charge
,
without
being
as
deepe
in
as
your selves
;
and
that
you
resolve
to
proceed
against
all
such
as
enemies
to
the
publique
Peace
,
according
to
your
discretion
;
whether
it
be
not
time
to
define
your
termes
of
Art
,
and
to
declare
,
That
by
Evill
Councellours
,
you
intend
all
those
who
presume
to
speake
or
thinke
ill
of
any
Member
of
either
House
;
or
of
any
person
imployed
by
them
:
By
Malignant
,
all
such
who
beleeve
,
that
more
obedience
is
to
be
given
to
the
Acts
of
former
Parliaments
,
then
to
the
Orders
and
Votes
of
this
,
and
so
shew
their
wit
in
stead
of
their
duty
,
to
the
infecting
and
troubling
many
well
disposed
mindes
in
the
publique
service
.
And
by
Cavalier
,
all
those
who
impiously
desire
to
preserve
the
degrees
and
distinction
of
men
,
and
thinke
that
any
learning
or
education
can
enable
them
to
judge
of
Reason
,
Sense
,
and
Iustice
,
as
well
as
the
representative
body
of
the
Kingdome
.
Lastly
,
that
by
Popishly
affected
,
you
intend
all
those
of
the
Clergie
and
Layty
who
doe
not
abhorre
the
present
Government
of
the
Church
,
and
thinke
that
any
set
forme
of
Prayer
can
equally
be
to
the
edification
of
the
People
,
as
the
dictates
of
the
Spirit
;
that
so
the
weake
people
of
the
Country
,
who
cannot
so
well
conceive
your
meaning
,
as
they
that
are
wiser
may
know
whom
they
are
to
be
against
,
and
so
without
gathering
into
great
bodies
,
may
do
your
worke
in
Villages
by
destroying
your
Enemies
as
they
meete
with
them
,
as
well
as
if
they
came
in
thousands
to
his
Excellencie
.
8.
Because
the
imprisoning
of
men
is
an
impropular
thing
,
not
as
't
is
ualawfull
,
but
as
it
takes
away
Liberty
,
which
people
of
all
sorts
desire
;
and
because
the
Country
and
the
Cavaliers
are
like
to
fill
all
your
City
Prisons
,
notwithstanding
the
large
addition
of
receipt
you
have
made
for
such
purposes
:
whether
for
the
substantiall
Citizens
and
Inhabitants
of
London
,
you
were
not
better
put
people
of
honesty
and
trust
into
their
houses
to
overlooke
them
,
by
Order
of
both
Houses
,
as
in
the
case
of
a
Malignant
Shop-keeper
,
by
Ordinance
of
Parliament
to
make
a
Brother
of
the
same
Trade
his
fore-man
,
allowing
him
such
wages
as
you
thinke
fit
,
whereby
you
shall
know
all
the
secrets
of
the
house
,
and
such
honest
men
for
whom
you
are
bound
to
provide
many
opportuities
to
doe
themselves
good
too
.
9
Whether
consideration
should
not
be
taken
,
that
all
great
marriages
of
great
Heites
,
and
rich
Widdowes
,
be
disposed
by
Ordinance
of
both
Houses
,
for
the
encouragement
of
wellaffected
Persons
,
and
that
those
wordly
and
temporall
blessings
may
alwaies
be
sure
to
follow
the
Houshold
of
Faith
.
10
Since
most
of
our
friends
are
put
out
of
the
Commissions
of
Peace
in
all
Counties
,
and
others
put
in
,
who
endeavour
to
discountenance
your
proceedings
,
and
the
Country
people
will
yet
pay
some
regard
and
respect
to
those
places
;
whether
it
be
not
fit
to
make
a
standing
Committee
in
every
County
,
who
under
pretence
of
the
service
of
the
House
,
and
upholding
the
Priviledges
of
Parliament
,
may
take
notice
of
all
matters
,
and
send
for
all
Persons
according
to
their
discretion
,
and
so
the
Kings
Authority
,
and
the
Kings
friends
shall
quickly
be
suppressed
,
and
dis-regarded
.
11
Whether
it
be
not
fit
to
publish
some
Declaration
of
both
Houses
of
the
nature
of
Treason
,
that
wel
disposed
people
be
not
disturbed
with
the
vulgar
interpretation
of
the
Law
in
that
point
,
in
which
care
must
be
taken
not
to
leave
the
Prince
in
a
better
condition
then
his
father
,
but
as
you
have
providently
distinguished
in
the
Kings
case
between
his
Person
,
and
his
Office
,
thereby
enabling
men
without
danger
of
the
Law
to
conspire
the
death
of
the
King
in
the
behalfe
of
his
office
;
So
that
some
other
way
may
be
found
to
interpret
the
like
attempts
upon
the
Prince
who
hath
no
office
,
in
such
a
manner
,
that
the
Subject
may
not
be
more
restrained
from
exercising
his
Conscience
upon
him
,
then
upon
the
King
,
which
else
will
be
a
great
disheartning
to
the
present
inclinations
.
Lastly
,
since
many
men
are
troubled
at
the
Oathes
of
Allegiance
and
Supremacie
,
which
they
tooke
long
since
,
when
they
had
no
hope
that
the
truth
would
have
beene
manifested
thus
cleerely
to
them
,
and
of
which
Our
Enemies
seem
to
have
such
Advantage
upon
their
conscience
;
whether
it
be
not
fit
first
by
the
Resolution
of
some
godly
Ministers
to
absolve
them
of
those
very
Oathes
,
as
beene
unprofitably
done
in
the
businesse
of
Brainceford
by
these
two
Lamps
of
our
Religion
,
the
Reverend
Downing
,
and
Marshall
,
and
for
the
future
by
an
Ordinance
of
both
Houses
to
enjoyne
all
men
to
take
the
same
oathes
againe
(
mutatis
mutandis
)
to
his
Excellency
for
the
time
being
;
for
whilest
you
make
any
mention
of
the
Kings
person
in
any
oath
or
protestation
,
the
foolish
people
will
be
apt
to
beleeve
you
intend
some
regard
to
him
,
and
so
are
easily
discouraged
in
the
duty
of
their
severall
callings
.
These
considerations
were
the
effect
of
our
hasty
consultations
,
which
we
desire
you
with
our
humble
respects
to
present
to
the
Worthies
,
whether
they
(
or
some
of
them
)
are
fit
yet
to
be
put
in
execution
,
we
must
leave
to
you
,
who
are
upon
the
place
,
and
can
onely
judge
what
is
seasonable
to
be
done
;
onely
we
must
say
this
,
that
it
is
necessary
to
lay
out
some
new
Baite
for
the
people
;
and
we
conceive
it
will
be
better
to
perswade
them
that
Peace
is
not
good
for
them
(
which
may
be
improved
by
many
pretty
arguments
)
then
to
endeavour
to
make
them
beleeve
that
you
endeavour
to
procure
it
.
and
that
the
King
refuses
to
grant
it
.
Above
all
,
be
sure
you
never
give
over
calling
for
Delinquents
,
nor
admit
any
way
of
Tryall
to
them
,
but
your
owne
Votes
;
for
if
you
shall
once
allow
them
any
Rule
to
be
tryed
by
,
every
body
will
take
upon
them
to
censure
your
judgements
,
and
thinke
themselves
as
wise
as
you
,
which
is
the
greatest
breach
of
Priviledge
that
can
be
imagined
.
FINIS
.