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Right trusty & well beloved Jacob Lord Asteley Field Marshall General of Our Army John Lord Bellasis Captaine Generall of Our Horse Guards, & Charles Lord Gerrard Lieutenant Generall of all Our Horse Forces, Our trusty & well beloved S' Richard Willis Knight & Baronett Governor of Newarke, & John Ashburnham Esq Our Treasurer at warr, desire to cleere himselfe for the rendering of the City & Garrison of Bristoll with the Castle & Forces thereof, & thereupon produced a narrative of the matter of fact during the said siedge with the Articles for the rendering of those places, which being accordingly read & considered Wee were then pleased to say that Wee did not believe Our said Nepheu to be guilty of any the least want of courage or fidelity to us in the doing thereof but withall we believed that he might have kept the Castle & Fort a longer tyme Wee having absolutely resolved speedily to have drawen together all the Forces we possibly could & to have hazarded Our Own Person for his relief, Our Design being so layed as that in probability it would have succeeded. To which Our said Right Deare Nepheu answered that what ever hee did therein was by the advice of the Councell of warr of that Garrison, & that he could not in his Judgment possibly expect such reliefe besides hee alleadged that hee had not received from Us any intimation thereof but said that if hee had he would have mayneteyned those places to the last man though the tender reguard he had to the preservation of so many Officers & Souldiers was the chiefe reason that induced him to capitulate for the whole they having so long & faithfully served Us All which our said Right Deare Nepheu humbly submitted to our Judgment

Upon which at a Second hearing before Ourselfe this 21st day of October the Lords & others above named

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being then likewise present & upon a serious consideration of the whole matter wee were then pleased to declare that Wee were fully satisfyed that Our said Right Deare Nepheu Prince Rupert is not guilty of any the least want of courage or fidelity to Us or Our service in that Action, & Wee then gave leave to the Lords & other abov specified to declare their oppenions in that poynt.

Who upon Our leave & a full consideration of the narrative formerly delivered did unanimously concurre with us, declaring likewise that Our said Right Deare Nepheu is not guilty of any the least want of courage or fidelity to Us or Our service in that Action. Given under Our Signe Manuall at Our Court at Newark this 21 October 1645

By his Maties Command

EDW WALKER.*

[No. 28.]

May it please Y' Highnesse

This nyght I was wth the King whoe expresses greate kindnesse to you, but beleevs Y' partinge wth him. was soe much the contrary as Y' Hignesse cannot think it but a finill. How truly Sir his Majestye conceaving it soe in my oppinion tis fftt you should make sume hansume applycation, for this reason, because my Lord Duke and others here are much Y' servants, And all that are soe wish yre returne to Courte, though it be but to part frendlye but I think it necessary you prepar the waye first by letters to the King. S'I have no designs. understand me rightlye

in this but Y servyce, and if you

* Sir Edward Walker, Knt., Secretary to the Council of War; after

wards Garter King-at-Arms, and Clerk of the Council,

that will prevayle soe much as you will consyder what I saye, before you resolve the contrarye, I knowe there be sume are your enemys but they are such as may barcke, but I am confident are not able to fytt ag you, appeare therefore S' I beseech you Doe not contrybute to the satysfaction of yr foes and ruyne of yr frends by neglectinge any things wth in yr power to make peace with fortune. If after all yr attempts to be rightlye understood you shall fayle of that, yet you cannot waynt honor for that action, tis Y Uncle you shall submit to And a Kinge not in a condition he meryt What others may saye I know not but really S may I speak my opinyon as a person that values you above all the world besydes. I am confident you know how faithfully my harte is to your Highnes And how much I am

Your Highnesses most obedient humble

Servant

Oxford this Thursday

night 3 o'clock.

[No date or signature.]

[No. 29.]

May it please your Highnesse

This morninge I presented your letter to the Lords who have resolved to grant your desires in it and have sent it downe to the house of Commons for their agreement with them and upon Monday it will be consented to there [

]make the greatest haste I can, the [

] and shall give you further intelligence of my proceedings as there shall be occasion,

in the meane time S'I thought it my duty to acquaint you with thus much, and that I am faithfully

Your Highnesse

Most obedient Servant

London Novemb

the 1 1645

HEN OSBORNE.*

[No. 30.]

May it please your Highness

The King hath commanded me to signify to yo highness that Coll Will. Leg hath faithfully delived to his Ma" all he had in command from yo' to wch his May hath taken only some little excepsons, wch the Collonell hath only from the King to acquaint yo' highnes wth all by word to whom his Ma" desires yo' to give cred this being all I have in command at p'sent to deliver to yo' hignes from his Maty I humbly rest

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[No. 31.]

To his Excellencie S Thomas Firefax generall

of the Parliamen Forces.

The humble peticon of the Inhibants of the Prsh of Westbury in the County of Wilts

Sheweth

That yo' poore peticones are willing to undergoe theire pporconable tax of the generall burthen of this Kingdom according to yo' Excellencies declaracons and the ordinances of parliament, pvided that wee may be tyed to no other inconvenience than yo' Excellencies declaracons & the ordinances of parliam' doe divulge And that yo' peticoners may be at a certainty to know the worst of of sufferings wch we shall cheerefully undergoe for the furtherance of the publique goode in relacion to the parliam1 and armie And whereas the parliam' and yo Excellencie in goodnesse have afforded us very goode orders and declarons the benefits whereof wee want videlt that if the country shall pay the 60000' p mensem they shall be freed from free quarters Whereof six monethes demandes we have already payde and the other three monethes now questioned wee are ready to pay and yet are constantly burthened wth free quartering and that wch hath next relacon to free quarter as may appeare by o' accompte of the charge wch the sayde towne and pish have beene at wch amounts to above the pporcon of o rate for the 60000' p mensem already the continuance of wch yr poore peticoners are not able to undergoe And whereas the rumo' of the souldiers paying for theire quarters may appeare to the world to be somthing yet wee find it in effect nothing or wthin one degree of free quarter as shall appeare to yo' Excellencie and the parliam' videlt that a Troope of

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