ties ties tie this onlie to carefull to desyre.. doe what you servant of y D: of Richmonds, 1 receaved ye same night here at Oatlands yo' Mate apostile of ye 2a, and have sent yo' Maties l're to ye BPP of London together with ye Bills signed for ye new BPP. I shall carefully p'forme all yo' Mai com'aunds by yo' last, & render yo Mate a speedy account of ye same. My Lo: Keepersent me this evening this let' to be conveyed to yo' Matie with all dilligence, weh is ye principall cause of this dispatch. I beseech yo' Ma to be pleased to 1 returne burne or returne to me all my lett", for I perceave show you by ye strict enquiry after the writer of Mr. Webbs that I am let', that there is a vigilant & prying eye after all that is written hence, & I would not willingly, that y lyons should be made iudges of my eares. hope yo' Mate will set forth for these partes too morrow senight at farthest. I can say noe more to move yo' Male to hasten hither then hath bene advertised. I pray God to send yo' Mat a speedy and safe returne. I am confident yor Made was never more welcome to ye better sorte of Londoners than you will now be, & I beleeve y whole kingdome will reioyce to heare of yo' Maties happy returne, wch wilbe y' best newes that hath this yeare come to y eares of ties Yo' sacred Mater Wee Most humble & most obedient servaunt, OATLANDS, 7° Nobris 1641. EDEN. 13. The Queen to Sir Edward Nicholas. Maistre Nicholas havinge reseaued a letter from London to nitgh (night): that there is many of the Lords that ar gone of in the contree, and that the ar a fraid the shall want some for the bussinesse of the bishops: having heard that Carnaruen' is in is owne Robert Dormer, Earl of Carnarvon; alain in 1648 at the battle of Newbury. It is stated in Bromley's Letters, that his Countess was niece to Sir Richard Browne; but how, does not appear, for she was daughter of the Earl of Pem hous some twentie milles of I belive very fit you should writt to him from the King to have him come to London for that time this bearer will cary your letter to him and having nothing to say more I rest, Your assured friend HENRIETTE MARIE R. "For Maistre Nicholas." R. 8° Nobris 1641. The Queene to me. Sir Edward Nicholas to the King.1 May it please yo' most excellent Matie, Yesterday I sent yo' Matie a l'tr from my Lo. Keeper by packet addressed to Mr. Th'rer. This day the Com'ons House considered of ye heads of y instrucc❜ons to be sent to ye Englishe Com'ittees, & after a long debate, they voted ye same in ye House, wch was thereupon divided, & there were (as I heare) 110. votes against, & 151. for those instrucc'ons, this in the amongst we there is one head to ye effect, (but a Lords House little quallified,) of what I wrote in my postscript by if it be pos- Mr. Greene. Those instrucc'ons (I am tould) are to be transmitted to y® Lords. You must see to cross sible. By the grace will prove false Prophets. It is here reported by those who have ye speediest of God those & certeynest advertisem" from Edinburg, that yo Made will not be here till Christmas: what reason they have for it I know not. The warr" for ye new BP are passing as fast as may be: I this day put y Signet to those for Yorke & Lincolne.' I have signifyed yo' Maties pleasure to my Lo: Keeper to issue a Proclamac'on that all Parliam3 men attend in P’liam', but his LoPP saith a Proclamac'on must issue in y ordinary way, and be first signed by yo' Mathe, wherefore I have by his Lo" advise this day broke. When this nobleman was expiring in the field, he was asked if he had any suit to the King? He replied, that "he would not die with a suit in his mouth, to any King, but the King of Heaven!" This Letter, and the following ones up to the 10th of November, serve to fill up omissions in the Parliamentary History of the period. These appointments did not take place. my servants best trust, in meanes pos stoped. sent a warrt accordingly to yo' Matles Attorney, to p'pare such a Proclamac'on for yo' Mae signature, wch as soone as I can get from him shalbe speedily sent to yo' Male. The Ea. of Southton hath bene in Northton this senight, but wilbe here Wensday next, when I shall not fayle to acquaint his Lop wh what yo' Mate hath comaunded me. I heare there You must was this afternoone brought into y Com'ons House, needs speake and there read, a Declarac'on of ye state of y' affaires with such of of this kingdome, weh relates all ye misgovernment that you may and vnpleasing things that have bene donne by ill my name. Counsells (as they call it) since 3° of yo' Maties raigne that by all to this p'sent, and it reflects soe much to ye piudice sible this of yo' Maties government, as if yo' Matie come not may bee instantly away, I trouble to thinke what wilbe y issue of it: for surely if there had bene in this nothing but an intenc'on to have iustefyed the proceedings of this P'liam', they would not have begun soe high as 3°. The further considerac'on of this Declarac❜on is to be had too morrow in y° House of Com'ons. If yo' Ma" shall not be pleased to keepe to yo'self what I have written, and to burne this let', I shall most I may be lost. Yo' Mat cannot so much p'iudice carefully. yo'self, (if you come away & leave all things there vnfinished,) as you may now by delaying yo' Maties returne one day I pray God there be not a designe to deteyne you there against the wishes & advise of all yo' best servaunts here: God send yo' Mae a safe & speedy returne, so prayeth alwayes : Yo' sacred Males Most humble & most obedient servaunt, EDEN. 13. WESTMINSTER, 8. Nobrie 1641. "For yo' sacred Matie " "Yours apostyled." 8° Nobris 1641. Apost. 13. 9èrie. Rec. 18. 9brie. Seat by Sir H. Hungate.2 'Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. He died in 1667, without issue. Sir Philip Hungate, of Saxton, in Yorkshire, was the firs: Baronet, so created by Charles the First. No name of The Queen to Sir Edward Nicholas. Maister Nicholas, I am vere sory that my lettre did not come time enouf to go. I haue reseaued yours, and I haue writt to the King to hasten is coming. I send you the letter and if little Will Murray is well enouf Í vould haue him go backe againe: to scotland without comin yer for a would haue him go to marow morning: tel him from me: but if he wher not well then you must prouide some bodie that will be sure for my letter must not be lost: and I vould not trusted to and ordinaire poste: I am so ill prouided whitt personnes that I dare truste that at this instant I haue no living creature that I dare send pray doe whatt you can to helpe me if little Vill Murray can not go to send this letter, and so I rest, "For your selfe." Your assured friend, HENRIETTE MARIE R. R. 10 Nobre 1641. The Q: that I should send an expr: Mer w: her ler. Sir Edward Nicholas to the King. May it please yo' most excellent Mathe, My last was by S Hen: Hungate, weh I hope will come safe to yo' Royall hands; & I now send this expresse by y Queene's com'aund to convey her Made l't', for her Mate saith she hath alreddy sent all those she can trust, with expresses to yo' Mate; Wee hope that some of them will shortly bring y much desired newes of yo" Mates returne. ties I have spoken with ye B of Lincolne about yo' Ma pardon of y 18 B" for y' Premunire, & his Lo saith he wisheth that y' pardon to them may be "Sir H." appears in the Baronetage; therefore the person alluded to, afterwards mentioned as Sir Henry, must have been one of the numerous Knights Bachelors of that reign. general for all things else aswell as for y Pre- With all my munire, whereof his LoP will consider better, & bart. then I shall give yo' Male a further accompt of that partic'lar. My Lo. Keeper tells me that there are many precedents, that ye Peers in P'liam't have chosen their owne Speaker, & that vntill ye Lo. Burleighes later tyme, there is scarce any Record, that y King hath by l't" pattents appointed a Speaker for that House. Yo' Matie (I beleeve) hath heard that both Houses of Parliam' made an Ordinance Satterday last, that ye Lo. Lieutenant of Irland shall forthwh rayse Volontiers here in Engl. to be transported for suppressing y Rebellion in Irland: yesterday his Lo acquainting some Parliam' men, that he doubted whether he might rayse men whout warr' vnder y Great Seale, his LOP doubt was made knowne in ye Com'ons House, and thereupon it was in that House declared, that an Ordinance of both Houses was a sufficyent warr for his Lo levying of Volontiers by beating of the drum &c. & an entry of such their Declarac'on was accordingly made in the register of that House. I heare that it is written from Irland, that y Rebells there giue forth, that they expect yo' Mate every day att Don Luce,' we is a calumny raysed by them much to yo' Mates dishonor & disadvantage, only to iustify their Rebellion, & were fitt to be vindicated. The Declarac'on remo'strating ye effects of yo' Mates ill Councells, was yesterday by y Com❜ons House taken againe into considerac'on, & a 4" parte thereof gonne thorrow wall & voted there, & y rest of it wilbe passed there, as fast as may be, & then it is to be transmitted to ye Lodds. There was yester- com'and day a considerac'on in y Upper House concerning the Keeper in my name excluding y Papists Lodes, & after a long debate that that be business was let fall, only there was an Order made warneall my that y lawes against Recusants should forthw be oppose it in put in execuc'on. Mr. Attorney (according_yo' House. Ma pleasure signified to him) hath drawne a Pro Dunluce Castle, near the Giant's Causeway, in the county of Antrim, the seat of the Earls of Antrim; now in ruins. 'Sir Edward Herbert, Knt. seruants to the Lords |