A LETTER FROM The Marquesse of Worcester TO The Committee of Parliament sitting in the County of MONMOUTH, Concerning His Sons landing with Irish Forces: AND The Committees Answer thereunto.

ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, That this Letter and Answer be forthwith Printed and Published.

H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.

London, Printed for Edw. Husband, Printer to the Honorable House of Commons, Iune 9, 1646.

To the Governour of Chepstow, and the rest of the Committee for the Parliament for the County of Monmouth.

HAving notice that you are not ignorant of my Sons being landed with the Irish For­ces, I am so much a father and tenderer of the whole Countreys Ruine and Destruction, that if their coming hither be upon the return of yours occasioned to be hastened, you, and not I, must be the occasion of the same, who the whole Countrey will have just cause to curse. I am not able to subsist without my Rents and Living, which you have [Page 4] taken all from me; if you please to give me undelayed Reparations therein, I shall be glad to have occasion to live a quiet Neighbor amongst you: if other­wise, it shall be evident to the whole world, that you force me to what mine own nature hath no liking of, and yet no other then the Word of God and the Law of Nature doth warrant and al­low. Thus, expecting your Answer by this Messenger, I rest

As you give occasion, H: Worcester.
Raglan, May 29. 1646.

The Committees Answer.

VVEe received your Lordships Letter by a Drum: your Sons landing with Irish, and your other Sons News of the Kings being in the head of a great Army, are pretty Ie­suitical inventions to uphold your Souldiers spirits, but cannot discou­rage us in prosecution of our just cause: VVe see not how the bring­ing over such bloody Irish Rebels, agreeth with vvhat your Lordship would be esteemed, a Father of your Country; we believe so unnatural a one can hardly be paralleld, and in charity to your Lordship shall for­bear [Page 6] imprecations of curses on the Author of our miseries, least wee thereby adde a greater weight to your score; you know whom to blame for want of Rent; your fathership of the Countreys Ruine, hath been the cause of depriving both your self and us from enjoying our own; and had your Lordships will and good nature accepted what was about six moneths ago respectfully offered, this poor County had not now so groaned un­der the Burthen of VVar: For your Lordships undelayed Reparation, we must try your patience by a little fur­ther consideration; your vvarrant from the VVord of God or Law of Nature for your actions we finde not, unlesse Raglan bee our Antipodes, [Page 7] where the Rule is opposition to Bri­tains true Bible and Nature; we shall leave your Lordship to your own good Inclinations, and in requital of News, and for your Lordships better information, have sent you His Ma­jesties and the Scots Declarations, not desiring further to trouble you, but hope we may have occasion to sub­scribe our selves

Your Lordships Friends and Servants,
  • Roger Williams,
  • Thomas Hughs,
  • Henry Herbert,
  • William Herbert,
  • Rice Williams,
  • Chr: Katchmey,
  • William Blethyn,
  • Edward Morgan.
FINIS.

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