Northemptonshire. May 7.
MOst dear and constant worthy friends, sufferers for our, and the Nations
good. What shall we render unto you for that which you have done for us,
and this Nation. Thousands of our lives and estates are not valuable to it:
And seeing we cannot recompence you, we desire to praise the the God that hath kept
up your integrity, and that hath made you able to stand in the gap against such
oppositions, as you have met withall; and finding to our comforts, that you have
not dealt with us, as those spies did in the thirteenth of Numbers, when they were
sent to espy the Land, and that the people were willing to go, and when they
saw some of the fruits of the Land, they disheartened the people, in the three last
Verses; but on the contrary; it hath pleased God to send you to espy what is the
Priviledges and Liberties of the English Nation; and we heartily thank you.
You have told us, and informed us, what fruit we shall reap by having such Rights
and Liberties cleared to us; and you have met with many of the sons of Anack,
and by the help of God hath incountered with them, and we hope, have overcome
them.
But now dear and faithful Friends, we hear they are about [unr] meet you half
way in some thing you desire, but we pray you, let not a hoof be rest behinde; and
we desire, that all true Englishmen will be careful upon this meeting, to take heed
of the dagger in their lost hand, for fear they smile us under the fifthrib, and if
possibly, to prevent it.
So praying to the Lord still to uphold you and so to carry you through, that at
the length, you may eat the fruit of your own labor, and may enjoy part of that
possession which you have so dearly payed for, not for your selves, but for the whole
Nation. So we rest your Friends unknown who had rather die, then to live, and
be under the power of such as seek to enslave us.
May 8
The Commissioners of the great Seal ordered to issue a Writ to the Lord
Mayor of London, to cause the Act concerning prizes of Ships, and Goods, to be
proclaimed at the Exchange, and elsewhere in the City.
The Queen of Bobemia, her future sallery and arrears from this Nation, discharged,
and thy not the Prince Electors to?
The Committee of the Revenues ordered to bring in a list of all pensions and
offices to persons, and in the mean time their payment to be suspended.
An Act for taking the Accounts of the Common wealth, read and committed.
The amendment to the Act for desraying the great level in the Counties of
Northomplan Norfolk, Suffolk, London, Cambridg Huntington and the Isle of Ely.
The level of the Earl of Bedford, and other Lords and Gentlemen considered,
and likewise the offers of those Countreys, and all referred to a Committee.
Upon the Petition of those Citizens, to whom the moneys seized on by the
Army at Weavers Hall was due, the House ordered the said moneys to be advanced
by the City for the payment of the said persons.
The Book of Rates ordered to be transmitted into the Exchequer.