A letter from His Excellency Robert Earl of Essex to the Honourable House of Commons concerning the sending of a commission forthwith to Sir William Waller : wherein His Excellency declareth himself to be confirmed in the justnesse of the cause, so long as he hath one drop of blood in his veins. Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A38656 of text R9070 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E3318). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). 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A38656) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 54976) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 242:E81, no 28) A letter from His Excellency Robert Earl of Essex to the Honourable House of Commons concerning the sending of a commission forthwith to Sir William Waller : wherein His Excellency declareth himself to be confirmed in the justnesse of the cause, so long as he hath one drop of blood in his veins. Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646. 7 p. Printed for Laurence Blaiklock, [London] : January 13, 1644. Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library. eng Waller, William, -- Sir, 1597?-1668. A38656 R9070 (Wing E3318). civilwar no A letter from His Excellency, Robert Earl of Essex, to the Honorable House of Commons: concerning the sending of a commission forthwith to S Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of 1644 623 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2004-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2004-09 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2004-10 Andrew Kuster Sampled and proofread 2004-10 Andrew Kuster Text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-01 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A LETTER From His Excellency , Robert Earl of Essex , To The Honorable House of Commons : CONCERNING The sending of a Commission forthwith To Sir William Waller : Wherein His Excellency declareth himself to be confirmed in the justnesse of the Cause , so long as he hath one drop of Blood in his Veins . Published by Authority . Printed for Laurence Blaiklock . January 13. 1644. A LETTER From His Excellency ROBERT Earl of ESSEX , To the Honorable House of Commons : SIR , I Received an Order the last night , to desire me forthwith to send a Commission to Sir William Waller , to command the Forces of Kent , Surrey , Sussex and Hampshire , according to an Ordinance of both Houses ; I am so ready for the advancement of the present service he is now ingaged in , and my will to satisfie the desire of the Honorable House of Commons , as that I have sent down a Commission accordingly : But finding expressions in that Order that might intimate a neglect in me , and being confident of mine own Integrity to serve both Houses , and to preserve the good opinion of the house of Commons , I shall acquaint you that I sent a Commission by Mr. Nicolls , which he kept some dayes , and then wrote earnestly to mee for another more ample ; I wondring why hee should keep it so long , and then send for another , deferred my Resolution , untill I came up ; But this Order intervening , prevented mee of asking the reason : It is true , the Commission was not according as I usually grant them ( but it gave him full Authority for the present service . ) For the Reasons of my Limitations in the former Commission , I forbear to give them ; But whensoever the Houses shall command me , I shall be ready to make it appear , I did no more then I ought to do , having received so great a Trust from the Parliament , in the discharge of my duty , and then to submit to their further pleasures . Sir , I shall desire you to beleeve , it shal be my greatest care , so to carry my self , as that I may give a reall accompt of my Actions , whensoever it shall please the Parliament to require it . The charge I took , was not by my seeking ( I knowing my own imperfections ) but not in the least way of Fidelity and constancy , and it was a great incouragement to me , the noble and free offers of both Houses , To live and dye with me ; which hath put a great confidence in me , that I shall never want your just Protection and Assistance ; And that you will take care of that Army that hath shewed so much Faithfulnesse and Resolution in your services , and that God hath been pleased of his infinite goodnesse so to protect ; And for my own part , I am every day so confirmed in the justnesse of the Cause , that let the strength I have be never so weak , I shall never desert the Cause , as long as I have any Blood in my Veins , untill this Kingdom may be made happy by a blessed Peace ( which is all honest mens Prayers ) or to have an end by the Sword , which is the intention of Your assured Friend , ESSEX . Essex-house , this 2. of Jan. 1643. FINIS .