A copy of a letter vvhich Master Speaker is ordered by the Commons house of Parliament, to send to the members of that house, that are now residing in their severall counties, to further the advancement of the adventure for Ireland. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A80498 of text R210460 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[5]). 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'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A80498 Wing C6166 Thomason 669.f.5[5] ESTC R210460 99869258 99869258 160718 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A80498) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160718) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f5[5]) A copy of a letter vvhich Master Speaker is ordered by the Commons house of Parliament, to send to the members of that house, that are now residing in their severall counties, to further the advancement of the adventure for Ireland. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1 sheet ([1] p.) by T.P. for T.B., Printed at London : [1642] Date of publication from Wing. Includes: A copie of a letter vvhich master speaker is ordered by the Commons House of Parliament, to send to the severall Sheriffs of this kingdome. Acquaints him that great sums of money have been underwritten to advance the settlement of the Irish rebellion ... He is to enlist the help of the best men in his county, and to persuade them to contribute if they would be counted friends to the house. -- Steele. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Finance -- Early works to 1800. Ireland -- History -- 1625-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A80498 R210460 (Thomason 669.f.5[5]). civilwar no A copy of a letter vvhich master speaker is ordered by the Commons house of Parliament, to send to the members of that house, that are now r England and Wales. Parliament. 1642 721 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. 2007-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A COPY OF A LETTER VVHICH Master Speaker is ordered by the Commons house of Parliament , to send to the Members of that House , that are now Residing in their severall Counties , to further the Advancement of the Adventure for IRELAND . SIR , BY the appointment of the House of Commons , I am to let you know , that they have sent unto the Sheriffe of your County , both the Acts concerning the speedy reducing the Rebels in Ireland , and likewise the Names of such Members of this House , as have subscribed here in London to this Adventure , and the summes they have Adventur'd ; requiring him together with the Justices of Peace of the same County , to communicate the same with the best advantage in the severall divisions , and that no encouragement might be wanting to a worke so Pious in it selfe , so necessary to the Peace of both Kingdomes and to the establishing and assuring the true Protestant Religion therein , and so beneficiall to such well-affected Persons as shall adventure . They have commanded me to require you to repaire to the Sheriffe , and to assist him the best wayes you can , to encourage and advance this worke , and not doubting of your Publike affections , they assure themselves , that you apprehend the necessitie and consequence of the worke so neerely , that you will with such alacritie , as becomes a businesse of this Nature ; Propound your owne Example to the Gentry , and other well-affected persons of your County , and subscribe to the Adventure in such a Proportion , as may best stand with your owne Occasions ; not having more to say , but that the House will expect an account from you herein , I rest . I. Aprill , 1642. A COPIE OF A LETTER VVHICH Master Speaker is ordered by the Commons House of Parliament , to send to the severall Sheriffs of this Kingdome . SIR , BY order of the House of Commons , I am directed to giue you notice that divers well affected persons to the publque good have under-written great summes of monie for the speedy reducing of the Irish Rebels to their obedience to his Majestie , and the Crowne of England , and for the advancing of a businesse of so generall concernment , and tending not only to the common good of both Kingdomes , & the setling of the true Protestant Religion there , but to the particular advantage of the Adventurers ; The House doth hold fit to leave no way omitted , that may advance and further so good a worke . And for that purpose have commanded me herewith to send you two Articles of Parliament made for the stating of the Rebels Lands upoĢ„ the Adventurers according to the proportion of their respective adventures . And likewise the names of such Members of the House who have already subscribed to this Adventure , and the Summes they have adventured , which they have done to the intent you should communicate the same for the better encouragement of others for following their pious examples , and therefore they have commanded me to recommend it unto your best care , that you together with the Justices of Peace ( to whom you are to give notice of this Letter ) may in your seuerall Devisions communicate the same to men of the best qualitie of your Countie , and use your best diligence to perswade them to contribute to so necessary a worke , which ( with Gods assistance ) is not only a most ready and likely way to reduce the Rebels , and secure the peace and safetie of this Kingdome , but to retribute an ample benefit to the Adventurers . And you are likewise to signifie unto them that who shall subscribe and interest themselves in this Adventure , they are conceived by the House of Commons to be persons heartily affected to the publique Weale . Sir , your carefull endavours in this service will bee very acceptable to the House , and so I rest . Printed at London by T. P. for T. B.