A letter from Horsum in Sussex relating to the present estate of that county to his friend in London. R. T. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A95550 of text R210901 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.12[60]). 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 A95550 Wing T47 Thomason 669.f.12[60] ESTC R210901 99869653 99869653 162853 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. A95550) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162853) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f12[60]) A letter from Horsum in Sussex relating to the present estate of that county to his friend in London. R. T. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1648] Signed at end: R.T. Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Sussex (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A95550 R210901 (Thomason 669.f.12[60]). civilwar no A letter from Horsum in Sussex, relating the present estate of that county to his friend in London. R. T 1648 897 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 C The rate of 11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-06 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A Letter from Horsum in Sussex , Relating the present Estate of that County to his friend in London . SIR , I Received Yours of the 27 of June , and thanke you for your Intelligence : You tell mee that upon the request of Colonell Morley , it was granted him of the House of Commons to raise our County of Sussex . Such are the suddaine commotions of the Times , that it is done already ; so that that noble Colonell may now spare his pains , unlesse hee make extreme haste into this divided County . The Countrey is generally risen about Horsum , and protest they will fight for the King and the Countrey . At Pulborough they are in the same condition , for the People there are much exasperated to heare some of their Neighbours are imprisoned by a Warrant from Colonell Stapley and others , for daring to Petition the high and honourable Court of Parliament . With us at Horsum here are now 500 lusty men in Armes , the occasion was this . Upon Friday June the sixteenth , the Magazine which was laid up at this Towne was commanded away by the Committee to Arundell , but our Countrey-men are generally so ill affected , that they rose , with one Consent , and two or three hundred appeared in an instant , leaving their Mattocks and Plowes to rescue the Swords and Musquets : To the Market-house they come immediatly , and cause George David ( who thanks God hee is well mended in these times ) and the rest of the pious zelots , who had loaded the Carts with countrey-Armes , to carry them back into the Market-loft : Since that , these stout Rusticks have endured watching every night , and by turnes have attended the Armes some nights sixtie at a time . On Tuesday night last at a full Assembly in the Market-place it was voted unseasonable , unreasonable ( as Master Chatfell said of the Petition ) to watch them any longer , and Resolved upon the Question , That the day following , being Wednesday , at the sound of Drum and ringing of the Bells , those men both in Towne and Countrey who are resolved to fight for the King and the Liberties of the County , against the encroachments of one Freeman , and his Followers , should come in and take what Armes they pleased . About eleven of the clock yesterday , there was a great appearance , two or three hundred at least , every one chose his Musquet and other Armes ▪ and then marched out to trayne in the Common . On this day , June 29 , there came in as many more Countrey-men , expecting Armes likewise ; so that now there are five or six hundred well Armed , and many of them very good Horse . This wee doubt will bee but the beginning of sorrow to our distressed County , for all the well-affected begin to leave us , and then what can wee expect but mischiefe ? As soone as the Drum beate Captaine Shepheard felt himselfe not well his Belly-ak't , as if hee feared the Egyptians would make a Drum of it , and hee thought best to goe to Lewis for some Phisick . Lievetenant Hunniwood that knocking agitator left his forge and went to London for some forces Mistris Chatfield advised her husband to withdraw for feare they should doe him more mischiefe then with songs . The Souldiers say had they known of their going they would have held their Styrrops . Their words and demands are very high ; as yet they hurt noe man , but threaten to dis-Arme three or foure which is the totall number of us that are well-affected . But that was allwaies the subtletie of our desperate Malignants to pretend they would doe no body any hurt ; that they may gaine the more love , but wee have learnt they are Egiptians and therefore may and must bee plundered : But good Sir how shall wee doe it ? Our Minister is gone and dares not stand to tell us ; the well-affected are all fled : Master Dod and Penfold are trussing up their packets for Arundell again , and those who are accounted the godly ; so that wee feare the wicked will inherit the earth again . To conclude , our feares are great , the County is risen both heere and at Pulborough and they pretend the bottome of the businesse to bee , because their Petition was not answered : Bold varlets ; had they beene answered as their neighbours the Surry men were , perhaps they would have beene as quiet as they . But the better wee use them the worse they appeare ; their number is so great and likely to increase so much that unlesse a thousand bee sent downe presently they are like to bee as high heere as in Essex . For your comming down I know not what to advise you , if you come your person will bee in danger , if you come not , your Armes . Farewell . Your loving friend , R. T.