A LETTER Sent to the Earl of WARWICK, From the Captain, Officers, and Company of His Majesty's Ship called the LYON, Declaring their Resolution for the service OF THE PARLIAMENT, WITH The Earl of WARWICK'S Answer thereunto.  

7 Julii, 1648.  
ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, That this Letter from Sir George Ayscue, and the Lord Admiral's Answer to it, be forthwith Printed.  
H: Elsing, Cler. Parl. D. Com.   
London, Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Honourable House of Commons, July 8. 1648.   

To the Right Honourable, Robert Earl of Warwick, Lord High Admiral of England:  
May it please your Honour,  
ACcording to your Lordship's command, I am returned from Milford with the Lion to Portsmouth, where I shall wait your farther pleasure; and understanding there the present condition of Affairs, and how that many Seamen having been seduced by the subtlety of those that have been always professed Enemies to the Parliament and Kingdom's happiness: Which being rightly understood by the Officers of this Ship, as also by the common men, they have thereupon unanimously joined with me, Humbly to beg leave of your Lordship, to make this our profession to your Honour, as being our hearty and zealous Resolutions, That as it is a great grief to us, that any of our calling, who hath been famous formerly for their faithful Service to the Parliament, should now be cheated into disobedience, of which we hear that divers of them do already repent: And we doubt not of your Lordship's favour to such poor misled people: So we shall desire your Lordship, That we who do abhor the thoughts of any unfaithfulness to the Service of the Parliament, and who are ready to the last drop of our blood, according to the Covenant which we have taken, to be obedient and serviceable to their commands, In giving all possible assistance towards the reducing of all Revolters and Refractory persons to their due obedience: So we hope that the scandal and foulness of this Revolt in others, shall not be on us a stain in the Parliament and your Lordship's opinions: which if your Lordship please to testify to us your assurance of, you will give us a great encouragement, and lay a perpetual obligement on us, whose Names are hereunder written, and who assuredly are the Parliaments and your Lordship's most humble faithful Servants,  


George Ayscue Capt.  
Tho: Penrose Lieut.  
Michael Iles Minister  
john Rochester.  
Io: Lathbury Gunner  
john Pack Carpent.  
James Johnson Boats.  
Wil: Hinney Purser.  
Jo: Haselock chirurg.  
George Evered Master's mate.  
Richard-Inon Master's mate.  
George Fen corporal.  
Vincen Cocket Cook.     

To my very loving Friends, The Captain, and Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship, The Lyon.  
After my hearty commendations,  
I Received your Letter, and thereby very great satisfaction, touching the integrity of your affections to the Parliaments Service, having made so eminent a Declaration thereof, as amounts to the honour of your persons and professions: I am very glad that you have conceived so true an apprehension of the nature and rise of the revolt of those Ships that have deserted their duty, it proceeding from false and lying suggestions, and tending as to the dishonour of the Nation, so to the just shame and ruin of those who persist in such a disobedience: That you do abhor the act, I am fully satisfied from your own expressions; which as they hold forth much respect to the Parliaments commands, so you may be confident, they will be returned in all ways of encouragement; and believe it, you'll find by experience, that the faithful adherence to to the Parliament, will appear the greatest advantage to the happy settlement of the differences betwixt the King and the Kingdom, and that those who withdraw from their service, are the greatest obstructers of that Peace which they pretend too: For my own particular, you shall never want that respect from me, which may approve me a faithful servant to my trust, and to yourselves;  
London, 30 June, 1648. A very loving friend, WARWICK.   
FINIS.