A LETTER FROM The marquis of Worcester TO The Committee of Parliament sitting in the County of MONMOUTH, Concerning His Sons landing with Irish Forces: AND The Committees Answer thereunto.  
ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, That this Letter and Answer be forthwith Printed and Published.  
H: Elsing, Cler. Parl. D. Com.  
London, Printed for Edw. Husband, Printer to the Honourable House of Commons, june 9, 1646.   

To the Governor of Chepstow, and the rest of the Committee for the Parliament for the County of Monmouth.  
HAving notice that you are not ignorant of my Sons being landed with the Irish Forces, I am so much a father and tenderer of the whole countries' Ruin and Destruction, that if their coming hither be upon the return of yours occasioned to be hastened, you, and not I, must be the occasion of the same, who the whole Country will have just cause to curse. I am not able to subsist without my Rents and Living, which you have taken all from me; if you please to give me undelayed Reparations therein, I shall be glad to have occasion to live a quiet Neighbour amongst you: if otherwise, it shall be evident to the whole world, that you force me to what mine own nature hath no liking of, and yet no other than the Word of God and the Law of Nature doth warrant and allow. Thus, expecting your Answer by this Messenger, I rest  
As you give occasion, H: Worcester. Raglan, May 29. 1646.   

The Committees Answer.  
We received your Lordship's Letter by a Drum: your Sons landing with Irish, and your other Sons News of the Kings being in the head of a great Army, are pretty jesuitical inventions to uphold your Soldier's spirits, but cannot discourage us in prosecution of our just cause: We see not how the bringing over such bloody Irish Rebels, agreeth with what your Lordship would be esteemed, a Father of your Country; we believe so unnatural a one can hardly be paralleled, and in charity to your Lordship shall forbear imprecations of curses on the Author of our miseries, lest we thereby add a greater weight to your score; you know whom to blame for want of Rent; your fathership of the countries' Ruin, hath been the cause of depriving both yourself and us from enjoying our own; and had your Lordship's will and good nature accepted what was about six months ago respectfully offered, this poor County had not now so groaned under the Burden of War: For your Lordship's undelayed Reparation, we must try your patience by a little further consideration; your warrant from the Word of God or Law of Nature for your actions we find not, unless Raglan be our Antipodes, where the Rule is opposition to Britain's true Bible and Nature; we shall leave your Lordship to your own good Inclinations, and in requital of News, and for your Lordship's better information, have sent you His Majesties and the Scots Declarations, not desiring further to trouble you, but hope we may have occasion to subscribe ourselves  
Your Lordship's Friends and Servants, 

Roger Williams,  
Thomas hugh's,  
Henry Herbert,  
William Herbert,  
Rice Williams,  
Chr: Katchmey,  
William Blethyn,  
Edward Morgan.    
FINIS.