A letter sent to the Right Honourable William Lenthal Esq., speaker of the Parliament of the commonwealth of England concerning the securing of Windsor Castle for the Parliament and a declaration of the officers and souldiers of the Regiment of Foot belonging to the Tower of London, December 24, 1659 : read in Parliament, December the 28, 1659. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A48147 of text R11452 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L1624). 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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A48147) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 60884) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 766:9) A letter sent to the Right Honourable William Lenthal Esq., speaker of the Parliament of the commonwealth of England concerning the securing of Windsor Castle for the Parliament and a declaration of the officers and souldiers of the Regiment of Foot belonging to the Tower of London, December 24, 1659 : read in Parliament, December the 28, 1659. Butler, John, 17th cent. Miller, John, 17th cent. Lenthall, William, 1591-1662. 7 p. Printed by John Streater, London : 1659. Letter signed (p. 5) by Jo. Butler and 4 others; the declaration signed (p. 7) by Jo. Miller and 16 others. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660. A48147 R11452 (Wing L1624). civilwar no A letter sent to the Right Honourable, William Lenthal Esq; speaker of the Parliament of the commonwealth of England; concerning the securin [no entry] 1659 910 3 0 0 0 0 0 33 C The rate of 33 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2004-01 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2004-02 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2004-03 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2004-03 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-04 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A LETTER SENT To the Right Honourable , WILLIAM LENTHAL Esq Speaker of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England ; Concerning the Securing of Windsor Castle for the Parliament And a Declaration of the Officers and Souldiers of the Regiment of Foot belonging to the Tower of London , December 24. 1659. Read in Parliament , December the 28. 1659. LONDON , Printed by Iohn Streater , 1659. A Letter , sent to the Right Honourable William Lenthal , Esq , Speaker of the Parliament of the Common-Wealth of England ; Concerning the securing of Windsor Castle for the Parliament . Read in Parliament , Decemb. 28. Right Honourable , YOur Commissioners for the Command of the Army , having from Portsmouth Ordered us to march unto Major Breman with such Forces as we could raise , for the restoring the Parliament whilest we were at Henley , and had sent to find out Major Breman that we might adde to his number what we could ; upon Intelligence that the Forces with him were marched towards London , we resolved to march nearer London , in order to a conjunction with him as soon as we had particular Notice of the place of his Rendezvouz nearer London : and in our march being informed from undoubted hands , that some of Colonel Hewson's Regiment of Foot were designed for Windsor-Castle , to keep the same against the Parliament ; and being also assured , That Colonel Whichcott the present Governour , had not onely joyned with those that put the late Treacherous Force upon your Honour , but also had endeavoured to raise Forces in this County against the Parliament , and offered Commissions to that purpose unto severall Persons : And upon further Intelligence , that the Cavaleers had some Design upon the place , in order to a Conjunction with some of their Adherents in London , and knowing their Guards to be very Weak and insufficient for a place of so great Consequence , We thought it our Duty , in order to the Parliaments Service , to secure this Castle with the Forces now with Us , and did Summon the same accordingly : and as we were upon our March thither within two miles of this Place , we received further Orders from the said Commissioners , to march with our Forces unto this Place , and to remain here untill further Orders : and looking upon this as an Act of Divine Providence concurring with our Intentions , We immediately sent two of our number to perswade Colonel Whichcott to admit our Horse into this Castle ; who submitted to our demand ; and thereupon we thought necessary to draw together the Souldiers under his Com● and whilest our Horse were in the Castle , and to inform t●●m of the vilenesse of their defection from the Parliament , and assisting those that had betrayed the Trust reposed in them , and that we hoped they had done it through Ignorance , being mis-led by their Officers ; and therefore we presumed to assure all the Souldiers of Indempnity : if they should return to their due Obedience to Your Honours , and their faithfulnesse to the Cause engaged in , and should sign the Engagement of those Horse under Major Breman ( which we read unto them ) ; and thereupon they unanimously declared , That their Hands and Hearts should be unto that Engagement . Yet we have thought it our Duty to place Guards in the Castle with some of the Horse with us , and to give an Account of what we have done , to your Honour , and to expect the Parliaments Pleasure therein ; We have no more but our most humble Congratulation of the Parliaments happy Return to the Exercise of their Trust , and with our hearty Prayers to God to direct your Great Councells , We remain , Right Honourable , Your most humble faithful and obedient Servants , Jo. Butler . Rob. Huntington , Joh. Wildman . John Brown . John Phelps . Windsor-Castle , 27. Decemb. 1659. A Declaration of the Officers and Souldiers of the Regiment of Foot belonging to the Tower of London , Decemb. the 24. 1659. WEE being fully convinced , that it is our Duties to return to our obedience to the Parliament , from whom We have received our Commissions , after a late unhappy defection from Them ; Doe hereby Declare our Resolution ( through Gods Grace ) to be true and faithfull to Them as our Superiours ; and to stand by Them , with the hazard of our Lives and Fortunes , against all opposition which may be made against Them ; and shall not suffer our Selves to be drawn hereafter from our Duty and obedience to Them . As an Evidence of our reall Intentions , We have this Day delivered up the Possession of the Tower , to the Honourable Speaker of Parliament , and other Worthy Persons on the behalf of the Parliament . Io. Miller Nich. Cordy Iohn Iennings Henry Sharp Will . Foster Abraham Spooner Robert Acres Will . Risse William Starlin ▪ Phil. Brown Isaack Dreyme Henry Beale Nath. London Will. Haukins Iohn Ryves Peter Sene Simon Knight . Read in Parliament , Decemb. 28. 1659. FINIS .