A letter sent to the right honourable Edward Earle of Manchester, Speaker pro tempore in the House of Peers. Wherein are truly stated, and reported some differences of a high nature, betweene the high and mighty Prince Charles, Duke of Lorrayne, &c. And the two honourable Houses of Parliament. Fortescue, Anthony. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A40016 of text R213746 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing F1611D). 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. 16 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 6 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A40016 Wing F1611D ESTC R213746 99826048 99826048 30440 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. A40016) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 30440) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1759:10) A letter sent to the right honourable Edward Earle of Manchester, Speaker pro tempore in the House of Peers. Wherein are truly stated, and reported some differences of a high nature, betweene the high and mighty Prince Charles, Duke of Lorrayne, &c. And the two honourable Houses of Parliament. Fortescue, Anthony. [2], 9, [1] p. s.n.], [London : Printed in the yeare, 1648. Signed at end: Anthony Fortescue, resident for this Highness of Lorrane. Place of publication from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library. eng Manchester, Edward Montagu, -- Earl of, 1602-1671 -- Early works to 1800. Charles -- II, -- King of England, 1630-1685 -- Early works to 1800. England and Wales. -- Parliament. -- House of Peers -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War -- 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A40016 R213746 (Wing F1611D). civilwar no A letter sent to the right honourable Edward Earle of Manchester, Speaker pro tempore in the House of Peers. Wherein are truly stated, and r Fortescue, Anthony 1648 2683 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 B The rate of 4 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2006-12 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-12 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-01 Robyn Anspach Sampled and proofread 2007-01 Robyn Anspach Text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A LETTER , Sent to the Right Honourable EDWARD Earle of MANCHESTER , Speaker pro tempore in the House of PEERS . Wherein are truly Stated , and reported some Differences of a High Nature , betweene the High and Mighty Prince CHARLES , Duke of Lorrayne , &c. And the two Honourable Houses of Parliament . compass rose Printed in the Yeare , 1648. A LETTER , Sent to the Right Honourable EDWARD Earle of Manchester , Speaker pro tempore in the house of PEERES . My Lord , VNderstanding his Highnesse Letters , have now at last bin read in both the Honourable Houses , & that an Order hath issued , to have them sent to the Committee of the Admiralty ; there to have the businesse stated , and reported to the Honourable Houses , touching his Highnesse Ships , and the taking of them ; together with the proceedings as towards mee his Highnesse Resident : I thought it my part , standing in the place I doe , to set up these Lights before the Honourable Houses , lest parte inanditâ alterâ their judgments might be still misled in a matter of so great concernment . For how can his Highnesse my Master expect an even and faire report to be made from that Committee , which already prejudicating his Highnesse cause , hath imposed silence , not only upon ▪ themselves in answering to his gracious Letters , but upon me also his publike Minister , or any sent by me to agitate his Highnesse affaires at that Table , insisting still upon that Crambe of my being onely a pretended Agent ? which imputation cannot appeare to the Honourable Houses , in any other shape then of Calumny , ; his Highnesse having so often iterated by his Letters to both the Honourable Houses , as also to divers particular Members of either House ( your Lordship having beene one of them ) my being his Resident , still honouring me in all those Letters with the stile of his Resident ; which quality for these dozen yeares he hath fixed upon me ; which also hath beene made evident by his severall renewed Commissions , and I will crowne this verity with a testimony unquestionable , His Majesties Royall Letters sent me from Oxford , confirming under his Hand and Seale , the priviledges of my place , equall to those he gave to the greatest Embassadors : So that in all sense this ridiculous badge of Pretended , might have beene cryed downe long ere this , having no ground at all to subsist upon , but the opinion of such who file their owne dreames upon Record . Now my Lord , for his Highnesse setting out men of Warre in a maritime way , against his Enemy the French , who in prudence can fault it ? he being a Soveraigne Prince , and in confederacy with the Catholike King , who gives him the freedome of all his Ports , as by our last Prize taken and brought into Ostena is made manifest ; So as that fond cavill must be laid downe , in questioning his Highness right to arme at Sea . The particulars of what some of his men under his Highnesse Commission have done in this kind , I will here set downe , and how they have beene treated ; though with a more impartiall penne then I presume the Honourable Houses will receive from the Report of the Committee of the Admiralty , which already hath so much slighted his Highnesse , and passed sohard a censure upon those his Affaires . His Highnesse sending for Ireland a Ship called the St. Carlo , of 300. Tunne , to transport those men for Flanders , which he had levied there , it was taken by a Parliament man of Warre in the River of Limrick , and though by Order from his Highnesse , I made my complaints , yet could I not obtaine of the Committee of the Admiralty any redresse ; so that his Highnesse lost that Ship , and by that occasion his men also , which being transported afterwards in a weaker Vessell , were taken at Sea by the Hollanders , presuming they were to serve the King of Spayne , for the States of Holland are not in Hostility with my Master . Captaine Antony a Flemming , being sent by his Highnesse the Duke of Lorraine into Ireland , to conduct some Souldiers of Colonell Plunkets Regigiment , which he had levied in Ireland for the Dukes Service , ( his Highnesse seeing the Spaniard and the French levie forces in Ireland , thought it as lawfull for him so to doe as for them ) Captaine Antony upon his Highnesse charge bought a Vessell in Waterford , in which he imbarked some 30 or 40 men for Flanders , but at Sea was taken by a Parliament Ship and brought Prisoner into Portsmouth , no regard being had to his Highnesse Commission which he shewed ; There , were his men kept Prisoners for many weekes on Ship-board , not being permitted to Land ; the Captaine in the meane time got leave to come up to me to make his complaints , in which I negotiated as much as possible I could , but was still put off , in the meane time his Highnesse men , still on Ship-board , indured extreamity of misery , being forced somtimes for eight dayes together to drink nothing but Sea water ; In fine , I pressing that they might be used like Christians , one in office in the Committee of the Admiralty answered me , that he esteemed them no better then doggs : At the last the Captaine was forced to goe into Flanders , there to buy another Ship to fetch his men away , his Highnesse Vessell being heere seased upon . These were all young Gentlemen of Ireland , none of them above 20 years of age , who had never borne Arms in that Kingdome , which I often intimated , but nothing would be heard . The poore Youths being most of them Nobly borne , and tenderly bred , being arrived in Flanders , immediatly dyed upon these cruelties used against them . His Highnesse having intention to fight his Enemy the French , in all the Elements he could , resolves to set up forces also by Sea , and having the freedome of all the King of Spaines ports , was willing to entertaine in that service men of our Nation , as well as Dutch , Scots and Danes ; whereupon Captaine George Grace , under Commission from his Highnesse , setting to Sea , tooke upon the Coast of France , a Hanburger richly laden with French goods , as wee made to appeare in the Admiralty Court , both by the Cocket , and Bills of Lading , as by the confession of the Hanburger and his fellow Mariners under their hands ; neverthelesse the Prize being taken from his Highnesse Captaine , by a Ship of the Parliament , commanded by Captaine Filpot , with much violence used to our Captaine and his Company ) was brought into Portsmouth , and here in the Admiralty Court , adjudged no Price by Doctor Samms , then judge of the Admiralty ; and with such passion was the businesse carried , and in such contempt of his Highnesse Commission , that Captaine Grace was arrested in the very Court whilst the cause was hearing , and all the Cockets , Bils of Lading , and the testimonies of the Hanburgers taken from him . Thus was his Highnesse defeated of his Prize , and of his owne Ship . Another Vessell was bought by his Highnesse , in which Captaine Grace was againe set out , and pursuing a French-man in open Sea , the French-man fled to a Parliament Ship which protected him , whereupon Captaine Grace was forced to desist , and sayled towards Poole , ( where lying at Anchor to take in ballast , ) by Order from the Governour of Poole , he was seased upon by a Ship of the Parliament , commanded by Captaine Cartridge who brought him into Poole , where the Governour kept the Ship for divers moneths , and imprisoned the Captaine and his men without any ground at all , but upon cavill against his Commission ; and upon sinister informations caused the Captaine to be sent up to London Prisoner , by Order from the Committee of the Admiralty . By his meanes that service was wholly lost , to his Highesse great dammage and dishonor , though afterwards with much and much solicitation the Ship was restored , but with excessive charge to his Highnesse , both in the clearing of her , and making her fit againe for Service . His Highnesse still not doubting but to receive full satisfation for these injuries offered him , sets out another Vessell , under Command of Captaine Faulkner , who upon the French Coast tooke a Frenchman and brought him into Dartmouth , where the Governor seased upon him , and his Prize ; but at last was content to let Captaine Paulkner depart with his owne Vessell , but detained for his owne use and benefit the French Vessell ( which was an excellent Swimmer ) and kept all the goods in her ; and although by Order from his Highnesse , I made my addresses to the Committee of the Admiralty for satisfaction , yet none could I ever obtaine . Neither wanted ( upon all these severall exigents ) his Highnesse Letters to both the Honourable Houses , demanding restitution in a faire way , but so farre was that off , as to this houre his Highnesse never received any . Neverthelesse his Highnesse not intending in these his intentions for Sea , to exclude our Nation , sets out Captaine Faulkner againe , who taking a French-man , not within command of any Fort or Castle of this Kingdome , as is pretended ( which appeared by a shot made from Mount-Batten which reached not Captaine Faulkner by a mile and upward ) brought confidently his Prize into the Isle of Wight , where he was presently seased upon by Colonell Hammond ; the Captaine and all his men cast into Prison ; his Prize taken from him , and sold before his face ( which shewed no intention of restoring it to the French , had they had any right to it ) and an inventory sent up to the Committee of the Admiralty of the goods , to a very small valuation , though the Prize was worth 600li . the ship being laden with Wines , Rozen , Pitch , Pruens , and the like French Commodities of value ; All the sollicitation possible I could make in his Highnesse behalfe , and withall delivering his Highnesse Letters to both the Honourable Houses , ( filled with much sweetnesse and affection towards this Nation ) to obtaine satisfaction , none ever yet was thought upon , nor that there was any such Princeas the Duke of Lorrayne , whose Letters were worthy of answer . In witnesse still of this high misprission , foure of his seamen are yet in extreame misery , detayned in the Common-Goale of Winchester , where they are ready to perish ; and both the French Ship , and the Dukes also , are imbarged , and seased upon before the Isle of Wight . At the same time Captaine Anderson having received his Highnesse Commission , went downe to Portsmouth , where having gotten to him some few Sea-men , and bought a small Vessell to transport themselves to Ostend , there to be put upon a greater Ship ; no sooner was it knowne , that they were to serve under the Duke my Masters Commission ( having yet never attempted any thing ) were seased upon and detained in prison for many weeks , to the overthrow of that his Highnesse service , and the undoing of the poore men : after my many sollicitations , and many repulses , they were at last freed from their most unjust imprisonment , but with no consideration had of their losses . These several passages of disgrace , having beene put upon the Duke , my Master , with so stiffe a silence in both the Honourable Houses to his Highnesse so many courteous Letters , have caused ( I presume ) this last Letter of his to both the Houses , to make some expression of his resentment , in demanding of the Parliament of England , whether they desire to have him their Friend or their Enemy . And although I , my Lord , am servant to this great Prince , who at this houre commands an Army of his owne of 12000. as gallant men as the Sunne shines upon , most of them old Souldiers , of understanding , as well able to command , as of wills ready to obey , having borne for many yeares the waight and scoarching of the day , who with often graplings have made soft unto their hands the hardnesse of warre , glorying more in their honourable Scarrs then in their Scarlets , and are at their height of joy , when they heare the Trumpets call to a Battell ; yet am I still an English man , and so zealous a Patriot , as most willingly would I Sacrifice my life in the continuation of that ancient League and Amity , which hath ever beene betweene this Kingdome and the House of Lorrayne , that Mother of Princes , that Nurcery of Kings , whose Royall steame hath extended its flourishing Branches over most of the Thrones of Europe , whose now Regnant Heyre , the Duke my Master , looking upon the rich Ornaments of his Soveraignty , values the greatest Juell in it , his so neere allyance to our Soveraign Lord , Charles , King of England , France , Scotland , and Ireland , whose present condition he behols with eyes full of affections , and cleered from all Mists of mistake . I conclude my Lord , with my owne disinterest ; it is not ( I am confident ) the pleasure of my Master to call me off from this Station , by way of complyance with the Honourable Houses , till that abusive attribute of pretended , be taken off from me his reall Minister : for what judgement can thinke such an imputation should be laid upon me , from any doubt in matter of fact , as whether his Highnesse ownes me for his Resident , or not ? but rather the doubt seemes to be raysed in matter of his Highnesse Power , whether he can constitute any Publique Minister . And to question this , wil but expresse more & more the weaknesse of those who doubt it , and make his Highnesse more & more reflect upon his own Powers . But did the streame run cleere ( as formerly ) which now begins to be troubled betweene his Highnesse my Master , and the Honourable Houses , I should receive those endeavours most joyfully , which should effectually obtaine my recalling , for the cause of my stay here being now rightly stated , the difference appeares betweene his Highnesse the Duke of Lorraine , and the Parliament of England , and not betweene the Parliament of England , and Your Lordships most humble Servant , ANTHONY FORTESCUE , Resident for his Highnesse of Lorraine . April 20. 1648.