King Charles Trial Justified, Letter
To the Religious and Honorable Sir Hardreſt Waller Knight, Commander in Chief of all the Weſtern Forces and Gariſons.
Honorable and Honoured Sir,
BEſides the task which your truſt hath put upon me amongſt the Forces in field, a Gariſon within this County, and beſider the buſineſſe of my own particular command, I have alſo all along … a ſhare in the Civill adminiſtrations; the laſt ſingly conſidered (I confeſſe) had been enough to be laid upon ſuch a one as I am, who pleads my excuſe with you, if there appeare not that exactneſſe … buſineſſe which is deſirable; I am full of zeal to have all things amongſt … under a Contentfull as well as a ſecure management; and therefore I was inclinable (being moved unto …) to give the Charge … the laſt Seſſions of the peace, where, as I had an opportunity, ſo … it my duty to ſatisfie the Country concerning the late and preſent proceedings of the Parliament, which have been miſerably abuſed by … ſpecious objections raiſed to trouble and interrupt the ſettlement of the Common-wealth, the … materiall of them, have been long ſince anſwered, and therefore what I did in that Province, is little other than a Repetition of old Parliament language, and that phraſe of …. I have induſtriouſly kept my ſelf unto in all my Replies to theſe Objections: And herewith I preſent the whole to your view; the … I confeſſe hath ſome ſmall difference from what was ſpoken, the Liberty. I uſed in expreſſion, carrying me into were variety then would beſeeme the paper; and in one or two paſſages, the … gathering up what eſcaped the preſent expreſſion. I aſſure you, elſe, it is one and the ſomething in word and writing. I ſee not any …upon it as worthy the ſending to you. That you may be perſwaded the ſooner to accept of my good will, and over-look my faults in your own buſineſſe leſt in my truſt, when this Paper ſhall minde you of ther imployments which muſt be ſometimes attended, is the … deſign driven as by, Sir,
Your affectionate Servant, ROB. BENNET. Cornwall April 23, 1649.
End of the text · Robert Bennet, King Charles Trial Justified (1649)