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Name: Correspondence during the siege of Brampton Castle in 1643
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Authors of the letters published works such as Correspondence during the siege of Brampton Castle in 1643. These writings evoke Ladyship, Lady Harley and John Scudamore.

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Authors of the letters, Correspondence during the siege of Brampton Castle in 1643

“ Brilliana, Lady Harley to Sir William Vavasour, July 31 1643, July 31. — I now perceive you received the letter I sent you yesterday. I am in the same mind I was then, that if you will give me liberty to send to Sir William Pelham that so I may procure a pass, I shall take it for a favour, but that I hope did not discover any intentions in me that I would admit of a guard being put upon me. Sir, far be it from me, I should ever believe our gracious King — to whom I am a most loyal subject — should take it for a disobedience in me if I should not admit of soldiers in my house. ”

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Authors of the letters, Correspondence during the siege of Brampton Castle in 1643

“ Sir, my words shall always be so ruled by the line of truth, that without further protestations you may believe this truth, that none in my house tolerated by me did ever commit murder or theft, things which I abhor as much as any can. Since you have taken up what is fallen, I believe there is so much virtue in you that you will be glad to know the truth, though it may seem too long a story. I guess they ground the report of theft and murder on this accident. ”

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Authors of the letters, Correspondence during the siege of Brampton Castle in 1643

“ Truly, madam, I don't understand those declarations you are pleased to mention of our gracious King are conditional, and comprehend only those who acknowledge his power and obey his commands, which if it please your Ladyship to do, by delivering up those rebels in your house, which you now endeavour to protect — and truly madam I must deal plainly with you — much in vain, for we will never suffer the King's power to be affronted by so small a part of the county, the dispute will end, for if you please not to withstand the right which God and the laws of the land have put into the King's hands. ”

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Authors of the letters, Correspondence during the siege of Brampton Castle in 1643

“ Sir, I have heard such a fair report of you that it possessed me with a belief that so noble a soldier as yourself would rather have put forth your power to have rescued me from injuries, than to have poured them upon me, and I think it exceedingly strange that so ingenious a mind should take up such false reports, as it seems you have of me. ”

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Authors of the letters, Correspondence during the siege of Brampton Castle in 1643

“ The good intelligence the King hath with the Scots and his Majesty's strength at sea under Sir John Pennington, since the reduction of Bristol; these and many other particulars I should have acquainted your Ladyship with, had I been admitted to your presence. The suburbs against the city in arms; the women against the House of Commons in multitudes; the train bands of London against the women who cry out for their slain and imprisoned husbands; divers women killed by the soldiers in this tumult, yet unappeased ”

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Authors of the letters, Correspondence during the siege of Brampton Castle in 1643

“ How your Ladyship can term yourself one of the King's loyal subjects, when either by your command or connivance at least, your rebels in your house have committed so many thefts, murders, and taken so many prisoners for no other cause than for being good subjects. ”

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Authors of the letters, Correspondence during the siege of Brampton Castle in 1643

“ Sir John Scudamore to Brilliana, Lady Harley, August 24 1643, August 24. Brampton. — I know of nothing that hath been denied your Ladyship which is in the power of any here to grant, and for my own part I am heartily sorry that your Ladyship is not pleased to make use of such service as I am able to do you, which I am confident might be of far greater advantage than the passing of a servant to the King. My Lords of Clare, Holland, Bedford and many others of the Houses of Lords and Commons are come from the Parliament to Wallingford, and other places in the King's obedience. ”

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Authors of the letters, Correspondence during the siege of Brampton Castle in 1643

“ I am your servant, and to one so noble and virtuous am desirous to keep off all insolences that the liberty of the soldiers, provoked to it by your obstinacies, may throw you upon; yet if you remain still wilful, what you may suffer is brought upon you by yourself, I having by this timely notice discharged those respects due to your sex and honour. ”

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Authors of the letters, Correspondence during the siege of Brampton Castle in 1643

“ I wish all could say as I can that I never took anything from anybody that I had not good right to, and they as willing to give it as I to receive, neither did I ever favour anyone in my house that would do the least injury. ”

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Authors of the letters, Correspondence during the siege of Brampton Castle in 1643

“ Your Ladyship in your petition did set forth all those grievances which you had, which being known to the king, your Ladyship said that notwithstanding that if the king would command you out of your house, you humbly desired his Majesty's protection and pass to carry you and your family safe to some other place where you might find subsistence, etc. ”

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Authors of the letters, Correspondence during the siege of Brampton Castle in 1643

“ His Majesty's forces are successful everywhere, so that your Ladyship cannot hope for any relief, and upon these terms if your Ladyship should be obstinate we cannot promise and expect those conditions for you that are fit for your quality, especially my Lady Aubigney having been so ill-treated by the Parliament, neither any quarter for those that are with you, who further must look for all extremity upon their families and substance forthwith. ”

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Authors of the letters, Correspondence during the siege of Brampton Castle in 1643

“ As for Sir John Winter's fortifying his house, it was for his Majesty's service and with my consent; I could wish your Ladyship had the same intentions or loyalty to his Majesty. For your being a prisoner in your own house, it was never my resolution. Copy. ”

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