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county who have instructions and power to treat and conclude with your 

 Lordship in that particular. 



3. There shall be a committee of some of the gentry of the county 

 appointed and enabled by the rest to agree, and conclude of such further 

 propositions as may happen to be necessary for this service, not here men- 

 tioned, and to march along with your Lordship's army, whose counsel and 

 assistance we desire your Lordship may use, the names of which committee 

 we send your Lordship herewithal, who are appointed to attend you at 

 Newcastle, and to march along with your army when you enter into the 

 county. 



4. That as soon as we have notice of your Lordship's march, we will use 

 all possible means to bring to your army all such provisions as this country 

 can afford. 



5. We are tender of the safety of her Majesty's person, that we shall not 

 only consent to your Lordship's performance of that service but will also 

 contribute our utmost endeavours to assist your Lordship therein. 



6. Lastly, we have appointed our committee to be, Sir Edward Osborne, 

 Baronet, Sir Marmaduke Langdale, Knight, Francis Tindall and Richard 

 Aldburgh, Esquires, and given them instructions and power to treat with 

 your Lordship, and to conclude in such particulars as may further conduce 

 to this service, or in these propositions admit a doubtful interpretation. 



H. Cumberland, 

 (and the rest signing before with the addition 

 of Walter Hawkesworth). 



My Lords and Gentlemen, — I am to give you many thanks for your 

 favourable letter by Mr. Aldburgh, and the signing so far my desired arti- 

 cles, which had no other end than the better to enable me to serve you. 

 And I beseech you to give me leave as I intend faithfully to serve you, so 

 to deal clearly and freely with you, which I hold a duty ; the truth is, I 

 am very sorry you pleased to leave out the article for the officers' pay, or 

 coldly referred it to your committee, being the principal thing in all the 

 articles, for you know the soldier is encouraged with nothing but money, 

 or hopes of it, and truly last night when I was going to bed, there came 

 colonels and lieutenant-colonels, and said they heard you had left it out, 

 and for their parts that they must think that if you were so cautious not 

 to grant it in paper before we came in, they doubted very much of it in 

 money when they were there, and that the workman was worthy of his 

 hire, and such like discontented words ; so the truth is, rather than not 

 come cheerfully to serve you, I will not come at all, for I see beforehand 

 I shall either disband with a mutiny, or fall of plundering without distinc- 

 tion, either of which would be destructive to me : and besides, I hold 

 myself free, since my articles are not signed, for I never understood any 

 of those articles to be referred to the committee, but such things as we 

 could not remember, and the present occasion offered. Could I pay them 

 or his Majesty, you should not have such had an article, but since that 

 cannot be, you will pardon me in telling you how I am capable to serve 

 you, and how not, and so I rest in a huge disposition to be really your most 

 faithful servant, W. N, 



Newcastle, October 30, 1642 



