234 APPENDIX. (2.) LETTER FROM COLONEL HARLEY TO MAJOR WINTHROP. Colonel HARLEY to Major WINTHROP. Sir -I received by this bearer a letter from you dated this day, and directed to myself and my brother Major Harley (who bath been gone out of this country now four days), in which you express that you have received some commands, grounded as you believe upon information of our disaffection to the present government, from the commissioners of the militia, to send for us to your quarters at Leominster, where for the present you are, and let us know that the commissioners expect our appearance before them at Hereford, on Tuesday next. Sir-After giving you thanks for your civility, I must take liberty some- thing to wonder, that the commissioners for the militia should in such manner summon myself and brother, who are members of Parliament, who have from the beginning of the late unhappy troubles constantly and faithfully served the Parliament, and 'I am sure cannot be justly taxed with the least disaffection to it. If our coming into this country, our birth- place, and where God hath disposed the means of our livelyhood, be ill interpreted, it is without reason; for, I assure you, no design brought me hither, but the dispatch of some necessary occasions, concerning my father's estate, which being once dispatched, I shall, God willing, return to London. This being all my business in these parts, I hope that liberty which is not denied to those who have been in armes against the Parlia- ment, shall not be grudged to us who have lost our blood and suffered so much for the Parliament. But if this, which is nothing but the truth, do not, satisfy you, I will, if please God, visit you on Monday next at Leominster. (3.) COLONEL HARLEY'S PROMISE TO BE IN LONDON. Endorsed-" Promise when I was a prisoner at Hereford, August 10, 1650."
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