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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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<P>His Maje&s;ties DECLARATION To all His loving SUBJECTS; CONCERNING The Remon&s;trance of the ARMY. Delivered to the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners on <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> la&s;t; And brought by the Po&s;t on <HI>Thur&s;day Novemb.</HI> 23. to be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<P>Together with His Maje&s;ties Letter to the Lord Generall <HI>Fairfax;</HI> And His Prote&s;tation and Propo&s;als to all the Officers and Souldiers in the <HI>Army,</HI> Who acts contrary to the will of His Maje&s;ty, or the de&s;ire of his two Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
<P>Likewi&s;e, the Declaration of Col. <HI>Hamond,</HI> concerning the King. And his Letter to the Hou&s;e of Peers.</P>
<P><HI>Read and debated in Parliament,</HI> Novemb. 23. 1648.</P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Richard Bry&s;ons,</HI> 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>His Maje&s;ties DECLARATION Concerning the ARMY, AND His Re&s;olution touching their late Remon&s;trance, to proceed by the way of Charge again&s;t His Royall per&s;on.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_HIs Maje&s;ty having received a Copy of the chief Heads and Repre&s;entation of the Remon&s;trance of the Army, upon rea|ding the &s;ame, declared a great di&s;like thereof, and uttered many &s;ad and &s;o|lentary
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expre&s;&s;ions, in reference to the &s;ame; who af|ter reading thereof, de&s;ired a conference with the Bi|&s;hop of <HI>London,</HI> the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Salisbury,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Clergy attending his Royall per&s;on, which being a&s;&s;ented to, his Maje&s;ty remon&s;trated and declared the grievances of his oppre&s;&s;ed and afflicted heart, which followeth in the&s;e words.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Reverend,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>VVHereas divine providence hath beene my &s;ole protector, and his Almighty power the chiefe Anchor whereon my hopes and confidence did and &s;hall depend; I &s;hall therefore in this di&s;mall and di&s;tracted Age remon&s;trate unto you, before my de|parture hence, the &s;ad and heavy contemplations of my opre&s;&s;ed and grieved hart, occa&s;ioned t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e by voice and &s;entence of the Army again&s;t Our Royall per&s;on and Family, and their re&s;olution to proceed again&s;t us, by the way of Charge: However, I &s;hall &s;ay with the ble&s;&s;ed P&s;almi&s;t, and the patient Sufferer, <HI>Thy will bee done, O Lord, and not mine,</HI> and &s;hall indeavour to &s;ub|mit my will unto the will of the Lord, that &s;o I may be able to beare and undergoe the cro&s;&s;e and type of Chri&s;t in all adver&s;ity, tribulation, and affliction what|&s;oever.</P>
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<P>His Maje&s;ty having thus graciou&s;ly and compa&s;&s;io|nately declared his pre&s;ent apprehen&s;ions of the feares and jealou&s;ies ari&s;ing within his Royall Brea&s;t, ari&s;ing from the late Councels and con&s;ultations of the Ar|my; the Bi&s;hop of <HI>London,</HI> and the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Salisbury</HI>
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made each of them a &s;peech, tending to the &s;upporting of his Maje&s;ties troubled &s;pirits in the&s;e dangerous and perilous times of adver&s;ity.</P>
<P>The Duke of <HI>Richmond,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Nobility at Court, have declared their &s;en&s;e and re&s;olution to his Maje&s;ty, and have moved the parliaments Com|mi&s;&s;ioners to write to both Hou&s;es, concerning the Armies Demon&s;tration for the executing of Ju&s;tice on the per&s;on of the King.</P>
<P>The&s;e things, upon &s;erious debate and con&s;ultation, hath cau&s;ed the Royall party to propo&s;e &s;everall par|ticulars to his Maje&s;ty for expediting of the Treaty, &amp; putting a &s;mall end to his Conce&s;&s;ions; but (as yet) they have taken little effect: for his Maje&s;ty declares a great unwillingne&s;&s;e to pa&s;&s;e any thing again&s;t the Marquis of <HI>Ormond,</HI> untill the Treaty be wholly en|ded: but hath promi&s;ed upon his Royall word, that he will not depart this I&s;land for 20 dayes to come, be|ginning the 19. in&s;tant, and therefore de&s;ireth liberty and freedom; which the better to effect, his Maje&s;ty hath &s;ent a Letter to the Lord Gen. <HI>Fairfax,</HI> de&s;iring his admi&s;&s;ion and Grant for performance of the &s;ame. As for his con&s;enting to the aboli&s;hing of Epi&s;copacy, and the &s;ale of Bi&s;hops Lands, though &s;o much condu|cing in the opinion of all his Re&s;toration: yet its gene|rally conceiv'd he will not yeild therein: and the ra|ther, becau&s;e whats like to happen by way of diffe|rence.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Dated from His Majesties Court at Newport,
<DATE><HI>Novemb.</HI> 22. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Propo&s;als of the <HI>parliament</HI> touching the Demands of the Army.</HEAD>
<P>THe Honourable Court of <HI>Parliament</HI> having received a <HI>Remon&s;trance,</HI> or <HI>Declaration,</HI> from the <HI>Army,</HI> containing divers Propo&s;als excee|ding high and of great con&s;equence; and upon debate thereof, divers of the di&s;-a&s;&s;enting Members declared a great di&s;like thereof, and his Maje&s;ties moderate friends de&s;ired it might be laid a&s;ide for &s;ome certain dayes, others moved that it might be ejected; and in the conclu&s;ion, after they had &s;ufficiently declared their full &s;en&s;e touching the De&s;ires of the Army, they re&s;olved to lay it a&s;ide till Munday next.</P>
<P>After reading the &s;aid <HI>Remonstrance,</HI> Mr. <HI>Pryn</HI> made a very learned Speech, concerning the Demands of the Army, his expre&s;&s;ions tending much to the di&s;honour of them, who argued very &s;tifly again&s;t the unlaw|fulne&s;&s;e of their Demands.</P>
<P>Divers other Members &s;econded him, and de&s;ired to in&s;i&s;t no further thereon, but to wave their Propo&s;als for a time.</P>
<P>Yet notwith&s;tanding the &s;aid Arguments and De|&s;ires, the well-affected party declared a great unwil|lingne&s;&s;e to di&s;pen&s;e with any time, but to in&s;i&s;t there|on immediatly, and to endeavour to give all &s;peedy &amp; po&s;&s;ible &s;atisfaction to them in all things by them de&s;i|red.</P>
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<HEAD>The Declaration of the Citizens of London, concerning the Demands of the Army.</HEAD>
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<P>WHereas we have lately received a Paper intituled the <HI>Remonstrance</HI> or <HI>Declaration</HI> of the Army, touch|ing the King, We do unanimou&s;ly declare, That Wee
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&s;hall willingly and freely comply with them therein, for the executing exemplary Ju&s;tice upon all capitall Offenders, and endeavour the re&s;titution of the Free|born people of <HI>England</HI> to their common Rights, Li|berties, and Freedoms, prote&s;ting to live and dye with them therein, for obtaining, effecting, and making fu|ture provi&s;ion for the &s;ame.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed by many thou&s;ands of the well-affected party in and about the City of London.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>The&s;e mutuall expre&s;&s;ions are &s;aid to proceed from tho&s;e Citizens, who are known and di&s;tingui&s;hed by the Badge of Independency; But it is &s;aid, that the Presbyterian party, and others, are re&s;olved to thwart them in their Engagement, and to declare again&s;t &s;ome particular Demands of the Army, whom they con|ceive to be too high and unrea&s;onable.</P>
<P>But concur with them in their Propo&s;ition for the executing of Ju&s;tice upon the vi&s;ible enemies of <HI>peace</HI> provided a favourable con&s;truction may be had on his Maje&s;ties former actions and proceedings, and that they may bee weighed in the Ballance of Equity and Compa&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P><HI>Novemb.</HI> 22. Letters from the I&s;le of <HI>Wight</HI> &s;ay, <HI>That his Maje&s;ty begins to grow exceeding di&s;contented and melancholy, and feareth much the pre&s;ent Overtures of the Army, touching their &s;eizing on his Royall per&s;on, which hath occa&s;ioned many &s;undry contemplative expre&s;|&s;ions from his Majesty, who &s;aith, that if they execute their wills on Him, by &s;pilling of his Royall bloud, He fea|reth divers more will follow. The&s;e di&s;mall Repre&s;enta|tions cau&s;eth much &s;adne&s;&s;e and mourning throughout
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&s;everall corners of the Nation. But it is thought that &s;ome new addre&s;ses will be made from the &s;everall Counties, to the Parliament and Army, in behalf of their dread Sove|raign the King.</HI></P>
<P>Other Letters from the I&s;le of Wight &s;ay, that his Maje&s;ty hath &s;olicited Col. <HI>Hamond</HI> (Governor ther|of) that none may have the power and protection of his per&s;on but him&s;elf, and tho&s;e who were intru&s;ted formerly by his two Hou&s;es; but the &s;aid Colonell hath declared to the contrary, being weary of &s;o great a charge, and hath &s;ent a Letter to the Hou&s;e of Peers (which was this day read) humbly de&s;iring their Lord&s;hips to take off from him the care of the Kings per&s;on, and to make &s;uch provi&s;ion for him; as they in their wi&s;doms &s;hall think fit, to the end that he may be di&s;charged of the &s;aid tru&s;t or imployment.</P>
<P>And the &s;aid Letters further make mention, that his <HI>Maie&s;ty</HI> hath againe debated the heads of the Armies Remon&s;trance, and doth declare a very ill &s;en&s;e there|of, prote&s;ting that he had formerly a good opinion of them, and little thought that they would have ever a|cted &s;o contrary to his expectation, and their former promi&s;es; and therefore de&s;ireth the omnipotent God of Heaven (to whom vengeance doth belong) to re|pay them according to their own de&s;erts, and to act by them&punc; as they intend to deal by Him.</P>
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