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<P>THE HUMBLE
PROPOSALS
And DESIRES of
His Excellency the Lord <HI>Fairfax,</HI>
And of the
General Councel
Of OFFICERS,
In order to a &s;peedy pro&s;ecution
OF
JUSTICE,
AND
The Settlement formerly propounded by them.</P>
<P>BY the Appointment of His Excellency the Lord <HI>Fairfax,</HI>
Lord General, and His General Councel of Officers,
<HI>Decemb.</HI> 6. 1648.</P>
<P>Signed,
JOHN RUSHVVORTH Secr'</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by JOHN FIELD for <HI>John Partridge</HI>
Decemb. 7. 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Honorable,
The Commons of England a&s;&s;embled in Parliament:
THE HUMBLE
PROPOSALS
And De&s;ires of His Excellency the Lord <HI>Fairfax,</HI> and of the general
Councel of Officers, in order to a &s;peedy pro&s;ecution of Ju&s;tice,
and the Settlement formerly propounded by them.</HEAD>
<P>HAving, with others, for a long while &s;adly
beheld and ta&s;ted, in your proceedings,
the mi&s;erable fruits of Councels divided
and corrupted by Faction and per&s;onal Intere&s;t,
even to the neglect, betraying and ca&s;ting away
all thats publique and good, to the lengthning
out of endle&s;s troubles, burthen and damage to
the Kingdom, to the continuance and widening
of that i&s;&s;ue of blood, whereby the&s;e Nations have
been &s;o much polluted and con&s;umed, and to the
perpetual hazard of Bondage and De&s;truction to
them at la&s;t: And both we and many others ha|ving
propounded foundations of Ju&s;tice and Set|tlement,
which are of evident Advantage and Se|curity
to the publique Intere&s;t, and clear from
any thing thats per&s;onal or particular; But find|ing
that through th'afore&s;aid Corruption and
Divi&s;ions in your Councels, the &s;ame can obtain
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no place or con&s;ideration at all: And fore&s;eeing
evidently that the condition of the Kingdom will
not bear delay of Settlement one way or other,
We conceive our &s;elves and others that are &s;en&s;ible
hereof, to be nece&s;sitated unto &s;ome extraordinary
vigorous and &s;peedy way, whereby tho&s;e roots of
Faction, Divi&s;ion, and private Intere&s;ts may be
weeded out from among&s;t you, and &s;o your
Councels cleared and united, to the timely and ef|fectual
pro&s;ecution of Ju&s;tice, with a &s;ound Set|tlement
and publique good to the Kingdom, and
to the &s;peedy introducing of &s;uch a &s;ucceeding Au|thority,
wherein future Differences may be pre|vented,
and a general Acquie&s;cence obtained.</P>
<P>Therefore &s;eeing no better or other way, We
propound and demand as followeth:</P>
<P>1. Whereas <HI>Denzil Hollis</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> <HI>Lionel Copley</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>
Major Gen: <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI> and others of your Members,
(who&s;e Names you well know) were in the year
1647. impeached by your &s;elves for Trea&s;on, or
for high Crimes and Mi&s;demeanors, in relation
to the Trea&s;onable Engagement in the City of
<HI>London,</HI> The violence then done upon the Parlia|ment,
and The levying of a new War, and other
evils in maintenance and pro&s;ecution thereof; and
upon clear proofs again&s;t them, were by your
cen&s;ure expelled the Hou&s;e, and di&s;abled from fur|ther
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tru&s;t therein, and upon new Writs i&s;&s;ued out
new Members were cho&s;en and return'd in &s;ome
of their rooms; and yet by the prevalence of their
Faction (<HI>When in the last Summers War divers faithful
Members were ingaged abroad upon nece&s;&s;ary publique &s;er|vice,
and others through Malignant Tumults and Distur|bances
could not &s;afely attend the Hou&s;e</HI>) the &s;ame per|&s;ons
were afterwards re-admitted to &s;it in the
Hou&s;e, and Vote as formerly, without any tryal
or &s;atisfaction in the things whereof they were
accu&s;ed: We demand, That all tho&s;e Members &s;o
Impeached, may be forthwith &s;ecured, to be
brought to Ju&s;tice or Trial for their &s;aid Crimes;
and that &s;uch others of their Faction, by who&s;e
Votes, Councels and Confederacy they were &s;o
re-admitted, may be &s;ecluded from the Hou&s;e, and
not &s;it as Judges for tho&s;e their confederates.</P>
<P>2. Whereas by the Confederacy of Major Gen:
<HI>Brown</HI> now Sheriff of <HI>London,</HI> with the &s;aid Im|peached
Members, the Scots were invited and
drawn in to invade this Kingdom the la&s;t Sum|mer,
in &s;omuch as when upon the actual Inva&s;ion
the Hou&s;e proceeded to declare them Enemies,
and tho&s;e that adhered to them Traytors; yet the
&s;aid Confederates and other treacherous Members
(to the number of Ninety and odde, as upon the
divi&s;ion of the Hou&s;e appeared) did by their
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Councel and Votes endeavor to hinder the
Hou&s;e from declaring again&s;t their confederate
Invaders; We de&s;ire, That the &s;aid Major Gen:
<HI>Brown</HI> may be &s;ecured and brought to judgement,
for that and other his treacherous Confederacies
or Corre&s;pondencies with the publique and de|clared
Enemies of the Kingdom (which we here|by
charge him with, and &s;hall be ready to make
proof of) And that the re&s;t of the Ninety and
odde per&s;ons di&s;&s;enting in the &s;aid Vote, may be
excluded, and not tru&s;ted further in your Coun|cels.</P>
<P>3. Whereas in a continued Series of your pro|ceedings
for many moneths together, we have
&s;een the prevalence of the &s;ame treacherous, cor|rupt
and divided Councels, through Factions and
private Intere&s;ts, oppo&s;ing or ob&s;tructing Ju&s;tice
in all kindes, diverting your Councels from any
thing of publique good, hindring any proceed|ings
to any &s;uch Settlement, as would con&s;i&s;t
with Security to the publique Intere&s;t, or put a
real end to the Troubles, Burthens or Hazards of
the Kingdom, and precipitating into treacherous
and de&s;tructive Compliances and Conjunctions
with the acknowledged Enemies thereof; and
this we have have &s;een particularly in the corrupt
Councels and Re&s;olves of receding from, and re|calling
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the Votes of <HI>No more Addre&s;&s;es to the King,</HI>
&amp;c. (the ju&s;tne&s;s and nece&s;sity whereof you had
once &s;o cleared to the world) al&s;o in the Votes for
entertaining or &s;eeking (after all that) a Per&s;onal
Treaty with the King your Pri&s;oner, upon &s;uch
Propo&s;itions as him&s;elf &s;hould tender, as well as
your own, offering upon imperfect (and tho&s;e
but wre&s;ted) Conce&s;sions from him, to Re&s;tore
him, with impunity, to Honor, Freedom, Safety,
and his Revenue, exempting all (even the princi|pal)
Authors and Actors in the la&s;t Summers
War from capital Puni&s;hment or Tryal, and
bringing off the re&s;t with Fines or Cen&s;ures
mo&s;t incon&s;iderable to the publique Damage and
Mi&s;chief they have done; whereby both they and
others are encouraged to renew and multiply the
Kingdoms Troubles: And la&s;tly, in the Votes
declaring the Kings pa&s;t Conce&s;sions to be a
Ground for the Hou&s;e to proceed upon, for the
Settlement of the PEACE of the Kingdom,
notwith&s;tanding the vi&s;ible in&s;ufficiency and
defects of them in things e&s;&s;entially concern|ing
the publique Intere&s;t, and Liberties of the
Kingdom (as tho&s;e propounded in our late Re|mon&s;trance
are) and in other matters both Reli|gious
and civil (from which, by expre&s;s Covenant
or publique Faith given, you were obliged not to
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recede) In which Votes &amp; councels it is apparent,
tho&s;e that are guilty of the~ have de&s;erted, betrayed
&amp; ju&s;tly forfeited their Tru&s;t for the publique; in|&s;omuch
that we dare appeal to all well affected or
rea&s;onable men, Whether there be any hopes by,
or with the conjunction of &s;uch men in your
Councels, to have any &s;ound or timely Settle|ment,
to have any end of Troubles, Burthens or
Hazards, or any publique good done for the
Kingdom: We therefore mo&s;t earne&s;tly de&s;ire,
That all &s;uch faithful Members who are in|nocent
in the&s;e things, would immediately (by
Prote&s;tation and publique Declaration) acquit
them&s;elves from any guilt of, or concurrence in
the &s;everal Votes or Councels here before parti|cularly
mentioned, as corrupt or de&s;tructive, that
the Kingdom may know who they are that have
kept their Tru&s;t, and di&s;tingui&s;h them from the
re&s;t that have thus fal&s;ified the &s;ame; and that all
&s;uch as cannot or &s;hall not &s;o acquit them&s;elves
particularly, may be immediately excluded or
&s;u&s;pended the Hou&s;e, and not readmitted, until
they &s;hall have given clear &s;atisfaction therein to
the Judgement of tho&s;e who now &s;o acquit
them&s;elves, and the grounds of &s;uch &s;atisfaction
be publi&s;hed to the Kingdom.</P>
<P>4. Thus, &s;uch as by faithfulne&s;s have retained
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their Tru&s;t, being &s;et in a condition to pur&s;ue and
perform the &s;ame, without &s;uch Interruptions,
Diver&s;ions and Depravations of Councels, as
formerly, We &s;hall de&s;ire and hope you will
&s;peedily and vigorou&s;ly proceed, To take order
for the execution of Ju&s;tice, To &s;et a &s;hort period
to your own Power, To provide for a &s;peedy
Succe&s;sion of equal Repre&s;entatives, according
to our late Remon&s;trance, wherein Differences
in the Kingdom may be ended, and we and others
may comfortably acquie&s;ce; as (for our parts)
we hereby engage and a&s;&s;ure you we &s;hall.</P>
<CLOSER>By the Appointment of His Excellency the Lord
<HI>Fairfax,</HI> Lord General, and His General
Councel of Officers, 
<DATELINE><DATE>December 6. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Signed, JOHN RUSHWORTH Secr'</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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