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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable the Lords and others of the Committee of E&s;tates, The humble Remon|&s;trance and Supplication of the Officers of the Army.</HEAD>
<P>_BEing &s;en&s;ible of the imputation laid upon the Kingdom and Army as if they e&s;pou&s;ed the Malignant qua|rel and intere&s;t, And con&s;idering that at this time we are more &s;pecially concerned in it then others, being in the Lords &s;trength to take our lives in our hands and hazard all that is dear unto us by engaging again&s;t this pre&s;ent enemy, who in an ho&s;tile wayhath invaded this Kingdom contrary to all bonds of Covenant &amp; Treaties. Wee conceive it our dut<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">e To make it manife&s;t to your honours and all the world, That we doe not own any malignant quarrell or intere&s;t of any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever; But that by the a&s;si&s;|tance of the Lord wee doe re&s;olve to fight meerly upon the former grounds and principles in defence of the Cau&s;e, Covenant, and Kingdome, as hath been done the&s;e years bypa&s;t, (as the Commi&s;sion of the Church and your Lord&s;hips have declared in the late Act of the 13. of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI>) Wherefore that it may appear to all who&s;e eyes are upon your Honours, That your performances are &s;utable to your re&s;olutions Wee in all humility de&s;ire (it being notour, That &s;candalous and malignant per&s;ons not only abound in the Kingdom, but to our great grief of &s;pirit in and about the court, yea even in the Kings own family and guard) That your honours will be plea&s;ed to take &s;ome &s;peedie and effectuall cour&s;e to put the lawes of the Kingdom to full execution again&s;t them without re&s;pect of per&s;ons, That all of them may finde the dint of ju&s;tice acccording to their &s;everall offences and mi&s;carrages, &s;o that this Kingdome doe not become the place and receptacle of all profane and malignant per&s;ons who hath been and are enemies to GOD and his Cau&s;e, and that God be no more provoked by countenancing or &s;pari<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">g of them, lea&s;t the Lord &s;hould de&s;ert us and cau&s;e us partake with them in their judgements.</P>
<P>And what yet remains in the Armie undone in relation to purging, wee de&s;ire your honours would command your further plea&s;ure therein, which &s;hall have our heartie con<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">urrance and a&s;&s;i&s;tance; all which being &s;peedily and effectually done, we are hopefull will prove a means to cau&s;e the Lords face &s;hine up on us, and countenance &amp; ble&s;&s;e us in our undertakings, And will very much refre&s;h the hearts and &s;trengthen the hands of your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t faithfull and humble &s;ervants.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>EDINBURGH, <DATE>15. <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1650.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_T<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">E Committee of E&s;tates having taken into con&s;ideration the Remon&s;trance of the officers of the Army, Pre|&s;ented unto them by the Lord <HI>Burleigh,</HI> the General of Artillerie Generall Major <HI>Holburne,</HI> Sir <HI>John Brown,</HI> and Collonell <HI>Gilbert Ker,</HI> in name of the Army, do ble&s;&s;e the Lord for their unanimous &s;en&s;e and Re&s;olution therein expre&s;&s;ed again&s;t the Enemies of the cau&s;e of God both Malignants and Sectaries, for which as they do return them the heartie thanks of this Kingdom, So they earne&s;tlie exhort them &s;tedfa&s;tlie to per&s;i&s;t therein, And for an&s;wer to the de&s;ires contained in the &s;aid Remon&s;trance, They do promi&s;e and declare that they will &s;peedily take an effectuall cour&s;e for putting the Lawes of the Kingdom to full execution again&s;t all Scandalous and Malignant per&s;ons in Court, Ar|my, or Kingdom, without re&s;pect of Per&s;ons, And that they will carefullie &s;tudie &s;o to make u&s;e of the power which God hath put in their hands for advancement of pietie and &s;uppre&s;sing of Malignants and prophane&s;&s;e as may give unto the Army reall ground of incou agement cheerefully to proceed in all their undertakings again&s;t the Army of Sectaries who have invaded this Kingdom, and all other Enemies to the Covenant and work of Reformation.</P>
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<P><HI>EDINBVRGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;tie, 1650.</P>
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