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<P>THE ADVANCE OF Sir Arthur Ha&s;ilrigg, <HI>FROM</HI> The Garri&s;on of <HI>Port&s;mouth,</HI> toward the City of <HI>LONDON:</HI> And His Letter to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commoun Council.</P>
<P>Al&s;o, the Number both of Hor&s;e and Foot; the Names of the Regiments revolted from the <HI>Army;</HI> together with the I&s;le of <HI>Wight,</HI> and mo&s;t of the Ca&s;tles thereabouts.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e, the An&s;wer agreed upon by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council at Guild-Hall ye&s;terday, and the Names of the Commi&s;&s;ioners, &s;ent to Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;ilrigg,</HI> and Vice-Admiral <HI>Law&s;on,</HI> to communicate the Sen&s;e of the CITY.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>GEORGE HORTON</HI></P>
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<P>THE great Hand of Providence having in a mo&s;t high and wonderful manner appeared in the I&s;&s;ue of the&s;e late Changes, Overturnings, and Confu&s;ions; and in the mid&s;t of our great Fears, Dangers, and Calamities, miraculou&s;ly to work and point out a &s;ignal Deliverance for the&s;e di&s;tracted langui&s;hing, and, woful afflicted Nations; by rai&s;ing up &s;ome no|ble and faithful Patriots, true &s;pirited <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> men, and renow|ned A&s;&s;ertors of the peoples Rights, Liberties, and Freedoms, &s;tanding up in this great Day of <HI>Englands</HI> Tryal and Trouble, even in the very Gap and Gulph of De&s;olation threatning the inevitable Ruine of many Thou&s;ands, who de&s;ired nothing more then a true &s;ettlement of the publique peace, upon a firm Ba&s;is, and irremovable Foundation, of Truth and Righteou&s;|ne&s;s, and to pre&s;erve a good Con&s;cience, in ca&s;ting off tho&s;e ig|nominious Reproaches, of breach of Faith to their Repre&s;enta|tives.</P>
<P>And thereupon divers Honourable Members of Parliament, being &s;pirited to &s;tand firm for the Intere&s;t of this Common|wealth, (being warranted in their pre&s;ent actings, by e&s;pecial Commi&s;&s;ion and Authority from the Council of State) unani|mou&s;ly declared their Re&s;olutions and Concurrence, to hazard <HI>All,</HI> even Lives and Fortunes, for re&s;toring of the Parliament and People to their ancient Rights, and undoubted Freedoms: In pur&s;uance whereof, it plea&s;ed God to rai&s;e up Deliverers, both by Sea and Land, having by admirable providence put an opportunity into the hands of General <HI>Monck,</HI> a mo&s;t able and experienced Commander of the Parliaments Army; Vice-Ad|miral <HI>Law&s;on,</HI> Commander in chief of the Fleet under his im|mediate Conduct; and Colonel <HI>Whetham,</HI> Governour of <HI>Port&s;|mouth;</HI> who&s;e Actions and Undertakings have been &s;o Hone&s;t and Honourable, as that they have given an ab&s;olute Check to the Exorbitances of divers perfidious Apo&s;tates, who have wal|ked contrary to the Light of Knowledge, in the&s;e late and glo|rious
<PB N="4" REF="3"> Di&s;pen&s;ations, and &s;o to become In&s;truments of &s;ome mens ambitions, by making the good people of <HI>England</HI> their Enemies and expo&s;ing the Nation again to the hazard of a new War and inte&s;tine Troubles.</P>
<P>But ble&s;&s;ed be God, the&s;e Clouds are extingui&s;hing, and the black Vizards of the&s;e dark and ob&s;cure Tyrannical Streams, be|gin to run and center in their proper Current: For, not onely Colonel <HI>Riches</HI> Regiment of Hor&s;e have de&s;erted the Army, and returned to their former duty of obedience to the Parlia|ment, but al&s;o &s;ome of Colonel <HI>Berry</HI>'s Regiment of Hor&s;e, in all Nine Troops; and &s;everal Companies of Companies of Colonel <HI>Lago</HI>'s Regiment of Foot are gone into <HI>Port&s;mouth,</HI> marching with Drums beating, and Golours flying, where they declared for the Parliament and their Re&s;olu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ions (by the help of GOD) to &s;tand by and a&s;&s;i&s;t them with their Lives and For|tunes, and to hazard all that is near and dear unto them, in de|defence of the Parliamen<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, and the &s;ecurity, &s;ervice, and peace of this Commonwealth.</P>
<P>Upon the coming in of the &s;aid Nine Troops, and five Com|panies of Foot, Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;ilrigg,</HI> Colonel <HI>Morley,</HI> Col. <HI>Walt<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n,</HI> and Colonel <HI>Whetham</HI> (the Governour) &s;ent out a party of Hor&s;e and Foot to make a di&s;covery of the remainder part of the Army; and having good intelligence among&s;t them, and of their motion, upon their approach near, it plea&s;ed God the whole party came in, &s;ome few Officers onely excepted; &s;o that the Siege was rai&s;ed, and the Town at liberty, without a drop of bloud.</P>
<P>The Town is very &s;trong, and the Souldiery unanimous, Sir <HI>Arthur,</HI> and Col. <HI>Morley</HI> having behaved them&s;elves very gal|lantly.</P>
<P>This We&s;tern Brigade being &s;o providentially reduced to the Obedience of Parliament, 'tis &s;aid, that &s;everal Regiments of Hor&s;e and Foot are upon their march from <HI>Port&s;mouth</HI> toward <HI>London</HI> under the Conduct of Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;ilrigg,</HI> and other faithful Commanders; and that there are four Troops of Hor&s;e, and four Companies of Foot rai&s;ed in the I&s;le of <HI>Wight,</HI> for the
<PB N="5" REF="3"> &s;ervice of the Parliament: be&s;ides, it is a&s;certain'd, that two Troops of Hor&s;e, and two Companies of Foot in the &s;aid I&s;land, have al&s;o revolted from the Army; and likewi&s;e <HI>Carisbrook</HI> Ca&s;tle, <HI>Hur&s;t</HI> Ca&s;tle and all the re&s;t of the Ca&s;tles thereabouts, except <HI>Cowes</HI> Ca&s;tle, which is blocked up, and a &s;peedy reduce|ment thereof is &s;uddainly expect<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d.</P>
<P>For the carrying on of this great Work &s;o happily begun, and for a timely delive<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ance of the&s;e almo&s;t de&s;troyed Nations, it is the Duty of every Engli&s;h man to a&s;&s;i&s;t, that Po&s;terity may be happy under a Succe&s;&s;ion of Parliamentary Authority, derived from a Civil, rather than a Military Foundation, from whence floweth nothing but unlimited and a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">bitrary &s;treams. In or|der whereunto, a Letter hath been &s;ent from Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;il|rigg,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Parliaments Commi&s;&s;ioners at <HI>Port&s;|mouth</HI> to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of the City of <HI>London</HI> de&s;iring them to con|tribute their aid and a&s;&s;i&s;tance, for re&s;toring of the Parliament, and &s;etling the ancient Rights, Charters, Liberties, and Funda|mental priviledges of the&s;e Nations.</P>
<P>In pur&s;uance whereof, Vice-admiral <HI>Law&s;on</HI> hath al&s;o repre|&s;ented to his Lord&s;hip, the &s;tate of affairs with the Fleet, impor|ting. That they were re&s;olved (through the Lords a&s;&s;i&s;tance) to &s;tand to their <HI>Declaration,</HI> and with the hazard of their Lives and Fortunes, to endeavour the Re-e&s;tabli&s;hment of the Parlia|ment, interrupted the 13th of <HI>October,</HI> 1659. to the Exerci&s;e of their Tru&s;t: Not doubting, but to find the a&s;&s;i&s;tance and concur|rence both of them and others, in this Undertaking and Re&s;o|lution: And in confidence of their Complyan<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e herein, he a&s;&s;ures them of all a&s;&s;i&s;tance for the advancement of the Trade, Free|dom and Safety of the City in particular, and the Nation in ge|neral.</P>
<P>Hereupon the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Coun|cil, a&s;&s;embled at Guild Hall, <HI>London,</HI> on <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the Two and Twentieth of this in&s;tant <HI>December;</HI> where, after reading of the &s;aid Letters, a Committee of Safety was cho&s;e, who are forth|with to con&s;ider thereof, and to return an an<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r unto Vice-admiral
<PB N="6" REF="4"> admiral <HI>Law&s;on:</HI> as al&s;o unto that which came from the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners at <HI>Port&s;mouth.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;aid Committee is al&s;o appointed to con&s;ider of &s;etling the Militia of the City, to the end, that the peace and &s;afety ther|of may be inviolably pre&s;erved, and the Exorbitancies of all per|&s;ons what&s;oever (for the future) prevented. Which will be the onely means (under God) to prevent Confu&s;ions and De&s;ola|tions, the &s;ad Companions of Civil Di&s;cords, and to e&s;tabli&s;h Peace and Truth throughout Her Confines; by putting a Check to &s;uch ambitious and in&s;olent Spirits, who thir&s;ted after the Trea&s;ure of her Pavilions, and fain would have made her habita|ble places even as &s;o many Thrones.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>Guild-Hall, London, <DATE>Decemb. 23.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>This day the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, re&s;umed the debate of &s;etling the Militia of the City, and re|&s;olved upon &s;everall Officers of approved Tru&s;t and Fidelity, there being a &s;ingular choice, by free Election, of &s;uch Gentle|men, and per&s;ons of quality, as do, and with God's a&s;&s;i&s;tance will always adhere to their former principles and Declarations, in the u&s;e of all lawful means for the maintainance of the true Re|formed Prote&s;tant Religion, the &s;upport of a &s;etled lawful Ma|gi&s;tracy, the pre&s;ervation of a learned pious Mini&s;try, the re|&s;toring of the ancient Fundamental Laws of the Nation, and the ju&s;t Rights, Properties, and Liberties of the people.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Decemb. 23. Afternoon.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>The Revolt of divers of the Army Forces in the We&s;tern parts, is not one ratified by &s;undry Te&s;timonies from very good hands; but al&s;o a Confirmation of the advance of Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;itrigg</HI> from <HI>Port&s;mouth,</HI> on Wedne&s;day la&s;t, with about five thou&s;and Hor&s;e and Foot, leaving onely four hundred in the Gari&s;on.</P>
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<P>They began their march about Ten of the Clock in the Fore|noon, and quartered that Night at <HI>Petersfield.</HI> The next mor|ning they began their march again, intending to quarter at <HI>Gil|ford</HI> on Friday Night: but whether the inclemency of the Sea|&s;on, or the &s;horrne&s;s of time impedes them, a few hours will prove the onely Re&s;olve. In the mean time, no &s;mall expe|ctations, but as high Conjectures, what Event the&s;e &s;trange Mu|tations will produce: Since that the Spirits of men are ex|treamly di&s;&s;atisfied and elevated, and po&s;&s;ibly cannot be allayed, without a re&s;tauration of their long-lo&s;t Trade, Liberties, and Freedoms; With which God of his infinite mercy crown the&s;e Nations.</P>
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<P>THrough many delatory Expre&s;&s;ions and Speeches, by &s;ome few per&s;ons, the Honourab<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> Court of Aldermen and Common-Councel of the City of <HI>London</HI> could not proceed to the Nomination of Officers for the Militia that Night; but re&s;olved to meet this pre&s;ent <HI>Saturday,</HI> and proceed to the Election of Colonels, and other Officers. A Report being made al&s;o of the &s;en&s;e and &s;ub&s;tance of the Letters &s;ent from Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;ilrigg,</HI> and Vice-Admirall <HI>Law&s;on;</HI> The &s;aid Court re&s;olved upon an An&s;wer to be retur|ned, Declaring, <HI>Their cordial Affections, to pre&s;erve the peace and Safety of the&s;e Nations, and to acquie&s;ce in &s;uch things, as may be con&s;i&s;tent with the Glory of God, and the Rights, Priviledges, and Proprieties of the People.</HI> In pur&s;uance whereof, Commi&s;&s;ioners were cho&s;en, to repre&s;ent the Sen&s;e of the City; the Names whereof are as followeth:
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<ITEM>Alderman <HI>Tomp&s;on,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Colonel <HI>Bromfield,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Beard.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>To Vice-Admiral <HI>Law&s;on</HI>
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<ITEM>Alderman <HI>Fowk;</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>William Bateman,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Jokey,</HI> Merchant.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>For <HI>White-Hall,</HI>
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<ITEM>Alderman <HI>Bateman,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Vincent,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Richard Foord,</HI> Merchant.</ITEM>
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