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<P>ANIMADVERSIONS UPON A DECLARATION OF THE Proceedings again&s;t the XI MEMBERS OF The Hou&s;e of COMMONS: IMPEACHED Of High Crimes, and Mi&s;-demeanors; By His EXCELLENCY Sir <HI>THOMAS FAIREFAX,</HI> AND the ARMY under his Command.</P>
<P><HI>CAMBRIDGE,</HI> Printed for <HI>Will. Arme&s;trong, Anno Dom.</HI> 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>ANIMADVERSIONS Upon a DECLARATION OF The proceedings again&s;t the XI. Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons, Impeached of high Crimes, and mi&s;-de|meanors; By his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> and the Army under his <HI>COMMAND.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is advice as good as old: <HI>Of all knaves take beed of a learned knave,</HI> (not becau&s;e he is an <HI>Academian,</HI> but a wicked one.) When Snakes would creepe into our bo&s;omes, there is mo&s;t neede of vigilancy; the Devill never doth the Church more mi&s;cheife, then when he appears like an Angell of light; And when machivillions pretend the greate&s;t good, to a State or kingdome, they then practice mo&s;t mi&s;cheife.</P>
<P>I can not but judge the Author of this Declaration to have a de&s;igne (notwith&s;tanding his faire pretences) to Tantilize a tormented Kingdom (under a pretence of pleading for the up|holding of Rights, Priviledges, freedomes, &amp; common ju&s;tice,) to &s;trike at the very foundation, (and to bla&s;t the honour, and reputation) of the Parliament, and to have a de&s;igne to &s;et the whole Kingdome in a new combu&s;tion. I will give you &s;ome Animadver&s;ions, &s;uch as I have plainly ob&s;erved from the &s;e|verall parts thereof.</P>
<P>He taxeth the proceedings of the Army to appeare unju&s;t.</P>
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<P N="1">1 <HI>By the generality, and incertainty of the</HI> Accu&s;ers, <HI>the Charge again&s;t them being pre&s;ented in the name of the whole Army, without the hands of any perticular per&s;ons to it, who will undertake (at their perills) to make it good.</HI> Here is a fine expre&s;&s;ion of love to the Parliament is there not? mark this de&s;igne herein, which is to &s;et the Parliament again&s;t the Army; And to draw a &s;lighting of the Charge untill the whole Army come up. The Impeachment is drawen up by the whole Councell of Warre. The Gene|rall, and Officers have cho&s;en a Committee of their owne Members (whereof foure are Collonels, and the re&s;t officers of note, well knowen, and of good E&s;tates who by order from them and in the name of the whole Army, delivered the Charge (&s;igned by the Generalls owne Secretary) to the Hou&s;e of Commons with their owne hands, undertaking to make it good again&s;t the &s;aid Members. This Gentleman would have it thrown a&s;ide, to provoke the Army to come to force ju&s;tice. O brave Councellour!</P>
<P N="2">2 <HI>By the uncertainty, and generality of the Charge it &s;elfe, in meere generall and ambiguous termes; to which the parties accu&s;ed, can give no an&s;wer, nor make any defence.</HI> This hee decla|reth, to make the Kingdome to have low thoughts of the Hou&s;e of Commons; as if they were not able to de&s;cerue tho&s;e many perticulars expre&s;&s;ed in this Charge, becau&s;e they vo|ted the former to be in&s;ufficient to &s;u&s;pend their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">. Members by Law. As if that vote made the 25th <HI>June,</HI> &s;hould judge what is brought in (in matter of &s;o great concernment) <HI>July</HI> 6 fol|lowing? And if this advice tend to the honour of the Parli|ament let any rea&s;onable man judge.</P>
<P N="3">3 <HI>By the multitude, and quallity of the parties impeached, no le&s;&s;e then</HI> II. <HI>at once, all men of approoved integrity, fidelity, and abillityes, who have acted, and &s;uffered much, for the Parliaments, and peoples Liberties:</HI> Yee may &s;ee what &s;pirit this Gentleman is of (her<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n,) grant him this allegation, and he will then reply upon the Parliament them&s;elves, for impeaching &s;o many, and of &s;uch quallity, (as are expre&s;t in their propo&s;itions to the King) all at once. And it is well knowen that the Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> that dyed a Traytor, was once, an hone&s;t private Preacher, the Earle of <HI>Straford</HI> acted well when
<PB N="3" REF="3">hee &s;at in the Hou&s;e of Commons in a former Parliament, and made divers excellent &s;peeches, which condemned his own actions afterwards: And Sir <HI>John Hotham,</HI> was voted by both Hou&s;es of Parliament to act well at <HI>Hull,</HI> for which hee &s;uf|fered the reproaches of the Kings Proclamation, to be called a Traytor, for the &s;ervice he did for the Parliament and King|dome, and yet they all became (afterwards) &s;o great ene|mies to the Parliament and peace of the Kingdome, that they all lo&s;t their heads as Traytors again&s;t the Kingdome. And in that very Committee (where the Gentleman who wrot the Declaration is &s;o eminent) many gallant men, (in divers Counties) who have done much good &s;ervice for the Par|liament, have had very &s;trict u&s;age, and by their &s;ubcommit|tees, &s;ome ca&s;t into pri&s;on, others per&s;ecuted to the great prejudice of their lives, though no Charge at all hath appea|red again&s;t them, nay the very oath of the Committee is (&s;ome|times) &s;trangely put to exact a Charge again&s;t a mans &s;elfe. Oh but to take &s;o many out of the Hou&s;e at once, he &s;aith will <HI>weaken the Presbiterian party.</HI> A fine bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to have parties to carry on de&s;ignes in the Hou&s;e. Doth not this tend to their reputations.</P>
<P N="4">4 <HI>By their violence to have them &s;u&s;pended the Hou&s;e before any reall, perticular Charge, or proofs, produced again&s;t them.</HI> Doth this give a good Character of the proceedings of Parliament to tra|duce them by anticipation of their proceedings, as if they were re&s;olved to doe nothing again&s;t their Members but what violence &s;hall force; notwith&s;tanding the repre&s;entations of &s;o many able, hone&s;t, faithfull Gentlemen, brought in as a Charge by way of impeachment from the whole Army a|gain&s;t them. Though the crimes bee high, and witne&s;&s;es ready to make it good, were the matter put into a way of triall.</P>
<P N="5">5 <HI>By their unju&s;t, and unrea&s;onable demands, after the votes of the Hou&s;e</HI> June 25 (<HI>again&s;t their</HI> II. <HI>Members &s;u&s;pention, upon what had appeared in the papers then received from the Army.</HI> Here hee would (to the di&s;honour of the Hou&s;e) have the Mem|bers hound up to the &s;ame opinion which they had before the particulars came from the Army; that becau&s;e the ma|jor part of them thought well of the&s;e Members then,
<PB N="4" REF="4">that therefore (let proofe be brought of never &s;o high crimes and mi&s;demeanours again&s;t them yet) no legall tryall &s;hould be now permitted again&s;t tho&s;e, of whom they have had &s;o good an opinion, and from hence he makes a mo&s;t dange|rous motion to all Counties &amp; Burroughes; (to the great hazard of the Parliaments &s;itting in peace) to &s;tirre them up to a violent petitioning of the Hou&s;e again&s;t the Army, prote&s;ting again&s;t them; Whereas hee cannot bee ignorant that many Counties make their addre&s;&s;es to the Parliament by the Ar|my.</P>
<P N="6">6 <HI>By their apparent fal&s;e &s;ugge&s;tions, wherewith they abu&s;e, both the accu&s;ed Members, and the Hou&s;e.</HI> Here is a great affront put upon the Army indeed; But where lyes this fal&s;ity, he &s;aith that in their <HI>manife&s;to June</HI> 27. They declared <HI>to have their particulars and proofes ready to deliver in; That the Hou&s;e or|dered them to bring it in Friday</HI> July 4. <HI>at which time, a longer day was craved.</HI> If this gentleman would but deale clearly here|in, hee would blu&s;h at this folly of his. That although the officers of the Army had &s;o much bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to doe, about the treaty, and yet they were able to di&s;patch it, in two days after the time &s;et, which was all the time de&s;ired (the Lords day only excepted) by which time it was drawen up, and ingro&s;&s;ed brought to <HI>London</HI> and delivered to the Hou&s;e of Commons, and yet he is &s;o impudent as to give them the lye, for &s;aying that it was ready.</P>
<P>If he and other Lawyers would make &s;o &s;hort a worke of what they doe, after Papers delivered into their hands, it would &s;ave the Kingdome many thou&s;and pounds a year, nay, he may remember that him&s;elfe, (and the re&s;t) that pro&s;ecuted the <HI>Arch-Bi&s;hops,</HI> had him &s;u&s;pended the Hou&s;e long before the particular Charge was brought in, nay to goe yet further, what particular Charge was there, either again&s;t him or <HI>Stra|ford</HI> before an order was pa&s;&s;ed (after &s;u&s;pention) for the bring|ing in of witne&s;&s;es, which took up much time, to compleat it.</P>
<P>And yet the Army hath &s;ent a particular one, and a home one too, again&s;t the&s;e Members, as plainly appeares to tho&s;e who have impartiall eares to heare it.</P>
<P>And although he would have the Hou&s;e to endanger them|&s;elves
<PB N="5" REF="4">and the whole Kingdome, in oppo&s;ing the Army in the protection of the&s;e Members, from Ju&s;tice, and likewi&s;e en|gage the <HI>Counties</HI> and <HI>Burroughs,</HI> that cho&s;e them herein. And the Charge again&s;t them, is for &s;uch high and great crimes, as are therein expre&s;t, yet he &s;aith all that is therein, is below ex|pectation, And is this man (thinke you) a friend to the II Members, or doth he not rather throw in a bone among us.</P>
<P>And his finding fault with the want of hands; (it being &s;ig|ned by the Generalls Secretary; and delivered by tho&s;e Ho|nourable Commi&s;&s;ioners;) is all one as to cla&s;h with an <HI>Order of Parliament,</HI> &s;igned by <HI>John Bowne,</HI> or <HI>Henry El&s;ynge, Cleric.</HI> delivered by Commi&s;&s;ioners from the Hou&s;es.</P>
<P N="7">7. <HI>Their Mercinary Pamphleters,</HI> for &s;hame man peace; have not you, and your faction u&s;ed this Trade &s;o long, to cheri&s;h the Malignant humours of the <HI>Church</HI> and <HI>Kingdome,</HI> that ye are all &s;ick of the <HI>Gangrena,</HI> The <HI>Army</HI> never went about to make a <HI>Monopoly</HI> to them&s;elves of the Pre&s;&s;es, as tho&s;e who &s;ought to de&s;troy them did, The <HI>Army</HI> give not Pen&s;ions to 80. or 100. <HI>Clerkes</HI> to helpe them, They give not annuities to Mercenary <HI>Scribes,</HI> to &s;poile <HI>Inke</HI> and <HI>Paper,</HI> to abu&s;e the Kingdome; and bring faction, and <HI>Tyranny</HI> into the <HI>Church</HI> and <HI>Kingdome;</HI> But he &s;aith that <HI>the Impeached Members are traduced gro&s;&s;ely, becau&s;e the Hou&s;es have acquitted them by their Votes.</HI> But (under favour) they were not acquitted by both Hou&s;es, neither hath any thing of it been pre&s;ented to the <HI>Lords,</HI> they being Members of the Hou&s;e of <HI>Commons,</HI> nor have the <HI>Commons</HI> acquitted them up|on the Particular Charge, or &s;ince it was pre&s;ented, or the Hou&s;e knew what was therein contained. Nor did that ac|quitall go further then upon what appeared to their &s;en&s;e then; way being &s;till left open to receive what is &s;ince or &s;hall be delivered; and to judge according to the &s;ame.</P>
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