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<P>His Maje&s;ties LETTER To the <HI>PARLIAMENT, Reported to both Hou&s;es ye&s;terday; And His power and Instruc|tions given to them, concerning the Army.</HI></P>
<P>WITH A Declaration of the Citizens of <HI>London</HI> touching the <HI>King</HI> To be communicated to the Lord Gen. <HI>Fairfax,</HI> and pub|li&s;hed throughout all the Cities and Market Townes within the Kingdom of <HI>ENGLAND,</HI> and Dominion of <HI>VVALES.</HI></P>
<P>LIKEWISE, A Declaration from the Lord Generall <HI>Fairfax,</HI> to the Lord Major, Aldermen, and Common-councell of the &s;aid City, and his De&s;ires touching the &s;ame.</P>
<P>AS ALSO, The Armies new Propo&s;itions concerning the <HI>King,</HI> and their Impeachment and De&s;ires to the Hou&s;e of <HI>Com|mons,</HI> to declare again&s;t all Members in the &s;aid Hou&s;e, who have acted contrary to the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them.</P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Richard Robin&s;on,</HI> 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>NEW PROPOSITIONS FROM THE ARMY, Concerning The Kings <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> the &s;etling of the Kingdom in peace, with what nece&s;&s;ary Lawes are wanting for the ea&s;e of the Subject.</HEAD>
<P>ON Wedne&s;day la&s;t being the 29. of this in|&s;tant, the Generall Councell of the Army met at <HI>Wind&s;or,</HI> where they debated further the great and weighty Demands of the Army, &s;peci|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ed in their late Remon&s;trance and Declaration; they
<PB N="2" REF="3"> have had many &s;erious con&s;ultations thereupon, ac|companied with prayers, for effecting of their de&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es: they are unanimous and re&s;olute for pro&s;ecuting of the&s;e en&s;uing Propo&s;als, <HI>viz.</HI> 1 <HI>That impartiall Iu|stice may be &s;peedily executed upon the grand Incendia|ries and Authors of our late troubles.</HI> 2 <HI>That the heavy burden of free quarter may be taken off, and the Kingdom &s;etled in peace.</HI> 3 <HI>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> what nece&s;sary Laws are wanting for ea&s;e and benefit of the Subject, may be &s;peedily inacted e&s;tabli&s;hed and confirmed.</HI></P>
<P>But by rea&s;on of the great difficulties which they are like to wade through in accompli&s;hing the &s;ame, (occa&s;ioned by the pre&s;ent fears and jealou&s;ies of the Citizens of <HI>London</HI>) I &s;hall therefore cleerly demon|&s;trate, the reall integrity of their un&s;potted hearts, to|wards the &s;aid Metropolis, in the late difference be|tween <HI>Parliament, City,</HI> and <HI>Army;</HI> and in&s;tance his Ex|cellencies owne Declaration to the Lord Major and Court of Aldermen, a copy whereof followeth.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IN the carrying on of the great bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of the <HI>Kingdom</HI> towards a generall and happy &s;ettlement, it hath been a fixed principle with Us, to make it our fir&s;t endeavour with the Parliament, that all things which threaten an Ingagement of the <HI>Kingdom</HI> in a &s;e|cond war might be removed, before we could have a confident expectation of a good i&s;&s;ue. Wee are now come thus far, that the mo&s;t materiall parti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ulars that we have in preparation to propo&s;e for the general &s;et|tlement of the affaires of the <HI>Kingdom,</HI> have bin com|municated
<PB REF="3"> to the Parl. containing in them things tending to a generall good, and to lay an hopeful foundation for com|mon right and freedom to the people of this Land for fu|ture, and for a la&s;ting peace among&s;t us. And having thus far declared our &s;elves with all freedom and clearne&s;&s;e to you, &s;o we de&s;ire your forwardne&s;&s;e in a work &s;o much tending to mutuall confidence, and to prevent the De&s;ignes of any who would be glad to put ob&s;tructions in the way to a hap|py conclu&s;ion, and envy nothing more then the continuance of a right under&s;tanding between you and us.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Signed Iohn Ru&s;hworth</HI> Secr.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Novemb.</HI> 30. 1648. Letters from the I&s;le of Wight &s;ay, That the Treaty is di&s;&s;olved, and his <HI>Maie&s;ty</HI> in cu&s;tody, and &s;ecured by the <HI>Army:</HI> But upon the di&s;&s;olving thereof, His <HI>Maiesty</HI> declared, That if no po&s;&s;ible meanes could obtaine a peace, without the &s;pilling of his Royall bloud, Hee was willing to &s;acrifice his life for the obtaining thereof, and therefore would freely and willingly re&s;ign him&s;elf up to the mercy of men, for the redemption of his poor di&s;tre&s;&s;ed and langui&s;hing people. The &s;aid Letters further intimate, that his <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> is u&s;ed with great civility and re&s;pect by his new Guardians; which inciteth him to this demon&s;trati|on, That he hopeth the army will act nothing but what &s;hall be ballanced in the skales of equity and ju&s;tice.</P>
<P>Both hou&s;es having received a letter from Col. <HI>Hamond,</HI> touching the de&s;ires of his Excellency for him to attend at the head quarters: the hou&s;e voted hereupon that Col. <HI>Ha|mond</HI> &s;hould be required to &s;tay in the I&s;le of Wight and attend his charge there, till further order. They like <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> vo|ted a Letter to be &s;peedily &s;ent to the L. Admir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to re|quire him to &s;end &s;ome &s;hips for the &s;ecurity of the I&s;le of <HI>Wight,</HI> with orders, that they obey the commands of Co|lonell <HI>Hamond.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>As for the &s;ale of Bi&s;hops Lands his Maje&s;ty conceives, that pre&s;idents in ca&s;es of con&s;cience cannot &s;atisfie, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y onely proving that &s;uch things were done, not the lawfullne&s;&s;e of them, now that the to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">all alienation of Church Lands (which is the true &s;tate of the que&s;tion) is Sacriledge, Divines of all &s;orts, and of all times (though otherwi&s;e differing in opinions) yet herein agree with His Maje&s;ties judgement; which being well weighed, hee hopes may &s;atisfie, as to this particular: nor can the practi&s;es under the ceremonial Law, make any thing for this ca&s;e, becau&s;e in tho&s;e dayes full compen&s;ation was alwaies intended, and ordinarily fol|lowed, though ab&s;olute nece&s;&s;ity (and not &s;uch as may be otherways avoided) di&s;pen&s;ed &s;undry times, with the imploying &s;acred things.</P>
<P>Upon the whole matter His Maje&s;ty hopes, that his two Hou&s;es, after a &s;erious con&s;ideration of the&s;e and His former Rea&s;on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, will clearly di&s;cern <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat they are not pretended, but reall points of con|&s;cience upon which he now &s;ticks, and &s;ince by the &s;u&s;pen&s;ion of E|pi&s;copacy for three yeares, His Maje&s;ty hath fully for that time granted his two Hou&s;es de&s;ires, &s;ince he hath reduced the Office of a Bi&s;hop, not only to the apo&s;tolical in&s;titution (which you &s;ay is not de&s;ired to be removed) but likewi&s;e taken away all tho&s;e additional powers and juri&s;dictions, which can make them liable to the impu|tation of tho&s;e grievances and inconveniences mentioned in your paper; for (as the negative voice in Ordination) his Maje&s;ty much wonders, that any can que&s;tion that power not to have been in the apo&s;tolicall Bi&s;hop, being evident 1 Tim. 5.2. Tit. 1, 5, that &s;ole Or|dination was practi&s;ed by them, &s;ince it is more then likely, His Maj. and the two Hou&s;es will agree upon a &s;etled form of Church-gov<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nment, long before the end of three years, whereby all tho&s;e after <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at time will be prevented.</P>
<P><HI>The&s;e C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ce&s;&s;ions from his Majesty are commanded to be forth|with publi&s;hed to all His loyall Subjects within the Cities of</HI> London <HI>and</HI> We&s;tmin&s;ter, <HI>the Borough of</HI> Southwark, <HI>and parts adjacent.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Charge of the Army.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 THat there is a new de&s;igne upon the Army, &s;or<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing us to free quarter. 2 We are &s;en&s;ible of the inconveniences of this late Treaty, whereby it is attempted to null all Contracts, prote&s;tations, Votes, &amp;c. 3 The exhau&s;ting the peoples trea&s;ure by many wayes, Offices and Officers, and no publike account given. 4 The King|dom left naked without any &s;etled Government, &s;o often cried for, 5. An inequality of punni&s;hments, cen&s;ures, and compo&s;itions, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> if we had no net made to catch the greater flies. 6. Oppre&s;&s;ion by forraign un-Engli&s;hd Laws, and Lawyers grown <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">of warms, when the be&s;t order'd Common-weals have the fewe&s;t of that brood, and who have been found by their increa&s;e a Pathagnomical Symptom of a crazy &s;tate, and Caclectick Common-wealth. 7. The &s;lighting and contemptuous dealing with Petitioners and petitions, whereby redre&s;&s;e hath been &s;ought to the peoples grievances, a practi&s;e as dangerous as unu&s;ual, in places the pre&s;ervation of the whole where is in the eye and name of Tru&s;tees.</P>
<P>We do therefore heartily and fully concur with our brethren in the Army, in their &s;everal ju&s;t petitions pre&s;ented to your Excellen|cy, calling for Ju&s;tice, and ju&s;t things, and the &s;ame we do with tho&s;e in the City and Country, being the rather pre&s;t hereunto, becau&s;e our late employment hath made &s;ome of us eye and ear witne&s;&s;es of the la&s;t tran&s;actions with the grand enemy, and great abettor of <HI>Ormond</HI> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> his &s;on in <HI>Holland,</HI> and another party that hath but a &s;word to draw for his de&s;tructive de&s;igns, we know, and ther|fore &s;peak.</P>
<P>Wherefore we mo&s;t humbly ptay that your excellency would forthwith communicate, the&s;e our &s;ighs and re&s;tle&s;&s;e breathings of our &s;pirits, to the Parliament, viz.</P>
<P N="1">1. We cannot we, dare not make &s;uch a forfeiture of our un|parelled mercies, nor betray our dear bought freedom, as to leave our &s;elves and the nation to the freedom of one mans will, mo&s;t unhappy in the whole cour&s;e of his raigne, and now da&s;hing this Kingdom into pieces againe by his ea&s;ily di&s;cerned &s;ubtilities. 2.
<PB N="6" REF="5"> We de&s;ire all the faithfull patriots of the Commons Hou&s;e, may declare and prote&s;t again&s;t all men, under the &s;ame roof with them, that have &s;o plainly betrayed the common &s;afety, by pardoning of 37 that were appointed to death; &s;ending &s;ome as their agents to France, &amp;c. 3 We earne&s;tly beg to be freed from fear of confu&s;ion an Anarchy, by &s;uch a &s;ettlement as cannot be expected from 400 men &s;o &s;trangely cho&s;en&punc; and diver&s;ly affected: That the government of other parts may be examined, and that we may not idolize any any one creature. 4 We expect that we be not voted again&s;t if we do not deliver up pri&s;oners in our power, upon tho&s;e ea&s;ie termes voted <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. We are not ignorant how it is de&s;igned that this Army mu&s;t be provoked to do evill things, and by tho&s;e men who are vexed we have done &s;o many good.</P>
<P><HI>The Citizens of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ondon being much perplexed at the pre&s;ent distractions of this bleeding Kingdom, upon mature delibera|tion thereof, do unanimou&s;ly declare, That they will (with the hazard of their lives and fortunes) unite and joyn with the Army, for compo&s;ing of all differences, and executing of ju|&s;tice upon the grand Incendiaries of this Kingdom; as al&s;o for the obtaining of all other their ju&s;t and rea&s;onable Demands; de&s;iring that a favourable cen&s;ure and con&s;truction may pa&s;&s;e upon the per&s;on of his Royall Maiesty; which re&s;entments are to be communicated <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o the view of the Lord Gen.</HI> Fairfax, <HI>and the Army, to be publi&s;hed thrrughout all Cities and Market Towns within the Kingdome of</HI> England <HI>and Dominion of</HI> Wales.</P>
<P>By Letters from the I&s;le of Wight it is &s;aid, that the <HI>King</HI> hath gave his Royal a&s;&s;ent to the Parl. Propo&s;itions, and doth impowr them to act and vote as they &s;ee cau&s;e with the ar|my; which letters are &s;aid to be read in both Hou&s;es, <HI>the</HI> 30 of <HI>Novemb.</HI> 1648.</P>
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