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<P>A CHARGE Delivered in the Name of the ARMY under the Command of His Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> Unto the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Parliament with the Army, at S. <HI>Albans,</HI> June 14. 1647. and by them &s;ent up to the Parliament, again&s;t &s;everal Members of the Honorable Hou&s;e of Commons.</P>
<P>ALSO A PAPER Delivered to the &s;aid COMMISSIONERS of Parlia|ment, <HI>June</HI> 15. from his Excellency Sir <HI>Tho: Fairfax,</HI> and the Army under his Command, of &s;ome farther humble Propo&s;als and De&s;ires to the Honorable Hou&s;es of PARLIAMENT.</P>
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<P><HI>PRinted and publi&s;hed by the appointment of his Excellency Sir</HI> Tho: Fairfax, <HI>and the Officers and Soldiers of the Army under his Command.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>S. Albans,
<DATE>June 17. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Signed by me JOHN RUSHWORTH.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Laurence Chapman,</HI> IUNE 18. 1647.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>June</HI> 14. 1647. The Heads of a Charge, delivered in the name of the Army under the Com|mand of Sir <HI>Tho. Fairfax,</HI> unto the Com|mi&s;sioners of Parliament, now with the Army at St. <HI>Albans.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>To be by them &s;ent up to the Parliament,</HI> Again&s;t <HI>Denzil Hollis</HI> E&s;quire, Sir <HI>Philip Stapleton,</HI> Sir <HI>William Lewis,</HI> Sir <HI>John Clotworthy,</HI> Sir <HI>William Waller,</HI> Sir <HI>John Maynard,</HI> Knights; Major General <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> Mr. <HI>Glyn</HI> Recorder of <HI>London,</HI> Colonel <HI>Walter Long,</HI> Colonel <HI>Edward Harley,</HI> and <HI>Anthony Nichol</HI> E&s;quire, Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons, joyntly or &s;everally as followeth.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THat contrary to the Tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them, the per&s;ons above named, Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons, have joyntly or &s;everally invaded, infringed or indeavor|ed to overthrow the Rights and Liberties of the Subjects of this Nation, in Arbitrary, violent or oppre&s;&s;ive wayes (and in this ca&s;e where no pretence was, or could be of the exigence of War, or other nece&s;&s;ity which might ju&s;tifie or excu&s;e the &s;ame;) and they
<PB N="4" REF="3"> have likewi&s;e endeavored by indirect and corrupt practi&s;es to de|lay and ob&s;truct Ju&s;tice, to the great damage and prejudice of divers of the poor Commoners of <HI>England,</HI> Petitioning for the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="2">2. That this Army being until the middle of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, in a quiet and orderly condition and po&s;ture, free from any colour or appearance of di&s;temper or di&s;order, or from offence to any, and ready (upon rea&s;onable &s;atisfaction in their nece&s;&s;ary dues for &s;ervice pa&s;t) either quietly to have disbanded, or el&s;e to have en|gaged in the &s;ervice of <HI>Ireland.</HI> The per&s;ons above named have joyntly or &s;everally indeavored by fal&s;e informations, mi&s;repre|&s;entations, or &s;candalous &s;ugge&s;tions again&s;t the Army, to beget mi&s;under&s;tandings, prejudices, or jealou&s;ies in the Parliament again&s;t their Army; and by deluding, &s;urprizing, or otherwi&s;e a|bu&s;ing the Parliament, to engage the Authority of Parliament to &s;uch proceedings, as to put in&s;ufferable injuries, abu&s;es, and pro|vocations upon the Army, whereby to provoke and put the Army into a di&s;temper, and to di&s;oblige and di&s;courage the &s;ame from any further engagement in the Parliament Service: By all which, and other the like particulars and proceedings of theirs, the Peace of this Kingdom hath been eminently endangered, and the relief of <HI>Ireland</HI> retarded.</P>
<P N="3">3. That whereas the Parliament might otherwi&s;e have had out of this Army an intire force, and an&s;werable to their proportion de&s;igned to have engaged for <HI>Ireland</HI> as afore&s;aid, under their old Officers and conduct; the per&s;ons above named for advance|ment of their own ends, faction, and de&s;igne, to the prejudice of the Publike, have joyntly or &s;everally, under pretence of the &s;ervice of <HI>Ireland,</HI> endeavored by &s;uch evil practi&s;es as before, to break and pull this Army in pieces, to the weakening of the power, and indangering of the &s;afety of the Parliament and Kingdom; and have likewi&s;e endeavored to put the Parliament and Kingdom, to the trouble, hazard, delay, and va&s;t expence of rai&s;ing a new force as for that &s;ervice.</P>
<P N="4">4. That with the breaking of this Army as afore&s;aid, they
<PB N="5" REF="3"> have in the like manner indeavored under the pretence of the &s;ervice of <HI>Ireland,</HI> to rai&s;e a new force as before to advance and carry on de&s;perate de&s;ignes of their own in <HI>England,</HI> to the pre|judice of the Parliament and Publike; and in p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">ance of the &s;ame have endeavored to divert the forces ingaged as for <HI>Ireland,</HI> and unto &s;uch their purpo&s;e as afore&s;aid here in <HI>England;</HI> and have in like manner endeavored to have gained a power from the Parliament for them&s;elves, or &s;ome of them, of diverting and mi&s;imploying tho&s;e forces afore&s;aid, and to rai&s;e new forces un|der pretence to guard the Parliament, and (not having obtained that) have in like manner endeavored privately to lift and engage Officers and Souldiers, or procure them to be li&s;ted and engaged without Authority of Parliament, for the rai&s;ing of and imbroil|ing this Kingdom in a new and bloody War, and to interrupt and hinder the &s;etling and &s;ecuring the Rights, Liberties, and Peace of the Kingdom; and for the &s;etling, upholding, and pro|tecting of them&s;elves and their accomplices, in their unju&s;t, op|pre&s;&s;ive, and Factious de&s;ignes and proceedings.</P>
<P N="5">5. That they have joyntly or &s;everally invited, encouraged, abetted or countenanced divers Reformadoes, and other Officers and Souldiers tumultuou&s;ly and violently to gather together at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> to affright and a&s;&s;ault the Members of Parliament, in pa&s;&s;age to and from the Hou&s;e, to offer violence to the Hou&s;e it &s;elf, and by &s;uch violence, outrages and threats to awe and inforce the Parliament.</P>
<P>The &s;everal Heads of Charge, the Army will by &s;uch Soli|citors as they &s;hall appoint (when the Hou&s;e of Commons &s;hall admit thereof) make good in particulars each Head again&s;t &s;ome of the per&s;ons, and &s;ome one head or more again&s;t each of the per&s;ons; and &s;hall &s;hortly give in the &s;everal parti|culars again&s;t each per&s;on re&s;pectively, which &s;hall be made good by proofs; the Army de&s;iring to &s;ave and re&s;erve to them&s;elves the liberty of exhibiting any farther Charge again&s;t all or any of the &s;aid per&s;ons.</P>
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<HEAD>A Paper delivered to the Right Ho|norable Commi&s;sioners of Parliament now with the Army at S. <HI>Albans, June</HI> 15. 1647. <HI>From his Excellency Sir</HI> Tho. Fairfax, <HI>and the Army under his Command:</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Shewing,</OPENER>
<P N="1">I. THat in pur&s;uance of the Repre&s;entation de|livered in, we have prepared the Heads of a Charge again&s;t divers per&s;ons, Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons (to whom many pa&s;&s;ages in the &s;aid Repre&s;entation do relate) which we have delivered in to be &s;peeded to the Parliament, and &s;hall (when the Parliament &s;hall have admitted thereof) appoint fit per&s;ons on our and the Kingdoms behalfs to pro&s;ecute and make good the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="2">II. That if the Parliament &s;hall be plea&s;ed to admit the&s;e things into Debate and Con&s;ideration at the De|&s;ire of the Army, in behalf of them&s;elves and the
<PB N="7" REF="4"> Kingdom, and to proceed thereupon for a general &s;a|tisfaction therein; we &s;hall then de&s;ire,</P>
<P N="1">1. That the per&s;ons impeached in the &s;aid Charge may be forthwith &s;u&s;pended from &s;itting in the Hou&s;e, without which we cannot rea&s;onably expect &s;uch a proceeding upon any the things we have propo&s;ed, as may probably bring the &s;ame to an happy or timely i&s;&s;ue to the kingdom or our &s;elvs; or as may prevent the pre&s;ent De&s;igns and practices &s;o imminently indanger|ing the Peace of this Nation, if tho&s;e &s;ame per&s;ons (who have notoriou&s;ly appeared mo&s;t active in all the late proceedings, to the prejudice and provocation of the Army, and hazarding thus far the Peace of the Kingdom) &s;hall continue in the &s;ame power Judges of tho&s;e things relating to the Armies &s;atisfaction, and Peace of the Kingdom.</P>
<P N="2">2. That there may be at lea&s;t a Moneths pay im|mediately &s;ent down to the Army for a pre&s;ent &s;up|ply, out of which the Army &s;hall pay Fourteen days quarter for time to come, and the other Fourteen days pay &s;hall be accompted as part of Arrears. And to this we mu&s;t de&s;ire a pre&s;ent Re&s;olution to be with us on Thur&s;day next by noon at farthe&s;t.</P>
<P N="3">3. That if the Officers and Soldiers of the Army, who have ingaged for <HI>Ireland,</HI> or tho&s;e who have de|&s;erted the Army and come to <HI>London,</HI> have &s;ince then received more then a Moneths pay, there may be &s;o much more money &s;ent down to the Army (above the Moneths pay aforementioned) as may make up that Moneths pay to the Army equal to what &s;uch Officers
<PB N="8" REF="5"> and Soldiers have &s;o received at <HI>London</HI> or el&s;where.</P>
<P N="4">4. That no Officers or Soldiers who have &s;o de|&s;erted the Army &s;hall have any more paid them as for Arrears, until the re&s;t of the Army &s;hall fir&s;t be &s;ati&s;|fied in point of their Arrears.</P>
<P N="5">5. Whereas there have been &s;everal De&s;igns and Endeavors, without Authority from tne Parliament, to rai&s;e and Li&s;t new Forces within this Kingdom, to draw together the Forces ingaged for <HI>Ireland,</HI> and march them towards <HI>London,</HI> and other &s;ecret practi|ces to ingage the Kingdom in a &s;econd War; We fur|ther de&s;ire, That during the Debates and Tran&s;action of this bu&s;ine&s;s betwixt the Parliament and the Army, the Parliament would not &s;uffer any new Forces to be rai&s;ed within this kingdom, or any Forces to be invited or admitted out of any other Kingdom to this, or any thing el&s;e to be done, that may carry the face of a new War, or of preparations thereunto, which may indan|ger or interrupt the pre&s;ent proceeding to the &s;ettle|ment of the Liberties and peace of this Kingdom.</P>
<P N="6">6. That the Parliament would be plea&s;ed (without delay) to put the things contained in our &s;everal Repre|&s;entations and Papers already given in, into a &s;peedy way of re&s;olution and di&s;patch, The pre&s;ent po&s;ture and condition of the Kingdom and Army, As al&s;o of His Maje&s;ty him&s;elf not admitting Delays.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>By appointment of his Excellency Sir</HI> Tho: Fairfax, <HI>and Soldiers of the Army under his Command.</HI> Signed by me JOHN RUSHWORTH.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>S. Albans,
<DATE>June 17. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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