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<P>THE DECLARATION AND RESOLUTION Of the Citizens of LONDON CONCERNING The KINGS MAJESTY, and the ARMY; <HI>AND</HI> Their <HI>Me&s;sage, Propo&s;als,</HI> and <HI>De&s;ires,</HI> to the Lord Generall <HI>Fairfax,</HI> concerning their Dread Soveraign the <HI>King,</HI> the Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> and the Duke of <HI>York.</HI> With a <HI>Declaration</HI> of the Lord Major, Aldermen, and Common-councell of the &s;aid City, on <HI>Saturday</HI> la&s;t at <HI>Guild-Hall,</HI> touching the Lord Generall, and His Forces. Al&s;o, the further Demands of the <HI>Army,</HI> and their Summons and Propo&s;als to the Hou&s;e of Commons.</P>
<P>LONDON. Printed for GEORGE HORTON, 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>A MESSAGE From the Citizens of LONDON TO The Lord Generall <HI>Fairfax,</HI> concerning the Kings Maje&s;ty, the Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> and the Duke of <HI>YORK.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Excellency,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_UPpon mature and &s;erious con&s;ultation of your late <HI>Remonstrance</HI> and <HI>Declarati|on,</HI> for the &s;etling of this bleeding <HI>King|dom</HI> in a more &s;afe and mutual po&s;ture, the executing of Ju&s;tice upon his Ma|je&s;ty, and all other per&s;on or per&s;ons, who have acted contrary to the knowne Lawes of the Realm, the &s;ummoning in the Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> and the
<PB N="2" REF="3">Duke of <HI>York,</HI> and the &s;etting of a period for the ending and di&s;&s;olving of this pre&s;ent Parliament, &amp;c In refe|rence whereunto, we do de&s;ire, That there may bee a mitigation, and favourable con&s;truction of the prece|dent actions and proceedings of his Maje&s;ty, and their Highne&s;&s;es the Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> and the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> in relation to the late VVar, and that there may bee a more equall di&s;pen&s;ing of Ju&s;tice and Mercy, in rela|tion to things done or &s;uffered in the &s;aid wars; and for all other particulars therein &s;pecified we do una|nimou&s;ly declare, that we &s;hall mo&s;t willingly and freely concur with your Excellency, and the Coun|cell of the Army therein; prote&s;ting, to &s;acrifice lives and fortunes, and all that is near and dear unto us, in pur&s;uance of the &s;ame.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Signed by many thou&s;and well affected Citizens with|in the Cities of</HI> London <HI>and</HI> We&s;tmin&s;ter, <HI>and paats adiacent, who &s;ub&s;cribes them&s;elves,</HI> Your Excellencies mo&s;t humble, and obedient &s;erants, &amp;c.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A new Remon&s;trance from the Army, to the City and Kingdome.</HEAD>
<P>BEing full of &s;ad apprehen&s;ions concerning the danger and evill of the Treaty with the <HI>King,</HI> and of any accommodation with him, or re&s;ti|tution of him thereupon, We did by our late Remon|&s;trance upon the Rea&s;ons and Grounds therein expre&s;|&s;ed, make our application thereby unto the pre&s;ent Hou&s;e of Commons, that the dangerous evill of that
<PB N="4" REF="3">way might be avoided, and the peace of the <HI>Kingdome</HI> &s;etled upon more righteous, &s;afe and hopefull grounds, <HI>viz.</HI> a more equall d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pen&s;ing of Ju&s;tice and Mercy in relation to things done or &s;uffered in the late wars, and the e&s;tabli&s;hing of the future Government of this <HI>King|dom</HI> upon a &s;afe &s;ucce&s;&s;ion and equall Con&s;titution of Parliaments, and that (for the ending of pre&s;ent, and avoiding of future Differences) to be Ratified by an Agreement and Sub&s;cription of the people therunto. Which things we pre&s;&s;ed in the way of Rea&s;on and Per&s;wa&s;ion onely, that they might be duely and time|ly con&s;idered. But to our griefe we find, in &s;tead of any Satisfacton or a rea&s;onable an&s;wer thereto, they are wholly rejected, without any con&s;ideration of what ever Rea&s;on or Ju&s;tice might be in the things &s;et forth or propounded therein; for what le&s;&s;e can be under&s;tood, when the things propounded were mainly for the avoidance of evils appearing in the Treaty with the King: And feeing the prevailing part of tho&s;e, to whom we did apply, to have as it were their eyes wilfully &s;hut, and eares &s;topt, again&s;t any thing of Light or Rea&s;on offered to them, we find no place left for our former charitable or hopefull ap|prehen&s;ions, concerning their errour in &s;uch evill ways; but remaining fully a&s;&s;ured of the danger and de&s;tructivene&s;&s;e thereof, as to all tho&s;e publique ends for which they were intru&s;ted, and al&s;o of the ju&s;t advantage and nece&s;&s;ity which lie in the things we have propounded and in&s;i&s;t on, we now &s;ee nothing left, to which their engaging and per&s;i&s;ting in &s;uch waies, and rejection of the&s;e better things propounded, can rationally be attributed le&s;&s;e then a treacherous or
<PB N="5" REF="4">corrupt neglect of, and Apo&s;tacy from the Publique Tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them; although we could wi&s;h from our &s;oules, we might yet find the contrary.</P>
<P>Therefore it is our hearts de&s;ire, and &s;hall be our endeavour, that &s;o much, both of the matter and form of the pre&s;ent Parliamentory Authority may be pre|&s;erved, as can be &s;afe, or will be u&s;efull to the&s;e ends, untill a ju&s;t and full Con&s;titution thereof, both for matter and form (&s;utable to the publique ends, it &s;erves for) can be entroduced.</P>
<P>And therefore fir&s;t, it &s;hould be great rejoycing (if God &s;aw it good) that the majority of the pre&s;ent Hou&s;e of Commons were become &s;en&s;ible of the evil and di&s;tructivene&s;&s;e of their late way, and would re|&s;olvedly and vigorou&s;ly apply them&s;elves to the &s;pee|dy execution of ju&s;tice, with the righting and ea&s;ing of the oppre&s;&s;ed people, and to a ju&s;t &s;ettlement of the Kingdome upon &s;uch foundations as have been pro|pounded by us, and others for that purpo&s;e, and would for the &s;peedier and &s;urer pro&s;ecution of the&s;e things exclude from Communication in their Councels, all &s;uch corrupt and Apo&s;tarized Members as have ap|peared hitherto, but to ob&s;truct and hinder &s;uch mat|ter of Ju&s;tice, Safety, and publique intere&s;t, and to pervert their Councels a contrary way and have there|in &s;o &s;hamefully both fal&s;ified, and forftied their Tru&s;t,</P>
<P>But however of God &s;hal not &s;ee it good (to vouch|&s;afe that mercy to tem and the Kingdome) we &s;hall &s;econdly de&s;ire, That &s;o many of them as God hath kept upright, and &s;hal touch with a ju&s;t &s;ence of tho&s;e things, would by prote&s;tation or otherwi&s;e, acquit
<PB N="5" REF="4">them&s;elves from &s;uch breach of Tru&s;t, and approve their faithfulne&s;&s;e, by withdrawing from tho&s;e that per&s;i&s;t in the guilt therof, &amp; take &s;uch a po&s;ture, wher|by they may &s;peedily &amp; effectually pro&s;ecute tho&s;e ne|ce&s;&s;ary and publique ends, without &s;uch inteerupti|ons, Diver&s;ions, or depravations of their Councell from the re&s;t, to their endle&s;&s;e trouble, and hazard of the Kingdom as formerly, and for &s;o many of them, who&s;e hearts God &s;hall &s;tir up thus to do.</P>
<P>We &s;hall therein, in this ca&s;e of extremity, looke upon them as per&s;ons having materially the chief Tru&s;t of the Kingdom remaining in them, and though not a for|mall &s;tanding power to be continued in them, or drawn into ordinary Pre&s;idents; yet the be&s;t and mo&s;t rightfull that can be had, as the pre&s;ent &s;tate and exigence of af|fairs now &s;tand; And we &s;hal accordingly owne them, adhere to them, and be guided by them in their faithful pro&s;ecution of that tru&s;t, in order vnto, and until the in|troducing of a more full and formal power in a ju&s;t Repre&s;entative to be &s;peedy endeavoured.</P>
<P>Now yet further to take away all jealou&s;ies in rela|tion to our &s;elves, which might with-hold or di&s;cour&s;e any hone&s;t members from this courage, as we have the witne&s;&s;e of God in our hearts, that in the&s;e proceedings we do not &s;eek, but even re&s;olve we wil not take advan|tages to our &s;elves, either in point of profit or power; and that if God did open to us a way, wherin with ho|ne&s;ty and faithfulne&s;&s;e to the publique Intere&s;t, &amp; good people ingaged for us, we might pre&s;ently be di&s;charge+ed, &s;o as we might nor in our pre&s;ent Employments <HI>look</HI> on, and be ace&s;&s;ary to, yea &s;upporters of the Parlia|ment, in the pre&s;ent corrupt, oppre&s;&s;ive and de&s;tructive
<PB N="6" REF="5">proceedings, wee &s;hould with rejoycing, and without more ado embrace &s;uch a di&s;charge, rather then inter|po&s;e in the&s;e things to our owne va&s;t trouble and haz|zard; &s;o if we could but obtain a rational a&s;&s;urance for the effectuall pro&s;ecuting of the&s;e things, we &s;hall give any proportionable a&s;&s;urance on our parts, concer|ning our laying down of arms, when, and as we &s;hould be required.</P>
<P>But for the pre&s;ent as the ca&s;e &s;tands, we apprehend our &s;elves oblieged in duty to God, this Kingdome, and good men therein, to approve our utmo&s;t abilities in all hone&s;t wayes, for the avoiding of the&s;e great evils which we have remon&s;trated, and for pro&s;ecution of the good things we have propounded; and al&s;o that &s;uch per&s;ons who were the inviters of the late inva&s;i|on from Scotland, the In&s;tigaters and incouragers of the late in&s;urrections within this Kingdome, and (tho&s;e forcible wayes failing) have &s;till pur&s;ued tho&s;e wicked de&s;ignes by treacherous and corrupt councels, may be brought to publike ju&s;tice, according to their &s;everall demerits. For all the&s;e ends we are now drawing up with the Army to London, there to follow providence as God &s;hall clear our way.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Signed,</HI> John Ru&s;hworth <HI>Secr.</HI></SIGNED>
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<P>On Saturday <HI>Decemb.</HI> 2. Upon further debate of the De&s;ires of the Army, The Lord Major, Aldermen, and Common-councel, declared, <HI>That all meanes po&s;&s;ible &s;hould be u&s;ed, for keeping a right understanding and mutual corre&s;pondence between the City and Army, and that no means &s;hould be left una&s;sayed (on their parts) for the establi&s;hing of a firm and la&s;ting peace, through|out all His Maje&s;ties Realms and Dominions.</HI></P>
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