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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<P>HIS EXCELLENCY <HI>SIR THOMAS FAIRFAXES</HI> Prote&s;tation, in the name of him&s;elfe, and the re&s;t of the Army.</P>
<P>THE DECLARATION Of the Commaltee of Souldiers, Their <HI>An&s;wer</HI> to the Scots <HI>Declaration,</HI> And the Re&s;olutions of the army Concerning the City of LONDON.</P>
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<P>London Printed by B. A. 1647</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>NEVVES FROM THE ARMIE</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>YOurs dated June</HI> 11, <HI>came &s;afe to my hands for which I give you many thankes, and for what hath &s;ince my lh&s;t bin collected by me, is briefly thus, That we have left the King vt his hou&s;e at Newmarket, where Col. Whalley commands the Guard &s;till.</HI></P>
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<P>Wee are now come hither to St. Albones the Gen. Excellency, Leivtenant Gen. Ham|mond, Col. Hammond, Comi&s;&s;ary Gen. Ier|ton, Col. Rainsborough, Col. Sir Hardreds Waller, Col. Rich, Col. Lilburne, Col. Pride, Col. How&s;on, and the re&s;t, Al&s;o F. Mar. Gen. Skippon, Liv. Gen. Crumwell and the re&s;t of the Commi&s;&s;ioners are come with us, wee have a very gallant army, &amp; do not decrea&s;e, be&s;ids many that have left us would faine be admitted againe but come not.</P>
<P>Wee had &s;ome of the Scots Declarati|ons brought hither which have much in|coraged the &s;ouldiers, e&s;pecially that la&s;t pa&s;&s;age, wherein they a&s;&s;ined the Parlia|ment at the conference of both hou&s;es, that if there were neede, (it being upon &s;ome &s;peeches again&s;t the army) that they would joyne aboue man.</P>
<P>But I find that the &s;ouldiers take things very well from the City, in that they will joyne with tho&s;e who would promote war again&s;t them. And it hath (as I here) been di&s;puted among&s;t the &s;ouldiers very much, what cour&s;e to take for the poore of the Ci|ty of London, in ca&s;e the Armies lying neer
<PB REF="3">rai&s;e the pri&s;es of provi&s;ions, the re&s;ult of which was that if they have but &s;ome mo|nies &s;ent them to pay the Armies quarters, they will retreate further from the City, &amp; it is the open way (&s;o far as I perceive) that upon a motion from the City, the Parlia|ment will not deny it them.</P>
<P>we heare that it is much que&s;tioned in the City of London what the Army wil do up|on them in relation to their E&s;tates whe|ther they &s;hall be free from plunder, &amp; al|&s;o whether they will admitt a free trade, if the Country to which the Souldiers haue re&s;olved, that the City of London going on in this loving way, and not oppo&s;ing them, they will do them no prejudice.</P>
<P>The &s;ouldiers are re&s;olved that not one penyworth of goods or mony, &s;hall be prejudiced by them, not only that in their &s;hops or hou&s;es, but what &s;oever &s;hall be carried in to the Country, or be &s;ent up from the Country, between them and tho&s;e they deale withall, not any jote thereof &s;hal be prejudiced, and if any monies be &s;ent them to enable them to pay quarters they will remoue further off from London.</P>
<P>Wee heare of &s;ome Aldermen, and Common-Councell men comming to the Army from the City, they are much expected againe, they a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> come to us, you &s;hall here further from</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your humble &s;ervant R. CORBET</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>St. Albones,</HI> <DATE>Iune the 13. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="protestation">
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<HEAD>His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax his Prote|&s;tation, in the name of him&s;elf, and the re&s;t of the Commanders in chiefe.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. WE have &s;aid before, and profe&s;&s;e it now, we de&s;ire no alteration of the Civill Government.</P>
<P N="2">2. We de&s;ire not to interrupt the &s;etling of Presbyterial Government.</P>
<P N="3">3. Nor do we &s;eek to open a way to li|centious liberty, under pretence of obtaining ea&s;e for tender Con&s;ciences.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>T. FAIRFAX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The De&s;ires of the Army.</HEAD>
<P N="1">I. Their de&s;ire is, to pre&s;erve and not to &s;poyle, and to that end, are determined both Officers and Souldiers, hor&s;e and foot, not in the lea&s;t, to be accounted the wicked of men, and de&s;troyers, but pre&s;ervers of that remnant and talent which God hath be|&s;towed upon tho&s;e, who &s;erve him in truth and &s;incerity.</P>
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<P N="2">II. That although they are now near ap|proaching towards your va&s;t and populous City, yet it is no waies prejudiciall to the State, but for the pre&s;ervation and &s;ecurity of tho&s;e priviledges, for which divers poor &s;ouldiers have lo&s;t their lives for the main|tenance of the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="3">III. That if there be an an&s;wer returned &s;omewhat &s;uitable to their de&s;ires, and their rea&s;onable reque&s;ts granted, they &s;hall pro|ceed no further, but retreat to any conveni|ent place, which &s;hall be thought fit and convenient.</P>
<P N="4">IV. That, their de&s;ire is, that they may re|ceive a faire &amp; &s;uitable An&s;wer to their Re|que&s;ts, (profe&s;&s;ing that their intentions are reall, and not in the lea&s;t, prejudiciall, either to State or Common-Wealth, but for the advantage of the publike good.) And that the Citizens of <HI>London</HI> with whom they have &s;o often hazarded <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> lives withall again&s;t the Common Enemy of the Kingdome, may not in any waies &s;tand in oppo&s;ition again&s;t them, but really and unanimou&s;ly knit their hearts in one link, again&s;t all oppo&s;ers and
<PB REF="5">di&s;turbers of the publike Weale of <HI>England,</HI> in which trouble&s;ome di&s;a&s;ters, both the Citizens of <HI>London</HI> and the renowned Pren|tices (of the &s;aid City) in the Army, have waded through many difficulties.</P>
<P N="5">V. And la&s;tly, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> is the earne&s;t de&s;ire of the whole Army, that all things may be compo&s;ed in love, and that all po&s;&s;i|ble means may be u&s;ed, for a &s;afe and well-grounded peace, that &s;o his Maje&s;ties Honour and Prerogative may be main|tained, the Priviledges and Being of Parliament pre&s;erved, and the peace and welfare of the Kingdome defended, a|gain&s;t all Oppo&s;ers, and Di&s;turbers what&s;oever.</P>
<P>The&s;e De&s;ires and Demands were &s;ub&s;cribed by divers of the chief Officers in the Army.</P>
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