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<P>A DECLARATION OF THE ARMY, CONCERNING The Kings Maje&s;ty, the Prince of WALES, and the Citizens of LONDON, Agreed upon by the Officers and Souldiers, under the Command of the Lord Gen. <HI>Fairfax,</HI> to be read and publi&s;hed throughout the re&s;pective Counties within the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> and Do|minion of <HI>Wales.</HI></P>
<P>AND A Remon&s;trance thereupon, touching the pro|ceedings of the King, and both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
<P>TOGETHER, With a Letter read in both Hou&s;es, containing a Charge again&s;t all tho&s;e who &s;hall act contrary to the Lawes of the Land, either again&s;t King or Parliament.</P>
<Q>SIgned by the Agents of the Army, in the name of them&s;elves and the whole Kingdom, and Commanded to be forthwith Prin|ted and publi&s;hed.</Q>
<P>London, <HI>Printed for</HI> R. William&s;on, <HI>and are to be &s;old in St.</HI> Dun&s;tons <HI>Church-yard, near</HI> Temple-Barre, 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>A Declaration from the Northern Ar|my, concerning the Kings Maje&s;ty, the Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> and the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> and their De|mands and Re&s;olutions thereupon.</HEAD>
<P>VVHereas we have lately &s;een a Copy of your Propo&s;alls, pre&s;ented by the Agents of the re&s;pective Regiments, to our ever honoured Gen. the Councell of the Army, we do there|fore declare, that we do unanimou&s;ly embrace the &s;ame, and ble&s;&s;e God, that he hath made you In&s;truments of &s;o happy a work, promi&s;ing all a&s;&s;i&s;tance therein, and prote&s;ting to live and dye with you for the accompli&s;h|ing of the &s;ame; we &s;hall be no longer &s;ilent, in this great work, but are re&s;olved forthwith to &s;end our Agents unto you, to the end, that our &s;ence and Re&s;olutions, may appear vi&s;ible, to the general Councel, now a&s;&s;embled by the voice of the Army.</P>
<P>And we do further declare, that we are re&s;olved to &s;tand and fall with you, for the &s;peedy executing of Ju|&s;tice
<PB N="2" REF="3">upon all per&s;ons what&s;oever, even from the highe&s;t to the lowe&s;t, and in all other particulars what&s;oever, now agitating by you (our fellow Souldiers and Com|moners) in the South, in relation to the proceedings of the King, the Prince, and the Duke, &amp;c.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dated from their la&s;t ge|nerall meeti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g near York,</HI> <DATE><HI>Novemb.</HI> 10. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Sub&s;cribed by the Agents of the re&s;pective Regi|ments, throughout the Northern Brigade.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A Declaration of the further proceedings in the North con|cerning King and Kingdom, Sent in a Letter to the Right Honourable, <HI>William Lenthall</HI><HI>E&s;q;</HI> Speaker of the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mr. Speaker,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>LIeutenant Generall <HI>Crumwell</HI> upon conference with us Gnetlemen of the four Northern Counties, con|ceives it nece&s;&s;ary, that the &s;tanding Gari&s;on of <HI>Barwick</HI> be 1200 foot, and the Garri&s;on of <HI>Carlile</HI> 800, and that there be al&s;o two Regiments of hor&s;e, con&s;i&s;ting of 600 in a Regiment; to be ready upon all occa&s;ions to re&s;i&s;t &amp; oppo&s;e any Inva&s;ion that may happen by Sea or Land, and to quell In&s;urrections, that may ri&s;e among&s;t us, &amp; to &s;uppre&s;&s;e the Mo&s;s troopers, they being now &s;tron|ger then ever, many of the enemies &s;cattered hor&s;e being gathered to them, we &s;hall mo&s;t readily and heartily endeavour to do the utmo&s;t the&s;e poor Counties are able but &s;ir, you know our intolerable &s;ufferings, not onely this la&s;t Summer, but from the beginning of the&s;e King|doms
<PB N="3" REF="3">troubles, &amp; our Petition doth a little &s;et forth the &s;ad condition that wee are now in; wee, therefore mo&s;t earne&s;tly intreat you to move the Hou&s;e that the&s;e forces both of hor&s;e and foot, may be maintained by the whole Kingdom, not only in re&s;pect of our ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ream poverty &amp; di&s;abilities, but becau&s;e they are the frontier Gari&s;ons between the 2. Kingdoms, and have ever been maintain|ed by the publike, we pre&s;s this the more earne&s;tly, know+ing the nece&s;&s;ity of a &s;peedy provi&s;ion, and the impo&s;&s;i|bility for the&s;e Counties to provide for &s;uch a force, and to what generall way the Hou&s;e plea&s;e to appoint, who &s;hall willingly and freely contribute our proportion, and labour both in that and all other things to &s;hew our &s;elves, Sir, <HI>Your faithfull Servant,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
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<HEAD>A new Remon&s;trance from the North, con|cerning the King, and the Royall party, read in both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas we had formerly &s;ome hopes that lenity towards tho&s;e who had been in Arms &amp; other|wi&s;e active again&s;t the Parl. would &s;o far have prevailed with them, that we might have peaceably enjoyed our own habitations, but we have lately found by wofull experience, that the permitting &s;uch per&s;ons, e&s;pecially tho&s;e of intere&s;t in the Country to live among&s;t us, hath brought mo&s;t un&s;ufferable mi&s;ery upon the&s;e Countries:
<PB N="4" REF="4">In&s;omuch, as we may ju&s;tly fear the peri&s;hing of many F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">milies this Win or for want of bread; Gentlemen of quality and their Families having no other drink but wa|ter, and as an exceeding addition to our former &s;orrows, &s;uffered this Summer by impri&s;oning our pe &s;ons, di&s;|peopling our Towns, compelling all able to bear Arms, betwixt the age of 60. and 16. to a&s;&s;i&s;t again&s;t the Parl. and by de&s;troying our corn and goods, and killing our Neighbours and Countrimen, and driving away our Cattle: And al&s;o by bringing into the Kingdom a for|reign Nation, and by treacherou&s;ly &s;urprizing, and mo&s;t ba&s;ely delivering into the Scots hands, the two con&s;ide|rable Towns of <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Cartile,</HI> &amp; by further aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting of them, towards the &s;ubduing and en&s;la|ving of our Kingdom, that many of the actors, contrivers, and a&s;&s;i&s;ters in that horrible and traiterous De&s;ign, not only again&s;t our Countries, but the Parl. and Kingdom, are after all their Summers abominable trea&s;on and out|rages, now returned with much confidence and boldne&s;&s;e to their own hou&s;es, intending to hatch (as we have cau&s;e to believe) now plots this Winter among&s;t us.</P>
<P>The premi&s;&s;es con&s;idered, we pray that ju&s;tice may be &s;peedily executed on &s;uch impl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cable enemies and declared Traitors to the Parliament, Kingdom, &amp; their Countries, and to that end a Commi&s;&s;ion of <HI>Oyre</HI> and <HI>Terminer,</HI> with learned and faithfull Judges may be forthwith &s;ent down into the&s;e Northern parts, or &s;uch o h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r legall Cour&s;e re&s;olved on as to your wi&s;dome &s;hal &s;eeme be&s;t for their &s;peedy trials in the&s;e Northern Counties where they have committed the offences, and that a Solicitor may be forthwith &s;ent down into the&s;e parts, that &s;uch as are fled out of the Kingdom, or gone
<PB N="5" REF="4">yond Sea, may be proceeded again&s;t according to Law, we know no other way under God to prevent a new war, for many Delinquents late in Arms, are not only retur|ned to their own hou&s;es, but meet, and have already their private con&s;ultations, pretending Articles for their peaceable living at home, and are thereupon &s;o in&s;olent, that they ride armed to publike places, and do not &s;tick to &s;ay that they yet expect a turn for all this, and we find by experience, that unle&s;&s;e the Hou&s;e do &s;everely proceed again&s;t &s;uch notorious Delinquents, many of the people in the&s;e parts will adhere to them, and ju&s;tifie their actions, and be ready to ri&s;e up in Arms with them upon all occa&s;ions.</P>
<P>We pre&s;&s;e more earne&s;tly the granting of this, know|ing that the peace and quiet of the North, if not of the whole Kingdom, depends upon it.</P>
<P><HI>His Maje&s;ties Remon&s;trance to the Parliament.</HI></P>
<P>FOr a finall an&s;wer to you, as to you paper of the fir&s;t of this in&s;tant, and the notes therein mentioned con|cerning the Church, His Maje&s;ty &s;aith, that his Conce&s;|&s;ions expre&s;&s;eth in that paper, and mi&s;-apprehended in the&s;e particulars following, <HI>viz.</HI> He never did, nor doth intend to make any more new Bi&s;hops during the terme of 3. years, that the power of Ordination &s;hould be prac|ti&s;ed in the old manner as formerly, for that heretofore the Bi&s;hops were at liberty to call what Presbyters they would to a&s;&s;i&s;t ordaining, but were not bound to their Councell or con&s;ent; but his Maj<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ty doth now intend, and will con&s;ent, that Bi&s;hops &s;hall not receive any into holy orders without the con&s;ent and limited number of Presbyters, to be cho&s;en i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;uch manner as &s;hall be agre|ed
<PB N="6" REF="5">on by his M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">j. &amp; his 2 Hou&s;es for that purpo&s;e. Nei|ther did his Maj. intend that a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e the end of 3. years, n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> certain way &s;hould be &s;etled concerning Eccl &s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ticall Governm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nt; for that his Maj. did purpo&s;e du<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing the 3. years, to have a con&s;ultation with the A&s;&s;embly of Di|vines. 20. being added of his own nomination; which if his 2. Hou&s;es &s;hall re&s;olve to entertain, i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> cannot well be doubted, but upon the debate, &s;uch a Government will be agreed upon by his Maj. and his 2. Hou&s;es, as &s;hall be be&s;t for the pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ce of the Church, and mo&s;t proper to prevent tho&s;e di&s;tractions which his 2. Hou&s;es apprehend may en&s;ue.</P>
<P>And as to that part of the propo&s;ition concerning the Book of Common-Prayer, for the &s;atisfaction of his 2. Hou&s;es, his Maj. will not in&s;i&s;t upon any provi&s;ion for continuance of the &s;ame in his Maj. Chappell for him|&s;elf and his Hou&s;hold; neverthele&s;&s;e, his Maj. declares, that he intends to u&s;e &s;ome other &s;et form of Divine Service.</P>
<P>And as to all other particulars in your paper mentio|ned, his Maj. having in his former An&s;wers con&s;ented &s;o far as po&s;&s;ibly he can, as he &s;tands at pre&s;ent per&s;waded in his judgment; doth refer him&s;elf thereunto. And &s;ince his Maj. by his Conce&s;&s;ions hath brought all differences concerning the Church into &s;o narrow a compa&s;&s;e, that the chief vi&s;ible ob&s;truction is that, wherein really in con&s;cience he is not &s;atisfied: He hopes his 2. Hou&s;es will not put further pre&s;&s;ures of &s;o tender a nature upon him, when it is mo&s;t likely the time and Debate will happily reconcile all the&s;e differences.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dated from his Maje&s;ties Court at Newport,</HI> <DATE>the 12. <HI>of November,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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