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<P>THE DEMANDS AND DESIRES Of His Excellency the Lord General FAIRFAX, <HI>AND His Generall Councell of Officers.</HI> TO The Right Honorable the Lord Major, and Court of Alder|men, and their Re&s;olution touching all other Officers and Citizens, who &s;hall oppo&s;e or neglect the &s;aid Demands and De&s;ires. WITH His Excellencies Me&s;&s;age and Propo&s;als to the Lord Major, &s;hewing the grounds and rea&s;ons of the Armies entring the &s;aid City, and upon what terms and conditions he will remand them back again. LIKEWISE, The Impeachment, Demands, and Propo&s;als of the Army, concerning Major Generall <HI>Brown.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>BY the Appointment of His Excellency the Lord</HI> Fairfax <HI>Lord Generall, and His Generall Councell of Officers,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed, JOHN RUSHWORTH, Secr.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>LONDON, Printed for JOHN WOOLRIDGE, 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>THE DEMANDS OF THE ARMY, TO The Lord Major of <HI>London,</HI> concerning Major Gen. <HI>Brown,</HI> and the City.</HEAD>
<P>ON <HI>Friday</HI> Decemb. 7. Col. <HI>Dean</HI> entred the City of <HI>London</HI> with a party of Hor&s;e and Foot, and &s;eized on the Trea&s;uries in Gold&s;miths Hall, and Weavers Hall, for the payment of the Souldiery, during their re&s;idence hereabouts; another party al&s;o marched to the Se&s;&s;ions hou&s;e in the Old Bayley, where they demanded the per&s;on of Major Gen. <HI>Brown;</HI> but the Lord Major enga|ged
<PB N="2" REF="3">for his forth comming, and gave a &s;atisfactory an&s;wer to the Officers who came to &s;eize his per&s;on; from thence they marched to Guidl-hall, and other places in the City, deporting them&s;elves with great civility, and (in obedience to the Command of the Lord Generall) quartered at <HI>Pauls, Black-Friers,</HI> and other places adjacent.</P>
<P>His Excellency likewi&s;e &s;ent a declaratory me&s;&s;age to the Lord Major, in order to the proceedings of the Soldie|ry, a copy whereof followeth.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>HAving &s;ent &s;o often to you for the arreares due from the City, and de&s;ired &s;ums of money to be advanced by you, far &s;hort of the &s;ums due from you, yet I have been delayed and denied, to the hazard of the army, and the pre|judice of others in the Suburbs upon whom they are quar|tered; wherefore I thought fit to &s;end to &s;eize the &s;aid Tre|&s;uries, and to &s;end &s;ome forces into the City to quarter there, untill I may be &s;atisfied the Arrears due unto the Ar|my: and if this &s;eem &s;trange unto you, 'tis no le&s;&s;e then that our forces have been ordered to do by the Parl. in the &s;eve|rall Counties of the Kingdome where a&s;&s;e&s;ments have not bin paid, and there to continue untill they have bin paid: and here give me leave to tell you, the Counties of the kingdom have born free quarter, and that in a great mea&s;ure, for want of your paying your Arrears equally with them; wherfore, the&s;e wayes if they di&s;like you, yet they are meerly long of your &s;elves, and are of as great regret to me and to the Ar|my as your &s;elves, we wi&s;hing not only the good and pro|&s;perity of your City, but that things may be &s;o carried to|wards you, as may give no cau&s;e of jealou&s;ie: I thought fit to let you know, that if you &s;hall take a &s;peedy cour&s;e to &s;upply us with 40000. <HI>l.</HI> forthwith, according to my for|mer
<PB N="3" REF="3">De&s;ire, and provide &s;peedily what al&s;o is in Arrear, I &s;hall not only cau&s;e the monies in the Trea&s;uries to bee not made u&s;e of, but leave them to be di&s;po&s;ed of as right they might, and al&s;o cau&s;e my Forces to be withdrawn from be|ing in any &s;ort trouble&s;ome or chargable to the City; And let the world judge whether this be not ju&s;t and equal dea|ling with you.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>I re&s;t, My Lord, <HI>Your affectionate &s;ervant,</HI> T. FAIRFAX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="declaration">
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Excellency,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WE your Excellencies Servants, not &s;tirred up by any affec|tion to meddle with matters be&s;ides the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of our re&s;pective Imployments, nor any way favouring di&s;tempers a|mong&s;t our &s;elves, or others, but &s;ingly and faithfully we come to your Excellency in this petition abundantly pre&s;&s;ed thereto from the con&s;cience and &s;en&s;e we have of the neer approach of Ruine to all hone&s;t parties of the Kingdom; and your &s;elf and the Army a|mong&s;t the re&s;t, whereof the pre&s;ent tran&s;actions with the King, the late tran&s;actions of the Scots, and of a prevalent party in the Hou&s;es, are palpable and unhappy evidences to all the word, a-moulding &s;uch a clo&s;ure of the pre&s;ent differences, as we apprehend mo&s;t certainly &s;trengthen all the old corruptions in the former Go|vernment and &s;o leave the Kingdom in a more de&s;perate bondage then yet it ever felt. Among&s;t all which generals we further pre&s;ent your Excellency with the&s;e en&s;uing particulars.</P>
<P N="1">1 By what evidences and proofes, or upon what Rea&s;ons and grounds the King &s;tands acquitted of the charge of the Hou&s;es a|gain&s;t him, in their late Declaration to the Kingdom.</P>
<P N="2">2 What per&s;ons e&s;pecially what members of either Hou&s;es have plaid the Traytors, by inviting the Scots to invade this Kingdome, or gave them countenance, or incouragement in that perfidious at|tempt.</P>
<P N="3">3 That the promoters of the fir&s;t and &s;econd war bee brought to Ju&s;tice.</P>
<P N="4">4 That the arrears and debts of the Kingdom be &s;ecured and &s;a|tisfied, and that the publike faith be not made a publike fraud to the Kingdom,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed by the Officers and Souldiers in the VVe&s;t of England.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="impeachment">
<HEAD>The Armies Impeachment.</HEAD>
<P>THat whereas <HI>Denzil Hollis</HI> E&s;q; <HI>Lionel Copley</HI> E&s;q; Maj. Gen. <HI>Ma&s;sy,</HI> and others of your members, were in the year 1647. impeached by your &s;elves for trea&s;on or for high crimes and mi&s;demeanours, in relation to the trea&s;onable Engagement of the city of <HI>London,</HI> &amp;c. and upon cleer proofs again&s;t them, were by your cen&s;ure expelled the Hou&s;e; yet by the prevalency of their Faction the &s;ame per&s;ons were afterwa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ds readmitted to &s;it in the Hou&s;e, and vote as formerly, without any tryall or &s;atisfa|ction in the things whereof they were accu&s;ed: We demand that all tho&s;e members &s;o impeached may be forthwith &s;e|cured, to be brought to ju&s;tice or tryal for their &s;aid crims, and that &s;uch others of their faction, may be &s;ecluded from the Hou&s;e, &amp;c.</P>
<P>That whereas by the confederacy of Major Gen. <HI>Browne</HI> (now Sheriff of <HI>London</HI>) with the &s;aid impeached members, and others, the Scots were invited and drawn in to invade this Kingdom the la&s;t Summer, in&s;omuch as when upon the actuall Inva&s;ion the Hou&s;e proceeded to declare them ene|mies, and tho&s;e that adhered to them traytors; yet the &s;aid confederates and other treacherous members (to the num|ber of ninety and odd, as upon the divi&s;ion of the Hou&s;e appeared) did by their Councels and Votes endeavour to hinder the hou&s;e from declaring again&s;t their confederate invaeers; We de&s;ire, that the &s;aid M.G. <HI>Brown</HI> may bee al&s;o &s;ecured and brought to judgment, and that the re&s;t of the ninety and odd per&s;ons di&s;&s;enting in the &s;aid vote, may bee excluded the hou&s;e, and not tru&s;ted further in your Coun|cels.</P>
<P>That whereas in a continued Series of your proceedings for many moneths together, we have &s;een the prevalence of
<PB N="5" REF="4">the &s;ame treacherous, corupt, and divided councels, through factions and private intere&s;ts, and in their late Votes decla|ring the Kings pa&s;t conce&s;&s;ions to be a ground for the hou&s;e to proceed upon for the &s;ettlement of the peace of the <HI>king|dom,</HI> notwith&s;tanding the vi&s;ible in&s;ufficiency and defects of them in things e&s;&s;entially concerning the publike intere&s;t &amp; liberties of the Kingdome.</P>
<P>That &s;uch as by faithfulne&s;&s;e have retained their tru&s;t, be|ing &s;et in a condition to pur&s;ue and perform the &s;ame, with out &s;uch interruptions, diver&s;ions and depravations of coun+cels, as formerly, We &s;hall de&s;ire and hope you will &s;peedi|ly nnd vigorou&s;ly proceed, 1 To take order for the executi|on of Ju&s;tice, 2 To &s;et a &s;hort period to your own power, 3 To provide for a &s;peedy &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of equall Repre&s;enta|tives, according to our late Remon&s;trance, wherein diffe|rences in the kingdom may be ended, and we and others may comfortably acquie&s;e; as (for our parts) we hereby ingage, and a&s;&s;ure you we &s;hall.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>By the Appointment of his Excellency the Lord</HI> Falrfax, <HI>Lord General, and his Generall Councel of Officers.</HI> Signed, JOHN RUSHWORTH, Secr.</SIGNED>
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<P>Col. <HI>Pride</HI> having received Orders from the Generall, to &s;ecure a certain number of the Parliament, on Wedne&s;|day la&s;t marched with his Regiment to We&s;tmin&s;ter, and took divers of them into cu&s;tody, <HI>viz.</HI> Sir <HI>William VValler,</HI> Major Gen. <HI>Ma&s;sey,</HI> Sir <HI>Benjamin Rudyard,</HI> Col. <HI>Hollis,</HI> Col. <HI>Fines,</HI> and about 30 more who are committed to &s;afe cu&s;to|dy, and whether they &s;hall have their inlargment upon pa|roll, or be continued pri&s;oners is uncertain.</P>
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<P>His Excellench hath &s;ent a me&s;&s;age to the Aldermen of <HI>London,</HI> riquiring them to provide and make provi&s;ion for the Souldiery, in order to their accommodation for Bed|ding, &amp;c. to be equally apportioned upon the &s;everall divi|&s;ions within their Wards, and upon the &s;everall Hou&s;hol|ders that are of ability to furni&s;h the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And in ca&s;e that any &s;hall neglect therein, his Excellency doth declare, that he &s;hall be nece&s;&s;itated to &s;end Souldiers, either to fetch &s;uch proportions of Bedding from them that faile, or el&s;e to quarter with them; and mu&s;t take &s;uch cour&s;e again&s;t either tho&s;e Aldermen, and other Officers in the City, who &s;hall neglect to rate and bring in the propor|tions required from their re&s;pective Wards and Divi&s;ions, or again&s;t tho&s;e Inhabitants who &s;hall refu&s;e to &s;upply the proportions rated upon them, as &s;hall be fit to u&s;e towards &s;uch ob&s;tinate oppo&s;ers of that orderly &s;upply, which is &s;o nece&s;&s;ary for the ea&s;e and quiet of the City, and for the &s;ub|&s;i&s;tance of the Army.</P>
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