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<P>TWO DECLARATIONS From His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, AND The Generall Councell of His Army; THE FIRST, To the Right Honourable, the Lord Major, Aldermen, and Common-Councell of the City of <HI>London,</HI> in behalfe of the whole Army; together with the Generals De&s;ires therein.</P>
<P>And an An&s;wer of the Lord Major, Aldermen, and Common-Councell thereunto.</P>
<P>THE SECOND, To the whole Kingdom in generall; Concerning the Re&s;o|lution of His Excellency, and the Officers and Soul|diery under His Command, touching the Power of the Sword, &amp;c.</P>
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<P>BY the appointment of His Excellency Sir <HI>Tho: Fairfax,</HI> and the Generall Councell of His Army.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed, <HI>Jo. Ru&s;hworth,</HI> Secr.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><ADD>7^b^e^r. 14</ADD> <HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for <HI>R.G.</HI> and are to be &s;old at the Royall Exchange in <HI>Cornhill, MDCXLVII.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>THE HEADS OF THE NEW PROPOSALS Debated upon <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> la&s;t, the 9. of this in&s;tant, by His Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> Lieutenant Generall <HI>Cromwell,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Officers, and Councell of the Army.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To be pre&s;ented to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maiesty at Hampton Court.</HEAD>
<P>UPon Thur&s;day la&s;t (being the Ninth of this in|&s;tant, 1647.) His Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> Lieutenant Generall <HI>Cromwell,</HI> and divers other Collonels, Lieutenant-Colonels, Majors, and Captaines, together with the Agitators
<PB N="2" REF="3">of each re&s;pective Regiment throughout the Army, met at the Head-quarters at <HI>Putney,</HI> and about ten of the clock in the morning a&s;&s;embled together in <HI>Put|ney</HI> Church, where they continued till &s;ix in the Eve|ning, and had a long debate at the Councell Table, touching the inlarging of divers Propo&s;als to be &s;ent to the King; they are very large, and of great con|cernment, therefore to large to contract in this &s;mall Volume: Neverthele&s;&s;e, I &s;hall here briefly intimate unto you, the effect and &s;ub&s;tance of &s;ome of the chiefe of them, by giving you the Heads, as follow|eth:</P>
<P>The fir&s;t is, concerning the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty, and His Royall Po&s;terity, touching their Rights and Intere&s;ts.</P>
<P>The &s;econd, Concerning the Seque&s;tration of the E&s;tates of divers of the Kings friends, for a&s;&s;i&s;ting his Maje&s;ty in the late War again&s;t the Parliament, &amp;c. With divers other Propo&s;als, for &s;etling of this tot|tering Kingdome in a firme Peace and Union.</P>
<P>The Right Honourable, the Lieutenant Generall declared him&s;elf mo&s;t worthily at the Councell Ta|ble, and expre&s;&s;ed him&s;elf to this effect:</P>
<P><HI>That whereas it hath been &s;ugge&s;ted to the Kingdom, that hee hath a di&s;ire to ca&s;t down the Foundation of Presbytery, and to advance and &s;et up Indepency, Hee declares, that he de&s;ires nothing more, then to &s;ee this poore tottered Nation e&s;tabli&s;hed in Truth and Peace, and this langui&s;hing Common-wealth re&s;tored to their ju&s;t Rights and Liberties, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Divers other matters (worthy of ob&s;ervation were treated upon at the &s;ame time, a Copy of which I
<PB N="3" REF="3">have &s;ent you here inclo&s;ed, together with the Gene|rals Me&s;&s;age to the Lord Mayor of <HI>London,</HI> and His <HI>Declaration</HI> to the Kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> all which I &s;hall here in&s;ert verbatim, according to the origi|nall Copies, agreed upon by his Excellency and the Councell of the Army.</P>
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<HEAD>A Declaration from the Adjutators in the Army, pre|fented to his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax</HI> at <HI>Putney.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Excellencie,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>HAving received informations from &s;ome per|&s;ons of good affections and fidelity to the Ar|my, and Kingdome, that &s;everall per&s;ons, are now un|der unmertiful &s;ufferings, by con&s;i&s;cating their goods and impri&s;onment of their per&s;ons, for words &s;poken again&s;t the King (acting in his tyrannicall practi&s;es in the late war they having been Souldiers.) And wher|as we being made &s;en&s;ible of their mi&s;ery, not kno|wing how &s;oon it may be our condition, their as yet being no provi&s;ion for their, or our own indempnity. For want of which our Enemies have &s;o great advan|tage of all the well-affected in the Kingdome, That if not timely remedied, they will recover more upon our words, then we of them by our &s;words. We are ingaged to &s;upplicate your Excellency in behalfe of the&s;e pri&s;oners, That you would be plea&s;ed to u&s;e &s;ome meanes for the re&s;toring them to their free|dome, and to deliver them from their Tyrannicall &s;ufferings, according as your Excellency &s;hall find a|greeable to ju&s;tice and rea&s;on.</P>
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<P> This Declaration was pre&s;ented to His Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax</HI> at <HI>Putney,</HI> and &s;igned by above 24. Adjutators in behalfe of the whole Army.</P>
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<HEAD>A Declaration from his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fair|fax,</HI> and the Generall Councell of his Army, to the Lord Major, Aldermen, and Common-Councell of the City of <HI>London,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WHereas I am informed, that the City of <HI>London</HI> is in arreare to the Army, a very great &s;umme, and under&s;tanding that care is taken by the Committee of Parliament for the Army to provide money &s;ea&s;onably for the pay|ment thereof, by &s;ending to you to advance fifty thou&s;and pounds upon the &s;ecurity of what is due from you, which is a far greater &s;um then is de|&s;ired to be pre&s;ently advanced by you, although wee cannot conceive that there well be any backe|wardne&s;se in you to an&s;wer this de&s;ire which is &s;o rea&s;onable, and of &s;uch nece&s;&s;ity to the &s;atisfacti|on and well ordering of the Army; yet we thought
<PB N="5" REF="4">good to declare unto you about it, that &s;o you may under&s;tand &s;o much from us, with this, That de|lay will be equall to a deniall, and cau&s;e us to think that little regard is had of us, or the en|deavours now in hand, tending to the &s;ettlement of the peace of the Kingdome, which is &s;o much de&s;ired, and hoped for by us, and all hone&s;t men; And to the obtaining of which timely &s;upplies of Money, and e&s;pecially the pre&s;ent payment of the &s;um above named will very much induce.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By the appointment of his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> and the general Councel of his Army, Signed. <HI>John Ru&s;hworth,</HI>Secr.</SIGNED>
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<P>We de&s;ire there may be a pre&s;ent performance the cendition of the Army not admitting any lon|ger delay.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>Putney Septem. 7.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>Whereupon, the Common-Councell met at Guild-hall upon Saterday la&s;t, and re&s;ol|ved to &s;end an an&s;wer to the General to this effect, <HI>That they will doe their endeavours to rai&s;e the &s;aid &s;umme &s;o &s;oon as po&s;&s;ible they can, and &s;atisfie his Excellencies de&s;ires therein.</HI></P>
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<P> Whereas a Member of the Generall Councel of this Army hath publikely declared and expre&s;|&s;ed him&s;elf, <HI>That there is now no vi&s;ible au|thority in this Kingdome, but the power and force of the Sword;</HI> We therfore the &s;aid Generall Councell, to te&s;tifie how far our hearts and minds are from &s;etting up the power of the <HI>Sword</HI> above, or again&s;t the Fundamental autho|rity and Government of the Kingdome, and our readine&s;&s;e to maintain and uphold the &s;ame Au|thority, have by a free Vote in the &s;aid Councell, no way contradicting, adjudged the &s;ame Mem|ber to be expelled the Councell, which we hereby thought fit to publi&s;h, as a cleere manife&s;tation of our di&s;like, and di&s;avowing &s;uch principles or purpo&s;es.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By the appointment of his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> and the Gene|nerall Councell of the Army. Signed, <HI>JOHN RUSHWORTH, Secretary.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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