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<P>A DECLARATION TO THE City and Kingdome, FROM
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<ITEM>Major Generall <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>William Waller,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Colonell <HI>Birch,</HI></ITEM>
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And the re&s;t re&s;t of the Impeached Members of <HI>Parliament;</HI></P>
<P>CONC<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">RNING The proceedings of the Lord Generall <HI>Fairfax,</HI> and the Army; and their Prote&s;tation to the people of <HI>England,</HI> touching the Parliament.</P>
<P>ALSO, Major General <HI>Browns</HI> Declaration and Speech to the Lord Generall <HI>Fairfax,</HI> touching the King, the Prince of <HI>VVales,</HI> the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> the <HI>Parliament, City,</HI> and <HI>Kingdome.</HI></P>
<P>AND The Declaration of his Excellency the Lord Generall, to the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> and his Re&s;olution thereupon.</P>
<P>LIKEWISE, A new Covenant and Agreement from the Army, to be ten|dered to all free born Engli&s;h-men, throughout the City of <HI>London,</HI> and the re&s;pective Counties within the Kingdom of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P><ADD>Dec. 18^t^h</ADD> Printed for <HI>C. VV.</HI> neer the Royall Exchange, 1648.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>A DECLARATION TO THE KINGDOME FROM [Major Generall <HI>Ma&s;sey,</HI> Sir <HI>William Waller,</HI> Commi&s;&s;ary <HI>Copley,</HI> and the re&s;t of the impeached Members con|cerning the proceedings of the Army&punc;</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Fellow-Commoners, and Countrey-men,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas, there hath been lately a mo&s;t high at|tempt and violation put upon the Hou&s;e o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Commons, by the Army, under the Com|mand of <HI>Thomas</HI> Lord <HI>Fairfax;</HI> Therefore, We, who&s;e names are hereunto &s;ub&s;cribed, being Members thereof, and Freeborn &s;ubjects of the Realm of <HI>England,</HI> Doe hereby Declare, and prote&s;t, in the pre&s;ence of the Almighty Jehovah of Heaven, That the Generall and Officers of the Army, being rai&s;ed by the authority of Par|liament
<PB N="2" REF="3">and for defence and maintenance of the priviledges thereof; have not power or juri&s;diction to apprehend, &s;e|cure, detein, impri&s;on, or remove our per&s;ons from place to place by any colour or authority what&s;oever; nor yet to que&s;tion or try us or any of us by Martiall Law, or other|wi&s;e, for any offence or crime what&s;oever; nor yet to que|&s;tion or try us, or any of us by Martiall Law, or otherwi&s;e, for any offence or crime what&s;oever, which can or &s;hall be objected again&s;t us; And that the pre&s;ent impri&s;onment and removal of our per&s;ons is a high violation of the rights and priviledges of Parliament, and of the fundamentall Lawes of the Land, and a higher u&s;urpation and exerci&s;e of an arby|trary and unlawfull power, then hath been heretofore pre|tended to, or attempted by this, of any King, or other power what&s;oever, within this Realm; notwith&s;tanding which, wee and every of us do declare our readine&s;s to &s;ubmit our &s;elvs to the lawfull tryall of a free Parliament, f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r any crime or mi&s;demeanour that can or &s;hall bee objected again&s;t Us.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sub&s;cribed,
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<ITEM>Edwa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d Ma&s;sey,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVilliam VValler,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Birch.</ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="speech">
<HEAD>Major Gen. <HI>Browns</HI> Speech to the Lord Gen. <HI>Fairfax.</HI></HEAD>
<P>TO be your pri&s;oner, is by much the le&s;se di&s;plea&s;ing to me, for that my Accu&s;ation is for nothing el&s;e but Loyalty to the King and Parliament, and the indeavours which I have un|dertaken to prevent the &s;ubver&s;ion of his Maje&s;ty, and his po|sterity, Parliament, City, and Kingdom, the final lo&s;se of Com|mon right and freedom of all the &s;ubjects of <HI>England,</HI> the utter extirpation of all Law, Government and Religion, and the pre|posterous converting of our well regulated Monarchy into that monstrous conception, a Military, Anarchy, with a popular par|liament
<PB N="4" REF="3">of the meanest of the Commons, and &s;uch al&s;o of them only, as &s;hal be constantli at the beck of the Army.</P>
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<HEAD>His Excellencies Declaration.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas, in the adventuring of our lives and bloud, we have &s;ought nothing more then the pro&s;perity of this Kingdom, and the e&s;tabli&s;hing of Ju&s;tice and Righte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e in the Land; &s;o there is nothing that wee more ab|hor then tho&s;e wicked calumnies, that we &s;hould invade the propriety of any not wilfully making them&s;elves, or do any thing any way, to hinder or ob&s;truct that Trade and Com|merce by which this Kingdom doth mo&s;t &s;ub&s;i&s;t and flou|ri&s;h: But that we &s;hal, in a mo&s;t &s;pecial manner, protect, de|fend, encourage and maintain, in all ju&s;t ways, all manner of Trade and Commerce, either by Engli&s;h or Strangers: and that we &s;hall neither do, nor &s;uffer to be done, as far as is in our power, any violence or injury, to the per&s;ons or goods of any, either by Sea or Land.</P>
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<HEAD>The De&s;ires of the Souldiery to their General.</HEAD>
<P>Whereas it hath plea&s;ed the Lord of Ho&s;ts to write his name upon your Sword in very legible characters, as ap|pears upon record twice, <HI>viz.</HI> in the year &mdash;45, where wee had 114 Victories, and now this la&s;t Summer above 30, even to our a&s;toni&s;hment, who were u&s;ed by you in that &s;ervice, that tho&s;e proud Billows in <HI>Wales, England,</HI> &amp; <HI>Scot|land,</HI> have bin bounded and calmed, in le&s;&s;e then &s;ix months, yet behold, we have our &s;orrows repeated, and our fears in|crea&s;ed, making our wounds even to bleed afre&s;h.</P>
<P>Wherefore, we de&s;ire, in the name of our &s;elves, and the abu&s;ed and betrayed people of <HI>England,</HI> that your Excellen|cy will be plea&s;ed to a&s;&s;i&s;t us, in the&s;e en&s;uing reque&s;ts and groans of our &s;oules, which may not long be denyed us, le&s;t we faint or &s;truggle as we can for the life of good men, and a good Cau&s;e.</P>
<P><PB N="2" REF="4">
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<ITEM>1. That ju&s;tice may &s;uddenly and equally be di&s;pen&s;ed, ac|cording to the de&s;ires of our honoured friends in <HI>London, Liece&s;ter&s;hire,</HI> and others manife&s;ted by their &s;everall Petiti|ons, and the Parliaments Declaration concerning the Kings evill a&s;&s;erted, or bewayled, and repented of.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 That your Army be in&s;tantly reckoned withall, &amp; paid and &s;o dealt with for future (if they mu&s;t be u&s;ed) that eve|ry Reg. may know their own country, &amp; there receive their pay immediatly, without any other Trea&s;urers or wayes of trouble, that &s;o the people them&s;elves may &s;ee what they have for their money. In this we are impatient, or &s;o pa&s;&s;io|nately affected, that we ga&s;p for help: this Regiment hath had but one moneths pay &s;ince <HI>May,</HI> having marched 1300 miles this Summer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 That the people may know in print, with all &s;peed, which way all publike monies are di&s;po&s;ed of in all counties and places&punc; and that of all kinds, which may be done, if every col|lector and receiver of mony be forthwith enjoyned to print their receipts and disbur&s;ments; for if the &s;ouldiers be not paid, the people ask whats become of the Revenue, Compo|&s;itions, Seque&s;trations, Exci&s;e, Lands, &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 That we may have ju&s;t and righteous Government &s;et|led in this Nation, advancing Godline&s;s, we abhorring Anar|chy, Confu&s;ion, and levelling mens e&s;tates; &s;o often charged upon us: for which end, we de&s;ire the&s;e two things, in pur&s;u|ance of which (by help from Heaven) we are re&s;olved to venture all.</ITEM>
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<P>Fir&s;t that the grand and capital enemies, may without de|lay, be brought to Ju&s;tice, which is the maine root of our mi&s;ery, we finding all other wayes attempted altogether in|valid to carty on this work of common &s;afety.</P>
<P>Secondly, for the di&s;patch of Ju&s;tice upon all Delinquents
<PB N="3" REF="4">for rectifying all crooked things among us, &amp; for the good of us, and the Generations to come, we humbly conceive our la&s;t and &s;ure&s;t way will be for your Excellency and this ar|my, to make a &s;peedy offer to the Commons hou&s;e in your name and the Armies, and in the behalf of all <HI>England,</HI> that &s;uch of them as have been faithfull to the Kingdomes inte|re&s;t, to declare with you and the Nation; and that the con|trary minded, fal&s;e, royal, and neutral party may know, that our enemies mu&s;t not be our rulers, we profe&s;&s;ing, that good men, rather then good laws mu&s;t &s;ave us, though we disjoyn them not. And if any &s;hal object, we put violence upon au|thority, we hereby proclaim to the world, that neither your Excellency, nor our &s;elves, have received Co~mi&s;&s;ions from the parl as now con&s;tituted, but from that good party in it, who &s;trugled through many hazards to model this army for the kingdoms &s;afety; not are we to attend forms &amp; cu&s;toms in this extremity; we can as willingly &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t down as march, &s;uf|fer, as act, would but the godly party in the Kingdom cal us thereunto, and think them&s;elves pre&s;erved by it.</P>
<P>But the people call to us for the&s;e things, and we to your Excellency, your known worth inviting us hereunto: in pro|&s;ecution of which, as an unparaller'd in&s;trument, we &s;hall live or die with your Excellency, having &s;olemnly promi|&s;ed, to attempt and attend the&s;e two la&s;t expedients through all hazard. We cannot &s;o undervalue our God, and the rich experienre we have had in the behalf of this Nation, as to &s;ee them lie (like <HI>I&s;&s;achar</HI>) under the&s;e &s;inful burdens, our <HI>colds nakedne&s;se, want hunger, hard&s;hip, difficulties, dangers,</HI> out of which our ble&s;&s;ed, and ever to be prai&s;ed God hath brought us, &s;ugge&s;ting the&s;e things unto us, for that flock of &s;laugh|ter in this Kingdome.</P>
<P><HI>Sir, we can die, but not endure to &s;ee our Mother</HI> England <HI>die before us.</HI></P>
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<PB N="6" REF="5">
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<HEAD>A new Breviate for the Agreement of the people.</HEAD>
<ITEM>1 That to prevent the many inconveniences apparently ari|&s;ing from the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ong continuance of the &s;ame per&s;ons in au|thority, this pre&s;ent Parl. be di&s;&s;olyed upon or before the la&s;t day of <HI>April,</HI> in the year of our Lord, 1649.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 That the people of England being at this day very une|qually di&s;tributed, by Counties, Cities, or Burroughs, for the election of their Repre&s;entatives, be more indifferently pro|portioned, and to this end, that the Repre&s;entative of the whole Nation, &s;hall con&s;i&s;t of 300. per&s;ons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 That 150 members at lea&s;t be always pre&s;ent in each &s;it|ting of the Repre&s;entatives, at the lo&s;t pa&s;&s;ing of any Law, or doing of any Act whereby the people are to be bound</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 That the power of the peoples Repre&s;entatives extend to the enacting, altering repeeling, and declaring of Lawes; to the erecting and aboli&s;hing Officers of Courts of Ju&s;tice, and to what&s;oever is not in this agreement excepted or re|&s;erved from them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>La&s;tly and particularly, we do not empower our Repre|&s;entatives, to continue in foace or make any Law, Oaths or Covenants, whereby to compell by penalties or otherwi&s;e, any per&s;on any to any thing, in or about matters of faith&punc; religion, or Gods Wor&s;hip, or to re&s;train any per&s;on from profe&s;&s;ing his faith, or exerci&s;e of Religion, according to his con&s;cience, in any place or hou&s;e what&s;oever.</ITEM>
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<TRAILER>THE END.</TRAILER>
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