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<P>A REMONSTRANCE From His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, AND THE ARMIE under his Command: <HI>CONCERNING</HI> Their ju&s;t and clear Proceedings hither|to, in the behalfe of the <HI>Parliament, Kingdome, and Them&s;elves:</HI> AND THE Evill and trecherous dealing they have found from the Enemies to their own, and the Parlia|ments and Kingdomes Peace and Freedome.</P>
<P>Together with their pre&s;ent difficulties and dangers in relation thereunto: And their pre&s;ent Re&s;olutions there|upon. With the grounds of all the&s;e.</P>
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<P>By the appointment of His Excellency, and the gene|rall Councell of his Army.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed, <HI>Jo. Ru&s;hworth,</HI> Secretarie.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>George Whittington,</HI> at the blew Anchor in Cornhill, neere the Royall Exchange. 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>A REMONSTRANCE From his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, AND THE ARMIE under his Command.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen (by the ble&s;&s;ing of God upon the in|deavours of this Army, and other Forces of the Parliament) the adver&s;e Forces and Gar|ri&s;ons within this Kingdome were di&s;&s;ipa|ted and reduced, a pre&s;ent quiet and free|dome of trade, and all commerce and bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e re&s;tored to all parts of the Kingdome, and an hope|full way made for &s;etling of a &s;ound and la&s;ting peace, on good termes, for the intere&s;t of the Kingdome; in&s;tead of the hoped fruit of our labours and hazzards, and of the Kingdomes va&s;t expence (in the di&s;pen&s;ing of ju&s;tice and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and the &s;etling and upholding of common right and Freedome to the Subjects of this Nation) we found immediately the cro&s;&s;e workings of a &s;trong and pre|valent
<PB N="2" REF="3"> Party in the Parliament and Kingdome, who (walk|ing under the mask of the Parliaments friends, but being in truth men of corrupt and private ends and intere&s;ts, diffe|rent from, and de&s;tructive to the reall and common intere&s;t of the Kingdome) made u&s;e of their power to ob&s;truct and pervert ju&s;tice, to injure, oppre&s;&s;e, and cru&s;h the peace|able and well affected people of the Kingdome, to abridge and overthrow all ju&s;t Freedome and Liberty, and drive on De&s;ignes to &s;et up a Partie and Faction in the Parliament and Kingdome, and (by the advantage of a perpetuall Parliament) to domineere over, and in&s;lave the Kingdome to po&s;terity: And for that end, to make &s;uch a peace with the King, if any, as without any ju&s;t provi&s;ion for the com|mon and true intere&s;t of the People, and the &s;ecurity there|of for future, would &s;erve onely to make up and e&s;tabli&s;h their own greatne&s;&s;e, and the affected domination of them|&s;elves and their Partie over all others.</P>
<P>To all which ends (as before this Parliament) the igno|minious names of Puritan and Non-conformi&s;t, and the &s;pecious pretences for &s;etling of Order, Decency, and U|niformity in Religion, were made u&s;e of, to the prejudice, trouble, and &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of all that appeared, either for the truth and power of Religion, or for the Rights and Liber|ties of the Kingdome, and towards the advancing, at once, both of an Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall and civill Tyranny, &s;o,) this gene|ration of men, in the application of the Parliaments power, (&s;ucceeding the former in the exerci&s;e of the Kings) have made u&s;e of the odious names of Browni&s;ts, Anabapti&s;ts, Independents, Hereticks, Schi&s;maticks, or Sectaries of one &s;ort or other, to bla&s;t &s;uch men; in whom the truth and power of Religion, or a ju&s;t &s;en&s;e of the common Intere&s;t of the Kingdome hath appeared; and have held forth the pretences of Reformation and Uniformity, to colour and countenance their De&s;ignes of &s;etting up their owne irreli|gious, or Phari&s;aicall and domineering Faction, to the op|pre&s;&s;ion of all other people: And herein they have had a great advantage to further their afore&s;aid De&s;ignes, by rea|&s;on of the jealou&s;ies which many con&s;cientious men of the
<PB N="3" REF="3"> Presbyterian Judgement have entertained concerning this Army, and concerning divers other eminent and worthy In|&s;truments of the Kingdoms good (being in places of publike tru&s;t &amp; power) were &s;uppo&s;ed to be of the Independent way.</P>
<P>In pur&s;uance of their afore&s;aid de&s;ignes, they indeavour|ed, and by their power and influence upon the Parliament, and the advantage of &s;uch pretences as afore&s;aid, very much prevailed to put out of all places of power or publike tru&s;t, the mo&s;t &s;ober and con&s;cientious men, and &s;uch as had ap|proved them&s;elves faithfull to the publique intere&s;t throughout all the late troubles, and to put in debauched and di&s;&s;olutemen, or &s;uch as would for advantage &s;erve their private intere&s;ts, and for that end (in ca&s;es where they could not otherwi&s;e prevaile,) procured &s;uch Garri&s;ons to be &s;leighted, &s;uch powers to be recalled, (though more ne|ce&s;&s;arie to have, been continued,) which they found in the hands of per&s;ons of the former &s;ort, and &s;uch to be conti|nued (though le&s;&s;e nece&s;&s;ary) as they found in the hands of the later: And, the better to &s;trengthen them&s;elves in their De&s;ignes, clo&s;ing with a very powerfull partie in the Citie of London, they fir&s;t with much activity endea|voured, and prevailed, to new-modell the Common-Councell, and forme the &s;ame to their owne Partie; and then &s;tirred them up to petition (among&s;t other things concurrent to their ends,) for the alteration of the City-<HI>Militia,</HI> who by their continuall violent, and pre&s;&s;ing im|portunity at the Parliaments doores, wrung from the Par|liament an Ordinance for that purpo&s;e, whereby they pro|cured the power of that <HI>Militia</HI> (the &s;peciall influence whereof upon the City and Kingdome, and upon the Par|liament it &s;elfe, (being the onely guard they had for their &s;afe &s;itting) is evident to all men,) to be taken out of tho&s;e hands in which it had beene continued without pre|judice, and with great and knowne &s;ecurity and ad|vantage both to the Parliament, City, and Kingdome, throughout the late troubles, and this without any excep|tion either then or &s;ince made again&s;t them, and to bee put into the hands of &s;uch others as were (at be&s;t)
<PB N="4" REF="4"> of doubtfull affections to the intere&s;t of the Parliament and Kingdome; but indeed men given up and ingaged to the private intere&s;ts and de&s;ignes of the &s;aid factious Party, as hath &s;ince too evidently appeared, and as in the late Decla|ration of the Army concerning the grounds of our ad|vance towards London, is more fully remon&s;trated. And (finding this Army not for their turnes) they made it their maine worke to disband or breake it in pieces, even before the reliefe of Ireland was provided for, or the peace of this Kingdome &s;etled. And though all this went under the pretence of ea&s;ing the pre&s;ent burthens of the Kingdome, yet at the &s;ame time they de&s;igned and went about to put the Kingdome to the expence and trouble of rai&s;ing and forming a new Force, (under pretence, as for the &s;ervice of Ireland,) out evidently de&s;igned and &s;o framed, as to &s;erve their owne ends and purpo&s;es afore&s;aid in En|gland: And (being many of them filled and acted with per|&s;onall envy, and others with Malignitie of principles and intere&s;t again&s;t this Army, and the work of God by it,) it would not &s;erve their turnes to breake or disband it, but it mu&s;t be with all po&s;&s;ible di&s;honour, injury, oppre&s;&s;ion, and provocation that they could put upon it. And it was too evident, that their endeavour was not onely to put it off without the honour or &s;atisfaction due to it for the &s;ervice it had done, but to disband it on &s;uch termes as to &s;ubject and expo&s;e all (and even the mo&s;t faithfull) &s;ervants of the Parliament and Kingdome, both in the Army and el&s;e|where, unto oppre&s;&s;ion or undoing, or to the mercy of their owne and &s;uch other mens malicious and invenomed &s;pirits which could promi&s;e no better. For the more full and particular demon&s;tration of all which, we referre all knowing men to the practices and proceedings again&s;t this Army, unto the times (by their procurement) appointed, for the disbanding of it in &s;everall parts, without ju&s;t and equall &s;atisfaction, which have been in part remon&s;trated in Pa|pers &s;ent from this Army, and publi&s;hed before our coming up to S. Albans.</P>
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<P>Upon con&s;ideration of all this, and upon the re&s;oluti|ons, (which their own abu&s;es and provocations, put upon the Army, had rai&s;ed in the whole body of it) not to di&s;|band without, further &s;atisfaction and &s;ecurity from the like abu&s;es in future: we did in our Repre&s;entation or Decla|ration &s;ent from S. Albans, expre&s;&s;e in generall what things we de&s;ired (be&s;ides our concernments as Souldiers) to &s;ee done or provided for before our disbanding, for &s;et|ling the peace of the Kingdome, and &s;ecuring the Com|mon Rights and Liberties thereof, which wee were called out to defend and vindicate, and had &s;o long fought for; and having (therewithall) impeached &s;e|verall Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons for their un|ju&s;t practi&s;es and de&s;ignes, to &s;uch purpo&s;es as are before expre&s;&s;ed, and for indeavouring in pro&s;ecution thereof to engage this Kindome in a new warre; we added &s;ome fur|ther De&s;ires for prevention of that mi&s;chief of a new warre to the Kingdome, and for our owne pre&s;ent &s;ecuritie from immediate ruine, while tho&s;e other things might be trea|ted on or con&s;idered. And upon the granting of &s;ome of them in part, and hopes given of &s;ome others, though we could not obtaine the re&s;t, and e&s;peciallie not that which we hold mo&s;t ju&s;t, equall, and nece&s;&s;ary, <HI>viz.</HI> The po&s;itive &s;u&s;pen&s;ion of tho&s;e impeached Members from &s;itting in the Hou&s;e, as Judges in their owne cau&s;e, and from their power in Committees, whereby they had the advantage to rai&s;e Warre again&s;t us, and to make new de&s;turbances, in the Kingdome, yet the &s;aid impeached Members pretending to withdraw them&s;elves from the Parliament untill their cau&s;es &s;hould be heard and tryed, and the Hou&s;e giving con|&s;ent thereunto, we out of our tenderne&s;&s;e to Parliament Priviledges, and our earne&s;t de&s;ires to yeeld all ob&s;ervance to the Parliament, and &s;atisfaction to the Citie, (who pre|tended a full concurrence with us in our declared de&s;ires for &s;etling the peace and Liberties of the Kingdome,) did at the Parliaments command, and the Cities reque&s;t withdraw the Army to the de&s;ired di&s;tance from London, &amp; di&s;per&s;ed
<PB N="6" REF="5"> it further to &s;everal parts of the Kingdom for the ea&s;e of the Country, and proceeded, in a peaceable and regular way, to prepare and pre&s;ent more particular Charges again&s;t the &s;aid impeached Members, which within a few dayes after we accordingly &s;ent up to the Hou&s;e: And the &s;aid impea|ched Members, (having put in a delatorie an&s;wer thereto with a plea and Demurrer to divers particulars therein) pretended that (to avoid any di&s;turbance or interruption to the pre&s;ent proceedings for &s;etling the publique affaires by the interpo&s;all of their private cau&s;e,) they de&s;ired leave and Pa&s;&s;es to travell for &s;ome moneths; which accor|dingly the Speaker of the Hou&s;e of Commons was orde|red or authorized to give them, and we (pre&s;uming on the Hou&s;es caution for their forth-coming to be tried when the affaires of the Kingdome were &s;etled, which upon their fir&s;t motion of with-drawing we had in&s;i&s;ted on,) did not gain&s;ay, and thereupon we proceeded in a quiet and hope|full way to prepare more particular Propo&s;alls in pur&s;uance of our former generall de&s;ires, for the pre&s;ent &s;etling of the peace of the Kingdome to be tendred to the Commi&s;&s;i|oners of Parliament re&s;iding with the Army for that pur|po&s;e: But finding that while we were thus peaceably pro|ceeding, the &s;aid impeached Members (notwith&s;tanding their pretended de&s;ires to travell) did continue in and about London, very active and bu&s;ie to rai&s;e warre, or make di|&s;turbances in the Kingdome. And that the Committee of <HI>Militia</HI> there, did comply with them therein by daily li&s;t|ing of men, and other preparations towards war, and &s;hel|tering to that end, yea and entertaining into &s;ervice, tho&s;e &s;ame Reformadoes, who (by Ordinance of Parliament) were by them to have been put out of the Lines of Communicati|on, and finding continuall jealou&s;ies and di&s;turbances to our &s;aid proceedings bred in the Army by the daily reports and alarums thereof from the City, wee made a parti|cular addre&s;&s;e to the Parliament for the re&s;toring of the City-<HI>Militia</HI> into tho&s;e hands in which it was be|fore the Ordinance of the fourteenth of May, la&s;t;
<PB N="7" REF="5"> For the rea&s;onablene&s;s of our De&s;ires wherein (&s;uppo&s;ing that we had &s;uch cau&s;e to in&s;i&s;t on &s;ome removal of that power out of the hands into which it was then put (as here before is partly expre&s;t, and in our late Declaration is more fully &s;et forth) we dare confidently appeal to all men (not engaged again&s;t us) whether, for the pre&s;ent &s;afety and quiet of the City upon &s;uch a change, and to prevent tho&s;e dangers or di&s;turbances to or in the City, which the want of a <HI>Militia</HI> during the interval (betwixt the cea&s;ing of one and new forming of another) might give occa&s;ion and ad|vantage unto (e&s;pecially in &s;uch a juncture of affairs) there could be any other way &s;o expedient, as to render that change, but an immediate reverting into tho&s;e hands in which it was &s;o lately before (who would make up a <HI>Mi|litia</HI> ready formed to &s;ucceed immediately in place of the other, without any con&s;iderable intermi&s;sion or delay) and whether at a time when Jealou&s;ies and Di&s;tru&s;ts were both &s;o rife and hurtful (as they might occa&s;ion no le&s;s di&s;tra|ction or interruption to any quiet &s;ettlement or proceed|ings thereunto, then real attempts of mi&s;chief would) there could be any Propo&s;al more rea&s;onable or hope|ful to beget a confidence and acquie&s;cence (as to that point) both in the Parliament, City and Army, then to have that Power re&s;tored (for the pre&s;ent) into tho&s;e hands, of who&s;e Fidelity to the Common Intere&s;t, we had all found &s;o ample and unque&s;tioned proof through|out the mo&s;t dangerous Times,</P>
<P>Upon our Addre&s;s therefore to the Parliament for that purpo&s;e (the Army being at &s;uch di&s;tance as afore&s;aid) both Hou&s;es were plea&s;ed, on the 23. of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t, to pa&s;s an Ordinance for returning of the Militia into tho&s;e hands, and repealing the Ordinance of the 4. of <HI>May,</HI> by which it had been changed as before.</P>
<P>Hereupon, hoping all would quietly &s;ucceed to a &s;ettle|ment in this Kingdom, we went on &s;ecurely to fini&s;h our Propo&s;als for that purpo&s;e (the Heads whereof have been &s;ince publi&s;hed) withdrew the Head-quarter to a farther di&s;tance, di&s;per&s;ed the Army to larger Quarters, for more
<PB N="8" REF="6"> ea&s;e to the Countrey; And upon a Recommendation of the bu&s;ine&s;s of <HI>Ireland</HI> from the Parliament, we had, in le&s;s then a weeks &s;pace, prepared and ordered a con&s;ider|able Force (no le&s;s then Four thou&s;and Hor&s;e and Foot, as Sir <HI>Joh: Temple</HI> (employed from the Parliament about that bu&s;ine&s;s to us) can te&s;tifie) for a pre&s;ent Relief there|unto: But the re&s;tle&s;s and treacherous Malice of the Ene|mies to our and the Kingdoms Peace (taking their &s;up|po&s;ed Advantage of our di&s;tance, and di&s;per&s;ed po&s;ture, which their fair pretences of peaceable Intentions had induced us into) fir&s;t they did, without all colour of Au|thority, contrive and &s;et on foot in the City, and many of them entred into, a mi&s;chievous and de&s;perate Vow and Engagement, tending to the Subver&s;ion of the Free|dom of Parliament, and the Liberties of this Nation, to the fru&s;trating of tho&s;e ju&s;t and publique Ends, for which &s;o much Blood and Trea&s;ure hath been &s;pilt and &s;pent in the late War, and to the rai&s;ing of a new War again&s;t the Parliament and their Army (which &s;aid Engagement both Hou&s;es of Parliament did by their Declaration of the 23. of <HI>July,</HI> Adjudge and Declare to be High Trea&s;on in all that &s;hould promote or abet the &s;ame) and within a few days after (to wit, on Monday, <HI>July</HI> 26.) there was a Peti|tion brought to the Parliament, by the Sheriffs, and &s;ome Aldermen and Common-Councel-men, in the Name of the City of <HI>London,</HI> for the recalling of the &s;aid Ordi|nance of the 23. of <HI>July</HI> concerning the Militia, and the returning of the Militia into tho&s;e hands, in which it was put by the Ordinance of the 4. of <HI>May;</HI> which Petition was immediately followed and backed with a tumultuous confluence of Apprentices, and other di&s;&s;olute and de&s;pe|rate per&s;ons, who committed mo&s;t horrid and unheard of Violence upon both Hou&s;es, enforcing them to recal both the &s;aid Declaration of <HI>July</HI> 23. (concerning the &s;aid En|gagement) and al&s;o the &s;aid Ordinance of the &s;ame Date, concerning the Militia; and compelling the Speaker of the Hou&s;e of Commons to re&s;ume the Chair after the Hou&s;e was adjourned, and the Hou&s;e to pa&s;s &s;uch farther
<PB N="9" REF="6"> Votes concerning the Kings pre&s;ent coming to <HI>Lon|don,</HI> &amp;c. as they the &s;aid Ryoters did plea&s;e; neither the Guard from the City that then attended the Hou&s;es, not the Lord Major, Sheriff, or any Authority in the City (though &s;ent to for that purpo&s;e) taking any cour&s;e to &s;uppre&s;s the &s;aid Tumult, or relieve the Parliament again&s;t that Violence, though it was continued for the &s;pace of Eight hours. And the Hou&s;es having next day adjourned till Friday, <HI>July</HI> 30. there were Printed Tickets fixed upon Po&s;ts in and about the City the day before, inviting the &s;ame per&s;ons to the like confluence at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> again&s;t the Hou&s;es next meeting; All which hath been more fully, or more a&s;&s;uredly, made known by the Declaration of the Speaker of the Hou&s;e of Commons concerning the &s;ame.</P>
<P>By this means the Speakers of both Hou&s;es, together with mo&s;t of the Lords, and a very great number of the mo&s;t faithful and unque&s;tioned Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons, were driven away, &s;o as they could not with &s;afety attend their &s;ervice in Parliament, nor with freedom di&s;charge their Tru&s;t to the Kingdom therein, but were forced to flie to their Army for &s;afety; &s;o as there was not, nor could then be any free meeting or legal proceed|ing of Parliament: Notwith&s;tanding which, divers Mem|bers of both Hou&s;es (who by the carriage and &s;equel of the bu&s;ine&s;s, will appear to be of the &s;ame party and con|federacy with the afore&s;aid Enemies to our and the King|doms Peace, and with the Authors and Actors both of the &s;aid trea&s;onable Engagement, and the tumultuous force upon the Parliament) taking this Opportunity of time to carry on their De&s;igns, when very few were left, but of their own Party, did continue to meet in the u&s;ual places at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter:</HI> And (having under pretence of a nece&s;|&s;ity for continuing the Parliament by adjournment, drawn in &s;ome few well-minded Members to &s;it with them, out of a &s;cruple lea&s;t the Parliament &s;hould fall for want of adjournment) took upon them the Name of <HI>Both Hou&s;es of Parliament:</HI> And having on Friday, <HI>July</HI> 30. cho&s;en a new Speakers, did proceed to Vote and Act as a Parlia|ment,
<PB N="10" REF="7"> and adjourned from time to time; but of what Party and Confederacy the mo&s;t of them were, and to what Ends and Intere&s;ts they acted, will appear by what they did, whereof we &s;hall for pre&s;ent give a ta&s;te in &s;ome particulars, hoping that &s;hortly the whole and journal of their Proceedings may be made publike.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, The &s;aid Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons (convening as afore&s;aid) immediately Voted and called in (as to the &s;ervice of the Hou&s;e) the Eleven impeached Members; and al&s;o tho&s;e who upon former Votes of the Hou&s;e were &s;u&s;pended, or under que&s;tion to be put out for Delinquency, and had put in their Ca&s;es: With this pre|tended Hou&s;e of Commons thus compo&s;ed, and Four or or five Lords of the &s;ame model (for an Hou&s;e of Peers) they proceed to &s;et up a Committee for Safety (whereof all or mo&s;t of the &s;aid impeached Members were a part) This Committee they appointed to joyn with that &s;ame pretended Committee of the City Militia, who&s;e Power was obtained onely by the tumultuous force and violence afore&s;aid. To the&s;e Committees the mo&s;t or main of their Proceedings refer, and by divers pretended Votes, Orders and Ordinances, procured in the Name of one or both Hou&s;es of Parliament, larger Powers were given to the&s;e two Committees, for rai&s;ing of Forces, appointing chief Commanders, and other Officers, and other va&s;t, unlimited or unu&s;ual Powers were given them, all tending to the rai|&s;ing and leavying of a new War within this Kingdom; up|on which many Forces, both of Hor&s;e and Foot, were a|ctually leavied, and other preparations of War made: All which, that they were intended and de&s;igned in ju&s;tifica|tion, pro&s;ecution and maintenance of the afore&s;aid trea&s;on|able Engagement, and of the &s;aid force and violence done to the Parliament, or of the very &s;ame Ends and Intere&s;ts, and to oppo&s;e and hinder the Re&s;titution of the Hou&s;es of Parliament to their Honor and Freedom, and the advance of this their Army for that purpo&s;e (being then upon a march, to conduct to <HI>London</HI> the Speakers and Members of both Hou&s;es, who by that violence were driven away as
<PB N="11" REF="7"> afore&s;aid) Be&s;ides the con&s;ideration of the per&s;ons into who&s;e hands the&s;e Powers were committed, it is abundant|ly evident many other ways, but e&s;pecially by that Decla|ration of the Lord Major, Aldermen and Common-Coun|cel of <HI>London,</HI> which was fir&s;t by that pretended Commit|tee of Safety, Ordered, and then by the pretended Hou&s;es (without reading a word of it) approved to be publi&s;hed in the Pari&s;h Churches, with an Exhortation to the People to take up Arms in maintenance of the ends therein ex|pre&s;&s;ed, which (though the pretences were for the Defence of the King, Parliament and City then alleaged to be in great danger (when as indeed none were in danger, but one|ly the Authors, Actors and Abettors of the trayterous Practices afore&s;aid, yet) the true ends thereof appear clearly to be the &s;ame with the &s;aid trea&s;onable Engagement and Tumult again&s;t the Parliament; all of them concentring (as in other things, &s;o e&s;pecially) in this, <HI>viz.</HI> [To have the King brought up to <HI>London,</HI> without delay, or any nearer approach of the Army] And to all the&s;e, the &s;ucceeding Votes of the pretended Hou&s;es for the &s;ame thing, did &s;pee|dily eccho the &s;ame note: Concerning which matter (not to examine what alteration of the Ca&s;e, &s;ince both Hou&s;es and both Kingdoms al&s;o (of <HI>England</HI> &amp; <HI>Scotland</HI>) re&s;olved, That it was not &s;afe the King &s;hould come to <HI>London,</HI> until he had given &s;atisfaction and &s;ecurity to his people, in relation to tho&s;e publique ends for which &s;o much blood and trea&s;ure bad been &s;pent) We &s;hall onely &s;ay thus much to the&s;e mens Intentions and De&s;igns in the bu&s;ine&s;s, That had the King come up to <HI>London</HI> (as they have &s;o oft de&s;i|red and attempted) it is apparent they intended, and would have made u&s;e of it, rather to lay the &s;tronger foundations of a new War, (upon the ruines of that publique Intere&s;t contended for in the former, and of all tho&s;e that had with mo&s;t candor, clearne&s;s, and &s;implicity of heart appeared and acted for the &s;ame) then any way to &s;ettle therby a &s;afe and well-grounded Peace. And &s;ince they could not rationally expect &s;o ea&s;ie an obtaining of the Kings Per&s;on to <HI>London,</HI> upon &s;uch a pretended Vote or Declaration of their De&s;ire
<PB N="12" REF="8"> thereof; it is as evident, That they could intend nothing thereby, but a more plau&s;ible pretence and foundation of quarrel again&s;t this Army, whereby to ingage or incline to their A&s;&s;i&s;tance the Kings party, and &s;uch others who might be catcht with the apprehen&s;ion thereof, as a &s;peedy way to Peace (the thing &s;o generally longed for) and by &s;uch a&s;si&s;tance gained, the better to ruine this Army, and tho&s;e faithful Members of Parliament who were retired to it. For our parts, we &s;hall rejoyce as much as any, to &s;ee the King brought back to his Parliament, (and that) not &s;o much in Place, as in Affection and Agreement, on &s;uch &s;ound terms and grounds as may render both him and the King|dom &s;afe, quiet and happy; And &s;hall be as ready as any to bring His Maje&s;ty to <HI>London,</HI> when His being there may be likely to produce (not greater Di&s;turbances or Di&s;tra|ctions, but) a Peace indeed, and that &s;uch, as may not (with the &s;hipwrack of the Publique Intere&s;t) be &s;haped and moulded onely to the private advantages of a particu|lar party or Faction, but bottom'd chiefly on grounds of common and publique welfare and &s;ecurity: And if (without regard to the&s;e con&s;iderations) we would have brought His Maje&s;ty with us to <HI>London</HI> in our late advance thither (w^c^h our Enemies could not hinder or prejudice us in) we had no cau&s;e to doubt, but (as to men) we might have had all the advantages, which our Adver&s;aries promi&s;ed to them&s;elves thereby, added to the &s;trength and intere&s;t of the Army, and have inverted the Di&s;advantages upon them that they intended again&s;t us thereby, &s;o as His Maje&s;ties &s;o much de|&s;ired coming to <HI>London,</HI> might have been much to their prejudice, and our advantage and &s;ecurity, if we had re|garded onely our own particulars: But (as at pre&s;ent our Con&s;ciences bear clear witne&s;s to our &s;elves, &s;o) we hope God will, in the i&s;&s;ue, make it clear to others, That we have not minded, nor been acting our own work or intere&s;ts, but the Kingdoms, and every hone&s;t mans in it: Mean while (to return to our purpo&s;e) we think it is &s;ufficiently cleared, That the proceedings of tho&s;e Members, or the major part of them (that continued to &s;it at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI>
<PB N="13" REF="8"> during the ab&s;ence of the Speakers) the Powers by them given, the Forces thereupon levied, and other preparati|ons of War thereupon made, were all de&s;igned and driven on in pro&s;ecution and maintenance of the &s;aid Trea&s;onable Engagement, and of the force done upon the Parliament, or for the &s;ame ends and intere&s;t with them, and to oppo&s;e the advance of this Army towards <HI>London,</HI> for Re&s;titution of the Parliament to Honor and Freedom, and indeed to rai&s;e a new War in the Kingdom, again&s;t the Parliament and their Army, for the De&s;truction thereof, And the &s;ame may (yet further) appear by this, That tho&s;e very Apprentices, Reformado's, and others about the City who were the chief Actors in the &s;aid Engagement and Tumult, were afterwards mo&s;t tru&s;ted and imployed, and mo&s;t active in their preparations for War.</P>
<P>By what we have here &s;aid, and what hath been declared and publi&s;hed from us, and from the Speakers and afore|&s;aid Members of both Hou&s;es, and by the whole Series of our own and our Enemies actions and carriages (compa|red together) it may appear how tender we have been, not onely of the Authority and ju&s;t Priviledges of Parliament, and of the &s;afety, peace and welfare, both of the Kingdom and the City, but even towards tho&s;e our Enemies them|&s;elves (&s;eeking onely things nece&s;&s;ary for the common good of the whole) and that if po&s;sible, without ruine or hurt to any) and yet how maliciou&s;ly, treacherou&s;ly, and unwor|thily we have that while been dealt withal by tho&s;e our Enemies, and by a factious and powerful party (e&s;pecially) in the Parliament and City combining with them; And what clear cau&s;e we have had, both for all that we have for|merly de&s;ired or done, in prevention of our own ruine and the Kingdoms di&s;turbance; And al&s;o what ju&s;t grounds for our late advance to <HI>London:</HI> The good &s;ervice wherof (e&s;pe|cially) in re&s;toring the Parliament to a condition of Safety, Honor, and Freedom thereby, hath been (without any &s;eeking of ours) acknowledged by both Hou&s;es, with thanks to us, and publique Thanksgiving to Almighty God for it: And a further tru&s;t hath been thereupon committed to the
<PB N="14" REF="9"> General, for taking care with his Army to &s;afegard the Parliament.</P>
<P>The Hou&s;es being thus re&s;tored to a condition of pre&s;ent Safety, Honor and Freedom; Two things &s;eem clearly re|maining to be done (which our own, and mo&s;t mens expe|ctations are mo&s;t &s;et upon) <HI>viz.</HI> Fir&s;t, to vindicate the Ho|nor, Freedom and Safety of Parliament from the like af|fronts and violence in future, and the Army and Kingdom from danger of the like Di&s;turbances (whil&s;t things &s;hall be in a Debate or Treaty for a &s;ettlement) And then to proceed unto a &s;peedy &s;ettlement of the peace of the Kingdom.</P>
<P>The latter of the&s;e is fir&s;t in our Intentions (being neare&s;t to the ultimate end) and we &s;hall earne&s;tly de&s;ire, That in order there|unto, The Propo&s;als of the Army (whereof the Heads are pub|li&s;hed) may be &s;peedily con&s;idered, and brought to a Re&s;olution; But con&s;idering, That the Debates of them may take up &s;ome time, ere they be agreed on all hands, and the framing of them into Bills, and perfecting of the &s;ame, will require much more; &s;omething mu&s;t fir&s;t be done in the former, for a pre&s;ent &s;ecurity to the Par|liament from like Affronts or Violence, and to the Army and Kingdom from the like Di&s;turbances to the peace thereof, by any farther advantage, which the time like to be &s;pent in the &s;ettling of Peace, may afford, to our watchful, re&s;tle&s;s, and (we doubt) im|placable Enemies.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, therefore to the&s;e ends (unle&s;s it &s;hould be thought fit to &s;e|cure the Parliament, by keeping the whole Body of the Army, or &s;o great a part thereof to remain continually in and about <HI>London,</HI> as might be &s;ure to over-power any future Tumults or Force that may ari&s;e out of the City, which neither the welfare of the City, and ea&s;e of the parts adjacent, nor the &s;afety of the Kingdom, in re&s;pect of the pre&s;ent po&s;ture of Affairs, will admit) It is ab&s;o|lutely nece&s;&s;ary, That there be &s;peedy and exemplary Iu&s;tice done upon (at lea&s;t) the chief Authors or Abettors of the &s;aid trea|&s;onable Engagement, and of the &s;aid force done to the Parliament, and upon the chief Actors in maintenance and pro&s;ecution thereof (whereby men may be deterred from the like in future) And this is al&s;o as nece&s;&s;ary to the &s;ecurity of the Army, and Peace of the Kingdom, &s;ince 'tis apparent by all that hath been &s;aid, and by in|finite other evidences (too many to recount) That both the &s;aid En|gagement, and the force done to the Parliament, &amp; the Power of the City Militia thereby gained, and the &s;ucceeding Votes &amp; Orders of the pretended Hou&s;es (but indeed of that faction that are our pro|fe&s;t Enemies) in maintenance and pro&s;ecution thereof, and the
<PB N="15" REF="9"> Forces thereupon leavyed (put under the Command of Major Generall <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI> and others our profe&s;&s;ed adver&s;a|ries) were all de&s;igned and directed to the ruine and de|&s;truction of this Army, and the rai&s;ing of a new Warre again&s;t us in this Kingdome. And having had &s;uch expe|rience of their re&s;tle&s;&s;e malice and cruell intentions towards us, (notwith&s;tanding our tenderne&s;&s;e and lenity towards them) and of their treacherous dealing (&s;o &s;oone as they thought they had the advantage) notwith&s;tanding all their &s;emblances of complyance to a compo&s;ure. What rea&s;on is there to expect, but that if by our patience and delayes, they apprehend in future the like or other advan|tage, they will breake out againe into the like or wor&s;e at|tempts of violence and Warre, if all e&s;cape with impuni|ty for the&s;e.</P>
<P>But as to this point of &s;ecurity by exemplary Ju&s;tice in an ordinary way, we &s;ee our hopes almo&s;t fru&s;trated, whi|le&s;t, (though our de&s;ires and re&s;olutions to that purpo&s;e, ex|pre&s;t in our late Declaration of our advance towards <HI>Lon|don,</HI> were then &s;econded with the declared approbation and concurrent re&s;olutions of the Speakers and Members of both Hou&s;es, that were driven away to the Army, and with their engagement to live and dye with us therein. And though in pur&s;uance thereof, the Right Honourable Hou&s;e of Peeres, have &s;ince their re&s;titution, begun and proceeded to declare null and void, all that was done in the name of both Hou&s;es, while they lay under the power of that un|multuous violence; and to give their more authentique aprobation to our &s;aid Declaration, made in behalf of the &s;aid Speakers and Members, while they were with the Ar|my: And in behalfe of the honour and freedome of the Parliament, and to give their like approbation to the con|current Declaration and Engagement of the &s;aid Speakers and Members, made to us while they were with us, yet) the Hou&s;e of Commons hath not onely not concurred, with the Lords in any of tho&s;e things, (but rather &s;eeme to have ca&s;t them a&s;ide. And upon the Que&s;tion concerning, tho&s;e very Votes of the &s;aid 26. of July. To which the Hou&s;es
<PB N="16" REF="10"> were by the &s;aid violence inforced [whether they &s;hould be declared Null and void] it was carried in the Negative, That the Que&s;tion &s;hould not be put; by the con&s;equences whereof, (which are many wayes very &s;ad, this poore King|dom, and more then we can recompt) and by all &s;ub&s;equent proceedings in that Hou&s;e, in relation to the whole bu&s;ines, we clearly finde, That the Members of that Hou&s;e, who (af|ter the violence done to it, and during the ab&s;ence of the Speaker, and the other Members thereby driven away) proceeding in the name of that Hou&s;e as afore&s;aid procu|red the pretended powers, and did make the pretended Votes, Orders, and Ordinances afore mentioned; and ma|ny of them were the Factors thereupon for the levying of War, in pro&s;ecution and maintenance of the afore&s;aid trea|&s;onable engagement, and force done to the Parliament, and for the oppo&s;ing, re&s;i&s;ting, and de&s;troying of this the Parliaments Army in its advance to <HI>London,</HI> for the re&s;titu|tion of the Parliament to its Honour and freedome, being con&s;cious of their owne guilt and danger thereby; yet pre|&s;uming on their intere&s;t in the Hou&s;e, and the patience and lenity of this Army doe continue and intrude them&s;elves, and to &s;it and Vote there, and by their pre&s;ent intere&s;t in the Hou&s;e doe u&s;e their utmo&s;t endeavours, and very much prevaile to ob&s;truct and avoyd the bringing of any to Ju|&s;tice, who have acted under their pretended Authority, (knowing it to be their owne ca&s;e and concernment in point uf impunity, as well as conducency to their faction and intere&s;t) And for that cau&s;e they labour (as for life) to uphold the things pa&s;t and done, and the Authorities gi|ven by them and their Faction (in their and the Appren|tices pretended Parliament) yea, even tho&s;e very Votes and Authorities, wre&s;ted from the Parliament, by that palpable force of <HI>July</HI> the 26. to be good and valid untill they be repealed (as if pa&s;t in a free and legall Parliament;) in which Point, and all Que&s;tions touching upon it, we finde they pre&s;ume upon, and are &s;trengthened by the concur|rence of divers other Members, who having (perhaps with harmele&s;&s;e intentions) continued to &s;it with them during
<PB N="17" REF="10"> the Speakers ab&s;ence, as afore&s;aid (though they con&s;ented not to any of their mi&s;chievous Votes and Orders, or trea|&s;onable proceedings afore mentioned) may yet feare them|&s;elves to be involved in the &s;ame ca&s;e and danger by having &s;ate with them; And thus by the concurrence of the&s;e two Parties in the Hou&s;e (as to that point) and the intere&s;t which both tho&s;e Parties have with others in the Hou&s;e (e&s;pecially upon a matter of &s;aving one another) and by the partiall re&s;pects of &s;ome others in the Hou&s;e, for the &s;aving of their friends out of the Hou&s;e, who have acted under the Authority, and for the evill ends aforementio|ned, we finde an ab&s;olute ob&s;truction to the bringing to Ju|&s;tice, or que&s;tioning of any) who have acted in the late leavying of War again&s;t us, and again&s;t the vindication of the Parliaments freedome, or in the &s;aid trea&s;onable en|gagements, yea, or in abetment of the tumultuous violence upon the Parliament it &s;elfe; neither can we finde or heare of any one Per&s;on hitherto brought to Ju&s;tice, or Que&s;tion for any of the&s;e things, but all &s;eeme to be either ju&s;tified, or at lea&s;t protected from Ju&s;tice by the power and preva|lence of tho&s;e Members in Parliament, who are (many of them, as we can make appeare) equally guilty of, and (o|thers) in &s;ome kinde obnoxious for the &s;ame things; and thus not only our ju&s;t expectations of vindication to the Parliament, and &s;ecurity to our &s;elves and the Kingdome from the like trea&s;onable and turbulent practi&s;es in future, (by exemplary Ju&s;tice for what hath been &s;o done) are fru&s;trated, but even the &s;afety and immunity of the Speak|ers, and tho&s;e faithfull Members of both Hou&s;es that were driven away by the violence afore&s;aid, and the im|munity of the Army in advancing to <HI>London,</HI> to bring them back, and re&s;tore the Parliament to its Honour and Free|dome (which hath been acknowledged, with publike Thanke&s;giving to God for it, as afore&s;aid) is &s;ubjected and expo&s;ed to que&s;tion (where in theirs and ours, and the Kingdomes enemies obtrude them&s;elves to be the Judges) for if tho&s;e pretended Votes, Orders, and Ordinances, whereby War was leavied again&s;t them and us were then
<PB N="18" REF="11"> good and valid (though they &s;hould now be repealed, yet) we, with the Speakers, and tho&s;e Members afore&s;aid, in oppo&s;ing of them while they were of force, mu&s;t needs re|maine tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors &s;till, and yet God and we are thanked for it [what a mock is this to God, and man.]</P>
<P>But to returne to the more &s;erious con&s;ideration of our ca&s;e, in relation to the &s;ecurity of the Parliament, Kingdom, and our &s;elves, again&s;t the like turbulent and trea&s;onable practices in future, &s;ince by the meanes afore&s;aid no &s;ecu|rity by exemplary Ju&s;tice can at pre&s;ent be had, (to deter any from the like) we wi&s;h all men to con&s;ider what &s;traights we are in this ca&s;e put upon; (That which is the maine worke of the Kingdome, and which we mo&s;t ear|ne&s;tly thir&s;t for, and attend upon, (viz. the &s;etling of a Peace, and con&s;ideration of our Propo&s;alls in order there|unto) will aske time to bring it to an i&s;&s;ue; and that done, the releeving or remedying of the pre&s;&s;ing grievances of the Kingdome, will take up and require the &s;itting of the Par|liament for &s;ome further time (though upon the &s;etling of a Peace a period be &s;et for the certaine ending of it) now for the body of this Army, or &s;o great a part of it (as may &s;erve to over-power any future tumults, or force that may ari&s;e in or from the City) to continue hereabouts &s;o long, the condition of the Country hereabouts, and the ne|ce&s;&s;ities of the City (in point of provi&s;ion) cannot well heare it, and (we doubt) forraigne Forces (that are alrea|dy upon the wing) and turbulent &s;pirits, that in &s;everall parts of the Kingdome, are beginning in&s;urrections, (if we continue fixed here) will have &s;uch opportunity, and take &s;uch incouragement therefrom, as that they may ere long nece&s;&s;arily call us off; &s;hould we now or hereafter (while the Parliament &s;its) draw off the Army from about the City, without exemplary Ju&s;tice upon &s;ome, would not the &s;ame or more dangerous tumults and violences probably returne upon the Parliament; and the like or wor&s;e practi|&s;es of rai&s;ing a new Warre, be revived, (with more advan|tage to our enemies, more danger to us and the Kingdome, and le&s;&s;e hopes of appea&s;ing it, &s;o ea&s;ily and happily as the
<PB N="19" REF="11"> former) while the &s;ame violent and factious &s;pirits, both in the Parliament and el&s;ewhere, &s;hall continue in the &s;ame power and opportunities as formerly, and both they, and all others, &s;hall have before their eyes the incouragement of that impunity and protection (yea rather that ju&s;tifica|tion) which they have hitherto found from within the Par|liament it &s;elf, in the pa&s;t practi&s;es aforementioned, though as gro&s;ly trea&s;onable as any they can hereafter run into; &s;hould we or any others (for the obtaining exemplary Ju|&s;tice upon &s;ome) proceed to impeach any, for their pa&s;t trea&s;onable practi&s;es, what hopes of Ju&s;tice, or of a timely di&s;patch therein can we have, while &s;uch a prevailing party of new intere&s;ted and concerned in the &s;ame things &s;hall in the Hou&s;e of Commons continue to be Judges there|of, or at lea&s;t be ready to avow and ju&s;tifie the offendors therein, as having acted under their pretended Authority. In this &s;traight therefore (though we ever have been, and &s;hall be mo&s;t tender of all ju&s;t Priviledges of Parliament, yet) finding the root of the&s;e and other difficulties to the Parliament, Kingdome, and our &s;elves, to lye in this, <HI>viz.</HI> [that tho&s;e Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons, who (during the forced ab&s;ence of the Speakers of both Hou&s;es) continuing to fit and act as a Parliament, did procure and con&s;ent to the pretended Votes, Orders, and Ordinances aforementioned, for leavying of Warre; and that (as is before demon&s;trated) in direct pro&s;ecution or maintenance of the afore&s;aid trea&s;onable Ingagement, and the violence done to the Parliament, and for the oppo&s;ing, re&s;i&s;ting, and de&s;troying of this the Parliaments Army in its ad|vance towards London (onely to re&s;tore the Speakers and Members of both Hou&s;es that were driven away, and the Hou&s;es them&s;elves to their Honour and freedome) and who are thereby, and by their late owning, and avowing of the &s;ame, and many of them (as we can prove) by acting per&s;onally in the &s;aid trea&s;onable practi&s;es, become par|ties to the &s;ame, do yet take the boldne&s;&s;e to fit and vote in Parliament, e&s;pecially in the Hou&s;e of Commons] (we &s;ay) finding the maine root of our difficulties and dan|gers
<PB N="20" REF="12"> lying in this; fir&s;t, we appeale to all men, whether it be ju&s;t or tolerable, that any priviledge of Parliament &s;hould (contrary to the Law of nature) make a man Judge in his owne ca&s;e and concernment? and we wi&s;h tho&s;e men them&s;elves to con&s;ider (if we had come to an ingagement with the Forces rai&s;ed by vertue of their pretended Votes and Ordinances, and that thou&s;ands had been &s;laine, and we had made our way by the Sword) whether they would then have expected to have &s;ate as Judges upon us therein? and we are &s;ure it is no thanks to them that it hath beene otherwi&s;e; and had we found tho&s;e Members in Armes again&s;t us, and &s;ubdued and taken them, whether had they not then been in the condition of pri&s;oners of Warre? and (if &s;o) then having put Armes into the hands of others, again&s;t us, and &s;till maintaining it, whether can they in &s;trict Ju&s;tice challenge any better condition, from us? But, that (contrariwi&s;e) we &s;hould &s;uffer, either that tho&s;e whom by the cour&s;e of Warre (which they had cho&s;e to ingage in again&s;t us) we might ju&s;tly make our pri&s;oners, &s;hould in a cour&s;e of Law, become our Ma&s;ters and Com|manders? or that tho&s;e who the other day did, in an ho|&s;tile manner, indeavour to have been our Executioners, &s;hould (now we have by force tooke their preparations again&s;t us) become our Judges, (we &s;uppo&s;e) no rea&s;ona|ble man, nor them&s;elves (when they well con&s;ider it) can expect from us.</P>
<P>Upon all the&s;e con&s;iderations of the ju&s;tne&s;&s;e of the cau&s;e, and the nece&s;&s;ity of the thing, for the &s;afety of the Parliament, Kingdome, and this Army, (having no other way left timely to remedy the difficulties we are put upon, or prevent the growing dangers of future violence unto the Parliament, and di&s;turbances to the Kingdome, or to &s;ecure the Parliament in a quiet proceeding to &s;ettle the peace of the Kingdom. And (in &s;uch ca&s;e) the &s;afety of the people being the &s;upreame Law we do prote&s;t and declare:</P>
<P>That, if any of tho&s;e Members, who during the ab|&s;ence of the Speakers, and the re&s;t of the Members of both Hou&s;es (forced away by the tumultuous violence afore|&s;aid)
<PB N="21" REF="12"> did &s;it, and Vote in the pretended Hou&s;es then con|tinuing at <HI>VVe&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> that hereafter intrude them&s;elves to fit in Parliament, before they &s;hall have given &s;atisfacti|on to the re&s;pective Hou&s;es whereof they are, concerning the grounds of their &s;aid &s;itting at <HI>VVe&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> during the ab&s;ence of the &s;aid Speakers, and &s;hall have acquitted them&s;elves by &s;ufficient Evidence, That they did not pro|cure, or give their con&s;ent unto any of tho&s;e pretended Votes, Orders, or Ordinances tending to the rai&s;ing and leavying of a Warre (as is before declared: or for the Kings comming forthwith to <HI>London</HI>) we cannot any lon|ger &s;uffer the &s;ame, but &s;hall doe that right to the Speakers and Members of both Hou&s;es, who were driven away to us, and to our &s;elves with them (all whom the &s;aid other Members have endeavoured in an Ho&s;tile manner mo&s;t un|ju&s;tly to de&s;troy) and al&s;o to the Kingdome (which they endeavoured to imbroyle in a new Warre) as to take &s;ome &s;peedy and effectuall cour&s;e, whereby to re&s;traine them from being their owne, and ours, and the Kingdomes Judges in tho&s;e things wherein they have made them&s;elves Parties, by this meanes to make Warre, that both they and others that are guilty of, and Parties to the afore&s;aid trea|&s;onable and de&s;tructive practi&s;es and proceedings again&s;t the freedome of Parliament, and peace of the Kingdome, may be brought to condigne puni&s;hment (and that) at the Judgement of a free Parliament, con&s;i&s;ting (duely and properly) of &s;uch Members of both Hou&s;es re&s;pectively, who &s;tand cleare from &s;uch apparant and trea&s;onable breach of their tru&s;t as is before expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By the appointment of His Excellency, and the generall Councell of his Army. Signed, <HI>Jo. Ru&s;hworth</HI> Secretary,</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>At the Head Quarter of King&s;ton upon Thames,</HI>
<DATE><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 18. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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