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<P>A FULL RELATION OF The Proceedings at the Rendezvouz of that Brigade of the Army that was held in <HI>Corkbu&s;h</HI> field in <HI>Hartford</HI> Pari&s;h on Monday la&s;t.</P>
<P>AND A LETTER from the Speaker of the Honorable Hou&s;e of Commons to Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> con|cerning the &s;aid Rendezvouz.</P>
<P>With a PAPER, Entituled, <HI>Englands Freedoms, and Soldiers Rights.</HI></P>
<P>ALSO A Petition to his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> of divers Officers and Soldiers of the Army under his Command.</P>
<P>Together with a Declaration again&s;t the Proceedings of the new Agents.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Nov. 15. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Imprimatur</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Gilbert Mabbot.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Laurence Chapman, November</HI> 16. 1647.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>To his Excellency Sir <HI>Tho: Fairfax.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THis hou&s;e received &s;everal de&s;ires from you, in be|half of the Army under your Command, which they took into pre&s;ent con&s;ideration; but by the Kings withdrawing from Hampton Court, were interrupted in that debate. For the moneths pay, they have endeavoured the complying with it, and doubt not, but it may be &s;peedily effected; for the Arrears, they are re|&s;olved to give a full and &s;ufficient &s;ecurity; and are very &s;en|&s;ible of tho&s;e expre&s;&s;ions of the Army, wherein they declare their re&s;olutions (upon a con&s;tant pay) to make it death to take any thing from any inhabitant of this kingdom; and re|membring that the Rendezvouz of the Army beginneth on Monday next, They have commanded me to make known un|to you (and de&s;ire you would make it known to the Soldiers) that they will forthwith proceed upon tho&s;e de&s;ires of the Ar|my, which by rea&s;on of this accident (for the pre&s;ent) they could not fini&s;h; and make &s;uch provi&s;ion for them, both for the pre&s;ent for their Arrears, and their future con&s;tant pay, as may let them cleerly &s;ee, the care they have of them, and the value they put upon their pa&s;t &s;ervices; re&s;ting confident of their complyance and &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to the Commands and Directions of Parliament; not having more in command, I remain,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Excellencies humble Servant, <HI>William Lenthal</HI> Speaker.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>We&s;tmin&s;ter. <DATE>13. Nov. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THis day (according to appointment) the Ren|dezvouz of the fir&s;t Brigade of the Army was held in Corkbu&s;h field in Hartford Pari&s;h, between Hartford and Ware; Hartford being the Head quarters Saturday and Sonday, the General went from thence to the Rendezvouz; where according to order there met, of Hor&s;e, The Generals Regiment, Col: <HI>Fleetwoods,</HI> Col: <HI>Riches,</HI> and Col: <HI>Twi&s;tletons;</HI> of Foot, The Generals, Col: <HI>Hamonds,</HI> and Col: <HI>Prides:</HI> And be&s;ides the&s;e, upon the &s;educements of the new Agents, Col: <HI>Harri|&s;ons,</HI> and Col: <HI>Lilburns</HI> Regiments: The General expre&s;&s;ed him&s;elf very gallantly and faithfully at the Head of every Regiment, to live and dye with them for tho&s;e particulars which were contained in a Remon&s;trance read to every Regiment: And not|with&s;tanding the endeavors of Major <HI>Scot</HI> and o|thers; to animate the Soldiers to &s;tand to the Paper called <HI>The Agreement of the People,</HI> they generally by many acclamations declared their Affections and Re&s;olutions to adhere to the General; and as many as could in the &s;hort time they had allowed, &s;igned an Agreement drawn up for that purpo&s;e, concern|ing their being ready from time to time to ob&s;erve &s;uch Orders as they &s;hould receive from the Gene|ral and Councel of the Army, I had &s;ent you the copy of this Agreement, and His Excellencies
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Remon&s;trance, but that I was &s;o &s;traitned in time I could not: I &s;hou'd have acquainted you before, That upon the Generals coming into the field, Col: <HI>Eyres,</HI> Major <HI>Scot,</HI> and others, were ob&s;erved to be in&s;inuating divers &s;editious Principles into the Sol|diers, and incen&s;ing them again&s;t the General and General Officers: Upon which Order was given for the Commitment of Col: <HI>Eyre</HI> and others into the Mar&s;hals hands; and Major <HI>Scot</HI> committed to the cu&s;tody of Lieutenant <HI>Chillenden,</HI> and &s;ent up to the Parliament: Some inferior per&s;ons were likewi&s;e committed, for di&s;per&s;ing &s;undry &s;canda|lous and factious Papers, as <HI>The Agreement of the People, &amp;c.</HI> among the private Soldiers: And finding that tho&s;e per&s;ons who pretend mo&s;t for the Free|dom of People had di&s;per&s;ed divers of tho&s;e Pa|pers among&s;t Col: <HI>Lilburns</HI> Regiment of Foot (the mo&s;t mutinous Regiment in the Army) &s;trict Com|mand was given for them to tear them and ca&s;t them away; which was done: and Captain Lieut: <HI>Bray</HI> (who was the onely Officer above a Lieutenant left among them, the re&s;t being driven away by the mutinous Soldiers, and one of them wounded) was taken from the Head of that Regiment, and com|mitted to cu&s;tody; it being alleaged, That he had led on the Soldiers to that Rendezvouz contrary to Orders. And afterwards a Councel of War being called in the field, divers Mutiniers for exam|ple &s;ake were drawn forth, three of them were tryed and condemned to death, and one of them (who&s;e turn it fell to by lot) was &s;hot to death at the Head of the Regiment, and others are in hold to be tryed.
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The Soldiers of this Regiment crying out, That they were abu&s;ed by their Officers, and being told by the Lieutenant General, That they &s;hould have Ju&s;tice again&s;t them, were very much &s;atisfied, &s;en|&s;ible of their error, and promi&s;ed conformity to the Generals Commands for the future. Col: <HI>Rain&s;|brough</HI> and &s;ome others pre&s;ented this enclo&s;ed Pe|tition, and <HI>The Agreement of the People,</HI> to His Ex|cellency at his fir&s;t coming: Col: <HI>Harri&s;ons</HI> Regi|ment, who had them in their Hats with this Motto on the out&s;ide in capital Letters, <HI>Englands Freedoms, and Soldiers Rights,</HI> when they under&s;tood their error, tore them out of their Hats, and expre&s;&s;ed their Re&s;olution to be obedient to His Excellen|cies commands. Lieut: Col: <HI>John Lilburn</HI> came this day to Ware; but things not &s;ucceeding at the Rendezvouz according to expectation, came not further. Sir, As I cannot but rejoyce in this days Unity, in relation to the Peace of the Kingdom; &s;o, I hope, That the i&s;&s;ue will tend to the benefit there|of; and that the General and Officers of the Army will do as much for the real Freedom of the People, as the other do pretend; and how good &s;oever their Intentions may be, nothing but confu&s;ion at pre|&s;ent appears in their Endeavors. In much ha&s;te I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Hartford,
<DATE>15. Nov. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your affectionate Friend and Servant, WILLIAM CLARK.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>Englands Freedoms and Soldiers Rights;</HI> An Agreement of the People, for a firm and pre&s;ent Peace, upon Grounds of Common Right.</HEAD>
<P>HAving by our late labors and hazards made it appear to the world at how high a rate we value our ju&s;t Freedom, &amp; having &s;o far owned our cau&s;e, as to deliver the enemies there|of into our hands: We do now hold our &s;elves bound in mutual duty to each other, to take the be&s;t care we can for the future, to avoid both the danger of returning into a &s;lavi&s;h condition, and the charge|able remedy of another War: for as it cannot be ima|gined that &s;o many of our Countrey men would have oppo&s;ed us in this quarrel, if they had under|&s;tood their own good; &s;o may we &s;afely promi&s;e to our &s;elves, that when our common Rights and Li|berties &s;hall be cleared, their endeavors will be di&s;|appointed, that &s;eek to make them&s;elves our Ma|&s;ters: &s;ince therefore our former oppre&s;&s;ions, and &s;carce yet ended troubles have been occa&s;ioned, either by want of frequent National meetings in Coun&s;el, or by rendring tho&s;e meetings ineffectu|al; We are fully agreed and re&s;olved, to provide that hereafter our Repre&s;entatives be neither left to an uncertainty for the time, nor made u&s;ele&s;s to the ends for which they are intended: In order where|unto we Declare,</P>
<P N="1">1. That the people of England being at this day very unequally di&s;tributed, by Counties, Cities, and Burroughs, for the Election of their Deputies in
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Parliament, ought to be more indifferently propor|tioned, according to the number of the Inhabi|tants: the circum&s;tances whereof, for number, place, and maner, are to be &s;et down before the end of this pre&s;ent Parliament.</P>
<P N="2">2. That to prevent the many inconveniencies, ap|parently ari&s;ing, from the long continuance of the &s;ame per&s;ons in authority, this pre&s;ent Parliament be di&s;&s;olved upon the la&s;t day of September, which &s;hall be in the year of our Lord, 1648.</P>
<P N="3">3. That the People do of cour&s;e chu&s;e them|&s;elves a Parliament once in two years. <HI>viz.</HI> upon the fir&s;t Thur&s;day in every &s;econd March, after the maner as &s;hall be pre&s;cribed before the end of this Parliament, to begin to &s;it upon the fir&s;t Thur&s;day in April following at We&s;tmin&s;ter, or &s;uch other place as &s;hall be appointed from time to time by the preceding Repre&s;entatives; and to continue till the la&s;t day of September then next en&s;uing, and no longer.</P>
<P N="4">4. That the power of this, and all future Repre|&s;entatives of this Nation, is inferior only to theirs who chu&s;e them, and doth extend without the con|&s;ent or concurrence of any other per&s;on or per&s;ons; to the Enacting, Altering, and repealing of Laws; to the erecting and aboli&s;hing of Offices and Courts; to the appointing, removing, and calling to account Magi&s;trates, and Officers of all degrees; to the making War and Peace, to the treating with forraign States; and generally, to what&s;oever is not expre&s;ly, or implyedly re&s;erved by the Repre|&s;ented to them&s;elves, which are as followeth;</P>
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<P N="1">1. <HI>THat matters of Religion, and the ways of Gods Wor&s;hip, are not at all intru&s;t|ed by us to any humane power, becau&s;e therein we cannot remit or exceed a tittle of what our Con|&s;ciences dictate to be the minde of God, without wilful &s;in: neverthele&s;&s;e the publike way of in|&s;tructing the Nation (&s;o it be not compul&s;ive) is referred to their di&s;cretion.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>That the matter of Impre&s;ting and con|&s;training any of us to &s;erve in the Wars, is again&s;t our Freedom, and therefore we do not allow it in our Repre&s;entatives; the rather, becau&s;e money (the &s;inews of War) being always at their di&s;po|&s;al, they can never want numbers of men apt enough to engage in any ju&s;t Cau&s;e.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>That after the di&s;&s;olution of this pre&s;ent Parliament, no per&s;on be at any time que&s;tioned for any thing &s;aid or done, in reference to the late publike differences, otherwi&s;e then in execution of the Judgements of the pre&s;ent Repre&s;entatives, or Hou&s;e of Commons.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>That in all Laws, made, or to be made, eve|ry per&s;on may be bound alike; and that no Tenure, Estate, Charter, Degree, Birth, or Place, do con|fer
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any exemption from the ordinary cour&s;e of le|gal proceedings, whereunto others are &s;ubjected.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>That as the Laws ought to be equal, &s;o they mu&s;t be good, and not evidently de&s;tructive to the &s;afety and well-being of the People.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e things we declare to be our Native Rights, and therefore are agreed and re&s;ol|ved to maintain them with our utmo&s;t po&s;&s;i|bilities, again&s;t all oppo&s;ition what&s;oever; being compelled thereunto, not onely by the examples of our Ance&s;tours, who&s;e blood was often &s;pilt in vain for the recove|ry of their Freedoms, &s;uffering them&s;elves, through fraudulent Accommodations, to be &s;till deluded of the fruit of their Victories; but al&s;o by our own woful experience, who having long expected, and dearly earned the e&s;tabli&s;hment of the&s;e certain Rules of Go|vernment, are yet made to depend, for the &s;ettlement of our Peace and Freedom, upon Him that intended our Bondage, and brought a cruel War upon us.</P>
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<P>FOra&s;much as our condition with the Armie in <HI>May</HI> and <HI>June</HI> la&s;t occa&s;ioned us to make choice of Agitators for tran&s;action of our bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e with, and repre&s;entation of our grievan|ces to the Generall, and by him to the Parlia|ment, for the keeping of a mutuall corre&s;pon|dencie and unanimous compliance among&s;t us, for the cleering of all mi&s;pri&s;ions and mi&s;|apprehen&s;ions that might any way retard the firm e&s;tabli&s;hment of a la&s;ting Peace in this unhappy Kingdom, as al&s;o in order and rela|tion to the providing compleat &s;atisfaction for the Souldiery: Notwith&s;tanding upon &s;eve|rall informations that tho&s;e formerly imploy|ed by us did more con&s;ult their own advance|ment then the Publick &s;ettled, we were indu|ced about the 19 of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t to make choice of two new Agitators for a Regiment; not in the lea&s;t manner intending that they &s;hould pre&s;ume to u&s;urp authority over the General, the Councell of Warre, the old Agitators o|ver the Kingdom, or over us, as to appoint
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Conventions at their own plea&s;ure, and there to compo&s;e and publi&s;h in print to the world &s;trange and unheard of Fancies, and frame <HI>I|deas</HI> of their own brain, and bring them to us to father. But the authority that we derived upon them, was onely to act according to our fir&s;t engaged principles, with the con&s;ent and advice of the Generall, the Councel of War, and the Agitators fir&s;t elected, to cleer tho&s;e things that &s;eemed dubious unto us, to prevent mi&s;infor|mations, to endeavour to facilitate things that appeared difficult, to make us intelligent Sub|jects what progre&s;&s;e had been made in order to our fir&s;t ingagement and repre&s;entations to the Parliament, and to improve their be&s;t a&s;|&s;i&s;tance to remove &s;uch ob&s;tructions as did any way impede the ju&s;t and legall proceedings of the Army. And whereas they have contrary to the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them, contrary to the end for which they were &s;elected and cho&s;en, and indeed, contrary to good &s;ubjects, ca&s;t off all allegeance and obedience (as we conceive) to all pre&s;ent vi&s;ible Authority in the King|dom, and have betaken them&s;elves to a new framed Citie of Refuge, have declared that
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they will in&s;i&s;t in that way po&s;itively again&s;t all oppo&s;ition what&s;oever, have endeavoured to incen&s;e the Nation that the Armie's inten|tions, Declarations, and Remon&s;trances have been but to gull and mi&s;lead the people, and have rejected all terms of corre&s;pondency with tho&s;e formerly entru&s;ted and employed by us; and all this acted printed, and publi&s;h|ed before any antecedaneous notice thereof given, or con&s;ent had from their re&s;pective Regiments. Therefore we do declare to the &s;aid pretended Agitators, and to all the world, that we are &s;o far from countenancing their prepo&s;terous proceedings, as that hereby we te&s;tifie our utter di&s;like to it: And do hereby re|call any pretended authority that the &s;aid Agi|tators make claim to from us, and likewi&s;e do require them to return to their &s;everall and re|&s;pective Troops, and not to per&s;i&s;t any farther by vertue of any colourable pretence what&s;o|ever; wee being fully re&s;olved to adhere to the former Mutuall Agreement of the Army, and not to act in a di&s;tinct way from the Ge|nerall Councel of Warr, and tho&s;e Agitators formerly entru&s;ted by us, much le&s;&s;e in op|po&s;ition
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to them; but to comply with them in all &s;uch things as may conduce to the &s;pee|dy redre&s;&s;e of the publick di&s;tractions of the Kingdom, and the bringing to perfection our ju&s;t de&s;ires contained and &s;pecified in the In|gagements and &s;everall Declarations of the Army, and will make choice of &s;uch men as &s;hall be appointed to communicate their ut|mo&s;t endeavours in the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Gene|rall and Councell of War, in &s;uch a way as may be&s;t conduce to the <HI>Bene e&s;&s;e</HI> of the Na|tion.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Con&s;ented to and &s;ub&s;cribed by the Officers and Souldiers in Col. <HI>Whaley's</HI> own Troop.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax</HI> our noble Generall.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of many Officers and Souldiers under his command.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat in Judgement and con&s;cience we engaged in the warr again&s;t the King under your Excellen|cyes command, to pre&s;erve and vindicate the freedoms of our native Country, and of the Parliament in or|der thereunto.</P>
<P>That by the ble&s;&s;ing of God all tho&s;e our Enemies are falne or fled before us.</P>
<P>That for the &s;ame Ends, and for our own Rights, for our &s;ervice, we were forced to hazzard our &s;elves in di&s;puting the Parliaments commands, and tho&s;e our Oppo&s;ers have been likewi&s;e &s;ubdued.</P>
<P>That the Countyes have petitioned your Excellen|cy to procure the long expected &s;ettelment of their freedomes.</P>
<P>That we have waited many Monethes for the &s;ecu|ring to us, and all the free borne people, their native Rights, and for our Indempnity, and Arreares as Souldiers; and our Hearts bleed to &s;ee our Country con&s;ume under continued Di&s;tractions and heavy Op|pre&s;&s;ions.</P>
<P><PB N="16" REF="9" MS="y">That we &s;ee no hope of Indempnity for us and our A&s;&s;i&s;tants; nor &s;ettling the foundations of freedome, but by entring into this Agreement which wee here|with offer to your Excellency de&s;iring your concur|rence therein.</P>
<P>That we have &s;eene and felt the &s;ad Con&s;equences of being divided and &s;cattered before our native free|domes were &s;ettled, and our Arreares &s;ecured, and &s;uch a way e&s;tabli&s;hed for con&s;tant pay, that we may know where to receive it monthly without faile.</P>
<P>That we are bound in con&s;cience from the &s;en&s;e of our duty to our native Country, and in mercy to our &s;elves, to keepe together with our &s;words in our hands, to maintaine the&s;e our freedomes, for which the Parliament fir&s;t invited us to take Armes, to &s;ee our Arreares and pay &s;ecured, and our deere Country freed from its intollerable Burdens.</P>
<P>May it therefore plea&s;e your Excellency to go on in owning and leading us in maintaining of this our Cau&s;e, to the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e whereof God hath born &s;uch cleare witne&s;&s;e: And in the pro|&s;ecution of the&s;e things wee humbly de&s;ire to live and dye under your Excellencyes conduct.</P>
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