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<HEAD>THE RESOLUTION of both Hou&s;es of PARLIAMENT: Concerning The KINGS Maje&s;ties la&s;t Letter.</HEAD>
<P>ALSO An ANSVVER from His Excellency Sir <HI>THOMAS FAIRFAX:</HI> TO Papers from the Kingdome of <HI>Scotland,</HI> Concerning the de&s;ires of the E&s;tates of <HI>Scotland,</HI> about their Commi&s;&s;ion|ers with the Kings Maje&s;tie.</P>
<P>WITH The Re&s;olutions of the Souldiers of the Army; and their Rea&s;ons therein.</P>
<P><ADD>7^b^e^r 22</ADD> <HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>R. B. Anno Domini.</HI> 1647.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>AN ANSVVER from His Excellency Sir <HI>THO: FAIRFAX,</HI> to Papers from the Kingdome of <HI>Scotland.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lords and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IN pur&s;uance of the Commands I received for en|quiring into the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of the affront done to the Earle of <HI>Loutherdale,</HI> I &s;ent Order to Collonell <HI>Whaley,</HI> to make enquiry of it, and to return to me an account thereof, I have hereupon received from him a Narrative under his hand, of the occa&s;ions, and whole carriage of that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e (&s;o farre as his own knowledge or pre&s;ent Informations concerning it do extend,) which I have &s;ent you here inclo&s;ed, I de&s;ire it may be imparted to both Hou&s;es, for their pre&s;ent better &s;atisfaction concerning that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and if this doe not amount to their full &s;atisfaction therein, but that they think fit to have any further enquiry or Exa|mination to be had about it, I &s;hall upon further no|tice of their plea&s;ures therein give Order to Collonell <HI>Whaley</HI> accordingly, I remaine.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips humble Servant THO. FAIRFAX.</SIGNED> <DATELINE>Putney <DATE>17. Sep. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>Towards the latter end of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t, when the King lay at <HI>Woburne,</HI> the Lord <HI>Louderdale</HI> came one morn|ing about foure five of the Clock to the Court, lo&s;t no time, but pre&s;ently made a repaire to His Maje&s;ty with whom hee had much private communication. It was commonly reported and generally beleived that he had come po&s;t all the night before. But whether &s;o or not, I know not, but this I know, that his early comming and ha&s;ty &s;peaking with His Maje&s;ty at that Conjuncture of time, when that unparalled vi|olence was committed upon the Parliament, and that trea&s;onable engagement for fetching the King to <HI>Lon|don,</HI> and preparations for a new Warre, were &s;o vi|olently pro&s;ecuted in the City, drove the Court into feares, and Souldiers into jealou&s;ies, that his Lord|&s;hip came to indeavour the perfecting at Court that de&s;igne, which was begun and pro&s;ecuted in the City and that which made them (as I conceive the more jea|lous of his intentions, was a common report, that his Lord&s;hip was a fomenter of the Cities Tumults, or corre&s;ponding with the Authours of them. And in|deed I finde, that the Souldiers had long entertained har&s;h toughts of the Lord <HI>louderdale</HI> ever &s;ince his Relation, concerning His Maje&s;ties going from <HI>Hol|denby,</HI> made in the Painted Chamber &s;o much to the prejudice and di&s;advantage of the Army; and his un|dertaking there to ingage the whole Kingdom of <HI>Scot|land,</HI> as one man again&s;t the Army; they were playn with him at <HI>New-Market,</HI> then minding him of it, and told him he had publikely declared him&s;elfe their e|nemy; therefore they could not but think he came to doe them, and the Kingdome ill Offices.</P>
<P>And had not my &s;elfe and other Officers interpo|&s;ed,
<PB N="3" REF="3">they had then at lea&s;t per&s;waded him away from the Court, but at that time the Souldiers indured his &s;tay, though with &s;ome regret; But his Lord&s;hips &s;econd appearance at that time and manner as before relared, &s;o kightened, (it &s;eems their former jealou&s;ies and exa&s;perated them into &s;uch re&s;olutions, as that divers of them who&s;e names I prote&s;t I know not, not &s;o much as one for pre&s;ent) being of &s;everall Regia|ments came about five of the Clock, next morning, to his Lord&s;hips Chamber doore, de&s;ired to &s;peake with him, upon notice whereof, I ha&s;tened to the Earl of <HI>Louderdales</HI> Lodgings, and the Earle of <HI>Denby</HI> with me: We found the Souldiers and the Lord <HI>Lou|derdale</HI> rea&s;oning very calmly together, his Lord&s;hip telling them he was a publike per&s;on, and they could offer him no affront, but it would reflect upon the Kingdome of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and tend to devide the two Nations, the Souldiers told him, they found he ma|ny times acted as a private per&s;on, as when in the painted Chamber hee undertooke for all <HI>Scotland</HI> to engage as one man again&s;t the Army, (which as they heard) he had no Commi&s;&s;ion for from the State of <HI>Scotland,</HI> what they did was in Reference to the Lord <HI>Louderdale</HI> and not to the Scoti&s;h Nation: and had his Lord&s;hip &s;hewed any Commi&s;&s;ion, Pa&s;&s;e, or War|rant, te&s;tifying his being &s;ent or imployed thither as a publique per&s;on from the States of <HI>Scotland,</HI> or their Commi&s;sioners, I conceive it might have &s;atisfi|ed.</P>
<P>The Earle of <HI>Denbigh</HI> endeavoured with all the Rea&s;ons and arguments he could to per&s;wade them to let the Earle of <HI>Louderdale</HI> &s;tay, and not meddle with
<PB N="4" REF="4">him, and my &s;elfe commanded &s;ome of them to their Guard, and the re&s;t to be gone.</P>
<P>But from commanding, (the di&s;content being very high) I was inforced, for the pre&s;ent to fall to per|&s;wading, I confirmed what the Earle of <HI>Denbigh</HI> before had &s;aid to them, that it might bee con&s;trued as an injury to the State of <HI>Scotland,</HI> that it would be an offence to the Parliament of <HI>Englaad,</HI> and ad|ded that it was a contemning of the Generalls pow|er, when they would not obey Commands, and would expo&s;e both them&s;elves, and me to danger, but all in vaine; for indeed that horrid violence, &s;o late|ly done to the Parliament, and the forced flight of the Members of both Hou&s;es (whereby that highe&s;t Authority of the kingdome &s;eemed to be at a &s;tand) as it put both the City and mo&s;t parts of the King|dome into a mon&s;trous vein of confu&s;ion, and of di|&s;tracted and licentious workings, and weakned (for pre&s;ent) the hands of all men in Authority under the Parliament, &s;o it wanted not its influence of like na|ture upon the Army and Souldiery throughout the Kingdome, &s;o as Officers could not (at that time) have the like command of their Souldiers, as for|merly, nor as now again, &s;ince the Authority of the Parliament hath been vindicated, and both Hou&s;es (through Gods ble&s;&s;ing) re&s;tored to their Honour and Freedome:</P>
<P>For my owne part (as affaires then &s;tood) I am confident the Lord <HI>Denbigh</HI> will witne&s;&s;e it for me? I did my utmo&s;t endeavours to have gotten the Soul|diers away, I commanded, I per&s;waded, but neither commands nor per&s;wa&s;ions would prevaile, the Soul|diers
<PB N="5" REF="4">being unanimou&s;ly re&s;olved his Lord&s;hip &s;hould not &s;tay at Court, nor &s;peak again with the King for that time.</P>
<P>And therefore they would not depart till his Lord|&s;hip was ready and willing to take Coach.</P>
<P>When I &s;aw I could not exerci&s;e my commanding power for the pre&s;ent in that matter, nor by it, nor by per&s;wa&s;ion divert them from their Re&s;olutions: I de&s;ired them at lea&s;t to be civill towards his Lord|&s;hip, which they performed, not giving his Lordship an ill word, nor laying any hands upon him, Mr. <HI>Chee&s;ly</HI> his Lord&s;hips Secretary likewi&s;e &s;econded me, de&s;iring the Souldiers to be civill, and to give his Lord&s;hip leave to &s;ay his Prayers, the Souldiers an|&s;wered with all their hearts, they would joyne with him; but his Lord&s;hip told them he had not the gift of prayer, he would not pray publikely, and pre&s;ent|ly after went quietly to his Coach, the Souldiers at|tending him.</P>
<P>Thus have I given a true relation of the demea|nour, and Carriage of that towards the Lord <HI>Lou|therdale</HI> at <HI>VVoburne,</HI> for the confirmation whereof I referre my &s;elf to the Earle of <HI>Denbigh,</HI> who was pre&s;ent all the while, and in te&s;timony of the truth hereof, I have hereunto &s;et my hand.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Edward Whaley.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="Parliamentary resolution">
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Martis Sep. 21. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Re&s;olved upon the que&s;tion, by the Lords and Commons in Parlia|ment A&s;&s;embled. <HI>That the Kings Maje&s;ties An&s;wer from</HI> Hampton-Court <HI>pre&s;ented to both Hou&s;es Sep.</HI> 14. 1647. <HI>Is a denyall to the Propo&s;itions pre&s;ented to Him from both Kingdomes.</HI></P>
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