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<P>A FURTHER PROPOSAL From His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, AND The Councell of warre of the ARMIE under His COMMAND.</P>
<P>De&s;iring the di&s;charge of all &s;uch per&s;ons as are impri&s;oned under pretence of Conventicles, or for private Meetings for Religious Duties.</P>
<P><HI>ALSO,</HI> A Petition and Remon&s;taance from the For|ces of the Northern A&s;&s;ociation; declaring the Rea&s;ons of their apprehending and &s;ecuring Colonell-Generall <HI>Poyntz.</HI></P>
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<P>By the appointment of his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> and his Councell of Warre.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed, <HI>Iohn Ru&s;hwo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">th,</HI> Secr.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>George Whittington,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his &s;hop at the &s;igne of the Blew Anchor in Cornhill, neere the Royall Exchange, 1647.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="proposal for release of prisoners">
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<HEAD>A further Propo&s;all from his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Councel of Warre, of the Army under his Command.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas divers per&s;ons really affected to the weale and peace of this Kingdome (many whereof have ingaged their e&s;tates and lives with the Parliament in the late warre) are now impri&s;oned, in|dicted, and otherwi&s;e very grievou&s;ly vexed (and ma|ny others liable to the like trouble) by force or pre|tence of &s;everall Statutes (e&s;pecially intended) again&s;t tho&s;e who repaire not to &s;ome Church or Chappell to heare the Booke of Common prayer, or again<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> tho&s;e who are Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, and by their not going to Church might be di&s;covered: And again&s;t the&s;e who &s;hould hold any Conventicles of Meet|ings to plot and con&s;pire &s;ome mi&s;chiefe to the State. Now fora&s;much as the Parliament hath declared a|gain&s;t the Book of Common-prayer, and that the &s;aid Act again&s;t the <HI>Conventicles</HI> was not intended again&s;t
<PB N="2" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 98 -->people meeting only for Religious Exerci&s;es: we there|fore de&s;ire, That all per&s;ons proceeded again&s;t upon the Statutes of 3<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>Eliz.</HI> 3. <HI>Iacobi,</HI> or upon any other Statutes or Acts what&s;oever of the &s;ame tenour with the premi&s;es may be forthwith di&s;charged from their impri&s;onments, indictments, or any other mole&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">tion what&s;oever, by vertue of the fore-ment&iuml;oned Sta|tutes, unle&s;&s;e &s;uch per&s;ons &s;hall bee proved either Po|pi&s;h Recu&s;ants (and that by &s;ome other way then by their not coming to Church) or to have in &s;uch pri|vate Meetings as afore&s;aid &s;ome perjurious de&s;igne, con&s;piracie and practice again&s;t the State.</P>
<P>And for a more effectuall cour&s;e herein wee de&s;ire, That the Parliament would be plea&s;ed to give orders accordingly to all the Judges of A&s;&s;izes for this next Circuit throughout the Kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> and Dominion of <HI>Wales</HI> (as part of their In&s;tructions) to acquit all per&s;ons &s;uffering as afore&s;aid, by vertue, or under pretence of the &s;aid Statutes, otherwi&s;e then as before excepted, and to give the whole matter &s;o in charge, that all Ju&s;tices of the Peace, and whom el&s;e the &s;ame &s;hall concern, may not henceforth a tempt to bring the like trouble upon any other of the well-affectd people of this Kingdome, under the like pre|tence, as they will an&s;wer the contrary at their perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Redding <DATE>Iuly 21. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>By the appointment of his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> and his coun|cell of Warre, Signed, <HI>Iohn Ru&s;hworth.</HI> Secr.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
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<HEAD>To his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fair|fax,</HI> Captain General of all the for|ces in the Kingdome rai&s;ed for the defence of the Kingdom.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of the Souldiery of the Northern A&s;&s;ociation.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat whereas your Excellencies Peti|tioners, having lately acted in matters that concerne their future well-beinge and &s;afety; and al&s;o declared their willing complyance, and connexion with the Army more immediatly under your Excellencies command, wee being engaged thereunto &s;e|verall wayes, accompt it our duty, a&s;well to apprehend their and our oppo&s;ers, for our own &s;ecurity; as to defend our &s;elves in the &s;ame cau&s;e. We cannot indeed but with grief relate, that there &s;hould bee &s;uch per&s;ons a|mong&s;t
<PB N="4" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 99 -->us, that dur&s;t appeare to act again&s;t tho&s;e principles, which fir&s;t engaged us to the pre&s;ent &s;ervice. Therefore for our owne pre&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">rvation, wee are enforced to act again&s;t all &s;uch per&s;ons of what quality &s;oever, who&s;e power might prove de&s;tructive to the wel-being of the Subject, And accordingly thereupon we have apprehended Col. Gen. Poyntz, who alleadged authority, for acting again&s;t the publike good. We con&s;idering what dangerous con&s;equent effects did, and might flow from &s;uch a corrupt member as he, and others of the &s;ame nature, to deprive us of our future happine&s;&s;e (if permitted to remain unremoved) who have made u&s;e of him, and his authority, to bring to pa&s;&s;e their plots, of machivilioni&s;me. We therefore humbly pre&s;ent to your Excellency (to whom we conceive we ought to repair for redre&s;&s;e) as followeth:</P>
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<ITEM>1. <HI>That your Excellency would be plea&s;ed &s;eriou&s;ly to ponder the &s;adne&s;&s;e of our condition in being de&s;titute of a Commander in chiefe, of known integrity, and that accordingly your Excellency would be plea&s;ed to helpe us in this our great nece&s;&s;ity.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>That your Excellencie would be plea&s;ed to further what|&s;oever may conduce to our future &s;afety, for we conceive our &s;elvas very neer to de&s;truction, when the Enemies of our well-being have the command over us, and would willingly make us acce&s;&s;ary to our own thraldome.</HI></ITEM>
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3. <HI>That your Excellency would be plea&s;ed to cau&s;e this charge to be pro&s;ecuted again&s;t him by a Councel of Warre of the Army more immediatly under your Excellencies command, many Officers here being acce&s;&s;ary with him in the &s;ame undertaking.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <HI>The&s;e things being performed, we humbly de&s;ire your Ex|cellency &s;eriou&s;ly to con&s;ider our former engagements with you in former &s;ervice, and to take &s;uch cour&s;e for our future &s;upply with pay, as we may not lye langui&s;hing, when our Enemies are in pro|&s;perity.</HI></ITEM>
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<CLOSER>And your Petitioners &s;hall ever pray, &amp;c.
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<HEAD>Colonel <HI>Poyntz</HI> Regiment.</HEAD>
<ITEM>John Bradley</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Smith</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Colonel <HI>Bethels</HI> Regiment.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Thomas Cambridge</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Tom&s;on</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Colonel <HI>Copeley's</HI> Regiment.</HEAD>
<ITEM>John Hodg&s;on</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Bates</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Colonel <HI>Pon&s;onbies</HI> Regiment.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Thomas Hunter</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Wharton</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Colonel <HI>Brights</HI> Regiment.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Iohn Drake</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iames Marke</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Colonel <HI>Overtons</HI> Regiment.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Iohn Benninton</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Morrice</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Col. <HI>Collingworths</HI> Regiment.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Robert Sharbie</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Shalloket</ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>The humble Remon&s;trance of the Soul|diers of the Northern A&s;&s;ociation, to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fair|fax, Captain Generall of all the For|ces of England, rai&s;ed by the Authori|ty of Parliament.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Excellency,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WHereas, wee have lately been put upon actions very publique (yet lawfull) which we could have wi&s;hed had been more private, had we not been expo&s;ed &s;o to man|nage the &s;ame for nece&s;&s;ity &s;ake, and in the carrying on of the&s;e affaires of &s;o great importance; Two things have been laid before us, <HI>Happine&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>Mi&s;ery, Peace</HI> and <HI>Warre, Wel|fare</HI> and <HI>Ruine.</HI></P>
<P>And unle&s;&s;e wee &s;hould have degenerated from the very principles of nature, and con&s;equently have become inhu|mane, wee mu&s;t have carryed on the&s;e affaires as they now appear to have been.</P>
<P>As for our parts, we do &s;eriou&s;ly prote&s;t, that the very prin|ciples which led us to undertake the &s;ervice, were for the advancement of the Subjects good <HI>(to wit)</HI> their ju&s;t rights and immunities; And in the undertaking of the &s;ervice wee were throughly re&s;olved to live and dye in defence of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Indeed, we cannot but ble&s;&s;e God for that glorious &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e which hath been freely given to tho&s;e that undertooke the &s;ervice.</P>
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To this end, although our hard&s;hips have been very great, and occa&s;ioned many inconveniences to our &s;elves, yet our happi|ne&s;&s;e is, that the Lord hath crowned our endeavours with the end of our de&s;ires, in &s;ome re&s;pect; but notwith&s;tanding (to our amazement) the endeavours of &s;ome pretended friends were not wanting utterly to deprive us of the fruit of our hard labours and dangerous &s;ervice; which enterprizes &s;triking at the temporall foundations of our well-being, brought us very neare even to de&s;truction it &s;elfe. And &s;ith it hath plea&s;ed God to &s;tirre up the Army more immediately under your Ex|cellencies command, to with&s;tand the Contrivers of this &s;tra|tagem; We could do no le&s;&s;e but manife&s;t our affectionate ap|probation of their actions, and our earne&s;t de&s;ires to partake with them in any condition what&s;oever, which are expre&s;&s;ed in the Declaration, Petition, and Repre&s;entations which wee lately pre&s;ented to your Excellency: But &s;ince our fir&s;t endea|vours to a&s;&s;ociate our &s;elves with the Army more immediately under your Excellencies Command (out of the apprehen&s;ion we had of the equity of their proceedings) we found very ma|ny unwilling per&s;ons both to our and the Kingdomes welfare; which have done as much as in them lies, to ob&s;truct our pro|ceedings. And for this their aver&s;ne&s;&s;e to us, they have pre|tended the authority of Colonell-Generall <HI>Poyntz;</HI> which we examining, found to be too true; in&s;omuch as we have recei|ved divers Letters, &s;ent to particular Officers, manife&s;ting not onely the aver&s;ne&s;&s;e of his &s;pirit to what&s;oever might conduce to the advancement of the publike good, but al&s;o the violence that he intended to offer to any &s;uch per&s;ons, as &s;hould clo&s;e or comply with that Army more immediatly under your Excel|lencies Command, in their ju&s;t undertakings: In&s;omuch that we having formerly had &s;ufficient te&s;timonies of his violent intreating of &s;ome, even to the death, without a legall triall,
<PB N="8" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 101 -->(although it &s;hould be granted that their fact were hainous;) we could not expect, but receive hard mea&s;ure from &s;uch a one, who&s;e will was his rea&s;on, and his rea&s;on not his will, he being in a capacity of acting dangerous things, and not wanting a will thereunto, as your Excellency may plea&s;e to take notice by the copie of his Letters, our ca&s;e being &s;uch, as that our happine&s;&s;e con&s;i&s;ts in being under &s;uch command as doe highly prize our welfare for the future. But lea&s;t wee &s;hould pa&s;&s;e by &s;uch per&s;ons who&s;e perfidiou&s;ne&s;&s;e hath been a great cau&s;e of his acting, we &s;hall humbly remon&s;trate to your Excellency, that although in our apprehen&s;ions the carry|ing on of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e by him will import no le&s;&s;e then that he did endeavour, as much as in him lay, to re-imbroyle us in a &s;econd warre, and that not again&s;t our foes, but again&s;t tho&s;e who were our fellow-&s;ervants for the publike good, <HI>viz.</HI> the Army in the South: Yet notwith&s;tanding it is &s;o plainely e|vident unto us, that there is a &s;ort of men who &s;eemingly lie under a prodigious Lethargie, and would gladly render them|&s;elves to the apprehen&s;ions of godly men, as if they were un|acquainted with the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and frame that as an excu&s;e for their non-concurrency with us when it is too apparent (for their credit) that they with him have countenanced and kept corre&s;pondency with the Members accu&s;ed by your Excel|lency; and not onely &s;o, but have made u&s;e of his power for the accompli&s;hment of their illegall de&s;igns: But the ju&s;t God will not &s;uffer unju&s;t men to goe unpuni&s;hed. Out of the ap|prehen&s;ion of the&s;e things, we could doe no le&s;&s;e but fore-&s;ee the eminent danger that was like to befall both our &s;elves and the Nation with us, and what a great ob&s;truction there might (by this meanes) bee put to the pre&s;ent hopefull proceedings. We therefore con&s;idering what dangerous con&s;equent effects were like to follow, if &s;uch as the&s;e men were &s;uffered to re|&s;ide
<PB N="9" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 101 -->among&s;t us, and that the meane&s;t creature endeavours to u&s;e all means (even by nature) to pre&s;erve it &s;elfe; and know|ing our late obligement not onely to endeavour to protect, but al&s;o to act again&s;t &s;uch per&s;ons; we &s;ent a party of Hor&s;e upon Wedne&s;day at night, being the &s;eventh of this in&s;tant moneth, to apprehend Colonell-Generall <HI>Poyntz,</HI> which they accordingly did, and in the mannaging of the &s;ame, were as free from offering any violent and uncivill action, as it was po&s;&s;ible for men in that cafe to be. He being apprehended, was brought to Pontefract, and is now &s;ent to be tried by a Councell of Warre of the Army more immediately under your Excellencies command, which wee humbly de&s;ire may be accompli&s;hed, he having de&s;erved the &s;ame for injury done both to Souldiery and Kingdome, as more plainely by the Charge doth appeare. And we &s;hall humbly de&s;ire your Ex|cellency, that &s;uch cour&s;e may be taken for a Commander in chiefe, and Officers of integrity to bee intru&s;ted with the&s;e Northerne Forces, as may abhorre all corruption in their places of tru&s;t, and as doe di&s;daine to go &s;o far beneath the &s;pirits of upright men, as to &s;toop to compliancie with any unju&s;t thing for &s;ini&s;ter re&s;pects &s;ake.</P>
<P>The&s;e things being accompli&s;hed, we then hope &s;weetly to &s;it down under, and fully to be po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of that peace and fu|ture happine&s;&s;e, which is the very price of our blood; and we &s;hall willingly betake our &s;elves to &s;uch imployment, as &s;hall conduce to Gods glory, and the Kingdomes &s;ervice.</P>
<P>Thus have we humbly remon&s;trated to your Excellency our pre&s;ent condition: To whom &s;hall we appeale (next to divine Providence) for a redre&s;&s;e of our grievances, if not to your Ex|cellency, of who&s;e faithfulne&s;&s;e we have had &s;ufficient te&s;ti|mony, and whom we have followed to look death cheerfully in the face (for our Countreyes freedome) in former &s;ervices;
<PB N="10" REF="7"><!-- PDF PAGE 102 -->and we hope &s;hall not now be left de&s;titute of your helpe; which if we &s;hall obtaine, to be added to the re&s;t of former favours, we &s;hall then rejoyce, and quietly repo&s;e our &s;elves to all &s;uch warrantable undertakings as &s;hall befit men who have been &s;o concerned in publike Affaires, and (we hope) &s;hall leave our freedome as an inheritance to &s;ucceeding ages, and our &s;elves (in the interim) to be commanded by your Excel|lency, or whom els you &s;hall think fit, for the &s;ervice and &s;afe|ty of King, Parliament and Kingdome.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
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<HEAD>Colonell <HI>Poyntz</HI>'s Regiment.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Iohn Bradley,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Smith.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Colonell <HI>Bethells</HI> Regiment.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Thomas Cambridge,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Tom&s;on.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Colonell <HI>Brights</HI> Regiment.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Iohn Drake,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Marke.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Colonell <HI>Overtons</HI> Regiment.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Iohn Benington,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Morris.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Colonell <HI>Copleys</HI> Regiment.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Iohn Hodg&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Baytes.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Colonell <HI>Pon&s;onby's Regiment.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>Thomas Wharton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Hunter.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Col. <HI>Collingworth's</HI> Regiment.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Robert Sharbye,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Shalloket.</ITEM>
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