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<P>THE DISPLAYING OF THE LIFE-GUARDS COLOURS, OR A true Narrative of the late actings of his Excellencies Life-Guard, &s;ince their Order for Marching up to <HI>London</HI> to be Di&s;banded:</P>
<P><HI>Wherein</HI> Are conteined his Excellencies Order for their March|ing up to <HI>London.</HI> Their Remon&s;trance in referrence to their Solemn Engagement. Their propo&s;als in order to Di&s;|banding. Their Declaration di&s;covering their Rea&s;ons of Seizing upon and Securing their Standard.</P>
<P>With a vindication of divers Gentlemen imployed by them. And divers other things giving Light to each of them.</P>
<P>Now Publi&s;hed to give &s;atisfaction, and to prevent mi&s;-apprehen&s;ions con|cerning the proceedings of the Gentlemen of the Life-Guard of his Excellency Sir <HI>THOMAS FAIRFAX.</HI></P>
<P>Magna e&s;t veritas &amp; praevalebit</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed in the Year, 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>THE <HI>DISPLAYING</HI> Of the Life-Guards COLOURS.</HEAD>
<P>THe Stir-rups, by which many have mounted into the Saddle of Authority and power, and the &s;talking hor&s;es whereby they have deceived well minded people have been &s;pecious pretences of their great de&s;ires after the publicke good; their actings only have di&s;covered them to be feigned pretenders, and men pretend|ing publicke good, for their private advantage, which being brought forth, the panges of their travell cea&s;e, unle&s;&s;e to confirme them&s;elves as nailes in &s;ure places.</P>
<P>There hath been of late a de&s;ign, (pardon the word) to disband part of the Ar|my, and that (if you will believe it) for the Kingdomes good; of which company his Excellencies Life-guard mu&s;t have the honour to be Frontiers, for rea&s;ons be&s;t known to their lovers. Wherefore an Order i&s;&s;ued out from his Excellency in <HI>January</HI> la&s;t for their marching from their quarters in <HI>Hertford-&s;hire</HI> unto <HI>London,</HI> to be disbanded there. The Copy of which Order heer followes.</P>
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<HEAD>A Copy of his Excellencies Order for the Life-Guards comming to London to be disbanded.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas the Parliament hath ordained and appointed the for|ces under your command, being my Life-guard, to be disband|ed, and have taken orders that the &s;aid Life-guard or forces to be
<PB N="2" REF="3">disband<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">cept &s;uch as have been entertained &s;ince the &s;ixth of <HI>Au|gu&s;t</HI> la&s;t (who are to be di&s;charged without money) &s;hall before di&s;|banding have their accounts &s;tated, receive two moneths pay in hand, and Dibenturs for the remainder, and tho&s;e to be regi&s;tred, and by &s;everall Ordinances &s;ecured; tho&s;e Arreares by good and vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ble &s;ecu|rity to be hereafter paid, or that they &s;hall be agreed with all for their whole arreares by a gro&s;&s;e &s;umme in hand; and have authorited Commi&s;&s;ioners to &s;ee the&s;e things done.</P>
<P>The&s;e are to require you upon notice from their Commi&s;&s;ioners intru&s;ted with that &s;ervice, you with the &s;aid forces under your com|mand do readily comply and give due obedience in all things requi|&s;ite for the effectuall and &s;peedy di&s;patch of that &s;ervice, and the di&s;|banding the &s;aid forces under your command, according to the &s;aid re&s;olutions and directions of Parliament. The &s;aid &s;ervice being of great concernment to the publicke and the ea&s;e of the Country. The Parliament and my &s;elfe expect all due ob&s;ervance heerin: And for &s;o doing this &s;hall be your Warrant, under my hand and &s;eale at <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> the 28. of <HI>January</HI> 1647.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>THOMAS FAIRFAX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>To Captain <HI>Cromwell</HI> or to Cap. Liev. <HI>Ellis,</HI> or other Offi|cers in chief pre&s;ent with my Life-guard. </TRAILER>
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<P><HI>In obedience to which Order the Troop marched under the conduct of their Of|ficers to</HI> Barnet <HI>neare</HI> London, <HI>and after into the City. Where &s;ome of the Gentlemen calling to mind their &s;olemne engagement with the Army, not to di&s;|band nor divide, nor to &s;uffer them&s;elves to be disbanded nor divided; and per|ceiving a nece&s;&s;ity of &s;ubmitting to his Excellency, thought by a Remon&s;trance &s;o to free them&s;elves from their engagement that they might with &s;afety of con|&s;cience &s;uffer them&s;elves to be disbanded. Which Remon&s;trance was</HI> February <HI>the</HI> 6. <HI>pre&s;ented to his Excellency. The Copy whereof heer in&s;ues.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>An humble <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI> to his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> from the Gentle|men of his Excellencies <HI>LIFE-GUARD.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t noble Generall,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WE <HI>Gentlemen</HI> of your Excellencies Life-guard formerly with your Excellencies concurrance (being moved by the unque&s;ti|onable dictates of rea&s;on, and Parliamentary Declarations, to endea|vour this Kingdomes and our owne pre&s;ervation; again&s;t the de&s;pe|rate de&s;ignes of un-naturall per&s;ons, tending to this Kingdomes and our owne de&s;truction)<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Armies Booke Declar. p. <HI>23.26.</HI></NOTE> have di&s;puted the Commands of Parlia|ment, and entered into a <HI>Solemne Engagement,</HI> not to disband nor di|vide, nor to &s;uffer our &s;elves to bee disbanded, nor divided, till full and equall &s;atisfaction be given to ours and others ju&s;t de&s;ire, and &s;ecurity &s;ufficiently provided for us, and others adhereing to us; in regard of actions done in the late Warre, and things Agitated in our late endeavours of procuring and promoting our Countries happi|ne&s;&s;e: in expectation of which &s;atisfaction, and &s;ecurity, wee have a long time travelled with great de&s;ire, and have been hitherto fru&s;tra|ted, to our no &s;mall griefe, either through weakne&s;&s;e, unskilfulne&s;&s;e, or unfaithfulne&s;&s;e of our <HI>Midwives,</HI> or the prevalent practi&s;es of our Bloud-thir&s;tie enemies.</P>
<P>And now under&s;tanding by your Excellencies Order, the re&s;oluti|on both of the Parliament, and your Excellency to disband us; we are enforced, humbly to Remon&s;trate to your Excellency, as follow|eth.</P>
<P>That although we are willing and de&s;irous, for the Countries ea&s;e to disband; and in all Lawfull things to be obedient to your Excel|lencies Command: yet we cannot give our con&s;ent to bee disbanded at pre&s;ent, without great di&s;honour to your Excellency, and our &s;elves, and unfaithfulne&s;&s;e to the Kingdome, Parliament and Armie.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, Becau&s;e by con&s;enting to disband, wee &s;hall make our &s;elves
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<PB N="4" REF="5">betrayers of our Tru&s;t, and de&s;troyers of our faith in our <HI>Solemne Engagement,</HI> whereby wee Engaged not to disband nor divide, nor to &s;uffer our &s;elves to be disbanded nor divided, till enjoyment of full and equall &s;atisfaction <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd &s;ecurity, which as yet is not vi&s;ible to our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ight <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> neither are we informed from that Councell,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">A.B.D. pag. <HI>26.</HI></NOTE> which wee wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> the whole Army Erected, and in who&s;e determination we pro|mited to <HI>acquie&s;e,</HI> that there is any &s;uch &s;atisfaction or &s;ecurity, and therefore cannot with &s;afety of con&s;cience voluntarily disband, nor willingly <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">er our &s;elves to be disbanded.</P>
<P>Al&s;o becau&s;e by disbanding, wee &s;hall for pre&s;ent di&s;courage the hearts, and weaken the hands of our dear Fellow-Souldiers: and &s;hall (in all probabilitie) make way for their &s;udden disbanding by parcells, and &s;o render them (as well as our &s;elves) uncapable of act|ing for their owne and the Kingdomes welfare; From which evill, we de&s;ire to keepe our hands cleane; lea&s;t theirs and the peoples ju&s;t cries a&s;cend into the eares of the mo&s;t High again&s;t us.</P>
<P>La&s;tly (to mention no more) our pre&s;ent disbanding will not ea&s;e the Country, (unle&s;&s;e for pre&s;ent) but introduce greater burdens, than they have yet borne (it being the way for pre&s;ent to weaken, and in all probability &s;uddenly to de&s;troy the Army, the Hedge of their &s;afety) which we de&s;ire may not, but feare will be the effect of it.</P>
<P>We &s;hall not now &s;peake much of the propo&s;ed way, and tearmes of our disbanding, they being not the end of this Remon&s;trance: al|though we conceive the way di&s;honourable, wee being appointed the fir&s;t to disband, as if your Excellencies Life-guard were mo&s;t hurt|full, or lea&s;t u&s;efull in the whole Army: and the tearmes both di&s;ho|nourable and unrea&s;onable, there being provided at disbanding for tho&s;e of us, to whom &s;omething is promi&s;ed,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">A.B.D. p. <HI>67.</HI></NOTE> le&s;&s;e than tho&s;e recei|ved at disbanding, who de&s;erted the Army; and for others of us, who were invited by publique Declarations, and admitted by &s;peciall Orders from your Excellency to ride among&s;t us, there is nothing provided at disbanding, becau&s;e not li&s;ted within the Hundred be|fore the Sixth of <HI>Augu&s;t;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">A.B.D. p. <HI>38.</HI></NOTE> notwith&s;tanding promi&s;es made to them of full and equall &s;atisfaction with others, and their dangerous ad|ventures, and exce&s;&s;ive expences in joyning with us, to procure the &s;ame common end, <HI>Liberty and Safety.</HI></P>
<P>Now if your Excellency &s;hall proceed in your re&s;olution to di&s;|band
<PB N="5" REF="5">us, we cannot, we &s;hall not re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t; but &s;hall leave this as a wit|ne&s;&s;e to the whole Kingdome of our willingne&s;&s;e to appeare faithfull, and that we are not guilty of procuring tho&s;e mi&s;eries, that may light on the Country, as con&s;equences of disbanding.</P>
<P>In conclu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ion, may it plea&s;e your Excellency to honour us &s;o farre, as to take this paper into your Excellencies &s;erious con&s;ideration; and to returne an an&s;wer, which we humbly expect. Now the God of wi&s;edome in a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l things direct your Excellency, that you may &s;till continue a glorious In&s;trument of much good to this poore King|dome, which is the prayer of,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Excellencies mo&s;t humble Servants readie to live and die with your Excellency,</HI> in procu|ring, and promoting, Common Liberty, and Safety.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>After the Generall had received this Remon&s;trance and taken it into con&s;idera|tion, his Excellency returned this an&s;wer to M. <HI>John Knowles</HI> (who was ap|pointed to pre&s;ent if) <HI>That there were two things he ob&s;erved in it:</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t, that the Gentlemen did conceive, that they &s;hould by a wil|ling disbanding breake their engagement with the Army.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Secondly, that they thought it di&s;honourable to be disbanded fir&s;t.</HI> To the fir&s;t, his Excellency replied (as M. <HI>Knowles</HI> related) <HI>That he con|ceived that the end of their engagement would not be broken by disbanding, &s;eeing &s;atisfaction and &s;ecurity were provided, and di&s;|banding would be an ea&s;e to the Country.</HI></P>
<P>To which he an&s;wered to his Excellency, That the Gentlemen did conceive, that by a willing disbanding they &s;hould de&s;troy the engagement, full &s;atisfaction and &s;ecurity being not vi&s;ible to them, and they having received no information there|of from that Councell, which was con&s;tituted by the Army to determine what is, and to declare when there is full &s;atisfaction and &s;ecurity; in who&s;e determinati|ons and declarations only they were bound to <HI>acquie&s;&s;e.</HI> And further he &s;aid, That the end of the Gentlemens remon&s;trating was, &s;o to free them&s;elves from the engagement, That they might without hurt to their con&s;ciences readily di&s;|band at the command of his Excellency. Other things he reported, the mention|ing whereof may heer well be omitted.</P>
<P>The Gentlemen having by this Remon&s;trance both freed them&s;elves from their
<PB N="6" REF="6">en<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">agement, and received more certain knowledge of his Excellencies re&s;olution to disband them, they began to con&s;ider of hone&s;t and ju&s;t tearmes of disbanding, which they repre&s;ented to the Generall in their propo&s;als, wherein not being was de&s;ired by them but what his Exce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lency in his Order had promi&s;ed to them; The truth whereof the Copy heer annex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d will manife&s;t and clearly di&s;cover.</P>
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<HEAD>To his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax</HI> Generall.</HEAD>
<P>THe humble propo&s;als of your Excellencies Life-guard. How great our diligence hath been in obedience to your Excellencies commands, our deportment hitherto and hereafter (we hope) hath and &s;hall &s;ufficiently &s;peake. And that we do not tolerate any unruly &s;pirit among&s;t us, to the di&s;turbing of the Army or Kingdome. Wee &s;hall likewi&s;e declare (and though we cannot but judge) that our pre&s;ent disbanding is a detriment to our honour and other things which we may ju&s;tly plead. Yet we do re&s;olve to obey when we &s;hall receive a command thereunto, not doubting but all tho&s;e things &s;hall be made good unto us, which were agreed upon by your excel|lency with your Generall Councell of Warre and the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Parliament at <HI>Wind&s;or,</HI> the denyall of which will be an impediment to our pre&s;ent disbanding, for the removing of which hinderances; We humbly offer the&s;e things following to your Excellencies mo&s;t &s;erious con&s;ideration.</P>
<P>That we may have our Accompts as well veterane as new audited and Regi&s;tred by the Commitee of the Army (or by &s;uch as they &s;hall appoint) and vi&s;ible &s;ecurity given to us according to the Agree+ment.</P>
<P>That we may be continued in pay and Quarters a&s;&s;igned us, untill our Debenturs are perfected, and &s;uch vi&s;ible &s;ecurity given.</P>
<P>That we (or &s;uch of us as &s;hall de&s;ire it) may be compounded with and paid off in gro&s;&s;e, and Tru&s;tees appointed for that purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>The&s;e things we humbly conceive are con&s;onant unto the above mentioned Agreement, and of great concernment to our &s;elves and
<PB N="7" REF="6">the whole Souldiery, how un&s;peakable our trouble and pre|judice will be to wait for them after we &s;hal be Di&s;banded. The dreadfull former examples of others, and our pre&s;ent expen&s;ive abode in the Citie, compelleth us humbly to pre|&s;ent to your Excellencies mo&s;t &s;ad contemplation, And wee hope it will not re&s;ent ill with your Excellency, if wee &s;hall refu&s;e willingly to Di&s;band untill they are performed: After which we &s;hall readily &s;hew our obedience, when we &s;hall receive a Command thereunto from your Excellen|cie.</P>
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<P><HI>The&s;e ju&s;t Propo&s;alls humbly pre&s;ented to his Excellency, procured for them only a referring (for their &s;atisfaction) to the Committee of Lords and Com|mons for the Army, to whom t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Gentlemen made their addre&s;&s;e, and received an an&s;wer which tended b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th to their di&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nour and di&s;advantage. The Commit|tee telling them that they were Disbanded long &s;ince, and that they mu&s;t waite upon their owne charges for their Debenturs.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The Gentlemen con&s;idering how di&s;honourable it was to them to be Disbanded li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e a Ca&s;hiered and ill de&s;erving Company, not received &s;o much as thankes for their Service, and knowing how chargeable 'tis to wait on Committees, and believing that if they &s;hould &s;ubmit to this hard u&s;age, others of the Souldiery to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Disbanded (who were le&s;&s;e able to beare it) would meet with as hard (if not harder) dealing at their Disbanding, re&s;olved once more to ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e their addre&s;&s;e to his Excellency, de&s;iring to know of his Excellency what they &s;hould do? Who told them that he wondred they did not di&s;per&s;e them&s;elves. They further de&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed to know what they &s;hould doe with their Colours? His Excellency told them, they might bring them to him, or di&s;po&s;e of them as they would.</HI></P>
<P><HI>N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">w the Gentlemen ill re&s;enting their friends carriages towards them, they de&s;erving beetter at their hands, were &s;o provoked that divers of them re&s;olved to &s;eize on the St<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ndard, which accordingly they did, and marched with hone&s;t intentions out of the City unto</HI> Knights-bridge, <HI>where they &s;tayed till they re|ceived an Order from his Excellency to appeare before him and his Councell at</HI> White-hal, Febr. 24. <HI>where they in obedience to his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">xcellencies Order, wait|ed to know his Excellencies plea&s;ure with them, and pre&s;ented to his Excellency and his Councell a Declaration, whereby they Remon&s;trated their Rea&s;on of their action in &s;eizing upon, and &s;ecuring their Colours. A Copy wherof here followeth.</HI></P>
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<P>WE the Gentlemen of his Excellencies Life-guard being brought to <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ndon</HI> by an Order under his Excellencies hand and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eal for the receiving of the&s;e &s;everal Particulars, therein mention<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d before di&s;banding, That two Moneths Pay be received, Accounts in general audited and regi&s;tred, vi&s;ible Security given, tho&s;e that wil compound for their Arreares in gro&s;&s;e, the Act of Indemnity confirmed, and all the&s;e things <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ed before Di&s;banding.</P>
<P>We there<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ore the afore&s;aid Gentlemen, do declare to the Parliament, General, Army, and the whole Kingdom, That we have indeed received two Moneths Pay, and a Promi&s;e that the Debentures of this Army &s;hould be perfected, and brought within the Security above mentioned; but we de&s;ire the World to take notice, that our entertainment untill di&s;|banding, the auditing and &s;ecuring of our old Accounts, and the exact fulfilling of the general Warrant, are denied; upon which, for the Generals and our own honour, and the clearing of the ju&s;t right of the whole Souldiery, we have been en|forced to &s;ecure our Standard in our own hands, with no other intent, &s;ini&s;ter end, or de&s;ire of &s;tanding (which we all in general prote&s;t again&s;t) but onely that when the Generals honour in fulfilling his Warrant &s;hall be vindicated, our per|&s;ons and Arreares &s;ecured, and the Army &s;hall acquit us from all our former Engagements to and with them; then we &s;ay, the&s;e things being accompli&s;hed, we &s;hall (as men of honour and hone&s;ty) in the open field with our Officers heading of us which will &s;peak a Di&s;banding, not a ca&s;hiering, either deliver up our Colours to the General, or otherwi&s;e, ho|nourably di&s;po&s;e of them, as becomes Souldiers. Nor can we thinke it con&s;i&s;tant with our Honours to di&s;&s;olve privately, and without punctual order in a City, when we have alwayes
<PB N="9" REF="7">&s;tood by our Colours in the field, where we fir&s;t received them, and &s;hall again leave them.</P>
<P>We al&s;o do believe that the whole World will deem we act but the parts of men of honour and hone&s;ty, if we &s;hall not willingly &s;uffer the ju&s;t Rights and honour of our Ge|neral, our &s;elves, and all the Souldiery to be deteined from us without making it manife&s;t, that we are &s;en&s;ible of &s;o great an injury offered to them and us, and of the prejudice we &s;hall unavoidably intaile upon all that &s;hall di&s;band after us.</P>
<P>The&s;e things following are the &s;umme of our de&s;ires.</P>
<P>That the &s;umme of our Accounts both old and new be audited and &s;ecured, tho&s;e (that plea&s;e) compounded with in gro&s;&s;e, (that our Pay go on with the Army, untill the day when by punctual order from the General we &s;hall be in the field disbanded, and at that time each mans Debentur together with his particular Di&s;charge may he delivered to him, that the generals Order which &s;ayes, [The&s;e things above mentioned ought to be performed before di&s;|banding] may be cleared, fulfilled, his reputation vindicated, for putting in that word [before disbanded] without which the in|terest of the whole Souldiery will be injured, theirs and our Ex|pectations frustrated, both they and we inforced to that tedious and expen&s;ive attendance upon Committees which the former &s;ad Experience of others hath made us &s;eek with all po&s;&s;ible meanes to avoid.</P>
<P>We &s;hall not in the least mea&s;ure aggravate the actings of that Coun&s;ell (hoping that they hereafter may learne to do better) but &s;hall yield a briefe and true Relation of general Pa&s;&s;ages, to give light to tho&s;e that de&s;ire &s;atisfaction concerning the Life-guards
<PB N="10" REF="8">late Tran&s;actings. The Gentlemen being convened at <HI>White-Hall</HI> (the place where the Coun&s;el &s;ate) three of them, to wit, M. <HI>Clarke,</HI> M. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iggs,</HI> M. <HI>Thirkill,</HI> were one by one called into the Coun&s;el, where their Accu&s;ations were Interrogatories, and their per&s;ons for real or pretended Crimes made Pri&s;oners, two whereof (M. <HI>Clarke,</HI> M. <HI>Thirkill</HI>) under-went a clo&s;e impri&s;onment. And all the Gentlemen of the Life-guard had till nine a clocke at night the Kings Palace for their Pri&s;on, they being denied egre&s;&s;e t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll that time to go about their nece&s;&s;ary occa&s;ions. The fore-men|tione<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Declaration was &s;ent into the Coun&s;el by the hands of four G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">lemen intrusted for that purpo&s;e. The Coun&s;el would &s;carce vouch&s;afe to the L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fe-guard &s;o much honour as to reade the pre|&s;ented Paper. The Gentlemen &s;ent in were cour&s;ely handled, and c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;ed to test<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fie under their hands that they came in the name of the Troop; and &s;o were di&s;mi&s;&s;ed (as Pri&s;oners upon Perroll) with the whole Troop, and ordered to appear on the morrow by nine of the clocke. Who being come together, &s;ent into the Coun&s;el a Vindi|cation of the&s;e Gentlemen who were imployed by the greatest part of the Gentlemen and &s;u&s;pected by the Coun&s;el as Pretended Re|pre&s;entatives. The Copy of which Vindication here followes.</P>
<P><HI>We the Gentlemen of his Excellencies Life-guard, who&s;e names are here under-written, did de&s;ire and appoint (and do own it as our own act) M.</HI> Clarke, <HI>Captain</HI> Bigg&punc; <HI>M.</HI> Burleigh, <HI>M.</HI> Lee, <HI>M.</HI> Bouchir <HI>and Maj.</HI> Cain, <HI>in our Names to deliver unto his Excellency and the Coun&s;el of Warre that our Declarati|on and tho&s;e our &s;ummary de&s;ires which they did according|ly the la&s;t night pre&s;ent as afore-mentioned. In witne&s;&s;e whereof we have hereunto &s;ub&s;cribed our hands this five and twentieth of February,</HI> Anno Domini <HI>1647.</HI></P>
<P><HI>We further humbly de&s;ire this honourable Coun&s;el of Warre to take notice, that in point of takng our Colours into our own cu&s;tody, or the concealing of them. We do own as
<PB N="11" REF="8">an act which we all approve of, con&s;ent to, and hold our &s;elves equally to be engaged in the owning of that act as the act of the whole Troop. And expect that their &s;ufferings who are at pre&s;ent confined may not exceed our own.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>This is &s;ub&s;cribed by the Gentlemen of his Excel. Life-guard.</HI></P>
<P>This Vindication was &s;ub&s;cribed by many who had no han<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in &s;ea&s;ing upon and &s;ecuring the Standard, to which Sub&s;cription they were induced for the good of tho&s;e Gentlemen (Men of de|&s;ert) who were in great danger for it, if the Councel were in ear|nest, and acted not meerly from policy, to affright the Gentlemen, and keep in aw the whole Souldiery, that they might not for fu|ture dare appeare oppo&s;ers of their arbitrary Power. The Councel having knowledge to what place the Standard was conveyed, &s;ent <HI>(Febr. 25.)</HI> a Troop of Hor&s;e to the <HI>Lambe</HI> on <HI>Snow-hill,</HI> where they found it and conducted it, to the Generals Quarters in <HI>Queenes-&s;treet,</HI> where it remaines. The Souldiers who were im|ployed in that Service hath profe&s;&s;ed &s;ince their ignorance of that undertaking. After the Colours were if the Generals po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, the Councel or &s;ome of them proceeded to the condemnation of M. <HI>Clarke,</HI> who was &s;entenced to be &s;hot to death for a Crime (&s;o called) exceeding hainous, in the Coun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">els aggravating circum|&s;tances of it, were naturally united to it. This night after the Councel ro&s;e, there was a great distemper in Colonel <HI>Riches</HI> R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gi|ment, when they heard of the Sentence that pa&s;&s;ed against M. <HI>Clarke,</HI> who came the &s;ame night to <HI>White-hall,</HI> (whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Pri|&s;oner was) were permitted to &s;end three in to &s;ee the condemned Gentleman, and had a promi&s;e from the Lieutenant Colonel of tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Gari&s;on, that the Pri&s;oner in the morning &s;hould be forth-comming, which Souldiers profe&s;&s;ed that they were moved to that action from this con&s;iderat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">n, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t M. <HI>Clarke</HI> &s;tood not onely for his own and the Life-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uards, but al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">e Rights of the whole Souldiery: and further they profe&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, that th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ld not &s;uffer one hair of his head to peri&s;h. The Gentlemen of his Excell Life-guard, after the Sentence of Death given out met together to con&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> what was to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">, the end of their Debate was not to act in, nor incourage <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ers to any tumultuous
<PB N="12" REF="9">wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, but to addre&s;&s;e them&s;elves by way of Petition to his Excellency, that the Sent<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nce m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ht be recalled, and the condemned Gentleman with them&s;elves &s;e|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="5 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e notw<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">thstandin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eir former actings. According to which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">|te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">nati<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">vers Gentlemen wer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">pointed to draw up a Petition for the ends af <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">-m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="6 letters">ed&punc; The Copy of t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Petition drawn up by the Gentlemen intrusted for that purpo&s;e here en&s;ues.</P>
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<HEAD>To his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> General: The humble Petition of your Excellencies Life-guard,</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat whereas it hath been the late unhappine&s;&s;e of your Petitioners for to do or &s;eem to countenance the doing of &s;ome things which have been ill re&s;ented by your Excell. and your honorable Councel of War&punc; as cour&s;es tending to mutiny or receding from your Excellencies command, the thoughts of which we de&s;ire to abhorre, and our denial of the de&s;ires of many tending thereunto, we hope, wil &s;peak on our behalf, and that M. <HI>Will. Clarke</HI> having taken &s;ome cour&s;e for which your Excellency with your honourable Councel of Warre have con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eived him worthy of death, and accordingly have adjudged him to die, the innocency of who&s;e intentions we cannot but have high thoughts of, though his behaviour or our own, &s;o farre as capable of a bad con&s;truction, we &s;hall not de&s;ire to ju&s;tifie, being rather willing to condemne our &s;elves for the Peace of the Kingdom, than to di&s;turbe it, by ju&s;tifying of our &s;elves.</P>
<P>We therefore humbly pray, that your Excellency will be plea&s;ed to take the dying condition of the &s;aid M. <HI>William
<PB N="13" REF="9">Clarke</HI> into your tender con&s;ideration, and that you will be plea&s;ed not to take an advantage from his fault to take away his life, but graciou&s;ly to pardon the &s;ame, or what ever we or any of us have done &s;o farre as its unju&s;t and &s;o offen&s;ive, we humbly de&s;ire your Excellency to pa&s;&s;e by and &s;ur&s;ea&s;e any further proceedings, whereby your Excellencies mercy will not onely give a new life to the Gentleman petitioned for, but al&s;o make the lives of your Petitioners much more com|fortable, and oblige them humbly to pray, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Some at the Councel being privately made acquainted with this Petition, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll re&s;ented it, notwithstanding e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ch line is with moderation and humility &s;uffici|ently adorned; and di&s;couraged them from pre&s;enting it, telling them that it would but increa&s;e the fire kindled in the breasts of divers in the Councel against them. &V;pon which was a demurre amongst the Gentlemen in referrence to the Petition; but in the interim a Colonel one of the Cou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cel profered his &s;ervice to the Gen|tlemen (although their adver&s;ary) to frame a Petition for them; which accord|ingly he did; and it was pre&s;ented to the General by two Gentlemen without Sub&s;criptions, the Councel would not accept it, unle&s;&s;e the Gentlemen would &s;ub|&s;cribe it, which if denied, the Gentleman condemned was threatned with an im|m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">diate Execution of his Sentence. Part of the Troop were brought up and kept in a chamber, where &s;ome were (not from the dictates of their rea&s;on, but) through the greatne&s;&s;e of their affection to the condem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed Gentleman, inforced to &s;ub|&s;crib<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that Peti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ion, whilest others of them protested against it. This Petition being pre&s;ented, the &s;ub&s;cribing Gentlemen were called into the Councel, and his Excellency pard<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ned the condemned Gentlemen, re-admitted the Troop into his favour, and promi&s;ed them &s;atisfaction to their just de&s;ires.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Now having ended this true Di&s;covery. Had there nothing here p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;ented it &s;elfe to the view of the world by way of excu&s;e in their low de&s;cention by way of Petition, yet if their former Papers which were afore-mentioned &s;hould be com|pared with that Petition (if ever it &s;hould pre&s;ent it &s;elfe unto the view of the world) it would be accounted but illegitimate: for who can thinke that &s;o many Gentlemen of known valour and integrity against their profe&s;&s;ed Enemies &s;hould ever be brought to &s;o low a conde&s;cention by their pretended friends? but in &s;ome ca&s;es a pretended friend may do more mi&s;chiefe than an open enemy,</HI> Lupus in ve&s;te agnina maxime nocet.</P>
<P><HI>Let this be con&s;idered which before was omitted, this Gentleman was con|demned for being pretendedly guilty under two Articles. First, for Mutiny, in
<PB N="14" REF="10">taking the Colours, who was therein but equally concerned with the rest, and &s;o it had been but partiality to condemne one for all, when all were equally concerned in the &s;ame act.</HI> Actor enim &amp; acce&s;&s;arius a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">que peccant; itaque candem poenam mercuntur. <HI>Second, Was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s di&s;obedience to &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e|riour Officers? And what was that his not an&s;wering to Interro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">atories, which they were plea&s;ed to put to him? This offence was obedience to the Law, which hath</HI> Nemo &s;eip&s;um prodet, <HI>for its Maxime.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Let no Souldier or Commoner from the event of the&s;e mens actings be deter|red from endeavouring their Countries freedom, &s;eeing event doth not alwayes teach trut<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, and is alwayes a teacher of fools;</HI> Verum e&s;t, eventum &s;tulto|rum e&s;&s;e magi&s;trum.</P>
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