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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>A PROCLAMATION By his Excellency Sir <HI>THOMAS FAIRFAX:</HI> Concerning The proceedings of &s;ome Mini&s;ters of the CHURCH of ENGLAND.</P>
<P>THE <HI>Copy of a Petition to the</HI> KINGS MAJESTIE WITH <HI>A Repre&s;entation of the De&s;ires of divers Clergy-men.</HI></P>
<P>AND His Excellencies Re&s;olution concerning the in&s;olencies exerci&s;ed by &s;ome, to abu&s;e his <HI>Excellency</HI> and his Councell of WARRE.</P>
<P><ADD>Aug: 14&punc;</ADD> <HI>CAMBRIDGE,</HI> Printed for <HI>Nathaniel Smith, Anno Dom.</HI> 1647.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="formal statement">
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<PB N="1" REF="2">
<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION By his Excellency Sir <HI>THOMAS FAIRFAX: Concerning the proceedings of &s;ome Mini&s;ters of the Church of</HI> England WITH His Excellencies Re&s;olution concer|ning the in&s;olencies exerci&s;ed by &s;ome to abu&s;e his Excellency and his <HI>Councell of Warre.</HI></HEAD>
<P>VVHEREAS it appeares upon &s;ufficient proofe, that many violent Tumults and outrages, are committed by &s;everall per&s;ons, a|gain&s;t
<PB N="2" REF="3">divers Mini&s;ters, placed by Order, or Ordinance of Parliament, in &s;eque&s;tred Livings, and for &s;uch their violent carriage to, and detain|ing from the &s;aid Mini&s;ters, their pro|fits; there is pretended by the &s;aid parties, power and authority from the Generall and the Army: And for the more plau&s;ible ju&s;tifying of their undue pretences herein, have cau&s;ed to be Printed and Publi&s;hed, a Pam|phlet intituled TVVO PETITIONS of the &s;eque&s;tred Clergy of England and VVales. One to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty; the other to Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX, with a (pretended) Declaration of the Generall and His Councell of VVar thereupon; of all which actions as afore&s;aid; VVee cannot but te&s;tifie
<PB N="3" REF="3">a very ill re&s;entment, and doe hereby declare a di&s;like of &s;uch proceedings, di&s;claiming not onely the actions them&s;elves to have had any incou|ragement from us, but al&s;o any ends or intentions to that purpo&s;e. And to the clearing of our &s;elves herein, VVee &s;hall henceforth indevour the bringing to condigne puni&s;hment, &s;uch who have or &s;hall exerci&s;e the like in&s;olencies upon any pretence what&s;oever.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under my Hand and Seale, <DATE>the 11 of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>T. FAIRFAX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
<PB N="4" REF="4">
<HEAD>To the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The Humble Petition of many thou&s;ands of Your Maje&s;ties Loyall Subjects, the poore &s;eque&s;tred Clergy of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat whereas your Petitioners have a long time been de&s;titute of all lively-hood, by meanes of &s;eque&s;tration of their E&s;tates and other lo&s;&s;es, and are at pre&s;ent driven to extreame nece&s;&s;ities how to provide for them&s;elves and their Families, and the &s;ea&s;on now approaching for the receiving the bene|fits of the Harve&s;t, before which time, if &s;ome cha|ritable cour&s;e be not taken, they are like to &s;tarve or beg another yeare.</P>
<P>May it therefore plea&s;e your mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty to take our &s;ad condition into Your Gracious con|&s;ideration &amp; care, that &s;ome cour&s;e may be taken for our &s;peedy reliefe, as may pre&s;erve us a live, &amp; inable us to doe more &s;ervice in Gods Church to Your Maje&s;ty and the Kingdome.</P>
<P><HI>And as in duty bound, we &s;hall ever pray for Your Maje&s;ties happie e&s;tabli&s;hment, and long and pro&s;perous Reigne.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
<PB N="5" REF="4">
<HEAD>To his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of many thou&s;ands of the poore &s;eque&s;tred Clergie of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat whereas the eyes of all the oppre&s;&s;ed people of the Kingdome are fixed upon Your Excellency and the Army as the great In&s;truments (under God) to re&s;tore them to their legal Rights and Liberties, which they doe ju&s;ty ground up|on Your &s;everall Declarations publi&s;hed to the World.</P>
<P>And whereas your Petitioners (a con&s;iderable number of the free borne men of this Kingdome) have been for divers yeares outed of their lively-hood and freeholds, contrary to <HI>Magna Charta</HI> &amp; other fundamentall Lawe of the Land, by the arbitrary power of Committees; who&s;e proceedings u&s;ually have been by no Rule of any known Law but by their owne wills: of who&s;e orders no Record is kept, nor &s;carce any notes or memorials, whereby it may appeare when by whom, or for what your Petitioners were removed, the Committees for &s;candalous and for plundered Mini&s;ters (by whom the greate&s;t part are turned out) being grounded not &s;o much as upon any Ordinance of both Hou&s;es; the mo&s;t of your Pe|titioners outed for refu&s;ing the Covenant, or adhering to the King and the Religion e&s;tabli&s;hed according to their Judge|ments and Con&s;ciences; and, of tho&s;e, diver&s;e were never cal|led to an&s;wer, &s;cared one had any Articles proved again&s;t him by oath, or other legall proce&s;&s;e, and &s;ome put out upon pri|vate information given to the Chaire-man Ma&s;ter <HI>White:</HI> by which unheard of proceedings not to be parallelled in any age
<PB N="6" REF="5">Your Petitoners, who have lived heretofore in good e&s;teem, according to their Calling, Degrees,, Birth and Education, are reduced to extream mi&s;ery and want, with their Wives and Children, that they mu&s;t either &s;tarve or begge, if &s;ome &s;peedy cour&s;e be not taken for their releife. And whereas tho&s;e who are put into our places, labour by all meanes to &s;tir up the people to involve this Kingdome in a new war, and are generally men ignorant and unable to in&s;truct the People, and many of them &s;candalous in their practi&s;es, if impartially examined, and di|vers of them hold three or foure of the be&s;t Benefices, whil&s;t divers other Churches are void and without any con&s;tant Preacher: And Your Petitioners are ready to &s;ubmit them|&s;elves for their Rights to tryall by the knowne Laws of the of the Land, and if any appeare guilty of any legal &s;candal (which we know to have been unju&s;tly charged upon many, and is a great part of their pre&s;ent &s;ufferings) we &s;hall leave them to undergoe the &s;evere&s;t puni&s;hment and cen&s;ure, which by any knowne Law can be inflicted.</P>
<P>And fora&s;much as the maine profits of our Benefices con&s;i&s;t in the Harve&s;t which is now at hand; which many of the pre&s;ent po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, if they could receive, would pre&s;ently be gon, where|by the burthen of the Cure will lye upon Your Petitioners, having nothing to live upon all the next yeare.</P>
<P><HI>Your Petitioners therefore Humbly pray, that Your Excellency would bee plea&s;ed to make &s;tay of the profits of this Harve&s;t, in &s;uch way as Your Excellency &s;hall think fit, that &s;uch as are charged with any legal &s;candal, may come to a ju&s;t tryal, and both they (if they be found innocent) and the re&s;t may injoy their Rights, and have the benefit of Subjects, according to the knowne Law of the Land, and your Petitioners &s;hall ever pray, &amp;c.</HI></P>
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