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<P>A LETTER From His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, AND A Councel of VVar at <HI>&V;xbridge,</HI> JUNE 29. 1647.</P>
<P>To be communicated to both Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment, and the Lord Major, Aldermen and Common-Councel of the City of LONDON, OF The Armies drawing farther back from the City of <HI>London,</HI> and the Head-quarters that night at <HI>Wickam; In An&s;wer to the</HI> VOTES <HI>of both Hou&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>WITH A perfect Copy of the Votes; And the Names of the Councel of WAR.</P>
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<P>BY the appointment of his Excellency Sir <HI>Tho: Fairfax,</HI> and the Councel of War.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Uxbridge, <DATE>June 29. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Signed JOHN RUSHWORTH.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Laurence Chapman,</HI> JULY 1. 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>To all my fellow Commoners that love peace and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>_THere are new births of providence e|very day wherein the wi&s;dom of God appeares in a very delightfull varie|ty. There are yet not many days &s;ince &s;ome who are neyther true friends to the <HI>King</HI> or <HI>Kingdomes</HI> intere&s;t, to the <HI>Epi&s;copall</HI> or <HI>Presbyteriall</HI> Intere&s;t, were driving on the <HI>Chariot</HI> of the State on their own <HI>wheels,</HI> wheels of <HI>&s;elf-intere&s;t,</HI> and <HI>popularity</HI> abu&s;ing only the notion and name of a <HI>King, Epi&s;copacy and Presby|tery,</HI> to form a Kingdom to their own advantage. But <HI>Divine Providence</HI> &s;eeing this, oppo&s;es it &s;elf again&s;t &s;uch a vanity, working out this politick power and &s;elfi&s;h &s;en&s;uall wi&s;dom, and &s;et new wheels on going, and new preparatories to ju&s;tice and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, fortifying weak and de&s;pi&s;ed in&s;truments, to do and accompli&s;h things in order to his own glory.</P>
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But, loe the prider and vanity of men <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">cted by &s;elf-re&s;pects: when God co&s;&s;es them in their enterpri&s;es, behold how they &s;purn again&s;t him, if hee employs any in&s;truments to hinder the building of their Babyloni&s;h towres, a&s;piring towards the heavens, then may you &s;ee how through policy and power they &s;eek to traduce and calumniate &s;uch in&s;trumenct, branding their loyall and upright actions with the ignominious terms of Trea|&s;ons and Rebellions. But (I hope) the&s;e mens folly be|gins now to be made manife&s;t to all men, and &s;hall no more be covered. By the&s;e few lines en&s;uing, if thy eyes be opened, thou who&s;oever thou art that &s;hall read them, may&s;t &s;ee the my&s;tery of this iniquity working in that Pamphlet, which for truths &s;ake and thy better infor|mation in this following di&s;cour&s;e, thou &s;halt &s;ee a little unma&s;qued.</P>
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<HEAD>A Vindication of his MAIESTIE and the Army, from a Paper of M. <HI>Reymes,</HI> pretending to be printed by the authority of the LORDS in Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>MA&s;ter <HI>Reymes</HI> to gain the more credit to his own inventions, with much fal&s;hood, hee hath enterwoven &s;ome truth: yet &s;o confu|&s;edly that, it is a hard matter to &s;ay what hee hath related truly; for his Relations are either guil|ty of direct contrariety to truth, Addition or Sub&s;traction. And how a man may &s;candalize any man by any truth, by &s;uch an imperfect, lame, and fal&s;e relation, I leave to wi&s;emen to judge.</P>
<P>Whereas Ma&s;ter <HI>Reymes</HI> &s;ayth, for his admi&s;&s;ion to his Maje&s;ty, Major Generall <HI>Brown</HI> e&s;pying him, proffered him the honour of his Maje&s;ties hand: Major Generall <HI>Brown</HI> denyes that hee e|ver knew this man, or &s;o proffered him his Ma|je&s;ties hand, but Ma&s;ter <HI>Reymes</HI> de&s;ired it of him.</P>
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And whereas Ma&s;ter <HI>Reymes</HI> writes that the King &s;truck Colonell <HI>Whaley</HI> for his pre&s;umptuous li&s;tning, while his Maje&s;ty was in conference with one, whom they &s;u&s;pected, came from <HI>London,</HI> The truth is, the report of his is fal&s;e, the King denyes that hee &s;truck him: neither was the Me&s;&s;en|ger &s;u&s;pected to come from <HI>London,</HI> but the truth of that matter is as followeth.</P>
<P>There came a Me&s;&s;enger to <HI>New-market,</HI> from the Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Kings Friends, with a me&s;&s;age to his Maje&s;ty, which hee delivered to the King as he was walking in the Garden, Co|lonell <HI>Whaley</HI> e&s;pying this Me&s;&s;enger privatly to be di&s;cour&s;ing with his Maje&s;ty, defined him to forbear any further di&s;cour&s;e in private with him, who&s;e de|&s;ire was grounded upon the Commi&s;&s;ioners, decla|ring to him that at <HI>Holmby</HI> none were &s;uffered pri|vatly to di&s;cour&s;e with the King, nor any that had been in the Kings Army, to come within three miles of <HI>Holmby,</HI> Colonel <HI>Whaley</HI> endevouring to prevent any evill Coun&s;ellours from his Maje&s;ty, the danger and prevalency of whom this Kingdom yet groans, under the wofull experience of, and to keep a good corre&s;pondency with the Commi&s;&s;ioners, true it is, the King was &s;omething troubled at it, and did thru&s;t him from him, but not &s;trike him, according to the Pamphlet, and the rea&s;on of the Kings &s;o doing, was when the King after dinner was di&s;cour|&s;ing with this Me&s;&s;enger in the Pre&s;ence Cham|ber, Colonel <HI>Whaley</HI> came in, which made the King as hee &s;aid him&s;elfe to talke a little longer with him, to &s;ee what the Colonell would doe</P>
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The Collonel perceiving this, de&s;ired the King to for|beare &s;peaking with any &s;uch per&s;ons; the King then prote|&s;ted he would not, for it they were in his &s;ight, he would not bid them goe away; Then the Collonel de&s;iring him to for|beare &s;peaking with him, the King thru&s;t him away, not for pre&s;umptuous li&s;tning; as Mr. <HI>Reymes</HI> affirmes.</P>
<P>To pa&s;&s;e by the many particular untruths and incertain|ties of Ma&s;ter <HI>Reymes</HI> his relation, the &s;ub&s;tance of it be|ing to make the world believe that the King was taken a|way again&s;t his will, I &s;hall in a word or two an&s;wer to that;</P>
<P>When we came to <HI>Holmby,</HI> he told me when we had an|&s;wered his de&s;ires, and tho&s;e things we &s;hould propound to him, he would goe along with us; to which his propo&s;itions we gave him &s;uch a &s;atisfactory an&s;wer, that he told us, hee would goe with us whether the Commi&s;&s;ioners would, yea or no, and accordingly did. Moreover, one of the Commi&s;|&s;ioners before ever I &s;pake with his Maje&s;tie, told me he was re&s;olved to goe with us.</P>
<P>Whereas Ma&s;ter <HI>Reymes</HI> further affirmeth, that the King &s;aid, that if he were at the head of the Army, he would prote&s;t again&s;t all their proceedings, the King denied to me that ever he &s;aid &s;o. But I &s;hall for this time leave Ma&s;ter <HI>Reymes</HI> without any further Character of the man, or re|ply to his paper, then what his Maje&s;tie &s;aid of both at the &s;ight of his Booke; who &s;aid, if the Citizens dealt thus with him, he &s;hould be carefull of having to doe with them, or &s;peaking to a Citizen for time to come, except it were before five or &s;ix witne&s;&s;es, they being &s;o &s;ickle, by which it may fully appeare, that he hath abu&s;ed his Maje&s;ty, by laying tho&s;e things to his charge, which he never &s;aid, wronged Major Generall <HI>Browne,</HI> by imputing that to him which he never did, &s;candalized the Army, by &s;aying they
<PB N="4" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 121 -->tooke away the King again&s;t his will, when he went accor|ding to his profe&s;&s;ion willingly with them, injured Collo|nell <HI>Whaley,</HI> by affirming the King did &s;trike him, for pre|&s;umptuous li&s;tning to his Maje&s;ties di&s;cour&s;e with the Me&s;&s;enger, which was no &s;uch matter, deluded the people by pre&s;enting them with a fal&s;e Relation to prejudice, fore|&s;tall, and capivate their judgements, and &s;urprized the hou&s;e of Lords, by obtaining to all this his wickedne&s;&s;e their au|thority for its publication.</P>
<P>Therefore now fellow Commoners, who are borne to as large priviledges and immunities as any people on the earth, which you may all challenge as your birth-right, le&s;t you &s;hould be induced through the &s;ubtilty of &s;ome litigi|ous Lawyers, or through the policy and &s;pecious pretences of any man what&s;oever to judge our action of guarding his Maje&s;ty from <HI>Holmby</HI> to be illegall, and contrary to the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in us, a&s;&s;ure your &s;elves that action of ours was not a ra&s;h precipitant enterpri&s;e, as &s;ome &s;ay, but chal|lenges the law of Nature, Nations, this Kingdeme, and our Commi&s;&s;ioners derived from the Parliament for its foundation.</P>
<P>The law of Nature vindicates us, for as in a naturall bo|dy which is compo&s;ed of &s;undry members, may lawfully &s;eek its owne pre&s;ervation as from inward di&s;tempers, or outward dangers that threaten its ruine, &s;o likewi&s;e may a politicall body do, if the head be in danger, the foot ought to run, and the hand to act for its pre&s;ervation, and in this endeavour every member particularly, as well as joyntly, is obliged, &s;o that if one hand be cut off, one foot lame, one eye forth, the other hand foot and eye are not hereby di&s;|ingaged, but the more firmely bound to put forth their ut|mo&s;t powers for the bodyes fence.</P>
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2. The Law of Nations warrants us, every Nation in|violably maintaining this, that every member in the Nati|on ought to pre&s;erve the Nation as much as in him lyes; It is a univer&s;all principle, <HI>non nobis &s;olum nati &s;umus, &amp;c.</HI> We are not borne for our &s;elves alone, but the <HI>Country</HI> in which we live chalenges an intere&s;t in us, this prin|ciple made many rejoyce in dying, e&s;teeming it, <HI>dulce &amp; decorum pro patria mori.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>The Law of this Kingdome</HI> (by which we may expect to &s;tand or fall) &s;ecures us in this Kingdome, wee have this <HI>Maxime,</HI> that <HI>&s;alus populi is &s;uprema lex,</HI> The &s;afety of the people is the &s;upreme&s;t law; this was the hinge wee moved upon, the Kingdomes &s;afety was endangered, and without a &s;peedy application of a timely pre&s;ervative was likely to be con&s;umed: the be&s;t pre&s;ervative wee could &s;ee, was the &s;ecurity of his Maje&s;ties per&s;on, which our act hath effe|cted. Who&s;e enemies are &s;o dull, and who&s;e under&s;tanding is &s;o &s;tupified and &s;otti&s;hly blind, but may remember and know what a &s;ad di&s;a&s;ter hath befallen the Kingdome, in the expence of &s;o much blood and trea&s;ure, by the &s;urpri&s;|ing of his Maje&s;ties Per&s;on in the late warres? who can but know, had they not had his per&s;ons their de&s;ignes had pro|ved abortive? We will know there was a de&s;igne to &s;eize on his Maje&s;tie, to rai&s;e a new Army, and unnaturally to involve this Kingdome in its owne blood, and &s;o to render our latter end mi&s;erably wor&s;e then our beginning, but this we thought our &s;elves bound to prevent if po&s;&s;ible, which we &s;till judge and doubt not to prove it, and is yet lawfull for us to doe. As the King is by the law of this King|dome bound to governe and &s;ecure us according to the Law, &s;o are we engaged to &s;ecure his Per&s;on again&s;t the violaters of the Law, which we have, through the ble&s;&s;ing of God
<PB N="6" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 122 -->accompli&s;hed, Our end was not his enthrallment, bondag and ruine, as by our actions, may appeare, but his &s;afety, an the Kingdomes pre&s;ervation, which otherwi&s;e we ju&s;tly fea had both been endangered, &s;uppo&s;e the King through igno|rance of traitors intention to de&s;troy His Per&s;on or His Kingdome, &s;hould expo&s;e him&s;elf to the mercy of him that &s;ought his life, do you imagine it would be trea&s;onable for any one to remove his Maje&s;ty though without his con&s;ent fro~ns the place the traytor &s;ought his life in, &amp; &s;o to pre&s;erve him? but the ca&s;e is yet more fair for us, His judgement being &s;ati<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">fied, his will was likewi&s;e concurring to his remove, we hope this our action will be recented in good part by all the Nation for who&s;e good it was effected. Had the King been &s;urpri&s;ed, another army been under his name rai&s;ed, the Nation once more wallowed in its own blood then &s;urely but too late, would the people have cryed out, oh that &s;ome had been &s;tirred up to have &s;tood in this breach.</P>
<P N="4">4 The Co~mi&s;&s;ion from the Parl. whom &s;ome &s;ay though with more boldne&s;&s;e then judgement, more malice then wi&s;|dome, and more envy then prudence or hone&s;ty, we have re|belled again&s;t &amp; acted contrary to in this action) acquits us, for by our Co~mi&s;&s;ion we are bound to &s;eek the pre&s;ervation of the Kings per&s;on, whether we have not &s;o done let all the kingdome judge: what hurt to his per&s;on have we done? what hurt to the Kingdome have we done? we are not con&s;cious to our &s;elves that we have in this done ami&s;&s;e, who hath cau&s;e to complain, &s;urely none can nor will, except tho&s;e who had thought to have made all men dance after their pipes, ki&s;&s;e their hands, and re&s;igne up their birthrights, liberties and lives to their <HI>arbitrary,</HI> and <HI>tyrannicall, lawle&s;se boundles</HI> wills, the&s;e <HI>Haman</HI>-like are mad to think a poore <HI>Mordecay</HI> will not &s;tandcap in hand, bow his knee, and bend unto them.</P>
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Now therefore <HI>fellow Commoners</HI> I dare a&s;&s;ure you, if you li&s;ten to tho&s;e men that in <HI>pulpit</HI> and <HI>pre&s;se</HI> &s;ound forth con|tinuall alarmes again&s;t us, you will involve your &s;elves and us in a bloody abhorred by us) ingagement. Therefore my advice to you all, whom I love and honour, for who&s;e peace and native <HI>immunities &amp; Priviledge,</HI> I think no task too hard to undertake, no labour too great to undergo, no danger &s;o fearful as not to venter my &s;elf) is that you would &s;peedily &amp; unanimou&s;ly addre&s;&s;e your &s;elves to the Parliament (whom you have cho&s;en, who&s;e &s;ervants in truth they are or ought to be) that they would no longer protect unju&s;t men through lawle&s;&s;e pretence of infringing the liberties of Parliament, but that they would give free liberty, and declare it to all the Kingdom, that all and every man &s;hall and may have free liberty to accu&s;e any member of that hou&s;e, and that no man &s;hall &s;it there again&s;t whom the Kingdome &s;hall have ought ju&s;tly, as being an unrea&s;onable thing, to think that the op|pre&s;&s;ors of the &s;ubject are fit Reformers of the Kingdome, and that the Parliament would &s;peedly without delay ha|&s;ten this Kingdomes yeare of <HI>Jubile,</HI> that every man may re|turn to his own home, &s;it under his own vine, and all our &s;words may be turned into plow &s;hares, that there may no more be the alarm of war &s;ounded in this Kingdome. You, Oh <HI>Country men</HI> it lies upon you to remedy that the Parlia|ment are your <HI>Stevvards,</HI> they ought to give a good account of their actions, you have &s;et them a work, good rea&s;on they &s;hould tell you what they have done for you, have you not parted with much peace, much money, much blood, and are you content to bury all in oblivion? never to enquire what is become of all your lo&s;t pains and endevours? A&s;|&s;ure your &s;elves, that if you awake not you are undone, God hath put an opportunity into your hands, will you not em|brace
<PB N="8" REF="7"><!-- PDF PAGE 123 -->it? If you neglect this, you may never have another, when all your money friends and arms are in the hands of your enemies, do you expect ju&s;tice then, and can hardly have any now? Deare Country men, the Common-wealth is &s;icke at heart, and groane under a de&s;perate di&s;temper, it lyes langui&s;hing even as at the la&s;t ga&s;pe of peace. Blee|ing hath produced no other effect then to make it more faint; it is time to thinke of &s;ome Cordiall, redre&s;&s;e and remedy, the principall cau&s;e of our di&s;tempers is yet predo|minant, ju&s;tice mu&s;t take it away, for, <HI>&s;ublata cau&s;a tollit<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> effectus,</HI> Many of tho&s;e that pretend to be our <HI>Phy&s;itians,</HI> ad|mini&s;ter malignant druggs to us, even oppre&s;&s;ion, vexation, and diminution of our e&s;tates. But thinke you that op|pre&s;&s;ion and &s;lavery is a good <HI>receipt</HI> to re&s;tore us to liberty, or to free us from bondage. Bee corrupt men fit in&s;tru|ments to remoue our corruption? If you ever expect peace and quietne&s;&s;e with ju&s;tice and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e to live and flouri&s;h in this Kingdome, then &s;eeke to remove coveto<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> men, that &s;eeke to fill their owne baggs, though they <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> the Kingdome, bloud-thir&s;ty men, treacherous men that have betrayed their tru&s;t from all places of publicke con|cernment, that endeavour to re-enter hone&s;t men (who have been di&s;placed) into the places of tru&s;t, into the Militia, Common-Councell, Courts of Judicature; for through the great corruption that yet remains in all courts the foot-&s;teps of reformation are yet invi&s;ible: Endeavour to call all men to accompt, whither Parliament men, Committee-men, Judges, Ju&s;tices, Lord Moyor, Mayors, Aldermen, Com|mon-Councell men; all Officers, Souldiers, Trea&s;urers, and all men that have been entru&s;ted with any thing of the pub|lique, that the good &s;tewards may be rewarded, have a cha|racter of honour &s;tamped upon them, the evill imbezellin<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="9" REF="7"><!-- PDF PAGE 123 -->&s;tewards may be di&s;placed, puni&s;hed, and their ill gotten goods taken from them, and given to the right owners; U&s;e all your lawfull power to place the <HI>Militia</HI> of the King|dome in the hands of &s;uch men that <HI>have</HI> be&s;t husbanded it for your advantage, goe on and cea&s;e not, till Righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e and peace flows down in this Kingdome like a mighty water, till the oppre&s;&s;ed and impri&s;oned be &s;et at liberty and this ga&s;ping, langui&s;hing, dying Kingdome be in&s;tated into a full ab&s;olute, compleat and pefect po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of all its na|tive priviledges, freedomes, Charters and immunities what|&s;oever, wherein a&s;&s;ure your &s;elves, you will have no cau&s;e of repentance, but &s;hall receive a crown of joy, and a deep &s;hare, portion and intere&s;t of &s;uch liberty, as a long time through blinding guides have been hid from your eyes, your burthens are greater then ever; good men di&s;countenanced, evil men encouraged, your pur&s;es exhau&s;ted, your liberties infringed by many taxes and a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ements, by the Covetous Clergy mans exacting of tithes, the great burden of the Common-wealth, by quartering of Souldiers. Oh therefore cea&s;e not to endeavour petitioning, demand again and again, for your Liberties which if you do, &amp; the Lord pro&s;per you, I &s;hall rejoyce, however I have done my duty, and di&s;charged my con&s;cience, and &s;hall I hope ever in liberty &amp; in bonds, in Peace and warre, in the capacity of a &s;ouldier, or of an Engli&s;h man, in life and death in all lawfull things, by all lawfull meanes manife&s;t my &s;elf to beyours and the King|domes faithful &s;ervant, again&s;t all oppre&s;&s;ion, and oppre&s;&s;i|ons, tyranny &amp; tyrants, by what Prerogative, names, titles or &s;pecious pretences, they are or may be dignified or di&s;tin|gui&s;hed what&s;oever, although I peri&s;h in the work.</P>
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