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<P>A LETTER FROM The Lord Major, Aldermen and Com|mon-Councel of LONDON, To His Excellency Sir Tho: Fairfax.</P>
<P>WITH Another LETTER from His Excellency to the City, in An&s;wer to the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Al&s;o two Orders and a Letter of the General and ge|neral Councel of the Army, For the di&s;charging &s;uch Soldiers the Army, as formerly &s;erved in the KINGS Army:</P>
<P>And for the apprehending of others to be tryed by a Councel of WAR, about the late Di&s;tra|ctions in the ARMY.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="imprimatur">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Novem. 25. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Imprimatur</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Gilbert Mabbot.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for <HI>Laurence Chapman,</HI> Novem. 27. 1647.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>To His Excellency, Sir <HI>Tho: Fairfax</HI> Knight, General of the Forces rai&s;ed by the Parlia|ment of <HI>ENGLAND.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Excellency,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOur Letter dated at King&s;ton the 19 in&s;tant, we received this day; and having duly weighed the contents thereof, we cannot but as in the fir&s;t place (with all due thankfulne&s;s) acknowledge the great favor and re&s;pect unto this City, for the tenderne&s;s and care had by your &s;elf and the Army, to pre&s;erve it from the lea&s;t damage or prejudice, and for other favors in the Letter intimated, Do al&s;o expre&s;s our hearty &s;orrow for your apprehen&s;ion of Ju&s;t Occa&s;ions and great Provocations to have bin given by this city, which might have diverted that your Honorable favor: And that the Arrears to the Army, or any thing el&s;e from this City, have given occa|&s;ion both of the coming and &s;tay of the Ar|my
<PB N="4" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 76 -->&s;o long about the &s;ame, as to oppre&s;s the&s;e parts, if not the undoing of &s;ome, as is expre&s;&s;ed in the Letter. And that Colo|nel <HI>Hew&s;on</HI> with one thou&s;and Foot &s;hould be appointed to come as upon this day, to quarter in this City, &amp; within the Lines of Communication, in &s;uch places as he findes fitte&s;t, until the &s;ervice of Collection, and levy both of the Arrears, and penalties im|po&s;ed by Ordinance of Parliament be ac|compli&s;hed; Verily, we cannot but with &s;adne&s;s of heart con&s;ider how this City (which hath always &s;hewed it &s;elf upon all occa&s;ions to its power, in&s;trumental for the pre&s;ervation of Parliament and King|dom) &s;hould now without pre&s;ident have been di&s;turbed and di&s;quieted by the Sol|diery, and what ill con&s;equence it might produce to the Parliament, City, King|dom, and Army it &s;elf, if not prevented by the wi&s;dom of the Parliament and your Excellency, we are not willing to expre&s;s: It is our humble De&s;ire, That your Excel|lency and Councel of War will vouch&s;afe to take the &s;ame into due con&s;ideration, as
<PB N="5" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 76 -->a matter of great concernment; and to be a&s;&s;ured, That we have not ob&s;tinately withholden what has been due to the Ar|my, in affront to the Ordinances and De|mands of Parliament: And we profe&s;s, That we have done, and &s;hall do our be&s;t indeavors to further the &s;peedy Collecti|on, and getting in of the Arrears due from particular inhabitants, upon whom the &s;ame are charged by Ordinance of Parlia|ment.</P>
<P>It is al&s;o our humble De&s;ire, That your Excellency will be plea&s;ed to take a view of the Paper inclo&s;ed, of &s;ome apparent ob&s;tructions pre&s;ented from us unto the Parliament, touching the not getting in of the Arrears, to the end your Excellency may &s;ee the readine&s;s of our indeavors to remove the &s;ame: Likewi&s;e, That you will be plea&s;ed further to con&s;ider of the great &s;ums of Money (yet un&s;atisfied) ex|hau&s;ted from the City by Loans and other|wi&s;e, for &s;ervice of the Parl. and Kingdom; The Free-quarter of the Army upon Citi|zens, who have dwellings in the countrey;
<PB N="6" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 77 -->The great and many Taxes upon the City; The great decay generally of Trade within the &s;ame, and The high prizes of all maner of Victual; All conducing to the impove|ri&s;hment of the people, and ob&s;truction to the ready payment of the A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments up|on the City. And for remedy herein, we relie upon your Excellencies goodne&s;s, That we doing our indeavors in this bu&s;i|ne&s;s, you will be plea&s;ed in a &s;hort time to remove your Army to a further di&s;tance from hence.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, It is our earne&s;t De&s;ire (as for|merly) to manife&s;t our Integrity and faith|fulne&s;s unto the Parliament and King|dom, giving to our power all obedience to their Ordinances; and likewi&s;e to keep and maintain a right under&s;tanding and good corre&s;pondency between your Excel|lency, Councel of War, the Army, and this City.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>London, <DATE>20 Nov. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>By Command of the Major, Alder|men, and Commons of the City of<HI>LONDON</HI> in Common-Councel a&s;&s;embled: MICHEL.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honorable, The Lord Major, Aldermen, and Common-Councel men of the City of <HI>London,</HI> in Common-Councel a&s;&s;embled.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>MY la&s;t to Your Lord&s;hip from <HI>King|&s;ton,</HI> was not intended to charge you with the Arrears of the City, or to put the levying thereof upon any other, be|&s;ides tho&s;e that are impowered and charged by the Parliament for that purpo&s;e; But the bu&s;ine&s;s of &s;ending for their a&s;si&s;tance &s;ome Soldiers into the City being re&s;olved on (as the be&s;t way, and of pre&s;ent nece&s;sity for the timely and effectual di&s;patch of that Service) I thought fit by that Letter to acquaint you therewith, both as a re&s;pect to your Lord|&s;hip and the City, and that by you the City might the better under&s;tand the Grounds and Intentions of that Re&s;olution (to pre|vent any inconveniencies from mi&s;appre|hen&s;ions thereof:) Nor did I expect that ei|ther
<PB N="8" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 78 -->that Re&s;olution, or the Letter (in &s;tead of a vigorous and &s;peedy di&s;patch in a bu&s;i|ne&s;s &s;o ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary) &s;hould beget any Interpo&s;als or Intercour&s;e tending to further Delays: But &s;ince the Parliament hath thought fit to put a &s;top (for pre&s;ent) to that way of Proceeding (which here was concei|ved mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary and agreeable to their Orders) and to undertake &s;ome other effe|ctual cour&s;e in the bu&s;ine&s;s, I &s;hall wait the hoped i&s;&s;ue thereof, and of your promi&s;ed concurrent endeavors; Which if it prove not timely an&s;werable to their Underta|kings, to your Profe&s;sions, and the Armies and Kingdoms Expectations, I much doubt the con&s;equences (whatever you or I can do to prevent them) will be every way &s;ad, and that not more to the Parliament, Kingdom or Army, then to the City it &s;elf; The &s;afety and pro&s;perity of which, &s;hall be always endeavored as much as lies in the power of</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Wind&s;or, <DATE>24. Nov. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your faithful Friend and Servant, T: FAIRFAX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Two Orders of the General and ge|neral Councel of the ARMY.</HEAD>
<P>ACcording to a Re&s;olution of the general Councel, you are upon the i&s;&s;uing forth of this Moneths Pay, to di&s;mi&s;s and di&s;charge, or cau&s;e to be di&s;mi&s;&s;ed or di&s;charged, all &s;uch Sol|diers as have been entertained in the &s;everal Troops of your Regiment, &s;ince the day that the Army marched through <HI>London;</HI> as al&s;o all &s;uch Soldiers and Officers as have &s;erved the King in the late War, and have been entertained in any Troop within your Regiment, &s;ince the Engagement of the Ar|my at <HI>Newmarket.</HI> Heath: And you are to return to the Commi&s;&s;ary of Mu&s;ters, a Li&s;t of the Names of all &s;uch per&s;ons in any Troop, as are to be and &s;hall be &s;o di&s;charged as afore&s;aid; with a particular Accompt for how much time every one of them, &s;ince his Entertainment, doth remain unpaid: The chief Officer of each Troop, at the di&s;charging of them as afore&s;aid, to give a particular Certificate to each of them accordingly: And you are to give order, That from henceforth no new men be en|tertained in the room of any that &s;hall be di&s;char|ged according to this Order, without further Order from my &s;elf. You are likewi&s;e to cau&s;e Returns to be made from every Troop in your Regiment, of &s;uch Sub&s;criptions as have been taken to what
<PB N="10" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 79 -->was publi&s;hed from the General at the late Ren|dezvouz. You are likewi&s;e to apprehend in &s;afe cu&s;tody unto the Head-quarter, the Body of of your Regiment, to an&s;wer to &s;uch things as &s;hall be objected again&s;t them before a Councel of War, concerning the late Di&s;turbances &amp; Di&s;tractions by them and others wrought or endeavored in the Ar|my. You are al&s;o to give &s;trict Order, That no per&s;on be henceforth permitted to have Quarters with any Troops of your Regiment; who are not actually mu&s;tered within the Army. And you are al&s;o to give Order, That henceforth no Hor&s;eman take above half a Peck of Provender for a day and night for one Hor&s;e, upon any pretence what&s;o|ever, unle&s;s he pay for the &s;ame, until further al|lowance thereof by Order from my &s;elf. And the&s;e things the Officers of each Troop are to &s;ee to at their perils, if (contrary hereto) they &s;uffer &s;uch Abu&s;es to be henceforth done to the Country.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under my Hand at <HI>Wind&s;or,</HI> <DATE>this 24. of <HI>Novemb.</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>To Colonel <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> or the Officer in chief with this Regiment.</TRAILER>
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<P>YOu are on &s;ight hereof forthwith to di&s;mi&s;s and di&s;charge all &s;uch Soldiers as have been entertained by you, or any Officer under your Command, &s;ince the time that Sir <HI>Hardres Waller</HI> came down to you with Orders from me, <HI>viz.</HI>
<PB N="11" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 79 -->&s;ince the Third of Augu&s;t la&s;t, and this you and eve|ry Officer of the re&s;pective Companies under your command, are to &s;ee immediately performed, as you will an&s;wer the contrary; That the countrey may no longer be burthened with them: And you are to take Order, That from henceforth no more be en|tertained in the room of any &s;uch as &s;hall be &s;o di&s;|charged without further Orders. You are likewi&s;e to return a Li&s;t of the Names of all &s;uch as &s;hall be &s;o di&s;charged; And al&s;o a Li&s;t of tho&s;e men that went off with you from the Army, that care may be taken for their Arrears.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under my Hand at Wind&s;or <DATE>the 23 day of November, 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>To Col: <HI>Kemp&s;on,</HI> or the Officer in chief with that Regiment.</TRAILER>
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<P>The like Orders were &s;ent to the Officers in chief with Colonel <HI>Oconellies,</HI> Colonel <HI>Herberts,</HI> and Colonel <HI>Grays</HI> Regiment. And this Letter follow|ing to the &s;everal Committees of <HI>Wilts, Glouce|&s;ter,</HI> and <HI>Oxford&s;hire,</HI> where tho&s;e Regiments quartered.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Am very &s;en&s;ible of the burthen that lies upon your countrey, by the quartering of tho&s;e Soldiers that go out for Ireland; And being de&s;irous to le&s;&s;en it as much as may be, I have &s;ent an Order to the Officer in chief commanding tho&s;e Forces quar|tered in your county, forthwith to di&s;mi&s;s and di&s;charge all &s;uch Soldiers as have been entertained by them or any Officer under them, &s;ince the third of Augu&s;t la&s;t, and that the countrey be no longer burthened with them, but that for the future they do take &s;pecial care no more be entertained in the room of any &s;uch as &s;hall be &s;o di&s;charged, without further Orders from the Parlia|ment or my &s;elf: And I hope the Officers will be very careful to &s;ee this Order pun|ctually ob&s;erved, which I thought fit to give you notice of, to the end the countrey may expect and receive ea&s;e accordingly. I remain</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Wind&s;or, <DATE>23 Nov. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your a&s;&s;ured Friend, <HI>T: FAIRFAX.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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