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<P>THE DECLARATION OF THE ARMIE UNDER His Excellency Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX, As it was Lately pre&s;ented at Saffron-Walden in E&s;&s;ex, unto
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<ITEM>Major-Generall <HI>Skippon,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lievtenant-General <HI>Cromwell,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Commi&s;&s;ary-General <HI>Ireton,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>And Colonell <HI>Fleetwood,</HI></ITEM>
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<P>Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons, and Commi&s;&s;ioners there for the Parliament, by
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<ITEM>Colonell <HI>Whaley,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Colonell <HI>Rich,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Colonell <HI>Hammond,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Colonell <HI>Lambert,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Colonell <HI>Okey,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Colonell <HI>Hew&s;on,</HI> And</ITEM>
<ITEM>Major <HI>Di&s;borow,</HI></ITEM>
</LIST> With the names of two hundred thirty and more Commi&s;&s;ion-Officers annexed.</P>
<P>Which Declaration is to manife&s;t and &s;et forth to them, they being Members of Parliament, and of the Army, the Armies reall love and diligent care to di&s;charge that duty for which they were rai&s;ed, as will manife&s;tly appeare in time to all that wi&s;h well to Mercy, Peace, and Ju&s;tice.</P>
<P><HI>The time is coming when God will execute ju&s;tice and judgment on the earth.</HI></P>
<P>Printed by the appointment of the Officers, who&s;e names are hereunto &s;ub&s;cribed. 1646.</P>
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<HEAD>To the honourable, Major Generall <HI>Skippon,</HI> Field-Mar&s;hall for Ireland, Lievtenant-Generall <HI>Cromwell,</HI> Commi&s;&s;ary-Gene|rall <HI>Ireton,</HI> and Colonell <HI>Fleetwood:</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>The Officers of the Army now convened at Walden, who&s;e names are &s;ub|&s;cribed, humbly &s;hew,</OPENER>
<P>THat whereas according to the direction received from you, the two Votes of the honourable Hou&s;e concerning Indempnity and Arrears, have been faithfully communicated to the Soul|diery under our re&s;pective Commands; and thereupon there have been returnes made from the &s;everall Regiments, of the grievan|ces that yet &s;tick upon them; out of which there hath been drawn up by the Officers, and con&s;ent of private Souldiers (for more brevity) a Summary of all &s;uch heads, wherein the returns from all did agree: All which have been pre&s;ented, and &s;hewed unto you; by which it doth ap|peare, that in the Army there are &s;undry di&s;contents, which we are &s;orry to &s;ee. Now for the clearer di&s;covery (according to our be&s;t ob&s;er|vations) of the originall grounds, together with the ri&s;e and growth of the&s;e di&s;contents, and the occa&s;ions that have happened to increa&s;e the &s;ame; as al&s;o of our owne and other Officers proceedings, in rela|tion thereunto: We do here humbly tender this faithfull and true ac|compt, as followeth.</P>
<P>THat we have long found our Souldiers and inferiour Officers (as we have al&s;o been our &s;elves) generally much troubled, That &s;ince the Kingdome was (through the goodne&s;&s;e of God) cleared, and free for the Parliament to rai&s;e money in, the Army &s;hould yet not be &s;up|plied with pay to enable them to di&s;charge Quarters, but compelled to be burthen&s;ome to friends, beholden to enemies, and oppre&s;&s;ive to all, for their nece&s;&s;ary &s;ub&s;i&s;tance, which, in the way of Free-Quarter (be&s;ides the unequall burthen to tho&s;e parts where the Army hath been occa&s;ioned to lie) hath put the Kingdome to almo&s;t double the charge, (dammage or debt) that it would have been, if n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ys had been time|ly rai&s;ed to enable the Souldiers to pay Quarters. And the con&s;iderati|ons of this to the Souldiery hath been the more grievous, in regard of
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the advantage which the envy and malignity of many again&s;t this Army hath thereby had to bring the &s;ouldiers under &s;corne, con|tempt and odium with the Countrey, and to render the reproa|ches and calumnies ca&s;t upon the Army the better accepted with the people.</P>
<P>We have found them al&s;o verie &s;en&s;ible (both from their owne rea&s;on and the experience of others) how tedious, chargeable, difficult and uncertaine it is for Souldiers after disbanding to get their particular accompts audited, and Debenters for Arreares, and much more to get the money, and therefore having not out of their &s;mall wages got mo|ney enough before hand to maintaine them in pro&s;ecution of that bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e, nor the &s;um of their Arrears &s;o con&s;iderable as to countervaile the expence of time and money in their nece&s;&s;ary attendance at London or el&s;ewhere about it, every man for him&s;elfe; they have been apt to ac|compt for as good as lo&s;t whatever part of their Arrears they &s;hould not (before disbanding) either receive or get debenters for, and a certaine appointment where and how to have the &s;ame.</P>
<P>That the many examples before our eyes of bitter and rigorous pro|&s;ecutions at Law again&s;t Souldiers for things done in the War have oc|ca&s;ioned us and them with &s;ome amazement and anxiety to fore-thinke if the Parliament &s;itting, and the Army yet &s;tanding &s;uch things were dared and done, what mea&s;ure we were like afterwards to find in ca&s;e (&s;ufficient provi&s;ion being not made before-hand for indempnity in &s;uch things) we &s;hould be left to the &s;ence of a Countrey-Jury or Judge at Law concerning the exigence of war and duty of a Souldier, e&s;pecially con&s;idering how many of tho&s;e under who&s;e verdicts it were like to fall are either Malignants or Newters, and the latter (though in other things indifferent, yet in the matter of the war di&s;affecting the Parlia|ments proceedings) doe di&s;ta&s;te none &s;o much as Souldiers looking up|on them as their immediate di&s;turbers, and the &s;ame con&s;ideration makes the Souldiers al&s;o feare that upon all future occa&s;ions of pre&s;&s;ing they &s;hall bee mo&s;t aimed at by di&s;-affected or maligning Neighbours, if that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e be left to their di&s;cretion. We have found them al|&s;o &s;en&s;ible of the neglect appearing in mo&s;t Countreyes towards maim'd Souldiers and the wives and children of men &s;laine in the warre.</P>
<P>We have al&s;o found in the apprehen&s;ions of many &s;ome di&s;&s;atisfacti|on in relation to tho&s;e publike ends, for which principally both in the
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Parliaments invitations, and their owne intentions, they were induced to ingage in this warre.</P>
<P>In all the&s;e re&s;pects premi&s;ed, wee have found the Souldiery very earne&s;t to have their grievances and de&s;ires in the&s;e things repre&s;ented to the Parliament by way of humble Petition, and (as there is right and rea&s;on enough in the things them&s;elves, &s;o) we know nothing that might ab&s;olutely debarre us, or render it unlawfull for them or us to have u&s;ed that liberty of petitioning which belongs to us in common with all other members of the Common-wealth: But yet con&s;idering how &s;ubject to ill re&s;entment or mi&s;con&s;truction a Petition from an Army might be, and with what jealou&s;ie all our actions and proceedings in this Army have by many been looked upon, and how watchfull and ready many have been to make mi&s;repre&s;entations and rai&s;e mi&s;appre|hen&s;ions of the &s;ame. We did apply our &s;elves to di&s;&s;wade from peti|tioning at all, or at lea&s;t to put it off as long as we could, in expectation of what the Parliament of them&s;elves would doe in tho&s;e things that might prevent the need of petitioning. Thus we delayed &s;o long, till at la&s;t the Souldiers grew jealous of their Officers, and began to con|ceive, that the Superiour Officers (their Arreares being more con&s;idera|ble, and more worth their expence of time, and money in attendance for them, and they better able to pro&s;ecute the &s;ame for them&s;elves, as al&s;o to &s;ave them&s;elves from mole&s;tation or pre&s;&s;ing, after disbanding) did neglect thir Souldiers concernments and mind only their own, in|&s;omuch as having been long put off in their de&s;ires of petitioning, the Souldiers of divers Regiments &s;ent &s;ome of them&s;elves at the fir&s;t con|veneing of Officers at Walden, to know whether the Officers (having long under&s;tood the common grievances before) would effectu|ally fall upon &s;ome Petition in their behalfes, and to let them know, that otherwi&s;e they mu&s;t &s;peedily fall upon &s;omething by them&s;elves to make knowne their grievances and de&s;ires while they had time.</P>
<P>Hereupon to prevent the Souldiers acting of them&s;elves in any irre|gular way, or intermedling with any thing which might breed offence or inconvenience, finding there had been many draughts of Petitions car|ried about in the Army which did extend to things of divers natures, and &s;ome beyond the proper concernments of Souldiers; the Officers then convened took one draught which they found lea&s;t obnoxious that way,
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and leaving out <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters">ltering &s;uch pa&s;sages as they thought might (for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">) prove d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters">&s;tfull or inconvenient, they brought it to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> Petition, whereof a copie is hereunto annexed, (not touching <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> any thing but the due and nece&s;sary concernments of Souldiers) and this they directed to the Generall, &s;o as, if any thing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> e&s;caped their con&s;ideration, it might through his hand receive a further examen and correction, ere it &s;hould come to the Parliament. And thus to concurre with the Souldiers in &s;uch a Petition, we were in|duced the rather becau&s;e (there being ill-affected &s;pirits in all places, rea|dy to &s;tirre up di&s;contents in the Army again&s;t the Parliament) we doubted, that if we did not thus give &s;ome vent to their ju&s;t grievances and de&s;ires, in tho&s;e things which generally concerne the Souldiery, &s;uch &s;pirits might (upon the Souldiers generall di&s;contents therein, and the Officers declining them) have a great advantage to ingage the Souldi|ers, by tho&s;e things, in an implication of other matters: And we knew no better way to prevent &s;uch di&s;contents from being blowne up into any mutinous di&s;temper, as by giving timely vent to their common and ju&s;t de&s;ires in a regular way, and thereby to keep them within the bounds of due order and relation to their Officers in all they &s;hould do; and we are confident that what was (chiefly to this end) then agreed on by the Officers in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of the Petition, if it had been permitted to go on, and not found &s;uch an ab&s;olute check and re&s;traint as it did, would have proved an&s;werably effectuall to have prevented all further inconveniences, and (with a rea&s;onable an&s;wer from the Parliament) would have rendred the Souldiers ea&s;ily &s;atisfiable with what the Parlia|ment would do in the things petitioned, and would have inabled the Officers the better to keep them in all due order.</P>
<P>Having upon the&s;e grounds agreed upon the &s;aid Petition, mo&s;t of the Officers then at Walden took a copie thereof to their quarters to let the &s;ouldiers under&s;tand what was agreed upon for their better &s;atisfaction, intending after they had done that, to have pre&s;ented it to the General, but before that could be done, &s;ome that were then at Walden (whom whoever they be, we can judge by the carriage and &s;equele of the bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e, to be no better then malicious Incendiaries indeavouring to be|get mi&s;-under&s;tanding betwixt the Parliament and their Army) having &s;urreptitiou&s;ly got a copie of the Petition intended, did <HI>un&s;ea&s;onably</HI> pro|po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the Parliament therewith, and that (as we cannot but imagine by the effect) with &s;uch mi&s;repre&s;entations of our intentions and pro|ceedings
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therein, as to delude the Parliament into high &s;u&s;pitions of &s;ome dangerous de&s;igne in it, in&s;omuch as the honourable Hou&s;e of Commons was induced fir&s;t to &s;end order to the Generall for &s;uppre&s;|&s;ing the Petition, and to &s;ummon divers ominent Officers of the Ar|my to appeare at their Bar about it, and after that a Declaration in the name of both Hou&s;es again&s;t all that &s;hould proceed therein, was &s;ent downe, with order to the Generall for the publi&s;hing of it through the Army, of which Declaration here is al&s;o a copie annexed.</P>
<P>The &s;aid Declaration cen&s;uring the Petition as <HI>dangerous,</HI> tending to put the Army into di&s;temper and mutiny, to ob&s;truct the reliefe of Ireland, and to put conditions upon the Parliament, and declaring the Petitioners if they &s;hould proceed therein no le&s;&s;e then enemies to the State and di&s;turbers of the publike peace; we confe&s;&s;e, both we and our &s;ouldiers could not but look upon it with great trouble and amaze|ment, we could not apprehend or imagine wherein the Petition tend|ded to put the Army into mutiny or di&s;temper (being by us intended and conceived as the &s;ure&s;t way to prevent the &s;ame for the rea&s;ons before expre&s;&s;ed) nor wherein it tended to ob&s;truct the reliefe of Ire|land, being rather the way, as we conceived, of gaining that ju&s;t &s;atisfa|ction to the &s;ouldiery which might incourage both this Army <HI>more una|nimou&s;ly,</HI> and all other &s;ouldiers more cheerfully to ingage in any fu|ture &s;ervice for the Parliament, when they &s;hould find a due con&s;idera|tion in the Parliament as farre as they were able, for &s;ervices pa&s;t; nor wherein it tended to put conditions upon the Parliament, when as the things it de&s;ired were &s;uch as the Parliament had long &s;ince volunta|rily (without any bodies capitulation) promi&s;ed and offered to all that &s;hould engage in their &s;ervice or el&s;e declared to be a generall right, neither could we under&s;tand why our de&s;iring of things (though not due, if yet they were but rea&s;onable, and offered by way of hum|ble Petition, with &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion and reference of it to the Parliament, as we profe&s;&s;e our de&s;ires were) &s;hould be apprehended as a putting of condi|tions upon the Parliament, more then all other Petitions have been, from Counties, from Corporations, and e&s;pecially from the City of London, being a Body more numerous, more clo&s;ely compacted, more neere to the Parliament, and more plentifully furni&s;hed with money, and all things el&s;e to back and carry on their de&s;ires, then the Army is: neither could we bethink our &s;elves of any pa&s;sage in the Petition that might be any ground of offence, except that clau&s;e concerning the Royall
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A&s;&s;ent; for which we clearly profe&s;&s;e, that the a&s;&s;urance we de&s;ired for indempnity, was an Ordinance of Parliament, and our intention in that clau&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> was but this, That what Ordinance &s;hould be pa&s;t for indempnity, might be propo&s;ed among&s;t tho&s;e other things, to which the Parliament would of them&s;elves de&s;ire the Royall A&s;sent; and that being denied, we &s;hould and &s;hall acquie&s;se in the authority of Parliament for that, as we &s;uppo&s;e the Parliament al&s;o will for tho&s;e other things. And wee could not &s;ee, how that clau&s;e (weighed as it &s;tands) can rea&s;onably be under&s;tood to import any more.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;se we have that honourable e&s;teem of the wi&s;dome and gravity, and that regard to the authority of the Parliament, as that though we (looking only upon th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters">tion cen&s;ured, and upon our own clear intentions in it) cannot &s;ee the ground of &s;uppre&s;&s;ing the Pe|tition, or pa&s;&s;ing &s;uch a cen&s;ure upon it, yet we are induced to believe, that the Parliament either had &s;uch mi&s;repre&s;entations of our carriage a|bout it, and &s;ugge&s;tions of dangerous de&s;ignes therein as (if true) might ju&s;tly rai&s;e them into an high re&s;entment thereof, and jealou&s;ies thereupon, or els were &s;ome other way abu&s;ed or &s;urprized in the pro|po&s;all or pa&s;&s;ing of &s;uch a Declaration again&s;t it: But &s;ince the Parlia|ment hath not, either in the Order for &s;uppre&s;&s;ing it, or in the Declara|tion, expre&s;t any particular ground of their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> and cen&s;ure, either from any pa&s;|&s;age in the Petition it &s;elfe, or from their informations concerning the carriage of it; we find, that both common Souldiers, and other that look &s;ingly upon the &s;aid Order and Declaration as they &s;tand directed again&s;t the Petition it &s;elf, the matter whereof they account to be undeniably ju&s;t and due, are carried away with this apprehen&s;ion, that in the one they are denied and debarred the common libertie of petitioning, and in the other are judged <HI>no better then traytors,</HI> for but going about to de&s;ire what they conceive their due, and dearly earned; and are apt to include them&s;elves <HI>in a bondage below an equall to the wor&s;t of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">ives, if</HI> in any ca&s;e what&s;oever they have no way left or al|lowed to repre&s;ent to their Officers, and by them to their Generall, their grievances and de&s;ires in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> concernes them meetly as Souldiers, though it be at a &s;ea&s;onable time, when there is not pre&s;ent action to imp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">de or di&s;turbe thereby, and though in a re|gular, quiet and &s;ubm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ive way, as this in their conceptions and intentions was: The&s;e la&s;t particulars (ere we pa&s;&s;e them over) we cannot but denote, as being, to our be&s;t ob|&s;ervations, the maine root and bottome of what later di&s;contents, or unu&s;uall proceed|ings have &s;ince appeared among&s;t the Souldiers; to give accompt whereof, we &s;hall in di&s;charge of our duties, clearly proceed as followeth.</P>
<P>The Souldiers (as is premi&s;ed) finding, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> at lea&s;t conceiving them&s;elves debarred from the u&s;uall and regular wayes of making known their grievances and de&s;ires, and finding the Officers generally di&s;couraged from acting or medling any further for them in that way, have fallen into other wayes of corre&s;pondence and agreement a|mong&s;t them&s;elves, for promoting, as they conceive, their ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary de&s;ires, and for their vindication in what they had formerly done, as they thought, upon ju&s;t grounds; and have to that purpo&s;e appointed, or cho&s;en, out of them&s;elves, a certaine number for every Regiment, or Troope and Company, to agitate for tho&s;e ends, in behalf of them all.</P>
<P><PB REF="5">And thus in pur&s;uance of tho&s;e <HI>grounds</HI> (which they thought ju&s;t &amp; nece&s;&s;ary) many things have been propo&s;ed among&s;t them, written and done, which to others may appeare irregular: and particularly we find, there was indeed &s;uch a letter (as the Parliament has had no|tice of) &s;ent to the Generall, Major General, and Lieu. Generall, from the Soldiers of eight Regiments of Hor&s;e; but we cannot find, that that, or ought el&s;e has been done by tho&s;e their agents which hath not been with the con&s;ent or allowance, or approbation of the generality of the Soldiers. And we find it hath been al&s;o agreed and re&s;olved among&s;t them, to &s;end up to the Parliament by their &s;aid A|gents, all the heads of the former Petition already; onely in forme (directing the &s;ame immediatly to the Parliament) and wee per|ceive there have not wanted &s;ome in all quarters (upon their dis&s;ati&s;|faction in tho&s;e things) ready to engage them in an implication of things of other nature, which though not evill in them&s;elves, yet did not concern them properly, as Soldiers.) And that purpo&s;e of &s;ending up their de&s;ires to the Parliamiament, had (as we find) been done or attempted ere now, but that (upon the &s;ending downe of your &s;elves from the Hou&s;e of Commons, to quiet di&s;tempers in the Army) tho&s;e appointed to goe up, were &s;topt, upon expectation of what you might bring down from the Hou&s;e towards their &s;atisfa|ction; or, in hope, at lea&s;t, to have their grievances and de&s;ires in rea&s;onable things again admitted into &s;ome regular way of being made known, and that with clearne&s;&s;e, and candid dealings on your parts, and without &s;uch mi&s;repre&s;entation, as by others (the precedent officious informers) had formerly been put upon them. And &s;ince this expectation bred among&s;t them, we have not found any procee|dings among&s;t them in other wayes, that might be counted di&s;order or di&s;temper.</P>
<P>Now for the effect of tho&s;e two votes of the Hou&s;e on <HI>Friday, April</HI> 30. &s;ent down by your hands, which according to our duty have been faithfully imparted to our &s;everall Troops and Companies, we gene|rally find as followeth.</P>
<P N="1">1 That the Ordinance for indempnity (mentioned in the fir&s;t Vote) will clearly &s;atisfy as to that point, if once pa&s;t and full to the purpo&s;e, as we pre&s;ume it will be.</P>
<P N="2">2 That upon the &s;econd Uote concerning arrears, we cannot find or expect the like effect, and that among&s;t diver&s;e other rea|&s;ons) principally for this; becau&s;e all the a&s;&s;urance the Uote gives concerning arrears to be paid at disbanding is this, <HI>viz</HI> [That the
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hou&s;e has re&s;olved that a con&s;iderable part of the arrears, &s;hall be paid at disbanding] and no mention being made what proportion; but tho&s;e words, [the hou&s;e has re&s;olved] &s;eeming to referre to &s;ome proportion formerly re&s;olved; It is generally vnder&s;tood to imploy any other then that of &s;ix weeks pay.</P>
<P>Now that Uote for &s;ix weeks pay at disbanding, as it came forth at a time of much di&s;advantage in re&s;pect of the di&s;contents prece|ding, &s;o in the effect and circum&s;tances of it, It conduced much to heigthen increa&s;e and fix the &s;ame; the &s;umme being generally lookt upon as very incon&s;iderable, in relation to the great arreares incurr'd, not under the new Modell alone, but al&s;o in former Ar|mies and &s;ervices of the Parliament. For the Officers of this Army generally, and among&s;t the hor&s;e, mo&s;t of the Souldiers and very ma|ny of the foot are &s;uch, as have been engaged for the Parliament on where or other from the beginning of the warre, and have their arrears incurr'd under the Modell, &s;uperadded to what arrears all former Armyes and forces (where they have &s;erved) were in, at their &s;everall reducements or disbandings. And that ground which moved the Souldiery from affection to the cau&s;e, to be content with le&s;&s;e of arreares upon former reducements in times of nece&s;&s;ity, <HI>viz.</HI> (becau&s;e the Parliament could then doe no more,) that ground (wee &s;ay) doth with &s;ome, &s;eem now to be &s;omething impaired &s;ince the Parliament hath had the Kingdom now a good while wholly under their power.</P>
<P>We find &s;ome other things that have concurred not a little to increa&s;e di&s;contents, from the carriage of &s;ome of the Commi&s;&s;io|ners that came downe hither for the Iri&s;h &s;ervice; as particularly their impri&s;oning and &s;ending up to <HI>London</HI> a Commi&s;&s;ion-Officer of the Army, <HI>(En&s;igne Nichols)</HI> which (whatever the ground may be) yet being without any concurrence of the Generall, or tho&s;e left to command in his ab&s;ence, and their own authority not appearing, nor any produced by them) &s;eemes an ab&s;olute breach both of the &s;ubjects liberty, and Soldiers u&s;uall right, and an affront to the au|thority appoynted by the Parliament over the Army. And this par|ticular, together with many other carriages of &s;ome of them, &s;eeming to concurre all to one end, <HI>viz.</HI> the pulling of the Army in peeces, and provoking it to di&s;tempers by their violent wayes, rather then the &s;ervice of <HI>Ireland &s;hould be &s;upplied,</HI> or the quiet of this King|dome a&s;&s;ured in any other way, wherein this Army might pa&s;&s;e with|out a di&s;honour.</P>
<P><PB REF="6">La&s;tly, we find that di&s;contents, di&s;couragements, and &s;ome ani|mo&s;ities, have been much occa&s;ioned and increa&s;ed in the Army by the high indignities, the manifold reproaches and calumnies of all &s;orts mo&s;t unworthily ca&s;t upon the Army, in fal&s;e reports rai&s;ed, and indu&s;triou&s;ly divulged in Sermons, in printed bookes, (licen&s;ed and pa&s;&s;ing without check to bee publi&s;hed through the world) and in petitions accepted, (mo&s;t of them) with thanks. And here we cannot but take notice of the ingratitudes &amp; unworthy requitals ap|pearing e&s;pecially from a great party in that City (who&s;e Trade &s;ince this Army began to open it) hath been advantaged above a million thereby; and yet they have not onely long with-held their contri|butions appoynted by the Parliament for this Army, (which hath occa&s;ioned a great part of its arreares:) but have in all other wayes indeed contributed their endevours, to have it paid with di&s;honour, and unworthily turn'd off. And though all reproches and indignities have been born by the Army with patience and ab&s;olute &s;ilence hi|therto, (not to be exampled, we think, in other armies; yet it cannot but trouble men, when they have followed the work of the kingdom with diligence and faithfulne&s;&s;e; and have (at lea&s;t) endevoured to do the whole Kingdom good, and to doe no man any wrong or damage where ere they have come (that the Being of an Army could avoyd;) they &s;hould yet by &s;pite and fal&s;hood (even from that party that reaps the advantange of all what they have done) bee rendred the &s;corne and hate of men, while (to avoyd the Kingdomes di&s;quiet) they have been &s;ilent in their owne behalfe.</P>
<P>We have thus (we hope) di&s;charged our duty in a faithfull &amp; clear account of the generall di&s;contents (not to trouble you with the nu|merous particularities) that we find in the Army, together with the grounds, occa&s;ions, and growth of them, and of our own proceedings in relation to them, we hope the full di&s;covery of the bottome, if the &s;oare may give the lea&s;t advantage to the cure: towards which, if we may offer any thing as we have done for the other: we hum|bly conceive that nothing can &s;o fully reach, and &s;urely remove the ground of tho&s;e di&s;contents, and prevent all further inconveniencies hereupon, as the&s;e things following.</P>
<P>That if the order for &s;uppre&s;&s;ing the Petition, or the cen&s;ure pa&s;t in the declaration again&s;t it were not (in the Parliaments &s;en&s;e and intention) meerly in relation to the act of petitioning, or the mat|ter petitioned, but chiefly upon information of ill carriages, or &s;ug|ge&s;tions of &s;ome de&s;igne in the managing of it; The Parliament would bee plea&s;ed to declare &s;o much, and to cleare their owne
<PB REF="7">
&s;en&s;e and intentions, as to the ju&s;t liberty of Soldiers in repre&s;enting their grievances and de&s;ires (as Soldiers) to their officers, and by them to their Generall, in a quiet and regular way, and al&s;o as to the right or rea&s;onablene&s;&s;e of the things petitioned.</P>
<P N="2">2 That if the Parliament have ben by fal&s;e informations abu&s;ed, or o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">herwi&s;e &s;urpri&s;ed, or indirectly dealt withall by any per&s;ons what|&s;oever, in what hath there pa&s;&s;ed in relation to that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, they would be pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;ed to vindicate a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">d cleare the ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the Parliament from the evil pract<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;es and de&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">uctive de&s;igns of a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">l &s;uch men &amp; cau&s;e them to be di&s;covered and deal withall according to their demerits.</P>
<P N="3">3. That, next, &s;ince the Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ent is already (though by &s;ome an|ticipation) po&s;&s;e&s;t with the effect of the petition they would be plea|&s;ed to take the matter of it into timely con&s;ideration, and give there|in what &s;atisfaction they may.</P>
<P N="4">4. That the Parliament would di&s;countenance all unju&s;t calum|nies again&s;t the Army, and give way, that before it bee disbanded, and di&s;per&s;t, the army may agree upon, and publi&s;h a &s;ober and tem|perate vindication of them&s;elves, from the many &s;candals ca&s;t upon them, fir&s;t pre&s;enting and &s;ubmitting the &s;ame to the Parliaments approbation.</P>
<P>And thus, notwith&s;tanding all di&s;contents, and pa&s;t provocations, we dare be confident for our Soldiers, and the body of the Army, that they will be &s;way'd and &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">isfied with ju&s;tice and rea&s;on, will &s;uffer much in their own particulars for the quiet and w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ale of the publick, and will be ever faithfull and &s;erviceable to Parliament and Kingdome.</P>
<P>We have in all this di&s;charged our con&s;ciences and duties to God, the Parliament and Kingdome, as well as to the Army, for the pre|vention of any further inconvenience on all hands. And the Lord is who&s;e hands all i&s;&s;ues are, direct all coun&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s hereupon for the be&s;t.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="list of officers">
<LIST>
<HEAD>A Li&s;t of the &s;everall re&s;pective Officers intere&s;ted herein.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Field-Off<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">cers.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ioh. Hammo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">d</HI> Collonel.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Lambert</HI> Collonel.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Hew&s;on</HI> Collonel</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Englesby</HI> Collonel</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">aley</HI> Collonel.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"></HI> Collonel</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nicholas Cowley</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">m: General. viz, Lieutenant Collonells.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Izick Ewers</HI> Lieu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">enant Coll:</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Pride</HI> Li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ut: Col:</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Iubbe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Lieu: Col:</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Marke Gr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ms</HI> Lieut. Col.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Salm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> Li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ut: Col.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI> Lieu: Col:</ITEM>
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<ITEM><HI>Robert Huntington</HI> Major.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Di&s;brow</HI> Major.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Horten</HI> Major.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">orge Seda&s;ive</HI> Maj.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">aine <HI>Lawrence</HI> Martiall of Hor&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">l the&s;e Field Off<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">cers.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Wr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">th Rogers</HI> Major.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Cowel</HI> Maj<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">r.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Smith</HI> Maj.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dani<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ll Ax<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">il</HI> Major</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Wade</HI> Major.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hor&s;e.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Reynolds</HI> Captaine.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Azaliah Husbands</HI> Captaine</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Sand</HI> Captaine</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Gibhou&s;e</HI> Captaine.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Kirkby</HI> Capt. Lieutenant</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;eph Wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ento<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Cap. Lieutenant</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tobias Bri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> Cap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">aine.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">muel Gar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ner</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jo&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> Bl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e</HI> Cap. Li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">utenant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">n Pit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">hfo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> Cap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">aine.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">liam Ev<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Adam Lawrenes</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Gladman</HI> Cap. Li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">utenant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Ireton</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ve</HI> Capt.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">liam Rain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">borough</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Pennef<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">her</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">nry Can<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ralls.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Francis Wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">te</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">lliam L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">wis Audl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">y</HI> Cap. Lieutenant.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ng. Burg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Francis Haw<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">mes L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ughton</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Daniel Dale</HI> Cap. Lieutenant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Colm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> Capt.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Ien<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Cap.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Walth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">r Bethel</HI> Cap</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Pritty</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hamonds.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Di&s;ney</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Siraton</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Boyce</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edmona Ralph</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>I&s;rael Smith</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Puckell</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Humphrey</HI> Cap. Lieu.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wallers.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>William Goffe</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Griphin</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Ma&s;on</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Waldine L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">goe</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Pa&s;ons</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Roger Al&s;op</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ph Sallile</HI> Cap. Lieut.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>La<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">b.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;co</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">thew Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">well</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Di&s;ney</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gul. Sandes</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John <HI>Grims</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Read</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Sp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">uer</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">en</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ae<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ll Smith</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Weare</HI> Cap Lieut.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Ander&s;on</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Samuel Ro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI> Cap. Lieut.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ons</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>J<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Carter</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">l Grimes</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Price</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Tappildi</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Davi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Capt.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alexander B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">fie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">d</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<PB REF="8">
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Atkin&s;on</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Arnop</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jeremy Tolher&s;t</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Abraham Hopkins</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Lilbron</HI> Cap.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Captaine <HI>De&s;lodden.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Clocke.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hor&s;e lieu,</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Sooten</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>James Flood</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Shears</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry John&s;on</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Feorge En&s;on</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nathaniel White</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Griffith Looyd</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Samp&s;on Twogoed</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Benjamin Giffard</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Stephen White</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Franke</HI> Lieu.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Philip Prine</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Merryman</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas John&s;on</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Barton</HI> Lieu.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Samuel Axtill</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George El&s;emore</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edmond Chillenden</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho. Chamberland</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Savedge</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Alridge</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Peck</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Foote.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Lewis Nothcut</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Filkens</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nathaniel Chats</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Briant Smith</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Ward</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gabrell Earwood</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ethelbert Morgan</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Topping</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Roger Lewis</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ralph Wil&s;on</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Wat&s;on</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Nich<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">las</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Dorney</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Turner</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Francis Clarke</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Abraham Davis</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Daye</HI> Lieu.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Smith</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Hill</HI> Lieu.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Baker</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Shelley</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edmond Singleton</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ran: Warner</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Gougha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Andrew Edwards</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jenken Benam</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Beab</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Jeckes</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Farly</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Heugh Jenkins</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Miller</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Ca&s;inghurst,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Potter</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mar: Jubbs</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cornets.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Peter Wallis</HI> Cornet</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wig. Barrington,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Spen&s;er.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Eu&s;e</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Whittington</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Win&s;tanley</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Barker</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Quints</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>James Wil&s;on</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chri&s;topher Kemer</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Clarke</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Samuell Parker</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Fox</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Ledbrooke.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard E&s;&s;ex</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Abel Warren.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Charles Whitehead</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Ward</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Southwood</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Miles</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io&s;. Saberion</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Cob.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Weeb.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Chyman.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sammuell Balls,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Rance,</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Quarter-ma&s;ters.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>James Goodwen</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Savedge.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Waren</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Ward</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Stanard.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Williams</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Caleb Lee</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nath. Philips</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Paul Chri&s;ine</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Sanders.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Q. Hurd</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Due</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>W. Miler</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Kennet.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Wilmate.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rob. Agur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">d.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>En&s;ignes of Foot.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Charles Bolton,</HI> En|&s;igne to his Excel.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Smith,</HI> En&s;ign</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Clerk.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sam. Wi&s;e.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Williams.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jo&s;eph Grovey.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho. Rawlins.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Lewis.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ier. Camfield</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Li&s;le Thomas,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wil. Bird</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sam. Cha&s;e.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM><HI>Will. Ererrard.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Ma&s;on</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rob. Be&s;din</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Jones.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Evan Jones</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho. Newman.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Morgan Portree.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Davis</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Bourn</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Jay&s;e</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ferdinando Green.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Francis Farmer</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Hoadworth.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Houre.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Morgan Portree.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho. Newman.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Davis</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Munings</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Evans.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wil. Allen.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Morgan Porter.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
<HEAD>The Armies Petition. To his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> Generall for the Parliaments forces. The humble Petition of the Officers and Soldiers of the Army under your Command.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat ever &s;ince our fir&s;t ingagement in the &s;ervice for the pre&s;erving the power of this Kingdome in the hands of the Parliament, we have in our &s;everall places &s;erved them with all faithfulne&s;&s;e, and although we have laine under many di&s;couragements, for want of pay and other nece&s;&s;aries, yet have we not di&s;pared their Commands di&s;obeyed their Orders, nor di&s;turbed them with Petitions, nor have their any vi&s;ible di&s;contents appeared among&s;t us, to the incouragement of the enemy, and the impediment of their affaires, but have with all cheerfullne&s;&s;e, done Summer &s;ervice in Winter &s;ea&s;ons, improving the utmo&s;t of our abilities, in the advancment of their &s;ervice, and &s;eeing God hath Crowned our endeavours with the end of our de&s;ire (<HI>viz.</HI> the di&s;per&s;eing of the publick enemie, and reducing them to their obedience) the King being now brought in, our brethren the <HI>Scots</HI> now &s;atisfied and departed the Kingdome, all danger &s;eemingly blown over and peace in all their quarters.</P>
<P>We (imboldned by the manifold promi&s;es and Declaration, to defend and protect tho&s;e that appeared and acted in the &s;ervice) do herewith humbly pre|&s;ent to your Excellency, the annexed repre&s;entation of our de&s;ires, which we humbly be&s;eech your Excelency to recommend or repre&s;ent in our behalfe unto the Parliament, and your Petitioner &s;hall ever honour and pray for your Excel|ency, &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>The humble Repre&s;entation of the de&s;ires of the Officers and Soldiers of the Army, under the Command of his Excellency Sr.</HI> Thomas Fairfax <HI>pre&s;ented fir&s;t to his Excellency, to be by him repre&s;ented to the Parliament.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Whereas the nece&s;&s;ity and exigency of the Warr hath put us upon many actions, which the Law would not warrant, nor we have acted in a time of &s;etled peace, we humbly de&s;ire that before our disbanding, a full and &s;ufficient provi&s;ion may be made by Odinance of Parliament (to which the Royal a&s;&s;en: may be de&s;ired) for our indempnity and &s;ecurity in all &s;uch ca&s;es.</P>
<P N="2">2. That Audicers and Commi&s;sioners may be &s;peedily appointed and autho|rized to repair to the head quarters of this Army, to audite and &s;tate our ac|compts,
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as well for our former, &s;ervice as for our &s;ervice in this Army, and that before the disbinding of the Army, &s;atisfaction may be given to the Petitioners for their arrears, that for the charge, trouble and lo&s;&s;e of time, which we mu&s;t otherwi&s;e nece&s;&s;arily undergo in attendance for obtaining of them may be prevented, we having had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">xperience that many have been reduced to mi&s;erable extremity, even almo&s;t &s;tarved for want of releife, by their tedious attendance, and that no Officer may be charged with any thing in his accompts, that doth not particularly concerne him&s;elf.</P>
<P N="3">3 That tho&s;e who have voluntarily &s;erved the Parliament in the late warre, may not hereafter be compelled by pre&s;&s;e or otherwi&s;e, to &s;erve as Soldiers out of this Kingdome, nor tho&s;e who have &s;erved as Hor&s;emen, may be compel|led by pre&s;&s;e, to &s;erve on foot in any future ca&s;e.</P>
<P N="4">4 That &s;uch in this Army, as have lo&s;t their lives, and the wives and children of &s;uch as haue been &s;lain in the Service, and &s;uch Officers and Soldiers as have &s;u&s;tained lo&s;&s;es, or have been prejudiced in their e&s;tates, by adhering unto the Parliamen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">, or in their per&s;ons by &s;ickne&s;&s;e or impri&s;onment under the enemy, may have &s;uch allowance, and &s;atisfaction, as may bee agreeable to ju&s;tice and equity,</P>
<P N="5">5. That till the Army be disbanded as afore&s;aid, &s;ome cour&s;e may be taken for the &s;upply thereof with money, whereby wee may bee inabled to di&s;charge our quarters, that &s;o we may not for nece&s;&s;aries forc'd to be beholding to the Parlia|ments enemies, burthen&s;ome to their friends; or oppre&s;&s;ive to the Countrey, who&s;e pre&s;ervation we have alwaies indeavoured, and in who&s;e happine&s;&s;e wee &s;hall &s;till rejoyce.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="declaration">
<HEAD>A Declaration of the Lords and Commons A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, Die Martis <HI>30.</HI> Martii <HI>1647.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THat the 2. Hou&s;es of parliament having received information of a dangerous Petiti|on, with repre&s;entations annexed, tending to put the Army in a di&s;temper and mute|ny, to put conditions upon the Parliament, and ob&s;truct the reliefe of <HI>Ireland,</HI> which hath been contrived and promoted by &s;ome per&s;ons in the Army They do declare their high di&s;like of that Petition, their approbation and e&s;teeme o their good &s;ervice who fir&s;t di&s;covered it, and of all &s;uch Officers and Souldiers as haue refu&s;ed to joyne in it, and that for &s;uch as have been abu&s;ed, and by the per&s;wa&s;ion of others drawne to &s;ub&s;cribe it; if they &s;hall for the future manife&s;t their di&s;like of what they have done, by forbearing to pro|ceed any further in it, it &s;hall not be looked upon as any cau&s;e to take away the remem|brance and &s;ence the Hou&s;es have of the good &s;ervice they have formerly done; but they &s;hall &s;till be retained in their good opinion, and &s;hall be cared for with the re&s;t of the Ar|my in all things nece&s;&s;ary and fitting for the &s;atisfaction of Per&s;ons that have done &s;o good and faithfull &s;ervice, and as may be expected from a Parliament, &s;o carefull to per|forme all things appertaining to Hono<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">r and Iu&s;tice; as on the other &s;ide it is declared, that all tho&s;e who &s;ha l continue in their di&s;tempered condition, and goe on in advan&s;ing and promoting that Petition, &s;hall be looked upon and proceeded again&s;t as enemies to the State, and di&s;turbers of the publike Peace.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Martis 30. Martii 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="imprimatur">
<P>Ordered by the Lords a&s;sembled in Parliament, that this Declaration be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Iohn Browne Cler: Parliamentorum.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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</DIV1>
</BACK>
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