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<HEAD>A DECLARATION Of the la&s;t DEMANDS, Propounded by his Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> and the <HI>Councell</HI> of his <HI>Army</HI> to both Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament,</HI> for vindication of the <HI>Parliament,</HI> for Ju&s;tice, and for the <HI>Peace</HI> of the Kingdome: with the <HI>An&s;wer</HI> of the Hou&s;e of <HI>Peers,</HI> and their <HI>approbation</HI> and <HI>Order</HI> to returne thankes to the <HI>Gen:</HI> and the Army.</HEAD>
<P>THE Hou&s;es being re&s;tored to a Condition of pre&s;ent &s;afety, honour and freedome: Two things &s;eeme clearly remaining to be done (which our own and mo&s;t mens expectations are mo&s;t &s;et up|on) <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, to vindicate the honour, freedome and &s;afety of Parliament from the like affronts and violences in future, and the Army and Kingdome from danger of the like di&s;turbances (whil&s;t things &s;hall be in a debate or treaty for a &s;ettlement) and then to proceed unto a &s;peedy &s;ettlement of the peace of the Kingdome.</P>
<P>The latter of the&s;e is fir&s;t in our intentions (being neare&s;t to the ulti|mate end.) And we &s;hall earne&s;tly de&s;ire that in order thereunto, The pro|po&s;alls of the Army (whereof the heads are publi&s;hed) may be &s;peedily con&s;idered and brought to a re&s;olution. But con&s;idering that the debates of them may take up &s;ome time ere they be agreed on all hands, and the framing of them inty Bills, and perfecting of the &s;ame will require much more. Somthing mu&s;t fir&s;t be done in the former, for a pre&s;ent &s;ecurity to the Parliament from like affronts or violence, and to the Army and Kingdome from the like di&s;turbances to the peace thereof by any further advantage which the time like to be &s;pent in the &s;etling of peace, may af|ford to our watchfull, re&s;tle&s;&s;e, and (we doubt) implacable enemies.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, therefore to the&s;e ends (unle&s;&s;e it &s;hould be thought fit to &s;ecure the Parliament by keeping the whole body of the Army, or &s;o great a part thereof to remaine continually in and about <HI>London,</HI> as might be &s;ure to verpower any future tumults, or force that may ari&s;e out of the City, which neither the welfare of the City and ea&s;e of the parts adjacent,
<PB N="2" REF="2">nor the &s;afety of the Kingdome in re&s;pect of the pre&s;ent po&s;ture of affaires will admit.)</P>
<P>It is ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary that there be &s;peedy and exemplary Ju&s;tice done upon (at lea&s;t) the chiefe authors or abettors of the &s;aid trea&s;onable en|gagement, and of the &s;aid force done to the Parliament, and upon the chief actors, in maintenance and pro&s;ecution thereof (whereby men may be de|terred from the like in future.)</P>
<P>And this is al&s;o as nece&s;&s;ary to the &s;ecurity of the Army, and peace of the Kingdome, &s;ince it is apparant by all that hath been &s;aid, and by in|finite other evidences (too many to recount.) That both the &s;aid ingage|ment, and the force done to the Parliament, and the power of the City <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">litia</HI> thereby gained, and the &s;ucceeding votes and orders of the preten|ded Hou&s;es (but indeed of that faction that are our profe&s;&s;ed enemies) in maintenance and pro&s;ecution thereof, and the Forces thereupon leav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ed put and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the Command of Major Gen. <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI> and others <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> adver&s;aries) were all de&s;igned and directed to the ruine and di&s;truction of this Army, and the ray&s;ing of a new Warre again&s;t us in this Kingdome. A di&s;&s;aving had &s;uch experience of their re&s;tle&s;&s;e malice and cruel intenti|ons towards us, (notwith&s;tanding our tenderne&s;&s;e and lenity towards them) and of their treacherous dealing (&s;o &s;oone as they thought they had the advantage) no with&s;tanding all their &s;emblances of complyance to a compo&s;ure. What rea&s;on is there to expect, but that if by our patience and delayes, they apprehend in future the like or other advantage, they will breake out againe into the like or wor&s;e attempts of violence and War, if all e&s;cape with impunity for the&s;e.</P>
<P>But as to this point of &s;ecurity by exemplary ju&s;tice in an ordinary way, we &s;ee our hopes almo&s;t fru&s;trated, while&s;t, (though our de&s;ires and re&s;olu|tions to that purpo&s;e, expre&s;t in our late declaration of our advance to|wards <HI>London,</HI> were then &s;econded with the declared approbation and con|current re&s;olutions of the Speakers and Members of both Hou&s;es, that were driven away to the Army, and with their engagement to live and dye with us therein. And though in pur&s;uance thereof, the Right Honou|rable Hou&s;e of Peeres, have &s;ince their re&s;titution, begun and proceeded to declare null and void, all that was done in the name of both Hou&s;es, while they lay under the power of that tumultuous violence; and to give their more authentique approbation to our &s;aid Declaration, made in behalf of the &s;aid Speakers and Members, while they were with the Army: And i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> behalf of the honour and freedome of the Parliament, and to give their,
<PB N="3" REF="2">like approbation to the Concurrent Declaration and Engagement of the &s;aid Speakers and Members, made to us while they were with us, yet) the Hou&s;e of Commons hath not onely not concurred with the Lords in any of tho&s;e things, but rather &s;eeme to have ca&s;t them a&s;ide. And upon the Que&s;tion concerning tho&s;e very Votes of the &s;aid 26. of July. To which the Hou&s;es were by the &s;aid violence inforced [whether they &s;hould be declared Null and void] it was carried in the Negative, That the que&s;tion &s;hould not be put; by the con&s;equences whereof (which are many wayes very &s;ad, this poore Kingdome, and more then we can recompt) and by all &s;ub&s;equent proceedings in that Hou&s;e, in relation to the whole bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, we clearely finde, That the Members of that Hou&s;e, who (after the violence done to it, and during the ab&s;ence of the Speaker, and the other Members thereby driven away) proceeding in the name of that Hou&s;e as afore&s;aid procured the pretended Powers, and did make the pretended Votes, Or|ders, and Ordinances afore mentioned; and many of them were the Fa|ctors thereupon for the leavying of war, in pro&s;ecution and maintenance of the afore&s;aid trea&s;onable engagement, and force done to the Parliament, and for the oppo&s;ing re&s;i&s;ting and de&s;troying of this the Parliaments Ar|my in its advance to <HI>London,</HI> for the re&s;titution of the Parliament to its Ho|nour and freedome, being con&s;cious of their own guilt and danger thereby; yet pre&s;uming on their intere&s;t in the Hou&s;e, and the patience and lenity of this Army doe continue and intrude them&s;elves, and to &s;it and Vote there, and by their pre&s;ent intere&s;t in the Hou&s;e doe u&s;e their utmo&s;t endea|vours, and very much prevaile to ob&s;truct and avoyd the bringing of any to Ju&s;tice, who have acted under their pretended Authority, (knowing it to be their own ca&s;e and concernment in point of impunity, as well as con|ducency to their faction and intere&s;t) And for that cau&s;e they labour (As for life) to uphold the things pa&s;t and done, and the Authorities given by them and their Faction (in their and the Apprentices pretended Parliament) yea, even tho&s;e very Votes and Authorities, wre&s;ted from the Parliament, by that palpable force of <HI>July</HI> the 26. to be good and valid untill they be repealed (as if pa&s;t in a free and legall Parliament;) in which Point, and all Que&s;tions touching upon it, we finde they pre&s;ume upon, and are &s;trength|ened by the conccurrence of divers other Members, who having (perhaps with harmle&s;&s;e intentions continued to &s;it with them during the Speakers ab&s;ence, as afore&s;aid (though they con&s;ented not to any of their mi&s;chievous Votes and Orders, or trea&s;onable proceedings ofore mentioned) may yet feare them&s;elves to be involved in the &s;ame ca&s;e and danger by having &s;ate with them; And thus by the concurrence of the&s;e two Parties in the Hou&s;e (as to that point) and the intere&s;t which both tho&s;e Parties have
<PB N="4" REF="3">with others in the Hou&s;e (e&s;pecially upon a matter of &s;aving one another) and by the partiall re&s;pects of &s;ome others in the Hou&s;e, for the &s;aving of their friends out of the Hou&s;e, who have acted under the authority, and for the evil ends aforementioned, we finde an ab&s;olute ob&s;truction to the bringing to Ju&s;tice, or que&s;tioning of any) who have acted in the late lea|vying of War again&s;t us, and again&s;t the vindication of the Parliaments freedome, or in the &s;aid trea&s;onable engagements, yea, or in abetment of the tumultuous violence upon the Parliament it &s;elf; neither can we finde or heare of any one Per&s;on hitherto brought to Ju&s;tice, or Que&s;tion for any of the&s;e things, but all &s;eeme to be either ju&s;tified, or at lea&s;t protected from Ju&s;tice by the power and prevalence of tho&s;e Members in Parliament, who are (many of them, as we can make appeare (equally guilty of, and (others) in &s;ome kinde obnoxious for the &s;ame things; and thus not onely our ju&s;t expectations of vindication to the Parliament, and &s;ecurity to our &s;elves and the Kingdome from the like trea&s;onable and turbulent pra|cti&s;es in future, (by exemplary Ju&s;tice for what hath beene &s;o done) are fru&s;trated, but even the &s;afety and immunity of the Speakers, and tho&s;e faithfull Members of both Hou&s;es that were driven away by the vio|lence afore&s;aid, and the immunity of the Army in advancing to <HI>London,</HI> to bring them back, and re&s;tore the Parliament to its Honour and Freedome (which hath been acknowledged, with publike Thanke&s;giving to God for it, as afore&s;aid) is &s;ubjected and expo&s;ed to que&s;tion (where in theirs and ours, and the Kingdoms enemies obtrude them&s;elves to be the Judges) for if tho&s;e pretended Votes, Orders, and Ordinances, whereby War was leavied again&s;t them and us were then good and valid (though they &s;hould now be repealed, yet) we, with the Speakers, and tho&s;e Members afore&s;aid, in oppo&s;ing of them while they were of force, mu&s;t needs remain tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ors &s;till, and yet God and we are thanked for it [what a mock is this to God, and man.]</P>
<P>But to returne to the more &s;erious con&s;ideration of our ca&s;e, in rela|tion to the &s;ecurity of the Parliament, Kingdom, and our &s;elves, again&s;t the like turbulent and trea&s;onable practi&s;es in future, &s;ince by the meanes afore&s;aid no &s;ecurity by exemplary Ju&s;tice can at pre&s;ent be had, (to deter any from the like) we wi&s;h all men to con&s;ider what &s;treights we are in this ca&s;e put upon; (That which is the main work of the Kingdome, and which we mo&s;t earne&s;tly thir&s;t for, and attend upon, viz. the &s;etling of a peace, and con&s;ideration of our Propo&s;alls in order thereunto will aske <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">me to bring it to an i&s;&s;ue; and that done, the releiving or remedying of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> pre&s;&s;ing grievances of the Kingdome, will take up and require the &s;it|ting of the Parliamen for &s;ome further time [though upon the &s;etling of a
<PB N="5" REF="3">Peace a period be &s;et for the certain ending of it, now for the body of this this Army or &s;o great a part of it [as may &s;erve to over-poure any future tumults, or force that may ari&s;e in or from the City] to coninue hereabouts &s;o long as the Condition of the Countrey hereabouts and the nece&s;&s;ities of the Citie [in point of provi&s;ion] cannot well beare it, and [we doubt] forraigne Forces [that are already upon the wing] and turbulent &s;pirits, that in &s;everall parts of the Kingdome, are be|ginning in&s;urrections, [if we continue fixed here, will have &s;uch opportu|nity, and take &s;uch encouragement therefrom, as that they may ere long ne|ce&s;&s;arily call us off; &s;hould we now or hereafter, while the Parliament &s;its draw off the Army from about the City, without exemplary Ju&s;tice upon &s;ome, would not the &s;ame or more dangerous tumults and violences pro|bably return upon the Parl. &amp; the like or wor&s;e practi&s;es of rai&s;ing a new war, be revived, with more advantage to our enemies, more danger to us and the kingdom, and le&s;&s;e hopes of appea&s;ing it, &s;o ea&s;ily and happily as the former) while the &s;ame violent and factious &s;pirits, both in the Parliament and el&s;ewhere; &s;hall continue in the &s;ame power and oportunities as for|merly, and both they, and all others, &s;hall have before their eyes the in|couragement of that impunity and protection (yea rather that ju&s;tification) which they have hitherto found from within the Parliament it &s;elfe, in the pa&s;t practi&s;es aforementioned, though as gro&s;ly trea&s;onable as any they can hereafter run into, &s;hould we or any others (for the obtaining exemplary Ju&s;tice upon &s;ome) proceed to impeach any, for their pa&s;t trea|&s;onable practi&s;es, what hopes of ju&s;tice, or of a timely di&s;patch therein can we have, while &s;uch a prevailing party of new intere&s;ted and concerned in the &s;ame things; &s;hall in the Hou&s;e of Commons continue to be Judges thereof, or at lea&s;t be ready to avow and ju&s;tifie the offenders therein, as having acted under their pretended Authority. In this &s;traight therefore (though we have ever been, and &s;hall be mo&s;t tender of all ju&s;t Priviledges of Parliament, finding the root of the&s;e and other difficulties to the Parliament, yet) Kingdome, and our &s;elves, to lye in this, <HI>viz.</HI> (that that tho&s;e Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons, who, during the forceed ab&s;ence of the Speakers of both Hou&s;es, continuing to &s;it and act as a Par|liament, did procure and con&s;ent to the pretended Votes, Orders and Or|dinances aforementioned, for levying of Warre, and that, as is before de|mon&s;trated, in direct pro&s;ecution or maintenance of she afore&s;aid trea&s;ona|ble ingagement, and the violence done to the Parliament, and for the op|po&s;ing, re&s;i&s;ting, and de&s;troying of this the Parliaments Army in its ad|vance towards London, only to re&s;tore the Speakers and Members of both Hou&s;es that were driven away, and the Hou&s;es them&s;elves to their honour and freedome, and who are thereby, and by their late owning, and avowing of the &s;ame, and many of them, as we can prove, by acting per&s;onally in the
<PB N="6" REF="4">&s;aid trea&s;onable practi&s;es, become parties to the &s;ame, doe yet take the boldne&s;&s;e to &s;it and vote in Parliament, e&s;pecially in the Hou&s;e of Com|mons) we &s;ay, finding the maine root of our difficulties and dangers lying in this.</P>
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<P><HI>Fir&s;t, we appeale to all men, whether it be ju&s;t or tollerable, that any privilede of Parliament &s;hould (contrary to the Law of Nature) make a man iudge in his own ca&s;e and concernment.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And next we wi&s;h tho&s;e men them&s;elves to con&s;i|der, if we had come to an ingagement with the for|ces rai&s;ed by vertue of their pretended Votes and Ordinances, and that thou&s;ands had been &s;laine, and we had made our way by the Sword, whether they would then have expected to have &s;ate as Judges upon us therein; and we are &s;ure it is no thanks to them that it hath been otherwi&s;e; and had we found tho&s;e Members in Armes again&s;t us, and &s;ubdued and taken them, whether had they not then been in the condition of pri&s;oners of Warre; and if &s;o, then having put Armes into the hands of others, against us, and &s;till maintaining it, whether can they in &s;trict Ju&s;tice challenge any better condition from us. But, that contrariwi&s;e, we &s;hould &s;uffer, either that tho&s;e whom by the cour&s;e of Warre, which they had cho&s;e to ingage in
<PB N="7" REF="4">again&s;t us, we might ju&s;tly make one pri&s;oners, &s;hould in a cour&s;e of Law, be|come our Ma&s;ters and Commanders; or that tho&s;e who the other day did, in an he&s;tile manner, indeavour to have been our executioners, &s;hould, now we have by force tooke their preparations again&s;t us, become our Iudges, we &s;uppo&s;e, no rea&s;onable man, nor them&s;elves, when they will con&s;ider it, can expect from us.</HI></P>
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<P>Vpon all the&s;e con&s;iderations of the ju&s;tne&s;&s;e of the cau&s;e, and the nece&s;|&s;ity of the thing, for the &s;afety of the Parliament, Kingdome, and this Army, (having no other way left timely to remedy the difficulties we are put upon, or prevent the growing dangers of future violence unto the Parliament, and di&s;turbances to the Kingdome, or to &s;ecure the Parlia|ment in a quiet proceeding to &s;ettle the peace of the Kingdome: And (in &s;uch ca&s;e) the &s;afety of the people being the &s;upria<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e Law we do prote&s;t and declare: That if any of tho&s;e Members, who during the ab&s;ence of the Speakers, and the re&s;t of the Members of both Hou&s;es (forced away by the tumultuous violence afore&s;aid) did &s;it, and Vote in the pretended Hou|&s;es then continuing at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> that hereafter intrude them&s;elves to &s;it in Parliament, before they &s;hall have given &s;atisfaction to the re&s;pective Hou&s;es whereof they are, concerning the grounds of their &s;ad &s;itting at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> during the ab&s;ence of the &s;aid Speakers, and &s;hall have ac|quitted them&s;elves by &s;ufficient Evidence, That they did not procure, or give their con&s;ent unto any of tho&s;e pretended Votes, Orders, or Ordinan|ces tending to the rai&s;ing and leavying of a Warre (as is before declared: or for the Kings coming forthwith to <HI>London</HI>) we cannot any longer &s;uffer the &s;ame, but &s;hall do that right to the Speakers and Members of both Hou&s;es, who were driven away to us, and to our &s;elves with them (all whom the &s;aid other Members have endeavoured in an Ho&s;tile manner mo&s;t unju&s;tly to de&s;troy) and al&s;o to the Kingdome (which they endea|voured to imbroyle in a new Warre) as to take &s;ome &s;peedy and effectuall cour&s;e, whereby to re&s;traine them from being their own, and ours, and the Kingdomes Judges in tho&s;e things wherein they have made them|&s;elves Parties, by this meanes to make Warre, that both they and others that are guilty of, and Parties to the afore&s;aid trea&s;onable and de&s;tructive practices and proceedings again&s;t the freedome of Parliament, and peace of the Kingdome, may be brought to condigne puni&s;hment (and that) at the Judgement of a free Parliament, conci&s;ting (duly and properly) of
<PB N="8" REF="5">&s;uch Members of both Hou&s;es re&s;pectively, who &s;tand cleare from &s;uch apparant and trea&s;onable breach of their tru&s;t as is before expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<CLOSER>By the appointment of his Excellency, and the Generall Councell of his Army. <SIGNED>Signed, <HI>Io. Ru&s;hworth</HI> Secretary.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>At the head Quarters of Kin&s;ton upon Thames,</HI> <DATE><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 18. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><DATE>Die Veneris, Augu&s;t <HI>20. 1647.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
<P>UPon the reading of a Letter from his Excellency, Sir Thomas Fairfax, (Commander in chiefe of all the Forces in England and Wales.) And a Remon&s;trance, with Propo&s;alls from his Excellency and the Coun&s;ell of his Army. It was re|&s;olved by the Lords in Parliament a&s;&s;embled, that they doe ap|prove of the &s;aid papers, and that a letter be written to the Gene|rall to give his Excellency and this Army thankes.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Brown Clericus Parliamentorum,</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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