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<P><PB N="6" REF="1">
<LABEL>V.<HI>An&s;w.</HI></LABEL> No doubt but they will do what they can to keep out all &s;uch as adhere to the one &s;ide, and we humbly be&s;eech them, that they endeavour like|wi&s;e to keep out them that adhere to the other&s;ide: there is no Heretique that will hazard his life for the truth, nor any out-landi&s;h Souldier will &s;ight principally for the good of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>VI. <HI>An&s;w.</HI></LABEL> We cannot by any means agree to this &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion.
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<ITEM>1 For we are not by any &s;ound argument convinced in our con&s;ciences that &s;uch a &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion may &s;tand with our Allegiance to our Soveraign.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 By this &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion we &s;hall give His Maje&s;ty ju&s;t cau&s;e to reject our Petition, which we intend to pre&s;ent unto him, and &s;hall image him, and his Army again&s;t us to our utter ruine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 By this &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion we &s;hall give up our Liber|ties and E&s;tates to an arbitrary Government, which is one of our greate&s;t grievances; We &s;hall &s;ubmit our &s;elves to the weekly pay, exci&s;e, twentieth part, and the fifth part of our E&s;tates, all which are al|ready required by ordinance of Parliament; and if they require all the re&s;t, we are bound to yeeld it by this &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 By this &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion we give up our under|&s;tandings and con&s;ciences too (po&s;&s;ibly) to an er|ror, for it is po&s;&s;ible that a Parliament may erre (and that foully) as well as a generall Councell, add yet what error &s;oever this Parliament &s;hall commit in Church or State (be it never &s;o foule and horrid) we, by this Article mu&s;t promi&s;e to &s;ubmit unto it.</ITEM>
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<LABEL>VII. <HI>An&s;w.</HI></LABEL> If we go on ready and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ce<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tly accord|ing to our Articles for making of Peace, there are none but Enemies to Peace, &s;elf-&s;eckers, and Plun|derers will oppo&s;e us, and again&s;t &s;uch we are confi|dent, all hone&s;t men in either Army will a&s;&s;i&s;t us, if not, we hope God will enable us to defend our &s;elves, and give us liberty to move according to our own directions.</P>
<P><LABEL>VIII. <HI>An&s;w.</HI></LABEL> As we were thankfull unto Sir <HI>Richard Grenvile</HI> for the good government of his Army, &s;o are we no le&s;&s;e thankfull to Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax</HI> for his good government, and we will continue <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Colonell</HI> Wel|den, <HI>and Colonell</HI> Van|dro&s;&s;e.</NOTE> our thanks, as mo&s;t due to him, if he continue his good government, and do not, after a &s;trict di&s;ci|pline for a while, let loofe his Army to plunder, as &s;ome have done before him.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By the Peace-making Army in the We&s;t of <HI>Sommer&s;et</HI> and <HI>Devon,</HI> who have refu&s;ed faires Propo&s;itions from the other &s;ide; and are re&s;olved to &s;tand to their fir&s;t articles for Peace, and to a&s;&s;i&s;t one another in the pro&s;ecution of them.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of your Ma|je&s;ties mo&s;t loyall Subjects of the County of <HI>Sommer&s;et.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Mo&s;t humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat for the &s;pace of the&s;e three yeers la&s;t pa&s;t, we have mi&s;erably &s;uffered under the Calamities of Civill Warre; and the Mi&s;eries Greaten &s;o extreamly up|on us, that without a &s;peedy Accommoda|tion we can expect nothing but utter ruine and de&s;olation; In a deep &s;en&s;e whereof, being large &s;harers in the mi&s;eries, we do in the angui&s;h of our &s;ouls, mo&s;t humbly beg your Maje&s;ty once more, according to your former Princely compa&s;&s;ion to your People, to invite the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> to the compo&s;ures
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of the&s;e unhappy differences by a Treaty; for which purpo&s;e we al&s;o intend to petition the Lords and Commons, hoping, by Gods ble&s;&s;ing upon your Maje&s;ties pious endea|vours herein, we may again enjoy a happy Peace; For which, together with the pre|&s;ervation of your Sacred Per&s;on, we &s;hall heartily pray, &amp;c.</P>
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<HEAD>To the right Honourable the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;em|bled in Parliament.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of the poor, mi&s;erable, and wa&s;ted People of the County of <HI>Sommer&s;et.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat we have a long time groaned un|der the burthen of a Civill Sword, which hath brought this Countrey to ex|tream mi&s;ery, and threatneth both it and the whole Nation with &s;peedy ruine and de&s;truction, it being the unavoidable Fate of a divided Kingdom: for the prevention whereof we humbly pray you to be plea&s;ed to be Suitors to His Maje&s;ty, that the late Treaty, &s;o hopefully begun, may be renew|ed: And in pur&s;uance of that great tru&s;t re|po&s;ed
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in you, you will vouch&s;afe your ut|mo&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ndeavour for a &s;ettlement of a happy Peace, that we may enjoy our Religion, our Laws, and Liberties; And we &s;hall, &amp;c.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The particulars which the</HI> Peace-making Armie <HI>&s;tands for in the Ea&s;t; and thus farre we in the We&s;t are with them.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>1 IMprimis, We &s;tand for the true Prote&s;tant Religion as it was ob|&s;erved and u&s;ed in Queen <HI>Elizabeths</HI> time.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 We are for to defend and main|tain the King, and all the Preroga|tives belonging to the Crown of <HI>Eng|land.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 We are for all the Priviledges of Parliament, with earne&s;t de&s;ire to &s;ee the Kings Maje&s;ty and the Par|liament united, as in former time.</ITEM>
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4 We are for the Laws of the Realm, and liberties of the Subject.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5 To keep our Hou&s;es from burn|ing, our Goods from plundering, and to take up all &s;tragling and abu&s;ive Souldiers, of either &s;ide, and to give them the Law they de&s;erve.</ITEM>
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<P>Be it ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament A&s;&s;embled, that all and every per|&s;on of what degree and quality &s;oever, that hath lived, or &s;hall live within the Kings Quarters, or been aiding, a&s;&s;i&s;ting, or adhering unto the Forces rai&s;ed again&s;t the Parliament, or hath, or &s;hall come to inhabite, or re&s;ide under the power or protection of the Parliament, &s;hall Swear upon the Evangeli&s;ts in manner following.</P>
<P><Q>I A. B. Do Swear from my Hart, that I will not directly nor indirectly adhere unto, or willingly a&s;&s;i&s;t the King in this War, or in this Cau&s;e again&s;t
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the Parliament, or any Forces rai&s;ed without the con&s;ent of the two Hou&s;es of Parliament, in this cau&s;e or warre. And I do likewi&s;e &s;wear, That my coming, and &s;ubmitting my &s;elf under the pow|er and protection of the Parliament, is without any manner of de&s;igne what&s;oever, to the prejudice of the proceedings of the two Hou&s;es of this pre|&s;ent Parliament, and without the direction, privity, or advice of the King, or any of his Councell, or Of|ficers, other then what I have now made known; So help me God, and the Contents of this Book.</Q></P>
<P>ANd now let <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ny rea&s;onable and i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">ent <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">an but compare this Oath now enjoyned by the two Hou&s;es, either with the Oath of Allegiance in|joyn'd by Law, and taken by every one of the Members of both Hou&s;es re&s;pectively before they were admitted to &s;it as Members, or with that fir&s;t Prote&s;tation made and taken by them&s;elves, and by them Ordered to be taken by all the Subjects of this Kingdom, &amp; then let him judge whether the&s;e de&s;perate men, having &s;o often for&s;worn them|&s;elves, have not by this, and other Oaths and Co|venants devi&s;ed and impo&s;ed by them &s;ince, endea|voured to involve as many others as they can in the &s;ame crime of Perjury; which, together with Re|bellion, is already the Great Burthen, and crying &s;inne of this Nation.</P>
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