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<HEAD>TVVO LETTERS From the Agents of the five Regi|ments of Hor&s;e, the one to the whole &s;ouldiery of the Army, the other to &s;ome who &s;ent unto them, to receive further Information and &s;atisfaction.</HEAD>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen and fellow Souldiers,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>VVEE doubt not but our late endeavours to repre&s;ent your condition to you, and in yours the dolefull condition of the di&s;tre&s;|&s;ed Nation, have come to your view, and we que&s;tion not but &s;ome envious, &s;ome &s;elf-&s;eeking, and &s;ome prejudicate or deluding per&s;ons are attempting, not onely to make evill con&s;tructions of the matter of that paper which we have offered, and to mi&s;repre&s;ent our intentions, on purpo&s;e, to prepo&s;&s;es your &s;pirits with prejudice, as to prevent the impartiall view of your Ca&s;e truly &s;tated, but al&s;o by a&s;|per&s;ions and calumnies to alienate yours and the peoples af|fections from us, and render us odious to you and them; but we are much confident that its &s;till &s;o fre&s;h in your memories, that the fowle&s;t reproaches were mo&s;t unworthily ca&s;t upon the Army, by &s;ome that were then Members thereof, and by the Parliament it &s;elfe, for our mo&s;t harmle&s;&s;e and mo&s;t ju&s;t Petition, that you cannot be diverted by &s;candalls, or ground|le&s;&s;e reports, from the mo&s;t impartiall enquiry after the rea|&s;on and ju&s;tice that's propounded to you; its probable, your eares will be filled with objections, and cavills again&s;t that paper that contains your Ca&s;e; but we de&s;ire you would ob&s;erve or whether &s;uch cavils be again&s;t the &s;ub&s;tance or matter joyn+tly, or any thing material, &amp; not rather again&s;t circum&s;tances,
<PB N="2" REF="2">manner of expre&s;&s;ion, and whether the whole intent of the objectors be not onely to cover the neglects and declen&s;ions from our fir&s;t principles with &s;ome plau&s;ible pretences, there|by to feede you &s;till with vaine elu&s;ive hopes of obtaining your own rights, and the peoples freedoms, without your appearing as formerly for their recovery; but we know your own mo&s;t &s;ad experience beares &s;uch cleare witne&s;&s;e to the truth of the mo&s;t materiall things related, that you cannot be deceived; the Countries pittifull cries tell you there hath been no pay procured, and their mournfull complaints and bitter groanes, yea their loud-outcries again&s;t you (as tho&s;e who have co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">zened them with fayre promi&s;es of reliefe and freedome) witne&s;&s;e to purpo&s;e, that the Countries rights are not &s;etled, nor their grievances redre&s;&s;ed; the Parliaments in|ability to procure any good for you or the people te&s;tifie, that the faith of the Army (pa&s;&s;ed in our Declarations, &amp; pro|te&s;ts, for purging the Hou&s;e) is broken; your backs and pur&s;es tell you, there are no Arrears procured, &amp;c. but if in any thing be doubtfull, we que&s;tion not to &s;atisfie you, and we hope you are &s;o &s;en&s;ible, that your deare native Countrey, and your &s;elves have pined away and con&s;umed &s;o long by feeding up|on empty words and fayre promi&s;es, that you cannot be in|duced to &s;it &s;till any longer to hazard the ruine of your &s;elves and the people; but we profe&s;&s;e our Con&s;ciences witne&s;&s;e, that we have dealt &s;o plainly and candidly, out of the inte|grity of our hearts, without any &s;elfe-intere&s;ts or by-ends, that we judge it vaine and u&s;eles to compo&s;e arguments inducing any to concurr with us, but we are confident that the effectuall meanes offered in our paper for &s;peedy &s;ecurity to the Army and people, their rights and freedoms will plead &s;ufficiently with every Heroick publick &s;pirit to joyne heart and hand in &s;o ju&s;t an undertaking as is offered.</P>
<P>But it may be &s;ome would affright you from owning your Ga&s;e, as its now offered, by &s;ugge&s;ting that its irregular and di&s;orderly for the Souldiers to joyne in any thing before th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ir Officers, or that its contrary to Law for you to de|mand your rights, or that its a re&s;i&s;ting of Authority, but we de&s;ire that our Declaration of <HI>Iu.</HI> 14 <HI>p.</HI> 4.5. might be review|ed, wherein it appears that the Parliament hath declared that
<PB N="3" REF="2">the equitable &s;en&s;e of the Law is &s;upreame to the Letter, and doth di&s;pen&s;e with it, when a peoples &s;afety is concerned; &amp; that all Au|thority is fundamentally &s;eated in the office, and but mini&s;terially in the per&s;ons; and that therefore its no re&s;i&s;ting of Authori y, or Magi&s;tracy, to &s;ide with the ju&s;t principles and Law of Nature and Nations, to pre&s;erve a people from peri&s;hing; and let it be remem|bred, that if you had not joyned together at fir&s;t, &amp; cho&s;e your A|gents to act for you when your Officers thought it not &s;afe for them to appeare, you had beene now in no capacity to plead for your own or the peoples freedomes; and let it be con&s;idered, that <HI>Scotland</HI> a&s;&s;ociated in Covenant, and &s;o by con&s;ent compo&s;ed an ar|my to &s;tand upon principles of right and freedome, when they had no vi&s;ible forme either of Parliament or King to countenance them, and they were therein ju&s;tified &amp; protected by their owne &amp; this Nation, &amp; may not this Army expect ju&s;tly to be in like manner protected and ju&s;tified in their joyning together, to in&s;i&s;t upon the &s;ettlement of tho&s;e freedomes, which they have purcha&s;ed with their bloud out of the hands of the Common-Enemy which God hath &s;ubdued by them.</P>
<P>But if any envious tongues &s;hall bee bla&s;ting us with Anarchy, clamouring that we intend to de&s;troy Government in the Kingdom and Army, and bring all into confu&s;ion: we &s;uppo&s;e the a&s;per&s;ion it &s;elfe is &s;o irrationall, that it will rather give you the true Character of every &s;uch A&s;per&s;or, then reflect upon us to our prejudice. Let it be ob&s;erved, that the chiefe foundation for all our rights and free|domes, which we are re&s;olved mo&s;t ab&s;olutely to in&s;i&s;t upon, is, a certainty of a con&s;tant Parliament every two yeares, and a certaine time for their &s;itting &amp; ending; and a &s;ure e&s;tabli&s;hment of the ju&s;t power that the people betru&s;t to tho&s;e their Repre&s;entatives in their Election, that they may make Lawes and repeale Lawes, place and di&s;place all Magi&s;trates, and exerci&s;e all other power according to their tru&s;t, without the con&s;ent or concurrence of any other per|&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever; and we appeale to all rational men, whe|ther in this we &s;trive not for the freedome that we fir&s;t engaged to maintaine.</P>
<P>But we hope we &s;hal &s;peedily give &s;uch clear evidence to the whole world of our re&s;olutions to joyn with you, and all the free-born people of this Nation, to e&s;tabli&s;h immediatly the undoubted prin|ciples and rules of equall and ju&s;t Government, that the mouth of malice it &s;elfe &s;hall be for ever &s;topped.</P>
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<P>Now it may be when the Ju&s;tice of our endeavours &s;hall &s;hine through all other reproaches; &s;ome will be muttering, that wee have de&s;igned to divide the Army, or the Souldiers from the Offi|cers; but we appeale to your own con&s;ciences, whether per&s;wa&s;ions to be faithfull in ob&s;erving our Declarations, Promi&s;es, and En|gagement, wherein we joyned unanimou&s;ly, tend to divi&s;ion? is not this the &s;umme of all that we have offered, viz. That your own and the peoples nece&s;&s;ities, and the imminent danger of ruine, or at lea&s;t &s;lavery to you and them, calls you to renew your union in the for|mer de&s;ires, and in in&s;i&s;ting upon &s;utable an&s;wers &s;peedily, le&s;t you &amp; the people be confounded and peri&s;h by delayes? and is this to divide? and as for rending from Officers, let it be remembred, that though the &s;ouldiers acted without them at fir&s;t, yet tho&s;e who were faithfull, did afterward concur with them.</P>
<P>Gentlemen, We doubt not but the hazarding of our lives toge|ther for our Countries freedome, have &s;o endeared us each to other, and &s;o imprinted the principles of common freedome in our hearts, that its impo&s;&s;ible to divide us each from other, while&s;t wee in&s;i&s;t upon the &s;ame principles; and therefore wee pre&s;ume to &s;end, that you might &s;peeeily manife&s;t your concurrence with us in a firme re|&s;olution, to in&s;i&s;t &s;peedily upon the &s;ouldiers Rights, Englands free|domes, to be &s;ecured and &s;etled, that &s;o neither the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Com|mons might any longer langui&s;h under oppre&s;&s;ion, and their eyes fayle with expecting deliverance, nor the Army be the object of p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">verty, contempt, &s;corne, and hatred; But through the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Almighty God (who we doubt not will beare witne&s;&s;e to the Ju&s;tice of the Ca&s;e) wee may proceed to procure redre&s;&s;e for the&s;e Grievances throughly and effectually, and &s;ecurity for their native freedomes, that &s;o they may be in a capacity to rai&s;e our arreares for us chearfully and readily; and by this meanes, ju&s;t peace &amp; com|mon right and freedome might be firmely and &s;ecurely e&s;tabli&s;hed, We &s;hall adde no more, but that the an&s;wer is much longed for, by</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours &amp;c.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>For our honoured friends and fellow-&s;ouldiers of the &s;everall Regiments, under command of his Ex|cellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, the&s;e.</TRAILER>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Honoured Gentlemen and fellow &s;ouldiers.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WEe &s;alute you with all due re&s;pects: we received your Me&s;&s;|age, and rejoyce much to &s;ee you inquiring after Ju&s;tice, Common rights, and freedomes, though we are much troubled to heare, that many &s;hould endeavour to hide the truth of yours and the Kingdomes Ca&s;e, and to induce you &s;till to &s;uffer the delatory proceedings, that threatens de&s;truction to the Army and whole Nation: you de&s;ire &s;atisfaction from us, concerning the truth of the matters of fact related in our papers (entituled, <HI>The Ca&s;e of the Army,</HI> &amp;c.) and we profe&s;&s;e, all that there is related hath been &s;o publike, that we wonder at the audacity of any to de|nye them, we can appeale to your own experience for the truth of the mo&s;t of tho&s;e things mentioned; is it not too too evident, the neither we nor our Officers have been vindicated in point of ho|nour or right concerning that Order and Declaration publi&s;hed a|gain&s;t us, for though by publike Declaration to the whole world we were a&s;per&s;ed and branded to po&s;terity for enemies and tray|tors to the publike peace in print, yet we have not as to the equity or right of our Petition; or to our honour or fidelity to the &s;tate been vindicated (an&s;werable to the ignominy ca&s;t upon us) to the world by a Declaration from the Hou&s;e.</P>
<P>Do not the poor Countries pittifull cryes, and your non-pay|ment of quarters; witne&s;&s;e that you have had no pay, much le&s;&s;e your Arreares?</P>
<P>Do not the manife&s;t vexatious Suites at Law (now depending a|gain&s;t many that have engaged in the late warre) te&s;tifie that there is no &s;ufficient Indempnity?</P>
<P>Do not the di&s;honourable, uncertaine provi&s;ion for Widdowes, maimed Souldiers, &amp;c. manife&s;t, that no &s;uch provi&s;ion is made for them as is an&s;werable to our de&s;ires?</P>
<P>And for the common freedoms we are confident none will pre|&s;ume to averr, that there are any &s;etled: And we de&s;ire you to con|&s;ider, that delayes have made the Kingdome almo&s;t &s;ink already under their burdens, and in a few weekes the Countrey (for ought we know or can &s;ecure our &s;elves of) may &s;erve us as once the Danes were &s;erved. <HI>viz.</HI> cut our throates.</P>
<P>Now by this it is apparent, that the fir&s;t principles have been declined or neglected at lea&s;t.</P>
<P>Touching the breach of the Engagement in dividing the Army to &s;o great a di&s;tance each from other, this is known to all.</P>
<P>And as for the breach of the engagement in re&s;pect of disband|ment of the Trayne is it not evident?</P>
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<P N="1">1. In regard the Mu&s;ter-Ma&s;ter of the Traine, hath Order to Mu&s;ter no more in the capacity of a Traine.</P>
<P N="2">2. That the two Agitators of the Trame, Mr. <HI>Tom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ins</HI> &amp; Mr. <HI>Ro|bin&s;on</HI> are appointed to be Captaines over two Companies, to be ray&s;ed and placed in the Tower.</P>
<P N="3">3. That the two Companies of Fire-lockes for the Guard of that marching Trayne, part of which is in <HI>Wallingford,</HI> and part in <HI>Wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">,</HI> have orders to march to the Tower, and one that had little or no relation to the Army, is to receive Adjutant Generall <HI>Deans</HI> Com|pany to be Captaine over it.</P>
<P N="4">4. That four Quarterma&s;ters of Draught-hor&s;es have already li|&s;ted them&s;elves Officers in &s;everall Companies, and are providing to leave their charges in the Traine.</P>
<P N="5">5. That of eight Quarterma&s;ters of Draught-hor&s;es but one con|tinues, who will have the charge of &s;ome 60. hor&s;es, to draw the Carriages of the Generall and Generall Officers only.</P>
<P N="6">6. That all the other Quarterma&s;ters that do not li&s;t them&s;elves in Foot Companies, or other plices, are to be quite put off; as al&s;o neere 200. Wagons that belong to the Quarterma&s;ters, unle&s;&s;e they will be private &s;ouldiers,</P>
<P N="7">7. That all the Pioneers and their Officers; as al&s;o the Artificers, viz. the Wheelers, Carpenters, Farriers, Black-&s;miths, Gun-&s;miths, Fasket makers, Rope makers, Coller makers, and ladle makers, &amp; others, are to be put off forthwith.</P>
<P N="8">8. That tho&s;e Gentlemen of the Ordinance, and Gunners, and Matro&s;&s;es that &s;tand, but not in the capacity of a Trayne, are to be &s;ent with &s;everall Regiments, having no particular Commanders appointed over them, as Lieutenant Generall, or Comptrolers, to hear their &s;everall addre&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>That Mr. <HI>Peters</HI> who belonging to the Trayn, and is one of the mo&s;t knowing men, from whom intelligence could be expected, informed all, who enquired, that the Trayne were to receive onely this moneths pay, and to be disbanded: &s;o likewi&s;e Comp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">roller <HI>Deane,</HI> and every Colonell that was asked cencerning it.</P>
<P>As for refu&s;ing to &s;tand as <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> for our Nations freedom, and per&s;wading the Souldiers and Agitators, that they &s;tood as Souldiers onely: we &s;uppo&s;e &s;uch arguings have been too publike at the head Quarters, for any to have the face to denye it.</P>
<P>As for that unworthy &s;candall, that we intend to divide the Ar|my, we do not onely profe&s;&s;e, that we abhorr thoughts of any &s;uch
<PB N="7" REF="4">de&s;igne, but we wonder that envy it &s;elfe hath the face to ca&s;t this a&s;per&s;ion upon us.</P>
<P>We be&s;eech you, con&s;ider, Is it to divide the Army, to per&s;wade them all, and u&s;e our utmo&s;t endeavours to unite them in in&s;i&s;ting upon the fir&s;t principles, whereupon we all engaged each to o|ther, that we would not divide each from other, untill the common rights of the &s;ouldiery &amp; people were &s;etled? &s;hall it be counted a de&s;igne to devide, to endeavour &s;uch a &s;peedy &s;ettlement of what we have declared, that the de&s;ignes of the common Enemy to divide us, and per&s;wade us to de&s;ert the Publique intere&s;t, might be prevented? believe it (Gentlemen) to per&s;wade you to &s;it &s;till while you want pay, and the people their rights, is to nouri&s;h di&s;con|tentments in the Army and the people, and to divide betwixt the people and the Army, &amp; one part of the army from another. D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">th not experience witne&s;&s;e, that while you &s;it &s;till, di&s;tractiens increa&s;e dayly &s;ome blame one, &s;ome another, there are the &s;eeds of divi&s;ion dayly &s;owne; and hath not the King his Agents in all our Quar|ters, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o kindle and blow up the coales of heart-burnings &amp; divi&s;ions? We que&s;tion no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">, but the all &s;eeing God will beare witne&s;&s;e to the &s;implicity of our intentions. We have now only one thing to de&s;ire of you, that in what particulars &s;oever you are un&s;atisfied, you would acquaint us with them di&s;tinctly, and that what&s;oever may be &s;ugge&s;ted to you again&s;t us, or what&s;oever pretences &s;hall bee, that we repre&s;ent your &s;tates fal&s;ly, that in all &s;uch matters, you would hear our an&s;wer, before you pa&s;&s;e judgment upon us. And we are confident, we &s;hall make the uprightne&s;&s;e of our hearts and actions in this ca&s;e, to appear beyond the contradiction of Envy it &s;elfe. Thus from former experience of your fidelity to the common Ca&s;e of the Army, &amp; the whole Nation, promi&s;ing to our &s;elves, that your exquiting into the bottome of our pre&s;ent Ca&s;e is on purpo&s;e to &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">le your re&s;olutions to concur with us upon &s;uch &s;ure foundations, that you may &s;tand again&s;t all oppo&s;ition; we &s;hall only add a de&s;ire of your acceptance of the mo&s;t cordiall affections of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your and all the Peoples faithfull &s;ervants,</HI>
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<ITEM>Robert Everard,</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Sadler,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Taylor.</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Garrer,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho. Beverley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Prior.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Bryan.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Matthew Wealy.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Ru&s;&s;ell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Seale.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Dober.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Hud&s;on. <HI>Agents to the five Regiments.</HI></ITEM>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>GENTLEMEN.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>WE mention not in this our An&s;wer the publique and known de|clining of the Declaration of the</HI> 17. <HI>of Iune, for purging the hou&s;e; nor that Remon&s;trance of Iune the</HI> 23. <HI>for paying the Army equall to tho&s;e that de&s;erted it; nor the falling off from the Remon&s;trance on Augu&s;t the</HI> 18. <HI>wherein we prote&s;ted, that we would not &s;uffer tho&s;e that were guilty of &s;uch trea&s;onable breaches of their tru&s;t, in u&s;urping the name and power of a Parliament, and voting for a warre to de&s;troy us, and for the Kings coming to London upon his own tearmes, to &s;it in Parliament, and yet between</HI> 60. <HI>and</HI> 70. <HI>of tho&s;e &s;it there, and nothing is vi&s;ibly intended to be done, for their removeall. The&s;e and many &s;uch we mention not, as too palpable to be hidden, and in this our Po&s;t&s;cript, we cannot but adde one de&s;ire more, that you would con&s;ider the ca&s;e of the Army &s;tated joyntly, and not judge according to cavils &amp; objecti|ons, that may be made again&s;t words and clau&s;es, but to make a candid con&s;truction of every clau&s;e or &s;entence, alwayes ayming to find out our &s;en&s;e and meaning.</HI></P>
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