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<P>THE PETITION OF 8000 Reduced Officers and Souldiers, Among&s;t whom Are many Knights, Collonels, and o|ther Officers of note, that have faithfully &s;erved the Parliament.</P>
<P><HI>Read in both Hou&s;es of Parliament, on</HI> Tue&s;day the 8th of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1648.</P>
<P>For a &s;peedy &s;ettlement of Religion, the King, Parliament and Kingdome, in a Par|liamentary way, according to the late Ju&s;t and mode&s;t defires of the City of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And for payment and &s;ecurity for their Arreares.</HI></P>
<P>AND <HI>The An&s;wer of both Hou&s;es of Parliament Delivered to the &s;aid Petition. Signed</HI></P>
<P>Jo. <HI>Brown Cler. Parliamentorum,</HI></P>
<P><HI>H. El&s;ynge Cler. Par. Dom. Com.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON Printed by <HI>Robert Ibbit&s;on,</HI> in Smithfield, neer the Queenes-head Tavern, 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COMMONS A&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT. The humble Petition of the Reduced Officers and Souldiers that have faith|fully &s;erved you. And have hereunto &s;ub&s;cribed.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P><HI>_THat your Petitioners have with un|wearied patience and fruitle&s;&s;e &s;ucce&s;&s;e often Petitioned, and too long expected the happy e&s;tabli&s;hment of tho&s;e ends for which they were at fir&s;t engaged, which at their re|ducement
<PB N="2" REF="3"> they did hope and expect to enjoy as the fruits of their hazzards and &s;ervices, being the hap|py &s;ettlement of Religion, King, Parliament, and Kingdome, according to the Covenant, for want of which this Kingdome is again involved in a new warre.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The con&s;ideration wherof moves your Petition|ers to expre&s;&s;e their re&s;olutions, and humbly to pray,</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 That there may bee a &s;peedy &s;ettlement of Reli|gion, the King, Parliament and Kingdome, in a Par|liamentary way, which your Petitioners humbly conceive cannot be but by a free and Per&s;onall Treaty according to the late ju&s;t and mode&s;t de&s;ire of this Ci|ty. And in Order thereunto, your Petitioners doe offer them&s;elves if nece&s;&s;ity requires, and &s;hall hazard their lives and fortunes, to &s;ecure his Maje&s;ty and the Parliament during the Treaty, again&s;t all &s;uch as &s;hall indeavour any way to di&s;turbe the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="2">2 That all Officers and Souldiers without excep|tions who&s;e accounts are not &s;tated, may have them audited by the Auditors mentioned in the late Or|dinance brought in by Mr. <HI>Scot,</HI> and that they may be commanded to act without delay.</P>
<P N="3">3 That the &s;aid Auditors may have power to al|low your Petitioners intere&s;t for the forbearance of their Arreares from the time it was due, your Petiti|oners having &s;pent the greate&s;t part in attending for the re&s;t.</P>
<P N="4">4. That tho&s;e impri&s;oned for debt may be &s;et at li|berty,
<PB N="3" REF="3"> And the re&s;t protected, till paid their Arreares, their debts not amounting to more.</P>
<P N="5">5 That your Petitioners may bee paide forthwith the remainder of the 3 Monthes pay according to the Ordinance of the 15, 16, and 21th of <HI>June</HI> 1647. And that it be made up according to the old e&s;tabli&s;h|ment, and that they may receive proportionably with others, notwith&s;tanding all former Qualifica|tions,</P>
<P N="6">6 That your Petitioners may receive &s;ecurity for the remainder of their Arreares, and that it be &s;pee|dily &s;ettled and charged upon &s;ome place where there may be vi&s;ible &s;ecurity.</P>
<P N="7">7 That your Petitioners patience being worne out, and not longer able to expect the fruites of your ma|ny Votes, and Orders, either to &s;ettle Religion, the King, Parliament and Kingdome, according to the Nationall League and Covenant, or to relieve their pre&s;&s;ing nece&s;&s;ities, doe unanimou&s;ly agree (pre&s;um|ing on your approbation, and countenance to &s;o pious and nece&s;&s;ary a worke whereunto they are in honour and con&s;cience oblieged) to imploy their utmo&s;t endeavours, for removall of all ob&s;tructions, that have or may impead the happy con&s;ummation of the premi&s;es, and to di&s;per&s;e &s;uch jealou&s;ies, as hath bin unju&s;tly throwne upon them. They a&s;&s;ure your Ho|nours not any more to ingage, but for tho&s;e ends.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed by 8000 Officers and Souldiers among&s;t whom are many Knights, Collonells and Of|ficers of quallity, that have faithfully &s;erved the Parliament.</SIGNED>
<PB N="4" REF="4">The &s;aid Petition was delivered to the Hou&s;e of Peeres <HI>virbatim&punc;</HI></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Die Martis 8 Aug. 1648.</HEAD>
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<P>The An&s;wer of the Hou&s;e of <HI>Peers</HI> to the Pe|tition of the Reduced Officers and Souldiers, delivered by the Lord Rochford..</P>
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<P><HI>THe Lords have commanded me to give you thankes for your good affections to them, They doe likewi&s;e give you thankes for the continuance of your good &s;ervice from the beginning. They do a&s;&s;ure you that they have put part of your de&s;ires into a way, and will take the re&s;t into &s;peedy con&s;ideration,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Browne Cler. Parliamentorum.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Die Martis 8 Augu&s;t 1648.</HEAD>
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<P><HI>The An&s;wer of the Hou&s;e of Commons to the &s;aid Petition of the Reduced Officers and Souldiers. Delivered by</HI> Mr. Speaker.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Hou&s;e hath con&s;idered of your Petition, and as your Judgements have
<PB N="5" REF="4"> have followed theirs heretofore, &s;o you would make that your Rule &s;till; They have done what po&s;sibly they could to &s;atisfie the Petitioners Ar|reares, and for a great part therof hath given them the &s;ame &s;ecurity that the Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI> his Army had their Ar|rears &s;ecured by.</P>
<P>And they have further Ordered, that all &s;uch Delinquents E&s;tates, Fines, and Compo&s;itions, as the Peti|tioners &s;hall di&s;cover, that are not di&s;|covered, &s;hall goe to &s;uch of the Peti|tioners, as &s;hall make &s;uch di&s;coveries; towards payment of their whole Ar|rears.</P>
<P>And have further Ordered that the Fifth and twentieth part of &s;uch De|linquents as the Petitioners &s;hall di&s;|cover, not formerly di&s;covered, &s;hall
<PB N="6" REF="5"> al&s;o goe towards payment of the Ar|rears of the Petitioners. And the Hou&s;e hath al&s;o appointed a Com|mittee to conferre with &s;ome of you of a way to give you further &s;atisfacti|on.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. El&s;ynge Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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