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<HEAD>SEVERALL ARTICLES OR The Heads of a Charge delivered in the name of the Army under the Command of his Ex|cellency Sir THOMAS FA<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">RFAX, to the Commi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ioners of Parliament, now with the Army; to be by them &s;ent up to the Parliament.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">AGAINST Denzill Hollis E&s;q. Sir Phillip Stapleton, Sir William Lewis, Sir John Clotworthy, Sir Willi|am Waller, Knights; Major Gen. Ma&s;sey, Sir John Maynard, Col. Walter Long, Col. Edward Harley, and M. Anthony Nichols E&s;q. Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons: joyntly, or &s;eve|rally, as followeth.</HEAD>
<P>FJr&s;t, that contrary to the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them, the per&s;ons above named, Mem|bers of the Hou&s;e of Commons, have ioyntly or &s;everally, invaded, infringed, or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ndeavoured to overthrow the rights and liberties of the Subiects of this Nation; in arbitrary, violent, or oppre&s;&s;ive waies (and this in ca&s;es where no pretence was, or could be of the excegencies of warre, or other nece&s;&s;aries which might iu|&s;tifie or excu&s;e the &s;ame;) and they have likewi&s;e endeavoured by indirect and corrupt practices to delay and ob&s;truct Ju&s;tice, to the great dammage and preiudice of divers of the poore Commons of England Petitioning for the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="2">II. That this Army being untill the middle of March la&s;t, in a quiet and orderly condition and po&s;ture, free from any colour or appearance of di&s;temper or di&s;order, or from offence to any; and ready (upon rea&s;onable &s;atisfaction in their nece&s;&s;ary dues for &s;ervice pa&s;t) ei|ther quietly to have di&s;-banded, or el&s;e to have engaged in &s;ervice of Jreland; the per&s;ons above named, have Joyntly, or Severally endeavoured by fal&s;e informations, mi&s;repre&s;enta|tions, or &s;candalous &s;ugge&s;tions again&s;t the Army, to beget mi&s;under&s;tandings, preiudices, or iealou&s;ies in the Parliament again&s;t their Army; and by deluding, &s;urprizing, or other|wi&s;e abu&s;ing the Parliament, to engage the authority of Parliament in &s;uch proceedings, as to put intollerable and un&s;ufferable iniuries, abu&s;es, and provocations upon the Army; whereby to provoke, and put the Army into di&s;temper; to di&s;obliege, and di&s;courage them from any further ingagement in the Parliaments &s;ervice: by all which, and other the like practi&s;es and proceedings of theirs, the peace of this Kingdome hath been emminently in|dangered, and the reliefe of Jreland retarded.</P>
<P N="3">III. That whereas the Parliament might otherwi&s;e have had out of the Army an entire force (an&s;werable to their proportion de&s;igned,) to have gone for Jreland as afore&s;aid, under their old Officers, and conduct; the per&s;ons above named (for advancement of their owne ends, faction, and de&s;ignes, and to the preiudice of the publique) have ioyntly or &s;everally, under pretence of the &s;ervice of Jreland, endeavoured by &s;uch evill practi&s;es, as before, to breake and pull this Army in pieces, to the weakning of the power, and endangering the &s;afety of the Parliament and Kingdome; and have likewi&s;e endeavoured, to put the Patlia|ment to the hazzard, delay, and va&s;t expence of ray&s;ing a new Forc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, as for that &s;ervice.</P>
<P N="4">IIII. That (with the breaking of this Army as afore&s;aid,) they have in like manner endea|voured, under pretence of Jreland, to rai&s;e a new Force (as before) to advance and carry on de&s;ignes of their own in England, to the preiudice of the Parliament and Publique: And in pur&s;uance of the &s;ame, have endeavoured to divert the Forces ingaged as for Jreland, unto &s;uch their purpo&s;ss as afore&s;aid here in England; and have in like manner endeavoured to have gained a power from the Parliament, to them&s;elves, or &s;ome of them, of diverting and mi&s;imploying tho&s;e forces as afore&s;aid, and to rai&s;e new Forces under pretence to guard the Parliament: and (not having obtained that,) have in like manner endeavoured pri|vately to li&s;t and ingage officers and Souldiers: or procure them to be li&s;ted and engaged, without authority of Parliament; for the ray&s;ing of, and embroyling this Kingdome in a new and bloudy VVarre, and to hinder the &s;etling and &s;ecuring the rights, liberties, and peace of the Kingdome; and for the &s;heltring, upholding and protecting of them&s;elves, and their accomplices, in their uniu&s;t, oppre&s;&s;ive, and factious de&s;ignes and proceedings.</P>
<P N="5">V. That they have ioyntly or &s;everally invited, incouraged, abetted, or countenanced multi|tudes of Reformadoes, and other Officers and &s;ouldiers, tumultuou&s;ly and violently to ga|ther together at VVe&s;tmin&s;ter, to affright and a&s;&s;ault the Members of Parliament, in their pa&s;&s;age to and from the Hou&s;e; to offer violence to the Hou&s;e it &s;elfe; and by &s;uch violence outrages, and threats, to awe, and enforce the Parliament.</P>
<P><HI>The&s;e &s;everall Heads of charge, the Army will by &s;uch Solicitors as they &s;hall appoint, (when the Hou&s;e of Commons &s;hall admit thereof) make good in particulars each Head, again&s;t &s;ome of the per&s;ons, and &s;ome one Head or more again&s;t each of the per&s;ons: and &s;hall &s;hortly give in the &s;everall particulars again&s;t each per&s;on re&s;pectively, which &s;hall be made good by proofes: the Army de&s;iring to &s;ave and re&s;erve to them|&s;elves the liberty of adding any further charge again&s;t all or any of the &s;aid Per&s;ons</HI></P>
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