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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82253	A declaration published in the north of England, and Sir Arthur Haslerigg's letter to Gen. Monk in Scotland, with his resolution touching the Parliament and Army; the rising of the countrey; and the number of horse and foot, drawing to a randevouz, and marching towards Northumberland. Also, a declaration of the Generall-Council of Officers at Wallingford-House; and the number of horse and foot that are to march from the City of London, towards York.	Hesilrige, Arthur, Sir, d. 1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing D788; Thomason E1005_6; ESTC R207904	5,029	8

A DECLARATION Published in the North of England AND Sir Arthur Haslerigg's Letter TO Gen. Monk in Scotland WITH His Resolution touching the Parliament and Army the Rising of the Countrey and the number of Horse and Foot drawing to a Randevouz and marching towards Northumberland ALSO A Declaration of the Generall-Council of Officers at Wallingford-House And the number of Horse and Foot that are to march from the City of London towards York LONDON Printed for N. Crook and are to be sold in Cornhill 1659. VVHereas the product of several years Experience hath manifested to these Nations the various Changes and Revolutions both in Church and State the admiring Turnings and windings of many in power yet the ordinary workings of providence hath so often shown it self in the advancement of this Commonwealth that upon the reading thereof we may track them in their progress Yet seeing it hath pleased God by the hand of his wise and all disposing Providence to bring the Affairs of this Nation into the state and condition wherein they now are the Army hold themselves obliged to give an accompt to the people of their proceedings therein And conceiving it unnecessary to look back or reflect upon the secret Designs which were contrived in the former Parliament We hold it sufficient thus to demonstrate That the Army have declared to walk in the ways of peace and Righteousness and effectually to establish the Nation upon a true Basis of Government and the happy Foundation of a Commonwealth and not onely to keep these Nations from sinking into confusion but to see it happily established upon the just principles of Liberty and Freedom And wheras the Parliament was pleased to rescent the proceedings of the Army with a deep sense of disaffection being highly incensed by Sir Arthur Haslerig That they had a dangerous Design against the House who declared That there was a project on foot to introduce a new Government by setting up a single person c. Insomuch that the House fell into high Debates expressing great heat and anger against the Lord Lambert and severall other faithful Officers of his Brigade voting null their Commissions And afterwards ordered a Bill to be brought in and contrary to he usual Orders of Parl. thrice read in one and the same day and passed into an Act thereby enacting That all Orders Ordinances and Acts made by any single person and his Council or by both or either of them or otherwise or by any Assembly or Convention pretending to have Authority of Parliament from and after the 19. day of April 1653. and before the 7. of May 1659. and which have not bin or shall not be enacted allowen or confirmed by this present Parl. be should be and were thereby declared deemed taken and adjudged to be of no force or effect from and after the said 7. of May 1659. which was altogether contrary to what was humbly desired in the 30 Proposal of the Petition and Address of the 12 of May 1659. and committed that Proposal to a Committee of their own to bring in such a Bill or Bills for that purpose as they thought necessary And in the same Bill it was likewise contained That no person or persons should after the 11. of October being the very day that the said Act was hastily passed raise moneys without consent of the people in Parliament thereby in an instant putting a doubt and discomposure upon all mens mindes that are concerned in matters of that nature so that if any thing should cross such their strange proceedings the Army might be necessitated to that odious Refuge of Free Quarter or else be exposed to such provocations through the want of a fit provision for their subsistence as might alienate their minds from that care and duty that is incumbent on them for the peace and security of the Commonwealth And not onely so but the other mischiefs arising from this precipitate Act will prove many and great For then the most choice and godly Ministers of the Nation will be found to be comprised herein and themselves and their maintainances altogether avoided and great numbers of prophane and scandalous Ministers which have bin ejected for near the space of 6 years past will then be re-estated the Adventurers and Soldiers Lands in Ireland left at a loss and in confusion the Rebels that were transplanted there be at their liberty to return the Union made between England and Scotland rendred invalid all Estates conferred on any person or persons by former Governments though upon never so valuable and publick considerations left in a dangerous and uncertain condition to the unravelling and unknown discomposure of several mens estates and interests the consequences whereof will in short time appear by the sad effects of multiplying Suits and vexation of innocent persons if the said Act could be deemed as valid Concerning which we shall add no more but that had not strange precipitancy and design driven it on it could hardly be believed that any Supreme Authority would ever have exposed a people to such inconveniences Things being thus prepared in order to further ends the next day being Wednesday the Parliament hoping they had a great influence upon part of the Army and conceiving they had by their late Acts sufficiently perplexed those whom they doubted might opposed them and that the Goverment of these Nations was so sure in their own hands as in all probability things might come to confusion except managed by themselves proceed vigorously to put their designs in practice In the morning the Doors of the Lobby by their appointment being fast shut and guarded that none might by any means come near to the House or understand their proceeding Occasion is administred from one of the Letters which was signed by several Officers according to appointment of the Generall Council and sent to a Regiment of the Army and produced by a Member of the House it being of no other purport then the sending the said Representation and Petition to one of the Regiments of the Army as is before-mentioned Yet nevertheless they fell foul upon the severall Officers who had subscribed it and took this rise in pursuance of their former intent to make a plain breach upon the Army and thereupon Vote out of their Commands without hearing any one person speak for himself or examine whether the persons whose names were subscribed were their hand-writing or not the Lord Lambert General Disborow and seven other Colonels and Field Officers disposing divers of their Commands to the Officers next under them And as they did the day before so now they hastily passed it into an Act before they rose for the making void the Lord Fleetwoods Commission and envesting the Command of the Army in seven persons whereof himself was one some of whom were the principall in carrying on this whole design Whereupon the House adjourned and three of the said number immediately repaired to the Speakers Chamber And having provided themselves of