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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67358	A letter from Major General Sir Hardress VValler, and the Council of Officers at Dublin, to Lieutenant General Ludlow.	Waller, Hardress, Sir, 1604?-1666?	1659 (1659)	Wing W536A; ESTC R33538	3,873	1

falsified the trust you had reposed in him and yet that he has publickly acted against the Authority of Parliament and their Laws could not be unknown unto you were it onely in reference to that particular Subscription promoted of owning the Lord Fleetwood Commander in chief of the Armies of this Commonwealth contrary to an express Act in that behalf whereby from your Substitute he became my Lord Fleetwoods and you from Lieutenant General under the Parliament to become Lt. General under their Enemies If you approv'd of this Action why should we recieve you if you disapprov'd it why do you give the chief promoter of it the Title of your Dear Friend In the same Letter also you have these words viz. I hope ere this the Commissions for the setting of Civil justice on the wheels in Ireland i● come unto your hands which Commissions being sent by the power of those who had violated the Parliaments Authority we might expect would rather have had your discountenance than your hope that they would come safely unto his hands And though we love to have the wheels of Civil Justice moving yet we as much desire to have those wheels recieve their motion from that Authority onely which legally can give it to them and we heartily wish you had the like Principle That you could have come from London hither when your mention'd hopes fail'd you and when your Substitute Col. Iones had so egregiously acted against the Parliament and with their Enemies is evident by your being now able to come into Ireland and therefore your declining thereof so long proves the fault lay more in your want of Inclination than in your want of Power and if you had appeared active at London for the restauration of the Parliament or earnest against those here which had neglected their duty therein it is not over probable you would have been permitted to have come for Ireland which as your own Letter imports was well known at London before your departure thence to have declared for the Parliament unless those that permitted you to come for this Countrey had believ'd your actings here if reciev'd would prove more advantageous to them than to the Parliaments service You went to London to represent things to the Parliament and slayd there all the while that by force they were kept from sitting and as soon as ever through Providence they were restor'd to sit you hasten away hither without any application to them This being the matter of Fact we leave it to all sober men to make the inference We cannot indeed but admire that having assur'd you under all our hands whatever the Parliaments commands were concerning you when your case was heard by them they should be cheerfully and readily obey'd That you would rather elect to put things into extreams as much as in you lay than patiently waiting a little time to have them recieve a legal and quiet issue If your Actings have not incapacitated you to sit in the Parliament doubtless it had been more proportionate to you to have gone to London and there have acted what you went over for than to put your self up into Duncannon the onely place that has not together with in declared for the Authority of the Parliament Some possibly from thence may inferr That you think it a more hopefull and more expeditious way to attain the command of this Army from so small a beginning thereunto as Duncannon than to acquire that end by any hopes you have of reviving the Parliaments Commission for it We have upon all these Considerations thought it our duty to the Parliament to send Forces for the blocking up Duncannon of all which we thought fit to send you notice and remain Dated at Dublin Jan. 10 1659. Your humble Servants Har. Waller Eliah Green Iohn Warren Barry Foulk Broghill Hen. Owen Iohn Maunsel Io. Franck Cha. Coote Ben. Lucas I Ieonar Ri. Stephens W. Caulfield Rich. Lehunt Rod Mansell Ioh. Reding Theo. Iones Sol. Cambie Io. Harrison Simon Garstin I. King Sampson Towgood Percival Hart. R. Shield

A Letter from Major General Sir Hardress VValler and the Council of Officers at Dublin to Lievtenant General LUDLOVV Sir WE have recieved a Letter from Lt. Col. Puckle Governor of Ross and in it one from you to him dated at Duncannon wherein you require him to preserve ●●● Garrison for the Parliament He had done that before he had any Orders from you to do it We wish you had rather sent Orders of that nature to your Sub●●●tute Col. Jones when he so long and so openly acted against the Parliaments Authority than to Lt. Col. Puckle who you could not but know had ●●●gether with us declared for it When you were in this Bay you recieved an Assurance under all our hands That we had declared as in duty bound for ●●● Parliament whose commands both concerning you and our selves we would cheerfully and punctually obey But you write to Lt. Col. Puckle That we had set up for o●●●selves We will not say that you have set up for your self though your staying if not acting amongst those who had set up for themselves at London your never declaring ●● the Parliament when most of the Army here had declared against them your poasting from the Parliament when you your self write they were to fit within a day or two a●● your now casting your self into that onely place in this Nation which hath not together with us declared for the Parliament might we say give us a juster rise to belie●● you had set up for your self than our Actings or Letters have given you cause so untruly to report of us If you have assumed that belief concerning us because of our not a●●mitting you here we hope whatever you your self are pleased to believe all unbyassed persons will with us judg it was not consistent with our duty to admit to the command of the Parliaments Army here till their pleasure was signified a person that had ever since their interruption resided among and we more than doubt acted with their Enemies that would not stay two or three days for their sitting to bring their commands with him and who stands now accused before them with several Articles of Hig● Treason Truly Sir your Actings have made our suspicions but too strong You went declaredly from hence with an Address from this Army to the Parliament and to settle according to their commands the Forces in this Nation But though you met at Conway the news of their being by force kept from sitting whereby the end you proposed by yo●● journey was cut off even in the beginning of it yet you went on to those who had offered that sinfull violence 'T is true you say That by a Letter you recieved from the factious Party which had been guilty thereof they intimated unto you that a stop for the present was onely put upon their sitting and consequently a dore of hope was opene● to you to bring them to their duty but let all rational men judg Whether it had not been a much more probable way conducing to that end for you to have return'd to the Army and accompanied your persuasions with a Declaration That if those were not listned unto the Forces of this Nation should be imployed by you to bring them to the obedience which fair means could not effect We doubt you had too good an opinion of such men or of the force of your own reasons to believe that those who would n●● listen to the Authority and Commands of a Parliament would be brought to their duties by the prevalencie of your particular arguings or desires Had worthy General M●● been possest with the like thoughts and employed onely his Arguments and Intreaties to reduce them putting his person also at the same time in their power 't is to be fear'● we had recieved our Laws from Wallingford-house and not from the Parliament who onely can make and repeal them But allow you could be so much mistaken in them a●● in your self why did you not forthwith return to your duty here when you found experimentally the unsuccessfulness of your endeavors there it being then too manifes● That the Council of Officers at Wallingford-house were so far from restoring the Parliament that they voted the calling a New one with a Senate and one and twenty Co●●servators with power in several particulars above both Senate and Parliament And when also Col. Jones who you intrusted with the Army here did openly send out Orde● for the election of two out of each Regiment to compose that Meeting at London which was to introduce this new Government and vigorously contributed what in him la● to promote Subscriptions to an Agreement as opposite and destructive to the restauration of the Parliament as even those forementioned Elections were designed to be f●● which Elections we hope you have not forgot how by particular Letters to several Officers here ready to be produced you did appear but too Active and Encouraging B●● least you might not remember the Contents of Letters to private persons and of an antienter date we shall mind you of one written to a publick Person viz. Col. John Jon●● and of a fresher date viz. the 17. of December last wherein you use these very words We seem to be necessitated to look towards the Long Parliament 't is to be fear'd they will ●● very high in case they should be brought in without Conditions Let all that hear this judg how fit that person is to command an Army of the Parliaments that includes himse●● amongst those who not out of willingness but necessity seem to be looking towards the restauration of the Parliament and who expresses a fear they would be very high ●● not bound up by Conditions before their admittance Your duty had been the contrary to what your fears are and we would gladly know who you judged fit to put Conditions upon the Parliament But since you fear the Actings of the Parliament unless brought in by Conditions you teach us thereby to keep you from the Head of one of the Parliaments Armies least you should make use of their Forces to secure you and those like minded with you from your fears For our parts we desired no earthly thing mor● than their restauration and bless God both our duties and innocencie makes us not fear but desire they should fit as a Parliament that is without any previous Conditions pu● upon them You that could fear the Parliament would be very high in case they should be admitted without Conditions and have associated your self of late with those the moderatest of which were guilty of that Apprehension may be suspected to have been pleased with if not consenting to the Interruption of that Authority whose high acting● are confessedly feared by you We shall not much dwell upon the Title that you give Col. Jones of Dear Friend in the said Letter though in it we cannot but observe That 't is not probable you would call him by that name if you thought he had