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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88202	Ionahs cry out of the whales belly: or, Certaine epistles writ by Lieu. Coll. Iohn Lilburne, unto Lieu. Generall Cromwell, and Mr. John Goodwin: complaining of the tyranny of the Houses of Lords and Commons at Westminster; and the unworthy dealing of divers (of those with him that are called) his friends. To the man whom God hath honoured, and will further honour, if he continue honouring him, Lieu. Generall Cromwell at his house in Drury Lane, neare the red-Lion this present.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2122; Thomason E400_5; ESTC R201740	21,051	15

were raised by an Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled at Westminster for the defence of the King and Parliament the true Protestant Religion not the Scotch Iewish Antichristian inslaving Presbytery and the Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdome not the Arbitrary wills of the Houses as appeares by the Ordinance of the 15. Feb. 1644. 2. part book Declar. fol. 599. which positively commands Sir Thomas Fairfax from time to time to submit to and obey all such orders and directions as he shall receive from both Houses of Parliament or from the Committee of both Kingdomes Yet now he and his Army apprehending and beleeving that the wicked and swaying Faction in both Houses would destroy them and inslave the whole Kingdome doe not onely dispute the two Houses orders and commands but also positively disobey them as unjust tyrannicall and unrighteous And being now thereby dissolved into the originall law of Nature hold their swords in their hands for their own preservation and safety which both Nature and the two Houses practices and * See the ● part bo declar p. 44. 93 94 150 202 205 307 382 277 269 279 446 496 637 690 700 7●7 722 723 726 728 Declarations teaches them to doe and justifies them in and now act according to the principles of Saifety flowing from Nature Reason and Justice agreed on by common consent and mutuall agreement amongst themselves in which every individuall private Souldier whether Horse or Foot ought freely to have their vote to chuse the transactors of their affaires or else in the fight of God and all rationall men are discharged from obeying stooping or submitting to what is done by them And that they doe now act upon the foresaid Principles is cleare by their printed ingagement of the 5. of July 1647. called A solemne engagement of the Army under the command of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax read assented unto and subscribed by all Officers and Souldiers of the severall Regiments at the generall Randezvouz neer Newmarket In which agreement or solemn engagement they say That the Souldiers of this Army finding themselves so stopt as before they there declare in their due regular way of making known their just grievances and desires to and by their Officers were inforced to an unusual but in that case necessary way of correspondencie and agreement amongst themselves to chuse out of the severall Troops Companies severall men and those out of their whole number to chuse two or more for each Regiment to act in the name and behalfe of the whole Souldery of the respective Regiments Troops and Companies And a little fu●ther they expresse themselves thus We the Officers and Souldiers of several Regiments hereafter named are now met at a general Rendezvouz have subsubscribed vnto the said solemne engagement and doe hereby declare agree and promise to and with each other and to and with the Parliament and Kingdome as followeth First that we shall cheerfully and readily disband c. having first such satisfaction and security in these things as shall be agreed unto BY A COVNCELL TO CONSIST OF THOSE GENERALL OFFIGERS OF THE ARMY who have concurred with the Army in the premises WITH TWO COMMISSION OFFICERS AND TWO SOVLDIERS TO BE CHOSEN FOR EACH REGIMENT who have concurred and shall concurre with us in the premises and in this agreement And by the Major part of such of them who shall meet in Councell for that purpose when they shall bee thereunto called by the Generall Secondly that without such satisfaction and security as aforesaid we shall not willingly disband nor divide nor suffer our selves to be disbanded or divided So that by these words in their agreement you see the foresaid position proved that they act by mutuall consent or agreement Now to have this agreement or solemne ingagement invaded or broken either by the subtilty fraud or power of the Officers and a power assumed by themselves to act all their chiefe businesse contrary to this Agreement is an action that merits a kicking if not worse out of the Army to all those Officers be they what they will be that were chiefe actors and contrivers of it For the most Divellish subtile undermining and destroying way that can bee taken by the greatest haters of the Army Stapleton Hollis or the Assembly to destroy and overthrow them and to have their wills not onely of them but also of all that wish them well is by their pecuniary charmes flateries gifts bribes promises or delusions to put the officers by their agents upon the invading and infringing the essentiall and common rights of the Army before expressed which within a little while will beget such pride scorne and contempt in the Officers against the Souldiers who to their eternall praises be it spoken did the work to their hands and acted at the beginning like prudent and resolved men when all or most of the Officers sate still like so many Drones and Snekes as will breed unquenchable heart-burnings in the Souldiers against them which will speedily draw them into discontents and factions against them which of necessity will speedily break out into civil broyls amongst them so undoubtedly destroy them for what occasions all the warres in the world but invading of rights And what occasioned all the late broyles betwixt the King and the two Houses but the invasion of rights And what hath occasioned the present difference betwixt the two Houses and the Army but the two Houses invading their rights and endeavouring to make them slaves by arbitrary Lording over them by proclaiming them traytors for endevouring to acquaint them with their grievances and invasion of the common and agreed of rights before mentioned of the privat Souldiers of the Army by the Councell of Warre c. will evedently and apparantly occasion the same betwixt the Officers and Souldiers of the Army And therefore accursed be he that is the causer or contriver of it For if it be treason in a Kingdome as Str●fford and Canterbury found it to be to endevour the subversion of the fundamentall Lawes and Rights of the Kingdome can it bee lesse then treason in the Army for any of their Officers to endeavour the subversion of their essentiall fundamentall Lawes Rights and agreements expressed in their foresaid solemne Engagements And truly being more then jealous that it was the study labour and practice of some Officers in the Army to invade the foresaid rights of the privat Souldiers of the Army which if continued in will destroy them and so by consequence the whole Kingdome and my selfe For if they doe not deliver us from vassalage wee are perfect slaves and so made by the treachery of our Servants our Trustees in Parliament And therefore out of love and affection to my native countrey and my owne Being I could doe no lesse then by my writing c. endevour the prevention of it and also give a hint of those that my often intelligence told me againe and again