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A96770	Animadversions upon the Armies Remonstrance, delivered to the House of Commons, Monday, 20. November, 1648. In vindication of the Parliaments treaty with the King in the Isle of Wight.	Walker, Clement, 1595-1651.	1648 (1648)	Wing W319; Thomason E570_3; ESTC R204237	15,578	31

called M. Hollis his correspondence with the King A breach of trust a breach of his Oath taken in June 1643. a breach of the Parliaments Ordinance in October 1643. and no lesse then Treason Book of Declaration pag. 112 At this time Ireton framed the Proposals at Colebrook which as they say contained the particulars of their desires in order to the clearing and securing the Rights and Liberties of the people and setling a lasting Peace By these Proposalls the foundations of the peoples Freedome were undermined and the Kings Interest supported as Putney projects pag. 13. said where it is believed they passed 〈◊〉 a Generall Councell And it is there affirmed that they passed the Kings file who moved for a Personall Treaty upon them Ireton in a private Conference having promised the King a Copy of them which was sent by Major Huntington and returned with the Kings crosses and scratches upon them with His own pen. page 14. At last Sir John Berkley and Ashburnham brought the Kings Answer to them at Colebrook August 1. and the Proposalls bear date August 2. and the Proposalls were altered in five or six Particulars nearly relating to the Kings Interest But now let us collect some few short Observations out of the Papers and the said Proposalls of the Army that by comparing them with the present Propositions sent to the Isle of Wight by the Parliament it may appear whether the Army that hath no Authority or the Parliament that hath Authority to Treat with the King have best provided for a safe and well-grounded Peace with preservation of our Religion Lawes and Liberties Book of Declaration pag. 45. In the Representation of the Army June 14. 1647. this is set downe as the 8. proposall for Peace That publique Justice being first satisfied by some few examples to posterity out of the worst excepted persons and other Delinquents having made their Compositions some course may be taken for a generall Act of Oblivion whereby the seeds of Warre c. may be the better taken away 1. Observation The wisdome of Parliament thought it not fit to disparage their righteous cause by propounding an Act of Oblivion but when the King freely offered it and made it a proposall on his part they accepted it reserving a power to themselves to adde what exceptions and limitations to it the two Houses should think fit In the Remonstrance of the Army presented to the Parliaments Commissioners at S. Albans June 23. 1647. page 64. They declare their principles to be most cleerly for a generall Right and just freedome to all and therefore declare particularly That they desire the same for the King and others of His party so farre as can consist with common Right and Freedome and the security of the same for the future And they doe clearly professe they doe not see how there can be any peace to the Kingdome firme and lasting without a due consideration of and provision for the Rights quiet and immunity of His Majesties Royall Family and his late partakers and herein they think that tender and equitable dealing as supposing their cause had been ours and a spirit of common love and justice diffusing it selfe to the good and preservation of all will make up the most glorious conquest over their hearts to make them and the whole people of the Land lasting friends 2. Observation What more could the Parliament say Peruse the Propositions sent to the Isle of Wight What more hath the Parliament done for the King and his party in their Personall Treaty with the King at the Isle of Wight for a safe and well-grounded Peace then here the Army prompts them to Or how hath the King deserved worse of the Kingdome since the Army hunted Him from Hampton-court into their Purse-net at Carisbrooke-Castle where He hath been watched and kept in so strict and limited a condition that He could neither act nor negotiate any thing But The Armies Scout saith the Grandees of the Armies Faction are exasperated against him for rejecting their offers last yeare and his adherence to the Scottish interest and therefore at the latter end of his foule sheet the Scout hath this Distich Oh Charles old Nol thy terrour now draws nigh If thou wilt save thy necke hast hast to flie Book of Decl. p. 75. In a Letter from Sir Thomas Fairfax to both Houses giving an account of the transactions between His Majesty and the Army bearing date Reading July 6. 1647. He saith We conceive that to avoid all harshnesse and to afford all kind usage to His Majesties Person in things consisting with the peace and safety of the Kingdome is the most Christian honourable and prudent way and in all things as the Representation and Remonstrance of the Army doth expresse we thinke that tender equitable and moderate dealing both towards His Majesty His Royall Family and late Party so farre as may stand with the safety of the Kingdome and security of our common Rights and Liberties is the most hopefull course to take away the seeds of Warre c. and to procure a lasting peace and a Government in this distracted Nation 3. Observation But the Army hath since found New Lights yet these plausible pretences of the Army to restore Peace and Government by setling the Kings and all just Rights kept the People hitherto quiet and made them with hope and patience to beare Taxes to the Army and Free quarter whereby many of their backs were broken and all galled untill they found the Army to lay by these principles and to make use of the good opinion they had got onely by them to suppresse and destroy all that laboured for peace and ease of the people both Petitioners and Members of Parliament to keep themselves still in pay and pursue their owne profit and preferment then finding themselves cheated despaire thrust them rashly into Armes in Wales Kent Essex c. where their successe was suitable to their discretion whereof the Faction of the Army doe now take advantage to lay their owne bastard at other mens dores as if all this were done by designe of a Party in Parliament and City But Peace and an Army are as inconsistent together as light and darknesse In the Proposals of the Army 1 Aug. 1647. they propound 14. That things before proposed being provided for securing the Rights Liberties and Safety of the Kingdome His Majesties Person Queen and Royall issue may be restored to a condition of Safety Honour and Freedome in this Nation without diminution of their personall Rights or farther limitation to the exercise of the Regall power then according to the particulars aforegoing 4. Observation You see the City in their Engagement and the Parliament borrowed from the Army that phrase they now so much cry out upon of restoring the King with Honour Freedome and Safety 15. For Compositions The Army propounds That a lesser number out of the persons excepted in the two first Qualifications

doe againe upon pretended feares to carry on their designe and to colour the open violence and secret conspiracies they have used or meane to use against the lives of their Opponents I wish these titular Godly faithfull Honest men would as much abhorre the profitable Art of Lying and Slandering as they doe the unprofitable Vice of Swearing and Cursing But this is to take a Schismatick out of a Schismatick an Antimonarchist out of an Antimonarchist and an Independent out of an Independent it is to take his definition from him as much as to deny a man to be animal visibile in this objection I can more clearly foresee a second force comming from the Army upon the Houses then Lilly with all his fantasticall schemes can prognosticate faire or foule weather good or bad luck Were the Houses free when Sir Tho Fairfax threatned to make some of the Members Prisoners of Warre and trie them by a Councell of Warre onely for voting I and No according to their consciences when he marched in hostile manner against the Houses and City and really frighted away many honest Members when he set his owne Guards upon the Houses when the Armies faction in the House threatned the dissenting Members with the Army and the longest sword if they were free then they were not free during the agitation of this Personall Treaty But let us now examine the principall Propositions for setling the Kingdomes peace and safety as they are contained in this perplexed confused long-winded Remonstrance and then open your understanding with some Observations upon them The chief Propositions of this Remonstrance are the same in effect with those Propositions set on foot in the Army by the Levelling party there in a printed Book called The Agreement of the People which were disavowed by the Generall in his Letter to the House and some of the Levellers were condemned by a Councell of Warre as seditious and mutinous Persons for promoting them The first Proposition is That the House would forbeare any farther proceeding in the Treaty with the King and to returne to the Votes for no more Addresses to Him and to settle the Kingdome without and against Him upon such grounds as the said Remonstrance doth lay downe 1. Observation After the Houses are ingaged past all retreat and the eyes of all Christendome upon them they enjoyne them to breake off the Treaty contrary to their faith and honour engaged when the Treaty is so neare a conclusion that we shall suddenly receive the Kings Concessions or have a just ground to settle the Kingdome against Him without breach of faith Let us now see what foundations of setlement these new States-men lay downe 2. Proposition That the King may be brought to Justice for the Treason Bloud and mischief he is guilty of 2. Obser The Parliament in their severall Declarations and in their Commissions to their Generalls alwaies accused the Kings evil Counsellours of these crimes and not the King following therein the civility and policy of our Lawes and declared Warre onely against them not against Him knowing it had been High Treason by all our Lawes to warre against His Person Stat. 25 Edw. 3. And I challenge all the Antimonarchicall tribe to shew me one Law or Stat. to the contrary or to shew me any one president in the Scriptures of any King of Juda or Israel deposed or put to death upon Triall by his people for misgovernment or any King of England so dealt with since the Conquest Rich. 2. Ed. 2. Hen. 6. were articled against and Deposed or forced to Depose themselves in Parliament but those Parliaments were not free Parliaments being packed and overawed by ambitious Princes of the bloud with Souldiers and therefore this cannot be imputed to the People And the King being by our Lawes supreame Governour in all Causes and over all Persons hath no Superiour who can call Him to account otherwise you must proceed in infinitum If you will say the People or their Representative shall call Him to account who shall call them to account Parliaments for ought I see being as subject to corruption as Kings Besides you open a wide gap for any ambitious Prince of the bloud to make himself popular by scandalizing the present Government as Absolom did and so to stirre up the People or Parliament against the King to make way to the Crowne for himselfe and involve the Kingdome in frequent and lingering Civill Wars 3. Prop That the Prince and Duke of Yorke may be summoned to render themselves c. if they doe not that then they may be declared incapable of Government c. and as Enemies and Traytors to die without mercy if afterwards found in this Kingdome if they render themselves the Prince for his Capitall Delinquency to be proceeded against in justice And the Duke as he shall give satisfaction c. 3. Observ This is to lay by the King and His Posterity contrary to many Declarations and Engagements of the Parliament and to enforce the Prince to cast himselfe into the Armes of the French or some other his Allies Papists or others for succour upon such tearmes of disadvantage as they working upon his necessity shall put upon him to the prejudice of these Realmes his owne Religion in his Match or otherwise and to compell him to bring an Invasion upon the Land to assert his owne and the common Cause of Kings controverted in this example and so turn our Episcopall warre into a Monarchicall warre which will draw a confluence of all the loose Souldiery of Christendome to seek imployment here and bring the calamities of Germany upon us 4. Prop That a period be set to this Parliament c. 4. Observ I wish a period so as this pragmaticall Army be first Disbanded otherwise they acknowledging no King and their Masters the Parliament being dissolved the Kingdome will either be left under the government of the Army or they will over-power all Elections and set up a Mock-Parliament of their owne creation whose Authority shall depend upon their Sword and then the said Parliament shall set the stamp of their Authority upon the Army and between both the Kingdome be sawed in pieces 5. Prop That no King be hereafter admitted but upon the Election of the People by their Representatives 5. Answer They will first have a Parliament of their owne making as aforesaid and then this Parliament shall have a Conge d'estlier or leave to chuse a King of the Armies nominating whether they will vouchsafe to abuse the infancy of the Duke of Gloucester make him their property until they have had time to settle their Utopian Government to root out all Opponents to fill all Places of power and profit with their owne Creatures to breake the Peoples spirits with a customary Bondage to dis-arme and impoverish them and reduce them to the heartlesse condition of French Peasants to settle forraign Leagues and Correspondencies and then lay him to sleep with his Fathers

not exceeding five for the English being nominated particularly by the Parl. who together with the persons in the Irish Rebellion included in the third Qualification may be reserved to the farther Judgement of the Parliament as they shall see cause all other persons may be admitted to Composition That the rates for all future Compositions may be lessened c. and no compounder enjoyned to take the Nationall Covenant 5. Observa You see the Army more remisse in exacting Justice then the Parliament who have excepted seven English clearly out of mercy which is more then to reserve them unto farther Justice as they shall see cause and all men to be enjoyned by Act of Parliament to take the Covenant The Army propounds Putney Proj pag. 14. That all that have been in hostility against the Parliament be incapable of bearing Office of publique trust or power for five yeares But it was added after the great Officers intercourse with the King That the Councell of State should be enabled to admit them to such Offices before those five yeares expired 6. Observation The Parliament hath reserved to themselves the gifts of all Great Offices in England and Ireland for 20. yeares and disabled Delinquents in Armes to be Sheriffes Justices of the Peace c. pag. 15. The Army propounded Only that the Coercive Power and Jurisdiction of Bishops extending to Civill Punishments upon any may be abolished and demanded nothing for passing an Act for sale of Bishops Lands although at last they encouraged the Parliament to sell them But according to their Proposals for Peace the King was first to be re-established with His Negative voice 7. Observation The Parliament propounds the utter Abolishing of Episcopacy and Bishops for ever and an Act for alienating their Lands for ever The Army propounded The Militia should be for ten yeares only in the dispose of the Parliament and afterwards this present King not to dispose thereof without consent of Parliament 8. Observation The Parliament propounds the Militia of England and Ireland by Land and Sea with all Forts Castles Garrisons to be in the Parliament alone for twenty yeares from 1 July 1646. And after the said twenty yeares neither the King His Heires nor Successors to dispose thereof without consent of Parliament c. Putney Project pag. 43. These Proposals of the Army being obtruded at last upon the House a contest grew Whether they or the Propositions formerly sent to New-Castle should be sent to the King at Hampton-Court At last it was concluded to send the Propositions of New-Castle But the King knew that neither the Grandees in Parlia or Army intended they should be assented to being inconsistent with their Independent interests but they were sent only to usher in the Kings desire of a Personall Treaty upon the Proposals of the Army which the King had made known before hand should be His Answer And when His Answer was Voted in the House of Commons to be a deniall and debated hotly whether any more Addresses should be made to the King at last a Member of the House produced a reason as sharp and weighty as Goliahs sword It is the sense of the Army quoth he that a farther Addresse be made to the King And Ireton himself told them he could not promise them the Armies assistance if they ceased their Addresses to the King whereupon being bruited abroad that the Army had compelled the Parliament to make farther Addresses to the King and to send part or all of their Proposals as the grounds of Peace very many of the Army declared openly against it and many Speeches in their Councell reflected upon Ireton for abusing the Army therein So their hopes in this policy vanished like the hopes of an Alchimist I could proceed much farther with these parallel Observations but I have little leasure and peradventure Reader thou hast little money to lay out upon Books and I desire to open thy eyes as good cheap as may be But the Armies Remonstrance presented to the House 20 November pag. 43. 44. saith These Compliances of their part were only Negative what I have said already doth sufficiently confute this excuse It farther saith they complied with the King through example to prevent others from strengthening themselves that way meaning M. Hollis c. which was examined by the Parliament and he acquitted thereof and though the Army not resting in the Judgement of the Parliament as by their own profession they ought to doe charged him again herewith in their Impeachment of the eleven Members yet they never proceeded to prove it See Putney Project pag. 8. You see that Priviledges and Commands of Parliament nay their own promises are no more to the Grandees of the Army since they declared the Parliament had disobliged them then the Philistines withes to Sampson Did they not command the Commons by a set day to cast out the Faction that overtopped them to recall their Declaration against them whereby in full and free Parliament they were declared Enemies to provide them pay to own them for their Army Have they not contrary to the Parliaments Orders admitted Cavaliers to the King made Addresses to Him Quartered round about London after the Parliament Commanded them to Quarter fourty miles off which Order is still in force Have they not promised and engaged to acquiesce in the Judgement of Parliament Declaration 14 June 1647. And did they not a year since keep a day of Humiliation at Windsor to implore Gods mercy for their former insolency to the Parliament and promising more obedience hereafter Have they not declared that it was proper for them to act onely in their owne spheare as Souldiers and not to intermeddle with affaires of State which concerne the Parliament Why then doe they interrupt the Parliaments Treaty with the King in the Isle of Wight Declaration 14 June 1647. Why did they 20. Novemb. 1648. send a peremptory Remonstrance to the Parliament instead of an humble Petition charging them with weaknesse inconstancie and breach of trust in the same Treaty and magnifying their owne wisdome and integrity above theirs and that in such Magisteriall and censorious language as if the Tables were turned and they were the Parliament and the Two Houses but a Councell of the Army I will continue the method I have begun and make some few sudden Observations upon this Remonstrance as I have formerly done upon the Armies Proposals and leave the fuller answering thereof to some better Pen that hath more leisure and abilities then my selfe Objections in the Remonstrance delivered 20. November against the Parliament and Treaty Remonstrance pag. 7 8 9. 1. The Army Objects the Votes of the Houses for no more Addresses to the King Charging the Houses with inconstancy in retracting them and thereby putting the people into an unsetled condition and stirring them to Petition for a Personall Treaty and at last to rise in Armes for it and alledgeth the House was free