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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93638	The speeches of the Lord Generall Fairfax, and the officers of the armie to the Diggers at St. Georges Hill in Surry, and the Diggers severall answers and replies thereunto. Also, the manner of proclaiming the act against the kingly office by the Lord Mayor, and eight aldermen at the Royal Exchange, London. With divers letters concerning the prince to the queen. Together with the proceedings of Prince Rupert, the Earle of Ormond, and the Lord Inchiquin in Ireland. A fight at sea, and a fuller relation of the Earle of Montrosse his design for Scotland.	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.	1649 (1649)	Wing S4876B; Thomason E530_24; ESTC R205683	8,039	8

generall Officers In this we were bery bold I do not say wise propounding to his Excellency this condition to be performed before we could submit unto his Excellencies order this performed we were contented to refer our selves to the ce●sure of this Councell That which gave us boldnesse herein and that which beguiled us was this That we did not conceive how the engagement could possibly admit of a dispensation Such a Councell being by that engagement appointed as a Representative of the Army ought as we did then believe to be still continued unlesse we would prove perfidious Covenant-breakers I could not I confesse unty this knot but herein I was entangled and ensnared and therefore for that present thought my selfe bound in duty to God and men to prosecute this e●gagement 〈◊〉 was many being of the same mind that 12 Troops of Horse were drawne together and looking upon superior Commanders as tyrannical Covenant break●●s we marched contrary to his Excellencies expresses being heightned with the zeal of the performance of our Engagement And touching this thing we were further perswaded that it did hold forth such stength of reaso● that the greatest part of the Army would suddenly have joyned with us and this was the cause why I joyned with that party dividing from the Army notwithstanding th●● appeared lesse safety and greater hazard I believe this ●ord drew on many ●●nest hearted men who did cōscientiously seek to make good that engagement But that the snare may be broken and no more be intangled I shall declare what satisfaction I have received that so I may give the same satisfaction unto others Such a Councell indeed the engagement required and such a Councell was constituted in the Army acting and transacting of matters pertaining to the discipline of the Army And so long was this Councell continued untill the inconveniencies thereof was so far manifest that most of the Regiments of Horse and foot did petition his Excellencie to send back the severall Agitators unto their respective Regiments untill he should be pleased to resummon them professing a willingness in themselves to submit unto his Excellency with his Councell of War according to the pristine discipline of the Army His Excellency having recieved these Petitions did not immediately send back the Agitators as requested But having first summoned a Councell and communicated the Petitions unto them it was by them concluded that according to the Petitions of the severall Regiments the Councell of Agitators should be disolved untill his Ezcellency should see cause to resummon them Now this being so his Excellency cannot be charged was th●●●lation of that engagement neither doth there remain any obligation on his Excellency to have continued or revived any such Councell much losse 〈◊〉 warrantable in the Souldiery of the Army to assume that power to themselves seeing they suffered a dissolution by the same power by which they had their first constitution And her complaint ex●sperating the minds of some is that one tyrant is 〈◊〉 down another set up in his room I confesse this complaint were of great weight if it were true But truly I suppose this ●riseth from the want of discerning true Government from tyranny I 〈◊〉 the difference between the one and the other and I desire other men may discerne it A tyrant makes his will the law the other makes the law his will Another thing that hath much disturbed the minds of men and filled 〈◊〉 with discontent is the slow motion of the Parliament as to the taking away of oppressions and easing the grievances of the people In answer to this we are 〈◊〉 consider the Parliament before and after t●e Armies entrance into London 〈◊〉 to the former consideration before the Armies entrance into London I am so 〈◊〉 from admiring their slow motion that it is a wonder to me that they moved at all any other way then backward And I do admire the great providence of God who withheld them from turning all things upside down while the House was filled with so many men of corrupt interests As to the Parl. in the second consideration since the Armies approach to London we have cause to blesse God that they have done so many things for us which our eyes have seen and what is not yet done is in promise already performed unto us with assurance of such celerity as matr●rs of so great weight will possibly admit And for answer unto this complaint there needeth not any to a patient spirit and the impatient are not capable of an answer In conclusion of this I shall declare my thoughts that although some men do not cease to cast dust in the faces of Parl and Councel of the army yet hath not that cloud been thick to hinder the appearance of those beams of Justice Mercy Pitty Clemency Moderation which shine forth in them which have drawn me to so reverend an esteem of both as I cannot conveniently se forth lest I should incur suspicion of falling from one extream into another Wednesday THe Parliament took into consideration these ensuing Resolves concerning Delinquents and voted as followeth Resolved vpon the question by the Commons assembled in Parl. That the Reports of all such fines as have not past either House shal be forthwith drawn up and presented to the commissioners mentioned in the Act en●ituled an Act prescribing certain times to Delinquents for perfecting their compositions for their approbation in order to a final discharge Resolved c. That the said Reports shall be made to the Commissioners in order of time as they were set and not otherwise Resolved c. That such Reports being made and the fines allowed and confirmed by the said Commis● a finall discharge shall issue forth to every such compounder according to the authority and directions expressed in the said Act And if any Compounder shal not pay in his whole Fine within 6 weeks after his Composition shal be allowed and confirmed as aforesaid that then he shall incur the pen●lties expresed in the aforesaid Act. Resolved c. That the Cases of all Delinquents compounders who have petitioned for mitigation of their compositions and all such whose Reports are not yet made to this House and are ordred to be specially reported except all such as are secluded by the vote made the 19 of May 1649 shal be and are hereby referred unto the commis at Goldsmiths hal to hear and determine all the said cases the said commis proceeding therein according to therules for composition given them by the House and according to such articles as the compounders hath just right unto the said Articles being allowed and confirmed by both or either House of Parliament H. Scobel ●ler Parl. An Act declaring and constituting the people of England to be a Common-wealth and free State BE it declared and enacted by this present Parl. and by the authority of the same that the people of England and of all the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging