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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35663	The Levellers designe discovered, or, The anatomie of the late unhappie mutinie presented unto the souldiery of the army vnder the command of His Excellency the Lord Fairfax, for prevention of the like in others / written by Henry Denne ...	Denne, Henry, 1606 or 7-1660?	1649 (1649)	Wing D1021; ESTC R4711	5,663	10

THE Levellers Designe DISCOVERED Or the ANATOMIE of the late unhappie MUTINIE Presented unto the Souldiery of the ARMY Vnder the Command of his Excellency the Lord Fairfax For prevention of the like in others Written by HENRY DENNE an Actor in this Tragaedy LONDON Printed for Francis Tyton and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the three Daggers in Fleetstreet neer the inner Temple 1649. The Levellers Design discovered c. HOw great and dangerous a Mutinie hapned lately in part of the Army is not unknown to the Nation How great and manifold miseries were thereby threatned unto the languishing Common-Wealth is beyond expression This mutinous and turbulent spirit that was amongst us not being included within the quarters of one Regiment but diffused like evill blood through the veines into many Regiments of the Army wherein this discontented humor hath infected divers I having had too much experience by bearing too great a part in this discontented Rebellion shall do what I can to discover unto the world both the Causes and effects thereof that by the manifestation of the weakness of the ground-work and by the declaration of the hideous consequences men being undeceived They who are any way intangled may be recovered out of that dangerous and destructive Faction They who are yet free may have their thoughts prevented That dangers of like nature may be anticipated and a right understanding setled That Peace and Union Love and Concord may knit and unite the joynts of this present Army so together that neither open enemy or pretended friend may be able by force or flattery to devide it The first and great occasion of this unexpected Mutiny was this Our Regiments with some others were by Lot designed for the service of Ireland The Service we granted both very honourable and also necessary for the prevention of War and setling of Peace in this Nation Yet did we beleeve that there stood between us and Ireland an ingagement made by the Army at that famous Rendevouz at Triploe Heath June 5. 1647. binding us neither to suffer dividing nor disbanding of this Army untill such satisfaction were given as in that ingagement required It was thought essentially conducing to the satisfaction of the Army to the reconciliation of differences to the procuring of Nationall freedom and to the reliefe of Ireland To require such a Councel to be set up again in the Army consisting of Two Commission Officers and Two Agitators chosen by every Regiment of Horse or Foot together with the concurring generall Officers In this we were very 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 censure 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 ingagement appointed as a representative of the Army ought as we did then beleeve to be still continued unless we would prove perfidious Covenant-breakers I could not I confess unty this knot but here I was intangled and ensnared and therefore for that present thought my self bound in duty to God and men to prosecute this ingagement Hence it was many being of the same minde That 12. Troopes of Horse were drawn together and looking upon superior Commanders as Tyrannicall Covenant-breakers We marched contrary to his Excellencies expresses being heightned with the zeale of the performance of our engagement And touching this thing we were further perswaded that it did hold forth such strength of reason That the greatest part of the Army would suddenly have joyned with us And this was the cause why I joined with that Party deviding from the Army notwithstanding there appeared less safety and greater hazard And I beleeve this Cord drew on many honest hearted men who did conscientiously seek to make good that ingagement But herein I confess a double error First had this ingagement been to be prosecuted yet ought not we to have moved beyond our Sphear and to break one ingagement by the prosecution of another to disobey his Excelencies order under any pretence It is a good thing to yeeld obedience unto that authority under which we are placed Our second Error was in not peracquainting his Excellency and his Councel of War with our grievances In whom we have found so great meekness and moderation that we could not have missed expected satisfaction But that further answer may be given and thereby 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 ingagement 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 inconvenience thereof was so far manifest That most of the Regiments of Horse and Foot did Petition his Exelency to send back the severall Agitators unto their respective Regiments untill he should be pleased to resummon them Professing a willingnesse in themselves to submit unto his Excellency with his Councel of War according to the pristine discipline of the Army His Excelency having received these Petitions did not immediatly 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 dissolved untill his Excel should fee cause to resummon them Now this being so his Excel cannot be charged with violation of that ingagement neither doth th●re remain any obligation on his Excel to have continued or revived any such Councell Much lesse is it 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 if this had been formerly known unto some of us I am perswaded many had been prevented in this precipitate action This that hath been spoken though now it seems weak was the first and chief ground of our discontent which brake forth into irregularity and high disobedience Some other grounds there are which did add fuel to this fire and blow up the sparkles which did here begin to be kindled A second ground was The many aspersions which are cast upon some general Officers of the Army to the blasting of their fame and reputation have proved as a whet-stone to set a rough edg upon the resolutions of many and to stir them up unto further discontent I need not repeat what is spoken and written by some men As to my self I do profess I did never beleeve them and I bless God I see less cause to believe them then ever I have thought strange that men should