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A82330	The demands and desires of His Excellency the Lord General Fairfax, and his Generall Councell of Officers. To the Right Honorable the Lord Major, and court of aldermen, and their resolution touching all other officers and citizens, who shall oppose or neglect the said demands and desires. With His Excellencies message and proposals to the Lord Major, shewing the grounds and reasons of the armies entring the said city, and upon what terms and conditions he will remand them back again. Likewise, the impeachment, demands, and proposals of the Army, concerning Major Generall Brown. By the appointment of His Excellency the Lord Fairfax Lord Generall, and his Generall Councell of Officers, signed, John Rushworth, Secr.	England and Wales. Army. Council.; Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.	1648 (1648)	Wing D972; Thomason E475_36; ESTC R205457	3,178	8

THE DEMANDS AND DESIRES Of His Excellency the Lord General FAIRFAX AND His Generall Councell of Officers TO The Right Honorable the Lord Major and Court of Aldermen and their Resolution touching all other Officers and Citizens who shall oppose or neglect the said Demands and Desires WITH His Excellencies Message and Proposals to the Lord Major shewing the grounds and reasons of the Armies entring the said City and upon what terms and conditions he will remand them back again LIKEWISE The Impeachment Demands and Proposals of the Army concerning Major Generall Brown BY the Appointment of His Excellency the Lord Fairfax Lord Generall and His Generall Councell of Officers Signed JOHN RUSHWORTH Secr. LONDON Printed for JOHN WOOLRIDGE 1648. THE DEMANDS OF THE ARMY TO The Lord Major of London concerning Major Gen. Brown and the City ON Friday Decemb. 7. Col. Dean entred the City of London with a party of Horse and Foot and seized on the Treasuries in Goldsmiths Hall and Weavers Hall for the payment of the Souldiery during their residence hereabouts another party also marched to the Sessions house in the Old Bayley where they demanded the person of Major Gen. Brown but the Lord Major engaged for his forth comming and gave a satisfactory answer to the Officers who came to seize his person from thence they marched to Guidl-hall and other places in the City deporting themselves with great civility and in obedience to the Command of the Lord Generall quartered at Pauls Black-Friers and other places adjacent His Excellency likewise sent a declaratory message to the Lord Major in order to the proceedings of the Soldiery a copy whereof followeth My Lord HAving sent so often to you for the arreares due from the City and desired sums of money to be advanced by you far short of the sums due from you yet I have been delayed and denied to the hazard of the army and the prejudice of others in the Suburbs upon whom they are quartered wherefore I thought fit to send to seize the said Tresuries and to send some forces into the City to quarter there untill I may be satisfied the Arrears due unto the Army and if this seem strange unto you 't is no lesse then that our forces have been ordered to do by the Parl. in the severall Counties of the Kingdome where assesments have not bin paid and there to continue untill they have bin paid and here give me leave to tell you the Counties of the kingdom have born free quarter and that in a great measure for want of your paying your Arrears equally with them wherfore these wayes if they dislike you yet they are meerly long of your selves and are of as great regret to me and to the Army as your selves we wishing not only the good and prosperity of your City but that things may be so carried towards you as may give no cause of jealousie I thought fit to let you know that if you shall take a speedy course to supply us with 40000. l. forthwith according to my former Desire and provide speedily what also is in Arrear I shall not only cause the monies in the Treasuries to bee not made use of but leave them to be disposed of as right they might and also cause my Forces to be withdrawn from being in any sort troublesome or chargable to the City And let the world judge whether this be not just and equal dealing with you I rest My Lord Your affectionate servant T. FAIRFAX May it please your Excellency WE your Excellencies Servants not stirred up by any affection to meddle with matters besides the businesse of our respective Imployments nor any way favouring distempers amongst our selves or others but singly and faithfully we come to your Excellency in this petition abundantly pressed thereto from the conscience and sense we have of the neer approach of Ruine to all honest parties of the Kingdom and your self and the Army amongst the rest whereof the present transactions with the King the late transactions of the Scots and of a prevalent party in the Houses are palpable and unhappy evidences to all the word a-moulding such a closure of the present differences as we apprehend most certainly strengthen all the old corruptions in the former Government and so leave the Kingdom in a more desperate bondage then yet it ever felt Amongst all which generals we further present your Excellency with these ensuing particulars 1 By what evidences and proofes or upon what Reasons and grounds the King stands acquitted of the charge of the Houses against him in their late Declaration to the Kingdom 2 What persons especially what members of either Houses have plaid the Traytors by inviting the Scots to invade this Kingdome or gave them countenance or incouragement in that perfidious attempt 3 That the promoters of the first and second war bee brought to Justice 4 That the arrears and debts of the Kingdom be secured and satisfied and that the publike faith be not made a publike fraud to the Kingdom Signed by the Officers and Souldiers in the VVest of England The Armies Impeachment THat whereas Denzil Hollis Esq Lionel Copley Esq Maj. Gen. Massy and others of your members were in the year 1647. impeached by your selves for treason or for high crimes and misdemeanours in relation to the treasonable Engagement of the city of London c. and upon cleer proofs against them were by your censure expelled the House yet by the prevalency of their Faction the same persons were afterwa●ds readmitted to sit in the House and vote as formerly without any tryall or satisfaction in the things whereof they were accused We demand that all those members so impeached may be forthwith secured to be brought to justice or tryal for their said crims and that such others of their faction may be secluded from the House c. That whereas by the confederacy of Major Gen. Browne now Sheriff of London with the said impeached members and others the Scots were invited and drawn in to invade this Kingdom the last Summer insomuch as when upon the actuall Invasion the House proceeded to declare them enemies and those that adhered to them traytors yet the said confederates and other treacherous members to the number of ninety and odd as upon the division of the House appeared did by their Councels and Votes endeavour to hinder the house from declaring against their confederate invaeers We desire that the said M.G. Brown may bee also secured and brought to judgment and that the rest of the ninety and odd persons dissenting in the said vote may bee excluded the house and not trusted further in your Councels That whereas in a continued Series of your proceedings for many moneths together we have seen the prevalence of the same treacherous corupt and divided councels through factions and private interests and in their late Votes declaring the Kings past concessions to be a ground for the house to proceed upon for the settlement of the peace of the kingdom notwithstanding the visible insufficiency and defects of them in things essentially concerning the publike interest liberties of the Kingdome That such as by faithfulnesse have retained their trust being set in a condition to pursue and perform the same with out such interruptions diversions and depravations of councels as formerly We shall desire and hope you will speedily nnd vigorously proceed 1 To take order for the execution of Justice 2 To set a short period to your own power 3 To provide for a speedy succession of equall Representatives according to our late Remonstrance wherein differences in the kingdom may be ended and we and others may comfortably acquiese as for our parts we hereby ingage and assure you we shall By the Appointment of his Excellency the Lord Falrfax Lord General and his Generall Councel of Officers Signed JOHN RUSHWORTH Secr. Col. Pride having received Orders from the Generall to secure a certain number of the Parliament on Wednesday last marched with his Regiment to Westminster and took divers of them into custody viz. Sir William VValler Major Gen. Massey Sir Benjamin Rudyard Col. Hollis Col. Fines and about 30 more who are committed to safe custody and whether they shall have their inlargment upon paroll or be continued prisoners is uncertain His Excellench hath sent a message to the Aldermen of London riquiring them to provide and make provision for the Souldiery in order to their accommodation for Bedding c. to be equally apportioned upon the severall divisions within their Wards and upon the severall Housholders that are of ability to furnish the same And in case that any shall neglect therein his Excellency doth declare that he shall be necessitated to send Souldiers either to fetch such proportions of Bedding from them that faile or else to quarter with them and must take such course against either those Aldermen and other Officers in the City who shall neglect to rate and bring in the proportions required from their respective Wards and Divisions or against those Inhabitants who shall refuse to supply the proportions rated upon them as shall be fit to use towards such obstinate opposers of that orderly supply which is so necessary for the ease and quiet of the City and for the subsistance of the Army FINIS