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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84790	A letter of His Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, to the Right Honorable, the Lord Major of the City of London, for the better preserving a right understanding between the City and Army. With an order of His Excellency to Col: Dean, to march into the City of London, and seize the publike treasuries of Goldsmiths, Weavers, and Haberdashers-Hall, that thereby they may be supplied with moneys to pay quarters, and free the countreys from that grievous burthen of free-quarter. By the appointment of His Excellency the Lord Fairfax Lord General, and his General Councel of Officers. Dec. 8. 1648. Signed, John Rushvvorth Secr'	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.; City of London (England). Lord Mayor (1648-1649 : Reynardson)	1648 (1648)	Wing F184; Thomason E475_32; ESTC R204447	1,739	7

A LETTER Of His Excellency THOMAS Lord FAIRFAX To the Right Honorable The Lord Major of the City of LONDON For the better preserving a right Understanding between the CITY and ARMY WITH An Order of His Excellency to Col Dean to march into the City of London and seize the publike Treasuries of Goldsmiths Weavers and Haberdashers-Hall that thereby they may be supplied with Moneys to pay Quarters and free the Countreys from that grievous Burthen of Free-quarter BY the Appointment of His Excellency the Lord Fairfax Lord General and His General Councel of Officers Dec. 8. 1648. Signed JOHN RUSHVVORTH Secr ' London Printed by JOHN FIELD for John Partridge and George Whittington Decemb. 9. 1648. For the Right Honorable The Lord Major of the City of London My Lord I Have given Order to Col Dean and some others to seize the Treasuries in Goldsmiths-Hall and VVeavers-Hall that by the said Moneys I may be inabled to pay quarters whilest we lie hereabouts having also Ordered Receipts and Assurance to be given to the Trersurers of the said moneys that they should be fully reimburst for the said sums out of the Assessments of the City due to the Army and out of other Assessments thereunto belonging and indeed although I am unwilling to take these strict courses yet having sent so often to you for the said Arrears and desired sums of money to be advanced by you far short of the sums due from you yet I have been delayed and denyed 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 Treasuries and to send some Forces into the City to quarter there until I may be satisfied the Arrears due unto the Army and if this seem strange unto you 't is no less then that our Forces have been Ordered to do by the Parliament in the several Counties of the Kingdom where assessments have not been paid and there to continue until they have been 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 wherefore these ways 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 to your selves we wishing not onely the good and prosperity of your City but that things may be so carried towards you as may give you 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 onely cause the moneys in the Treasuries to be not made use of but leave them to be disposed of as of right they might and also cause my Forces to be withdrawn from being in any sort troublesom or chargeable 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 Westminster 8 Dec. 1648. His Excellencies Order for the seizing the Publike Treasuries of Goldsmiths Weavers and Haberdashers-Hall WHereas the Arrears of the City to the Army being near an Hundred thousand pounds and upon the Security of them there being but Forty thousand demanded by us to be advanced by the Lord Major Aldermen and Common-Councel for the present supply of the Army yet the same hath been now for a week delayed and at last refused And whereas to avoid the Grievance of Free-quarter and inconveniency of quartering Soldiers at private mens houses the Forces in these Suburbs having for the week past bin kept in void houses Inns and the like without trouble to private Families or Free-quartering to any and that the extreme necessity of the Forces before Pontesract may be supplied you or any one or more of you are hereby required with the assistance of such Forces as shall be needful to march into the City of London and there to seize upon all such sums of Money as you shall finde in the publique Treasury at Goldsmiths Hall Haberdashers-Hall and VVeavers-Hall or in any of them giving to the Keepers of the said Treasuries respectively Receipts under your or one of your Hands for the Sums or number and proportion of Bags so seized All which Sums you or any one of you are to cause forthwith to be conveyed into Blackfryers there to be disposed of for the end aforesaid as shall be further directed by his Excellency the Lord General and you are to acquaint the Treasurers or keepers of the said Treasuries That they repairing to morrow or on Munday next to the Head-quarters shall have assurance of their payment of the respective sums so seized out of the Arrears of the City or the Assessments of the Army By the Appointment of His Excellency and the General Councel JOHN RUSHWORTH Secr ' FINIS