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A96343 The copy of a letter sent to his Excellencie Sir Thomas Fairfax. VVith an account to the officers of the Generalls regiment, intended for satisfaction to their demands. Likewise seaven heads which are presented to the Generall by some officers of the regiment, and some other particulars in relation thereunto published. / By Francis White, Maior of the Generalls regiment of foot. White, Francis, d. 1657. 1647 (1647) Wing W1764A; Thomason E413_17; ESTC R204487 13,802 16

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The Copy of a LETTER Sent to his Excellencie Sir Thomas Fairfax VVith an ACCOUNT TO THE OFFICERS OF THE Generalls Regiment intended for satisfaction to their demands Likewise seaven heads which are presented to the Generall by some Officers of the Regiment and some other particulars in relation thereunto published By Francis White Maior of the Generalls Regiment of Foot Blessed is the servant whom his Lord when he commeth shall find so doing But if the evill servant shall say in his heart my Lord delayes his coming and shall begin to smite his fellow servants and to hate and drinke with the drunken the Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh for him and in an houre he is not aware of Mat. 24.46 48.49 Printed in the Yeare 1647 The Copy of a Letter sent to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax with an account to the Officers of the Generalls Regiment intended for satisfaction to their demands ITt is not my desire in publishing these things after written to appeare singular or to be taken notice of among men but only to cleare my integritie to seek preservations I being chosen an Agitator for the Generalls Regiments to act in relation to those ends exprest in the solemn ingagement of the Army and being called thereunto by the Generall and also chosen one of the Committees appointed by the generall Councell to dispatch things of immergent necessitie and to prepare things in order to the great ends viz. satisfaction and security I was likewise appointed by this Committee with the approbation of the Generall to sit with the Committee of Lords and Commons at the Head Quartes which they were not very well pleased with But being at their convention I spake some words which gave distast viz that they were repairing an old house that when they were laying the top stone it would fall about their eares I also said it is evident that the Parliament dare doe nothing but what is agreeable to the sense of the Army And that the Parliament was grown into parties and factions The next day the Commissary Generall speake to the Grand Committees where I was present to have another set in my room told me that he was going to the Generall to desire him to call me to a Councell of Warre I answered that I would be accountable for what I had spoken and would justifie the same I then desired the Committee to chuse another in my roome that I might be no stop to their proceedings but the Committee were unwilling so to doe but I pressing the same they new chose the whole foure after which I heard no more of that matter I being sensible of what designe was laid by some great men and knowing how farre short it came of comprehending generall freedome and preserving all interest according to our First declaration I did by my endeavours labour to breake that prerogative design and to informe others what J knew thereof upon which grounds there was displeasure conceived against me and e was informed before the next generall Councell sate there was an intention to cast me out of the Councell which the Lievtenant Generall did ingeniously acknowledge the great thing that I conceived to be the cause thereof was the opposing the fastning the Generalls negative voice over the Grand Councell My Lord Sayes sonne informing a Member of Mr. Goodwins Church that all things went on very well and that there was but one man opposed which he named to be my selfe in opposing the Generalls negative voice So that what I speake in relation to the visible authority of the kingdome and the power and force of the sword upon which the Declaration was set forth to the kingdome as the cause of my expulsion was grounded upon that accidentall occasion the cause being before declared Immediately after I was put of that imployment I went to the Regiment that imployed me and gave them a full account of the whole and desired them to send another in my roome they desired me to withdraw which I did and they immediately drew up these lines as followeth To the Honourable the grand Councell of the Army THe humble desires of us the Officers and Soldiers of his Excellencies Regiment of Foot are that this Honourable Councell would be pleased to satisfie us upon what grounds Major White formerly chosen by us for our Agitator is dismissed from a capacitie of discharging that trust by us reposed in him whom we have ajudged both honest and faithfull and have no solid grounds as yet to thinke otherwise of him and we doe subscribe out selves yours and the kingdoms servants according to our Engagement in the faithfull discharge of our duties This was signed by all the Cptaines Lievtenants Ensignes and Agitators of the Regiment then present at a Convention at Rygate in Surry Saterday September 11 1647. But my Lievtenant Colonell and two Captaines being not present it was ordered to stay till Munday before it was sent to receive their hands but they understanding which way the stream run and of what consequence this might prove procured the alteration of the same since which time I have been very little acting in any thing in relation to the publike affaires more then my imployment with the Regiment And being necessitated to make meanes for preservation which is the alone cause of publishing hereof On Friday after the Officers of the Regiment under my command comming unto me with demands which I was not bound to give them an account but I being willing to give them satisfaction I did desire to walke into the garden at my Quarters and discourse the matter then did I shew them this letter following which I sent to the Generall which contained my principles and told them it was well known at the Head Quarters notwithstanding they went away unsatisfied I desiring to informe them more at large drew up this paper hereunto annexed and intended to have presented it to them the Friday following but on the Munday contrary to my expectation all the Officers came to town and sent to me desiring to speake with me when I came to them they presented divers Articles which they had collected from the former discourse and desired to know if I would own them because they did intend to send them to the Generall and to call me to account for the same I finding them contrary in circumstances and some substantiall to what I had spoken did by their approbations draw up and contract theirs into these seaven heads following and signed them with my own hand expecting to be called to justifie the same And knowing not what may be the issue it ingageth me to publish the whole matter that all men may know thereof and if the Army and Commons will not own my cause I shall with heart and good will seals it with my blood unlesse I am convinced of error To the Right Honourable his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax Generall Right Honourable IT is my