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A96149	Letters from Saffron-Walden the Generalls head quarters, by way of apologie and vindication of the army under his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, of some late groundlesse aspersions cast upon them. Together with a true account of the proceedings and resolutions of that army upon the late resolves and declaration of the Parliament concerning the petition of his officers and souldiers in the army, to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax. Also the copie of a second petition from the county of Essex, intended to both the Houses of Parliament.	T. W.	1647 (1647)	Wing W123; Thomason E383_24; ESTC R201441	5,692	15

LETTERS FROM SAFFRON-WALDEN THE Generalls Head Quarters By way of Apologie and Vindication of the Army under his Excellency Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX of some late groundlesse aspersions cast upon them Together with a true Account of the proceedings and Resolutions of that Army upon the late Resolves and Declaration of the Parliament concerning the Petition of the Officers and Souldiers in the Army to his Excellency Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX Also the Copie of a second Petition from the County of ESSEX intended to both the Houses of PARLIAMENT LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1647. Letters from Saffron Walden the GENERALLS Head-Quarters SIR I Suppose you are not ignorant of the late command sent unto the Generall to publish a Declaration at the Head of his severall Regiments requiring them to desist from going on in that Petition they were about to present unto him I thought fit by this to acquaint you That in obedience to the Commands of the Parliament His Excellency hath caused the same to be published and the Souldiers acquiesce therein such is their obedience and respect unto the Generall though at the reading it some of the Souldiers gave out it was an hard case with them that they that had fought for the liberty of the Subjects of England should be denied the liberty of a Subject to petition though it be to their Generall in an humble way and meerely in things relating to them as souldiers medling neither with Church Government nor state affaires and withall submitting it to the Generalls Iudgement for approbation or correction as he saw cause and though they said they did desist in this Petition yet since it was published to the World that their proceedings tended to such a nature as to deserve to be declared enemies if they persisted therein they purpose to publish to the world a vindication of their innocency from those groundlesse Opinions had of them and hope to have Iustice done upon the missinformers this they say they intend to do in an humble and a submissive way and though their mouths be stopt from a liberty of Petitioning yet their honour is so deare unto them that they say they are resolved of a vindication so as it shall be neither offensive to the Parliament nor the Generall To regulate Offences and allay heats in Armies sometimes prudence is more prevailing then things tending to provocation it had bin W●sedome in the County of Essex in the first violent Petition to have forborn to have published the same in Print wherein they possesse the World That this Army came to inslave the Country and to awe the Parliament I send you here inclosed a Coppy of a second Petition of that County contrived and printed privatly in London and sent downe hither in print no man knows from whom to the several Hundreds and parishes to be read the next Lords day in all Churches as you wi●l see by the direction The Souldiers will not hinder others Petitioning against them even in their own presence and yet they say they must be denyed to petition for themselves be their cause never so just who can blame the County of Essex or any county in this Kingdome else to desire a present disbanding since the worke is done it is as much irksome to us when ther 's no need of Souldiers to Quarter upon the Country as it can be to the Country to quarter us yet no petition that hath bin put out in print lately against this Army for the disbanding of it hath ever yet expressed so much affection love or requitall unto the Army for what they have done for them as to mediate or desire That as they would have them disbanded so that care may be taken the poore souldier that hath bin so faithfull and expeditious in their service might be considered for their arreares at the disbanding ●nd what sayes the souldier makes the army liable to these reproaches unless it be for finishing their work so soone and have they fought to maintain the Petition of Right and be denied a Right of petitioning themselves Sir Having given you this briefe account I remain VValden Aprill 3. 1647. Your affectionate freind T VV. To the Right Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses assembled in Parliament The Humble Petition of the Inhabitants of the County of ESSEX Humbly Sheweth THat in all Exigences having freely and with the first engaged themselves to the utmost hazard of their lives exhausted their estates for the support of the Kingdome in its native Rights and liberties and by Gods blessing the successes have been answerable in some degree to their desires by which wee sit in peace and your selves in security with a ful possession of the hearts of the people and now fearing least by the miscarrying on the Military charges beyond the necessity of the worke and the ability of the people now much weakned by a dearth sharper then the late devouring sword you should h●zard the loss of your selves and freinds not so much from the alienation of their affections which yet is not to bee neglected as their disabilities to serve you which may arise from the Army now on foote after six months C●ssation of all hostilitie heere and so bleedingly called for to the saving of an other Kingdome as also from so numerous a partie in this County shortly by their quarters like to equall all precedent charges and to surmonnt the worst and heaviest of our former taxes especially by the manner of their being Imposed upon us Your Petitioners do humbly offer to your Prudence the speedy disbanding of the Army as a plenary Expedient against the worst That in Generall may be feared by you and us And the Removall of it from the Conntie by which you shall continue absolute Masters and disposers of them and theirs in all your pious and faithfull undertakings for the future and that God will assist you for all your safeties is and shal be the dayly prayers of your Petitioners The minister is desired to publish this Petition Aprill 4th and to have two sheetes of paper to take the names of those that will freely joyne in it the one to be presented to the House of Lords and the other unto the House of Commons This Petition was sent from London to Ioseph Hall High Constable in litle Bardfield and they are to be published in every Parish Church in this Countie of Essex and in every parish to gather hands to it with this further direction Written in the printed paper wherein they are desired as many as can conveniently to meet at Shealford Langthrine the 8th of Aprill to go to London with the same SIR WHilst our enemies appeared onely as men out of place and authority and we lookt upon them as the common enemies of the Kingdome we conceived there might be something done to vindicate our actions upon the publique stage but now the disease is growne so Epidemicall that all our endeavous are like to prove invalid And indeed those who

are now prejudiced against us are our superiours nay further those whom we lookt upon as our best friends and the wounds of friends are grievous who would have thought that so modest and moderate an addresse as the late petition drawn up to be subscribed by the Army to be presented to the Generall would have raised so much dust Or have the Souldiers onely who have been instruments to recover the lost liberties of the Nation fought themselves into slavery sure there is a right of petitioning for us as well as there was a Petition of Right once for the Parliament if we had bin so rash as at first adventure to have knockt with a Petition at the Parliaments doores it might have been censured as too saucie and malapert For Souldiers to represent their grievances to their Generall is a liberty which the Law of nature and Nations will not deny for this was to goe no further but left to his Excellency to retract or represent as he thought either fit or seasonable The first Vote of the House of Commons for the stopping of the Petition seemed strange to us and we could not but have a very deepe sence of our unhappinesse in being misunderstood in our cleare intentions which are no other then by way of petition to represent the inconveniences which must necessarily befall the Army after disbanding which the Parliament through multiplicity of businesse might not so well provide against besides some have already suffered for want of a generall act of indemnity and many Officers as I believe is obvious to your eyes have been starved for want of subsistence whilst they sought to obtaine their arreares But how great a cause of amazement and astonishment was it to us to see a second Declaration of both Houses of the second of March wherein that Petition is declared to tend to a parting the Army into a distemper and mutiny to put conditions upon the Parliament and obstruct the reliefe of Ireland That they should pronounce their high dislike thereof and that they would proceed against the promoters as enemies to the state and disturbers of the publique peace But that which yet heightens the amazement is that such a Declaration should be grounded upon Letters and informations of so slight credit which if I might be so bold I might term both frivolous and fictions One of the Letters directed to Col. Harley sayes that at a Rendezvouz of the said Colonels Regiment the Petition was read and signed by 1100 hands and such as refused it were threatned to be cashiered The Muster-master will tell you there was not a thousand mustered the last muster and yet 1100 set their hands and the rest ●00000 were cashiered But this is not all the discovery The other Regiments were comming up And sayes one except the Parliament take high resolutions they will inslave the Kingdome To answer this there were none came from the Notth but Sir Hardres Wallers and that was sent for at Major Generall Skippons request who complained that the Countrey there was not able to beare it And Colonell Herberts and Colonell Hamonds Regiments being about Chester ready for transpotation for Ireland but their good will not accepted comming backe towards the rest of the Army But another member acquaints the House that those who would not subscribe the Petition were to be left out of the Muster-Roll And another sayes that he heard Lieutenant Generall H. and other Officers were to reside at the Head-quarter to receive subscriptions yet not one of them received a paper or subscription nor any brought in at that time But this was not all there was another Letter from an Officer of Colonell Rossiters who would doe nothing without his Colonels consent and he takes exceptions at nothing but at the desiring the Royall assent This Colonell Fines very excellently vindicated the same day in the house declaring that there was nothing desired more then what the Parliament themselves demanded in the Propositions but Colonell Rossiter had thanks and his Regiment voted their Arreares Sir give me leave a little to cleare up the intentions of the Army for that charge of mutiny I can assure you there was no such thing the Petition being generally approved of and whole Regiments unanimously subscribed it except here and there some indifferent Commanders seemed to oppose it the truth is it is the Master-piece of our Enemies to suppresse it in such high Language if it were possible to bring the Army to a mutiny and so put an odium upon them at the last which they could not hitherto fasten For putting conditions upon the Parliament I dare speake the hearts of the Petitioners the Commanders I 'me sure it never entred into their thoughts and I may say the like for the obstructing of Ireland and adde further That the Parliament will finde those men who were most forward in this Petition more ready to goe for Ireland then any of the septemdecem viri who onely to curry favour and ingratiate themselves have tendred their service in a declaration which I suppose you have seen leaving the conditions conduct indempnity and arreares at pleasure which indeed they may for most of them will never come there nay Captaine Burges Cap. Pennyfather and some others of them doe deny that ever they subscribed the same and declare against it and I believe few of them will have any of their souldiers to comply with them for one of them Colonell I perswade my selfe he will scarce appeare in the head of his Regiment I 'me sure he 'le finde little acceptance there upon his proposition for Ireland But he Colonel F. Colonell S. and the rest are right men and fit to be imployed in that service Sir I could relate to you many of their juglings and conspirings but time will discover all things Ex ungue leonem This may suffice to acquaint you how much the disgrace if not the destruction of the Army is now resolved on nothing must please that comes from it bee it never so legall just and innocent All aggravating Petitions must be received against it though they come with never so inconsiderable a testimony as Essex late Petition and what thinke you of an other drawne up in London and sent downe printed into Essex where respecting the Army you have such expressions as these The people now much weakened by a dearth sharper then the late devouring sword also that there is so numerous a party in that County shortly by their quarters like to equall all precedent charges and to surmount the worst and heaviest of their former taxes which is so unreasonable and inhumane a slander that Hell it selfe could not have invented a more lying invective against the Army yet this as before was sent ●rom London to divers in Essex and particularly to one Joseph Hall high Constable in little Barfield and the like was sent to the Minister of Saffron Walden to be published in every parish Church in the County of Essex and every Parish to get hands to it further directions are also written in the printed paper wherein they are desired as many as can conveniently to meete at Shealford-Laughirne the eight of Aprill to goe to London with the same yet the Army are so innocent as not to hinder it And now you have the issue of all and truly I hope the godly party in the Army and the greatest part of them too will willingly and readily submit to the disposall of the Parliament and in that the dispensations of God towards them and as they have served the Kingdome in doing so they will now be subservient to divine providence in suffering for that 's the condition we must now looke for And oh that we could stand still and see the salvation of God for my owne part I am so farre from pleading any wayes for an Anarchy that I thinke the Parliament to be a Magistracy ordained of God to whom we are to submit in civill things by doing or suffering Let things move in a violent and popular way and all will come to confusion Sir I have beene the larger in this to satisfie both you and others and truly I am so zealous for the vindication of the Army that I could doe no lesse if all should be silent the stones would cry out I had sent you the Petition of the Army that you and the world may judge of it it being represented so dangerous but finding just now it is made publique I have onely sent you the Petition drawne up at London to be obtruded upon the County of Essex leaving that also to the censure of all rationall men with this Quere Whether is most destructive a Petition drawne up and subscribed by unanimous consent or a Petition contrived to be imposed upon men against their desires and resolutions for so is that sent into Essex for so farre as I have inquired into the dispositions of the County and have beene up and downe as farre as Colchester I finde few of them complaining if any at all and a good part of the County is exempted from quarter by the Armies keeping their distance twenty five miles from London yet if a man will beate a dogge he may sonne finde a staffe I shall adde no more let this suffice at present from Walden Aprill 3. 1647. Your reall Friend R. S. FINIS