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A82208	The declaration of the officers of the garrison of Hull: in order to the peace and settlement of the Kingdome. Presented to his Excellency the Lord Generall, and the Generall Councell. Also a petition, presented to the Parliament of England, by the officers and souldiers of his Excellency the Lords Generalls Regiment of Horse, for the speedy calling of all publicke treasurers to an acompt, and for the speedy taking away of that heavy burden of free-quarter. With the result of the Generall Councell upon the same. By the appointment of the officers at a general meeting, Signed, Jo. Hemingway.	England and Wales. Army. Overton's Regiment.; Overton, Robert, ca. 1609-ca. 1668.	1649 (1649)	Wing D733; Thomason E545_17	16,642	24

THE DECLARATION Of the Officers of The Garrison of Hull In order to the Peace and Settlement of the KINGDOME Presented to his Excellency the Lord Generall and the Generall Councell Also a PETITION presented to the Parliament of England By the Officers and Souldiers of his Excellency the Lord Generalls Regiment of Horse For the speedy calling of all publike Treasurers to an Accompt and for the speedy taking away of that heavy burden of FREE-QUARTER With the Result of the Generall Councell upon the same By the Appointment of the Officers at a generall meeting Signed Jo. Hemingway London Printed for John Playford and are to be sold at his shop in the Inner Temple March 1. 1649. For his Excellency the Lord Fairfax at his Head-Quarters in London These My Lord AMongst others we are not the least nor last in our rejoycings to see your Excellencies your Armies unanimous moving by serious considerations and reall actings towards the discharge of that great ingagement which lyes upon us all for the settlement of the Affaires of our Nation the promotion whereof we have so solemnly covenanted to assert in order to those ends of Justice and Righteousnesse now no longer to be left to the fruitlesse and ineffectuall proceedings of a private and prevailing party in the Parliament who had they proceeded to act or your Excellency to forbear all our former endeavours for Freedome had but in-fine effectuated our misery or servitude and with fuller force then ever crowned the Temples of a conquered King giving our Children after us cause to curse our bones for betraying their Birth-Rights and leaving us like so many guilty Felons with ropes about out necks to receive the reward of wickednesse at their hands who could have been content to sacrifice our Carkasses to the Foules of the Aire our Estates to Tyranny and our Consciences to Turcisme The consideration hereof some few weekes since drew us of this Garrison by a Letter to your Lordship and a Petition to the honest party in the Parliament to devote as now to declare our resolution to live and die with your Excellencie your Army in what you have so mutually remonstrated or shall proceed upon in opposition to all those actings which we have hitherto found too narrow to comprehend and too weak to conforme those Freedomes which we still pursue But it may be objected that Counsell in the settlement of the Affaires of a State is a work belonging rather to the long Robe then the short few Armies having ever been trafted with such undertakings yet if providence hath put us upon it I trust it would better become us to stand like stedfast Rocks for defence of Common Freedome then after all our endeavours to digresse for base and by-ends to follow fortune in her fickle flatteries who lends her smiles as Exactors do money to undoe the Debter But I trust we shall no longer agresse into reluctuall and turbulent times Conscience and a good cause will keep up the depressed scale in every condition In the Interim we cannot over-indulge the care of our Country whilest no other Law is left but blotted and corrupt Commons made forth by men of private spirits who eye our best actions by misrepresenting prospectives These shadowes as we may call them have at the noontide of our distresse crept behind like Dwarfes in the evening stalked by us like Gyants and instead of helping have hunted our honest endeavours to a sun-set Yet some may say who stops the high attempts of State le ts loose the reines of Government but to me my Lord it seems much better to perish in a good performance then basely to prostitute the well-being of a Nation to those principles of abused Power in the darknesse of whose deeds secret accusations will suggest sad and solitary considerations I could therefore wish that the great Trustees of our times would rather incircle themselves in a Character not commacculate with the deserved dashes of disgrace then spend their envy upon those faithfull Agents for Common Freedome but if otherwise your Excellencie may assure your self the great high God wil not alwaies allow the crafty cunning of contriving bosomes to devest this Army of that honor it hath bought with the blood of so many Princely Spirits I speak not this my Lord to arrogate any thing to your own or your Armies actions for we have seen enough to make us forsake ourselves in our strongest valuations all successes are unsanctified where ambitions boast a merit therefore in this last act of our Age let us not as men my Lord but as Christians relate our resolutions to the goodnesse of our cause not the greatnesse of our courage Thus let us stand though fatally resolute to fall under or finish that Freedome for which your Excellencie dares to be so good in these bad times or to resolve rather to perish with your honest Officers and souldiers then otherwise to enjoy the Genius of a temporall happinesse We have hitherto experienced the power and policy of the greatest Potentates cannot divert the decrees of God against the Injustice of their actions all concurrences fall forth to the furtherance of those fatall commutations for the effectuating whereof the piety of our natures are pricked forward and the counsell of our Adversaries like Achittophels infatuated and confounded Yet such is the pride of many spirits that they will still strive to cast so much malice upon the story of our times as cannot consist with the stile of a modest pen to reply upon as if they intended not to forget us in their graves or to be equally cruell to our memories Therefore all our best actions or intentions are by their malicious Alchymy substracted into Crimes or where they should be honourably mentioned either scornfully transmitted or by injurious constructions perverted but if hereafter their injustice suffer under a more deserved Doom they may say this observation hath the vertue of an Oracle in it In the Interim I shall leave them to their own delusions because no argument hath vertue nor vertue argument enough to avoid them Pardon my Lord that I have deviated from my more immediate instruments and intentions in pursuance whereof Major Waterhouse as the representative of this Regiment and Garrison is appointed to present your Excellencie your General Councell with our particular concernments and mutuall concurrences as also that by admission to your Councells he may administer his assistance towards the accomplishment of those remonstrated principle whereunto we not only pray your Excellencie speedily to proceed but also as we have accordingly declared promise to attend those ends which will not onely render you the full honor of your Armes but even in these worst times give you Characters amongst the miracles of worthyest men in the Interim it shall be my honor to remain Hull January 9. 1648. Your Lordships most obedient and Faithfull Servant R. Overton From your Excellencies Garrison of Kingston upon Hull 1648. SIR

and avarice are grown heavi●●hen the loynes of Soveraignty or Episcopacy For besides what our State-mongers have perverted to private ends some of the Long Robe who have preached against Pluralities have annual salaries amounting almost to 1000. l. per annum If we inquire what their imployments are to answer such in-comes we shall finde amongst many little besides the preaching of themselves and their owne authority over their fleeced flocks yet whatsoever some of them decree in the Church or the Parliament in the State must as if infallible be received with an implicite obedience no dispute no Petition no Remonstrance unlesse it speak the sence of a prevailing party in the Parliament and be ushered in by a totall resignation of our selves can be accepted To this tamenesse have we suffered our selves to be brought and might so perhaps have continued had not the late actings of our Trustees sufficiently informed us that warr cannot be too much suspected which is obtruded upon termes not to be looked into And therefore if the attempts of such lawlesse usurpers run so high whilest we have a faithfull Army on foot what will they do when we are disbanded and they backt with an indisputable power If they once dare to declare us enemies for but intending to Petition for due pay and deserved indempnity how boundlesse would they be if under private and popular Notions they could without controule pursue their own interests and appetites Is not therefore the present actings of our Officers and Army proper to settle Peace as to disappoint the pursuances and plots of private spirits would it not better become us to die with our swords in our hands then after we have vindicated the publique Liberty against the power and pride of Princes to succumb under the servitude of our fellow-subjects how great soever for which of our good deeds do we deserve to be destroyed are they angry because we are about to expedite the peoples Peace and preservation are we not therefore properly provoked to snatch the wreath from off their brows which by the mercies of the Almighty our late conquering swords have crowned them with is this the requitall and income of all our difficulties undergone perills past lives lost Is this the fruit of our victory acquired have we for this so frequently removed their foes and feares secured their safety or rendred them capable of the full execution of due but deferred Justice Was it not for this cause we covenanted hazarding our lives ao preserve our Liberties yet after all must we sit still to see oppressions unsupprest Justcie perverted grievances augmented and Tyranny Re-inthroned In this so sad a condition may we not with Adrian the Emperour cry out Multitudo Medicorum me perdidit may it not properly be applyed to the late prevailing party in our present Parliament whose apparent declinations from their honoured undertakings whether we eye their private leterests or unparliamentary proceedings looke with so foule a face upon us as we may justly question whether there be not as great a necessity of transferring that Trust from its abusers as erst to make use of their undertakings Nay we may boldly assert their carryings on for pretended preservations have been so costly to us and so commodious to themselves that there is no capacity so weak but too aptly apprehends it for a truth that it is better to be stung with one Hornet then a whole nest better one Pope or one Tyrant then a multitude may never so malignant a Genius possesse a Parliament as to render our endeavours to regaine true liberty uselesse Yet how is the State of England altered and from the pity of its enemies become the envy of her false and feigned friends for whom our care and conscience gave us courage to ingage our courage begot their present power their power our servitude and calamity A strange kind of requitall some will say that those heads should cut off these hands by which they have climbed to that dezelling greatnesse from whence they but giddily discern either themselves or us whom they still strive to thrust even with the hazzard of the Nation and their owne ruine beneath the honour of our Armes into a condition of servitude beggery and basenesse witnesse the contemptible price of blood paid to some whilest other impoverished Petitioners are constrained to stand perpetuall Centinells to want and wrong whilest some of their own indeered darlings lie stowed in plenty and secure reposes being in as deep Arrears for service to be done as others are for pay that 's due Certainly the free and faithfull Commoners of England did not intrust them thus to act their own ends or to accumalate and divide such vast proportions of treasure amongst themselves and Sycophants whilest worthier Members and more publike spirited persons are famished and defrauded this is so cleare a truth as he that runs may read Have we any thing desirable here more then the care of our consciences the freedome of our persons community of friends and propriety of goods In all which should we declare how much both our Countrey and we have suffered in a patient expectance of a happy issue we should adde to our calamities one vexation more then ever our Trustees intended us for had they believed that any durst have been so bold us to arraigne their actions we may charitably think they would have been more wary in disobliging those for whom they are and ought to act For those last six yeares what hath been the constant cry of the prime Potentiaties in our great Councell but the Liberty of the Subject and the Priviledge of Parliament the former whereof we now see is almost swallowed up of the latter witnesse the Goale-books of Newgate the Tower the Gatehouse and other places of Purgatory where publike spirited persons lie impoverished and imprisoned in a hopelesse and helplesse condition languishing after a legall tryall Be assured all ye native noble English that the same contrivance which provides mannacles for their hands would in time see that no fetters should be wanting for your feet But must the Medium whereby we are conveyed into this pretended blessednesse and by which so many millions have been serewed forth of seduced purses be no other then that old and ancient Qualepipe publike necessity Oh invincible argument endlesse necessity which perhaps our abusers did never resolve to have done withall whilest we had either juice to squeeze or tamenesse to suffer it Is any Art either ancient or moderne omitted to exhaust the treasure of these times witnesse the reported dividend of some hundred thousand pounds amongst some select Members to recruit not so much perhaps their pretended losses as their crack'd estates whilst the publike debts of the Kingdome with our dearly earned Arrears are throwne in amongst things most fit to be forgotten Surely strangers might think the Parliamentary Revenues were at a low ebbe when they are seen and seem compelled to shuffle off their friends and the

for preservation Surely the Sword of Justice was not committed to their keeping to cut our throats He is highly ignorant and blind who thinks humane obedience binds us to sleight a publique preservation In this respect a free people never want a full power Tyranny is Tyranny in whomsoever and wheresoever resistable Nature in the inferiour creatures fortifies her self defensively and hath her nobler peace of wonder a lesse priviledge Their own Deciarations have taught us that all power 〈…〉 ●●…stive and conditionall on our part therefore King Jan●●s 〈…〉 he had as great an itch of Monarchy upon him as other 〈◊〉 proclaimed in open Parliament that Nihil aliud patest Rex quám quad Iure potest And Bracton de Corona tells us Quande Rex 〈◊〉 per Legem r●git non ampliùs Rex est sed Tyrannus The best of Primces ever kept their bounds acting to Gods greatest glory knowing the Soveraig●● power to be the Peoples from whence they derive their Principalities next that great Law-giver who assures u● That the service due from man to man is not coercive or distinguished from equall nature save for safety sake It is but the overflowings of Fancy or an Optique mistake that lets loose the reines to the sence of a lawlesse Soveraignty provoking Princes to suppose themselves greater then their Maker ever meant Surely Parliaments cease to be Parliaments when they cease to be just Powers as Kings cease to be Kings when by overstretching the reints of Government they forget to be good and just therefore Justice defines Magistracy as law lesnesse doth tyranny and arbitrary usurpation How much then are we concerned to oppose all illegall proceedings how much more as Souldiers obliged who have been more desperately ingaged and for ought we yet find so dangerously deluded in being made the unhappy instruments of advancing private interests with publike spirits Seeing therfore we have hitherto been perverted as to promote their private projects who care not if we died like dogs so they might live like Prinees who give us cause to despaire of any good ever to proceed from them And in as much as none can merit the title of true Patriot who indeavour not to deliver their countrey from all her calamities we do therefore see how necessary it is we be no longer blinded in our obedience or shackled by our Fellow-subjects in subordination to their lawlesse lusts who in the nature of their imployments are the Kingdoms Servants to mannage its Interest not their own further then conjoyned with ours which they have hitherto too much contemned or trampled upon Since therefore to their Papall predominance they would have added a Popish infallibility whose Decrees admit no dispute or rejection but resolved so remain the everlasting Land Marks of out dre●d in reference to their own ●●●●●●eries and our blind obedience It will behove us now at last to pray Almighty God to restore us to our wits for if he make us wise through his goodness and merey we may make our selves happy Now that the world may know we strike only at the persom of offendors not at the Parliament but the corrupted party in it we do therefore in the presence of Almighty God whose presence we expect according to the sincerity of our souls publish and declare to the whole Kingdom That upon serious thonghts and due can mination we have found and do believe a prevailing party in the Patliament to be the propagators of many miseries and calumities which now sit heavy on this Kingdum and that their long continuance in this usurped Soveraignty is litterly inconsistent with all our sufeties not that we are ignorant of or unwilling to acknowledg the special power of Parliaments or that we believe all the Members to have deserved this so severe a centure for we are confident of the contrary Yet inasmuch as it is rather frequency of Parliaments then perpentity that must make us happy the latter being too great a temptation to Tyranny we with the rest of our fellow subjects and foldiers who by the confession of our Trustees have within our selves the supream and original power to provide for the Common Safety when we find as now we do our trust abused and betrayed do therefore declare 1. That together with the King and his Capital Creatures the evil Members of both Houses have justly forfeited their Power and Priviledg and to the end therefore that others who shall succeed in the managements of this Trust may know that they act not only their own business but ours therefore that this Kingdom may at last acquire its banished peace and welfare we do in the first place with the rest of the Army desire the speedy execution of due and distributive Justice to all and every Capital Offendor 2. That all inferior Delinquents do submit to the present judicial Power 3. That a speedy period be put to this present Parliament and a new Election of faithful Members made 4. That there be a succession of free and future Parliaments with secure provissions for their meeting sitting and ending such neither electing not to be elected as were in Arms or other ways pre-engaged against us 5. That so many of the old Members as have not crept in by corruption and against whom there shall not appear crimes sufficiently scandalous to make them incapable may be incouraged and continued until the dissolution of this present Parliament 6. That all Elections may be according to due and equal distributions 7. That by an universal and mutual Agreement it be enacted and decreed in perpetuam rei memoriam that the power of all future Representatives may be inferior only to that of the people in order to the preservation of them in their just and proper Rights and that the observation thereof be added to the oath administred to every Member upon his admission into the Parliament 8. That henceforth the things of Common Right and Justice be left to the Laws well Regulated and proper Officers being appointed for ordinary matters a Councel of State may more aptly apply themselves to those extraordinary administrations of Parliamentary Power 9. That the publique Petitions of the people may be more seasonably considered and speedily dispatched as is forementioned in the large Remonstrance it will be requisite to afford Liberty of entring dissents against such Representatives as appear either unfaithful or unpliant to the Trust of the People 10. That all future Kings be hereafter elected by the Peoples Representatives upon conditional trust or without claiming any negative voyce against or beyond the power of Parliaments 11. That the succeeding Parliament may remember the self-deing Ordinance and speedily pursue an impartial account of the Kingdoms imbezelled treasure which being discovered we doubt not but sufficient will be found to discharge the publique debts of the Kingdom and speedily to make Ireland pay the price of that blood which it hath so inhumanly shed 12. That the matters of general Settlement be proposed