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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