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A69908	The Declaration of His Excellencie the Lord Generall Fairfax, and his generall councell of officers shewing the grounds of the armies advance towards the city of London.	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.; England and Wales. Army. Council.	1648 (1648)	Wing D610; ESTC R21882	4,613	10

this Appeal as we shall drive it on but to the speedy obtaining of a more orderly and equal Judicature of men in a just Representive according to our Remonstance wherein to acquiesce so in the present procuring of Justice with the peoples ease and quiet and in the settling of the Kingdom upon a due safe and hopeful succession of Parliaments It is our hearts desire and shall be our indeavor that so much both of the matter and form of the present Parliamentary Authority may be preserved as can be safe or will be useful to these ends until a just and full Constitution thereof both for matter and form suitable to the publique ends it serves for can be introduced And therefore first It should be our great rejoycing if God saw it good that the Majority of the present House of Commons were become sensible of the evil and destructiveness of their late way and would resolvedly and vigorously apply themselves to the speedy execution of Justice with the righting and easing of the oppressed people and to a just and safe settlement of the Kingdom upon such foundations as have been propounded by us and others for that purpose and would for the speedier and surer prosecution of these things exclude from Communication in their Councels all such corrupt and Apostatized Members as have appeared hitherto but to obstruct and hinder such matter of Justice Safety and publique Interest and to pervert their Conncels a contrary way and have therein so shamefully both falsified and forfeited their Trust But how ever if God shall not see it good to vouchsafe that mercy to them and the Kingdom we shall secondly desire that so many of them as God hath kept upright and shall touch with a just sence of those things would by Protestation or otherwise acquit themselves from such breach of Trust and approve their faithfulness by withdrawing from those that persist in the guilt thereof and would apply themselves to such a posture whereby they may speedily and effectually prosecute those necessary and publique ends without such Interruptions Diversions or Depravations of their Councels from the rest to their endless trouble oppression and hazard of the Kingdom as formerly and for so many of them whose hearts God shall stir up thus to do we shall therein in this case of extremity look upon them as persons having materially the chief Trust of the Kingdom remaining in them and though not a formal standing power to be continued in them or drawn into ordinary Presidents yet the best and most rightful that can be had as the present state and exigence of Affairs now stand And we shall accordingly own them adhere to them and be guided by them in their faithful prosecution of that Trust in order unto and until the introducing of a more full and formal power in a just Repressntative to be speedily endeavored Now yet farther to take away all Jealousies in relation to our selves which might withhold or discourage any honest Members from this course as we have the witness of God in our hearts that in these proceedings we do not seek but even resolve we will nor take advantages to our selves either in point of Profit or Power and that if God did open to us a way wherein with honesty and faithfulness to the publique Interest and good people engaged for us we might presently be discharged so as we might not in our present Employments look on and be accessory to yea supporters of the Parliament in the present corrupt oppressive and destructive proceedings we should with rejoycing and without more ado embrace such a discharge rather then interpose in these things to our own vast trouble and hazard so if we could but obtain a rational assurance for the effectual prosecution of these things we shall give any proportionable assurance on our parts concerning our laying down of Arms when and as we should be required But for the present as the case stands we apprehend our selves obliged in duty to God this Kingdom and good men therein to improve our utmost abilities in all honest ways for the avoiding of these great evils we have Remonstrated and for prosecution of the good things we have propounded and also that such persons who were the Inviters of the late Invasion from Scotland the Instigaters and Incouragers of the late Insurrections within this Kingdom and those forcible ways failing have still pursued the same wicked Designs by treacherous and corrupt Councels may be brought to publique Justice according to their several demerits For all these ends we are now drawing up with the Army to London there to follow Providence as God shall clear our way By the Appointment of His Excellency the Lord Fairfax Lord General and his General Councel of Officers held at Windsor Nov. 30. 1648. Signed JOHN RUSHVVORTH Secr ' For the Right Honorable The Lord Major Aldermen and Common-Councel of the City of LONDON My Lord and Gentlemen BEing upon an immediate Advance with the Army towards London we thought good hereby to give you notice thereof For the ground and necessitie leading us hereunto we refer you to our late Remonstrance and to our later Declaration concerning the same We have only this further to adde That as we are far from the least thought of Plunder or other wrong to your City or any the places adjoyning which we hope your former experiences of us will give you cause enough to credit us in so for the better prevention of any disorder in the Souldiery or of any abuse or inconvenience to the inhabitants in the Quartering of the Souldiery at private Houses We earnestly Desire That you would take a present course for the supply of Money to pay these Forces while we shall be necessitated to stay there upon which we assure you we shall so dispose of them into great and voide Houses about the City as much as may be possible as that few or none of th' inhabitants shall be troubled with Quartering of any Souldiers at all And for this purpose We desire that forty thousand pound may be forthwith provided upon the security of your Arrears to be ready to be paid out to the Forces to morrow night if possible And we shall be ready to receive from you any intimations for the further prevention of hurt or inconvenience to the City in this insinesse I remain Your most assured Friend and Servant T. FAIRFAX Windsor 30 Nov. 1648. FINIS

THE DECLARATION OF HIS Excellencie the Lord Generall Fairfax AND HIS Generall Councell OF OFFICERS Shewing the Grounds of the Armies Advance towards the City of LONDON By the Appointment of His Excellency the Lord FAIRFAX Lord Generall and his Generall Councell of Officers held at Windsor November 30. 1648. Signed John Rushworth Secretary LONDON Printed for John Partridge 1648. The Declaration of his Excellency the Lord General Fairfax and his general Councel of Officers shewing the Grounds of the Armies advance towards the City of London BEing full of sad Apprehensions concerning the danger and evil of the Treaty with the King and of any Accommodation with Him or Restitution of him thereupon we did by our late Remonstrance upon the Reasons and Grounds therein expressed make our Application thereby unto the present House of Commons that the dangerous evil of that way might be avoyded and the Peace of the Kingdom setled upon more righteous safe and hopeful grounds viz. a more equal dispensing of Justice and Mercy in relation to things done or suffered in the late Wars and the establishing of the future Government of this Kingdom upon a safe Succession and equal Constitution of Parliaments and that for the ending of present and avoyding of future differences to be ratified by an Agreement and Subscription of the people thereunto This course we took out of our tender care and earnest desire that all ways of Extremity might be avoyded and that those matters of highest concernment to the publique Interest of this Nation might be pursued and provided for if possible by those whose proper Work and Trust it was And herein we were willing to hope that the persons so trusted or the Majority of them might possibly have been either driven into that destructive way by forcible Impulsions or lapsed thereinto through some Inconsideration or Misapprehensions and conceived Jealousies And therefore we did carefully decline the insisting upon any thing that might continue or renew any former Jealousies or Animosities and kept only to such things as were of necessity or advantage to the common Cause and of common and equal Concernment to those that have engaged in it Which things we pressed in the way of Reason and Perswasion only that they might be duly and timely considered But to our grief we find in stead of any Satisfaction or a reasonable reasonable Answer thereto they are wholly rejected without any consideration of what ever Reason or Justice might be in the things set forth or propounded therein for what less can be understood when the things propounded were mainly for the avoydance of evils appearing in the Treaty with the King And yet they put off the consideration of them till there should be no place left for any consideration at all First laying it aside till Monday last by which time the Treaty as then supposed would have been concluded but that failing and two days more being added to the Treaty the consideration of our Remonstrance on the day appointed was waved and layd aside the Treaty the mean while going on in the former way and terms and like to be concluded the very next day Now though we are far from that presumption that the things should therefore be answered or considered because propounded by us save for the Reason Justice or publique Concernment therein yet having no Answer or any thing shewed us to the contrary we cannot but upon the grounds Remonstrated and many more which might be added remain confident in our former Apprehensions concerning them And seeing the prevailing part of those to whom we did apply to have as it we their eyes wilfully shut and ears stopt against any thing of Light or Reason offered to them we find no place left for our former charitable or hopeful Apprehensions concerning their error in such evil ways but remainng fully assured of the danger and destructiveness thereof as to all those publique ends for which they were intrusted and also of the just advantage and necessity which lye in the things we have popounded and insist on we now see nothing left to which their engaging and persisting in such ways and rejection of these better things propounded can rationally be attributed less then a treacherous or corrupt neglect of and Apostacy from the publique Trust-reposed in them although we could wish from our sons we might yet finde the contrary Nevertheless we do not in these things assume a standing Power of Judgement as of Right or Trust to conclude others thereby acknowledging that to lye most properly in those whom the people duly choose and trust to Judge for them But considering that such power where it is is committed but in Trust and that neither this nor any other people did ever give up their Natural capacities of common Sence or Reason as to the ends and fundamentals of that Trust and that as to the breach of such Trust there is no higher formal power of man in being to Appeal unto for Judgement in such case as all others concerned in such breaches of Trust will so as we cannot but exercise that Common Judgement which in our Natural Capacity is left to us And though in smaller failers of such Trust which might be born without hazard of Destruction to that Interest and those People for which especially the Trust is or where the Trustees were of an indifferent equal constitution in reference to the whole or where we had an orderly and open way left for a just succession of another formall and proper Judicature to be appealed unto in due time we should not oppose or hold forth our private Judgments to the least disturbance of that orderly and peaceable course of Judgment so establisht yet in our present case we are so fully convinced of the greatness and distructiveness of those evils we have declared against and of the necesito and esentiallity of those better things we have desired and propounded and how inconsistent it is with the publique Trust and fundamental ends of it still to pursue the one and reject the other as that we dare with confidence appeal therein to the common Judgments of indifferent and uncorrupted men and to the more righteous Judgment of God above all And as the incompetency of this Parliament in its present constitution to give an absolute and conclusive Judgment for the whole especially to be the sole Judges of their own performance or breach of Trust doth make the juster way for such an Appeal so indeed we see no other way left for remedy in regard the present unlimitted continuance of this Parliament doth exclude the orderly succession of any other more equal formal Judicature of men to which we might hope in due time other ways to appeal Thus then we appreehend our selves in the present case both necessitated to and justified in an Appeal in this Parliament in the present Constitution as it stands unto the extraordinary Judgment of God and good people and yet in the prosecution of