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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85620	A great plot against the Parliament of England and the Army under command of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax. Wherein is set forth, the manner of a most bloudy engagement to destroy both Parliament and Army. With the names of the Scottish conspirators. And the proceedings of both Houses thereupon. Discovered by Colonell Jones, and read in both Houses of Parliament. Die 24. of September, 1647.	Jones, Colonel, fl. 1647.	1647 (1647)	Wing G1743; Thomason E408_10; ESTC R204678	2,377	8

A GREAT PLOT AGAINST THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND AND The ARMY under Command of His Excellency Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX Wherein is set forth The manner of a most bloudy Engagement to destroy both Parliament and Army With the names of the Scottish Conspirators And the proceedings of both Houses thereupon Discovered by Colonell Jones and read in both Houses of PARLIAMENT Die 24. of September 1647. Imprinted at London for V. V. and are to be sold neere St. Dunstans Church Anno Dom. 1647. A GREAT PLOT DISCOVERED Against the Parliament of England and their Army under command of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfar Die 23 September 1647. VPon Thursday being the 23. of this instant we received information of a great Plot Conspiracie against the Parliament of England his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax Lieutenant Generall Cromwell Commissary Generall Ireton and the rest of the Officers and Souldiers under the power and command of the said Geneaall which plot as it was intimated to both houses of Parlirment were acting and contriving by some disaffected Scottish spirits with a resolution to combine and conspire against the Parliament of England and to work and use means for a sudden Engagement in another unnaturall and most horrid warre against the most worthy and renowned Heroes of these times the manner of this most great and machavilian Conspiracy I shall here briefly recite for generall satisfaction to all Free-born English men viz. Major Generall Starling a Scottish man Commander in chiefe under the Lord Inchiqueen of the Protestant Forces in Ireland in the Province of Munster having a designe against the Parliament of England for an Engagement both against them and their Army which for the better effecting thereof dispatched feverall Letters to divers eminent Commanders in that Kingdome but intercepted viz. the first to Sir Patrick Weimes a Scotchman but a most faithfull and heroick souldier having an excellent Regiment of Foot and in actuall service with collonell Jones against the Rebels in Lemster the second to Maior Generall Monroe Major Generall of the Scottish Army in the Province of Ulster the third to the Kingdome of Scotland with Letters to Generall Leven Generall of the Scottish Army and others All which Letters were intercepted and many things in them discovered of very high nature and concernment towards this Kingdome the Designe being to engage all in a warre against the Parliament and Army in England But now it is hoped their Designes will be frustrated for col Jones hath discovered the chiefe Actors therein and hath taken some of them and committed them to safe custody The Parliament having received information of these under-hand workings and trecherous dealings Ordered that a Letter be sent to the Lord Inchiqueen desiring him to send in safe custody the faid Colonel Starling to the Parliame●● of England The Resolution and Desires of the Generall and Souldiery concerning theirs and the Kingdoms enemies WHereas the great neglect of divers persons within the City of London hath occasioned too many delayes in raising Money for supply of the Army and other Forces of the Kingdome His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and the General-Councell of the Army Doth declare That they take notice of the great wants of the Souldiery both of the Army and other Forces and Garrisons as also of the sufferings of the County in respect of free quarter which might have been peevented and a course taken for disbanding superfluous Forces and sending over of others for the reliefe of Ireland and the supplying of those that are there already had it not been for neglect or delay of those on whom the Parliament have depended in that particular and they doe especially take notice of the delayes made by the City in advancing of that summe which the Houses have demanded of them upon the security of the Arreares so long since due from the City to the Army upon which they doe declare and propound to this effect 1. That they cannot but consider the notorious readinesse of the Court of Aldermen to the advancing of far greater sums for the raising of a new warre and prosecution of the late mischievous practises and designes against the Parliament and Army and that as their predipitate forwardnesse therein was the oceasion of the Armies coming into these parts so their backwardnesse to the raising or advancing of the money now required for the service of the Parliament supply of the Army hath been and is the occasion of the armies continuance heree and therefore they cannot but offer it it as what they humbly conceive most just and reasonable That for what time their defauls or delayes have occasioned and shall further occasion the Armies stay hereabouts the charge thereof should some way be laid upon them and their adherents about the City That the Houses would be pleased speedily to consider of the Delinquencie of those that had a hand in the Tumult Desine and Engagement of a new Warre and that such Fines may be upon them for the same as shall bee agreeable to justice Lastly since it is most evident that for the speedy bringing in of the money required upon the arrears there wants not in the said Major Aldermen and Common-Councell either authority to levy it or ability to advance it by way of Loan till it can be levyed and it ir therefore offered That in case the Money be not brought in by the time limited the Parliament would be pleased to give leave to the Generall with the advice and directions of the Committee for the Army for the levying of the said Arreares All which they rather desire from grounds of reason and evidence from the speeches of many in the City and designes and hopes of the Parliament and Armies Enemies to raise the Army into distempers and the Country about them into confusion This Declaration was agreed upon at the Head-quarters at Putney upon Thursday last there being a Generall Councell of the Army appointed to be held every Thursday The Generall Councell met in the Church the Generall many Generall Officers Field-Officers inferiour Officers and Agitators met A great part of the time was spent in consideration and debate of the Proposals of the Army and some few things agreed upon to be altered and explained in them which no doubt will give much satisfaction to the Kingdome After the aforesaid Declaration was finished it was by the appointment of his Excellency and the Councell of Warre sent to the Right Honourable the Commissioners of Lords and Commons residing with the Army to be presented from them to both Houses of Parliament which according with a Letter from the Generall and Army to this effect vix That they earnestly desired some speedy course might be taken for their pay that so they might be inabled to pay their quarters was presented to both Houses of Parliament upon Satturday last and after reading thereof ordered to be communicated to the Lord Major Aldermen and Common-Councell of the City of London FINIS