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A80482 A copie of a letter sent from the agitators of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax's armie, to all the honest sea-men of England: heartily and cordially declaring their reall intentions to the peace and prosperity of the kingdome, and the firme setling and establishing of all the just interests thereof, into the hands and possessions the right owners of them. Dated at S. Albans 21. June 1647. Published by the order and speciall desire of the said agitators. Audley, Lewes. 1647 (1647) Wing C6146; Thomason E393_33; ESTC R201611 7,025 12

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A Copie of a LETTER SENT From the Agitators of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax's Armie TO All the honest Sea-men of England Heartily and cordially declaring their reall intentions to the peace and prosperity of the Kingdome and the firme setling and establishing of all the just Interests thereof into the hands and possessions the right Owners of them Dated at S. Albans 21. June 1647. Published by the Order and speciall desire of the said Agitators London Printed for R. A. 1647. A Letter from the Army to all the honest Seamen of England Honoured and deare Friends THe great designe of our Enemies being to divide and so to destroy we conceive it the maine businesse of friends to unite and so to spoile that designe Now the wayes that are at this day taken to divide are misrepresentations of persons and actions especially of us and ours to the Kingdome which that we may prevent we shall endeavour to informe you our noble and faithfull friends of the state of things as followeth Some five yeares since we by Land and you by Sea upon the apprehension of apparent danger to the Kingdome were invited to put our selves into a posture of defence for the preventing and suppressing of that power then rising which threatned the Kingdomes ruine for the avoyding of which at present and setling an establishment for the future of all the free-borne people of England in the enjoyment of their just Rights and Priviledges which was one of the ends of our taking up of Arms we went with cheerfulnesse to the worke and after many a sore encounter that you and we have had by Sea and Land at last by the blessing of God came to the end of our worke hoping now after such a long and weary journey to have taken up our rest and have set down quietly under our vines and with the rest of the Kingdome to have enjoyed the fruit of our sore travells but contrary to our expectation and to the amazement and saddening of our spirits we finde our selves in as bad or worse condition now then formerly being denied and deprived of that undoubted right and priviledge which the Subjects of England in the worst of times hardly ever were viz. petitioning nay not onely denied of but declared against as enemies for making use of those meanes we were directed to in case of grievances and so we are now made compleatly miserable When we see this we knew whose hand was in it namely that here was the same persons and principles working our ruine as formerly onely in another forme before by power and open hostility and now by craft and policy which caused us to draw up a Vindication of the afore-said intended Petition yet notwithstanding our Vindication we still lie under a sentence of condemnation as enemies to the State Then we drew up a Letter to the Generall the Lievtenant-Generall and the Major-Generall in which was laid open the sad condition how neere ruine and destruction we were and the causes of it as we apprehended and this we did to incite them to improve all the interest they had in or with any for us to prevent the ensuing destruction especially since we could not be heard in our Petition but this Letter was conceived to be of dangerous consequence and so presented to the House where after some debates the results were to send downe Commissioners to the Army to take a view of the distempers reported to bee in it and to receive their grievances and present them to the House This a little revived us hoping we should have them heard and redressed but suddenly after the receiving of them without the full redressing of any one of them we were voted to be disbanded piece-meale apart one Regiment from another so as never any faithfull Army was being marked out for destruction wanting nothing but disbanding to hasten execution Hearing of this we drew up a Petition to our Generall to have a Rendezvouz at which we might advise what was best to be done for our owne and the Kingdomes safety in this case and there entred into a Contract a copie of which we have here sent you A solemne engagement of the Army under the Command of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax read assented unto and subscribed by all Officers and Souldiers of the severall Regiments at the generall Rendezvouz neare Newmarket on the fift of June 1647. WHereas upon the Petition intended and agreed upon in the Army in March last to have been presented to the Generall for the obtaining of our due and necessary concernments as Souldiers the Honorable House of Commons being unseasonably prepossessed with a Copie thereof and as by the sequell we suppose with some strange misrepresentations of the carriage and intentions of the same was induced to send downe an Order for surpressing the Petition and within two or three dayes after upon further misinformation and scandalous suggestions of the like or worse nature and by the indirect practise of some malitious and mischievous persons as we suppose surprizing or other wise abusing the Parliament A Declaration was published in the name of both Houses highly censuring the said Petition and declaring the Petitioners if they should proceed thereupon no lesse then enemies to the State and disturbers of the publick peace And whereas at the same time and since divers eminent Officers of the Army have been brought into question and trouble about the said Petition whereby both they and the rest of the Officers were disabled or discouraged for the time from further acting or appearing therein on the souldiers behalfe And wheras by the aforesaid proceedings and the effects thereof the souldiers of this Army finding themselves so stopt in their due and regular way of making knowne their just greivances and desires to and by their Officers were enforced to an unusuall but in that case necessary way of correspondence and agreement amongst themselves to chuse out of the severall Troops and Companies severall men and those out of their whole number to chuse two or more for each Regiment to act in the name and behalfe of the whole souldiery of the respective Regiments Troops and Companies in the prosecution of their rights and desires in the said Petition as also of their just vindication and writing in reference to the aforesaid proceedings upon and against the same who have accordingly acted and done many things to those ends all which the souldiers did then approve as their owne acts And whereas afterwards upon the sudden sending down of Field-Marshall Skippon and those other Officers of the Army that were Members of the House of Commons to quiet distempers in the Army fresh hopes being conceived of having our desires again admitted to be made known and considered in a regular way and without such misrepresentations as formerly the Officers and Souldiers of the Army except some few dissenting Officers did againe joyne in a representation of their common grievances and the Officers except as