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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96502	The case of the Armie truly stated, together with the mischiefes and dangers that are imminent, and some sutable remedies, humbly proposed by the agents of five regiments of horse, to their respective regiments, and the whole Army. As it was presented by Mr. Edmond Bear, and Mr. William Russell, October 15. 1647. unto his Excellency, Sir Thomas Fairfax. Enclosed in a letter from the said agents : also his Excellencies honourable answer thereunto.	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.; Wildman, John, Sir, 1621?-1693.; Everard, Robert, fl. 1664.; Trevers, Edward.; England and Wales. Army.	1647 (1647)	Wing W2168A; Wing W2168B; Thomason E411_9; ESTC R40122	20,291	26

totall declension since the method formerly desired in the setling the peace of the Nation Ninthly It hath been alwayes professed and declared that the Army was called forth and conjured by the Parsiaments Declarations for defence of the peoples rights against the forces raised by the King and for delivering the King from his evill Councell who seduced him to raise the war and bringing Delinqueuts to condigne punishment But now through the Armies countenance and indulgence those conquered enemies that were the Kings forces abuse reproach and againe insult over the people whose freedome was the grounds of the Armies engagement yea the Kings evill Councellors that concurred in designing all the mischiefes in the Kings late warre against the people are againe restored to him and are admitted free accesse without check into all the Armies quatters whereby they are restored to a capacitie of plotting and designing mischiefe against the Armie and kingdome Tenthly When imminent ruine to the whole nation was apprehended by meanes of the multitudes of corrupted Members in Parliament diverting and obstructing all good proccedings then the purging of the House in part from one kind of Delinquents was againe insisted upon and a solemn Protestation was passed in the remonstrance from Kingstone pag. 21. That the Armie would not permit those to sit in the House that usurped the name and power of Parliamentary authoritie when the Parliament was by violence suspended and endeavoured to raise a warre to distroy the Parliament and Army but that they would take some effectuall course to restraine them from sitting there that the people might be concluded only by those Members that are free from such apparant treacherous breaches of their trust But hitherto this Engagement for purging the House from those Delinquents whose interest ingages them to be designing mischiefe against the people and Army is declined and broken to the black reproach and foulest infamie of the Army and now these strong cords are cut in sunder and so forgotten that there are no visible endeavours or intentions to preserve the honour of the Armie in its faithfullnesse to its Engagement and Protestation Thus all promises of the Armie to the people that Petitioned his Excellencie and the Army to stand for the National interest freedomes and rights are hitherto wholly declined and the law of nature and nations now refused by many to be the rule by which their proceedings should be regulated they now strip themselves of the interest of English men See his Excellencies letter to the City dated Iu. 10. pag. 4. which was so ill resented when it was attempted by the mallice of the enemies * And thus the peoples expectations that were much greatned and their hopes of reliefe in their miseries and oppressions which were so much heightned are like to be frustrate and while you looke for peace and freedome the flood-gates of slaverie oppression and miserie are opened upon the Nation as may appeare by the present manifold dangers that incompasse about the Army and the whole Nation The mischiefes evills and dangers which are and will be the necessar consequence of the Armies declining or delaying the effectuall fulfilling of its first Engagement Promises and Declarations or of its neglect to insist possitively upon its first principles of common right and freedome VVHereas its now many moneths since the Army declared In answer to the Petitions of divers Counties and from the sense of an absolute necessitie thereof that they would insist upon the peoples interest as in the Declaration of Iune 14 pag. 13. And yet no reliefe for the people in any of their oppressions Then also they professed that they hoped God would cleare it that they have acted the kingdomes and every honest mans interest viz. the Remonstrance from Kingstone pag. 12. by arbitrary powers Monopolies iniustice in the proceeding at Law Tythes Excize c. is effectually procured nor any greater probabillitie of future helpe is visible then was before no foundations of freedome being yet laid and yet the Soldiery burthening the country with free quarters and occasioning greater taxes These five mischiefes and dangers ensue inevitably First The love and affection of the people to the Armie which is an armies greatest strength is decayed cooled and neere lost it s already the common voice of the people what good hath our new Saviours done for us What grievances have they procured to be redressed Wherein is our condition bettered or how are we more free then before Secondly Not only so but the Army is rendred as an heavie burthen to the people in regard more pay is exacted dayly for them and the people find no good procured by them that 's answerable or equivolent to the charge so that now the people begin to cry lowder for disbanding the Army then they did formerly for keeping us in Armes bcause they see no benefit accruing they say they are as likely to be oppressed and inslaved both by King and Parliament as they were before the Armie engaged professedly to see their freedomes cleared and secured Thirdly whilst the peoples old oppressions are continued and more taxes also are imposed for pay for the Army they are disabled dayly more more for the mantaining of an Army for their preservation for they beginne to say they can but be distroyed by oppression and its all one to them whether it be by pretended friends or professed Enemies it were as good say they that the King should rule againe by prerogative we were slaves then to his will and we are now no better we had rather have one tyrant then hundreds Fourthly By this meanes distractions divisions heart burnings and jealousies are increased to the imminent danger of ruine to the Army and kingdome the people are inclined to tumults crying out will none procure reliese for us shall we alwayes be deluded with faire words and be devoured by oppressors we must ere long rise up in armes and every one catch what he can thus confusion is threatned Fiftly The Army is exposed to contempt and scandall and the most black reproaches and infomies are cast upon them the people say that their resolutions not to disband were because they would live idlly on the peoples labours and when the Soldiers are constrained to take free quarters this saith the people is for freedome and right to cate the bread out of our childrens mouths so that many Soldiers are ashamed of themselves and feare that the people should rise to distroy them you will doe nothing for us say they we are vexed by malignant Iudges for conscience sake by arbitrary Committees in the Country and at Parliament ordering one thing this day and recalling it the next to out intollerable vexation injustice in the saw is the same and we buy our right at as deare a rate as ever Tythes are inforced from us double and threble Excize continues we can have no accompts of all our moneys disbursed for the publike more is dayly required and