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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82253	A declaration published in the north of England, and Sir Arthur Haslerigg's letter to Gen. Monk in Scotland, with his resolution touching the Parliament and Army; the rising of the countrey; and the number of horse and foot, drawing to a randevouz, and marching towards Northumberland. Also, a declaration of the Generall-Council of Officers at Wallingford-House; and the number of horse and foot that are to march from the City of London, towards York.	Hesilrige, Arthur, Sir, d. 1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing D788; Thomason E1005_6; ESTC R207904	5,029	8

six Barrels of Powder and a quantity of Provision forthwith gave out Orders for Colonel Morley's Regiment to draw thither as also to divers other Regiments Troops and Companies which they thought would be most sure to them And likewise gave order to Colonel Okey to draw his Regiment to the Pallace yard upon which he marched to Tuttle-fields with four of his Troops and from thence having sent one into the Pallace-yard he marched with the other three into London for countenancing the drawing together the Militia Forces in order to a conjunction with them which proved there ineffectual but had other success in Southwark where by like directions Colonel Thomsons Regiment drew together under the Command of their Lieutenant Colonel and that no endeavours might be wanting Orders were sent to Col. Hackers Regiment quartering in and about Leicestershire and other Troops in other remote places in the Countrey to march to Westminster with all speed the tendency whereof must naturally lead to the engaging the City Countrey and Army in blood The Officers of the Army having received notice of these things and being greatly amused at so strange and sudden a mutation and that the office of Commander in chief should be thus minute executed by the hand of my Lord Fleetwood and the next by the hands of Sir Arthur Hasilrig Col. Morley and Col. Walton and that Orders were so speedily hastned out for the drawing of force together were in great doubt that such strange and violent courses did portend some sad and fatal event And thereupon they judged it their duty for preservation of themselves their friends and honest interest in the Nation and Army to draw together in Arms and march to the Palace yard at Westminster the place they had appointed for their Rendezvous to understand the reasons and grounds of their so assembling themselves together And being arrived there and perceiving that several Companies of Col. Morley's Regiment were placed in the Hall Gatehouse Clockhouse and Exchequer Chamber and thereabouts in hostile manner all endeavours were used to inform them of the true state of affairs and to draw them to such a compliance wi●h the rest of their Brethren of the Army as might avoid the effusion of blood but finding them by the perswasion of their leaders obstinately bent to oppose We found our selves necessitated to put the Forces into a posture of defen●e and for the grounds and reasons aforementioned as also that they might no be further encouraged and countenanced in such a dangerous opposition to the apparent hazard of the publick peace to put a period and determination to the Parliaments meeting together and think our selves yet further obliged for preventing of the manifold evils and inconveniences which must necessarily fall upon the other good people of the Nation as well as our selves by reason of the several Orders Acts pretended Acts or other Declaration or any of them enacted made or past on Munday the 10th of this instant Octob. and on Tuesday and Wednesday then next following to declare them and every of them null and void to all intents and purposes And do hereby declare them and every of them and every clause and sentence therein invalid null and void to all intents and purposes And likew●se all Acts Orde●s and proceedings thereupon had or done in as full and ample manner as if the said Orders Acts pretended Act or Declarations and every of them had never been All which we thought fit to publish and declare to the end all persons concerned may take notice thereof and no person whatsoever suffer any further prejudice thereby hoping that all peaceable well minded and unprejudiced persons will acquiesce in the necessity and justice thereof And now we shall conclude in declaring to the World that it is upon our hearts and we earnestly desire and shall endeavour that a due liberty may be assured to all the free born people of these Nations both as Men and Christians that a full and through Reformation of the Law may be effected as also that a faithful godly and painful Gospel preaching Ministery may be encouraged and provided for by some certain way that may be lesse troublesom to them and lesse vexatious to the people then that of Tithes And we do further declare That we have no aim or ends to set up a Military or Arbitrary Government over this Commonwealth but have already provided that the Civil and Executive part of Government may be lodged in a Committee of safety and they obliged in a short time to prepare such a form of Government as may best suit and comport with a free State and Commonwealth without a single Person Kingship or House of Pears And that we shall to the utmost of our endeavours labor to obtain those desirable things so often declared for and to maintain and preserve the peace of these Nations in our several Stations and Places and shall hope that God for his own Glory and the good of his own People will give a blessed end of these troubles by a happy settlement upon the principles formerly declared for and which have been and still are so earnestly breathed after by all those who truly fear his Name Who we doubt not being truly sensible of the many temptations besetting us on every hand the great difficulties we labor under and know not what farther straits a day may bring forth will say on our behalfs who are sufficient for these things And out of former experiences being taught that the Lord is a present help in time of trouble will ery aloud for us before the Throne of Grace That the Lord himself may appear and carry on his own work in our hands And if it shall please him by his Spirit to stir up those that fear his Name to be instant on our behalfs We shall not fear what evil men can do unto us Thus having presented you with the state of the Case betwixt the Parliament and Army we shall proceed to some particulars touching the Effects thereof upon the return of divers Members to their respective Counties who by their intermingled influence upon the Royall Presbyter as well as Independent excited the people to no small discomposure of affections against the Souldiery enumerating the dangerous consequences of a standing army and their Design to introduce a new Government by a single person Withall Declaring That the people by their electing Members to represent them in Parliament ought not to have their National Knot cut with their own Sword but to have it employed in the preservation and defence of their just Rights and Liberties for which end it was raised formed and erected and that every Individual Member of the Commonwealth ought to be instrumental in the conservation thereof so far as it may be lawful warrantable consistent with the Laws of God and Man Hereupon Sir Arthur Haslerigg seemed not a little active in promoting the Parliaments Interest in the North and to depress extinguish and alienate the peoples affections from the Army which they are prone and inclinable to And for the more feasible and effectuall accomplishing of this Grand Affair a Letter was sent into Scotland desiring Gen. Monck forthwith to march into England whose expectations 't is said will be answered with his own person at the head of an Army consisting of eight or ten thousand Horse and Foot So that it is feared a war may break in of the Scottish side and like a Deluge sweep all into Confusion To prevent which the Lord Lambert we hear is designed for those parts with 7 Regiments of Horse and Foot who are to march from the City of London towards York FINIS