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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39978	A declaration from Sir Thomas Fairfax and the army under his command as it was humbly tendered to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament : as also to the Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and Common-Councell of the city of London : concerning the just and fundamentall rights and liberties of themselves and the kingdome : with some humble proposals and desires.	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.; Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690.; England and Wales. Army.	1647 (1647)	Wing D587; Wing F157_VARIANT_CANCELLED; ESTC R5410	9,668	18

A DECLARATION FROM Sir Thomas Fairfax AND The Army under his Command As it was humbly tendered to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament As also to the Honourable the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Councell of the City of London Concerning the just and fundamentall Rights and Liberties of themselves and the Kingdome With some humble Proposals and Desires PRinted by the speciall appointment of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and Souldiery of the Army under his Command St. Albons June 14. 1647. Signed by me JOHN RUSHVVORTH Imprinted at London for L. Chapman and L. Blacklocke 1647. A Declaration from his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Army under his Command humbly tendered to the PARLIAMENT concerning the just and fundamentall Rights and Liberties of themselves and the Kingdome with some humble proposalls and desires THat we may be no longer the dis-satisfaction of our friends the subject of our enemies malice to worke jealosies and mis-representations upon and the suspition if not astonishment of many in the Kingdome in our late or present trans-actions and conduct of businesse we shall in all faithfulnesse and clearenesse professe and declare unto you those things which have of late portracted and hindered our disbanding the present grievances which possesse our Army and are yet unremedied with our desire as to the compleat settlement of the liberties and peace of the Kingdome which is that blessing of God then which nothing is more deare to us or more precious in our thoughts we having hitherto thought all our present injoyments whether of life or livelihood or nearest relations a price but sufficient to the purchase of so rich a blessing that we and all the free-borne people of this Nation may sit downe in quiet under our Vines and under the glorious administrations of Justice and Righteousnesse and in full possession of those fundamentall rights and liberties without which we can have little hopes as to humane considerations to enjoy either any comforts of life or so much as life it selfe but at the pleasures of men ruling meerely according to will and power It cannot be unknowne what hath passed betwixt the Parliament and the Army as to the service of Ireland by all which together with the like proceedings against the Army in relation to their Petition and grievances all men may judge what hath hindered the Army from a ready ingagement in that service and without further Account or Apology as to that partieular then what those passages and proceedings themselves already made publike doe afford we doe appeale to your selves whether those courses to which the Parliament hath by the designes and practice of some been drawne have rationally tended to induce a cheerefull and unanimous undertaking of the Army to that service or rather breake and pull the Army in peeces with discontents and dishonour and to put such disobligations and provocations upon it as might drive it into distemper and indeed discourage both this Army and other Souldiers from any further engagement in the Parliaments service And we wish all men would with us upon the whole carriage seriously consider whether in the intentions of those who have by false informations and mis-representations put the Parliament upon such wayes The timely and effectuall reliefe of Ireland seeme really to have been intended or rather with the breaking or disbanding of this Army to draw together or raise such other Forces and of such a temper as might serve to some desperate and destructive designes in England which besides the probable suspitions from their carriage of the businesse we have before hand in the transaction thereof had more then hints of such a designe by cleare expressions to that purpose from many of those Officers of the Army that have been perswaded and appeared most forward to ingage for Ireland on the termes proposed And that such a designe hath all along been driven seemes now too evident by the present disposing of those Forces that have been ingaged for Ireland by the indeavour of some to gaine a power from the Parliament of ordering those Forces for some Service in England and by the private listings of men for service here without any publique Authority of Parliament And all this by the same persons who have all along appeared most active and violent in the late proceedings against the Army As to the just discontents and dis-satisfaction of the Army in relation to their grievances and their non-complyance to the late Orders for Souldiers disbanding by peece-meale before more full and equall satisfaction were given to the whole We desire you to looke back to the Papers already published of the grievances themselves the Narrative of the Officers and to the latter Papers from the Generall Councell of Warre at Bury and the late generall Rendezvouze neare New-market and we thinke your late resuming the consideration of those things as to a further satisfaction doth much justifie the desires and proceedings of the Army in those past particulars hitherto And though had we upon our first addresses for our undoubled Rights and dues found a free and candid reception with a just consideration and a reasonable satisfaction or at least an ingenious Answer therein We should have been easily satisfiable to have abated or forborne much of our dues and not to have inquired into or considered so farre as we have either the possibilities there are for more present satisfaction of Arreares or the credit of future securities proposed yet since upon those former addresses we have found such hard dealing as in the said Papers is set forth and those additionall though hitherto but partiall satisfaction coming so hardly as they have we finde no obliging reasons in the least to decline or recede from what is our due but rather still to adhere unto our desires of full and equall satisfaction in all the things mentioned in the aforesaid Papers not onely in behalfe of our selves and the Army but also of the whole Souldiery thorow out the Kingdome who have concurred or shall concurre with us in the same desires and to all our former desires As Souldiers we cannot but adde this wherein we finde our selves so neerly concerned in point of Justice and Reputation that more care and a stricter course may be taken for good all Articies granted upon surrendors according to the true intent and meaning of them as also for remedy and reparation in case of any breach and this without those delayes which divers have found as prejudiciall to them or more then if they had been totally denied the performance of them Nor will it now we hope seeme strange or unseasonable to rationall and honest men who consider the consequence of our present case and their own and the Kingdoms as well as our future concernments in point of right freedome peace and safety if from a deepe sence of the high consequence of our present case both to our selves in future and all other people we shall before Disbanding