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A63557
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A Trve narrative concerning the armies preservation of the Kings Majesties person by which it doth appeare that the army doth intend the good, life, property, and liberty of all the Commons of England, and not the destruction of them.
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1647
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Wing T2768; ESTC R12566
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discharge that trust imposed on them the soldiery of the Army would assist them so long as they were just and honest Then said the King We wil willingly go along with you if the souldiers wil confirm what you have promised me the King beleeving we had said nothing but what we would stand to All this being spoken at ten or eleven at night And when the King had done propounding these questions to the Coronet he gave his word to be ready by six the next morning to hear if the souldiers would confirm what he had promised and if they would he would willingly go with us for it was so bad an aire that he could never be so well as he had been and if he were once gone he would be unwilling to come back again to that place any more many other reasons he had which he gave not According to his promise he came in the morning at six of the clock where he found all the soldiers ready mounted to march with him but before he would march he desired to speak the same things to the souldiers which he spake over night to the Coronet to see if they would confirm what he said and had promised which they did with one consent and before the souldiers the King was pleased to ask the Coronet What Commission he had to secure his Person then said the Coronet If the Parliament had ever made an order that the army should not have secured the Kings Person we should not have dared to do what we had done But we being informed his Majesty was to be conveyed away which if not prevented might have caused another warre and involved the whole kingdome in bloud again this was the onely cause of our securing the Kings Person This answer did not satisfie the King but he asked What Commission he had for doing that he did he told his Majesty the soldiery of the Army or else he should not have dared to have done what he had and conceived it to be the only way to bring peace to England and Justice with Mercy which is the thing which all honest men do desire and none wil hinder but some guilty Consciences who by their wil seek to destroy both King and people to set up themselves Yet the King was not satisfied with this but asked Whether we had nothing in writing from Sir Thomas Fairfax our General to do what we did the Coronet desired the King he would not ask him such Questions for he did conceive he had sufficiently answered him before then said the King I pray M. Joyce deal ingenuously with me and tel me what Commission you have The Coronets answer was Here is my Commission Where said the King He answered Here his Majesty again asked Where He answered Behind me and desired his Majesty that that might satisfie him whereupon the King smiled and said It is as fair a Commission and as wel writen as he had seen a Commission written in his life A company of handsome proper Gentle men as he had seen a great while But what if we should yet refuse to go with you I hope you would not force me I am your King and you ought not to lay violent hands on your King for We do acknowledg none to be above Us here but God Then said M. Joyce Our desires are not to force your Majesty but have humbly increated your Majesty to go with us and not only your self but the Commissioners and to this end that the Commissioners might discharge that trust imposed on them as honest members of Parliament Thou spake one of the Commissioners of Parliament and shewed us a paper what was therein we saw not they all spake to us in order the last that spake as we remember was Major General Brown who said the Commissioners had an order of Parliament to look to the King at Holdenby and if he had strength we should have had his life before we should have brought the King away Indeed said the Coronet you speak like a faithful and gallant man but he knew wel enough he had not strength and therefore he spake so boldly Major G. Brown said further But since it is so We must do what you wil have us being not able to resist you Then spake Coronet Joyce further We came not to have the blood of any man but for peace and did hope should manifest it to all the world for he sought peace with all men as much as in him lieth and further he said They were servants to the Parliament and Kingdome and had served them faithfully ever since the beginning of this war or else more heads had been cut off before this time and if the souldiers had been ordered not to secure his Majesty they would not have dared to have done it because they were servants to the State as wel as the Commissioners they did what they did to keep the Kingdom from blood and a second war which if not prevented might unhappily have come upon us suddenly as you may see is the endeavour of some men who pretend to be the Kings and Kingdoms best friends After this the King was going away but turned and said Now Gentlemen for the place you intend to have me to M. Joyce answered If it please your Majesty to Oxford The King replyed That is no good aire M. Joyce said Then to Cambridg The King did not like that but said he liked New market It was an aire that did very wel agree with him And it was granted by M. Joyce he should go thither Then the King asked M. Joyce How far he intended to ride that night And M. Joyce answered and said As far as your Majesty can conveniently ride The King smiling said We can ride as far as you or any man there but he concluded to talk of that and his accommodation privately and so he courteously took his leave of the company and was going and one whispered him and he turned back and heard the Commissioners speak to the company thus in order First my Lord Mountague spake and said Gentlemen we are intrusted by both Houses shewing in his hand a paper the authority they had and desire to know whether all the party do agree to what M. Joyce had said And they cryed All All. And he having spoke low Sir John Cook seconded him with a loud voyce and added That as the Parliament had intrusted them had he but Forces to withstand the party he would have done it with his life and M. Crew said the same And Major G. Brown spake last to the same purpose but added something more then the rest saying It was not the first time that he had been in the head of a party and that they knew not the Law and he durst affirm that scarce two in the company although they cryed All All knew what the Gentleman had delivered to the King And therefore he said with a loud voyce All that are willing the King shall stay with us the Commissioners of Parliament let them speak And all the party cryed None None then said he we have done Only the souldiers said We understand well enough what we do Now let all the world judge what is done and who is in fault and who they are that seek warr and no peace nor justice FINIS One word more Fellow-Comâ—â—â—ers DEar Friends and Fellow-Commoners We the Souldiery under his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax do desire to speak one word to you All that so you may see and know our very hearts so far as we know them our selves And that our earnest desires are for Peace in this our Native Land and Kingdome and being more sensible then many thousands are how destructive another War wil be if not our utter ruine and undoing The words we shal speak to you are to prevent Warr and to find out those that have of late sent that Scottish Lord who went from Holmby to London and from thence into France and another Scotch Lord into Scotland all this to bring another Army to England and we shall be able to make it appear to you hereafter who are the chief Actors therein Dear Friends and Fellow-Commoners let us not be like those who have set their hands to the Plough and look back but let it appear to all the World we are against another Warre and for Peace Mercy and Justice without delay Now look about you and be not deluded any longer lest the Scot sell the King for more money and others oppresse the Kingdome and put the Kingdoms Treasure into their own pockets or send it out of our Kingdome as if they were preparing to go after for fear they should be found out This we speak that so you may have a care of this Glorious Kingdome your Shipping being now in those mens hands who have done you most wrong and if not looked after by you may suddenly let in a forrein Enemy to overrun you all and ravish your Wives and rost your Children alive as those bloudy minded men in Ireland have done and this will be our case if you awake not suddenly We have done a word to the wise is sufficient and rest Yours and the Kingdomes faithful servants till death for Englands Liberty against Tiranny c.