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A75383 Another declaration: wherein is rendred, a further account of the just grouuds [sic] and reasons of the dissolving the Parliament; by the Lord Generall and his Council of Officers. 1653 (1653) Wing A3257; Thomason E693_17; ESTC R14862 1,928 8

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Another DECLARATION Wherein is Rendred A further Account of the just Grounds and Reasons of the Dissolving the PARLIAMENT BY THE LORD GENERALL AND HIS COUNCIL of OFFICERS LONDON Printed for T. Brewer and are to be sold at the Royal Exchange in Cornhil 1653. Another DECLARATION WHEREIN Is rendred a further Account of the dissolution of the late Parliament by the Lord General and his Council of OFFICERS AFter the Lord had wonderfully own'd the Army at the Fight at Worcester by delivering into their hands and utterly dissipating the publike Enemies of this Common-wealth God set a strong resolution upon the hearts of the Officers of the Army to seek after the effecting of good things in all lawfull wayes but alwayes being tender of doing any thing against Authority And many of them made it their work to be laying hold on all opportunities to perswade and convince the Parliament men of their duty And finding them slow in their proceedings they thought it their duty not to lie still in perswasions but to try in some more effectual way whereupon in August last there was a Petition from them presented to the Parliament for which they had thanks and some word of encouragement That they would vigorously go on to effect those good things they desired and the Parliament then committed over the consideration of them to several Committees some of themselves and some others At which they seeing the Officers a little satisfied they began so to clash in their Counsel that there was little agreement they then reigned in their old dull spirit and thought a may b● supposed and no● without grounds to indeavour the breaking o● the army knowing them to be the onely Bug-bear in their way These things might be instanced in many particulars but especially in the last in offering to reduce the army to so many less in number as came to one and thirty thousand p●unds per mensem The Officers being willing to condiscend what might be did after Worcester fight reduce the army to seven hundred in a foot Regiment and the horse to sixty in a Troop to save the Nation what might safely be from charge which was all they conceived they could do with safety But the Officers seeing them rather active in exposing the nations peace to danger by this they thought they were bound vigorously to prosecute those good things that was by them in the behalf of the good people of the nation desired the Officers set several dayes apart to seek the Lord at which time it was set upon their hearts that there was a duty incumbent upon them and they appointed a Comittee to confider of some particular things as doth appear by the Letter sent out by them yet still held up their Counsels and consultations what was fit for them to do making it their daily work to quicken and incite the best in the House to do themselves what was desired or might conduce to the good of the Nation rather then the Army should have any hand in the businesse And the Officers of the army made it their sole desires to have a new Parliament and lay aside all other considerations clearly perceiving an impossibility for the honest men of the house to carry on the good things that were so much longed for then the House seeing that the Officers would not be satisfied without some answer of their desires set about the Bill for a new Parliament and went on with that but as clearly appeared not so much to answer their desires as to effect their own ends in the thing by passing several things in that Act of dangerous consequence The Officers beholding That the Bill would not answer the thing desired and being altogether unwilling if possible to prevent it to use any other way then entreaties They used means to procure several meetings with divers of the House which they effected acc●rdingly and when they met the Officers freely laid open their hearts and thoughts to them desiring the like from the Members which was promised But after a full and naked discovering of their thoughts and hearts to the Parliament men their Reply to the Officers was That they were not free to discourse there but when they were in the House they had their Negatives and Affirmatives The Officers seeing themselves thus dealt withal held on their consultations and came to some considerations what was fit for them to do and as often as opportunity offered prest the best of the House to do those good things desired and prevent further mischief telling them what they feared else would follow yet all would not avail but they went on in their old way This being clearly perceived and that they went on vigorously with the Act and some that had been averse to it now pressing it the Officers they thought it either time now to stir or never whereupon they made another Application to the best of the Parliament men who with much intreaty gave some of them a meeting the night before but for all that divers of the chief of them were strong the next morning in prosecution to pass the Act for a new Parliament to be called in November next And if themselves having passed it had that day then adjourned as probably they would have done had they not been dissolved and by that means their Design frustrated the whole Nation would have been in a sad condition and involved in a Labyrinth of new troubles which through Gods goodness by this way of dissolving them before it passed is prevented FINIS