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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75592	The Armies declaration examined and compared with their declaration May 6. Their petition and addresse May 12. And their petition and representation. Discovering some of their contradictions, lies, calumnies, hypocrisie, and designes. Well worthy observation.		1659 (1659)	Wing A3713; Thomason E1006_2; ESTC R207901	28,008	31

the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England If they keep close to the good of the Nation then they are the late Parliament We had divers Consultations and Thoughts of heart in what way and manner we might provide for the Peace and good Government of this Common-wealth truth is you have been very busie all along you break our Heads and then think of Plaisters for us you broke this Parliament formerly and after six years when you found your own dirty Interests going down then you had many Consultations how to keep them up and when you could not go on your own way the way you are now agoing for the Clamours of the People and the interposing of your own inferiour Officers you had some Conferences with some of the late Parliament as you call them from whom it seems receiving some good hopes of doing your Journey-work you resolve to put it to the Tryall Whether they will be your Slaves or the faithfull Servants of the People Who having failed your Expectation can be a Parliament no lo longer at length calling to mind no sure it was put in your Heads much against your Mindes those many great Things that had been effected for the good of these Nations during the sitting of the sayd Parliament Look back upon the Declaration of May 6. and see how it is there expressed Calling to minde That the long Parliament consisting of the Members which continued there sitting untill the Twentieth of April 1653. were eminent Assertors of the GOOD OLD CAUSE and had a speciall presence of God with them and were signally blessed in that Work Read the very Words and observe a Juggle That may be done during their sitting that is not done by them Make your own Observations and being likewise fully perswaded that the Government of these Nations might be most happily placed upon the Foundations of a Common-wealth and that upon such Principles as was then agreed upon by us this is the Plague o' nt they that for the most part of them Viz. The General Councel of Officers must make a Mark for their Names think themselves so wise as to agree Principles among themselves which are best for the Government of this Common-wealth and what are these Principles You shall find them in their Petition and Address May 12. 1659. the chief Corner Stones whereof are these Article 12. We do unanimously acknowledge and own the Lord Charles Fleetwood to be Commander in chief of the Land Forces of this Common-wealth Article 13. That there be a select Senate Co-ordinate in Power with the Parliament Article 15. That all Debts contracted by his late Highness or his Father since the Fifteenth of December 1653. may be satisfied and that an honourable Revenue of Ten thousand pounds per annum with a convenient House may be setled upon him and his Heirs for ever and Ten thousand pounds more per annum during his life and upon his honourable Mother Eight thousand pound per annum during her life To the end that a mark of the high esteem this Nation hath of the good seruice done by his Father our ever renowned Generall may remain to Posterity It concludes thus These having been the thoughts and desires of our hearts unanimously agreed upon before your returning to sit c. You may judge whether these are not rare Principles to brag of A Senate to controul the Parliament And Ten thousand pound per annum and a convenient House for ever Ten thousand pound per annum for life for the Protector and Eight thousand pounds per annum for the old Dowager Upon my word I do not know who contrived this so rarely but 't is a good Reward for making bold to rule us by his Will and pleasure to pay his Son and his Wife so well for it besides what Rewards he took out of the Earle of Worcesters Estate and what besides he converted to his own Coffers If I were Lord Lambert I should venture hard to make my self some-body if when the worst came my Heirs and Wife should be so well rewarded If when I could keep my Kingdome no longer I should be so well cared for that my Son should live like a Prince These are brave Principles for a Common-wealth that the Council of Officers should boast of You proceed And hoping through their experience of Affairs of Government we might most safely deliver the Power and Trust of these Nations into their hands pardon me you have done all you can to keep both in your own hands and having those further encouragements that they having lyen under that rebuke for some years which God hath given them for their former miscarriages That is the Rebuke you had given them when you turned out of the way and turned them out of the House who you say your selves Decl. May 6. were such eminent Assertors of the GOOD OLD CAUSE and had such a speciall presence of God with them that you judged it your Duty to invite them again to discharge their Trust and really 't is their eminent asserting the GOOD OLD CAUSE and nothing else that are the miscarriages for which you so rudely rebuke them And also from some previous meetings with some worthy and leading Members of that House these were I hope none of those the Army is now so angry at who upon debate with us approved of the Principles aforesaid and communicated them to some of their Fellow-Members Mark here their debate and the agreement of some Members with them in their Principles of their Addresse is a grand argument to perswade them to readmit the Parliament You finde no such matter in Decl. May 6. But there it seems to be only conscience of their sin in disturbing the Parliament and wandring from equall and righteous paths together with a sense of their duty as bound to call them again being such eminent Assertors of the GOOD CAUSE This is strange prevarication It seems too they were not so unseigned in the shame they took to themselves for all the disfiguring of their faces that they durst trust God having done their duty but must feel the Pulse of some Members first and give them their Lessons or the Principles they meant to insist upon So that they can take shame to themselves and yet drive on their Design they are Masters of Art in Dissimulation and can make Religion a Nose of Waxe to serve their Interest We were like to have our businesse well managed by this praevious Meeting if the Parliament had had so little honesty as the other wit That not only old displeasures would have been forgotten so they were but that the single and setled Government of this Common-wealth would have been only aimed at So most men believe it was having understood nothing to the contrary but observed the Parliament very earnest in contending for it and had made a large progresse in it even to admiration though they had met with many Disturbances and not a few from your selves but