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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82754	A declaration of the several proceedings of both Houses of Parliament, vvith those in the county of Kent now in arms against the authority of Parliament, manifesting their desires and endeavors for the avoiding of the effusion of blood. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this declaration and proceedings concerning the business of Kent by printed and puiblished. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1648 (1648)	Wing E1512; Thomason E446_1; ESTC R204810	4,087	16

reception of our Petition and just Complaints the Houses will give such seasonable relief therein as will abundantly discover the inclination of this County to Peace and Amity My Lords This is the Accompt we can give you of this County by the hands of the noble Lord the Earl of Thanet whom also we have desired to inform your Lordships further That our present posture tends not to offer violence to the Parliament nor suffers acts willingly unbeseeming our fair intentions but do and shall take strict care to repress wheresoever we finde it the incensed Spirit we see in the people which how it hath been raised we shal in due time be able to make appear and so we rest My Lords Your Lordships most humble Servants Thomas Peyton John Darel Thomas Palmer Ja Hales Thomas Hardres George Newman Thomas Godfrey Matthew Hammon Iames Newman Tho Cau●top Edward Whitton Will Hugessen Richard Lee jun. Tho Engeham Iames Darel R Wilkinson Ed Roberts Phil Wareld Mayor of Rochester It must not be omitted That before this something more was done by the House of Commons to shew their desire of preventing bloodshed On Saturday about five in the ●fternoon one Mr. Sherman Minister of Lee near Detford came to the House informing them That he had been with some of the Commanders thereabouts and demanded of them what they desired or would give them satisfaction They answered him That they would be quiet so they might have an Indempnity for what they had done The House hoping that by this they might be pacified without force gave to Mr. Sherman the Instructions insuing of which no account hath been given INSTRUCTIONS For Mr. Abraham Sherman Minister at Lee. YOu are desired to declare to those that are lately risen about Greenwich and Detford That the Houses have lately published a Declaration concerning Petitions to be brought to the Houses That when they have delivered up the Towns Magazines and Arms that they have seized and shall be retired peaceably to their houses they may bring and present a Petition to the Houses according to the said Declaration You shall also declare unto them That upon their disbanding and departing home quietly to their houses before two of the clock to morrow morning they shall have Indempnity for what is past 27 May 1648. REported from the Committee at Derby-house read and upon the Question assented and Ordered to be presently Signed and sent a way with Mr. Sherman On Monday the 29 of May last The Letter was reported to the Houses that Sir Thomas Peyton brought which being read and considered of The Houses seeing all their former Endeavors for an Accommodation fruitless and the resolution of the ingaged party in that County to continue in Arms without and against their Authority And being informed that by the said party some Maritine Forts were surprized others beleaguer'd and divers Ships in the service of the Parliament withdrawn from their Obedience The said Houses in discharge of their duty and care of the Peace and Safety of the Kingdom passed this insuing Vote Die Lunae 29 Maii 1648. THe Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament do Declare That they do leave the whole managing of the Business of Kent to the General After which Vote the General marching into the County The House received information that those in Arms there sent a Trumpeter to the General desiring him to grant a Pass to their Commissioners to Treat according to Order of Parliament which Trumpeter said That Squire Hales was their General Sir Thomas Peyton Lieutenant General and Sir Iohn Many Major General His Excellency returned Answer by a Trumpeter of his own That whilest they continued in Arms without and against the Authority of Parliament and doing acts of Hostility to the disturbance of the peace of that County he could not admit of a Treaty nor lose time in prosecution of them But if they shall forthwith lay down Arms and disperse themselves he doubted not of the Mercy of the Parliament to those who are abused and deluded and of their Justice against such onely as shall appear to have bin the chief and most eminent Actors and Fomentors of this Rebellion By this that hath bin done all men may see That the Endeavors of both Houses in transacting of this business did manifestly tend to peace and that if they had bin in any measure really complyed with There might have been an happy settlement and composure in that County before any Ingagement A Narrative of these Proceedings hath been lately made by Members of both Houses by their command To the Lord Major Aldermen and Common-Councel of the City of London who after their return of Thanks to both Houses for their condescention in Declaring to them their aforesaid Proceedings Did Declare themselves fully satisfied therewith and did desire That the Houses would be pleased to publish the same in Print for the Satisfaction of other their fellow-Citizens and Subjects of the Kingdom FINIS