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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84799	A letter sent from His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the chief commanders in the army, to the right honourable the lord major, aldermen, and common-councell of the city of London	England and Wales. Army.; Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.	1647 (1647)	Wing F186; ESTC R201574	2,449	8

A LETTER SENT FROM HIS EXCELLENCY SIR Thomas Fairfax AND The chief Commanders in the Army TO THE Right Honourable the Lord Major Aldermen and Common-Councell of the City of LONDON LONDON Printed by Richard Cotes 1647. For the Right Honourable the Lord Major Aldermen and Common-Councell of the City of LONDON Right Honourable and Worthy Friends HAving by our Letters and other Addresses presented by our Generall to the Honorable House of Commons endevoured to give satisfaction of the clearness of our just demands and also in Papers published by us remonstrated the grounds of our proceedings in prosecution whereof all which having been exposed to publick view we are confident have come to your hands and at least received a charitable construction from you The sum of all which our desires as Souldiers are no other then a desire of satisfaction to our demands as Souldiers and repatation upon those who have to the utmost improved all opportunities and advantages by false suggestions misrepresentations and otherwise for the destruction of this Army with a perpetuall blot of ignominy upon it which we should not value if it singly concerned our own particulars being ready to deny our selves in this as wee have done in other cases for the Kingdomes good but under this pretence finding no lesse involved in it then the overthrow of the Priviledges both of Parliament and People wherein rather then they shall far in their designes or wee not receive what in the eyes of all good men is just endeavoureth to engage the Kingdom in a new War and this singly by those who when the truth of these things shall be made to appear will be found the Authors of these evils that are feared as having no other way to protect themselves from question and punishment but by putting the Kingdom into blood under pretences of the Honour of and their love to the Parliament as if that were dearer to them then us or as if they had given greater proof of their faithfulnesse to it then we But we perceive that under these veiles and pretences they seek to interest their design in the City of London as if that City ought to make good their miscarriages and should prefer a few self-seeking men before the welfare of the Publick and indeed we have found these men so active to accomplish their designs and to have such apt instruments for their turn in that City that we have cause to suspect they may engage many therein upon mistakes which are easily swallowed in times of such prejudice against men that have given we may speak it vvithout vanity the most publick testimony of their good affections to the Publick to that City in particular For the thing wee insist upon as English men and surely our being Souldiers hath not stript us of that interest although our malicious enemies would have it so vvee desire a settlement of the Peace of the Kingdome and of the Liberties of the Subject according to the Votes and Declarations of Parliament vvhich before vve tooke up Armes vvere by the Parliament used as arguments and inducements to invite us and divers of our deare friends out some of vvhich have lost their lives in this Warre vvhich being by Gods blessing finished vve thinke vve have as much right to demand and desire to see a happy settlement as vve have to our money and the other common interest of Souldiers vvhich vve have insisted upon We find also the ingenuous and honest people in almost all the parts of the Kingdome vvhere vvee come full of the sense of ruine and misery if the Army should bee disbanded before the Peace of the Kingdome and those other things before mentioned have a ful and perfect settlement We have said before and professe it now we desire no alteration of the civill government We desire not to intermeddle with or in the least to interrupt the setling of the Presbyteriall Government nor doe we seeke to open a way to licentious libertie under pretence of obtaining case for tender consciences wee professe as ever in these things when the State have once made a settlement we have nothing to say but to submit or suffer onely wee could wish that every good Citizen and every man that walkes peaceably in a blamelesse conversation and is beneficiall to the Common-wealth may have libertie and encouragement it being according to the just policie of all States even to justice it selfe These in briefe are our desires and the things for which wee stand beyond which we shall not goe for the obtaining these things we are drawing neer your Citie professing sincerely from our hearts wee intend not evill towards you declaring with all confidence and assurance that if you appear not against us in these our just desires to assist that wicked partie that would imbroyle us and the Kingdome nor wee nor our Souldiers shall give you the least offence wee come not to doe any act to prejudice the being of Parliaments or to the hurt of this in order to the present settlement of the Kingdome Wee seeke the good of all and we shall here waite or remove to a further distance there to abide if once wee bee assured that a speedy settlement of things bee in hand untill they bee accomplished which done wee shall bee most ready either all of us or so many of the Army as the Parliament shall thinke fit to disband or goe for Ireland And although you may suppose that a rich Citie may seeme an inticing baite to poor hungry Souldiers to venture farre to gaine the wealth thereof yet if not provoked by you wee doe professe rather then any such evill should fall out the Souldiers shall make their way through our blood to effect it and we can say this for most of them for your better assurance that they so little value their pay in comparison of higher concernments to a publique good that rather then they will be unrighted in the matter of their honesty and integritie which hath suffered by the men they ayme at and desire justice upon or want the settlement of the kingdomes peace and theirs with their fellow Subjects Liberties they will lose all which may bee a strong assurance to you that it 's not your wealth they seeke but the things tending in common to your and their welfare that they may attaine you shall doe like fellow Subjects and Brethren if that you sollicit the Parliament for them and on their behalfe If after all this you or a considerable part of you bee seduced to take up Armes in opposition to or hindrance of these our just undertakings Wee hope by this brotherly premonition to the sinceritie whereof we call God to witnesse we have freed our selves from all that ruine vvhich may befall that great and populous Citie having thereby vvashed our hands thereof vvee rest Your affectionate friends to serve you Thomas Fairfax Oliver Cromwell Robert Hamond Thomas Hamond Hardresse Waller Nath. Rich. Thomas Pride Francis Ireton Robert Lilborne John Disbrowe Thomas Rainsborow Lambert Harrison Royston June 10 1647.