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A82141	A declaration of the engagements, remonstrances, representations, proposals, desires and resolutions from His Excellency Sir Tho: Fairfax, and the generall councel of the Army. For setling of His Majesty in His just rights, the Parliament in their just priviledges, and the subjects in their liberties and freedomes. With papers of overtures, of the army with the Kings Majesty, the Parliament, the citie, and with the souldiery amongst themselves. Also representations of the grievances of the Kingdome, and remedies propounded, for removing the present pressures whereby the subjects are burthened. And the resolution of the army; for the establishment of a firme and lasting peace in Church and Kingdome. Die Lunæ, 27. Septembris, 1647. Whereas Math: Simmons hath beene at great charges in printing the Declarations and Papers from the Army in one volume. It is ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, that the said Math: Simmons shall have the printing and publishing thereof for the space of one whole yeare from the date hereof. And that none other shall re-print the same during that time. John Brown, Cler. Parliamentorum.	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.	1647 (1647)	Wing D664; Thomason E409_25; ESTC R204445	144,071	176

we suppose the Gentlemen themselves from the same grounds that induced them to offer this will still forbeare to offer the contrary till the matters concerning them be heard and determined or to make any new interruption or disturbance to the proceeding upon or settlement of the generall affaires of the Kingdome So we hope and shall confidently expect that the wisedome and justice of the House will not admit any thing to the contrary or leave it to an hazard thereof but will use sufficient care and caution against such things and for the bringing of those Members to tryall when the House shall judge it more seasonable and safe as before exprest By the appointment of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and his Councell of War Signed John Rushworth Secr. Vxbridge June 27. 1647. WHereas without Order from the Generall or the Councell of War Nicholas Cowley Commissary Generall of provisions hath issued out Warrants to some Hundreds within lesse then a mile of London to bring provisions from thence into the Army which he pretended to be Randezvouzed between London and Vxbridge Whereas there was no such thing ordered by the Generall or his Councell of War It is therefore this day ordered by the Generall and his Councel of warre that the said Commissary Cowley shall stand committed and he is thereby committed to the Marshall from whence he is not to be discharged untill he hath given satisfaction to the Commissioners for the City of London residing at Vxbridge By the appointment of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Councell of War Signed John Rushworth Secr. Vxbridge Junii 27. The Kings Majesties most gracious Letter to his Son his Highnesse James Duke of York written with his Majesties own hand read in both Houses of Parliament C. R. IAmes I am in hope that you may be permitted with your Brother and Sister to come to some place betwixt this and London where I may see you To this end therefore I command you to aske leave of the two Houses to make a journey if it may be for a night or two But rather then not to see you I will be content that yee come to some convenient place to dine and go back at night And foreseeing the feare of your being brought within the power of the Army as I am may be objected to hinder this my desire I have full assurance from Sir Thomas Fairfax and the chiefe Officers that there will be no interruption or impediment made by them for your returne how and when you please So God blesse you Your loving Father Charles Rex Casam July 4. 1647. Two Letters from his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax One to both Houses of Parliament giving an accompt of what Transactions and Proceedings have been betwixt the Kings Majesty and the Army since his coming into their Quarters With some farther Proposals in relation to his Majesty and the speedy settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom c. Master Speaker I Was sent unto by the King on Friday last to desire the Parliament to give way to Him to see his children and that they might for that purpose be sent to Him If I may be bold humbly to offer my Opinion I thinke the allowance of such a thing may be without the least prejudice to the Kingdome and yet gain more upon his Majestie then denying it and if it be in the prayers of every good man that his heart may be gained the performance of such civilities to him is very surable to those Desires and will heare well with all men who if they can imagine it to be their own case cannot but be sorry if His Majesties naturall affections to His Children in so small a thing should not be complyed with and if any question should be concerning the assurance of their returne I shall ingage for their return within what time the Parliament shall limit Upon this occasion give me leave I beseech you to take notice of some reports spread abroad as if my selfe and the Officers of the Army were upon some under-hand Contract or Bargaine with the King and from thence occasion is taken to slander our Integrities and endeavour a misunderstanding betwixt the Parliament and their Army the fidelity of which to the Parliament and Kingdome and their affection to it are the great objects of many mens Envies because they see nothing so likely to settle Right and Freedome with Truth and Peace to us and Posterity and to hinder their Designs against the same as an Harmony or good accord between the Parliament and Army which is the joy of good men and it shall be our study to preserve against all Designes and Designers to the contrary To prevent therefore all misunderstandings of that kinde I thought fit with all clearnesse to declare unto you That we have done nothing nor shall do any thing which we desire to hide from you or the world or shall not avow to the faces of our greatest Adversaries Our Desires concerning a just consideration and settlement of the Kings Rights His Majesty first giving His concurrence to settle and secure the Rights and Liberties of the Kingdome We have already publickely declared in our Representation and Remonstrance Since the first of those Papers sent to the Parliament there have been severall Officers of the Army upon severall occasions sent to His Majesty the first to present to Him a Copy of the Representation and after that some others to tender Him a copy of the Remonstrance upon both which the Officers sent were appointed to clear the sence and intention of any thing in either Paper whereupon His Majesty might make any question Since then there have also been some Officers at severall times sent to His Majesty about His remove from Hatfield to disswade if possibly from Windsor or any place so near London to some place of further distance answerable to what we had desired of the Parliament In all which addresses to his Majesty we care not who knowes what hath been said or done for as we have nothing to bargaine for or to ask either from His Majesty or the Parliament for advantage to our selves or any particular party or interest of our own so in all those Addresses to His Majesty we have utterly disclaimed and disavowed any such thing or any Overtures or Thoughts tending that way but the only intent and effect of those our Addresses hath been to desire and endeavor His Majesties free concurrence with the Parliament for establishing and securing the common Rights and Liberties and setling the peace of the Kingdome And to assure Him That the publick being so provided for with such His Majesties concurrence it is fully agreeable to all our Principles and should be our desires and indeavour That with and in such setling of the Publick the Rights of His Majesties Royall Family should be also provided for so as a lasting Peace and Agreement might be setled in this Nation And that as we had publickly

shall hereafter intrude themselves to sit in Parliament before they shall have given satisfaction to the respective Houses wherefore they are concerning the grounds of their said sitting at Westminster during the absence of the said Speakers shal have acquitted themselves by sufficient evidence That they did not procure or give their consent unto any of those pretended Votes Orders or Ordinances tending to the raising and levying of a war as is before declared or for the Kings comming forth-with to London we cannot any longer suffer the same but shall doe that right to the Speakers and Members of both Houses who were driven away to us and to our selves with them all whom the said other Members have endeavoured in an hostile manner most unjustly to destroy and also to the Kingdome which they endeavoured to embroyle in a new War as to take some speedy and effectuall course whereby to restrain them from being their owne ●urs and the Kingdomes Judges in those things wherein they have made themselves parties by this meanes to make way that both they and others that are guilty of and parties to the afore-said treasonable and destructive practises and proceedings against the freedome of Parliament and peace of the Kingdome may be brought to condigne punishment and that at the judgment of a free Parliament consisting duely and properly of such Members of both Houses respectively who stand cleare from such apparant and treasonable breach of their trust as is before expressed By the appointment of his Excellency and the Generall Councell of his Army Signed John Rushworth Secr. At the head quarters at Kingston upon Thames Aug. 18. 1647. A Declaration from his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax concerning the Excise WHereas it hath pleased the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled in and by their Declaration of the 28. of August last concerning the Excise to appoint me to order and enjoyne all Colonels Captaines Officers and Souldiers under my command upon application made to them or any of them speedily to suppresse all tumults ryots and unlawfull assemblies which shall be attempted or acted in opposition against the Commissioners of Excise their Sub-commissioners Collectors or Officers in execution of the Ordinances of Parliament for the Excise and to apprehend all such ryoters and tumultuous persons that they may be proceeded against according to law In pursuance wherof I doe hereby require all Colonels Captaines Officers and Souldiers under my command upon application from time to time of the said Commissioners of the Excise their sub-commissioners collectors or officers unto them or any of them to be ayding and assisting as well in preventing of such tumults and ryots as in the suppressing thereof Given under my hand and seale the fourth day of Septemb. 1647. Tho Fairfax A Letter from Hampton-Court containing the substance of His Majesties most Gracious Answer to the Propositions presented to him from both Kingdomes Right Honourable THe Commissioners of both Kingdomes came hither on Tuesday nigh● last September 7. instant delivered a Letter to the rest of the Commissioners whom they found here with His Majesty from both Houses of Parliament that the said Propositions should be presented to the King that night and that the Scots Commissioners would be there to joyn with them to present them to his Majesty They also shewed the instructions from the Houses to their fellow-Commissioners which were to present them that night and to certifie His Majesty that they were to expect a positive Answer thereunto within six days The Sc●ts Commissioners were also here ready to joyne with our in presenting them to His Majesty About five of the clock that night they all came to the King The Prince Elector had been there but was returned to Richmond His Majesties children were also there who had dined with His Majesty that day and the Countesse of Northumberland with them and they were then with his Majesty being not at that time returned to Sion House And Mr. Maxvill was then come to the Court who is Chamberlain to his Majesty The Commissioners acquainted his Majesty with their Message from both Kingdomes and desired audience which his Majesty granted and presently met them in one of the chambers where His Majesty was with his Children and there the Propositions were presented and read and his Majesty told them that hee would give them an Answer as soone as he could Then the King with-drew for some time so that His Majesty went late to Supper that night The Commissioners wrot● letters to the Houses to acquaint them what was done and what his Majesty said and desired that they might all returne to the Parliament when his Majesty gave them a dispatch Wednesday Septemb. 8. instant the King was up early in the morning being very desirous to dispatch the Commissioners with all possible speed his Majesty walked forth a little before Dinner and so a little againe in the after-noone to refresh himselfe Divers came from London and elsewhere and some obtained leave to kisse his Majesties hand Thursday Sept. 9. His Majesty called for the Commissioners and gave an Answer to them which is to this effect That His Majesty takes notice of these Propositions to be very little differing from the former presented to him at Newcastle to which his Majesty returned Answer when he came to Holdenby That his Majesty conceives they cannot but take notice of the Proposalls of the Army which all rationall men cannot but confesse are much more reasonable and tending to a firme and setled Peace And therefore his Majesty desires that Commissioners from the Parliament and Commissioners from the Army may be s●n● to His Majesty to treat with him upon the Proposalls from the Army that a firm Peace may be setled This Thursday the 9. instant the Earl of P●mbrooke and Major Generall Browne returned with his Majesties Answer bet●mes in the morning for it was toolate before they could return over night by reason of some things which were to be done by the Commissioners that night The Letter is directed to the Earl of Manchester Speaker of the House of Peers pro tempore to be communicated to both Houses of Parliament the like to the Scots Commissioners His Majesty is very confident that his Answer will give much satisfaction and His Majesty doth exceedingly approve of the proceedings of the Army Dated at Hampton-Court Sept. 9. 1647. Twelve Proposalls from His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Councell of his Armie which His Majesty seemes better to approve of then any thing which hath hitherto been presented to Him 1. AN Act to be passed to take away all coersive power authority and jurisdiction of Bishops and all other Ecclesiasticall Officers whatsoever extending to any civill penalties upon any and to repeal all Laws whereby the civill Magistracy hath been or is bound upon any Ecclesiasticall censure to proceed exofficio unto any civill penalties against any persons so censured 2. That there be a repeale of

sword We therefore the said Generall Councell to testifie how far our hearts and minds are from any design of setting up the power of the sword above or against the fundamentall authority and government of the Kingdome And our readinesse to maintaine and uphold the said authority Have by a free Vote in the said Councell no man contradicting judged the said Member To be expelled the said Councell Which we hereby thought fit to publish as a cleare manifestation of our dislike and disavowing such principles or purposes Putney Septemb. 9. 1647. By the appointment of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Generall Councell of his Army Signed John Rushworth Secretary His Majesties Message in Answer to the Propositions presented to him at Hampton-court Sept. 7. 1647. by the Earls of Pembrook and Lauderdale Sir Charls Erskin si● John Holland sir John Cooke sir James Harrington Mr. Richard Brown Mr. Hugh Kenedy and Mr. Robert Barkley In the names of the Parliament of England and in behalfe of the Kingdome of Scotland Charles Rex HIs Majesty cannot choose but be passionately sensible as hee believes all his good Subjects are of the late great distractions and still languishing and unset●ed State of this Kingdom and he calls God to witnesse and is willing to give testimony to all the world of his readinesse to contribute His utmost endeavours for restoring it to a happy and flourishing condition His Majesty having perused the Propositions now brought to Him finds them the same in effect which were offered to him at Newcastle To some of which as Hee could not then consent without violation of His conscience and honour so neither can he agree to others now conceiving them in many respects more disagreeable to the present condition of affaires then when they were formerly presented to Him as being destructive to the main and principall interests of the Army and of all those whose affections concur with them And His Majesty having seen the Proposals of the Army to the Commissioners from His two houses residing with them with them to be treated on in order to the clearing and securing the Rights and Liberties of the Kingdom and the setling a just and lasting peace To which Proposalls as he conceives His two Houses not to be strangers so he believes they will think with him that they much more conduce to the satisfaction of all interests and may be a fitter foundation for a lasting peace then the Propositions which at this time are tendred unto Him Hee therefore propounds as the best way in his judgment in order to peace that His two Houses would instantly take into consideration those Proposalls upon which there may be a personall Treaty with His Majesty and upon such other Propositions as His Majesty shall make hoping that the said Proposalls may be so moderated in the said Treaty as to render them the more capable of his Majesties full concessions wherein He resolves to give full satisfaction unto his people for whatsoever shal concern the setling of the Protestant profession with liberty to tender consciences the securing of the Laws Liberties and properties of all His Subjects and the just priviledges of Parliament for the future And likewise by His present deportment in this Treaty He will make the world clearly judg of His intentions in matter of future government In which Treaty His Majesty wil be well pleased if it bee thought fit that Commissioners from the Army whose Proposals are may likewise be admitted His Majestie therefore conjures his two houses of Parliament by the duty they owe to God and His Majesty their King and by the bowels of compassion they have to their fellow-Subjects both for reliefe of their present sufferings and to prevent future miseries that they will forthwith accept of His Majesties offer whereby the joyfull news of peace may be restored to this distressed Kingdome And for what concerns the Kingdom of Scotland mentioned in the Propositions His Majesty will very willingly treat upon those particulars with the Scotch Commissioners and doubts not but to give reasonable satisfafaction to that His Kingdome Given at Hampton-Court Sept. 9. 1647. For the Speaker of the Lords House pro tempore to be communicated to both Houses of the Parliament of England and the Commissioners of the Kingdom of Scotland Master Speaker THe sad condition and sufferings of divers well-affected to your affaires in the Kingdom is very grievous particularly the cases of James Simbal Francis Wade Robert White and Roger Crab as they are presented unto me which hath induced me to present the inclosed paper to your consideration wherein you may see the manner nature and pretences of their sufferings as presented and withall the exorbitancies of some in places of Judicature towards such who in the worst of times exprest much affection and reality to your proceedings And I humbly desire you to move the House to take their condition into consideration if they be committed meerly for speaking words against the King in time of War which thing I in no sort approve of yet it would doe well if the men might have some enlargement so as they may not perish by a languishing imprisonment such cruell usage as some of them suffer especially considering the offences for which they suffer were but in expresse of zeale for your Cause and that upon apparent provocation from such as I am informed as were your professed enemies With all due submission to you I desire their speedy enlargement and freedome of their Estate Your humble Servant Tho Fairfax Putney Sept. 12. 1647. For the Honourable Will Lenthall Esq Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons The particular cases of severall prisoners returned in the Kalender to the County Gaol at the White Lyon in Southwark the last Assizes held at Darking for the County of Surrey Represented by his Excellency to the Parliament IAmes Simball Deputy Keeper of Winchester house lying sicke hearing a Cavallier there a prisoner then say That the Parliament were Rebells and Traytors and that if the King came to London with his Army hee would make the Parliament a poore Parliament and Exemplary for their Rebellion by chopping off their heads at the doore The said Cavallier neer two years after boasting of a designe intended against the Parliament and being questioned for the same by the said Simball out of malice did accuse him for speaking against the King in these words viz. That he the said Simball hoped to see the Kings head upon the Tower blocke When indeed the said words were spoken in Answer to those above mentioned upon these conditions That if the King had any such intention then he the said Simball hoped as afore-said and thus much the said Cavalier himselfe did confesse but afterwards denyed Now the said Simball being indicted without any cognizance taken of these circumstances stands convicted by the only testamony of the said Cavallier ever since the Assizes held in March last and adjudged

Treaty in consideration whereof we have made it our care constantly to tend at the appointed times of meeting and to presse all dispatch therein And we canot but take notice that the proceedings on your part have been and are very slow and that little or nothing hath been done in the Treaty since our entrance thereupon and therefore in discharge of our Duty and the Trust reposed in us we do very earnestly desire that the Treaty may be effectually proceeded on with all expedition and the times for meeting punctually kept there being nothing that shall be wanting in us according to the power given us to further a work of so great importance and which may perfect a right understanding betwixt the Parliament and the Army By the appointment of the Commissioners residing with the Army Reading July 7. 1647. An Answer of the Commissioners of the Army to the Paper of the Commissioners of Parliament about a speedy proceeding BY the last Paper delivered in unto us from your Lordships at Reading July 7. we perceive you find that the Expectation of the Parliament and Kingdome is great upon the speedy progresse and happy issue of this Treaty We answer that we do really apprehend the same things with you neither can we but witnesse that you have constantly attended the appointed times of meeting and prest dispatch therein Neverthelesse we cannot but be very sensible that you seem to reflect upon us further then there is just cause in your taking notice that the proceedings herein should be slow and dilatory on our part as if we should not seem to desire and labour the quick and speedy settlement o the affaires of the Kingdome in a safe and well-grounded Peace as cordially as any persons whatsoever We shall therefore desire you to remember with what forwardnesse we have in the first place presented to you those things which we did in our hearts conceive necessary in order to a Treaty and without which being granted we could not with safety to the Kingdome and satisfaction to our selves proceed in Treaty and further prest you to present them to the Parliament with speed that a quick dispatch might be had therein as being in our thoughts the chiefest and surest way to prevent the engaging this Kingdome in a second War when contrary to our expectation we have found little effectually done in relation to our Desires in those things most concerning the safety and peace of the Kingdome To the end therefore wee may acquit our selves from being guilty of the delay you mention and that it may appeare to all men where the stick is of not proceeding in the Treaty to a settlement of the Peace of the Kingdome so much thirsted after by us all we thought fit to reminde you of these following proposals which we have formerly insisted upon and to which satisfaction is not given I. That there is nothing done with effect notwithstanding the Votes of the House to the dispersing of the Reformado Officers who continue in and about London ready to head Forces to the apparent hazzard of a new Warre II. That notwithstanding the Votes of the House for the speedy sending into Ireland or disbanding those forces which have left the Army and their speciall Order to the Committee at Derby House to take speedy care therein yet they are still continued in bodies in and about London and as we heare are daily listing more Forces pretending the service of Ireland III. That notwithstanding the Votes of the House of the tenth of June and those since of the fifth of July for the present purging of the House yet divers persons comprised in these Votes continue still to sit there So long as we remain unsatisfied in the two first of these particulars we cannot be secured from those doubts we have expressed of the danger of a new Warre especially if it be considered that the end of inviting so many Reformado Officers to London was to lay a foundation of a new Warre and was principally carried on by the designe of some of those Members of the house of Commons we have impeached And likewise that divers of the Officers and Souldiers which left this Army were procured by promises of pay and other ingagements which were likewise designed by the same persons aforementioned if possibly they might thereby have broken this Army And for the last what comfortable effect may we expect of a Treaty so long as the Parliament the supreme Judicatory of the Kingdome is coustituted of some that are men of interests contrary to the common good thereof from whom we can expect nothing but banding and designing to obstruct and frustrate all proceedings contrary to their interest though never so essentiall to the happy settlement of the Kingdome and if a seasonable remedy be not given herein we despaire of any good to the Kingdome by way of Treaty Signed By the appointment of the Commissioners of the Army W. Clerk Secre. Reading 7. July 1647. A PARTICVLAR CHARGE OR IMPEACHMENT In the Name of his Excellency Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX And the Army under his Command against Denzill Holles Esquier Sir Philip Stapleton Sir William Lewis Sir John Clothworthy Sir William Waller Sir John Maynard Knights Major Generall Massie John Glynne Esquire Recorder of London Walter Long Esquire Colonel Edward Harley and Anthony Nicoll Esquire Members of the Honorable House of Commons WHereas on the fifteenth day of June last the Heads of a Charge were delivered in the name of the said Army unto the Commissioners of Parliament to bee sent up to the Parliament against the Persons above named Now in prosecution and maintenance thereof and according to the power thereby preserved It is in the Name of the said Army more particularly charged against the said persons as followeth 1. That the said Mr. Denzill Holles during the late Warre in prosecution of the evill designes expressed in the generall Heads or Articles formerly exhibited contrary to the trust reposed in him contrary to his Oath taken in June 1643. and contrary to the Ordinance of Parliament dated in October 1643. hath assisted the King in the late unnaturall Warre and held correspondency and intelligence with the Enemy against the Parliament in manner following viz. He the said Mr Holies being one of the speciall Commissioners for the Parliament to present Propositions of both Houses to the King at Oxford did privately and contrary to his instructions at severall times make his addresses unto the Kings party the ●●●●en in Armes against the Parliament namely unto the Earle of Lyndsey the Earle of Southampton the Lord Savill and others and did secretly plot and advise them against the Parliament and did intimate unto them or one of them that the said Propositions then sent unto his Majesty by the Parliament were unreasonable And the said M. Holles being demanded what Answer he would advise the King to make to the Propositions he the said M. Holles did advise that the King should demand a

houses of Parliament from this honourable Assembly And we shall pray A solemne engagement of the Citizens Commanders Officers and Souldiers of the Trained bands Auxiliaries the young men and Prentices of the Cities of London Westminster Sea Commanders Sea-men Watermen together with divers others the Commanders Officers and souldiers within the lines of Communication and Parishes mentioned in the Weekly Bill of Mortality WHereas we have entered into a solemne League and Covenant for Reformation and defence of Religion the honour and happiness of the King and the peace safety of the 3. Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland all which we do iminently perceive not only to be endangered but ready to be destroyed we do therefore in pursuance of our said Covenant oath of Allegiance oath of every Free-man of the Cities of London and Westminster and protestation solemnly ingage our selves vow unto Almighty God that we will to the utmost of our power cordially endeavour that His Majesty may speedily come to his 2. Houses of Parliament with Honour safety and freedom and that without the neerer aproach of the Army there to confirm such things as he hath granted in his Message of the 12. of May last in answer to the Propositions of both Kingdoms that by a Personall Treaty with his 2. Houses of Parliament and the Commissioners of the Kingdom of Scotland such things as yet are in difference may be speedily setled a firm lasting peace established for the effecting hereof we do protest and reobliege our selves as in the presence of God the searcher of all hearts with our lives and fortunes to indeavour what in us lie to preserve and defend His Majesties Royall Person and authority the priviledges of Parliament and liberty of the Subject in their full and constant freedom the Cities of London and Westminster lines of Communication and Parishes mentioned in the weekly Bill of Mortality and all others that shall adhere with us to the said Covenant and oath of Allegiance oath of every Free-man of London and Westminster and Protestation Nor shall we by any meanes admit suffer or endure any neutrality in this common cause of God the King and Kingdome as we do expect the blessing of Almighty God whose help we crave and wholly devolve our selves upon in this our undertaking I. Doe hereby require the chiefe Officer present with every Troope and Company to make strict enquiry what Cavalliers have been listed entertained in their Troopes or Companies since the Muster preceeding the last Muster And that all such chiefe Officers shall presently upon such enquiry as before put forth of their Troopes or Companies of such Cavalliers as they shall find in their Troopes or companies from such Musters as before And before they receive any pay upon this last Muster they shall expunge all such Cavalliers out of their Muster Rolls as they shall have put out of their Troops or Companies And if it shall hereafter appear that any chiefe Officer present with their Troop or Company shall neglect is put forth or cashiere such Cavalliers in manner as before or receive any for the time to come upon proofe thereof made he shall be lyable to a Councell of War and be accordingly proceeded against Given under my Hand the 21. of July 1647. Tho Fairfax For the Commissioners of Parliament residing with the Army My Lords and Gentlemen HAving resolved upon this inclosed dispatch from the City of London I thought it my part to give you an account of it and to give you all assurance that my heart is deeply affected with the late carriages toward the Parliament And how-ever others have neglected their duty towards them for their security and defence yet as God shall enable me it shall be my great businesse to improve all that is in my hand for the preserving of them and in them the interest of this Nation And what construction soever some formerly may have put upon the proceedings of this Army I trust the Lord will by his good hand lead us into such good actions as shal witnesse our end answerable to all our professions to wit for the good of the Kingdom and thereinto be an effectuall saving to great authority of the Kingdome in the Parliament I rest Your most assured friend Tho. Fairfax Bedford July 29. 1647. To the Right Honourable the Lord Major Aldermen and Common Councell of the City of London My Lord and Gentlemen YOu may please to remember the forward complyance of this Army with your desires to remove to this distance and that upon the assurance you gave them of your concurrence with their declared desires for the setling the liberty and peace of this Kingdom against which you never yet offered us one exception or any ground of dissent as also of your great tendernesse and resolution to secure the Parliament and their Priviledges from any violence or attempt the chiefe reason given us of your late listing of new forces and wherein we did most acquiesce That upon this confidence we had disposed the Army into severall parts of the Kingdom for the ease of the whole to above 100. miles distance we had given up our selves to the effecting of such proposalls as might tend to the comfortable settlement of this poor Kingdom and we were in a hopefull way for the speedy reliefe of Ireland We cannot then but be deepely sensible of the unparalled violation acted upon the Parliament upon Monday last by a rude multitude from your City because therein the guards sent from the City did not only neglect their duty for the security of the Parliament from such violence and the whole Citie to yeild any reliefe to the houses in that extreamity but I am assured from eye ear-witnesses that divers of the Common-councell gave great encouragement to it which doth not only gain-say your former professions but does violence to those many obligations that by your Charter Protestation and sundry other wayes lye upon you to protect the Parliament For my part I cannot but look on your selves who are in authority as accountable to the Kingdome for your present interruptions of that hopefull way of Peace and settlement things were in for this Nation and of relieving Ireland occasioned by the late Treasonable and destructive engagement Especially the lately prodigious and horrid force done upon the Parliament tending to dissolve all government upon which score we and the whole Kingdom shall have cause to put every thing of the like nature that may happen to the Parliament or to any who are friends to them and this Armie except by your wisedom care and industry the chiefe acters in the Premisses may be detected secured and given up to the procuring of justice for the same and the best endeavours used to prevent the like for the future And so I rest Your most assured friend to serve you Tho. Fairfax Bedford 29. July 1647. A Declaration of William Lenthall Esquire Speaker of the

the first Bienniall Parliament IV. That an Act be passed for disposing the great Offices for ten years by the Lords and Commons in Parliament or by such Committees as they shall appoint for that purpose in the intervalls with submission to the approbation of the next Parliament and after ten yeares they to nominate three and the King out of that number to appoint one for the succession upon any vacancy V. That an Act be passed for restraining of any Peers made since the 21. day of May 1642. or to be hereafter made from having any power to sit or Vote in Parliament without consent of both Houses VI. That an act be passed for recalling and making voyd all Declarations and other proceedings against the Parliament or against any that have acted by or under their authority in the late Warre or in relation to it And that the Ordinances for indempnity may be conffirmed VII That an Act be be passed for making voyd all Grants c. under the Great-Seale that was conveyed away from the Parliament since the time it was so conveyed away except as in the Parliaments Propositions and for making those valid that have been or shall be passed under the Great-Seale made by the authority of both Houses of Parliament VIII That an Act be passed for confirmation of the Treaties betweene the two Kingdomes of England and Scotland and for appointing Conservators of the peace betwixt them IX That the Ordinance for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries be confirmed by Act of Parliament Provided his Majesties Revenue be not damnified therein nor those that last held Offices in the same left without reparation some other way X. An Act to declare void the Cessation of Ireland c. and to leave the prosecution of that Warre to the Lords and Commons in the Parliament of England XI An Act to be passed to take away all coercive power authority and jurisdiction of Bishops and all other Ecclesiasticall Officers whatsoever extending to any civill penalties upon any and to repeale all Laws whereby the Civill Magistracy hath been or is bound upon any Ecclesiasticall censure to proceed ex officio unto any civill penalties against any persons so censured XII That there be a Repeale of all Acts or Clauses in any Act enjoyning the use of the Booke of Common-Prayer and imposing any penalties for neglect thereof as also of all Acts or Clauses in any Act imposing any penaltie for not comming to Church or for meetings elsewhere for Prayer or other religious duties excercises or Ordinances And some other provision to be made for discovering of Papists and Popish Recusants and for disabling of them and of all Jesultes or Priests from disturbing the State XIII That the taking of the Covenant be not inforced upon any nor any penalties imposed upon the Refusers whereby men might be constrained to take it against their judgements or consciences but all Orders or Ordinances tending to that purpose to be repealed XIV That the things here before proposed being provided for setling and securing the Rights Liberties Peace and safety of the Kingdome his Majesties person his Queen and Royall issue may be restored to a condition of safety Honour and freedome in this Nation without diminution to their personall Rights or further limitation to the exercise of the Regall power then according to the particulars aforegoing XV. For the matter of Compositions 1. That a lesser number out of the persons excepted in the two first qualifications not exceeding five for the English being nominated particularly by the Parliament who together with the persons in the Irish Rebellion included in the third qualification may be reserved to the further judgement of the Parliament as they shall finde cause All other excepted persons may be remitted from the exception and admitted to Composition 2. That the rates for all future Compositions may be lessened and limitted not to exceed the severall proportions hereafter exprest respectively That is to say 1. For all persons formerly excepted not above a third part 2. For the late Members of Parliament under the first branch of the fourth qualification in the Propositions a fourth part 3. For other Members of Parliament in the second and third branches of the same qualification a sixth part 4. For the persons nominated in the said fourth qualification and those included in the tenth qualification and eight part 5. For all others included in the sixth qualification a tenth part And that reall debts either upon record or proved by witnesses be considered and abated in the valuation of their estates in all the cases aforesaid 3. That those who shall hereafter come to compound may not have the Covenant put upon them as a condition without which they may not compound but in case they shall not willingly take it they may passe their Compositions without it 4. That the persons and estates of all English not worth two hundered pounds in Lands or Goods be at liberty and discharged And that the Kings meniall Servants that nere tooke up Armes but onely attended his person according to their Offices may be freed from Composition or to pay at most but the proportion of one yeares Revenue or a twentieth part 5. That in Order to the making and perfecting of Compositions at the rates aforesaid the Rents Revenues and other Duties and Profits of all sequestred Estates whatsoever except the Estates of such persons who shall bee continued under exception as before be from hence forth suspended and detained in the hands of the respective tenant occupants and others from whom they are due for the space of six moneths following 6. That the Faith of the Army or other foroes of the Parliament given in Articles upon surrenders to any of the Kings party may be fully made good and where any breach thereof shall appeare to have been made full reparation and satisfaction may be given to the parties injured and the persons offending being found out may be comeplled thereto XVI That there may be a generall Act of Oblivion to extend unto all except the persons to be continued in exception as before to absolve from all Trespasses Misdemeanours c. done in prosecution of the Warre and from all trouble or prejudice for or concerning the same after their compositions past and to restore them to all priviledges c. belonging to other Subjects provided as in the fourth particular under the second generall Head affore-going concerning security And whereas their have been of late strong indeavours and practises of a factious and desperate party to imbroyle this Kingdome in a new War and for that purpose to enduce the King the Queene and Prince to declare for the said party and also to excite and stirre up all those of the Kings late party to appeare and engage for the same which attempts and designes many of the Kings party out of their desires to avoid further misery to the Kingdome have contributed their indeavours to prevent as

Rich. Hodden Ro. Gibbon Hen. Davis Lewis Awdeley Cap. Lieut. Io. Wallington Cap. Lieut. Edw. Orpin Ro. Anderson Tho. Haws Cap Lieu. Giles Sanders Rich. Sanders Io. Shrimpton Cap. Lieut. Francis-Allen Io. Grime Ia. Iermin Tho. Price Fra. Hawes Will. Arnop Cap. Lieu. Mat. Cadwell Io. Biscoe Sam. Rose Wil. Weare Cap. Lieu. Ro. Read Io. Toppenden Alex. Brafield Wil. Goffe Tho. Patsons George Gregson Roger Alsop Io. Salkeild Waldoffe Lagoe Io. Mason Hen. Lilburn Abra. Holmes Ier. Iolchurse Amos Stoddar Lieutenants Griffith Lloyde Edw. Scotton Tho. Sheares N●t Wight Ben. Gifford Sampson Toogood Hen. Johnson Ioh. Merriman Hen. Martin Edm. Ch llenden George Ensor George Elsemore Tho. Aldridge Io. Peck Io. Frank Gelm Taylor Stephen White Io. Barrow Rich. Kemp Rich. Mosse Ralph Parker Martin Iubbs Tho. Ellis Phil. Price Jo. Hawes Io. Clark Ro. Taylor Io. Friend Rich. Tompson Io. Savage Tho. Camberlain Geor. Smith Ralph Galo Nat. Chasse Ralph Wilson Io. Watson Io. Filkins Lewis Noreot William Farley Brian Smith Alex Davis Ro. Lewis Io. Toppen Hugh Ienkin Io. Nichola Edward Dornay Io. Miller Ia. Clark Edw. Farmer Tho. Day Randol Warner Wil-Giuge Wil. Skelley Ethel Morgan Adrian Arwood Ienken Bevon George Ienkin Wil. Hill Io. Ward Tho. Barker Ed. Singleton Io. Friend Rich. Tompson Tho. Cossinghurst And. Edwards Sam Axtel Fran. Wheeler Io. Petter Cornets Wil. Barrington Io. Fox Rich. Southwood Tho. Barkley Edm. Winstanly Wil. Whittington Io. Sabberton George Ioyce Chry. Kember Io. Corde Geor. Tracy Wil. Beuck Io. Clark Wil. Leadbrook Pet. Wallis Sam. Packer Hen. Mills Io. Southwood Ja. Wilson Io. Spencer Rich. Webb Cha. Whitehead Abel Warren Anth. Lacon Wil. Lurna Sam. Boalley Ensignes Cha. Bolton Rob. Smith Geo. Clark Willi. Iones Ier. Hand Sam. Bince Ro. Beldea Tho. Rawlins Ier. Camfield Tho. Newman Evan Iones Hen. Cedwath Fardinando Green Geor. Neckthey Francis Farmer Hen. Williams Tho. Lewis Rich. Bourn Will. Ioyce Wil. Galhampton Rob. Banning VVil. Everard Io. Mason VVil. Cooper Downhalt Gregory Abinam Spooner Wil. Beard Sam. Chase Edw. Evans Io. Bishop Fra. Litler Wil. Disney Io. VVard Rich Essex Tho. Chambers Io. Bret Abel VVarren Quartermasters Wil. Williams Io. Goodwir Cales Leigh Wil. Miller George Sanders Rich. Slaynor Ed. Warren Tho. Savage Nath. Chedis Philip Ramsey Tho. Stewars Io. Ads Ro. Agard Io. Kennet Hen. Ward Io Due Tho. Ward Phil. Ioanes Rich. Hunt A Letter from his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax sent to both Houses of Parliament concerning the Kings being brought from Holdenby towards the Army Mr. Speaker BY my last of Friday the 4 instant I gave you account of what I understood from Holmby concerning the undertaking of some Souldiers on Wednesday last to secure the King from being secretly conveyed away and that Col. Graves being thereupon secretly slipt away I had sent Col. Whaley with his Regiment to attend the Commissioners and take charge of the Guards there On Saturday morning being at a Randezvouze beyond Newmarket and advancing the Army this way in order to quarter about Cambridge I received advertisement That the Souldiers of Holmby had upon Friday morning with his Majesties consent brought him away from thence together with your Commissioners That they lay at Hinchingbrook near Huntingdon on Friday night and would be at Newmarket that day The ground of this remove was alledged to be an apprehension in the Souldiers of some Forces gathering towards that place suddenly to fal upon them for●e the K●out of their hands to withstand which they thought they might b●●●o weak having then no notice of Col. Whaleys comming with his Regiament upon this immediately I sent after Col. Whaley to advertise him thereof with order to direct his course towards Huntingdon and where ere he met his Majesty and the Commissioners to desire that they would come on no further this way but rather to return and suffer him to guard them back And to prevent any danger imaginable therein I sent off from the Rendezvouz two Regiments of Horse more to march after Col. Whaley towards Huntingdon and so on towards Holdenby to be assistant to him in the Guards about his Majesty i● it should be found needfull And thus I held on the motion of the rest of the Army this way Towards Evening a f●●t the Quarters of the Army were assigned and taken up hereabouts and the Regiments marching off towards their severall Quarters I understood from Collonel Whaley that meeting the King and your Commissioners upon their way from Huntington towards New-market about foure miles short of Cambridge they had forborn to come on any further but his Majesty being not willing to return back for Holdenby they had taken up his Quarter for present at Sir John Cuts his house at Childerley being the next house of any conveniency to the place where we met them Hereupon I sent thither Sir Hardres Waller and. Col. Lambert to informe the Commissioners of my comming to Cambridge and the Armies quartering hereabouts and to desire that they would think of returning back with his Majesty to Holdenby and because there might bee many inconveniencies in delay that they would not make any stay where they were but remove back that way next morning though it were the Lords day the Commissioners refused to act or meddle any otherwise in disposing the King then by their Answer to me whereof I have sent you a Copy here inclosed you see And his Majesty declares himselfe very unwilling to goe back to Holdenby I have thus given you a true and faithfull account how his Majesty came to the place where he is and how the Quarters of the Army have fallen out to be so neare him What ever by the concurrence of events to make it thus may be suspected of designe therein This is the exact truth of the businesse and I can clearly professe as in the presence of God for my self and dare be confident of the same for all the Officers about me and body of the Army that this remove of his Majesty from Holde● by was without any designe knowledge or privity thereof on our parts and a thing altogether unexpected to us untill the notice of it came upon the Randezvouz as before neither the Randezvouz or comming hither to quarter with the Army from any purpose or with any expectation to be so neere His Majesty as it happens But the effect is so farre meerly providentiall and to us accidentall but the case being as it is your Commissioners refusing to intermeddle as before and the King to goe back I have placed and shall continue about his Majesty such a Guard of trusty men and under such command Collonell Whaley being chiefe in the charge as I may be responsall for to the Parliament and Kingdome so farre as can reasonably be expected from me by the blessing of God to secure his Majesties person from danger and prevent any attempts of such as may designe by that advantage of his Person the best to raise any new Warre in this Kingdome And truely

Sir to prevent any such mischiefe as it is my own most earnest and humble desire so I finde it to be the unanimous desire and study of the Army that a firme peace in this Kingdome may be setled and the Liberties of the people cleared and secured accordingly to the many Declarations by which we were invited and induced to ingage in the late War and the Parliaments effectuall and speedy application to these two things I finde would conduce more fully and surely to a chearefull and unanimous disbanding And yet what ever may be suggested or suspected I doe certainly finde and dare assure you you may depend upon it That the sense of the Army is most cleare from any purpose or inclination to oppose the setling of Presbytery or to have the Independent Government set up or to uphold a licentiousnesse in Religion or to meddle with any such thing to the advancement of any particular party or interest whatsoever but to leave all such particular matters to the wisdome of the Parliament I shall by the next send you a full Account of the proceeding and unanimous resolutions of the Army at the late Rendezvouze being not at present prepared so fully as is fit The letter from both Houses I have received but this night the Quarters of the Army being lately altered before will make the Heath neere New market lesse convenient for a Randezvouze yet I shall take order according to the desire of the Houses to have a Randezvouze either there or not farre of on Wednesday next I remain Your most humble and faithfull Servant FAIRFAX Cambridge June 6. 1647. Postscript I shall according to my duty and the desires of the Houses doe my utmost to keep the Army in good order to which I finde it absolutely necessary that there be some pay presently sent down For the Honourable William Lenthall Esq Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons Mr. Speaker In my last I promised to send you by the next an Account of the Army at the late Randezvouze I have sent you the same in two Papers unanimously agreed upon there by both Officers and Souldiers I finde in one of them divers things which your later proceedings since the Resolution of disbanding may have given satisfaction unto But the Army having then no knowledge thereof it was thus passed and delivered to me and I cannot but send it to them you may then see what they then did remaine unsatisfied in Understanding that his Majesty and your Commissioners were much straitened and disaccommodated in the House of Childerley I went thither yesterday to advise with your Commissioners about the disposall of his Majesty for more conveniency to himselfe and them then that place did afford The Commissioners were pleased wholly to refuse giving of any advise or opinion at all in the businesse and therefore the King declaring his Resolution not to goe back to Holdenby unlesse he were forced yet complaining much of the inconveniency he suffered where he was and pressing for a remove to New-Market and your Commissioners not judging it inconvenient for him to be there I ordered Col. Whalley this day to attend his Majesty and the Commissioners thither with a trusty and sufficient Guard of two Regiaments of Horse which accordingly was this day done and his Majesty with the Commissioners gone to New Market but not through Cambridge This businesse taking up the whole time yesterday and it being necessary his Majesty should be disposed of before the place of Rendezvouze could well bee resolved on this morning at a Councell of Warre it was judged inconvenient and scarce possible to draw to a Rendezvouze to morrow early enough to dispatch any thing Therefore it is appointed on Thursday morning at nine of the Clocke and in regard of his Majesties going to New-Market it was thought fit by the Councell of Warre that the place of Rendezvouze might bee altered from New-Market-Heath to Triploe-Heath five miles from this Towne I shall take care that your Commissioners if they come to New-Market may have notice of this alteration from the former appointment I remaine Your most humble Servant T. FAIRFAX Cambridge July 8. 1647. For the Honourable William Lenthall Esquire Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons A Solemne Engagement of the ARMY under the Command of his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax Read assented unto and subscribed by all Officers and Souldiers of the severall Regiments at the generall Randezvous near New-market on June 5. 1647. WHereas upon the Petition intended and agreed upon in the Army in March last to have been presented to the Generall for the obtaining of our due and necessary concernments as Souldiers the Honourable House of Commons being unseasonably prepossessed with a Copie thereof and as by the sequell we suppose with some strange misrepresentations of the carriage and intentions of the same was induced to send down an Order for suppressing the Petition and within two or three dayes after upon further misinformation and scandalous suggestions of the like or worse nature and by the indirect practise of some malicious and mischeivous persons as we suppose surprizing or otherwise abusing the Parliament A Declaration was published in the name of both Houses highly censuring the said Petition and declaring the Petitioners if they should proceed thereupon no lesse then enemies to the State and disturbers of the publick peace And whereas at the same time and since divers eminent Officers of the Army have been brought into question and trouble about the said Petition whereby both they and the rest of the Officers were disabled or discouraged for the time from further acting or appearing therein on the souldiers behalfe And whereas by the aforesaid proceedings and the effects thereof the souldiers of this Army finding themselves so stop't in their due and regular way of making knowne their just greivances and desires too and by their Officers were enforced to an unusuall but in that case necessary way of correspondence and agreement amongst themselves to chuse our of th● severall Troops and Companies severall men and those out of their whole number to chuse two or more for each Regiment to act in the name and behalfe of the whole souldiery of the respective Regiments Troops and Companies in the prosecution of their rights and desires in the said Petition as also of their just vindication and writing in reference to the aforesaid proceedings upon and against the same who have accordingly acted and done many things to those ends all which the souldiers did then approve as their owne Acts And whereas afterwards upon the sending downe of Field-Martiall Skippon and those other Officers of the Army that were Members of the House of Commons to quiet distempers in the Army fresh hopes being conceived of having our desires again admitted to be made known and considered in a regular way and without such misrepresentations as formerly the Officers and souldiers of the Army except some few dissenting Officers did againe joyne