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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84857	New propositions from His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, sent to the Kings most Excellent Majesty: with his reasons, why he did not conduct His Majesty to White-Hall, when His Excellency marched through the city. As also, the time when His Majesty shall come, and upon what tearmes and conditions. And the substance of the armies new proposals, to be signed by King and Parliament.	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.; England and Wales. Army. Council.	1647 (1647)	Wing F205; Thomason E404_26; ESTC R201860	2,819	8

NEW PROPOSITIONS From His Excellency S ir THOMAS FAIRFAX SENT TO The Kings most Excellent Majesty With His Reasons why He did not conduct His Majesty to White-Hall when His Excellency marched through the City As also the time wren His Majesty shall come and upon what tearmes and conditions And the substance of the Armies new Proposals to be signed by King and Parliament C●ROLUS R●X GENERALL FAIRFAX Printed at Oxford by Leonard Brown and Reprinted at London for Robert Williams Anno Dom. 1647. Aug. 26 Certain new Proposals from his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax concerning the Kings most Excellent Maiesty HIs Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax having a tender and deepe sense of severall difficulties and dangers which were like to ensue and of the evill and treacherous dealings of the publike Enemies to the Peace of this Syon against the Parliament Army and Kingdomes peace and welfare having a long time sought and endeavoured to breake those silver Cords of Amity which hath been so unanimously knit together betwixt the hearts of our renowned Generall and the whole Kingdome and finding that all their wicked stratagems and Hell-bred Devices could not take effect they began to bethinke themselves of a new Project which indeed was a most horrid and desperate one and that was their great activenesse in sending and dispiersing of their severall Agents throughout many Counties within this Kingdome to the end that they might use their utmost endeavours to seduce the People and to make his Excellency and the Army odious unto them by defaming their just and honourable Endeavours with most false and scandalous aspersions and all under this Mask and Pretence that the Generall and Army sought their own private ends more then the good welfare of this languishing Kingdom with many more such like untruths and false aspersions and that there was a design in hand for bringing his Majesty to London and restoring of the Kingdom to their just rights and liberties All which delusions could not prevaile to withdraw the hearts of the People from his Excellency but were resolved to live and dye with him in the Armies just Cause and Engagement c. His Excellency and the Councell of the Army having seriously considered the wicked practises evill designes of these men and the great ruine that might befall this Kingdome if not timely prevented thought requisite for satisfaction of the whole Kingdom to Declare as followeth and to represent these ensuing Proposals to the view of the whole world viz. I. THat when by the blessing of God all things were composed the Kingdom reduced to a peaceable condition there were crosse workings by a prevalent party roobstruct and pervert justice and oppresse the peaceable and well affected people of the Kingdome and by holding forth pretences of Uniformity oppressed the people and to further their designes raised jealousies and to further their designes got a power into their hands of a publike influence whereby they had the advantage to raise a new warre and make disturbances in the Common wealth and the impeached Members continued about London very active therein and the new Militia joyned with them in ●●sting of Reformadoes others by which meanes the Speakers and many fa●thfull Members of b●th Houses were forced away after which some Members remaining chose new Speakers that they might act according to their own ends and that the proceedings votes of the major part of them during the absence of the Speaker intended to the carrying on of a treasonable Engagement After which all of them concentring as in other things so especially in this viz. To have the King brought up to London without delay or any neerer approach of the Army To which his Excellency propounds as followeth I. That had the King come up to Londen as they have so oft desired and attempted it is apparent they intended and would have made use of it rather to lay the stronger foundations of a new war then any way to settle thereby a safe and well-grounded Peace II. And since they could not rationally expect so casie an obtaining of the Kings Person to London upon any pretence whatsoever yet it is evident that they could intend nothing thereby but a more plaudible pretence and foundation of quarrell against this Army whereby to engage or incline to their assistancethe Kings Party and such others who might bee catcht with the apprehension thereof as a speedy way to Peace the thing so generally longed for and by such assistance gained the better to ruine this Army and those faithfull Members of Parliament who retired to it III. Thirdly For our parts wee shall reioyce as much as any to see the King brought backe to his Parliament and that not so much in place as in affection and agreement on such sound terms and grounds as may render both him and the Kingdom safe quiet and happy and shall be as ready as any to bring his Majesty to London when his being there may be likely to produce not greater Disturbances or Distractions but a Peace indeed and that such as may not be shaped and moulded only to the private advantages of a particular party or faction but bottom'd chiefly on grounds of common and publike safety IV. That if without regard to these considerations we would have brought his Majesty with us to London in our late advance thither which our Enemies could not hinder or prejudice us in we had no cause to doubt but as to men wee might have had all the advantages which our Adversaries promised to themselves thereby added to the strength intrest of the Army and have inverted the disadvantages upon them that they intended against vs thereby so as his Majesties coming to London might have beene much to their preiudice and our advantage if we had regarded only our own particulars V. That we have not minded nor bin acting our own workes and interests but the kingdomes and every honest mans in it For all which it is propounded and desired that the chiefe Actors of the late Designe may forthwith bee brought to tryall and it is further declared as followeth viz. That if any of those Members who during the absence of the speakers and the rest of the Members of both Houses forced away by the tumultuous violence aforesaid did sit and Vote in the pretended Houses then continuing at Westminster 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 and shall have acquited 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 Warre as is be●ore declared or for the King● coming forthwith 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 indeavoured in an hostile manner most unjustly to destroy and also to the Kingdome which the endeavoured to imbroyle in a new Warre as to take some speedy and effectuall course whereby to restraine them from being their own and ours 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 and parties to the aforesaid treasonable and dectructive practises and proceedings against the Freedome of Parliament and peace of the Kingdome may be brought to condigne punishment and and that at a Judgement of a Free Parliament consisting duly and pro perly of such Members of both Houses respectively who stand cleare from such apparent and treasonable breach of their trust as is before expressed At the head quarters at Kingston upon Thames Aug. 18. 1647. By the appointment of his Excellency and the Generall Councell of his Army Signed Iohn Rushworth Secr. The Army are perfecting of a modell by way of Propositions to be confirmed by King and Parliament for setling a firme Peace they are the substance of their former Propositions FINIS