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A82092	A declaration from the severall respective regiments in the Army to all free-born Commons within the realme of England. Wherein is set forth, the grounds and reasons of their present designe and engagement; together with their candid intentions, and reall resolutions therein, both towards King, Parliament, and Kingdome. As also, their message to the free-born people of this nation, concerning their present proceedings, with their most humble desires touching the same. Appointed to be printed and published, and sent to every respective county within the realme of England; by the agents of the aforesaid regimenss [sic], whose names are hereunto annexed.	Bear, Edmond.	1647 (1647)	Wing D597; Thomason E412_29; ESTC R204474	4,600	8

would not suffer your representatives to provide for your peace safety and freedome that were then in danger by disposing of the Militia and otherwise according to their trust and for the maintenance defense of that power and right of yours we hazarded all that was dear to us God hath born witnesse to the justice of our Cause And further minding that the only effectuall means to settle a just lasting peace to obtain remedy for all your grievances and to prevent future oppressions is the making clear secure the power that you betrust to your representatives in Parliament that they may know their trust in the faithfull execution whereof you will assist them Vpon all these grounds we propound your joyning with us in the agreement herewith sent vnto you that by vertue thereof we may have Parliaments certainly cal'd have the time of their sitting and ending certain and their power or trust clear and unquestionable that hereafter they may remove your burdens and secure your rights without oppositions or instructions and that the foundations of your peace may be so free from uncertainty that there may be no grounds for future quarrels or contentions to occasion war and bloud-shed we desire you would consider that as these things wherein we offer to agree with you are the fruits and ends of the Victories which God hath given us so the settlement of these are the most absolute means to preserve you and your posterity from slavery oppression distraction and trouble by this those whom your selves shall chuse shall have power to restore you to and secure you in all your rights they shall be in a capacity to tast of subjection as well as rule and so shall be equally concerned with your selves in all they do For they must equally suffer with you under any common burdens and partake with you in any freedomes and by this they shall be dis-inabled to defraud or wrong you when the lawes shall bind all alike without priviledge or exemption and by this your consciences shall be free from tyranny and oppression and those occasions of endlesse strifes and bloudy wars shall be in this Agreement all your particular and common grievances will be redressed forthwith without delay the Parliament must then make your reliefe and common good their only study Now because we are earnestly desirous of the peace and good of all our Country-men even of those that have opposed us and would to our utmost possibility provide for perfect peace and freedome and prevent all snites debates and contentions that may happen amongst you in relation to the late war we have therefore inserted it into this Agreement that no person shall be questionable for any thing done in relation to the late publike differences after the dissolution of this present Parliament further then in execution of their judgment that thereby all may be secure from all sufferings ●or what they have done and not liable hereafter to be troubled or punished by the judgmene of another Parliament which may be to t●●ir ruine unlesse this Agreement be joyned in whereby any acts of indemp●ito or oblivion shall be made unalterable and you and your posterities be secure But if any shall inquire why we should desire to joyn in an Agreement with the People to declare these to be our native Rights and not rather petition to the Parliament for them the reason is ●vident No Act of Parliament is or can he unalterable and so cannot be sufficient security to save pou or us harmlesse from what another Parliament may determine of it should be corrupted and besides Parliaments are to receive the extent of their power and trust from those that betrust them and therefore the people are to declare what their power trust is whic is the intent of this Agreement and it s to be observd that though there hath formerly been many Acts of Parliament for the calling of Parliaments every yeare yet you have been deprived of them and inslaved through want of them and therefore both necessity for your security in these freedomes that are assentiall to your well-being and wofull experience of the maenifold miseries and distractions that have been lengthened out since the wars ended through want of such a settlement tequires this Agreement and when you and we shall be joyned together therein we shall readily joyn with you to petition the Parliament as they are our fellow-Commoners equally concern'd to joyn with us And if any shall inquire why we undertake to offer this Agreement we must professe we are sensible that you have been so often deceived with Declarations and Remonstrances and fed with vain hopes that you have fufficient reason to abandon ●ll confidence in any persons whatsoever from whom you have no other security of their intending your freedome then bare Declarations And therefore as our consciences witnesse that in simplicity and integrity of heart we have proposed lately in the Case of the Army stated your freedome and deliverance from slavery oppression and all burdens so we desire to give you satisfying assurance thereof by this Agreement whereby the foundations of your freedomes provided in the Case c. shall be setled unalterably and we shall as faithfully proceed to and all other most vigorous actings for your good that God shall direct and enable us unto And though the malice of our enemies and such as they delude would blast us by scandals aspersing us with the designs of Anarchy and community yet we hope the righteous God will not only by this our desire of setling an equall just Government but also by directing us unto all righteous undertakings simply for publike good make our uprightnesse and faithfulnesse to the interest of all our Country-men shine forth so clearly that malice it self shall be silenced and confounded We question not but the longing expectation of a firme peace will incite you to the most speedy joyning in this Agreement in the prosecution whereof or of any thing that you shall desire for publike good you may be confident you shall never want the assistance of Your most faithfull fellow-Commoners now in Armes for your service Lieut. Gen. Regiment Edmond Bear Robert Everard Com. Gen. Regiment George Garret Thomas Beverley Col. Fleetwoods Regimnet William Pryor William Bryan Col. Whalies Regiment Matthew Weale William Russell Col. Riches Regiment John Dover William Hudson Col. Riches Regiment This Declaration is assented to and agreed upon by the severall Respective Regiments in the Army FINIS

A DECLARATION FROM The severall Respective Regiments in the Army to all Free-born Commons within the Realme of ENGLAND Wherein is set forth The Grounds and Reasons of their present Designe and Engagement Together with their candid intentions and reall resolutions therein both towards King Parliament and Kingdome AS ALSO Their Message to the Free-born People of this Nation concerning their present proceedings with their most humble desires touching the same APpointed to be printed and published and sent to every respective County within the Realme of England By the Agents of the aforesaid Regimenss whose names are hereunto annexed London Printed for H. E. November 5. 1647. A Declaration from the Army concerning a present settlement of the peace of the Kingdome HAving by our late lobours and hazards made it appear to the world at how high a rate we value our just freedom God having so far owned our cause as to deliver the Enemies thereof into our hands We do now hold our selves bound in mutuall duty to each other to take the best care we can for the future to avuid both the danger of returning into a slavish condition and the chargeable remedy of another war for as it cannot be imagined that so many of our Country-men would have opposed us in this quarrel if they had understood their owne good so may we safely promise to our selves that when our Common Rights and liberties shall be declared their endeavours will be disappointed that seek to make themselves our Masters since therefore our former oppressions and scarce yet ended troubles have been occasi●n●d either by want of frequent Nationall meeting 〈◊〉 Councell or by rendring those meetings ineffectuall We are ●bly agreed and resolved to provide that hereafter our Representativ be neither le●t to an uncertainty for the time nor made uselesse to the ends for which they are intended In order whereunto we declare 1. That the people of England being al this day very unequally distributed by Counties Cities and Burrouges for the election of their Deputies in Parliament ougot to be more indifferently proportioned according to the number of the Inhabitant●s the circumstances whereof for number place and manner are to be set down before the end of this present Parliament 2. That to prevent the many inconveniences apparently arising from the lo●g continuance of the same persons in authority this present Parliament be dissolved upon the last day of September which shall be in the year of our Lord 1648. 3. That the People do of course chuse themselves a Parliament once in two yeares viz. upon the first Thursday in every 2d March after the manner as shall be prescribed before the end of this Parliament to begin to sit upon the first Toursday in Aprill following at Westminster or such other place as shall be appointed from time to time by the preceding Represen●atives to continue till the last of September then n xt ensuing rnd no longer 4. That the power of this and all future Representatives of this Nation is inferiour only to theirs who chuse them and doth extend withoht the consent or concurrence of any other person or persons to the enacting a tering and repealing of Lawes to the erecting and abolishing of Offices and Courts to the appointing removing and calling to account Magistrates and Officers of all degrees to the making War and peace to the treating with forreigne States And generally to whatsoever is not expresly or implyedly reserved by the represented to themselves Which are as followeth 1. THat matters of Religion and the wayes of Gods Wor ship are not at all intrusted by us to any humane power-because therein we cannot remit or exceed a tittle of what our Consciences dictate to be the mind of God without wilfull sin neverthelesse the publike way of instructing the Nation so it be not compulsive is referred to their di●cretion 2. That the matter of impre●ting and constraining any of us to serve in the wars is against our freedome and therefore we do not allow it in our Representatives the rather because money the sinews of war being alwayes at their disposall they can never want numbers of men apt enough to engage in any just cause 3. That after the dissolution of present Parliament no person be at any time questioned f r any thing said or done in reference to the late publike differences otherwise then in execution of the Judgements of the present Representatives or House of Commons 4. That in all Lawes made or to be made every person may be bound alike and that no Tenure Estate Charter Degree Birth or place do confer any exemption from the ordinary Course of Legall proceedings whereunto others are subjected THese things we declare to be our native Rights and therefore are agreed and resolved to maintain t●em with our utmost possibillities against all opposition whatsoever being compelled thereunto not only by the examples of our Ancestors whose bloud was often spent in vain for the recovery of their Freedomes suffering themselves through fraudulent Accommodations to be still d●luded of the fruit of their Victories but also by our own wofull experience who having long expected and dearly earned the establishment of these certain rules of Government are yet made to depend for the settlement of our Peace and freedome upon him that intended our bondage and crought a cruell Warre upon us For the noble and highly honoured the Free-born People of England in their respective Counties and Divisions these Dear Country-men and fellow-Commoners FOr your sakes our friends estates lives have not been dear to us for your safety and freedome we have cheerfully indured hard Labours and run most desperate hazards and in comparison to your peace and freedome we neither do nor ever shall value our dearest bloud and we professe our bowels are and have been troubled and our hearts pained within us in seeing considering that you have been so long bereaved of these fruits ends of all our labours and hazards we cannot but sympathize with you in your miseries and oppressions It 's grief and vexation of heart to us to receive your meat or moneyes whilest you have no advantage nor yet the fouddations of your peace freedome surely layed therefore upon most serious considerations that your principall right most essentiall to your wel-being is the clearnesse certa nty suffic●ency freed●m of your power in your representative in Parliament and considering that the originall of most of your oppressions and miseries hath been either from the ob●cur●ty ou● dou●tfulnesse of the power you have committed to your representatives in your elections or from the want of c●u●age in those whom you have betrusted to claime and exerci●e their power which might propably proceed from their uncertainty of your assistance and maintenance of their power and minding that for this right of yours and ours we engaged our lives for the King ra●sed the war against you and your Parliament upon this ground that he