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THE
PARLIAMENTARY
O R CONSTITUTIONAL
Hiftory of England,
From the earlieft TIMES,
T O T H E
Refloration of King CHARLES II.
COLLECTED
From the RECORDS, the ROLLS of Parliament, the JOURNALS of both Houfes, the Public LIBRARIES, Original MANU- SCRIPTS, fcarce SPEECHES, and TRACTS ; all compared with the feveral Contemporary Writers, and connected, through- out, with the Hiftory of the Times.
By SEVERAL HANDS.
THE SECOND EDITION. IN TWENTY- FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. XVI.
From June 23, 1647, to &&• IO< l^i-
L O N D O JV,
Printed for J. and R. TON SON, and A. MILLAR, in the Strand j and W. S A N D B Y, in Fleet-Jlreet.
MDCCLXIIL
THE
PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY
O F
ENGLAND.
N the 23d of June the Lords pafled An. 43" Cat. ft an Ordinance, fent up by the Com- l647- mons, for raifing Monies for the . { ~~ Service of England and Ireland. This was laying aTax of bOjCOol. An Ordinance a Month, to continue for one Year, &*_» monthly viz. from the 25th of March then
paft, to the 25th of March enfuing : A heavy Load, after all their former Preffures, on this 'miferable Kingdom.
The refpecYive Sums, charged upon each County * by the faid Ordinance, were as follows :
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Bedford/hire^ Berk/hire, — Buckingham/hire^ Cambridge/hire, Me of Ely VOL. XVI.
673 14 u| 683 15 9 8*5 8 o 1462 16 6^ 490 18 oj Chejbirt
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t • J Chejhire, — •— — - |
345 |
4 |
II* |
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jui£ Chejter City and County thereof, |
39 |
13 |
II |
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Cornwall, — • — — |
1228 |
5 |
6£ |
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Cumberland, — — — — |
342 |
9 |
4 |
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Derby/hire (a), — — — |
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Devon/hire, — — — — |
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Exeter City and-County thereof, |
117 |
9 |
2f |
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Dorfetjhire, — — — |
935 |
10 |
IC^ |
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PW*, Town and County, — |
9 |
16 |
7 |
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Durham, — — — |
J59 |
2 |
0 |
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E/ex, - - - |
4547 |
9 |
5 |
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Gloucejlerjhire, — — |
1212 |
2 |
5 |
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Gloucejler City and County 1 thereof, — — J |
134 |
13 |
9 |
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Hertfordjhire, — — — |
1638 |
15 |
5l |
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Hereford/hire, — — • — — |
168 |
2 |
3 |
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Huntingdonjhire, — — |
687 |
3 |
sl |
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Kent and Canterbury, with the 1 Cinque Ports — — J |
4763 |
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Lancajhire, — — — |
529 |
3 |
2 |
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Leicejlerjhire, — - — |
467 |
9 |
I04 |
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Lincolnjhire, — — — |
J53 |
8 |
1^ |
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Lincoln City and County thereof, Middlefex and Weflminjler, |
64 1521 |
12 J7 |
91 9 |
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London, — — • — |
39°7 |
19 |
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Monmouthjhire, — — |
192 |
J9 |
X |
Northampton/hire, — — 5911111-
Nottingbamjhire, — ~~ 353 J9 3
Nottingham, Town and County 1
thereof, — — ) " H &
Mr/M*, — — — 4763 I I
Norwich City and County 1 6 r *
thereof, — — J
Northumberland, — — 1001610*
Newcajlle Town — — 29 17 O
Oxford/hire, — ' — 779 13 xi£
Rutkndjhire, — • — 128 I o£
Shropjhire, — — 553 1 9 9*
(j) The Suma affefled upon Dtrbjfhire, Dtvonjhire, and Ter1tjkiret are omitted,
tf ENGLAND.
/. j.
Stafford/hire, — — — 454 1 5
Lit ch field^ — — — JO 14
Somerfetjbifi, — — 205011
Eriflol City and County thereof, 112 12 Southampton County, — — J5H 4
Southampton Town and Coun- 1 , 0 ty thereof, — — J
Ifle of Wight) — • ' — 208
Suffolk, — — - 4763
Surrey and Southwark, — — 1347 Sujfex and the Ports, — — 2646 Warwick/hire, — — — 621 3 Coventry City and County thereof, 679 10 Worcejlerjhire, — 704 i 8
Worcester City and County 1 ,f
thereof, — — J 4-35
Wiltlhire, — — 1421 18 9!
Wejlmoreland, — — 66 9 2~
King/Ion upon Hull, — — 50 18 9 WALES.
Anglefey, — *- — 501710
Brecknock/hire, — — •* — 50 I O o
Cardiganfoire, — • — 122 9 10^
Carmarthen/hire, — — 100 15 6
Carnarvon/hire, — — 42 6 5^
Denbigh/Jure^ — — 54 6 IO
Flint/hire^ — — — 33 9 4^
Glamorgan/hire, — -— 1311510
Merioneth/hire, — — 31 n 6
Montgomery/hire^ — — 123 2 8{:
Pembroke/hire, — — -— 11647^
Haverford-Wejl, — — 10 2 6|
Radnor/hire, — — — 73 * 7l
y«»* 24. A Packet was prefented to the Houfe »f Lords, from the Earl of Nottingham, one of their Commiffioners refiding with the Army, ad- «lrefled to the Earl of Manchejler, containing,
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l64
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Parliament.
Parliamentary tl i s T o R Y
n HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE from his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Army under his Command^ concerning the prefent State of Affairs in relation to them/elves and the Kingdom , with their Defires and prefent Reflations thereupon (b}.
Sf. dlbans, June 23, 1647. U R Defires, as Soldiers, in behalf of our- felves and other Sobers that have faithfully ' ferved the Parliament in this Kingdom j as alfo ' our remaining DifTatisfa&ions, in relation there-
* unto, may be clearly collected out of our fevera!
* Papers that have formerly been prefentecf to the ' Parliament concerning the fame, to which Par-
* ticulars we have not yet received any further Sa- ' tisfa&ton.
' In our late Reprefentation (c] it may appear
* what our Defires are, as Members of the Common -
* wealth, in behalf of our/elves and all others, for
* the clearing, fettling, and fecuring of the Rights', 4 Liberties, and Peace of the Kingdom ; for the
* Juftnefs, Reafonablenefs, Neceffity, and com- ' mon Concernment whereof unto all, we dare ap-
* peal to the whole Kingdom and the World j yet ' we have hitherto received no Anfwer thereunto,
* nor can we hear of any Confideration taken there-
* upon, to put the Things contained therein into
* any Way of Refolution or Difpatch.
' We have fmce that, in purfuance of the firft
* and fecond Heads of our Defires in' the fafd Re-
* prefentation, delivered in a Charge (d] againft di- ' vers Perfons, Members of the Houfe of Commons,
* for divers Defigns and Practices to the Abufe and
* Dishonour of the Parliament, the unfufferable
* Injury of the Army, the Infringement of the ' Rights an J Liberties both of Soldiers and Subje6lsr
* the Breach or Hazard of the Peace of this King- ' dom, and the Hindering of the Relief of Ire-
(l>) Printed for George JVbrttltigton, at the Sign of the Blue Anchor, in Ccrr.liH, nttr the Royal Exchange, London, 1647. This Re- monffrancf ;s not entered in the Journals of either Houfe.
W Vol. XV. p. 45S. (d}Md. P. 470.
* landt
^ENGLAND. 5
6 land, &c. Upon which, though the main Things An. 43 Car. I.
* charged, with the mifchievous Effects and fur- t *647' ^
* ther dangerous Confequences of them, as alfo june< f the conftant and continued Activity of all or moft
* of the Perfons charg'd, in relation to thofeThings, c for the moft part are fufficiently and notorioufly ' known, efpecially to the Parliament itfelf ; yet
* we find neither any Thing done upon what is fo ' known, nor any Way refolved on or admitted by ' the Parliament, for the Examination or Difco-
* very of what is lefs evident unto them ; but ra- ' ther (as if neither the Things charged, nor the ' prefent fad Effects, nor future ill Confequences ' thereof, were at all confiderable) the whole JBufi- ' nefs feems to be flightly pafled over, or fet afide.
Loftly, ' We did, with thefe, deliver in another c Paper (>), whereof here is a Copy annexed, con- c taining divers juft and neceflary Things, which we
* did defire might be provided for and done for the
* better Proceeding in the Premifles, with more
* Safety to ourfelves and the Kingdom, and with
* more Aflurance or Hopes of a timely and happy ' IfTue : To which Things defired (which we think ' all Men will judge reafonable, juft, and ncceflary) ' we have yet received no Anfwer or Refoludon ; nor
* can find any Confideration at all had of them, fave ' that a Month's Pay is fent down for the Army ; 6 whilft thofe that have deferted the Army receive,' at
* London^ much more ; and that fome Votes have *. been pafled for annulling the Orders of the pre- 6 tended Committee of Safety about lifting Men an,d ' drawing of Forces together ; which Votes we find •' rendered but vain and delufiye by the continued e under-hand Practices of thofe whom we haye
* charged, and their Accomplices, in lifting and en- ' gaging Men for a new War; and, by a later Day's
* Votes, not admitting that the Forces fo lifted or ' engaged fhouJd, by public Order, be difmilTed or ' difcharged ; which, with other Things, we can- ' not but attribute chiefly to the prevalent Influence 4 qf the fame Perfons.
(c) Vol. XV. p. 473.
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' Now, whereas we find that our firft Defire in the Paper laft meniioned, for prefent fufpending the Perfons impeached from fitting in the Houfe, is judged, by fome, to be againft the Courfe and c Privilege of Parliament ; or of ill Confequcnce in
* the Precedent of it, the Charge being but gene- c ral, and no particular Proofs as yet produced to ' render the Proceeding legal j we cannot but re- c mind the Parliament,
j. ' That as the moft and main Things charged,
* with the fad Effe&s and Confequences of them, ' fo the conftant and continued Activity of all, or c moft of the Perfons charged, in relation there- 4 unto, in mifinforming, deluding, abufmg, or fur- ' prizing the Houfe, and otherwife, are fufficiently ' known to the Parliament itfelf ; fo as the Houfe ' might upon their paft and prefent Cognizance of c the fame, moft juftly proceed to fufpend them ; ' as in many other Cafes, upon far lefs Occafions, ' which nerer could have produced fuch fad Effects ' to the Kingdom, they have done many other of ( .their Members, meerly for Words fpoken, or ' Things moved in the Houfe, alledged to be but ' againft Order or Cuftom of the Houfe ; and this ' without any Trial, Proof, or Charge, but meerly ' upon the Houfes own Cognizance of the Things, ' as we could inftance in many Cafes fmce this Par- ' liament began.
2. ' Whereas many of the Things to which the ' Charge relates, are Things fpoke, moved, or
* done in the Houfe, fo as we have yet no clear ' Way opened particularly to charge or mention
* them, or produce Proofs to them, without fome ' Pretence againft us of Breach of Privilege ; and ' therefore (though we think no Privilege ought to ' protect evil Men in doing Wrong to Particulars or
* Mifchief to the Public, yet) we have been hither- ' to fo tender of Parliament Privileges, as that we ' have only remonftrated the Evil of fuch Things
* done ; and fuppofing the Houfe to have been (as ' we did and do believe, and if the Way were open
* without Breach of Privilege, {hould not doubt to
' prove
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' prove it was) feme ways misinformed, deluded, An« 2 3 Car.
* furprized, or otherwife abufed in thofe Things t J *7'_f ' by evil Members, we have frequently, in former jm^
' Papers before the Charge, put the Parliament ' upon it, who, without Colour of Breach of Pri-
* vilege, might do it, to find out and difcover who ' they were that had fo abufed them, and to difen-
* gage the Honour of Parliament from the evil ' Practices and Defigns of fuch Incendiaries. Now
* fmce the fame Difficulties or Prejudices be yet in ' our Way, as to the particular Charge or Proof ' of thofe Things againft the Members ; and the ' Parliament (though fo often put upon it in our ' former Papers, yet through the powerful Inte-
* reft of the Perfons guilty) hath not taken any ' Cognizance what Members or others have fo
* abufed them, to draw the Parliament to fuch Dif- c honour and Inconveniencies ; we cannot but again
* more fully and clearly aflert, (as we have in for- ' mer Papers, and (hall yet more particularly, if ' Need be, remonftrate) that divers Things lately
' done and pafTed from the Parliament againft this ,
* Army (as particularly the Order for fuppreffing ' the Petition (/)•, that high Declaration againft it, ' and againft all that mould proceed in it, putting ' the faithful Servants of the Parliament and King- ' dom out of the Protection of Law, and expofmg ' them as Enemies to the State, &c. to the For- ' feitures of theEftates, Liberties, Life and all, but ' for going about in an humble, peaceable, and inof- ' fenfive Way to defire what was undeniably their
* Due, and dearly earned, and many other fuch like 4 Proceedings, both againft the Army and others) c do carry with them fuch a Face of Injuftice, Op- ' preflion, Arbitrarinefs, and Tyranny, as, we ' think, is not to be paralleled in any former *• Proceedings of the moft arbitrary Courts againft ' any private Men ; but have brought in infuf- *. ferable Dimonour upon the Parliamentary Au-
* thority and Proceedings (which we are, and others ' ought to be, deeply fenfible of) ; hath tended
* to difoblige all Men, efpecially Soldiers, from
(f) Vol. XV. P. 345, ctftj. * the
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* the fame; to deftroy all juft Freedom either of
4 Soldiers or Subjects, and hath conduced to all
* other the fad Effects and worfe Confequences ex- ' prefled in the Charge ; and gives us and others ' Caufe to conclude that thofe Worthies who have ' formerly acted and carried on Things in Parlia-
* ment for public Good, Right, and Freedom, are
5 now awed or overborne by a prevailing Party of
* Men of other private Interefts crept in ; and that ' neither we" nor any other can reafonabiy ex- ' pect Right, Freedom, or Safety, as private Men, ' or to have Things acted in Parliament for public f Good, while the fame Perfons continue there in ' the fame Power to abufe the Name and Autho-
* rity of Parliament, to ferve and profecute their ' private Interefts and Paffions; and, under the e Privilege of Parliament, to fhclter themfelves 8 under the worft of Evils or Mifchiefs they can do,
* though to the Ruin of the Kingdom.
' We are in this Cafe forced, to our great Grief
* of Heart, thus plainly to afiert the prefent Evil ( and Mifchief, together with the future worfe ' Confequences of the Things lately done, even in ' the Parliament itfelf, which are too evident and
* vifible to all ; and fo, in their proper Colours, to ' lay the fame at the Parliament's Doors until the
* Parliament (hall be pleafed, either of themfelves ' to take Notice and rid the Houfes of thofe who ' have any ways mifmformed, deluded, furprized, ' or otherwife abufed the Parliament, to the vehe-
* ment preffing and paffing of fuch foul Things
* there ; or fhall open to us and others fome Way
* how we may regularly, and without the Scandal ' of breaking Privileges, come to charge and pro-
* fecute thofe particular Perfons that, in Truth, ' have fo abufed the Parliament, as well as our-
* felves, even for thofe Mifinformations and other ' evil and indirect Practices or Proceedings in Par- ' liament, whereby they have fo abufed the fame, « 4 in our faid Charge and former Papers is fet forth.
* And here, if we may, we fhould humbly offer ' to Confideration, whether it were not a neceilary
4 Ex-
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Expedient, for Prevention or Remedy of fuch An. 23 Car. I.
Evils in future, that, in Things fo clearly de- s * '' j
ftruclive to the common Rights and Liberties of jul",e> the People and Safety of the Kingdom, there be a Liberty for diffenting Members in the Houfe of Commons, as it is allowed in the Houfe of Peers, to enter their Diffent, and thereby acquit themfelves f:om the Guilt or Blame of what Evils may enfue ; that fo the Kingdom may re- gularly come to know who they are that perform their Truft faithfully, and who not : And this Provifion for the future, as alfo our Defires for Remedy in the prefent Cafes, as it were clearly good and neceflary in the Refpedls premifed, fo, we think, the fame may well be without future Prejudice or Difcouragemcnt, in cny other Re- fpe&s, to fucceeding Members of Parliament ; provided always, that no Man {hall be queftioned or cenfured for any Thing faid or done in Parlia- ment, any further than to Exclufion from that Truft, which is all that in the prefent Cafe we fhould defire upon any fuch Grounds. And that future Liberty of entering Diflents we do not here propofe as a Thing we any way infiit on to the Prejudice of Parliament Privileges ; we only offer it to Confideration, and that from good Wifhes to the Privileges of Parliament, to render them more lafting by being lefs nocent. And, indeed, whoever moft adores or tenders thofe Pri- vileges will beft exprefs his Zeal towards them in taking Care they be not abufed, or extended, to private Wrongs or public Mifchiefs ; for we clear- ly find, and all wife Men may fee it, that Parlia- ment Privileges, as well as Royal Prerogative, may be perverted and abufed, or extended to the Dcftruclion of thofe greater Ends for whofe Protection and Prefervation they were admitted or intended, viz. the Rights and Privileges of the People, and Safety of the whole ; and in cafe it be fo, the Abufe, Evil, or Danger of them is no lefs to be contended againft, and a Remedy
' there-
Parliamentary HISTORY
4 thereof no lefs to be endeavoured, than of the « other.
« And whereas the Injuftice in that Particular of
* the Declaration againft the Army, for their juft ' and innocent Petition, may feem to have been re- ' compenced in the late Expunging thereof out of
* the Journal Books, we confefs it hath been fo in
* great Meafure, as to the particular or prefent ' injury done the Army therein ; and we cannot ' but acknowledge, fo far, the Juftice that lies in ' thofe Votes for expunging thereof; but for our ' own or the Army's particular Reparation, we ( fhould never wifh more, nor fcarce have infifted ' on fo much, to any Difhpnour of Parliament in 6 future ; we fhould rather have been fatisfied with
* the Parliament's declaring how, and by whom,
* they have been misinformed, furprized, or other-
* wife abufed in framing the Propofal, or paffing
* thereof, as it was : But as to that Particular, or
* any other of that Nature, we fay as followeth :
1. * We never did, nor do, value or regard our ' own Injury or Reparation in any Comparifon to ' the Confequence of the one, or the Prejudice of ' the other, but to the future Security of the com-
* mon Right and Freedom of this Nation ; and ' accordingly we do not account any Reparation ' confiderable that extends but to ourfelves in the
* prefent Cafe, and does not, in fome fort, fecure ' ourfelves and all others from Danger of the fame
* or worfe Injuries or Oppreffions, as private Men, ' from the Wills or Pailions of the fame Perfons
* that have offered and a&ed fuch Things againft
* us while an Army.
2. ' We cannot but imagine and confider, ac-. ' cording to general Report, how the Expunging 4 of that Declaration was carried and obtained, and ' upon what Grounds and Intentions it was given ' Way to ; but had thofe that procured it been all
* for expunging it, and that freely, yet how can
* we expect better but that the fame Men, who at ' one Time carried fuch a Declaration, and ano- e ther Time expunged it, may the next Day obtain
* the
of ENGLAND. i r
* the like or worfe, upon any Occafion wherein it An; 23 Car. I. ' may fcrve their private Ends or Interefts, if they , l_ r' t
* continue in the fame Power and Sway, and be junev e let pafs in deluding and furprizing the Parliament,
' as they have done in the paft Particulars ?
3. ' The apparent Difhonour and Prejudice ' brought upon the Parliament, in having fuch aDe- ' claration fo pafTed, as that they fhould foon after,
* without any Alteration in the pretended Ground ' of it, find Caufe, for Shame of the World, to ' expunge, we think fhould engage thofe Mem- ' bers that love Parliaments, in point of Honour, ' to find out and difcover how, and by whom, the 6 Parliament had been abufed or otherwife brought ' into fuch an Inconvenien^y. And the Parliament ' may in this fee the Temper, as Bye-ftanders do 4 the Prevalence, of thofe Members that abufed ' the Parliament in that Declaration, who will and ' can make the Authority of Parliament ftill lie un- £ der the Difhonour of it, in a bare expunging or ' retracting, rather than admit of any Confideration c to acquit the Authority of Parliament, that would ' tend to fix the Blame on thofe particular Members
* that had deferved it : And this certainly would be ' admitted and done, rather than to flight it over ' with a bare expunging, were not fome Men more ' tender of, and more fwayed with, fuch Confidera- ' tions and Confequences as may tend to the Pre- ' judice of Perfons, than fuch as tend to the gene- ' ral Prejudice and Difhonour of Parliaments.
' As to thofe Particulars included in our Charge,
* which do depend upon Things done without ' the Parliament, we are ready, and fhould moft
* willingly proceed in the particular charging and
* proving thereof, if firft (from the Juftice of the ' Houfe in a prefent Proceeding againrl the Perfons ' charged for the Things that are already known to ' the Houfe to have been done in it) we could find
* Encouragement to expect any good Iflue upon
* thofe other Things ; and did we not, on the con- ' trary, find that (notwithftanding what is fo known
* to the Houfe, as before expreffed) the fame Per-
' fons
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i. 23 Car. I. < fons continue in fuch Power and Prevalence, both
l647' , ' in the Houfe and in all Committees of the high-
~~^T ' eft Truft, as leaves little Hope of Right or Sa-
' tisfa&ion to the Army or Kingdom in other
* Things, and much lefs in any juft Proceedings ' againft themfelves, while they continue Judges ' of their own and our Concernments ; fo as we c cannot, while they remain in the fame Power, ' expect any Thing but a continued perverting and ' making Advantage of all Things, (and efpccially
* of thole Delays which a regular Proceeding againil ' them would neceflarily induce) altogether to our ' own and the Kingdom's Prejudice and Danger,
* to difable or weaken us for thofe Things which
* the Safety and Settling of the Rights, Liberties, ' and Peace of the Kingdom requires : And to ' ftrengthen themfelves, by under-hand Practices
* and Preparations both at home and abroad, the ' batter to oppofe us and engage the Kingdom in a ' new War ; thereby to accomplifh their Dcfigns, ' or at leaft to fave themfelves from Juftice in a ' common Confufion : We fay, were it not for thefe ' and fuch other Confiderations, that leave little
* Hopes of Juftice to ourfelves or the Kingdom,
* while they continue in the fame Power, and ren-
* der all Delays dangerous and deftru&ive to our- ' felves and the Peace of the Kingdom, we fhould 6 be contented that the Bufinefs concerning the ' Members we have charged fhould be kid afide ' till thofe other Things were firft fettled, which ' our Declaration does propound for the common ' Rights and Liberties of the Kingdom.
' But finding Things ftill fo carried as they are, ' and as we have before exprefled, and that while c they are Judges in their own Caufes, they, with 6 that Party which they make, will do what they
* plcafe, and yet render it a Breach of Privilege ' to be accufed for it ; we cannot but, upon all ' thefe Confiderations, and for all the Reafons be- ' fore expreiied, infifl upon it that the Members ' charged may firft be forthwith fufpendcd from ' fitting in the Houfe ; otherwife we cannot expecl
' any
of
ENGLAND.
« any fair Proceedings againft them upon a more An-
* particular Charge, nor think there is any Good
* intended to ourfelves or the Kingdom.
* As to our Defires of having the Army prefently
* paid up equally with thofe that' have deferted it, « we appeal to all Men for the Juftice, Reafon- 4 ablenefs, and Neceflity thereof.
4 The Juftice ; in that the former Service, for
* which thefe Arrears are due, hath been, at leaft,
* as faithfully and diligently performed by the Ar-
* my as by thofe late Deferters of it ; and in our pre-
* fent Pofture, tho' they have appeared indeed more
* officious and ferviceable to the Intereft and Will
* of particular Men than we, yet we are fure the 4 Army is, and we hope will at laft appear to be,
* more faithful to the true Intereft of Parliaments
* and the Kingdom, which we were at firft called c out and engaged for, than they in deferting the
* Army have hitherto appeared.
4 For the Reafonablenefs of our Defires ; tho*
* we have Ground to claim more than they, or ' rather that they, or fome of them, flioula for- 4 feit their Arrears, yet we afk, for prefent, but c equal ; nor fhould we at prefent infift on that fo 4 much, as to our Officers, if our Soldiers were but 4 firft paid up. Our Neceflity to infift on that is 4 obvious to every Man ; and therefore, unlefs we
* fliould betray our own and the Kingdom's Caufe, 1 we cannot but pofitively infift upon it that the 4 Army mould forthwith be paid up, at leaft equal- 4 ly to thofe Deferters of it ; which, if denied or 4 delayed, we (hall be thereby inforced upon pre-
* fent Ways of Remedy and Right to the Army 4 therein.
* And whereas the Parliament hath lately or- 4 dercd and publickly declared, that all that (hall 4 defert the Army {hall have prefent Satisfaction in 4 their Arrears, (the Officers three Months Pay,
* the Soldiers all their Arrears, deducting for free 4 Quarter) which ftill continues unrecalled ; we
* cannot but look upon it as a moft clear Evidence ' of the continuing Malice and Prevalence of our
4 and
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c and the Kingdom's Enemies. And we muft and 4 do infift upon it, that that Order or Declaration ~"tjne ' may forthwith be publickly recalled ; otherwife ' we cannot believe that any Thing but Ruin and 4 Deftru&ion is defigned to ourfelves and all others 4 in the Kingdom, who every where call upon us 4 not to difband till we fee the Rights, Liberties,
* and Peace of the Kingdom fettled, according to
* the many Declarations by which we were firft 4 called forth, and invited to engage in the late 4 war.
' Next we cannot but take Notice, (inftead of ' granting or anfwering our Defires in the laft Pa- 4 per) in order to the better and more fafe proceed-
* ing to a Compofure and Settlement of all Things 4 for the Good and Peace of the Kingdom, and
* for the Prevention of a new War, the Army be-
* ing firft commanded to forty Miles Diflance from
* London^ his Majefty's Perfon is demanded imme- ' diately to Richmond Houfe within eight Miles of
* London-, which, as we cannot but impute it to
* the prevailing Intereft of the fame Enemies to
* our and the Kingdom's Peace, fo all Men may
* eafily difcern, with us, how directly it tends (in
* Purfuance of their former private Defigns upon
* the King ere he came from HolJenly) to put his
* Majefty within Reach of thofe Men's Power, 4 who have already under-hand lifted about Lon->
* don a very confiderable Number both of Horfe ' and Foot, and are daily lifting and engageing « more, both there and in many Parts of the King-
* dom, to ferve their Defigns j and therefore we
* appeal to all unengaged Men, whether we can
* in this give way to have the King put fo far with- 4 in thofe Men's Power, without giving them the 4 long-fought-for Advantage of his Majefty's Per- 4 fon ; thereby to embroil the Kingdom in a new 4 and bloody war, and to ftrengthen themfelve*
* in their mifchievous Defigns, the better to up-
* hold and eftablifti their Faction and intended Do- 4 mination j fo that, in this Cafe^ we cannot but 4 importune the Parliament, (as they tender the
« Peace
of ENGLAND. i$
* Peace and Quiet of the Kingdom, and the avoid- An- a3 Car. l«
* ino- of Jealoufies or worfe Inconveniences in the \_^ ^
* Arlny) that they would refume the Confideration june. « of that Bufmefs concerning the Perfon of the
' King, and not propofe any Place for him nearer « to London than they would have the Quarters of « the Army to be.
* And whereas (by Procurement of the fame ' Perfons, or others of their Party) there hath
* been fcandalous Informations prefented to the ' Houfes, and induftrioufly publiflied in Print, im- ' porting as if his Majefty were kept as a Prifoner ' amongft us, and barbaroufly and uncivilly ufed ;
* we cannot but declare that the fame, and all other ' Suggeftions of that Sort, are moft falfe and fcan- « dalous, and abfolutely contrary, not only to our
* declared Defires, but alfo to our Principles, ' which are moft clearly for a general Right and
* juft Freedom to all Men : And therefore, upon ' this Occafion, we cannot but declare particular-
* ly, that we defire the fame for the King and others
* of his Party, fd far as can conflft with common « Right or Freedom, and with the Security of the ' fame for the future : And we farther clearly pro- ' fefs we do not fee how there can be any firm or
* lafting Peace to this Kingdom, without a due ' Confideration of and Provifion for the Rights, « Quiet, and Immunity of his Majefty, his Royal c Family, and his late Partakers ; and herein we
* think that tender and equitable Dealing, (as fup- c pofing their Cafes had been ours) and a Spirit of « common Love and Juftice diffufing itfelf to the c Good and Prefervation of all, will make up the ' moft glorious Conquefts over their Hearts, if God
* in his Mercy fee it good, to make them and the
* whole People of the Land lafting Friends.
' Now to draw to a Conclufton : Since we can yet ' obtain no Satisfaction or An fwer to the Things de-
* fired as before, but, contrarywife, find all Things ' carried on by the prevailing Intereft of thofe our
* Enemies, to the Prejudice and Danger of ourfelves « and the Kingdom : fince, (notwithftanding fome
2 < Votes
1 6 *fbe Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 2_3 car. I. e yotes ofr parliament againft the late Orders 6f
t __, * the Committee of Safety for lifting of Forces,
June. ' and notwithftanding the earneft Defires and En-
' deavours of the City, concurrent with our own,
' to have the fame prevented or remedied, yet the
* Committee of Safety being ftill continued in the ' fame Power) we find that, by the Appointment
* or Contrivance, and under the Protection or ' Countenance, of the fame Perfons whom we ' have charged and their Accomplices, there are ' ftill manifold Practices under-hand, to lift and ' raife new Forces ; and, notwithftanding the Dif-
* covery thereof to the Parliament from the City, c yet the fame Perfons have prevailed fo far in the ' Houfe as not to admit the Queftion for difcharging ' of them, but the fame Practices ftill continue,
* and with double Diligence are inforcedj fince alfo
* divers Forces, pretended to have been engaged ' for Ireland^ are, by the fame Perfons, ordered to ' rendezvous about Worcejier, there to lay the ' Foundation of a new Army ; and to that Purpofe
* their Emiflaries and Correfpondents in all Coun- ' ties are bufy and active to raife Forces for them.
* And though for thefe Things the Actors of them ' have no prefent public Authority, yet they have ' fome way fuch Countenance and Allurance to be 'juftified in Parliament, ifqueftioned for it, as that
* they have the Confidence to act openly : Since ' they have likewife their Emiflaries or Agents ' abroad in Scotland, France, and other Countries,
* very active to draw in foreign Forces for their c Afliftance : Since, in the mean Time, they are ' endeavouring, by Spies and fecret Agents in all ' our Quarters, to inveigle and invite the Soldiers ' of this Army to defert their Officers and come to
* London; and, for that Purpofe, do improve the ' Advantage of the Order or Declaration of Par-
* liament afore -mentioned, for Satisfaction of Ar-
* rears, to fuch as {hall defert the Army : And we
* find they have the public Purfe fo much at their 4 Difpofal, as to make good that and other their
* Undertakings of that Nature j and yet fuch as
« have
of ENGLAND.
c have fo deferted the Army and received their Ar- rears, are not difcharged or difperfed, but con- tinued together in Bodies, and under Command,. in and near the City, as in particular, ferns of Sir Robert Pye's Men, Col. Greaves's Capt. Far- mer''s, and others ftill quartered upon Kent: Since, likewife, they have their Agents and Cor- refpondents labouring with the' King to make Contracts with him to draw his Majefty to en-" gage and declare for them, or at leaft to declare himfelf a Prifoner amongft us, thereby to ftir up and engage his Party againft us ; fince, in alt thefe Refpects, we find all dilatory Ways, which they induftrioufly devife, to be deiigned and made ufe of only to our Difadvantage, Weaken- ing, and Ruin ; to the Kingdom's Prejudice, and to their own Advantage, and ftrengthening their Defigns ; the better to prepare fora new War.
* And, laftly, confidering the Multitudes of Re- formadoes and other Soldiers fvvarming about the City, whom the Perfons we have charged, and their Accomplices, have at their Beck to bring up to Wejlminjler when they pleafe ; and that, by their frequent tumultuous Confluences thither (befet- ting and fometimes blocking up, the Parliament's Doors, threatening and offering Violence to the Perfons of the moft faithful Parliament-Men) the juft Freedom of Parliament feems to be takenr away, or at leaft, for the prefent, abridged ; in- fomuch that thofe Members who have ferved the Kingdom hitherto with moft Fakhlulnefs, Di- ligence and Integrity for the Public Good, ma- ny of them dare fcarce come to the Houfdj or,- if they do, they come in Fear and Peril of their Lives ; and, when they are there, are awed, dif- couraged, or difabled from difcharging their Con- fciences, or doing their Duties to the Kingdom.
* Upon all thefe Confiderations, we are clearly convinced and fatisfied that both cur Duty and Trmt for the Parliament and Kingdom calis up- on us and warrants us, and an imminent Necef-; fity (for our own arid die Kingdoi'vi's Safety, and
Voi,. XVI. li ''Pre-
1 8 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 2;? car. I. * Prevention of a new War) enforceth us, to make t l64-7- ' or admit of no longer Delays ; but, upon thofe
* Foundations God hath given us, with Vigour and
* Speed to endeavour, in fome extraordinary Way,
* the Vindicating of Parliament Freedom from tu-
* multuous Violence, the Breaking of thofe Dcfigns
* and Preparations that otherv.-ife threaten a pre-
* fent Embroilment of the Kingdom in more Blood
* and War, and a future perpetual Enflaving of it ' under Faction and Tyranny : And fo, if God fee
* it good, to put the Parliament into a Freedom
* and Capacity, with his Ma]efty's wifhed and hoped
* for Concurrence, to fettle the Rights, Liberties, ' and Peace of the Kingdom.
' Upon all thefe Grounds, and for all thefe Ends
* premifed, wefhall be ill forced to take fuch Courfes
* extraordinary as God (hall enable and direct us
* unto, to put Things to a fpeedy Ifiue ; unlefs, by ' Thitrfday Night n-^xt, we receive Aflurance and
* Security to ourfelvcs and the Kingdom, for a
* more fafe and hopeful Proceeding in an ordinary ' Way, by having thofe Things granted which,
* in order thereunto, we have before infifted on ; ' and fhall here, for more Brevity and Clearnefs, 4 repeat as follcweth :
1. ' That the Declaration, inviting Men to de-
* fert the Army, and promifing their Arrears in cafe 4 they do fo, may be annulled.
2. ' That the Army may be prefently paid up
* equally to thofe that have deferted it.
3. ' That his Majefty's Coming to Richmond
* may be fufpended until Affairs be better fettled
* and compofed ; and, in the mean Time, no Place
* maybe appointed fjrhis Majefty's Refidence that
* may be any nearer to London than the Parliament
* will allow the Quarters of the Army to be.
4. * That the Members charged may be forthwith
* fufpended or fequeftered the Houfe.
5. c That thofe that have deferted the Army may ' be inftantly discharged and difperfed, and receive
* no more of their Arrears till the Army be firft « fatisfied.
« That
c/* ENGLAND. 19
6. { That both Parliament and City may be, An. 23 Car. I. « fpeedily and effeaually, freed from thofe Multi- t l6*7' , ' tudes of Reformadoes and other Soldiers before- ,ne
* mentioned, that flock together about London, by
* a fpeedy Difpatch and Difcharging of them from
* the City.
j. ' That all fuch Liftings or Raifings of new 4 Forces, or Drawing together of anv, as is before- ' mentioned, and all Preparations towards a new ' War, may be effectually declared againft and ' fuppreffed ; as alfo all Invitations or Endeavours ' to draw in foreign forces.
8. * That the prefent perplexed Affairs of the
* Kingdom and thofe concerning the Army, as
< alfo all the Things defired in our late Reprefen-
< tation in Behalf of the Kingdom, may be put into
* fome fpeedy Way of Settlement and Compofure.
By the Appointment of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Council of J^ar.
JOHN RUSHWORTH, Secretary.
It may be Matter of Surprize who were the prin- cipal Penmen that drew up and wrote all thefe Remonftrances, &t. from the Army, fince they are put in much better Drefs and Form than could be expected from a Body of Men, moftly Mecha- nicks, and more ufed to the Sword than the Pen : But Mr. JVhitlocke informs us, ' That it was Col. Ireton who was chiefly employed and t^ok on him this Bufmefs : That he had been bred in the Mid- dle-Temple, and had learned fome Grounds of the Law ; and, being of a working laborious Brain and Fancy, he fet himfelf much upon thefe Af- fairs, and was therein encouraged by Lieutenant- Gcneral Cromivell, his Father-in-Law ; znd by Colonel Lambert, who had likewi e fiudied in the Inns of Court, and was alfo of a fubcle and work- ing Brain.'
The fame Day that the foregoing Reprefenta-
tion from the Army was prefemed to the Lords, a
Letter from the Lord Montague, brought by Sir
B 2 Peter
20 *fbe Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 23 Car. I. Peter Killigrnv^ was alfo read, with ievcral Papers '647- inclofed.
June. For the Right Hon. ths Earl of M A K c H E s T E R, Speaker of the Houje of Piers pro Tempore.
My Ltrtl, Newmarket^ June 23, 1647.
Letters from the ' I Received your Letters Yeileraay by Sir Pftsr
Comm fliotK-rs, ' fi Killigrew, who arrived here at Twelve. We
thCeKin*nd'n* * forthwith delivered the Letter from both Houfes
' to his Majefty ; who, having read it in our Pre-
* fence, told us that it was a very fair and civil In- ' vitation, that he was glad of it, and confirmed ' thereby his Rcfolution of coming to Richmond ; 4 iince he found the Addrefs, we had made to him, ' was according to the Intentions of both Houfes.
4 We have this Day fe-nt Part of his Majefty's ' Stuff from hence to Royfton, the King having-
* appointed to lodge there on Thurjday Night, and 4 at Theobalds on Friday, rcfolving to march thence 4 upon Saturday to Richmond. Upon the Orders
* we difpatched to the Commanders, on the Place, ' of Col. Rojfiter's Regiment, which were received 4 by Major TiviJJ^ton^ near Grant/jam, upon Monday
* lad, we had the inclofed in Anfwer from himfelf ;
* whereupon we have written to him to attend the
* King at Roy/ion upon Thursday Night without fail,
* as you may fee by thefe our fecond Orders, a Copy
* whereof I have here lent you ; an;J, bein" encou- *• rage j in your Approbation of my Service to be dj.- « ligent therein, 1 remain
Your Lord/hip's humble Servant^ E. MONTAGUE.
Major Tvjijleton s Letter mentioned in the fore- going.
For ike Right Hon. the COMMITTEE of PARLIA- MENT at Newmarket.
June 21, 1647, May it pleafe your Honours^
' If Have received your Letter, with the Orders ' J inclofed from the Parliament. There is not
* any Ibali be more obfervant of their Commands
* than
of E N G L A N D, 21
than myielf; but it is altogether impoflible for An< 2i Car« me to be with the Regiment at Newmarket on , _ *7' We due j day ^ altho' we are npw upon our March, June, and intend to quarter this Night not far from Grantham. The Occafion of our prefent March is, thar I have received Orders from the General to march with the Regiment up to the Army with all convenient Speed. I humbly entreat you to give Notice to the General of the Parliament's Order concerning my Colonel's Regiment, that we may have Orders from him to obferve your furiher Commands. I intend to march with all the Speed I can, and hope to be with the Regi- men;: at Huntingdon on Wednefday about Noon, where I {hall ^e glad to receive your further Orders, which flaall be carefully obferved, and punctually pbcyed. by l.im who is
Your Honour's mo
and faithful Servant^
PHILIP TWISLETON.
• P. S. c I receive'l your Honour's Letter about ' Eleven upon the Road not far from Grantbamft
The Orders given to Major-General 'Tivijleton by the Committee thereupon.
For our loving Friend Major PHILIP TWISLETON, Major to Col. Rofliter's Regiment of Horfe at Huntingdon,
S I R^ Newmarket ', June 22, 1647.
1H E King intends to begin his Journey on Thurfday^ and will be that Night at Roy- Jfon ; we therefore defire you, if you cannot be at Newmarket on Wednefday with your Rcji- mcnt, according to our former Orders, that you
22 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. a^ Car. L < do not fail to be at Royfton on Thurfday Night to . l6*7' j ' attend hio Majefty thence the next Day j and we June. ' remain, ^.^ ^.^ ^.-^
E. MONTAGUE. J. COKE. JO. CREW. RICH. LROVVN.
which, with the After reit]jn2; th., forcg0ing Letters, the Lords
foregoing Re- r . . ^ ° . . .
mon trance, be- rcfolved themielves into a Committee, to read the ing read, the Rcprcfentotion from the Army again; and ,the Lord. ^fire his Houfe ^- refumcc! a Motion was made, That
MaKfty not to _ p • ' . _. . _ _ . ,.
ccme towards a Letter be fent to his Majeltjf, to dcfire him ror Richmond. fome Time to truk,e a Sta" at Rov/lon, or to go to Newmarket^ as he ihall think fit, in regard of fome Things that are lately fallen out ; which being re- folved in the Affirmative, the following Lords en- tered their DifTcnt by fubfcribing their Names :
LINCOLN*, HEREFORD,
STAMFORD, HUKSDON,
SUFFOLK. WILLOUGHSY,
RUTLAND, MAYNARD,
MIDDLESEX, BERKLEY.
The Speaker having prepared a Draught of a Letter in rurfuance of the abovefaid Vote, and the fame being read, the Queftion was put, Whether to fend this Letter to the King, or not ? and it was refolved in the Affirmative. Agrunft this Refolu- tion all the foregoing Peers entered their Diflent j but their Reafons for it are not given.
And orJ-r Let- Next the Lords ordered a Letter to be written ten to be fent to the General from both Houfes, and their Speaker according y. to prepare jt . wm'cb. was done accordingly in b#c Verla :
S 1 £,
' HP* HE Lords and Commons have written a
' J. Letter unto his Majefty, to dcfire him that
' he would be pleafed to ftay at Ro\ftont or to re-
r « turn
^/ENGLAND. 23
* tyrn to Newmarket ; and they have commanded An. 23 car. I,
* ,us to give you this Notice, and to fend you here .' inclofcd a Copy thereof. This being all we have
* in Command, we remain
Tour Friends and Servants^ &c, The Letter to be fent to the King. May It pleafe yo
* \7 Our Majefty's loyal Subjeds, the Lords and ' \ Commons in Parliament aflembled, in rer
* fpedl: of fome Occurrences lately fallen out, dp
* humbly defire your Majefty that you would be
* pleafed to flay at Roy/Ion^ or to return to New- ' market for fome Time ; and they hope that this ..* Delay of your Majefty's Coming to your Houfe
* at Richmond will be no ways prejudicial to your « Majefty, or make any Retardment of the prefent « fettling of the Peace of your Kingdoms, which « is the Defire of
Your Majejlys loyal Subjefls
and bumble Servant sy &c.
This Letter to the King was ordered to be fent under Cover to the Lord Montague^ to be prefented by his Lordmip and the reft of the Commiffioners ; and a Copy of it was inclofed to them.
Then the foregoing Vote of the Lords relating To which tk to the King, the Letter to his Majefty, and to Sir Comi"ons a Thomas Fairfax, being communicated to the Com- mons for their Concurrence, they agreed to them all immediately.
The fame Day (June 24) Aklcrman Foiuke and others, from the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and Com- mon-Council of the City of London, prefented to both Houfes Copies of two Letters which they had received from Sir Thomas Fairfax*
Parliamentary HISTORY
fbf LoRD-M AYOR, ALDERMEN, and Co Mr
MoN-CouNCJL c/ //;<? CiVy of London.
June.
iV. A&atfs, June 21, 1647,
.&£/'* Honourable,
Letters from sir* * -jr ^ £ received yours of the i8th of this In- ^thTcitLcnsof ' VV {taut, whereof tho' all Paflages are not Lono..n, enfor- fo anfwcrable to our Expectation as we hoped, ring their late yet we apprehend the fame good AfFecTion in you
Keir.on.'rancc to jf • , •
the Parliament. ' *°^'ar^s Ws ariTiy as was expreiled in your tor- 4 mer Letter, that (not or.ly from the Ailurancc of .' the worthy Gentlemen your Commiffioners, a- .* gain fcnt tQ us, but al'o from that Information ' we ha,vc received of your extraordinary Endea- 4 vours to procure Money. for the Army, to prevent 6 further raiding or lifting of Scldiers, and to pror ' cure thofe already lifted to be diflbanded) fon\c
* Perfons of your Militia only have been active
* for the raifing of them without your Privity ; as
* likev/ife from that Letter filled with Refpect, ' which y°u prepared and intended to fend to us ;
* but beino; fcnt to the parliament, was obftrucled .* by fome Perfons, who labouring to embroil the ' Kingdom in a new War, would not have the
* Forces already railed to be difbanded ; who ex- .* cepted againft your Difcovery to the IJoufe ihat
* forne Perfons only of the Militia had joined in ' the raifing of the new Forces ; who alfo would
* prevent a right Undcrftanding between your City ' and this Army, knowing a firm Correfpondence .* between them would make the Dcfigns of all ' fuch Men hopelefs : And tho' our taking Notice
* of ihde Things feejrjs not regular, yet being fo
* publickly done, we thought fit to mind you of ? them.
* Now, altho' the Confidence we have of the f real and clear Intentions of your Lordfhip, and the ? Alderirxen and Commons of your City of Lon- ' eij>;. to prijnic.te the Peace of this Kingdom and *juil Defires of this Army j alfo to prevent ail 4 Tendencies to anew War, or any further Bfo'v! ;
' and
of E N G L A N D. 25
* and therefore hold ourfelves obliged to yield all An. 23 Car. I.
* pofiible Compliance to what you defire of us » ( * [] ,
x yet adding to the former Grounds the many In- junc>
formations which daily come'to us of the conti- nued under-hand Workings of fome Perfons ftill
* to lift Men, that divers '-• gents are fent into fer ' veral Parts of the Kingdom to levy Forces, and
* Worcefter the Place appointed for a general Ren- ' dezvous, whither the Troops defigned for Ire- 1 land, that were Part of this Army, are, by fome ' of the Committee at Derby-koufe, ordered to 4 inarch ; and feveral of thofe Companies that
* went from us for the Service of Ireland having
* it intimated to them, and, by divers Carriages, •' perceiving they were intended as a Foundation for *N a new Army, and of a ne\V War, they fo much ab-
* horred the Thoughts of it, as both the Officers and e Soldiers of divers Companies are of late entirely 4 returned to the Army; Hkewife that no Means is
* left unattempted to bring in Forces from Ireland,
* France and Scotland, againft the Peace of this 4 poor Kingdom : We, upon the whole Matter, ' offer to your and all Men's Confideration, \vhe-
* thcr with your, our, or the Public Safety, we
* can remove further backwards, until, upon your ' and our joint Endeavours with the Parliament, 4 thofe Things of immediate and preffing Necef- 4 fity be provided for, which we, defired in oijr 'Paper laft given in to the Parliament's Comrnif-
* fioners, in order to the better Proceeding upon c the Heads of the Reprefentation and Charge with ' more Hopes of Safety, and of a timely and happy •* Iflue to ourfelves and the Kingdom, viz.
' That the Perfons impeached by us may not 4 continue in Power and Capacity to obftrucl due ' Proceedings agninft themfelves, and, by their own ' Efcape from Juftice, to threaten Ruin to the whole ' Nation.
' That all Forces lately raifed or lifted, in or 4 about the City, may be forthwith difcharged, ex- 4 cept the ufual Number of Train'd Bands and
* Auxiliaries j and that all Endeavours, publicldy
'or
26 The Parliamentary HISTORY
.An. 2^ Or. I. < Or privately, to raife any further Forces, may ceafe 4 and be fupprefs'd : And that the fame Meafure 4 may be allowed to this Army, in paying them up 4 to the fame Foot of Account as is already given 4 to thofe who have deferted the fame.
4 And for the Things exprefled in our Repre-
* fentation, though of weighty Importance, yet,
* becaufe they will require much Time, they {hall
* be no Occafion to impede our Remove ; and, 4 in the mean Time, both by Proclamation from
* his Excellency, and all other Ways, we (hall en-
* deavour that the accuftomed Supplies to your City 4 may be fpeedily fent up.
4 To conclude : We fay from our Hearts, That
* as our fpecial Ends are the Glory of God and c the Good of the whole Land, fo our Endeavours
* (hall be to profecute the fame, without Prejudice ' to the Being or Well-being of the Parliament in
* general, the Maintenance whereof we value a-
* bove all our own Lives, as we have formerly faid
* of this Parliament in particular, but altogether
* in order to the Good and Peace of this Nation,
* and with a moft tender Regard to your City ; to
* which we profefs we {hall, by all Actions, make
* good all Engagements tending to the Security c thereof, in what Way yourfelves {hall defire,
* confuting with the Good of the whole Kingdom,
* you making good your mutual Correfpondence
* with us, and not doing any Thing to our Preju-
* dice, in the Profecution of our juft Defires and
* Endeavours.'
June 22, 1647.
P. S. 4 We hear, even now, ilnce the writing
* of this Letter, that Ycjlerday divers of the Re-
* formadoes came again in a threatening Manner
* to Weftminfier^ the Houfe of Commons then fit-
* ting, to the great Afirightment and Terror of ' divers faithful Members then prefent, and to the 4 Difcouragement of others from their Attendance
* there ; fo that we cannot but perceive that the
* Freedom of this Parliament js no longer ; that
.-.L-'irs who fiiaJl, .according to their, < Con-
of E N G L A N D. 27
Confcience, endeavour to prevent a fecond War, An- *3. Car- and aft contrary to their Ways, who for their t * 47' own Prefervation intend it, muft do it with the june. Hazard of their Lives ; which is a Thing indeed to deftruclive to Parliaments and Freedom, that we conceive ourfelves in Duty bound to endea- vour, to the utmoft, to procure Redrefs therein. By ihf Appointment of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Council of War.
JO. RUSHWORTH, -Secretary.
For Alderman WARNER, and -the reft of 'the Honour* ,
able Committee, fent from the City of London to the Army.
Gentlemen, St. Allan's, June 23, ,1647.
* \\ I ^ defire, to the end we may keep a right
* W Underftanding with the City of London,
* that fome cf your Number may continually re-
* fide with us in the Head Quarters, until it fhall
* pleaie Ood to put an End to the prefent Diftrac- c tions. I fhall, as I told you, remove my Head
* Quarters to Berkhamftefld, expecting to hear from
* you To-morrow Night ; being refolved to order
* my Affairs the next Morning, as I may not pre-
* judice a Bufmefs of fuch Concernment to the e Kingdom by the Lofs of a Day.
Your offered loving Friend,
T. FAIRFAX.
The Anfwer given, in the Name of both Houfes, which being by their refpe&ive Speakers, was to this Effect, read in both 1 That thev took well this RefpecT: of the City in H°uj«' ^
. ' • i /^ i > T inii Pa" leveralVotes
communicating the General s Letters ; and fhould jn favour ^ the leave them freely to their own Liberty to fend Army, down what Committee they fhall think fit to the Army :' That they have voted, ' That if any Forces be lifted by the Committee of Lords and Commons, and Committee of the Militia, or of the Committee of Safety, that they be difcharged : And, as to the Reformadoes and Soldiers about
the
2 8 The Parliamentary H i s T o R v
An. 23 Car. I. the Town, the Houfes have put the Bufmefs info
t * 47' ( fuch a Way as they, in their Wifdoms, have
June. thought fit : And that they return the Citizens
Thanks for their good Affections exprefled upon all
Occafions.'
'June 25. The Lords ordered an Ordinance to be drawn up for fending all Perfons out of the Lines of Communication who had ever borne Arms againft the Parliament ; which, after being read thrice and put to the Queftion, pafled that Houfe ; the Lord Hundfen, only, entering his Difient againft it.
Next, the Lords took into Confideration the De- fire of the City, in regard to the Reformado Officers ; and ordered fome Lords to prepare an Ordinance to appoint a Day when they fhould depart the Town, after their being paid off, and fome Diftinction to be made amongft them. This alfo being put to the Que- ftion, it was carried in the Affirmative, the Earl of Stamford, only, dificnting.
Votes of the There had been great Debates in the Houfe of
Commons re- Commons for feveral Days together, about the
Jatmg to the ele- _, • ' Vi L i * /
ven Members Army s Charge agamit the eleven Members.
charged by the They had wrote to the General to inform him, Army. That what fhould be particularly charged againft
their Members, with Teftimony of Witnefles, fhould be received ; and the Houfe would proceed in a legal Way therein. On the 25th, after De- bate, they voted, * That, by the Law of the Land, no Judgment could be given to fufpend thofe Mem- bers from fitting in the Houfe upon the Papers pre- fented from the Army, before the Particulars be produced and Proof made ; and that it did not ap- pear that any Thing had been faid or done in the Houfe by any of thofe Members, touching any Matters in the Papers fent from the Army, for which the Houfe could in Juftice fufpend them.' But, on the 26th, upon the Army's Advance nearer to London, which they gave out was not to over-awe the Parliament or the City, but only
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to fee that the Members charged by them fhould An. *; Car. I.
be fufpencled the Hcufe ; and that then they would . y ' v
give in a more particular Charge, with the Proofs june. to make it good againft them, the Commons had no other Way left, to fcve their own Honour, than to fufrer thefe impeached Members, at their own Pefires, to leave the Houfe, and thereby efcape their Purfuers.
It is reirark:\ble that the very Day thefe Members withdrew, a Queftion for proceeding immediately upon the DC fires of the Army was carried by a Ma- jority of 53 againft 27 : And the next Day another Queftion in favour of the Army parted by 121 againft 85. Which fully juftifies an Obfervation made by Mr. Ludlow (/;, ' That the great End of this Charge of Treafon being rather to keep thefe Mem- bers from ufmg their Power with the Parliament, in Oppofition to the Proceedings of the Army, than from any Defign to proceed capitally againft them, they refolved rather to withdraw themfelves volun- tarily than to put the Parliament or Army to any further Trouble, or their Perfons to any more Ha-> zard. By thefe Means the Army, in which there were too many who had no other Defign but the Advancement of themfelves, having made the Par- liament, the Scots, and the City of London, their Enemies, thought it convenient to enlarge their Conceffions to the King; giving his Chaplains Leave to come to him, and to officiate in their Way, which had been denied before.'
To return to our Journals.
June 26. It being moved in the Houfe of Lords to take the Demands of the Army, in their laft Re- monftrance, into Confideration ; after fome Time fpent therein, a Menage came up from the Houfe of Commons, deliring Concurrence to an Order for giving further Power to their Commiflioners ren- ding in the Army. The Queftion being put, Whe- ther to agree to this Order, as it came from the Houfe of Commons, it pafled in the Affirmative, (/) Mamin, Vol. I. p, 197, 8, 9.
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An. 23 Car. I. the following Lords fubfcribing their Names ajf
C_ ll4!—; Anting,
june. LINCOLN, RUTLAND,
SUFFOLK, WILLOUGHBY*
STAMFORD, HUNSDON,
MIDDLESEX, MAYNARD.
An Order for The Order was in thefe Words : powJr tothT ' Ordered, by the Lords and Commons, fcfV.That parliament's the Commiffioners appointed to refide with the Army fhall have Power to treat and debate with the General, and fuch of the Army as he (hall appoint, in fuch Manner as they (hall think beft, upon the Papers and Defires fent from the Army to both Houfes, and the Votes fent to them ; and to Jet them know, from Time to Time, the Re- fuk of their Debates for their Confideration, that a Conclufion thereupon may be more fpeedily ef- fefted.'
The fame Day the following Letters \vere read in the Houfe of Lords : And rirft,
A LETTER from -the Commiffioners with the Army it ibc Earl of Mancheftcr,
Berkhamftead, June 25, 1647,
Three c Clock, p&Ji Merid. May it pleafe your Lord/hip,
c TT HIS Morning the General acquainted us General, relating c A that the Army intended to be this Night at '0"3 ' Uxf>r^Se- We defired to know the Reafon there- 4 of, and endeavoured to prevent it. The General « hath juft now given us this Account inclofed, 4 which I thought it my Duty immediately to tranf- * mit to your Lordfhip 3 and reft
My Lord,
Tour Lordjhip's humble Servant,
C. NOTTINGHAM.
Next,
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t, General Fairfax's Letter referred to in the An- 23 Car. i. ir • J 1647.
Foregoing. t ,
Berkbamjiead> June 25, 1647. June' My Lords and Gentlemen^
N Anfvver to your Defire of a Reafon for the Army's Motion this Day> we thought fit to let ou know that our Quarters are more contracted, ut not nearer London than before, viz. at Wat- Uxbridge^ and the Towns about it^ where
J
we wait for an Anfwer to our juft Demands pre- fented to the Parliament. We have often faid, we cannot ftand as Lookers on, and fee the Kingdom ruined by the Obftru&ion and Denial of Juftice ; and therefore we defire you to move the Parliament that we may not be held ftill in Doubts and upon Difputes of their Commands, to which we fhall yield ready Obedience when we fee the Kingdom in a Poflibility of Settle- ment ; which we conceive cannot be, unlefs that the Fountain of Juftice be delivered from thofe that corrupt it.'
By the Appointment of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and his Council of War.
JO. RUSHWORTH.
Then a Letter from the Commiilioners with the King.
For the Right Hon. the Earl of MANCHESTER, Speaker of the Houfe of Peers pro Tempore.
My Lord, Royjlon, June 15, 1647.
* V\7 E received yours this Morning at Six ' VV o'Clock, and have delivered the Letter
* from both Houfes to the King accordingly : His
* Majefty, though much prefled to the contrary,
* was fully refolved upon his Journey to Richmond; c and had given Orders for his dining at Ware, ' whither the Provifion of his Houfe was gone be-
* fore ; but he hath now pleafed to let us know
* that he will ftay here this Day, and that we mall
* under-
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An. »3 c»r. I. < underftand his further Pleafure hereafter. Co!.
L ^ ' Rojfiter's Regiment is upon their March to the
June. * Army by the General's Orders ; and Col. IVbaley
* commands the fame Guards here which attended ' at Newmarket : This is all I have to return to you
* at prefent, remaining,
My Lcrdy
Tour mojl humble Servant,
ED. MONTAGUE.
Laftly, a Letter from the Commiilioners with the Army.
Uxbridge^ June 26, 1647. Two in the Afternoon.
May it phafe your Lordjhip,
* \\J E came hither laft Night, where we found ' VV the General with three Regiments of Foot, ' the Train of Artillery, and fome Horfe ; four Re-
* giments of Foot more being quartered at lVatfordy
* three at Colebrook, and moft Part of the Horfe1 ' behind and on the Sides of the Foot ; and that, by ' Order, the Soldiers came provided with four Days ' Viduals.
* This Morning Sir Thomas JViddrington and Mr. ' Povey came to us very early, and brought us the ' Votes of the Houfes that paffed Yefterday con- ' cerning the Members charged by the Army.
* We having fome Intimation that the Army was ' to march this Morning, went jnftantly to the ' General, and communicated thefe Votes, and ' fuch other Proceedings of the Houfes as came
* to our Knowledge in relation to the Army, the ' better to let them fee the Inclinations of the
* Houfes towards the Army's Satisfaction ; and
* did defire that nothing might arife from them that
* might difturb the Houfes or their Councils, or
* minifter further occafion of Jealoufy, which w£
* told them we very much fear'd the Army's mcv-
* ving nearer London would doj a Report of which
« had
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' had lately come to us, the Certainty whereof we An- *3 Car- ' deflred to know, and what their Intentions were • t .' ' therein, and of their Removing. We then un- juae<
* clerftood from the General and his Officers that, 1 at Twelve laft Night, Orders were given, upon ' Confideration that the whole Body of t- e Foot
* were fo clofely contracted, that the Quarters
* fhould be enlarged every Way, as well towards « London as otherwife, for the mutual Eafe of the 1 Country and Soldiery. Againft this Refolution ' we immediately declared our Objections, and ' very 'earneftly expoftulated the Bufmefs with the ' General and Officers, as that which, according ' to our Apprehenfions, would minifter Jealoufies ' and Difcontent to the Houfes, and obftruct the ' Compofure of Things, which we found your ' Inclinations and Actions leading unto. In Reply
* to which, the General and Officers prayed us to ' reprefent, that though, in their Proceedings in
* this Bufinefs, they might have been neceffit.ited
* to fome Actions of this Nature, that might carry ' in the Face of them Occafion of Jealouly, yet in
* Truth they were done for the Eafe of the Country
* and Soldiers ; and they did alfo defire that this
* Action might be fo looked upon by the Parlia-
* ment : But withal, in this Conference, we fo far
* prevailed with the General and Officers, that ' though the Quarter-Mafters were gone before,
* and fome Regiments were on their March to-
* Wards Harro^v on the Hill, and other Places there-
* abouts, the Orders were immediately counter- ' manded, and new Quarters affigned them, with ' this Declaration, That none of them are appoint-
* ed to be nearer London than 15 Miles.
' In this Debate, we labouring to pofTefs them ' with our good Intentions for their Satisfaction,
* and to draw them to a Certainty that their Re->
* moval from hence may be at a further Diftance
* from London^ they made this Anfwer, That there
* were fome Things unrefolved by the Houfes, •contained in their late Remonftrance, that were
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An. 23 Car. I. < of immediate and abfolute Necefllty to the Being
^j ' of the Army, viz. the firft Article concerning the
~~ June. ' recalling of the Declaration inviting Men to
' defert their Army. The fecond, for equal Pay for
« for the Army with thofe that have deferted it. And
' the fifth Article, for difcharging and difperfmg of
* fuch as have deferted this Army ; in which, if
* they may receive the Houfes Pleafure fpeedily,
* they give us Hope of a certain Anfwer touching
* the Motion of the Army to a further Diftance « from London. Thefe Things I thought fit to
* acquaint your Lordfhip with, finding the Army's
* Expectations to be very great upon the Refolu- ' tions of Parliament this Day to be taken. The ' General told us that the King was unwilling to
* go back to Newmarket, and that he would be this « Night at Hatfield. Thus I reft,
My Lord,
Tour Lordjhip's mojl bumble^ and faithful Servant,
C. NOTTINGHAM.
After reading thefe Letters, the Lords ordered all private Bufinefs to be put off for ten Days.
June 28. Several more Letters were read, ad- dreffed, as ufual, to the Earl of Manchejler, Speaker of the Houfe of Peers pro Tcmpore : And firft,
A Letter from the Lord Montage.
My Lord, Hatfield, June 27, 1647.
Others concern- ' HP HE King marched hither Yefterday, being ing the King's < X not willing to ftay at Royjlon, or to return) Sadmined * to Newmarket. The Duke of Richmond came |» attend him. ' to his Majefty laft Night; others in like Con- « dition are here -, Dr. Shtlden and Dr. Hammond
«fol-
of E N G L A N D. 3$
* followed from Royjlcn^ and the latter preached be- An. 23 Car. I.
* fore the King this Morning; which Account is t ' ^7' f « all I can give you, remaining ' junCf '
Tiwr Lordjbip's bumble Servant,
E. MONTAGUE. '
Next, a Letter from the Earl of Nottingham^ imd the Lord f^harton^ with a Paper inclofed from the General and his Council of War*
Uxlritlgf, June 27, 1647. May it pleafe your LordJJnp^ 4 "~IP HE Letters fent laft Night, with the Votes And the Negoti
* X inclofed, we have communicated this Morn- atiot!S between
* ing to the General, and defired him to put the ^mriffumcrt
* Bufinefs of the Treaty into a fpeedy Way ; which and the Army,
* he promifed to confider of with his Council of « War.
* This Afternoon the General fent us, by Com- c miuary-General Jreton, and fome others of h^s
* Officers, this inclofed, in Anfwer to our Defires,
* Yefterday, to know what Things they defired to
* have granted before the Army drew back ; upon
* Perufal of which we told them, That there were
* fome Things expreffed in the Paper which the 1 Houfes had already granted. To which they
* gave us this Reply, That the Heads of this were 4 refolved at a Council of War, before your laft
* Refolutions came to their Knowledge ; that the ' Council of War had not fince met ; and therefore
* the Paper might contain fome Things that the
* Houfes had already anfwered.
* And, upon Conference, they did difcover thus ' much of their Intentions touching their Remove,
* that they intended to make Reading their Head-
* Quarters, and that the Body of the Army {hould
* lie behind and on the Sides of Reading ; but that 4 to be their neareft Quarters towards London.
1 We conceive that the Treaty is little likely to
* advance while the Army remains here ; therefore
C 2 * your
36 ?/jf Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 23 Car. I. c yOUr fpeccjy Refolutions as to thefe Things coru-
.. l6*7' * tained in the inclofed Paper, will fpeed both the
June. ' Remove of the Army from hence, and draw on
* the Treaty ; in which, when Things are ready
* for it, we (hall ferve you with all Diligence and ' Fidelity to the utmoft of our Power and Intereft, « as befit,
My Lord,
Tour Lor djhi ps faithful and bumble Servants,
C. NOTTINGHAM. P. WHARTON.
The Paper Inclofed in the above, was intituled,
jf DECLARATION of the ARMY, upon the Parlia- ment's Commiffioners Defire to know what they would have *.
* TTTHereas the Right Honourable the Com- e W miflioners of Parliament have defired to c know from us what Things we do defire to be e granted before the drawing back the Quarters of
* the Army to a further Diftance from London,
* upon the granting whereof we will engage to ' draw back : We do, in Anfwer thereunto, pro-
* pofe thefe Particulars following, as what are of ' prelent Neccffity to us, and we do defire at pre- ' lent to be granted, in order to the Army's and
* Kingdom's prefent Safety in the further Debate, c Tranfa£Hon, and Settlement of thofeotherThings
* contained in our former Papers and Reprefenta- ' tions, which will require and may admit more ' Time ; upon the granting of which Things we c (hall willingly draw back as is defired, to have
* thole other Matters debated and tranfa&ed at a ' further Diftance with Deliberation, anfwerable to ' the Nature and Weight of them.
I. * That the Parliament would be plecifed to c recall the Declaration, inviting Men to defert the * Omitted in R. 594.
« Army,
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* Army, and prQmifmg their Arrears in cafe they Aa- *3 Car. I. ' fo do j and to declare for the future, That who- L * *7-l*v
' foever {hall dcfcrt their Colours and Charge in the ' j'iw, ' Army, without the General's particular Licenfe « and Difcharge, ftiall not have any of their Arrears
* paid them.
2. c That the Army may be paid up equally
* with thofe that have deferted. Tkis we dcfirc f may be immediately granted or refolved before ' we draw back, and to be performed at leaft to the
* private Soldiers fully, and in part to the Officers, ' with all convenient Speed.
3. * That thofe that have 'deferted the Army, 4 may be inftandy difcha.rged and tiifperfed, and ' receive no more of their Arrears till the Army be
* firft fatisfied.
4. * That both the Parliament and City may. bo ' fpeedily and effectually freed from the Multitudes
* of Reformadoes, and other Soldiers before men-
* tioned, that flock together in and about London^ by 4 a fpeedy Difpatch and Difcharging of them from
* the City.
5. * That all fuch Liftings and Raifmgs of new
* Forces, or Drawing together of any, as in our ' Remonftrances and Papers are cxprefled, and all ' Preparations towards a new War, may be effec- ' tually declared againft and fupprefled ; and alfo ' all Endeavours and Invitations to draw in foreign ' Forces, either from Scotland, or other foreign.
* Parts.
6. c That the Continuance of the Army in the ' Pay of the State for fome competent Time, ' while the Maters in Debate, relating both to tbc ' Army and the Kingdom, may be concluded anJ ' fettled, be at prcfent ordered and, declared for ' before our drawing back ; and the fa,rne, with all
* Speed, efFeclually to be put in an eft^bli^hed Way,
* that the Army may be enabled to pay Quarter,-,,
* for the Eafe of the Country where it mult lye, ' and the Soldiery better kept from Abufc to the
* Country, and reduced to that good Order and
* Difcinline which has been formerly happily kept
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An. 23 Car. I. « in this Country; though of late, through Want 1647- « of Pay and other juft Diicontents, with the late c Provocations put upon them, unhappily inter- ' rupted.
j. c That, during the fame Srace, the Parlia- ' ment would refolve not to propofe any Place for
* his Majefty's Refidence nearer London than they ' will allow the Quarters of the Army to be.
* Now, for our former Defire of a prefent Suf- e pending the impeached Members from fitting in « the Houfe :
1. ' Whereas we undcrftand the Houfe hath vo-
* ted, That it doth not appear that any Thing hath ' been faid, or done, by the eleven Members, with- ' in the Houfe, touching any Matter contained in
* the Papers from the Army, "for which the Houfe ' can in Juftice fufpend them ; though if Way were
* given and opened, without Breach of Privilege,
* for us to charge them with, and for others to be 6 examined freely to teftify unto fuch Things, we
* {hould not doubt to make fuch Proceedings and ' Practices of theirs in the Houfe to appear, for
* which, according to former Precedents, they juftly
* might and ought to be fufpended ; yet we are fo ' tender of the Privileges of Parliament, as that
* we (hall, at prefent, forbear to reply or prefs fur- ' ther upon that Point, for the Houfes Proceed- ' ings therein upon their own Cognizance.
2. ' Whereas the Houfe of Commons hath ' voted, That, by the Laws of the Land, no Judg- ' ment can be given to fufpend thofe Members ' from fitting in the Houfe, upon the Papers pre-
* fented by the Army, before Particulars produced
* and Proofs made ; though we think good Reafons
* may be given, and Precedents found, to the con-
* trary, even in the Proceedings of this Parliament, ' (as in the Cafe of the Earl of Straffird^ the Arch-
* bifhop of Canterbury^ the Lord-Keeper Finch^ and
* others) yet we declare that we have both Par- ' ticulars and Proofs againft them ready to pro- ' duce ; but confidtring that the Proceedings there-
* upon will probably take up much Time, and the
* pre-
of ENGLAND.
c prefent unfettled Affairs of the Kingdom, in re- An ' lation to thofe great Matters propofed by us, do 4 require a fpeedy Confideration : We fhall be will-
* ing that thefe greater and more general Matters ' of the Kingdom be firft confidered of and fettled 6 before the Cenfure of thofe Members be deter-
* mined ; and therefore, becaufe they may appre- ' hend it fome Prejudice to them to have their par- ' ticular Charges given in, and lie on them fo long ' undetermined, we fhall be willing to forbear the
* giving in of the Particulars againft them, till they
* may, without Interruption to the general Affairs,
* be immediately proceeded upon : But, if the Houfe ' do think fit that the Particulars againft them be 1 firft delivered in, we (hall be ready to do it.
3. * Whereas we underftand that the Members 4 charged have defired Leave from the Houfes to
* withdraw themfelves, we cannot but take Notice ' of the Modefty thereof, fo far as that we are con-
* tented therewith, for the prefent more quiet pro-
* ceeding to fettle the perplexed Affairs of the King- 4 dom (which, without any private Animofities a-r 4 gainft Perfons, is our greateftEnd in what we do) }
* only we declare that, as we fuppofe the Gentle- « men themfelves, from the fame Grounds that in- f duced them to offer this, will ftill forbear to offer « the contrary, till the Matters concerning them be « heard and determined, or to make any new Inter-
* ruption or Difturbance to the Proceeding there-
* upon, or Settlement of the general Affairs of the « Kingdom ; fo we hope, and fhall confidently ex-
* peel, that the Wifdom and Juftice of the Houfe
* will not admit any Things to the contrary, or leave f it to an Hazard thereof; but will ufe fufficient Care
* and Caution againft fuchThings,and for the bringr ' ing thofe Members to Trial, when the Houfe fhall 4 judge it reafonable and lafe, as before expreffed,'
By the Appointment of bis Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and his Council of War.
June 27) JQHN RUSHWQRTH.
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An. 23 Car. I. The fame Day another Letter from the Earl of
v_l6*^ , Nottingham and the Lord IVbarton was read in the
June. Houfe of Lords.
For the fpeclal Service of the Parliament.
For the Right Hon. E D w A R D Earl of M A N- CHESTER, Speaker of the Houfe of PEERS.
Uxbrldge^ June 27, 1647.
Twelve at Night. May It pleafe pur Lordjfnp^
« \\/ ^ kad> very late this Afternoon, Informa-
* \V tion given us, that Dr. Sheldon, and Dr.
* Hammond, two of the King's Chaplains, Mr. c Kirk) Mr. Leiiingjlone, and Mr. Henry Murray, ' all of the Bed-Chamber to the King, were gone
* to his Majefty at Hatfidd^ and had Accefs to his
* Perfon ; which we thought ourfelves in Duty *• obliged immediately to know of the General, ' efpecially in regard that the two Chaplains were
* defired formerly, and the Houfes forbore to give
* any Refolution therein. This we have done fmce
* our Difpatch this Day by Col. White, and Mr.
* Povey ; and the General tells us, That it is very
* true that the King wrote to him about a Fort- 4 night iince about thofe two Chaplains, and he
* never gave him an Anfwer; whereat the King ' was angry : That he hears they are at Hatfield^ ' but by no Order of his ; and that the Commif-
* fioners there, who have Power to reftrain their ' Coming, will not direct Colonel Wbalty fo to do; ' and Colonel IVhaley, on the other Hand, con- ' ceives he hath not Power to debar their Accefs
* without the Commiflioners Order ; and thus,
* between both, they have Freedom : Herewith we
* thought fit to acquaint your Lordfhip, as alfo ' that the General then told us, that a Refolution ' was taker) to draw back fomc of the Quarters of ' the Army as far as Wickham, Bcconsfisldy Oking- ' ham, MarloW) and Henley ; but the Head-Quarters 6 will remain here, in Expectation of your further
« An-
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* Anfwer to their Defires fent up this Day by Co- An. a 3 Car. I.
« loncl White and Mr. Pomy. Thus we reft, t ' *7' .
Lord/hip's faithful and bumble Servants^
C. NOTTINGHAM. P. WHARTON.
After a long Debate, the Queftion being put, Whether to inforce the former Vote of the 24th of y^ne Inftant, concerning the King's being at Roy/Ion or Newmarket^ by a Letter to the Com- miffioners with the King at Hatfeld and to Sir Thomas Fairfax ? it was refolved in the Affirma- tive ; the following Lords entering their DifTents by fubfcribing their Names :
LINCOLK, MIDDLESEX,
STAMFORD, SUFFOLK,
HUNSDON, WlLLOUGHBY* MAYNARD,
Then it was ordered, that a Letter be written to the Commiflioners refiding with the King, in Purfuance of the abovefaid Vote. This was done, and fent to the Commons for their Concurrence, which that Houfe having immediately given, the Letter was fent to the Commiflioners accordingly, in h<ze Verba :
My Lords and Gentlemen^
are commanded by both Houfcs to let Both Houfes for- you know the great Danger of admitting bid admitting of any fuch Perfons to the Prefence of the King, as [fj'jj"?1 pl* are prohibited by your former Inftrudtions. And, fence. for your more pofitive Direction therein, they have fent you the inclofed Order, requiring your utmoft Care in the fpeedy and effectual Execution thereof. Thus, having nothing further in Charge, we1 remain, £3V,
A Letter
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A Letter to the General was alfo agreed to, for him to command the Guards that attended the King, to be obedient to the Direction of the Com- miflioners.'
Two Resolutions fent up by the Commons were likewife agreed to, and ordered to be font to the General, viz,
They pafs federal Refohed, &c. f That they do declare that no Officer or Soldier, from and after the Publication of this Order in the Army, ftiall leave it without the particular Leave and Difcharge of the General.
Refolved) &c. ' That they do declare they own this Army as their Army ; will make Provifion for their Maintenance ; and will take Order, fo fooa as Money can conveniently be raifed, that they (hall be paid up equally with thofe that have left the Army.'
And require the june 29> Both Houfes agreed in a Vote this Day,
te HcLnby that the KinS ^ould not come from Halfield to
Richmond, but go back to Holdenby ; and ordered 3
Letter to be fent to their Commifiioners, with ano-
ther to the General for that Purpofe.
June 30. A Letter from Lord Montague was read, addrefled, as ufual, to the Earl Speaker of the Houfe of Peers.
A Letter from Lord Montague, relating to De- linquents being almittcd to the King.
Hatfield-, 'June 29, 1647, My Lord,
E received this Day .your Letter of the 28th Inftant, with the Votes inclofedx whereby the Duke of Richmond, Dr. iS/W.O.T, Dr. Hammond, and others in like Condition \, icli them, are to be removed from about the King ; for which Purpofe we have required the Guards here to obey us, and directed Sir Thomas Fairfax to give them Orders therein, Before we had not any Power at all to command Colonel Wh<y, or the Regiment under him, neither could we af- fume an Authority which you had not given us j and therefore we hope that this Refort to the 4 ' King
cf ENGLAND. 43
* King will not in any ways be imputed to us. An- 23 c"' I. f Upon the Receipt of thefe new Orders to us, ^^ l647-
' we have imparted them to Colonel Whaley j june> 4 whofe Anfwer to us is, That when he receives 'the General's Orders herein, which, according ' to the Votes, he conceives he is to expect, he
* fhall be very ready to obferve the Directions we
* fhall give him ; tho* as yet, having not heard from
* his Excellency, he cannot give us further Satis- 4 faction j but fhall forthwith fend to the General ' and acquaint him therewith, being very ready,
* according to the Orders he fhall receive from his
* Excellency, to perform his Duty to the Parlia-
* inent. In the mean Time we are not in a Ca- ' pacity to difcharge your Commands, and hope
* you will not expect that which is not in the
* Power of
Tour Lord/tip's bumble Servant,
E, MONTAGUE.
A Letter from Sir Thomas Fairfax was alfo read, addreffed to the Speaker of the Koufe of Peers, concerning a Complaint made by the Scots Com- miflioners of the intercepting a Packet of theirs by the Army.
My Lord) TJxbridge^'Jiine 29, 1647.
T Can aflure your Lordfhip I am altogether ig- Another from •*• norant of feizing the Packet between Hun- F^irfax^ncem, tingdon and Stilton, which was going to Scotland ing the'feizing a from the Scots Commiffioners ; neither was it Packet of tlie ever brought to the Head -Quarters that I could goners. 0" hear : Had I known of any fuch Thing, I fhould not have let it pafs, without making the Ac- tor in fo foul a Bufmefs an Example. I fhall be very careful, as much as in me lies, that none of the Army under my Command fhall offer any Interruption to the Intercourfe of Packets be- tween the Kingdom of Scotland and their Com-
* miffioners at London ; and fhould be very loath to.
« be
44 *?be Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 13 Car. I. < be an Occafion of a Breach of the good Corre- ' fpondency betwixt the two Nations.
* About a Week fince there happened a Bufi- ' nefs at Ware^ which perhaps is the Thing iij-
* tended in your Letter : There came one to the ' Guard, who, being examined, faid firft he was
* going to Scotland. Being defired to produce his ' Pafs, it was only from Major-General Webb^ to
* go to Royjton. Then being demanded whither
* he was to go ? he faid, To Newmarket to Mr.
* Maxwell. Lieutenant-Colonel Jubb being then
* upon the Guard, and finding him in feveral
* Stories, fent him, with two Troopers, to the
* Head-Quarters at St. Albarfs^ with a Bundle of
* Papers, fealed up in a blank Paper, without any
* Direction at all ; neither had he any Pafs from
* the Commiffioners of Scotland \ yet he no fooner ' came to the Head-Quarters but he was permit- ' ted to go to Newmarket accordingly, with the
* Bundle of Papers he had with him. I thought ' fit to mention this Particular, left there fhould
* be a Mifconft ruction had thereof. This being
* all I have to trouble your Lordmip with, I re-.
* main
Your Lord/hip's mnjl bumble Servant^
T. FAIRFAX.
A Letter from the Earl of Nottingham was read, addreffed, as ufual, to the Speaker of the Houfe of Peers.
Uxbridge, June 29, 5647. May it phafe your Lordjbip^ Mote Letters and « \\7 E ^ave received yours, dated Yefterday,
ni * W'th thC V°teS °f b°th H°ufeS inclofe^
"- * That no Officers or Soldiers fhould leave the Ar- and the * my without the General's Leave, and of the t Houfes owning the Army and providing for it. ' We have this Morning communicated them to
* Sir Thomas Fairfax ; and took that Occzfion to
* move him that the Bu£nefs of the Treaty may
* be
c/* ENGLAND. 45
« be put into a Way, and the Head-Quarters to be An. a^ « removed at a further Diftance from London j both e which the General told us {hould be taken into « fpeedy Confideration, and that he would give us « an Account of their Refolutions with all Conve-
* niency. I am,
My Lord,
Tour humble and faithful Servant, C. NOTTINGHAM,
Next was read another Letter from the Commif- fioners of Parliament refiding with the Army.
WiMam, June 29, 1647.
It pleafe your Lordjhip,
N the Way from this Town to TJxbridge, this Afternoon about Six o'Clock, we received
* this inclofed Paper by a Meflenger from the Ge- ' neral, which we thought ourfelves in Duty obliged
* to fend your Lordfhip, and reft
Your Lordjhip's bumble Servants,
C. NOTTINGHAM. ~" P. WHARTON.
The Paper fent by General Fairfax to the Earl •»f Nottingham and the Lord IVkarton.
Uxbridge, June 29, 1647.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
* T3 Y the Votes you were pleafed to commu-
* JD nicate to me this Morning, I find the Par-
* liament hath taken into their Confideratioh thofe
* Proportions of the Army, which necefTariFy cra-
* ved feme Satisfaction before the withdrawing of
* it ; and that their Progrefs already made, though
* but in part, meets with fuch a Compliance in
* my Council of War, that it begets in them a
The Parliamentary HISTORY
' general Confidence of the Houfes fpeedy and full c Anfwer to their remaining Propofitions j and ' therefore, to teftify the Readinefs of this Army ' to obferve the Commands of the Parliament* ' they have refolved to move the Army to a fur- ' ther Diftance, and the Head-Quarters to be this ' Night at Wickham \ believing this Forwardnefs
* on their Part to fatisfy both Parliament and City,
* will not retard but rather haften the Refolutiona
* of the Houfes, with a full Satisfaction to the Par- c ticulars not yet anfwered ; and alfo to acquit this ' Army of any Jealoufies and unjuft Afperfions caft
* upon it*
By the Appointment of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Council of War.
JO. RUSHWORTH*
July i. Divers Letters were read in the Houfe of Lords, all directed to the Earl of Manchejler aa Speaker, the Tenor whereof was as follows :
from the Lord MONTAGUE.
My Lord) Hatfald June 29, 1647*'
tad the King's * T Mmediately after we received the Votes con- Rtmovalj c J. cerning his Majefty's Remove to Holdenby9
* we acquainted him therewith. He anfwered, « That he had already refolved to move to IVtnd- *fort and fent Part of his Stuff thither ; and on
* 'Thurfday intends to fet forwards to that Place,
* which he would have done To-morrow had it not « been the Faft after his coming hither. If he were" c moved, he faid we fhould have his farther An*
* fwer. Col. Wbaley hath not yet received any
* Direction from the General, fo as we cannot give
* you any other Account of the Commands you
* have laid upon us, either in this of his Majefty's
* Removal or by your former Votes j but remain
Your Lordjhip't nwjl humble Servant^
E. MONTAGUE.
of E N G L A N D. 47
A LfitTFR from Col. WHICHCOT, Governor of Ant23Car,J» Windfor Co/lie. \ ' „',.»<
JVindfor June 30, 1647. "*
Right Honourable,
* A T this Inftant Mr. Dowfett, with others at-
* JLJL tending upon the King, are come to give « me Notice that his Majefty intends to. be here < To-morrow Night, with the Commiffioners of ' both Houfes of Parliament ; and that from them
* they have Orders to haften the Preparing of his « Majefty's Houfe, within this Caftle, for his En-
* tertainment ; that I fhall receive further Direc-
* tions concerning^ this from the General Sir Tbo- € mas Fairfax, and Col, Whaley ; and that Dinner is ' to be made ready To-morrow at the Lord Grey's
* Houfe, near Watford^ for his Majefty as he pafleth.
* All which I thought it my Duty to inform the.
* Parliament of, and, as I am obliged, fufcribc « myfelf
Tour Lard/hip's moft bumble Servant,
N. WHICHCOT.
A L E T T E R from Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX.
JMy Lord TVickbam-, June 30, 1647.
* 1 Received a Letter this Evening from the Go- « A vernor of Windfor^ and alfo an Intimation
* from Col. Wbahy^ who I have appointed for his
* Majefty's Guard, that the King defires, and
* intends, to go To-morrow for Wtndfor^ to re-
* main there for four or five Days ; having Hopes ' by your Commiflioners, as he himfelf faith, to ' fee his Children, who he expects fhall meet
* him there ; and, after, he is willing to remove to
* fome other convenient Place at a greater Diftancc
* from London. I muft confefs I find myfelf in a 4 great Strait what to do herein, knowing his In-
* teaitions contrary to your late Votes ; and not
* having your further Commands or Directions to
* advife
Y6e Parliamentary H t s T o R y
*2 Cir' *' " ac^v'k h's Majefty herein, I could do no more thart
7' . * give a fpeedy Account of his Refolutions, and
July. c defire you to believe that I (hall be very careful
* to place a very trufly Guard about him for the
* Security of his Perfon.
* I have fent to his Majefty, to defire that ha ' would alter his Refolutions, and goto fome Place ' which might be more convenient to your prefent
* Affairs ; but do conceive he will fcarcely be per- ' fuaded thereunto till four or five Days be paft :
* After that I {hall, in Purfuance of your Votes, ft ufe all Diligence for his fafe Remove to fome
* convenient Place further diftant from London* ' until the Settlement of the Affairs of the Kingdom
* and your Commands {hall otherwife difpofe of him. e I remain
Tour Lord/hip's mojl humble Servant,
T. FAIRFAX. Another LETTER from the Lord MONTAGUE.
My Lord) Hatfield) June 30, 1647.
HIS Afternoon about Four o'Clock, fup-
pofing by that Time an Anfwer might be ' received from the General, we again defired to ' fpeak with Col. H'haley> who affured us that he
* had not as yet received any Order from his Ex-
* cellency concerning the Removal of fuch Perfons ' as, contrary to our Inftru&ions, reforted to the
* King. We replied, That it lay upon us to re- ' quire the Performance of the Commands laid up- ' on us by your Votes, which we defired might be
* done in that Courfe which we had taken at Hoi- ' denby, to wit, that when any Perfon fufpefted to
* have been in Arms againft the Parliament, of
* otherwife within the Fifth Article of our Inftruc-
* tions, was difcoverod to be in the Court, he was in- ' ftantly, by our Directions given to the Chief Com- ' mander of the Guards prefent, to be brought be- ' before us ; and upon Examination, if the Informa-
^ENGLAND. 49
* tion proved to be true, he was appointed by us to An> jLCar- **
* be removed or comrhitted as the Cafe required j y__ y7' .-» k which was accordingly put iri Execution by the Julj.
* Chief Commander of the Guards prefent, in pur-
* fuance of the Orders we1 gave "him. Conform-
* ably thereunto we named unto him Dr. Sheldon
* and Dr. Hammond^ to be proceeded a»ainft iu
* like Manner. Col. Jffiaky anfwered, That he » was to obey the Orders of the General, and, by « exprefs Authority of the Houfes, was queftion-
* able at a Council of War for his Life, if he did
* otherwife ; that he was to expect particular
* Commands from the General, even by the Votes
* which at prefeht we infifted upon ; aud that our
* Orders were not fatisfa&ory to him till he had
* received his, wherein he fuppofed the Senfe of
* the Houfes would not be otherwife taken ; ft r ' that they would not impofe upon him an Obe-
* dience which might involve him in a Contradic- ' tiori to the General's Orders, which, if he ob- ' ferved not, his Life was at Stake : But it was ' clear they intended not to enfnare him therein,
* having pofitively referred him to Orders which he 8 was to receive from his Excellency fii'ft ; to whom e he fhould make a fpecdy Addrefs to that Pur- « pofe.
* Hereby your Lordfhips may well underflahd
* that we are in no Capacity of ferving you, either
* in this or what concerns his Majefty's Removal ;
* prefuming you will not expect we fliould take
* this Employment upon our own Hands, without c the Miniftry of thofe you have appointed to obey « us. We have now fix Months conftantly at-
* tended upon this Service^ and do earneflly wilh
* to be difcharged, which (hall be taken as a F;i-
* vour to,
My
Tonr mo/t bumllc
E. MONTAGUE. VOL. XVI. D After
hi« Majefty's
Preface.
50 tte Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 2} C»r. 1. After reading all the foregoing Papers, the Lords
t l647' j refolved that a Letter be fent to Sir Thomas Fairfax?
TV requiring him to fee the two Votes of the 28th andf
2gth of June laff put in Execution, and to give
Order to the Guards now with the King to obfervc
Both Howf«in-all Direchorrs they fhould receive from the Com-
for«theirOrdersmjuloncrs of Parliament ; alfo another Letter to
for keerlng L)e- ,,-/-, ..,- L r • i1 i r • T*
linquents from thole Commilhoaers to put the laid Votes in Lxc- cution. Two Letters were accordingly drawn up ^ thc Eaii of Ma}}cke/}fr, and fent to the Com- mons for their Concurrence, who agreed to them without Alteration.
A Complaint being alfo made that Dr. Hatnmoru? and Dr. Sheldon had oftentimes^ of late, ufed the Common Prayer Book, and officiated before the King with divers fuperftitious Geftures contrary to the Directory^ thereby incurring the Penalty pre- fcribed by Ordinance of Parliament for the fame, the Lords ordered that they do forthwith appear at their Bar to anfwer fuch Matters- as fhould be ob- jected againft them.
Next a Letter from the Earl of Nottingham and the Lord Jl^harton^ with two Papers inclofed, was read,
For the Right Hon. the Earl of MANCHESTER^ Speaker of the Houfe of PEERS.
JPickhamy July I, 1647. May it pleafe your Lordjhip,
lating
to the intended Treaty beten
' \7 Efterday being the Faft, we put the Genera! * i in mind of the Treaty, and did earneftly Treaty et^en < r. hjm thereunto by Letters, a Copy whereof
the Commiilion- ,rr. -A/- I-L -11
eriof the Par- we tend you ; in Anfwer to which we received thc < inclofed about One o'Clock this Morning. This ' being all at prefent, we reft,
litment aad the
Lordjhip's humble Servant t%
C. NOTTINGAM, P. WHARTON.
of ENGLAND. jr
A Copy of the Commiflioners Letter to the Ge- An. z3 Car. I. fceral, mentioned in the foregoing. t l6*7' _.
trtckbam June 30, 1647; July'
May it pleafe your Excellency,
* T T Aving received Power from both Houfes to « 1 1 treat with your Excellency, and fuch of the < Army as you fliall appoint, upon the Papers and
* Defires fent from the Army to the Houfes* and the
* Votes fent to us and the Commiflioners, where-
* with we acquainted your Excellency on Sunday
* laft j and did then defire your Excellency to put ' the Treaty into a Way, which Defires we have « every Day fmce renewed :
' Forafmuch as the Peace of the Kingdom is
* highly concerned in the fpeedy Difpatch thereof,
* and the Expectations of the Houfes, the City, and
* the Kingdom are much fet thereon, your Quar-
* ters being now removed at fome reafonable Dif-
* tance further from the City ; we defire to know « from your Excellency with what Perfons we are to
* treat, and the Time and Place of Meeting, for « the bringing this Bufinefs to a fpeedy Conclufion ; « in this we are the more earneft becaufe we are « very fenfible that all Delays herein will be unac- « ceptable to the Houfes, and thus we reft,
SIR,
Tour Excellency's bumble Servants,
C. NOTTINGHAM, THO*. WIDDRINCTON, P. WHARTON, ROB'. SCAWEN,
H. VANB, THO>. POVEY.
Sir Thomas Fairfax's Anfwer to the Parliament's Commiflioners <
IVickham June 30, 1647. My Lerds, and Gentlemen,
* T Am very fenfible of the great Inconveniences
* 1 which Delay in the fpeedy Settlement of the ' Affairs of the Kingdom may produce, and there-
D 2 «fore
*fbe Parliamentary HISTORY
« fore I am ready, according to the Parliament's Dc- ' fires, to appoint Officers ta treat and attend your ' Lordfhips for that Purpofe with all poffible Speed, 4 that Delay may not reft on my Part : But I muft
* needs tell you that the Army is unfatisfied, and ' do conceive thcmfelves and the Kingdom unfafe, ' until their laft Proportion delivered into this
* Houfe be fully anfwered ; which they hope will
* be the Parliament's next Care, and therefore de-
* lire to know their Pleafure concerning them before 4 they come to a Concluhon in any Thing j which 4 being done, I am confident they will proceed with 4 unanimous Intention to obferve their Commands ' in all Things which may tend to the Good of the 4 Kingdom.'
By appointment of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fair- fax and his Council of War.
J. RUSHWORTH.
'July 2. The Commons fent up a Vote they had paifed, and defired their Lordfhips Concurrence to- it, viz. * That the King fhould not refide nearer to London than where the Quarters of the Army (hall be allowed to be.' After fome Debate, the Lords, on the Qucftion, pafled it alfo, the Earls of Rutland, Suffolk , and Stamford, only diffenting.
The fame Day a Petition from the City of Lcn~ don was prefented and read in btsc Verba :
To the Right Honourable the LORDS ajjembled in the High Court ef Parliament,
The HUMBLE PETITION cf the Lord Mayor, Alder- men, and Commons of th» City of London in Com- mon Council ajjembled,
Humbly Jhewethy
A Petition from t >-ip HAT the Petitioners cannot but call to don forP^mTnt4 * Mind the Deliverance which they and the of the Soldiery, * whole Kingdom did juftly expect from this Par- * fpeeay Settle- ( jiament. after fo many Years Suffering under the
mcnt of the Na- • . r.
tion, &c. rower
*/* ENGLAND. 53
e Power of an arbitrary Government, both in their An. a? Car. I. c Spiritual and Temporal Concernments ; and they 1647-
* do humbly acknowledge that this Parliament * T^ < hath removed many Obftacles, and are confident y
* would, by this Time, with God's Blcffing, have
* reftored the Kingdom, to its juft Liberties, and
* fettled a fare Foundation for its future Happinefs, ' if they had not been diverted by the great Coa-
* trivers of the Kingdom's Slavery ; who, rather
* than fubmit to the Juftice of this High Court,
* have raifed and maintained a bloody, unnatural,
* and long War againft the Parliament of England ; ' in the Supprefllon whereof as much Blood hath
* been fpilt, fo a great Treafure hath been fpent ;
* and the Kingdom is fti-11 left involved in many
* Engagements and Debts, both to their Brethren
* of Scotland, (who, like true Chriftian Brethren,* ' came in to our Aid againft the common Enemy)
* and alib to a Multitude of Officers, Soldiers, and
* others the well-affecled People of this Land, who ' did engage in the Defence and Support thereof,
' And although the Petitioners, in the Obligation - ' which' the Caufe of God and the Public Safety 'did caft upon them, have all this Time both
* freely contributed, and chearfully fubmitted, to- ' many great and unufual AflefTments, which alia
* could not be levied but in an extraordinary Way; ' yet they cannot but be fenftble how arbitrary Power
* hath been, during thefe Diftempers, exercifed by
* Committees and others, by whom the good Sub-
* ject hath been oftentimes more oppreflea than the
* Delinquent fupprefled ; and who have managed
* the Receipts and Revenues, which were defigned ' to maintain the Public Charge, fo diforderly and
* ineffectually, that the Kingdom cannot but be ' unfatisfied concerning the due Employment there-
* of; and doubt that much of the public Money
* hath been employed to private Ends, and remains « obfcured in the Hands of fuch as were intruded ' with the Collection of thofe AfTeflments, and thr
* Improvement of all Sequeftrations to the beft Ad'-
* vantage of the Public. And indeed the Petitioner";
D 3 * hav«
54 y&e Parliamentary H I s T o R v
a* Car. I. < have Reafon to attribute much of the late Dif* ' *7' . * content and Diforders of divers Officers and Sol- jujy4 * diers ur»to the Want of fuch Money as, if duly
* collected and faithfully managed might have, in
* good Parr, if not fully, fatibfied the Soldiery ; and
* do humbly conceive that the Parliament hath fo
* much the more Reafon to enquire into the fame,
* becaufe that, from this Defect, hath rifen thofe
* late Attempts of fome of the Soldiery \ and there
* is fuch Ule made of the Vote patted by the Par-
* liament for their Satisfaction, to invite and draw
* together very great Numbers of Officers and Sol- e diers from all Parts of the Kingdom, under Pre-r
* fence of fharing the Money fo obtained, that it ' may very much endanger the Peace and Safety of
* the City. The Petitioners, therefore, for Remedy
* of the faid Grievances, and Prevention of thofe ' Dangers which otherwife may be feared, and for ' Settlement of this miferable and diftrafted King-
* dom, do humbly pray,
1. * That prefent Command be given, that no
* Officers of War nor Soldiers, other than fuch as « are already come in, do enter the Line of Commu-
* nication, under any Pretence of fharing in the
* Monies lately appointed by Parliament towards the ' Satisfaction of any Arrears.
2. ' That fuch Officers and Soldiers, who are
* already paid according to the late feveral Ordi-
* nances of Parliament in this Behalf made, if their
* ufual Habitation and Employment have been
* within the Line, be enjoined forthwith to betake
* themfelves to their Calling, or fome honeft Con*
* dition of Living ; and be prohibited from their ' loofe and tumultuous Wandering and Meeting ' within this Cjty, aad other Places adjacent, un-
* der Penalty of lofmg their Arrears. And that
* fuch Officers and Soldiers as have Dwellings or
* other Relations in the Country, be required to ? depart the Line within two Days after Publica-
* tion, and to return to their Homes or Habitations, ' and there apply themfelves to their feveral Calr
* lings, on the l}ke Forfeiture of their Arrears ;
5 < except
*f ENGLAND, 55
r except fuch whofe prefent and lawful Occafions An. 13 Car. I. ' may require their Continuance, to be approved of ^ ' 647>
* by a Committee for that Purpofe to be appointed. jul^
* And that the Parliament would pleafe to make fome
* fpeedy and certain Provifion for the fatisfying of *" all Arrears unto the Soldiery, who have ferved the 4 Parliament, within fome {hort and convenient ' Time, to be paid in the feveral Counties and 4 Places of their Abode, according to the Conditions
* of their Entertainment.
3. ' * That all Officers and Soldiers, who have
* been in Arms againft the Parliament, or others
* who have affifted or contributed thereunto, be
* enjoined, upon Pain of Imprifonment, within 4 twenty four Hours after Publication, to repair to 4 their feveral Habitations, and to fall to their law- ' ful Callings j and that fuch Officers, Soldiers,
* and others, as have no Habitations nearer, be
* commanded forthwith to withdraw themfelves,
* and to continue at leaft twenty Miles from Lon- 4 don for the Space of forty Days ; except fuch as,
* by a Committee authorized and appointed for that
* Purpofe, fhall have Licence, upon juft Caufe by ' them allowed, to remain, in or near London, fo
* long Time yntill they have difpatched fuch Bu- c fineries as they fhall have in or near the City; which 4 ended then prefently to retire twenty Miles ' from the City upon Pain of Imprifonment as
* aforefaid.
4. ' That fuch Commanders and Soldiers as, ac-
* cording to former Orders of the Parliament, have 4 come in from the Army, having received their •* Monies, may be otherwife difpofed of as the Par*- 4 liament fhall think fit,
5. * That all Perfons whatfoever that are po£- 4 fefled of any Monies or Goods belonging to the 4 Public, may be enjoined to bring the fame, with*-
* in one Month after Publication, into fuch pub-
* lie Treafury as is or fhall be appointed for that
* Purpofe j under Penalty to forfeit treble the Value 4 of that which fhall be duly proyed to be fo con-
* cealed, the Half of the Forfeiture to be given
P 4 'to
56 f/je parliamentary HISTQRY
An. 13 Car. I. < to fucb, Perfons as {hall make Proof of fuch Con-i 1 l647' -^ * cealmenti and tne other Half to be applied to thq jvj" * Service of the State.
6. ' That all Revenues, as well fuch as are due
* by Sequeftration or otherwife, be managed under
* fuch Commiflion?, and by fuch Perfons 'as, not- ' WKhftandi^g any Privilege of parliament or other- c. wife, may be held to fu.ch Rules as are, or {hall ( be, pre.c:ib:d therein, b/ Ordinance of Parlia- ' ment ; anl be liable, for Breach thereof, to anfwcr ' the fame in due Courfe of Law ; and that no ar- 4 bitrary Power may be exercifed to the contrary by 4 any Perfon whatfoever.
7. * That the Parliament would, for the prefent,
* pleafe to lay afide all Bufmeffes of lefler Confe-
* quence, or private Concernment, and improve 4 their Time and utmbfl Endeavour that fuch
* Laws may be prepared 'for his Majefry's Royal ' Concurrence as may {ettle the Government of
* the Church, fecure the People from all unlaw- ' ful and arbitrary Power whatfoever in future, 4 and reflore his Majefty to his juft Rights and Au-
* thority, according to the Covenants without all
* which the Petitioners can neyer expert any laft-
* ing Eftablifliment ; that fo this long divided and
* diftraclcd Kingdom may attain to the Bleflings
* of Peace and Unity in Church and Common- 1 wealth.
8. * And, that the People may be the better fe-
* cured to enjoy the Intended Effects of fuch Laws
* as {hall be fo made with the Royal' AfTent, thaf
* efpecial Care b,e taken that all Officers of State,
* and other Minifters of Juftice, rnay be Perfons of
* Honour, of confiderable Interefr, and of known. 4 Integrity to the Parliament and Kingdom.
9. ' That the Parliament would pleafe to pro-
* vide for the carrying on pf the Affairs in Ireland^ ' by a fpeedy tranfporting the Forces which lie
* rerdy on the Sea-fide, and fuch others as {hall be c willing to engage in that Service, and by fuch 1 continual Supplies as are requifite to reduce that 4 Kingdom to the Obedknce of the Crown of
^ENGLAND. 57
.' England, and refcue the good Party left there out An. 23 Car. I.
* of the bloody Hands of thofe barbarous Rebels. i* And, for the better Kncouragement of the Subje&s £ of this Kingdom to continue their Supplies for
* that Service, that, with as much Speed as conve-
* niently may be, the Parliament will pleafc to take
* Care that the People be cafed of fuch extraordinary .' Charges and Burdens as have long lain, and flill
* remain, upon this Kingdom.
10. ' That, by juft and good Means, the Cor-
* refpondence with our Brethren of Scotland may, ac- ' cording to the National Covenant, be maintained
* and preferved.
II.' That this Honourable Houfe would pleafe
* to give Order for a fpeedy Examination of all
* unlawful Elections and Returns of the Members
* thereof, and purge the Houfe of all fuch as have ' been unduly chofen, or have been in Arms or in
* Action againft the Parliament j and provide for the
* 'Supply of their Rooms, according to the Laws of ' the Land.
12. ' That feme fpeedy Courfe maybe taken for 4 the deciding of all Caufes formerly determinable f in the Court of Admiralty; the Trade and Navi- ' gation qf this Kingdom, an4 the jCorrefpondence 4 with foreign Nations, being very much prejudiced, ' difturbed, and endangered for Want of due Pro- c vifion herein, as hath formerly been at large repre- ' fented unto this Honourable Houfe.
13. « And laftly, that Satisfaction being made ' by Delinquents, according to the Wifdom of Par-
* liament, an Adi of Oblivion may be paffed, for ' an utter Abolition and final Reconcilement of all
* Parties and Differences, and for the quiet fettling
* of Peace, Love, and Unity among the Subjects
* of this Kingdom. All which the Petitioners
* fubmit unto the Wifdom of this Honourable
* Houfe.'
The above Petition was prefented alfo to the Commons, and had only this Anfwer returned to
5 8 The Parliamentary HIST OR Y
An. aj Car. i. }t from both Houfes, « That the Prefenters had their
i. * A*7l_f Thanks for their conflant and good Affeclions to the
July. Parliament j that the Particulars of the Petition were
many and long, and a great Part thereof under Con-
fideration already j and the reft they would fpeedily
confider on,' Mr. JWitlock obferves here, (f)
* That feveral Members attended the Houfe lefs when thefe Matters were in Agitation, being unfa- tisfied that the Army and City mould thus feem to
impofe upon the Parliament. This is confirmed
by the frequent Inilances in the Journal^ about this Time, of Orders of Leave for Members to go into the Country.
i
The Commiflloners refiding with the Army hav- ing fent up feveral Papers to the Houfe of Lords, they were read as follows :
For the Right Hon. the Earl of MANCHEST £ R, Copies of feveral Speaker of the Houfe of PEERS.
Papers prepara- , „
tory to the Trea- frtcxaam, July J, 1647.
?J£S % M«y It pleafe your Lcrdjhlp, tkt Army. * T T Pon Confideration of the General's Papers, « \-J which we fent you this Morning, we have
* this Day made a further Addrefs to the General,
* defiring him to make known unto us the Perfons
* who fhould treat with us upon the Papers and
* Defires fent from the Army to the Houfes, and
* the Votes fent to us, and the Time and Place of
* meeting ; a Copy of which Letter of ours to the ' General I fend you here inclofed : In Anfwer to ' which the General fent unto us this Evening, by ' Colonel Fleetwood, a Commiflion under his Hand
* and Seal for certain of his Officers to treat with us,
* beginning in the Morning at our Lodgings by eight 1 o'Clock ; a Copy whereof I alfo fend you. Of our
* Proceeding herein your Lordfhip fhall receive frc» ' quent Account.
* We have likewife received this Day, from the 4 General, a Vindication of the Army from a print- «• cd Pamphlet, publifhed to the Scandal and Pre^ (f) Mtaieriah, p. 260.
« judicc
of ENGLAND. 59
* judicc of the Army, a Copy whereof you receive An. 23 Car. I*
* inclofed from ^_
Tour Lordjhtp's bumble Servant, July.
C. NOTTINGHAM.
COPY -of a LETTER from the CommiJJioncrs to the General, mentioned above.
May It pleafc your Excellency,
WE have confidered your Letter to us, dated Yefterday, in which we perceive your Ex- cellency is ready to appoint Officers to treat with us upon the Papers and Defires fent from the Army to the Houfes, and the Votes fent to us ; and therefore we defire again that the Perfons, Time, and Place may be made known unto us, the principal of our laft Propofitions being, to our Apprehenfions, already fully anfwered, and the reft under Confideration ; which, we hope, will be this Pay perfected. We are,
S I R,
Your humble Servants,
€. NOTTINGHAM, HEN, VANE,
P. WHARTON, THO. WIDDRINGTON.
P. SKIPPON,
Copy of the GENERAL'S COMMISSION to treat with the Commijfioners of Parliament,
' I Hereby appoint Lieutenant-General Cromwell^
* A Commiflary-General Ireton, Colonel Fleet-
* wood, Colonel Rain/borough, Colonel Harrifon,
* Colonel Sir Hardrefs Waller, Colonel Rich, Co-
* lonel Lambert, Colonel Hammond, and Major Def-
* borough ; thefe ten or any five of them, of which
* the major Part to be of the five Jaft, to treat and
* debate with the Right Honourable the Com-
* miffioners of Parliament rending with the Army* ' upon the Papers and Defires fent from the Army to
* both Houfes, and the Votes fent to the Army, ac-
' cording
60 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. a. Car. I. f cording to the Effeft pf the Order of both Houfcs,
t ' *7' , * dated the 26th of June, 1647 ; and, for that Pur-
jaiy. ' P°fe» to attend the faid Cpmmiffioners at their
' lodgings at the £ath,er.ine IWecl^ To-morrow
c Morning at eight o'Clock, and fo, from Time to
* Time, and PJace to Place, as fliall be mutually
* agreed upon.
Given under my Hand and Seal at Wickham, tht frji Day of July, 1647.
THQ. FAIRFAX.
POPY of a DECLARATION in Vindication of tht Army.
Wickham^ July i. 1647.
TheUttcc\Vin- c TTTHereas we find a Paper, lately printed and
SSjJJfJf. * " publiflied, bearing the Title of Heads prer
private Treaty * fented by the Army to the King's Majcfly^ on Satur-
^f"^*01 ' day, June 19, 1647 : Though we think it will,
KlDg> « of itfelf, appear fuch a confufed headlefs Piece,
' fo furreptitioufly crept forth, and in fuch a pure
4 Pamphlet Drefs, as we hope it will gain little
f Belief to our Prejudice ; yet, to avoid any Jea-
' loufies or doubtful Thoughts which it might
' poffibly breed in any honeft Mind, we cannot but
' take Notice of it j and, for the Vindication of
' the Army, we do hereby declare, that the faid
' printed Pamphlet is mqft falfe, fcandalous, and
* injurious to us and this Army : neither hath
* there been any fuch Paper prefented to his Mar ' jefty, by or from this Army : And the fame we
* profefs and declare, with great Deteftation, con- ' cerning another written Paper, whereof wp had ' a Copy fhewed to us Yefterday by the Commif-
* miffioners of the City, intituled, Articles agreed upon
* between the Army and the King the i6tb of June.
* And we defire all that wifti well ito this Army,
* the King, Parliament, or Peace of the Kingdom,
* that they will do their beft to find out and difco-
* ver the Authors and Publishers of the faid Paper
* and Pamphlet, or any Thing elfe of that Na-
* turc
*/* ENGLAND. 61
* lure that may be divulged concerning the Army, An- *3 Car> r* ' to interrupt or prejudice the prefent Settling and t * *7' ^
< £ompofure of Affairs. juiy.
' And we hope it will not be further needful, or
* expected from us, that we fhould give particular c Anfwer to every fcandalous Paper which the Ma-
* lice of our Enemies may forge againft us ; but
* that what we have publiflied to the World in our
* Reprefentation, and other Papers avowed by us,
* may ferve to clear our Intentions untill we fhall ' appear to adl fomething to the contrary.
By the Appointment of bis Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and his Council of War.
JO. RUSHWORTH.
This Vindication of the Army was ordered by both Houfes to be printed, and is in Mr. Rujh- worth's Collegians ; though neither of the Papers, which gave ib great Difguft to that formidable Body, are entered there in the Journals : But we have met with a Copy of the firft of them in the Library of the late Sir John Goodricke. There is not the Name of the Printer fubjoined ; nor is it reafonable to fuppofe any one would dare to own it fo publickly ; but it is printed on a broad Sheet, and runs thus :
HEADS prefented by the ARMY tt the KIN c's MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, on Saturday, June 19, 1647.
I. « T^HAT Dominion Is in the King, and The pretcn-ted < 1 Property in the Subject. Articles th«of.
II. ' That they will reftore his Majefty to his ' Crown and Dignity.
III. * That his Royal Function doth not take
* away his natural Relation ; he is to have the c Breeding of his Children, and difpofmg of them
* in Marriage.
IV. < That he will be pleafed to invite his Royal
* Confort the Queen, that he may have the Com-
* fort of her Society ; and that (he fliall have the
' Exercifc
6 2 ne Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 13 Car. t- * Exercife of her Religion according to th« Article!
1647. t of the Marriage.
*"f~rf ' V. * That they will not meddle with the Go- * vernment of the Church, but leave it in Statu quo
VI. c That he be pleafed to call them his Army ; ' and, if this be not fufficient Aflurance of their
* Loyalty and Fidelity, that his Majefty will be « pleafed to fet upon them any other Character,
* whereby they may be more notorioufly known to
* be his Servants.
VII. «• Whereas there is now a Difference be-
* tween the Parliament and the Army, that his
* Majefty will be pleafed to be the Umpire ; for
* they will have no other Judge between them but
* his Majefty.
VIII. « That his Majefty will be pleafed to
* confent to the Diflblution of this Parliament ; and
* that, by the firft of Augujl next, Writs be iflued
* out for the calling of a new one.
IX. * That his Majefty will be pleafed to con- c Tent to an Act of Oblivion, wherein they may be
* fecured as well as his own Party, with a fpecial « Regard had to tender Confciences.
' Thefe Heads are drawn to a Declaration, whichr c is expected to come forth, printed at Cambridge. \g}
Whether fuch a Treaty was actually on Foot or not between the King and the Army, and they might, upon the Difcovery thereof, think proper to deny it ; or whether it was a Device of the King's Party to render the Breach wider between the Parliament and the Army, is left to the Reader's- Judgment : But it is evident from the Letters we have lately given, and other foregoing Circum- ftances, that the King was treated with much more Refpect at this Time by the Army than he had been at Holdenby by the Parliament's Commif- fioners. General Ludlmv's Account of the Army'f
(g) The Army was then at Nnvgtarket, and their Remonftrancet, ftfc. at that Time were printed at Ceuniriilre, by Regtr Daniel, the Univerfity Printer, of which there are levera! Inftanees In ouf Fifteenth Volume,
Condud
^/ENGLAND. 63
Conduct towards the King we have already men- Am 43 Car. I. lioned : And Lord Clarendon's will fall not impro- perly in this Place (h).
' The King found himfelf, when at Newmarket^ attended by greaterTroops and fuperior Officers ; fo that he was prefently freed from any Subjection to Mr. Joyce* which was no fmall Satisfaction to him ; and they who were about him appeared Men of better Breeding than the former, and paid his Majefty all the Refpect imaginable, and feemed to cbfire to pleafe him in all Things. All Reftraint was taken off from Perfons reforting to him, and he faw every Day the Faces of many who were grateful to him ; and he no fooner defired that fome tof his Chaplains might have Leave to attend upon him for his Devotion, but it was yielded to j and they who were named by him (who were Dr. Shel- <&«, Dr. Morley, Dr. Sanderfon^ and Dr. Ham* rnond) were prefently fent, and gave their attend- ance, and performed their Function at the ordi- nary Hours, in their accuftomed Formalities ; all Perfons who had a Mind to it being fuffered to be prefent, to his Majefty's infinite Satisfaction } who begun to believe that the Army was not fo much his Enemy as it was reported to be ; and the Army had fent an Addrefs to him full of Proteftation of Duty, and befought him, * That ne would be con-
* tent, for fome Time, to reiide among them, un- ' til the Affairs of the Kingdom were put into fuch
* a Pofture as he might find all Things to his own c Content and Security ; which they infinitely de->
* fired to fee as foon as might be, and to that Pur-
* pofe made daily Inftances to the Parliament.' In the mean Time his Majefty fat ftill, or removed to fuch Places as were moft convenient for the March of the Army, being in all Places as well provided for and accommodated as he had ufed to be in any Progrefs ; the beft Gentlemen of the fe- veral Counties through which he pafTed daily re- fbrted to him without Diftin&ion ; he was at-
(b) Hiflorj, Vol. V. p. 50. SOT Edit.
tended
64 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 23 Car. I. ten(3eci by fome of his old trufty Servants in the
t . T 47' , Places neareft his Perfon ; and that which gave"
July. him moft Encouragement to belreve that they
meant well, was that, in the Army's Addrefs to
the Parliament, they defircd, * That Care might
c be taken for fettling the King's Rights according
* to the feveral Profeffions they had made in their
* Declarations ; and that the Royal Party might ' be treated with more Candour and lefs Rigour;' and many good Officers, who had fcrved his Ma- jefty faithfully, were civilly received by the Offi- cers of the Army, and lived quietly in their Quar- ters, which they could not do any where elfe ; which raifed a great reputation to the Army throughout the Kingdom, and as much Reproach' upon the Parliament.'
The fame Day that the foregoing Letters and Papers from the Parliament's and the Army's Commimoners were read in both Houfes, a Letteik was alfo prefented to them from the Elector Pala- tine^ fignifying his Intentions to vifit his Majefty. That unhappy Prince, whofe principal Support, at this Time, was a Penfion of 8000 /. per Annum from the Parliament, had taken Part wfth them againft his Royal Uncle, and had even ctmde- fcended to accept of a Seat in the Aflembly of Di- vines.
The Copy of this Letter, as entered in the Lords Journals, addrefled to their Speaker, runs thus :
My Lord, July 2, 1647.
The Elector Pa- c Tp HE unhappy Differences between the King latine defires c J| anj t^e Parliament being in an hopeful ^meMtovifir' Way of Compofure, and his Majefty, for the bis Majefty. < prefent, near thefe Parts, it is looked upon as c what may well become my Duty, in the near
* Relation I have to him, to make a Journey to < kifshis Hands; yet, out of my Refpe&s (which c are unalterable) to this Houfe, I thought fit to « forbear it, until I know whether they wiH ap- 6 prove of it : I do therefore defire your Lordfhip
4 to
^ENGLAND. 65
c to acquaint them therewith, that, in cafe it ftand Aa- 23 Ca* I'
* with their Liking, I may fend alfo to know his ' Majefty's Pleafure therein ; thus I reft
Tour Lordjhips moji affectionate Friend, CHA. LODOVIC.
Both Houfcs ordered that it be left to the Prince Elector to do as he fhould think fir : That a Com- mittee be appointed to acquaint his Highnefs there- with ; and that they took well the Refpecl he had ftiewn to the Parliament on this Occafion. — A few Days after, the Elector waited upon the King at the Lord Craven's Houfe, near Caverfham.
July 3. In the Houfe of Lords feveral more Letters were read addrefs'd to their Speaker. And firft,
A Letter from the Lord Montague.
My Lord, Windfor July 2, 164.7.
1 TH HE King removed Yeftcrday from HatfeklMartlcttenit- c JL to Jfmdfir, where Colonel Whichcot, be-'"
* ing Governor, hath the Command of the prefent
* Guard j and we have given him our Orders to
* remove Dr. Sheldon and Dr. Hammond from about
* the Perfon of the King, with all others that,
* by your late Votes and the fifth Article of our
* Inftrudlions, are not permitted to have Accefs to
* his Majefty. Thefe Orders he hath willingly
* received from us, and undertaken to obey them ' accordingly.
* The Duke of Richmond went away from Hat- '•field two Days ago. This is all at prefent we have
* to acquaint you with, being very defirous, as far as
* in us lies, toobferve your Commands, remaining,
My Lord,
Tour Lordjhip's mojt humble Servant, E. MONTAGUE.
?. S.
to
. S. « The King intends to remove from hence
Caver fliam, near Reading, To-morrow.'
OL. XVI. E Nex^
VOL. XVI.
6 6 T/-t' Parliamentary H i s T o ft V
An'iV Car-t' Next, a Letter from the Commiflioners r
, _ , with the Armyj with feveral Papers inclofed, was1
jBly. read.
Wickbam Jufy 2j 1647. May it pleafe your Lordfhi^
ty be- ' "T^ ^11 o Day we have entered upon the Treaty, tween the Par- ' X The Commiifions on both Parts have beert JSJ^^J" c read> and fome Propofitions touching the Me- thofe of the Ar- * thod of our Proceeding in the Treaty mutually nay. * confented unto, the Copies whereof we fend here
* inclofed.
* We have Notice given us that the General and ' his Council of War are refolved to remove the
* Head-Qtrarters" To-morrow to Reading ;• at which 4 Place, they allure us, they will proceed in thfe
* Treaty with all Diligence and Expedition oa 4 Monday Morning by feven oJC-lock ; thus we 1 reft
Your Lsrdjhip's bumble Servant,
C. NOTTINGHAM. P. \VARTON.
The Papers above-referred to in the Commu- fioners Letter :
At the Treaty begun at Wiclcham, July 2, 1647, prefenty of the C&nimijjioners of the Parliament , the Earl of Nottingham, Lord Wharton, Field-Mar* yfta/'Slcippon, Sir Henry Vane jun. Sir Thomas Widdrington, Colonel White, Thomas Scawen, Efq ; and Thomas Povey, Efq ;
Prffent, of the Commijfioners of the Arrny^ CommiJJary- General Ireton, Sir Hardrefs Waller, Col. Rich, Col. Lambert, Major Defborough.
c TT1 OR the Method of Proceedings, it is offer'd ' JL by the Commiflioners of Parliament, that
* feeing the Treaty is to be had upon the Papers and ' Defires fent from the Army to the Houfes, and « the Votes of the Houfes fent to their CommilTi-
* oners refiding with the Army,
5 i. « That
of E' N G L A N O. 67
1. e That in all Matters to be treated on, there An. 23 Car. 1. t fllall be a free Debate had by Conference. v_l!*7'
2. ' That the Refults of fuch Debates, in Points " July.
* that relate to the Defires of the Army, fhall be, ' by the Commiflioners of Parliament, delivered to
* the Commiflioners of the Army in Waiting to be
* prefented to the Council of War for their Con- ' fideration, that a fpeedy Conclufion may be there- ' upon had,
3. ' That in this Treaty nothing fhall be taken
* for the Defire, Opinion, or Refolution of the ' Commiflioners, ort either Part, but what is given
* in Waiting, figned by their refpecSlive Secretaries.
4. * That in the managing of the Treaty, and 1 for the more fpeedy Expedition, at any Time,
* Papers figned as aforefaid may be fent arid re- ' ceived betwixt the Commiflioners upon emergent ' Occafions.
5. ' That we fhall be defirous to hear from the 8 Commiflioners of the Army the Way and Method
* wherein they intend to proceed in the managing
* of the Defires of the Army \ wherein we {hall not ' doubt but that they will take fuch Courfe as may ' tend to the greateft Expedition.
6. c That Meetings of the Commiflioners fhall
* be, from Time to Time; by mutual Agreement ' of the Commiflioners, or upon the Defires of ei-
* ther Party reflectively, at fuch Place within the ' Head-Quarters as the Commiflioners for the Par-
* liament fhall appoint.
Signed by the Appointment of the Ccmmijfionen of Parliament.
GEO. PYKE, Secretary.
JPickham, Catherine-JPheel, July 2, 1647. O the Offers of the Right Honourable the Commiflioners of Parliament, for the Me-
* thod of Proceeding, the Commiflioners of the
* Army do anfwer :
« To the firft we agree fully. To the fecond
* we agree. To the third We wholly agree. ' To
£2 « the
68 ¥he Parliamentary HISTORY
Ar. 13 Car.l. < the fourth we agree. To the fifth we fhall wil-
* lingly perform what is dcfired, at leaft in Parts, ' from Time to Time as there is Occafion ; but we
* defire that there may be no Stop to the Procced-
* ings in the Treaty, upon any Part of the Things
* to be treated on, in Expectation of a general 4 Method for the Whole. To the fixth we wholly 4 agree.
Signed by the Appointment of the CommiJ/ionen of of the Army. CLERKE<
The Lords received Advice this Day, that a Meflenger had been lent to JVlndfor to enquire after Dr. Sheldon and Dr. Hammond, and to ferve their Lordmips Order upon them, requiring them to appear before that Houfe, but that they were gone from thence.
July 6. A Letter from the Lord Montague was read, directed as ufual.
My Lardy Cavcrjham July 4, 1647,
4 "\T Efterday the King removed from It'indfcr to 4 JL Cavcrjham, where now he is. Dr. Sheldon, 4 Dr. Hammond^ and others in like Condition, have
* the fame Liberty 'of Accefs as they had before his c Majefty cam? to fPfruflor. This is all the Account
* I can give you, remaining,
My Lord,
Tour Lordjhip1!: vwjl humble Servant, E. MONTAGUE.
A Letter from the Earl of Nottingham was read.
Readin?, July 5, 1647. Eleven at Night.
May it pleafi ysur Lord/hip,
4 VT7 E acquainted you, by our laft, that this 4 W Morning, at Seven, we were again to 4 maet the Commiflioners of the Army, to make
£ farther
of ENGLAND.
' farther Proceeding upon the Treaty; in Expec- An.
* tation whereof we continued until pad Twelve of
* the Clock this Day, when we had Notice given
* us by Commiffary-General Irtton^ Sir Ilardrefe ' Waller, and fome others of the Commiflioners, ' that the Bufinefs of the Charge concerning the
* eleven Members, and fome other intervening Qc~
* cafions, had taken up fo much Time that they
* could not poflibly come to us fooner ; but they 4 allured us that this Afternoon, about Two ' o'Clock, they would give us a Meeting ; about
* which Time they came accordingly, and, in the
* firft Place, propounded for our Debate fome
* Things which they affirmed to be wanting in the
* late Votes of the tioufes, in relation to the De-
* fires of the Army lent from Uxbridge, "June the ' 27111, 1647. At this Meeting alfo Intimation < was given unto us, that they have feveral Things c of Weight to offer, very much conducing, as
* they fay, to the preferving of the Peace and Safety
* of the Kingdom : Unto which we replied, That ' if the Things they had to offer were contained ' within the Papers and Defires of the Army, to
* which our Commiffion refers, we ftiould then he
* ready to debate upon them when they were com- ' municated to us.
4 We are in continual Expectation to have what
* they have to offer to us hereupon ; but it is fo late
* at Night that we cannot hope to come to any De-
* bate thereof till To-morrow Morning ; and there -
* fore hojd it our Duty to give you this Account at « prefent, and reft
Your Lord/hip's humble Servant y
C. NOTTINGHAM. P. WHARTON.
• The fame Day, July 6, a particular Charge of
Impeachment, for high Crimes and Mifdemeanors,
was prefented, by feveral Officers of the Army, to
the Houfe of Commons againft the Eleven Mem-
E 3 bers,
70 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 13 C»r. I.bcrs, whom we have lately mentioned, and (hall
L l6*7'. i have Occafion to do more frequently hereafter.
jujyt The Officers being withdrawn, the impeached
Members, (who, at their own Dcfue, had Leave to
abfent themfelvcs from the Service of the Houfe on
the 26th of laft Month) being fent for, and call'd
in, the Charge was read ; and they gave a general
Anfwer to the Particulars they were refpe&ively
concern'4 in, A Day was alfo appointed for
taking this Matter into farther Confideration.
Thus far the Journals : But the Articles of this Charge are not entered there, nor in Mr. Ru/h~ wortb's Qollcftians^ although fubfcribed by himfel*, as Secretary to Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Council pf War, and printed by their Appointment at the Time ; from which Edition the following is a Copy (a).
4 particular CHARGE or I MPEACHMEN T, in the Name of bis Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Army under bis Command againji Denzil Holies, Efq; Sir Philip Stapylton, Sir William Lewis, Sir John Clotworthy, Sir William Waller, Sir John Maynard, Knights, Major General MafTey, John Glynne, Efq ; Recorder of London, Walter Long Efq ; Colonel Edward Harley, and Antony Nicholl, Efa ; Members of the Houfe of Commons.
A particular c "IT 7 Hereas on the i5th Day of June laft, the charge of im- t \\ Heads of a Charge were Delivered, in the SSuTSie1"*" c Nam? of the faid Armyx unto the Commfffioners of Commons, in ' Parliament, to be fent up to the Parliament againft the Name of the < the Perfons above-named : Now, in Profecution tie'ra Members ' an<^ Maintenance thereof, and according to the «f that Houfe, ' Power thereby referved, it is, in the Name of the
' faid Army, more particularly charged againft the
* faid Perfons as followeth :
I, « That the faid Mr, Denzil Holies, during
< the late War, in Profecution of the evil Defigns
(a) Printed for Gccrgt Whittingtan, at the Bht Anchor in Corn- bill, near the Royal Exchange, 1647. .
« cxpreflcd
^ENGLAND. 71
*.exprefled in the general Heads of Articles for> An- *3 Car. I -* merly exhibited, contrary to the Truft repofed f in him, contrary to his Oath taken in June 1643,
* and contrary to the Ordinance of Parliament, « dated in Otfober 1643, hath aflifted the King in
* the late unnatural War, and held Correfpondence
* and Intelligence with the Enemy againft the Par-
* liament, jn Manner following, viz. He? being
* one of the fpecial Commiflioners for the Parlia-
* ment, to prefent Propofidons of both Houfes to
* the King at Oxford, did privately, and contrary < to his Inftrudions, at feveral Times, make his
* Addrefles unto the King's Party there, then in .* Arms againft the Parliament, namely, to the •c Earl of Lindfey, the Earl of Southampton, the 5 Lord Saville and others ; and did ,(ecretly pjot and
* advife with them againft the Parliament ; and
* did intimate unto them, or on,e pf them, that
* the faid Proppfitions, then fent unto his Majefty
* by the Parliament, were unreafonable : And be- ' ing demanded wj?at Anfwer he would advife the ' King ,to make to the faid Propofitions, he did 4 advife that the King fliould demand a Treaty « howeyer, and then declare how unreafonable the
* Propofitions were ; and that yet, for the Peace of
* the Kingdom, his Majefty would treat upon them ;
* but withall wifhed the Treaty might be in Lon- f- don, whither the King himfelr fhould come upon
* Security : Adding, That there was nothing in
* the World that the violent Party (meaning the
* well-affe.tSted Party to the Parliament againft the
* Enemy) did fo much fear as his Majefty's coming ' to London^ which would be a certain Diflblution of .' their Authority and Power : And the faid Mr.
* Holies bad thofe faid Perfons, or one of them,
* aflure the King, That if his Majefty knew as
* much as he knew, his Majefty would take his ' Horle and be at London the next Day, or Wqrds ' to that EfFeil.
' And it being again demanded, whether, (if the
f J£ing fhould be willing to come) it would be ac-
E 4 * cepted
72 *f he Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 43 Car. I. « cepted of? he thereto anfwered, That certainly
v l6*7' t * it would be much oppofed, but yet he was con-
juj ' fident that he and his Party (meaning fome of the
' Members above-named, and others) fhould carry
* it, anJ wifhed the King to put it upon that Trial.
* And the faid Mr. Holies was defiled by the Earl
* of Lindfey,\\\e, Earl of Southampton^^ Lord Savilley
* or one cf them, that he would be pleafed to draw
* fuch an Anfwer in Writing to the faid Propofi-
* tiom, as he dcfired the King fhould fend ; and
* the faid Earl of Southampton, who was that Night
* to lie in the King's Bed-Chamber, would per-
* fuade the King to condefcend unto it ; and there-
* upon he withdrew, and, either the fame Day or
* the next, accordingly carried unto the faid Lords,
* or one of them, a Paper ready written ; which,
* as he faid, was fuch an Anfwer to the faid Pro-
* portions as he had drawn for the King to fend ' to the Parliament ; which was taken by the faid
* Lords, 'or one of them, and carried to the King
* to be confidered of; and-fo much thereof as ad-
* vifed the King's Coming to London was laid by,
* the King fearing to adventure himfelf, but the
* reft of the faid Paper the Lord Digby (who wrote
* the King's Anfwer to the Proportions) made ufe
* of in the fame Words, as Mr. Holies had fet ' down ; who, to ingratiate hfmfelf with the King's
* Party, did, about the fame Time, revile the ' well-affected Members of the Houfe of Com- 4 mons, declaring unto the King's Party at Oxford, ' or fome of them, that thofe well -affected Mem-
* bers (which, to render them the more odious as
* he conceived, he named the violent Independent ' Party) had ill Intentions, and great Averfnefs to
* Peace ; and that nothing would be more pleafing f to them than for the King to refufe the Propofi-
* tions, how unreafonable (oever the fame were :
* And he alfo then faid, That the Commiflioners ' of Scotland were very weary of that violent Party ;
* and that they, being defperate to eftablifh their
* Prcfbvtery here as in Scotland, made their Ad-
* drelTes
^ENGLAND. 73
' dreffes to him and his Party. All which tended An> 23 c«. i.
* to the protra&ing of the faid late War, and to
* the Hinderance of a happy Peace.
' And the faid Mr. Holies did alfo, after that,
* receive from the Earl of Lindfey at Oxford, a Let-
* ter written in white Ink, concerning fome fecret ' Defign ; and kept it from the Knowledge of the ' Houle from February till about July after, when ' k was difcovered by him that brought it ; but the ' Letter itfelf was by Mr. Holies, after he had read ' it, burnt ; and the Earl of Linfey moved the King
* for a Pals for Mr. Holies to go to Oxford; but the ' King refufed to grant it, faying, That Holies did ' him better Service in the Parliament than he could ' do him at Oxford.
II. « That the faid Mr. Holies and Sir Philip ' Stapylton, during the faid late Wars, when the c Earl of Lindfey went from the Tower of London
* to Oxford, fent feveral Meflafjes of Intelligence
* to the Earl of Dorfet and Lord Digby ; thereby
* afluring them, that they did better Service for
* the King here in Parliament than they could do
* him if they were at Oxford; and Sir Philip Sta- ' pylton defired that the Earl of Dorfet would pre- ' ferve him and his Friends in the good Opinion of
* his Party at Oxford, which was then the King's ' Garrifon, and he would do as much for his ' Lordfhip and his Frinds here with the Parlia-
* ment.
' And the faid Mr. "HoUes and Sir Philip Stapyl-
* ton, the more to ingratiate themfelves into the
* Favour of the Enemy, did, of their own Accord, ' without any Direction of the Parliament, draw ' up other Propohrions than thofe mentioned hi
* the preceding Articles, which they affirmed were, ' in their Judgments, fit for the King to grant, and
* for the Parliament to ciefire ; and being fo drawn 4 up, fent them privately to his Majefty, without
* any Authority of Parliament to warrant the 4 fame.
III. « That the faid Mr. Holies, Sir Philip Sta-
* pylton, Sir William Lewis, Sir John Clotworthv,
'Sir
74 T&e Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 27 Car. I. (. SJr ffTtlliam Waller, Sir John Maynard, Major-
• . ' f^'_. c General M.ijjlc, Mr. Glynne, Mr. Long, Col. £</-
July. * ward Harley, and Anthony Nicboll, in March,
* April, May, and JHW laft, and at other Times,
* in profecution of the eyil Defigns in the fever-
* al general Heads mentioned, have frequently
* aflernblcd and met together at the Lady Car life's
* Lodgings in Whitehall, and in other places, with ' divers other Perfons difafFe&ed to the State, ( with- 4 out any Authority of Parliament) for holding
* Correfpondency with the Queen of England now ? in France, and her Participants ; with an Intent, ' by fuch fecret and clandeftine Treaties amongft
* themfelves, to put Conditions upon the Parlia- ' ment, and to bring in the King upon their own
* Terms ; and having a great Power upon the Trea- ' fure of this Kingdom, have therewith maintained
* and encouraged, by Penfions and otherwife, the ' Queen's Party in France, thereby to beget a
* fecond and more bloody War in this Kingdom :
* And they, or fome, or one of them, afTur'd the
* Queen of 40,000 /. per Annum, if fhe would aflift
* them in their Defign ; and that they would do more for the King than the Army would do ; and that they would find out fome Means to deftroy the
< Army and their Friends.
IV. « That in further Purfuance of the fame « evil Defigns, the faid Mr. Holies, Sir Ph'nip Sta~
* pylton, Sir IVilUam Lewis, Sir "John Clotworthy, Sir « William Waller, and Major-General Majjie, by the
* Combination aforefaid, within three Months laft ' paft, without any Authority of Parliament, invited
* the Scots and other foreign Forces to come into
* this Kingdom in a hoftile Manner, to abet and
* aflift them in the profecuting and effecting of their
* faid Defigns.
« And the faid Mr. Wolks very lately fent to the ' faid Queen of England, then and ftill in France,
* advifing her, amongft other Things, fpeedily to
* fend the Prince into Scotland, to march into this
* kingdom at the Head of an Army 3 and did fend
f a fpeciaj
'
of ENGLAND. 75
* a fpec'ul Meflenger to her for fuch Ends and Pur- An. •>••>. Car. i. 4 pofes.
4 And ,the faid Mr. Holies, Sir Philip Stapyhon,
* Sir miliam Leivis, Sir John Clotworthy, Sir Wii- ^ ll<nn Waller •, Sir ^Aw Maynar'dt Mr. Glynne, Ma-
* jor-General Alaffie, Mr. Z0/7£, Col. Edward 4 tiarlcy, and Antbwy Nicholl, have under-hand,
* of their own Accord, without Authority of Par-
* liament, lifted, or caufed or procured to be lifted,
* divers Commanders and Soldiers, endeavouring
* thereby to levy and mile a new War in this King-
* dom, to protect themfelves in their unjuft Oppref- 4 fions and factious defigns j and have, at feveral
* Times within two Months laft paft, invited, en-
* couraged, abetted, and counfelled Multitudes of ' Reformado Officers and Soldiers, and other rude
* Perfons, tumultuoufly and violently to gather to-
* gether at JPeJlmin/lery to affright and affaujt the 1 Members of Parliament in their Paffage to and .? from the Houfe ; to ofFer Violence to the Houfe 4 itfelf, by locking the Door thereof upon them,
* and fo imprifpning them ; and, by fuch Violen-
* ces, Outrages, and Threats, to awe and inforcc
* the Parliament.
V. « That the faid Mr. Holies, Sir Philip Sta~
* pylton, and MK Gjynne, 'have been, and are, Ob- '. ftruclers and Prejudgers of feveral Petitions to
* the Parliament for Redrefs of public Grievances. ' And the faid Mr. Holies and Sir Philip Stapyltont ' in May laft paft, did abufe and affront divers Pe- ' titioners, who, in a peaceable Manner, then ' attended the Committee, whereof Col. Lee was ' Chairman ; not only reviling and reproaching
* them, but violently haling and boifteroufly af-
* faulting them, and offered to draw their Swords
* upon Major Tuleday and others of the faid Peti- ' tioners j and, without any Power or Authority,
* committed Nicholas Teiv, one qf the faid Peti-
* tioners ; and, foon afterwards, by the Procure- ' ment of Mr. Holies and Sir Philip Stapylton, and 4 upon their Mifmformation to the Houfe, the faid < Major Tukday and Nicholas Tew were imprifon-
j6 tte Parliamentary HISTORY
An. »3 Car. I. « ed, not being permitted to fpeak for themfelves.
i ' 647' , * And Mr. Giynne, about three Months fmce. caufed
~~ ~ju ' the faid Nicholas Tew to be imprifoned in Newgate,
* and to be detained a long Time there, for no 4 other Caufe but for having a Petition about him
* which was to be prefented to the Houfe.
VI. « That the faid Sir John Clot-worthy, Sir Wil-
* Ham Waller, and Major-General Maffie, have
* lately, in profecution of the faid Dcfigns, in the
* faid general Heads mentioned, (againft the known
* Laws of this Realm, and Rules and Articles of War
* made by the Parliament) by an arbitrary Power
* imprifoned fome Members of the Army without
* any Authority j particularly Enfign Nichols, whofe c Pockets they, without Authority, caufed to be
* fearched, and feveral Papers to be taken from him,
* contrary to the Liberty of every Subject ; and cau-
* fed him to be fent a Prifoner from the Head-Quar-
* ters to London, without the Authority or Privity
* of the General, or the chief Officers of the Army ' commanding in his Abfence.
VII. * That in or about March laft, there be- c ing a Petition intern' cd from the Officers and Sol- ' diers of the Army to their General, for fuch
* Things only as were juftly due unto them, and
* concerning them meerly as Soldiers, the faid « Sir William Waller, Sir John Clotivoriby, and
* Col. Edward Harley, a Member of -the Army,
* having gotten into their Hands a Copy of the faid
* Petition, by Combination with the other Mem-
* bers above mentioned, and with an Intent to
* abufe the Parliament into Prejudices and Jea-
* loufies ?gamft the Proceedings of the Army con-
* cerning the faid Petition, (they well knowing c that the faid Army flood in their Way, and hin- ' dered them from bringing to pafs the Defigns in s the faid general Charge expreffed) did untruly
* and Malicioufly inform the Houfe, that the faid
* Petition was contrived and promoted to debauch
* and difoblige the Army, from the Parliament ; and
* that it was managed and carried on by divers ' principal Officers in the Army j that Orders were
' given
^ENGLAND. 77
* given out for reading of it in the Head of every An. *3 car. I.
* Regiment, and whofoever would not fubfcribe it .. j6*7' _M ' fhould be put out of the Mufters, and caftviered jul
* the Army; and, by thofe and other Aggravations,
* did represent it to the Houfe as a Defign againft the
* Parliament: Further adding, That fome Regi- ' ments, which were remote, were fent for to join
* with the reft of the Army for that Purpofe, by ' which Mifmformation they did, the fame Day, ' procure a peremptory Order to the General to fup- « prefs the faid Petition.
VIII. ' That fome few Days after, Col. Edr
* ward Harley^ by the Combination aforefaid, antj
* in purfuance of the fame Defigns, did produce to ' the Houfe a Letter, fuppofed to be written from;
* within the Quarters of the Army to him, by 9.
* Perfon not named ; whereby it was informed, « That Colonel Barley's Lieutenant-Colonel hac| ' drawn his Regiment to a rendezvous, and ha4 < caufed the faid Petition to be read at the Head of
* it ; and that he threatened to cafhier and put out
* of the Mufters all that would not fubfcribe it ;
* and that the Defign of the Army therein was to
* enflave the Parliament and Kingdom, if the Par-
* Hament proceeded not to fome high Refolutions,
* or to that Effect, as by the faid Letter, Relatiogi
* being thereunto had, may appear. And although ' the Subftance of the faid Letter was moft untrue,
* and no Author thereof appeared nor could bp
* produced, although a Committee was appointed « for Examination thereof, and it was much preflej « the Author fhould be difcovered ; yet the faid
* Col. Harlty, Sir John Clotzvorthy, and Sir #77-
* Ham Waller did fo avow the Reality of the faid ' Letter, and that the Contents thereof would be « made good, as that thereby, and by other falfe
< Suggestions of theirs againft the Army, they pro-
< cured the Houfe (upon long Debate, which held 4 till about Eight at Night) to order, That a Com- * mittee of five Members, whereof the faid Mr. « Holies was one, ihoulcl prepare a Declaration to be « brought into the Houfe the next Morning, figni-
4 ' fying
7 8 The .Parliamentary HISTORY
Car. I. ' fying the Houfe's Diflike of the Proceedings of* ' the Army upon that Petition, as by the faid Or- ' der, dated the 30th Day. of March laft, may ap~ 'pear; upon which fettling of the faid Bufinefs ' for that Night, moft of the Members departed, 4 as conceiving nothing would be done thereupon
* till the next Day, and that then they might have
* a free Debate concerning the fame ; but the
* Houfe ftill continuing to fit upon Difpatch of fome
* Letters formerly ordered, the faid Mr. Holies^ by
* the fame Combination, and in farther Profecu-
* tion of the faid evil Defigns, having of himfelf, ' without the Committee, prepared a Declaration
* againft the Petition itfelf, contrary to the Inten- ' tion and Direction of the faid Order, and con-
* trary to the Rules of Juftice and ufual Courfe of
* Parliament, did, the fame Night, about Ten of
* the Clock, on purpofe to furprize the Houfe, pre-
* fent the fame Declaration to the Houfe, whereby c the faid Petitioners were, without befng heard, dt-
* clared Enemies to the State, and Obftructers of « the Relief of Ireland^ if they ftill perfifted there-
* in, as by the fame Declaration, whereto Relation
* being had, may appear ; and did proeure it to be « then patted accordingly, to the great Dishonour c of the Parliament and their Proceedings ; to the « infufferable Injury, the juft Provocation, Difcou-
* ragement, and Difcontent of the Army ; to the 4 Trouble and Danger of the whole Kingdom ; to
* the hindering of the Relief of Ireland^ and other
* the evil Confluences in the faid general Charge
* exprefled.
IX. « That, by the fame and the like falfe In- « formations and Suggeftions, the faid Col. Harley,
* then a Member of the Army, Sir John Clot*
* worthey, Sir William Waller^ and the faid other c Perfons, did, fhortly after the faid Declaration < fo made as aforefaid, procure divers eminent and « faithful Officers of the Army, namely Lieut,
* Gen. Hammond^ Col. Hammond^ Col. Lilburne, « Lieut. Col. Pride ^ and others, to be fent for from e their Charges in the Army, to appear at the Bar
« of
of E N G L A N D. 7<j
* "of the Houfe, to make Anfwer in relation to the Am 23 Car, I*
* faid Petition ; againft whom when they came L l6*7' ' thither, they could charge or prove nothing all ; i
* fomuch as the Houfe thought fit immediately
* discharge them.
* And whereas there was a Committee appoint- ' ed to examine and confider of the Truth or
* Falfliood of them, and the faid Members inform-
* ing were appointed to produce their Proofs and ' Evidence to the fame before the Committee ;
* though they have fmce then been often urged,
* called upon^ and demanded to produce their
* Proofs aild Evidence thereto, if they had anyj ' and have been plainly told. That if they did not
* proceed effectually to do it, they fliould be ac*- ' counted the Authors and Devifers of the faid
* Falfliood, and Reparation would accordingly be ' demanded againft them ; yet they have not to this
* Day produced any Proofs or Evidence to any of
* the faid Informations or Suggeftions, .whereby
* the Parliament and the Army were fo much ' abiifed afc before is declared j. nor could they, or
* any of them, be hitherto perfuaded to give into ' the faid Committee any Charge againft the faid
* Officers of the Army, which they had then or
* fince procured to be fent for as aforefaid ; but have € held divers of them in a long and chargeable At-
* tendance Upon the Houfe, without any Thing laid ' to their Charge, untill the Houfe was pleafed to
* difcharge them.
X. « That the faid Mr. Holies, Sir Philip Sta-
* pylton, Sir William Lewis, Sir William Waller* ' Sir John Clotworthy, and Major General MaJJis9 ' in further Purfuance of the Defigns mentioned in ' the general Heads charged againft them, have « been great Inftruments in the obftru&ing the Re- ' lief of Ireland ; and, within two Months laft paft, ' did untruly inform the Houfe, That, by their
* Procurement, there were fifty Companies of c Foot and ten Troops of Horfe of this Army en-
* gaged for Ireland, upon the Terms and under
« the
So *rhe Parliamentary HISTORY
AD. 23 Car. I. < the Conduct then by the Parliament propound-
* ed j and, the more to delude the Parliament « therein, they, or fome of them, by the Combi-
* nation aforefaid, did procure divers Officers then
* in this Army, namely Col. Butler, Lieut. Coli ' Jackfon, Major Gooday, and others, to let the faid
* Members give in the faid Officers Names, as lift* ' ing themfelves for Ireland on the faid Terms and
* Conduct propounded ; when as thofe Officers did
* at the fame Time declare themfelves unwilling c thereunto, and refolved not to go to ferve in Ire- ' land on any Terms whatfoevef, tho' they the faid
* Members under-hand allured them, That though
* they made ufe of their Names, yet they fhould not ' go for the Service.
* They havelikewife untruly informed theHoufe* ' and given in the Names of many confiderable Of-
* ficers of this Army, namely Capt. Pennyfatber
* and Capt. BurgesofCol. Butler's Regiment, Capt*
* Clarke, and four or more Commiffion-Officers of
* Sir Hardrefs Waller's Regiment, and others, as
* having been fubfcribed for Ireland, who did not fo
* engage or fubfcribe, nor give any Confent there-
* unto ; but did then, and have ever fince utterly
* difavowed and denied the fame.
* And about the fame Time they alfo reported c to the Houfe the Name and Offer of Lieut. Col,
* Farringtori) as being their Lieutenant-Colonel of
* this Army, and engaging for himfelf and his Re-
* giment for Ireland j whereas the faid Farrington
* had been cafhiered the Army a Year and an ha/f
* before. By which, and other their untrue Infor-
* mations and Reports of that Nature, the Parlia- ' ment was abufed and mifled into a Conceit and
* Confidence of a Strength out of the Army, then
* fuppofed to be engaged and ready for Ireland on c their own Terms, when as, in Truth, the fame « was but a meer Delufion, and which was fo con-
* trived on purpofe to occafion a flighting and ne-
* gle&ing of the Army, as fuppofing no further Ufe
* for them.
XL * Where-
*/* ENGLAND. 81
XI. ' Whereas Part of three Regiments of An. 23 Car. I.
* Foot, viz. Col. Herbert's, Col. Kemp's, and > 4 Col. Graye's, were, by Order of the Houfe, ad-
* vanced towards the Rt lief of Ireland as far as 4 Bromefgrove, in the Cc unty of Wcrcefter ; the
* faid Sir Philip Stapylto.- i, Mr. Holies, Sir >&« ' Clotwortty, Sir William L,eivis, Major Gen. Maf- ^ fie, Sir *P?&«w Waller i sjid Mr. Gty«^, by Com-
* bination aforefaid, did, of their own Accord, ' without the Knowledge or Direction of the Houfe,
* on the 6th of June laft, (being Sabbath-Day, ' and without fummonin 5 a Committee) command ; thofe Forces back agai.n as far as Reading, with " an evil Intent to draw forces together to beget a
* new War in England.
XII. * That the faM Sir John Cloiworthy, in
* Profecution of the D.;figns in the faid general
* Charge exprefTed, hath, in the Years 1642, 1643, ; 164.4, and fince, converted feveral great Sums
* of Money (which, by feveral Orders of Parlia-
* ment, and of the 7/v/fe Committee, were defigned
* for the Relief of Ireland) to his own particular 4 Ufe; namely, the Sum of 280 /. which, by Or-
* der of both Houfes, datnl the nth of February, ' 1642, was to be paifJ for twenty Butts of Sack
* for Ireland; 700 /. v/liich the fame Day was alfo ' ordered for 2000 Swords ; 300 /. which, by Or-
* der of the faid Ir'ijb Committee, dated the 5th of
* April 1643, was defigned for 120 Pair of Piftols ;
* and divers other Sums of Money, upon feveral
* Orders, which he, from Time to Time, received
* for the Ufe and Relief of Ireland ; but were not 4 employed to the Ufes by the faid Orders intended
* and directed, but to his o\vn private Ufe as afore- 1 faid : And that he hath, within two Years laft
* paft, received feveral Sums of Money, Arms, ' and other Provifions for a Troop of Horfe, which
* he pretended he had raifed in Ireland; whereas
* he had not, nor did raife or furnifh any fuch
* Troop as he pretended. And that he, for Mo-
* ney and other Rewards, hath preferred Jchn "• Davis, tPilliam Summers, and others, to be in-
VOL. XVI, F <trufted
82 *fbe Parliament fary HISTORY
An. 2 3 Car. I. « trufted with the Irijb Affairs, who have kept
l647- < Correfpondcncy with the Enemy, and have de-
Tj * frauded the State of o ther great Sums of Money ;
4 and he hath been priv f to, and a Sharer in, fuch
* their Actions.
XIII. ' That, about November laft paft, the 4 faid Sir John Clotwo; 'thy being, by the Parlia-
* ment, fent a Commi flioner, with others, into
* Ireland, who all had a joint Power and Authority ' to treat with the Earl t >f Ormond for the Space of 4 four Days, jand no in ore ; he, contrary to the 4 fpecial Truft rcpofed in him, held fecret Intelli-
* gence with the faid Ea rl of Ormond, by Cypher,
* or Character, without the Confent or Knowledge
* of thofe others in Conimiflion with him, many 4 Weeks after the Time fo limited was expired ; 4 and about the fame Ti me he hrld the like fecret
* Intelligence with the Lord George Digh, then 1 in Ireland, beyond the Time prefixed, and with-- 4 out the Confent of the faid other Commiflioners ; ' and, in order thereun':o, the Lords Ormond and
* Dlgby lately employed one Siing/ly, who pretends 4 a Defign about the Prince, to come into this 4 Kingdom.
XIV. ' That the faid Sir John Clotworthy, Mr.
* Holies, and Sir PhiJip Stapylton, by Combina- 4 tion with the reft of the Members before-named,
* in further Profecution of the Defigns mentioned
* in the fame, well Knowing that the Lord Life* 4 late Prefident of Ireland, was both faithful and 4 vigilant while he was trufted in the fame King- ' dom, and had now this laft Spring made Provi-
* flons ready to march into the Field ; and that the 4 Lord Baron of Brogbill, General of the Parlia- c ment's Horfe in Munfter^ and Col. Sir Arthur
* Loft us, Perfons of Honour and Reputation, and
* of great Fortunes in the laid Kingdom, lately 4 came purpofely into this Kingdom to exhibit, £ and did exhibit, many Articles of High Treafon ' againft the Lord Inchequin, for betraying the Par-
* liament's Army to the Enemy, as' formerly he 4 had done j yet, by the great Power and violent
4 In-
of ENGLAND. 8.
* Interpolation of the faid Sir "John. Clotwortky^ Mr. An. a^ Car. !• ' Holies j and Sir Philip Stapylton, by the Pradiee t l6*7-
' and Combination aforefoid, the faid Articles have ""tT
* been obftrucled, and the Bufincfs not fufFered to
* come to a Hearing, and the faid Lord Lijte ha-
* ftily called out of Ireland, and the Power and
* Command of the Parliament's Forces in that
* Kingdom committed to the faid Lord of Incbe- ' quiri^ to the Lofs of this Summer's Service, and
* the Expence of much Treafure to make new Pre-
* parations of War. And whereas the faid Lord ' Lijle^ being fo fuddenly called from thence as ' aforefaid, did defign and depute Sir Hardrefs ' Waller^ Knight, Major-General of the Forces
* there, a Man of known Integrity and Courage
* both for his Service in England and in Ireland,
* and of confiderable Fortune there, to take Care 4 of the faid Lord Life's Forces till the Pleafure
* of the Parliament might be further known, the
* faid Lord Incbequin^ upon the Receipt of a Letter
* from the faid Sir John Clotwortfy, Mr. Holies > ' and Sir Philip Stapylton, or one of them, or from
* fome other Perfon by their, or one of their, Di-
* region, Privity, or Procurement, did exprefs that ' he had an Order or Direction from Lcr.dsn that
* no Man that favoured the Independents (under
* which Name the faid Lord of Incbequin hath com- ' prehended all Men that have fliewcd themfelves
* oppofite to Tyranny and arbitrary Government)
* fhould have any Truft or Command there j nay,
* though they were of another Judgment, yet if
* they would not profecute the Independents, they
* fhould not be employed there, or Words to that
* Effect j and, under Colour thereof, the faid Sir
* Hardrefs Waller, and all others that formerly
* had held their CommiiTions from the faid Lord
* Life while he commanded, were difplaced, to the 4 Difcouragement of thofe and orher faithful Perfons
* to the Parliament, and to the great DifTervice anJ
* Danger of lofmg that Kingdom.
XV. * That whereas a Committee of the Houfc
* of Commons hath been lately appointed bv the*
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84 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Car.i. c parliament, to confider of Propofitions for the 4 fettling and Prefervation of Wales, whereof the 4 fcid Sir William Lewis and Mr. Gfynne were and 4 are Members, and to report the fame to the Houfe j
* they, the fa id Sir Jf'iHiam Lewis and Mr. Glynne^
* with others of the faid Committee, did, on the 4 3<Dth of April now laft paft, without any Au-
* thority of Parliament, before any Report made
* to the Houfe, of their own Accord (inflead of
* fettling , and preferring Wales) order that all 4 Committees for Sequeftration fhould forbear all 4 Proceedinzs of Sequeftration againft all, or any, 4 of the Inhabitants of Wales ; and although fome
* few Perfons were upon general Heads excepted,
* yet, by Virtue of that illegal Order, all the Com-
* miflioners of the Peace and Commiffioners of
* AfTociations, who were as a£ive in raifing Mo-
* ney and prefiing Men to ferve againft the Par-
* liament as any others j all the Commiffioners of
* Array, that did or fhould at any Time come in
* and fubmit to the Parliament, or their Com-
* manders in Chief, without any Limitation of
* Time; all that had borne Arms againft theParlia- 4 ment, unlefs they were Governors, and other Of- 4 ficers of War, that held out fome Town, Caftle,
* or Fort againft the Parliament ; all difaffcctcd 4 and fcandalous Minifters, though in their Sermons 4 they ufually reviled and fcandalized the Parlia- 4 ment and their Proceedings, calling them Rebels 4 and Traitors, and not only incenfing the People *• againft the Parliament, but ufually taking up 4 Arms, and leading their Parimioners in Arms up- ' on any Alarm againft the Parliament ; and many ' other defperate Delinquents have been, and ftill 4 are, taken off and freed from Sequeftration ; and 4 the faid Order was fent to every Committee in ' Wales^ in feveral Letters, contrary to feveral Or- 4 dsrs and Ordinances of Parliament, and contrary 4 to the Rules of Juftice and Equitv, which fhould 4 impartially be adminifricd as well in Wales as in
* other Places of this Kingdom -, whereby the ill-
* affected Gentry and Miniflry of that Country are
grown
of E N G L A N D.
* grown fo high and infolent, that honeft Men dare An.
* fcarce lire amongft them ; fo as that which was
* intended by the Parliament, to fettle and pre- < ferve Wales, is, by the Praaice of the faid Sir ' William Lewis and Mr. Glynne, perverted to the c Danger and Deftru£Hon of it.
XVI. ' That the faid Sir William Lewis and Mr., 4 Glynne have further ingratiated themfelves with 4 the Delinquents of Wales, and prepared them for
* their faid Defigns in Manner following, viz. He ' the faid Sir William Lewis hath, within two c Yeqrs laft pair, countenanced and protected many
* of the moft notorious and dangerous Delinquents
* within the feveral Counties of South- Wales ;
* namely, the Lord Carbery, and others in Caer-
* marthenjhire ; Mr. Carew, and others in Glamor- 4 ganjhlre ; Mr. Morgan, late Knight of the Shire, ' Mr. John Herbert, and others in Brccknockjhire ; 4 Mr. Gwyn, Mr. Lewis, and divers others in Rod- 4 nor/hire ; by freeipg fome of them altogether from
* Compofitions, tho' fequeftred ; by labouring with 4 divers Members of the Hotife and of Committees 4 to be favourable in compounding with others,
* and to admit of fuch to their Compofitions as
* were uncapable thereof; and he hath animated
* and encouraged fome of the faid Perfons to con- ' tinue their Fidelity to the King's Caufe, promi- 1 fmg them, that if they would engage their P'riends 1 with the King for him, he and his would be their
* Friends in the Parliament ; in fo much as his ' Friends, the Delinquents in thofe Parts, have
* lately looked upon him as a rifing Man when the 4 King (hall come to London j which hath lately ' been their conftant Boafting.
' And the faid Sir William Lewis hath, within
* two Years laft part, caufed divers that had been ' Commiflioners for the King, and preffed Men, 4 and raifed Money to promote the late War againft 4 the Parliament : namely, his Brother, Mr.T/wmas
* Lewis, Mr. Gwyn, Mr. Charles Walwyn, Mr. ' Meredith Lewis, Mr. Edward Williams, and
F 3 ' many
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t miny other:;, to be Commiffioners of the Peace, ' anc! u^° Committee-Men for the fa id County of ' Brecknock ; infomuch as thofe that have beer;
* molt active and faithful to the Parliament, have
* been, and fl ill are, out- voted in thofe Places, and « can do no cohfiderabie Service for the Parliament , 4 ?.nd the rathtr for that he hath alfo procured one
* Ed-ward Williams ^ hb own Kjufeian, and one
* much difafvccied to the Parliament, to be Soii-
* citor of Sequcftraiions in the faid County, who
* is, and hath been, very remifs and corrupt there-.
'•'Ami the faid Sir William Lewis hath, by the 6 'Means afore faid, lately procured Mr. Ed-ward
* LC-MS* his Son, though unfit fpr that Em ploy -
* mcnt, to be chcfen and returned Burgefs for
* Brecknock ; which that he might the better ef-
* feet, he kept the Writ fpr Election of the faid 1 Bargefs above eight Months in his own Cuftody 6 before it was delivered to the Sheriff of the. faid 4 County,
<• And likewife that the faid Mr. %$* Glynne,
* within two Years laft paft, hath procured feveral
* Perfons, that have lately been Commiffioners of
* Array, and in Arms againft the Parliament in 4 North Walss^ to be named in the Commifiions
* of 'the Peace for the Counties of Dmbigh and «• Caernarvon^ and other Counties there, and to be 1 put in other great Places of Truft and Command 4 there; and, amongft others, Colonel Glynne, his
* Brother, who was lately a Colonel in the King's
* Army, is, by his Procurement, become Governor <• of the'Towa and Caftle of Caernarvon, and Ad-
* miral or Vice- Admiral of the Irifh Seas; to the
* endangering of thofe Counties lying upon the « Coafts towr.rds Ireland, and to the Fear and Dif- ' cDufagemcnt of the well -affected Inhabitants of ''thofe Places.
XVII. * That the faid Sjr William Lewis, be- « ing heretofore, during thcfe Troubles, Governor
* (.f Po-trrr>ouih> a Garrifon for the Parliament,
' (ill
of ENGLAND. 87
* (in which Time he receive .'d much of the Public An. 13 cur.' r. c Trcafure, for which he h ath not yet given an l6^-
4 Account) did, while he was Governor there, juj~
4 frequently hold Correfpcn dence and Intelligence
4 with the King's Party, a bout the Delivery up
4 of the faid Garrifon ; into .much as, although Sir
4 lyilliam Waller^ and dive rs others in that Gar»
*• rifon, were proclaimed 1 'raitors to the King,
<• yet he, by the King's i pecial Command, was
6 fpared ; the King affirming he was his Friend,
4 and that he was confident he would do him good
* Service, or to that Effect : And although he then
* was a Parliament Man, and Governor of Porff-
* mouth as aforefatd, and * '/as three Years in the
* King's Quarters, yet his Eftate in the County 4 of Brecon, being of the Value of above 600 /. 4 per Annum, was never fequeftred, And fmca
* the Parliament hath prey ailed. Colonel Herbert
* Price (having been Governor of Brecknock for 4 the King againft the Parliament) being feque- ' ftred, the faid Sir William Lewis, by his Soiici- « tations to the Committee, procured the perforiat
* Eftate of the faid Colonel Price (which the Com -
* raittee of the County had found out, and caufed
* to be brought to Morgan dubrty'sHouk in Brecon) 4 to be reftored unto him without any Satisfaction
* to the State ; and hath caufed the faid Colonel
* Price's Lands in the faid County of Brecon^ being
* worth about 300 /. per Annum ^ to be let tq u. « Friend of the f.iid Colonel Price ^ to his .Wife'* ' Ufe, at 50 /. per Annum ^ contrary to the Direc-
* tions of feveral Ordinances of Parliament mad& « in that Behalf.
XVIII. ' That the faid Mr. John G/>r.w, or 4 fome other Perfon or Peribns by his Direction,
* Confent, or Privity, or to his Ufe, hath, during, 4 his being a Member of the Houfe of Common*, 4 taken Rewards of feveral Pcrfons for Service.-: 4 done them in the Houfc ; as namely, amongft 4 others, divers Drovers from #Wtt, who, by h'.e
* Means and Procurement, had an Al!owartc?> by
F 4 ' OrJ-r
8.8- T'be Parliament ry HISTORY
An. ^^, Car. I. « Order of the Houfe, f< 3000 /. in Satisfaction of
t'-l6^7'..7 * Lbflcs they had fuftair d by the Enemy, and did
7^e< ' pay unto the Wife oi the faid Mr. Glynne the
6 Sum of zoo/, as a R( vard for his faid Service.
XIX. * That the fa ! Mr. John Glynne, as he
* hath been moft active o bring into the Commif- ' Aons of Peace, and i; o other Places of Autho- 4 rity, divers notorious", elinquents in North- Wales ' as aforefald, fo he hai been as ac-tive, as much ' as in him lies, to put >ut, and keep out, of the ' Militia and Commor Council of the City of
* London, and out of th Commiffion of the Peace ' for Middlefex, many > ninent and faithful Men ' that have laid out the Eftates, and adventured
* thrir Lives for the I ^fence of the Parliament ' and City in the Time f their greateft Necefllty ; c namely, Alderman Per, ington, Colonel Tichborne,
* Mr. Eajlwick, Mr. fa yer, and others, contrary e to the Declaration oi both Kingdoms; which
* hath allured all lawfu Favour and Encourage- ' ment to thofe that ha^ s been faithful, and fnall
* fo continue, to the F.irliament; which Doings
* muft needs tend to tl e giving a frefh Occafion
* and Power to the Enen .y againft the Parliament's
* bed .Friends, to the Dishonour of the Parliament,
* and the Endangering of the Kingdom.
XX. < That the laid Sir Philip Stapylton, Mr. ' Holies, and Sir IVilliavi Lewis, have, by their 4 Power and Countenance, as Members of the
* Houfe of Commons, both jointly and feverally, ' ufed Means to obftrudt the Courfe of Juftice,
* ana have interpofed themfelves in feveral Caufes,
* and, by Word of Mouth, moved and perfuaded ' Judges and other Officers on the Behalf of fuch ' as they conceive to be their Friends 5 amongft
* others, in the great Caufe that was lately depend-.
* ing in the Koufe of Lords, between Alderman
* Langbam and Captain Lymery, when Counfel was
* met for the pleading thereof, they did repair to ' the Earl of Rutland about the fame ; and the faid *.Sir Philip Stapylton told him, that they were fully
« fatisfied
^ENGLAND. 89
* fatisfied concerning the Juftnefs of Longhands An. 23 Car. I.
* Caufe, and therefore, as the faid Earl did refped , l647' . ' them, he (hould give his Vote fof Langbatn, or
' ufed Words to that Effect ; which alfo was fe-
* conded by the faid Mr. Holies in Words, and ' agreed unto by the faid Sir JVilliam Lewis^ as ap- ' peared by his Prefence and Gefture j and the faid
* Sir William Lewis did exercife the fame Power in
* a Caufe of John Gunter and others.
XXI. ' That the faid Mr. Anthony Nlcholl, al-
* though, about four Years fince, he was, by the ' Committee of Privileges, voted not a fit Member ' to fit in the Houfe, by reafon his Election was ' void ; yet the faid Mr. Nlcholl doth not only fit
* and vote there as a Member, but, by his Power
* and Threats in the Weft Countries, and by his c Solicitations and indirect Practices, hath brought
* in, or procured to be brought in, about 28 Mem-
* bers more out of Cornwall, on Purpofe to carry
* on the Defigns and Practices before-mentioned, 4 and to make a Faction in the faid Houfe ; and,
* notwithftanding the Self-denying Ordinance, he
* doth {till hold a Place in the Tower, formerly ' conferred upon him by the Houfe., and receiveth
* the Profits thereof to his own Ufe.
XXII. ' That the faid Mr. Nlcholl hath, fince
4 hib fitting in the Houfe as afprefaid, taken Re-, ' wards for Service done there ; namely, whereas 4 Sir William Uvcdall^ Knight, for deferting the 4 Parliament, and going to York with the King, 4 was fufpended the Houfe; he, for the Sum of. 4 ioo/. or 150 /. paid unto him, or to his Ufe, did,
* by Misinformations to the Houfe, procure the faid ' Sir wilUtim Uvedall to be re-admitted a Member. ' And the faid Mr. Nickcll^ while he was a Member
* of the Committee for Safety, he and others of ' the faid Committee having iffued forth a War- 4 rant for fearching Greenwich Hcvfe^ did4 under- 4 hand, acquaint one of the Queen's Officers therc-
* with ; and thereby prevented the Defign of the
* faid Committee, to the great DifTervice of the ' Parliament and Kingdom.
XXIII.
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XXIII. « That the faid Mr. Lonr, at the Bc^ ' ginning of the late Wars, not having Courage
* fufRcient to perforifc his Duty in Military Affairs, ' did, out of Covetoufnefs, or other unworthy
* Ends, procure a Command of a Troop of Horfe ' under his Excellency the late Lord-General the ' Earl of Effex ; but whenever his faid Troop ' came upon any Service, he, out of Fear or ' Treachery, unworthily abfented himfelf, and ' never was feen or known to charge the Enemy
* in Perfon, though his Troop often engaged ; ' namely, at the Battle of Edge-bill^ when he favv
* there were like to be Blows, he left the Field, c and never charged before his Troop ; and at the ' Battle or Fight at Brentford, though his Troop
* were there, yet he (laid at London till the Dan- ' ger was paft, and Fighting done : And when his
* Troop was fent into the Weft, he took no other fc Notice of it, but to receive his Pay ; and in the
* mean while he repaired into the County of EJTex^
* and procured a Commiflion to be a Colonel of 4 Horfe, and, inftead of fighting againft the Par-
* liament's Enemies, he betook himfelf to plunder
* and opprefs the Parliament's Friends there ; and, ' contrary to Order, and without any Authority,
* or Exigencies of War compelling him thereunto, ' enforced great Sums of Money, and many Hbrfes
* and other Provilions from the Country ; namely,
* from Mr. Thomas Mamwod, a Man well afFedl- « ed, who had the General's Protection, and
* whofe Horfes were taken from the Plough, and
* others, to the great Lofies and Oppreflion of « the People, and to the great Difhonour of the ' Parliament, whofe Service he neverthelefs ne-
* gle&ed, and hath not hitherto given an Ac-
* count of the great Sums of Money and other ' Things that he fo exacted from the Country as c aforefaid.
XXIV. « That the faid Mr. Lox* afterwards,
* upon Pretence of fome Lotfes i'uftajned by the
* Enemy, and fome great Service he had done for
* the State, did pre-:".r* of the Hauf" ? great Of-
5 ' ficf
of E N G L A N D. 91
* fice in the Chancery ; namely, to be tha chief An- 23 Ca
* Regiikr of that Court, wherein his Skill was . ' *7' ' little, and whereof he was, and ftill is, altogether juiy> '• incapable ; ,aiid although for a Time, upon the
v LScif-uenyittg Ordinance, he was dif placed, yet,
* upon the Motion, or by the Power and Means
* of the £ud Mr. Holies, he hath obtained the faid 4 Office again ; to the great Prejudice of fkilful
* Clerks that have been bred up in the faid Court, 4 to the Difiervice of the Common-wealth and the
* Dishonour of the Houfe.
XXV. « The faid Mr. Long, on Purpofe to drive 1 on the Defigns in the faid feveral Charges expref- ' fed, hath, for two Years laft paft, ufually pref- V fed and urged feveral Members to give theirVotes
* fuch Ways as he pleafed ; and to that End and
* Purpofe, doth conftantly place himfelf near the
* Door of the Houfe ; and, when any Debate is
* concerning any Defign wherein his Party is en- ' gaged, he hath ufed fuch Tamperings and Vio- ' lence to fuch of his own Party as would go out
* of the Houfe, and hath perfuaded them to con-
* tinue there for their Votes j and he, in cafe any 4 fuch have gone out of the Houfe, hath been
* very inquifitive where they might be found, that 4 fo he may go for them when the Bufmefs in De- 4 bate comes near to be put to the Vote $ and,
* when they come not according to his Expe&a- ' tion, doth ordinarily and fpeedily run out of the 4 Houfe himfe-lf to call them and drive them in
* again, fo that he hath been commonly called (by
* thofe that are without the Houfe, and have ta-
* ken Notice of his Actions) the Parliamtnt-Drl'
* ver ; whereby the freedom of the Members is
* taken from them, the Manner of the Parliament's 'Proceedings much fcandalized% and many Times ' evil and dangerous- DefignS; drove on in a Fa&ion c by Votes, to the great Prejudice of the Common-
* wealth.
v All which Matters and Things the faid Army
* will be ready, in convenient Time, to make 4 good, by Proof upon Oa^h, as this Honourable
* Houfe
92 'The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 23 Car. I.
1647-
Hbufe (hall direct. And for that by reafon of the Straitnefs of Time, and other more weighty- Affairs of the Army, they could not fo fully finifh and accomplifh the faid Articles ; therefore the faid Army ftill referve further Liberty to add other Articles againft the faid Members, or any of them, at any Time before their Trial, as Oc- cafion fhall ferve.'
By Appointment of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Council of Jf^ar.
JO. RUSHWORTH, Secretary.
Thus far the Articles of this moft remarkable Charge, which we have given at Length becaufe omitted by all the Contemporary Writers : For the fame Reafon the Anfwer of the Eleven Mem- bers to it will appear at larqe under its proper Date. Befides the general Motives to this Tranf- a&ion of the Army (arifmg from its being at this Time guided entirely by Cromwell, and the Inde- pendent Party, as the Houfe of Commons, thro* the Influence of thefe Members, was by the Prcf- bytcrian) there were not wanting private Refcnt- ment among Particulars : For
Lord Clarendon writes (a], ' That Mr. Holies had one Day, upon a very hot Debate in the Houfe, and fome rude Expreflions which fell from Comfniflary Ireton, perfuaded him to walk out of the Houfe with him ; and then told him, ' That hefliould pre- fently go over the Water and fight with him.' The ComrnifTary replying, * His Confcicnce would not 4 fuffer him to fight a Duel,' Mr. Holies, in Cholcr, pull'd him by the Note ; telling him, ' If his-Con- *• fcience would keep him from giving Men Satif- * fadtion, it fliould keep him from provoking them.' His Lordftiip adds, « This Affront to the third Perfon of the Army, and to a Man of trre moft vi- rulent, malicious, and revengeful Nature of all the Pack, fo incenfed the whole Party, that they were refolved;, one Way or other, to be rid of him, who had that Power in the Houfe, and that Re-
(*) Hiflory, Vol. V. p. SS.
putation
^/ENGLAND. 93
putatlon abroad, that when he could not abfolute- An. 2,3 Car. I. ly controul their Defigns, he did fo obftrucl: them, that they could not advance to any Conclufion.'
This Anecdote of the Noble Hiftorian is, in fome Meafure, confirmed by the Authority of the Commons Journals ; wherein we find, ' That the Houfe having been informed, that fome Matters of Difference had happened between Mr. Holies and Commiflary Ireton, the Speaker, by Command, laid an Injunction upon them not to proceed any further thereupon (£).'
An Anonymous Writer of thefe Times (c}> fre- quently quoted by Lord Holies in his Memoirs (d}^ informs us, * That Cromwell confeffed he had no- thing againft Sir John Maynard^ another of the impeached Members, but that he was put up a- mongft the reft, becaufe he was a bufy Man againft riie Lieutenant-General and his Faction.'
Thus much by way of Digreflion, as to the pri- vate Motives to this famous Charge in the Houfe of Commons, proceed we now to the Tranfaitions of the Houfe of Peers.
?uly i* A Letter from the Earl of Nottingham the Lord JfHjarton was read :
To the Rt. Hon. the Earl ^"MANCHESTER, Speaker of the Houfe if PEERS pro Tempore.
Reading July 6, 1647. May it pleafe your Lord/hip^
c ^| \ 7 E have this Day been in continual Ex- Letters from the ' V V pectation to hear from the Commiifion- p^|^n's. * ers of the Army what it is they have to offer
(t) Commons Journals, April 2, 1647. j Ar0)y*
\c ) The Grand Defgn 5 or a Difcovery of that Form of Sin-aery intended and in fart brought upon the free People cf England, by a powerful Party in the Parliament, and Lieutenant-General Crom- well, CommiJ/ary -General Ireton, and others cf that FaSion in the Army, tending t» the titter Ruin ar.d Enjlaving of the -whale Nation. Written by Sirrahniho, r.ct an ia-vefliw hut moderate and impartial, Obferver of the Tranfaflietu of Parliament and Army* Pnated tn the laft Tear of England's Slavery, 1647, J
(d) Memoirs, p. 97, and 115.
c tO
July.
Parliamentary HISTORY
to us of Weight, intimated by their Papers Tent unto us laft Night. They have been in Con- fultation amongft themfelves all this Day, and now they inform us by Sir Hardrefi Waller, that they find the Matters under their prefent Confi- deration of that Difficulty, that they hold it ne- ceflary to confult the General and the Council of War before they prefent it to be debated on, and do intend to come to us again this Night : But fearing it may be very late, we thought fit at prefent to give you this Account, and reft
Tour Lore
Humble and faithful Servant,
C. NOTTINGHAM. P. WHARTON.
A Letter from the Scots Commiflioners was read, relating to the intercepting of their Packets by the Army, addrefs'd to the Speaker of the Houfe of Peers.
JForceJIer-Houfe, July 6, 1647.
Right Honourable,
* VT7E received your Lordfhip's civil Letter, in ' ** anfwer to ours of the 28th of June, con-
* cerning the intercepting of our Letters by fome
* of Sir Thomas Fairfax's Army, and are very fen- ' fible of your Lordmip's Care there expreffed to 4 find out the Perfon, and to prevent the like
* Abufe for the future ; only, in Obedience to the
* Direction of the Committee of Eftates of the *• Kingdom of Scotland, we have this to add to
* what we formerly reprefcnted in that Particular,
* that the MefTenger who was intercepted informed
* their Lordfhips, that thofe who did apprehend
* him, {hewed him a Warrant under Sir Thcrr.af
* Fairfax's Hand, to ftop and apprehend ail Perfons ' carrying Letters or Intelligence.
4 We thank your Lordflaip for the AfTurance you ' have given us, that you will not be wanting ia ' any Thing that may tend to the preferving o/ a
* g'->od
^ENGLAND. 95
* good Correfpondency between the Kingdoms ; An- *3 Car-
* wherein your Lordmip &all always have the Con-
e currence of July.
Your Lord/hip's moft bumble Servants,
LAUDEKDALE. H. KENNEDY. C. ERSKINE. R. BARCLAY.
After reading thefe Letters the Lords ordered, That Sir Thomas Fairfax's Letter [before given at p. 43.] be fent inclofed to the Scots Commiffioners ; and that the Commiffioners refiding with the Army do acquaint the General, That the Houfe expects the like may be prevented for the future.
July 8. Another Letter from the Earl of Not- tingham and the Lord Wharton, with fome Papers inclofed, were read, directed as ufual to the Earl of Manthejier.
Reading, July 8, 1647.
Two in the Morning. May it pleafe your Lordjhip,
THIS Morning Alderman Gibbs, Alderman Vyner, and others, fent from the Common Council of the City of London to refide in the Army, informed us of fomething which they de- fired us to reprefent unto the Parliament : The Subftance of which Information, together with our Anfwer thereunto, we fend you here in- clofed.
* We find that the Proceedings in the Treaty, on. the Army's Part, are very flow, which caufed us to give in a Paper this Morning to their Com- miffioners, tending to quicken them therein, unto which we have even now received their Anfwer ; which, together with a Copy of our Paper to them, we herewith fend you. We reft
Your Lord/hip's humble Servants,
C. NOTTINGHAM. P. WrfARTON.
Tht
96 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 13 Car. I. ^Jjg SUBSTANCE of what was delivered^ by Word v__ __j of Mouth, to the Commijfioners of the Parliament^ July. h ^derman Gibbs, Alderman Vyner, and other s^
fent from the Common Council of the City of Lon- don, to refide in the Army^ referred to in the fore- going Letter.
Reading July 7, 1647.
« HP H E Y obferved firft, That the Proceedings
* in the Treaty which we were upon, were 4 very flow ; and that they perceived the great Ob- 4 ftruciions therein were, that the Army had not ^ obtained Security for preventing of a new War ;
* and particularly, that two Things were preft 4 upon them by the Officers of the Army in this
* Bufmefs ; the one, That the fame Concourfe of
* Officers, Reformadoes, and Soldiers, if not in- 4 creafed, did ftill continue in the Cities of London 4 and Weftminftcr. To which all the Anfwer they 4 could give was, They had thrice follicited the 4 Parliament, in three Weeks, for their Removal, 4 before whom it ftill was, and is in a Sphere above
* them ; and therefore defired us to make Repre- 4 fcntation thereof to the Parliament.
* The fecond Particular was, by lifting of Men ' by the Committee of the Militia for the City of 4 London ; which laft they conceived was for the 4 Safety of the City of London^ in relation to the 4 Danger by that Concourfe of Soldiers before ex- 4 preffed.'
The $UESTANCE of cur ANSWER, to be returned by the City's Commijjtoners to the ArTny, by Word of Mouth, was as follows :
* 'IT HAT there hath been no Delayer, cu: 4 •*• Part; but that fmce the Beginning of the 4 Treaty we have haftened it all that lay in our 4 Power, and have carefully obferved the Times 4 and Places of Meeting : That upon our preffing 4 the Commiflioners of the Army to a more fpeedy 4 Difpatch, they have alledged that fo much of
2 4 their
of E N G L A N D.
* their Time hath been taken up about their Charge, 4 and other intervening Occafions, they could not 4 give better Attendance, nor make a more fpeedy
* Progrefs : That we mall make ufe of this Oc-
* caflon to quicken their Proceedings, and mail give 1 an Account to the Houfes of what hath pafs'd, ' herein.'
The PAPER delivered in by the COMMISSIONERS of PARLIAMENT to thofe of the ARMY.
Reading, July 7, 1647.
* HI"* HAT finding the Expectation of the Par-
* JL liament and Kingdom to be very great up-
* on the fpeedy Progrefs and happy Iflue of this
* Treaty ; in Confideration thereof we have made '' it our Care conftantly to attend at the appointed
* Times of Meeting, and to prefs all Difpatch there -
* in : And we cannot but take Notice that the Pro- 4 ceedings, on your Part, have been and are very
* flow, and that little or nothing hath been done in
* the Treaty fmce our Entrance thereupon ; and
* therefore, in Pifcharge of our Duty and the Truft
* repofed in us, we do very earneftly defire that the ' Treaty may be effectually proceeded on with all ' Expedition, and the Times for Meeting punctually 4 kept ; there being nothing that {hall be wanting
* in us, according to the Power given us, to fur- 4 ther a Work of fo great Importance, and which « may perfect a right Underftanding betwixt the
* Parliament and the Army.'
By the Appointment of the CommiJJioners refiding with the Army. GEQRGE pyKEj
The ANSWER of the COMMISSIONERS of the ARMY to the foregoing Paper.
Reading, July 7, 1647.
* TQ Y the laft Paper delivered in unto us from
* JD your Lordihips here, this very Day, we
* perceive you find that the Expectation of the
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9 8 The ^Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 23 Car. I. « Parliament and Kingdom is great upon the fpeaf*'
, . , ' Progrefs ;md happy Iflue of this Treaty. We
ju]ya * anfwer, That we do really apprehend the fame 4 Things with you ; neither can we but witnefs that
* you have conftantly attended the appointed Times '• of Meeting, and preffed Difpatch therein : Ne-
* verthelefs, we cannot but be very fenfible that
* you fecm to reflect upon us farther than there is 4 juft Caufe, in your taking Notice that the Pro- ' ceedings herein fhould be flow and dilatory on
* our Part, as if we mould not feem to defire and 4 labour the quick and fpeedy Settlement of the ' Affairs of the Kingdom, in a fafe and well-
* grounded Peace, as cordially as any Perfons what- 4 foever. We {hall therefore defire you to remem- 4 ber with what Forwardnefs we have, in the firft
* Place, prefented to you thofe Things which we 4 did in our Hearts conceive neceflary in order to
* a Treaty ; and without which being granted, we
* could not, with Safety to the Kingdom and Sa- ' tisfaction to ourfelves, proceed in Treaty ; and ' further prefled you to prefent them to the Parlia- 4 ment with Speed, that a quick Difpatch might 4 be had therein, as being, in our Thoughts, the ' chiefeft and fureft Way to prevent the Engaging
* this Kingdom in a fecond War ; \vhen, contraiy ' to bur Expectation, we have found little