Concerning the King Parliament Army and Kingdom
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THE REMONSTRANCE AND DECLARATION OF HIS EXCELLENCIE Robert E. of Warwick, Lord High Admiral of ENGLAND; CONCERNING The KING, PARLIAMENT, ARMY, and KINGDOME.
AND His Protestation and Resolution, to the Citizens of London, and all other His Majesty's liege People, touching his Engagement, for Religion, Parliament, and Kingdom.
Subscribed, WARWICK.
ALSO, A Letter and Declaration from the Navy, to the Apprentices of the City of London, and the Mariners and Water-men upon the River of Thames; containing their fvll Resolution touching the Army.
WITH The Desires and Proposals of the Citizens of London, to his Excellency the Lord Gen. Fairfax, touching the Horse and Foot who are quartered in the City, and the Generals Answer thereunto.
LONDON, Printed for JOHN WOOLRIDGE, 1648.
THE DECLARATIGN Of the Earl of WARWICK Concerning the Parliament and Army.
W Hereas both Houses of Parliament have been pleased to intrust me with the charge of the Fleet, for the preservation and safety of the place of my Nativity, I shall therefore endeavor to improve that Authority committed to me, with a faithful and inviolable respect unto my duty. And forasmuch, that when I first undertook this great charge, I was sensible how much the Cause, Truth, and Glory of God, the settlement of my Countries peace, and the preventing of the bloody and desperate designs of the Enemies thereof, depended upon the management of this expedition, and how much I was obliged in Conscience and Honor to omit nothing that might have a tendency to those ends. That obligation I have (according to my best reason and judgment) faithfully discharged, and by the blessing of Heaven have received this fruit (notwithstanding the many obstructions and difficulties that intervened) that the honor of the Parl. by Sea is cleared, the Fleet committed to my charge preserved in a condition of honor and safety, the affections of the Seamen settled, the design of those wicked Revolters, that persidiously betrayed so considerable a part of the Kingdoms Navy broken, and such as associated with them either rendered or reduced.
And as to the aspersion and pretended resolution of my joining with the Prince, in case an agreement be not concluded of between the King and parliament, I do profess in the presence of God, who knows my heart and ways, that it never entered into my thoughts, and that my soul abhors it as inconsistent inconsistent with my Duty prejudicial to the Parliament, destructive to the Kingdoms peace, and unworthy of a free borne English man.
And therefore, as I have hither to been faithful to the Kingdom, and to the Parliament, where I have the honor to sit as a Peer, so I do and shall scorn to sacrifice my conscience, & those public and dear concernments of my Country, wherein I have a pertion.
And while I have a heart, and a hand, I shall not fail (by God's assistance) to have them on all occasions, lifted up, for the service of the parliament, and common interests of England, with my uttermost integrity, and to my highest hazard.
Subscribed, WARWICK.
Decemb. 13. Letters further from the Navy say, That his Excellency the Lord Admiral, upon receipt of the intelligence, that the Army had seized on divers members of parliament, and entered the City of London, his Lordship declared. That he wished well to the peace of this famous Metropolis, and desired that the principles whereon the Army have fixed their resolutions, may prove a sovereign Cordial, to heal the diseased and corrvpted Ulcers of this bleeding Kingdom, and that their present Engagement may conduce to the glory of God, the liberty and freedom of the people, and the peace and tranquility of the Common-weal of England, throughout all future Ages and Generations.
New propositions from the City of London, to the Lord General Fairfax
A copy whereof followeth, viz. 1 That the City for their security of 40000 l. desired, may have all the arrears upon any assesments made for this army within London, and the Liberties thereof, which did grow due to be paid before the 25. of March last, freed from all engagements. 2 And of those arreares all that money paid into the Treasury find the 30. of Novemb. last, to be accounted part of the 40000. pesired. And that with the money received out uf Weavers hall, and the 5500. l. lately received of the Treasurers, the rest shall be paid on Monday next. 3. That a Commoncouncel have undertaken to discharge the Generals engagements concerning the money taken out of Weavers Hall, to pay the same thither out of the said arrears. 4 That the Common council hath promised to get in the rest of their arrears, and also to make the new assesments for the six months ending Michaelmas last, and to collect the same withal expedition. 5 And upon this engagement they do humbly pray, that the army may this night be withdrawn out of the City and Liberties thereof, according to the intimation of col. Whaley, and col. Thomlinson.
His Excellencies Answer to the said Declaration and Proposals.
My Lord and Gentlemen,
I Have perused your paper, and I find the point of security hath much troubled you and us, whereby we are yet without our money, and necessities daily grow upon us. To prevent which and to make things clear (which I do not conceive your papers do) I desire that you will within 14. day, or sooner if you please cause all the money charged upon the City of London for the Army until the 25. of March next, and in arrear. This being done, I shall both repay the Money from Weavers Hall, and withdraw all the Forces from the City, the continuance of which in the City in the mean time, will (I conceive) facilitate your work in collecting your said monies.
Subscribed, T. FAIRFAX.
The Lord Generals Declaratson to the City.
My Lord,
HAving sent so often to you for the arreares due from the City, and desired sums of money to be advanced by you, far short of the sums due from you, yet I have been delayed and denied, to the hazard of the army, and the prejudice of others in the Suburbs upon whom they are quartered; wherefore I thought fit to send to seize the said Tresuries, and to send some forces into the City to quarter there until I may be satisfied the Arrears due unto the Army: and if this seem strange unto you, 'tis no less then that our forces have been ordered to do by the Parl. in the several Counties of the Kingdom where assesments have not been paid, and there to continue until they have been paid: and here give me leave to tell you, the Counties of the kingdom have born free quarter, and that in a great measure, for want of your paying your Arrears equally with them; wherefor, these ways if they dislike you, yet they are merely long of yourselves, and are of as great regret to me and to the Army as yourselves, we wishing not only the good and prosperity of your City, but that things may be so carried towards you, as may give no cause of jealousy: I thought fit to let you know, that if you shall take a speedy course to supply us with 40000. l. forthwith, according to my former Desire, and provide speedily what also is in Arrear, I shall not only cause the monies in the Treasuries to be not made use of, but leave them to be disposed of as right they might, and also cause my Forces to be withdrawn from being in any sort troublesome or chargable to the City; And let the world judge whether this be not just and equal dealing with you. I rest, My Lord,
Your affectionate servant, T. FAIRFAX.
A Declaration from his Excellency the Lord Gen. Fairfax concerning the Excize, and the Citizens of London.
WHereas upon the 8. of this instant month, a party of Horse and Foot came to the Excize Office in Broadstreet, which perhaps will occasion some to think the Army came thither with a purpose to interrupt anymore levying of the Excive; These are to declare, and assure them, that the said Forces came thither by a mistake, and that there was not any intentions to give interruption unto the due levying of the Excize, or to seize upon any money in Cash; and that you may proceed as formerly, according to those Ordinances, and Orders of Parliament, which you have received concerning the same.
Subscribed, T. FAIRFAX.
Several Proposals have been presented to the House of Commons, by Col. Whaley, in the name of the Officers and Soldiers of the Army, in order to an impeachment against Major Gen. Brown, and divers other Members now under restraint: Whereupon the House ordered that a Committee should be appointed to treat with his Excellency, concerning the said Members.
Sir, Since the coming in of the revolted ships, most of the Mariners have entered into a new Protestation and Engagemen; which is, That they will sacrifice all that is near and dear unto them, for preservation of the Laws, Liberties, and Freedoms, of their Native and Fellow Commoners of this Nation; and that they will sacrifice both lives and fortunes, with the Army, under the Authority and Conduct of his Excellency the Lord Gen. Fairfax, for the accomplishing those good ends, cited in their late Remonstrance, that so much conduceth to the peace and welfare of this bleeding Nation; and that it may take deep impression in the hearts of all men, who profess themselves lovers of Righteousness, and Practitioners in the Art of Navigation, they unanimously resolved to communicate the same, to all Mariners whatsoever, upon the River of Thames, or else where; to the end, that none may appear opposite, or dissenting, to the faciliating of so great a Work.
Aboard the St. George 11. Decem. 1648.