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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39978	A declaration from Sir Thomas Fairfax and the army under his command as it was humbly tendered to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament : as also to the Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and Common-Councell of the city of London : concerning the just and fundamentall rights and liberties of themselves and the kingdome : with some humble proposals and desires.	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.; Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690.; England and Wales. Army.	1647 (1647)	Wing D587; Wing F157_VARIANT_CANCELLED; ESTC R5410	9,668	18

proceed in our owne and the Kingdoms behalfe to propound and plead for some provision for our and the Kingdoms satisfaction and future security in relation to those things especially considering that we were not a meere mercinary Army hired to serve any Arbitrary power of Estate but called forth and conjured by the severall Declarations of Parliament for the defence of our owne and the peoples Rights and Liberties and so we tooke up Armes in Judgement and conscience to those ends and have so continued them and are resolved according to your first just desires in your Declarations and such principles as we have received from your frequent informations and our owne common sence concerning those our fundamentall Rights and Liberties to effect and vindicate the just power and right of this Kingdome in Parliaments for those common ends promised against all Arbi●rary power violence and oppression and all particular parties or interests whatsoever the said Declarations still directing us to the equita●le sence of all Lawes and Constitutions as dispensing with the very letters of the same and being supreame to it when the safety and preservation of all is concerned and assuring us that all authority is fundamentally sealed in the Office and but ministerially in the Persons neither do● or will these our proceedings as we are fully and in conscience perswaded amount to any thing not warrantable before God and men being thus farre much short of the common proceedings in other Nations to things of an higher nature then we have yet appeared to and we cannot but be sensible of the great complplaints that have been made to us generally in the Kingdome from the people where we march by Petition and otherwise of Arbitrarinesse and injustice to their great and insupportable oppressions And truly such Kingdomes as have according both to the Law of Natu e and Nations appeared to the vindication and defence of their ●ust Rights and Liberties have proceeded much higher as our Brethren of Scotland who in the first beginning of these late differences associated in Covenant from the very same Grounds and Principles having n● visible forme either of Parliament or King to countenance them as they were therein instituted protected by their own and this Kingdome also so we justly shall expect to be We need not mention the State of the Nether-Lands the Portugalls and others all proceeding upon the same Principles of Right and Freedome and accordingly the Parliament hath Declared it no resisting of Majestracy to side with the just Principles and Law of Nature and Nations being that Law upon which we have assisted you and that the Souldiery may lawfully hold the hands of that Generall who will turne his Cannon against his Army on purpose to destroy them the Seamen the hands of that Pilot who wilfully runs the Ship upon the rock as our Brethren of ●●●tland argued and such were the proceedings of our Ancestors of famous memory to the purchasing of such Rights and Liberties as they have enjoyed through the price of their blood and we both by that and the latter blood of our dearest friends and fellow Souldiers all the hazard of our owne doe lay claime unto Nor is that supreme end the glory of God wanting in these case to set a price upon all such proceedings of righteousnesse and justice it being one witnesse of Go● in the world to carry on a testimony against the injustice and unrighteousnesse of men and against the miscarriages of Governments when corrupted or declining from their primitive and originall glory These things we mention but to compare proceedings and to shew that we are so much the more justifiable and warrantable in what we do by how much we come short of that height and measure of proceedings which the people in free Kingdomes and Nations have formerly practised Now having thus farre cleared our way in this businesse we shall provide to propound such things as we do humbly desire for the setling and securing of our owne and the Kingdomes peace and safety as followeth 1. That the Houses may be speedily purged of such Members as for their Delinquency or for corruptions or abuse to the State or undue election ought not to sit there whereof the late election in Cornwall Wales and other parts of the Kingdome afford too many examples to the great prejudice of the peoples freedome in the said Elections 2. That those persons who have in the late unjust and high proceedings against the Army appeared to have the will the confidence credit and power to abuse the Parliament and the Army and indanger the Kingdome in the carrying on such things against us while an Army may be some way speedily disabled from doing the like or worse to us who d sbanded and dispearst and in the condition of private men or to other the free borne people of England in the same condition with us And that for that purpose the same persons may not continue in the same power especially as our and the Kingdoms Iudges in the Highest Trust but may be made incapable thereof for future And if it be questioned who these are we thought not fit ●articularly to name them in this our Representation to you but ●●all very speedily give in their names and before long shall offer what we have to say against them to your Commissioners wherein we hope so to carry our selves as that the world shall see ●e aim at nothing of private revenge or animosities but that Ju●●ice may have a free course and the Kingdom be eased and secu●ed by disinabling such men at least from places of Judicature who desiring to advantage or set up themselves and their party in a general confusion have endeavored to put the Kingdom into a new flame of War then which nothing is more abhorrent to us But because neither the granting of these alone would be sufficient to secure our own and the Kingdoms Right Liberties and Safety either for the present Age or posterity Nor would our proposal of this singly be free from the scandal and appearance of Faction or Design onely to weaken one party under the notion of unjust or tyrannical that we may advance another which may be imagined more our own We therefore Declare That indeed we cannot but wish that such men and such onely might be preferred to the great power and trust of the Commonwealth as are approved at least for Moral Righteousness and of such we cannot but in our wishes prefer those that appear acted thereunto by a principle of Conscience and Religion in them And accordingly we do and ever shall bless God for those many such Worthies who through his providence have been chosen into this Parliament and to such mens endeavors under God we cannot but attribute that Vindication in part of the peoples Rights and Liberties and those beginnings of a just Reformation which the first proceedings of this Parliament appeared to have driven at and tended to though of late