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A40541	A remonstrance from his excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the armie under his command concerning their just and clear proceedings hitherto, in the behalfe of the Parliament, Kingdom, & themselves: and the evill and trecherous dealing they have found from the enemies to their own, and the Parliaments and kingdomes peace and freedome. Together with their present difficulties and dangers in relation thereunto: and their present resolutions thereupon. With the grounds of all these. By the appointment of his Excellency, and the generall councell of his army. Signed Jo. Rushworth, secretarie.	England and Wales. Army.; Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690.; Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.	1647 (1647)	Wing F227A; ESTC R200594	15,095	24

enemies First therefore to these ends unlesse it should be thought fit to secure the Parliament by keeping the whole body of the Army or so great a part thereof to remaine continually in and about London as might be sure to over-power any future tumults or force that may arise out of the City which neither the wel-fare of the City and ease of the parts adjacent nor the safety of the Kingdome in respect of the present posture of affaires will admit It is absolutely necessary that there be speedy and exemplary justice done upon at least the chiefe Authors or abettors of the said treasonable engagement and of the said force done to the Parliament and upon the chief Actors in maintenance and prosecution thereof whereby men may be deterred from the like in future And this is also as necessary to the security of the Army and Peace of the Kingdome since it is apparent by all that hath been said and by infinite other evidences too many to recount That both the said ingagement and the force done to the Parliament and the power of the City militia thereby gained the succeeding Votes and orders of the pretended Houses but indeed of that faction that are our professed enemies in maintenance and prosecution thereof and the Forces thereupon leavyed put under the Command of Major Generall Massey and others our professed adversaries were all designed and directed to the ruine and destruction of this Army and the raising of a new Warre against us in this Kingdome And having had such experience of their restlesse malice and cruel intentions towards us notwithstanding our tendernesse and lenity towards them and of their treacherous dealing so soone as they thought they had the advantage notwithstanding all their semblances of complyance to a composure What reason is there to expect but that by our patience and delayes they apprehend in future the like or other advantage they will breake out againe into the like or worse attempts of violence and Warre if all escape with impunity for these But as to this point of security by exemplary Justice in an ordinary way we see our hopes almost frustrated whilest though our desires and resolutions to that purpose exprest in our late Declaration of our advance towards London were then seconded with the declared approbation and concurrent resolutions of the Speakers and Members of both Houses that were driven away to the Army and with their engagement to live and die with us therein And though in pursuance thereof the Right Honourable House of Peeres have since their restitution begun and proceeded to declare null and void all that was done in the name of both Houses while they lay under the power of that tumultuous violence and to give their more authentique approbation to our said Declaration made in behalf of the said Speakers and Members while they were with the Army and in behalfe of the honour and freedome of the Parliament and to give their like approbation to the concurrent Declaration and Engagement of the said Speakers and Members made to us while they were with us yet the House of Commons hath not onely not concurred with the Lords in any of those things but rather seeme to have cast them aside And upon the Question concerning those very Votes of the said 26th of July To which the Houses were by the said violence inforced whether they should b●… declare●… Null and void it was carried in the Negative That the Question should not be put by the consequences whereof which are many wayes very sad this poor Kingdom and more then we can recompt and by all subsequent proceedings in that House in relation to the whole busines we clearly finde That the Members of that house who after the violence done to it and during the absence of the Speaker and the other Members thereby driven away proceeding in the name of that House as aforesaid procured the pretended powers and did make the pretended Votes Orders and Ordinances aforementioned and many of them were the Factors thereupon for the leavying of War in prosecution and maintenance of the aforesaid treasonable engagement and force done to the Parliament and for the opposing resisting and destroying of this the Parliaments Army in its advance to London for the restitution of the Parliament to its honour and freedome being conscious of their own guilt and danger thereby yet presuming on their interest in the House and the patience and lenity of this Army doe continue and intrude themselves and to sit and vote there and by their present interest in the House doe use their utmost endeavours and very much prevaile to obstruct and avoid the bringing of any to Justice who have acted under their pretended Authority knowing it to be their owne case and concernment in point of impunity as well as conducency to their faction and interest And for that cause they labour as for life to uphold the things past and done and the Authorities given by them and their Faction in their and the Apprentices pretended Parliament yea even those very Votes and Authorities wrested from the Parliament by that palpable force of July the 26th to be good and valid untill they be repealed as if past in a free and legall Parliament in which Point and all Questions touching upon it we finde they presume upon and are strengthened by the concurrence of divers other Members who having perhaps with harmlesse intentions continued to sit with them during the Speakers absence as aforesaid though they consented not to any of their mischievous Votes and Orders or treasonable proceedings afore mentioned may yet feare themselves to be involved in the same case and danger by having sate with them And thus by the concurrence of these two parties in the House as to that point and the interest which both those parties have with others in the House especially upon a matter of saving one another and by the partiall respects of some others in the House for the saving of their friends out of the House who have acted under the Authority and for the evill ends aforementioned we find an absolute obstruction to the bringing to Justice or questioning of any who have acted in the late leavying of War against us and against the Vindication of the Parliaments freedome or in the said treasonable engagements yea or in abetment of the tumultuous violence upon the Parliament it selfe neither can we find or heare of any one person hitherto brought to Justice or Question for any of these things but all seem to be either justified or at least protected from Justice by the power and prevalence of those Members in Parliament who are many of them as we can make appeare equally guilty of and others in some kind obnoxious for the same things and thus not onely our just expectations of vindication to the Parliament and security to our selves and the Kingdome from the like treasonable and turbulent practises in future by exemplary justice for

of them concerning as in other things so especially in this viz To have the King brought up to London without delay or any nearer approach of the Army And to al these the succeeding votes of the pretended Houses for the same thing did speedily e●…cho the same note Concerning which matter not to examin what al●…eration of the case since both Houses and both Kingdomes also of England and Scotland resolved that it was not safe the King should come to London until he had given satisfaction security to his people in relation to those publique ends for which so much blood and treasure had been spent we shall onely say thus much to these mens intentions and designes in the businesse That had the King come up to London as they have so oft desired and attempted it is apparent they intended and would have made use of it rather to lay the stronger foundations of a new warre upon the ruines of that publique interest contended for in the former and of all those that had with most candor clearnesse and simplicity of heart appeared and acted for the same then any way to settle thereby a safe and well grounded Peace And since they could not rationally expect so easie an obtaining of the Kings Person to London upon such a pretended Vote or Declaration of their desire thereof it is as evident that they could intend nothing thereby but a more plausible pretence and foundation of quarrel against this Army whereby to engage or incline to their assistance the Kings party and such others who might be catcht with the apprehension thereof as a speedy way to Peace the thing so generally longed for and by such assistance gained the better to ruine this Army and those faithful Members of Parliament who were retired to it For our parts we shall rejoyce as much as any to see the King brought back to his Parliament and that not so much in place as in affection and agreement on such sound termes and grounds as may render both Him and the Kingdom safe quiet and happy and shal be as ready as any to bring his Majesty to London when his being there may be likely to produce not greater disturbances but a Peace indeed And that such as may not with the ship-wrack of the publique interest be shaped and moulded onely to the private advantages of a particular party or Faction But bottomed chiefly on grounds of common and publique welfare security And if without regard to these considerations wee would have brought his Majesty with us to London in our late advance t●…ither which our enemies could not hinder or prejudice us in wee had no cause to doubt but as to men we might have had all the advantages which our adversaries promised to themselves thereby added to the strength and interest of the Army and have inverted the disadvantages upon them that they intended against us thereby So as his Majesties so much deared comming to London might have been much to their prejudice and our advantage and security if we had regarded onely our owne particulars But as at present out consciences beare cleare witnesses to our selves so wee hope God will in the issue make it cleare to others that we have not minded nor been acting our owne worke or interests but the Kingdomes and every honest mans in it Meane while to returne to our purpose wee thinke it is sufficiently cleared That the proceedings of those Members or the Major part of them that continued to sit at Westminster during the absence of the Speakers the Powers by them given the Forces thereupon levied and other preparations of Warre thereupon made were all designed and driven on in prosecution and maintenance of the said treasonable engagement and of the force done upon the Parliament or for the same ends and interest with them and to oppose the advance of this Army towards London for restitution of the Parliament to honour and freedome and indeed to raise a new warre in the Kingdome against the Parliament and their Army for the destruction thereof And the same may yet further appeare by this that those very Apprentices Reformadoes and others about the City who were the chiefe actors in the said engagement and tumult were afterwards most trusted and imployed and most active in their preparations for War By what we have here said and what hath been declared and published from us and from the Speakers and aforesaid Members of both Houses and by the whole series of our own and our enemies actions and carriages compared together it may appeare how tender we have been not onely of the Authority and just priviledges of Parliament and of the safety Peace and wel-fare both of the Kingdome and the City but even towards those our enemies themsel●…es seeking onely things necessary for the common good of the whole and that if possible without ruine or hurt to any and yet how maliciously and unworthily we have that while been dealt withall by those our enemies and by a factious and Powerfull party especially in the Parliament and City combining with them And what clear cause we have had both for all that we have formerly desired or done in prevention of our owne ruine and the Kingdomes disturbance and also what just grounds for our late advance to London The good service whereof especially in restoring the Parliament to a condition of safety honour and freedome thereby hath been without any seeking of ours acknowledged by both Houses with thanks to us and publique thanksgiving to the Almighty for it And a further trust hath been thereupon committed to the Generall for taking care with his Army to safe-guard the Parliament The Houses being thus restored to a condition of present safety Honour and Freedome Two things seeme clearly remaining to be done which our own and most mens expectations are most set upon viz. First to Vindicate the Honour Freedome and safety of Parliament from the like affronts and violences in Future and the Army and Kingdome from danger of the like disturbances whilst things shall be in a debate or treaty for a settlement and then to proceed unto a speedy settlement of the Peace of the Kingdome The latter of these is first in our intentions being nearest to the ultimate end And we shall earnestly desire that in order thereunto The proposals of the Army whereof the heades are published may be speedily considered and brought to a Resolution But considering that the debates of them may take up some time ere they be agreed o all hands and the framing of them into Bils and perfecting of the same will require much more Something must first be done in the former for a present security to the Parliament from like affronts or violence and to the Army and Kingdome from the like disturbances to the Peace thereof by any farther advantage which the time like to be spent in the setling of Peace may afford to our watchfull restlesse and we doubt implacable

A REMONSTRANCE From His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax AND THE ARMIE under his Command CONCERNING Their just and clear Proceedings hitherto in the behalfe of the Parliament Kingdom Themselves AND THE Evill and trecherous dealing they have found from the Enemies to their own and the Parliaments and Kingdomes Peace and Freedome Together with their present difficulties and dangers in relation thereunto And their present Resolutions thereupon With the grounds of all these By the appointment of His Excellency and the generall Councell of his Army Signed Jo. Rushworth Secretarie August 21. London Printed for J. Harris Printer to his Excellency Sir Tho Fairfax 1647. A REMONSTRANCE From his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax AND THE ARMIE under his Command WHen by the blessing of God upon the indeavours of this Army and other Forces of the Parliament the adverse Forces Garrisons within this Kingdome were dissipated and reduced a present quiet and freedom of trade and all commerce bussinesse restored to all parts of the Kingdome and an hopefull way made for setling of a sound and lasting peace on good termes for the interest of the Kingdome instead of the hoped fruit of our labours and hazzards and of the Kingdomes vast expence in the dispensing of justice and righteousnesse and the setling and upholding of common right and Freedome to the Subjects of this Nation we found immediately the crosse workings of a strong and prevalent Party in the Parliament and Kingdome who walking under the mask of the Parliaments friends but being in truth men of corrupt and private ends interests different from and destructive to the reall and common interest of the Kingdom made use of their power to obstruct and pervert justice to injure oppresse and crush the peaceable and well-affected people of the Kingdom to abridge and overthrow all just Freedome and Liberty drive on designes to set up a party and faction in the Parliament and Kingdom and by the advantage of a perpetuall Parliament to domineere over inslave the kingdom to posterity And for that end to make such a peace with the king if any as without any just provision for the common and true interest of the People and the security thereof for future would serve onely to make up and establish their own greatnesse and the affected domination of themselves and their partie over all others To all which ends as before this Parliament the ignominous names of Puritan Non-conformist the specious pretences for setling of Order Decency and Uniformity in Religion were made use of to the prejudice trouble and suppressing of all that appeared either for the truth and power of Religion or for the Rights Liberties of the Kingdom and towards the advancing at once both of an Ecclesistical and civill Tyranny so this generation of men in the application of the Parliaments power succeeding the former in the exercise of the Kings have made use of the odious names of Brownists Anabaptists Independents Hereticks Schismaticks or Sectaries of one sort or other to blast such men in whom the truth power of Religion or a just sense of the common Interest of the kingdom hath appeared have held forth the pretences of Reformation and Uniformity to colour and counte●…ance their designes of setting up their own irreligious or Pharisaicall and domineering Faction to the oppression of all other people and herein they have had a great advantage to further their aforesaid designs by reason of the jealousies which many cōscientious men of the Presbyterian judgements have entertained concerning this Army concerning divers other eminent and worthy instruments of the Kingdoms good being in places of publik trust power were supposed to be of the independent way In pursuance of their aforesaid disignes they indevoured and by their power and influence upon the Parliament and the advantage of such pretences as aforesaid very much prevailed to put out of all places of power or publike trust the most sober and tonscientious men and such as had approved themselves faithfull to the pub●…ike interest throughout all the late troubles and to put in debauched dissolute men or such as would for advantage serve their private interests and for that end in cases where they ●…ould not otherwise prevail procured such Garisons to be sleighted such powers to be recalled though more necessary to have been continued which they found in the hands of Persons of the former sort and such to be continued though lesse necessary as they found in the hands of the later And the better to strengthen themselves in their Designes closing with a very powerfull party in the City of London they first with much activity endeavoured and prevailed to new-modell the Common Councell and forme the fame to their own Party and then stirred them up to a Petition amongst other things concurrent to their ends for the alteration of the CityMilitia who by their continuall violent and pressing importunity at the Parliaments doores wrung from the Parliament an Ordinance for that purpose whereby they procured the power of that Militia the speciall influence whereof upon the City and Kingdome and upon the Parliament it self being the onely guard they had for their safe sitting is evident to all men to be taken out of those hands in which it had been continued without prejudice and with great and known security and advantage both to the Parliament City and Kingdome throughout the late troubles add this without any exception either then or since made against them and to be put into the hands of such others as were at best of doubtfull affections to the interest of the Parliament and Kingdome but indeed men given up and ingaged to the Private interests and designes of the said factious party as hath since ' too evidently appeared and as in the late Declaration of the Army concerning the grounds of our advance towards London is more fully remonstrated And finding this Army not for their turns they made it their main work to disband or break it in pleces even before the relief of Ireland was provided for or the peace of this Kingdome setled And though all this went under the pre●…ence of easing the present burthens of the Kingdome yet at the same time they designed and went about to put the Kingdome to the expence and trouble of raising and forming a new force under pretence as for the service of Ireland but evidently designned and so fra●…ed as to serve their own ends and purposes aforesaid in England and being many of them filled and acted with personall ●…nvy and others with malignity of Principles and interest against this Army and the work of God by it it would not serve their turns to break or disband it but it must be with all possible dshonour injury oppression and provocation that they could put upon it And it was too evident that their endevour was not onely to put it off without the honour or satisfaction due to

we had in lesse then a weeks space prepared and ordered a considerable force no lesse then 4000. horse and foot as Sir Thomas Temple employed from the Parliament about that businesse to us can testifie for a present reliefe thereunto But the restlesse and treacherous malice of the enemies to our and the Kingdomes peace taking their supposed advantage of our distance and dispersed posture which their faire pretence of peaceable intentions had induced us into first they did without all colour of authority contrive and set on foot in the City and many of them entred into a mischievous and desperate vow and ingagement tending to the subversion of the freedome of Parliament and the liberties of this Nation to the frustrating of those just and publicke ends for which so much blood and treasure hath been spilt and spent in the late Warres and to the rising of a new Warre against the Parliament and their Army which said ingagement both Houses of Parliament did by their Declaration of the 23. of July adjudge and declare to be high Treason in all that should promote or abet the same and within a few dayes after to wit on Munday July 26. there was a Petition brought to the Parliament by the Sheriffes and some Aldermen and Common-councell-men in the name of the City of London for the recalling of the said Ordinance of the 23. of July concerning the Militia and the returning of the Militia into those hands in which it was put by the Ordinance of the 4. of May which Petition was immediately followed and backed with a tumultuous confluence of Apprentices and other dissolute and desperate persons who committed most horrid and unheard of violence upon both Houses inforcing them to recall both the said Declaration of the three and twenty day of July concerthe said engagement And also the said Ordinance of the same date concerning the Militia and compelling the Speaker of the House of Commons to resume the Chaire after the House was adjourned and the House to passe such further Votes concerning the Kings present comming to London c. as they the said Rioters did please neither the Guard from the City that then attended the Houses nor the Lord Mayor Sheriffes or any Authority in the City though sent to for that purpose taking any course to suppress the said tumult or relieve the Parliament against that violence though it was continued for the space of eight or ten houres And the Houses having next day adjourned till Friday July 30. There were Printed Ticekts fixed upon posts in and about the City the day before inviting the same persons to the like confluence at Westminster against the Houses next meeting All which hath been more fully and more assuredly made known by the Declaration of the Speaker of the House of Commons concerning the same By this meanes the Speakers of both Houses together with most of the Lords and a very great number of the most faithfull and unquestioned Members of the House of Commons were driven away so as they could not with safety attend their service in Parliament nor with freedome discharge their trust to the Kingdome therein but were forced to fly to their Army for safety so as there was not nor could then be any free meeting or legall proceeding of a Parliament Notwithstanding which divers Members of both Houses who by the carriage and sequell of the businesse will appeare to be of the same party and confederacy with the aforesaid Enemies to our and the Kingdomes Peace and with the Authors and Actors both of the said treasonable engagement and the tumultuous force upon the Parliament Taking this opportunity of time to carry on their designes when very few were left but of their own party did continue to meet in the usuall places in Westminster And having under pretence of a necessity for continuing the Parliament by adjournment drawne in some few well-minded Members to sit with them out of a seruple least the Parliament should fall for want of adjournment tooke upon them the name of both Houses of Parliament And having on Friday July 30. chosen a new Speaker did proceed to Vote and Act as a Parliament and adjourned from time to time But of what party and confederacy the most of them were and to what ends and interests they acted will appeare by what they did whereof we shall for present give a taste in some particulars hoping that shortly the whose Journall of their proceedings may be made publique For the said Members of the House of Commons conveening as aforesaid immediately Voted and called in as to the service of the House the Eleven impeached Members And also those who upon former Votes of the House were suspended or under question to be put out for Delinquency and had put in their cales with this pretended House of Commons thus composed and foure or five Lords of the same Modell for an house of Peers they proceed to set up a Committee for safety whereof all or most of the said Impeached Members were a part this Committee they appointed to joyne with that same pretended Committee of the City Militia whose power was obtained onely by the tumultuous force and violence aforesaid To these Committees the most or many of their proceedings referre and by divers pretended Vot●…s Orders and Ordinances procured in the name of one or both Houses of Parliament large powers were given to these two Committees for raising of Forces appointing chief Commanders and other Officers and other vast unlimited or unusuall powers were given them all tending to the raising and levying of a new Warre within this Kingdome upon which many forces both of Horse and Foot were actually levyed and other preparations of Warre made All which that they were intended and designed in Justification prosecution and maintenance of the aforesaid treasonable engagement and of the said force and violence done to the Parliament or of the vere same ends and interests and to oppose and hinder the restitution of the Houses of Parliament to their honour and freedome and the advance of this their Army for that purpose being then upon a March Besides the consideration of the persons into whose hands these powers were committed It is abundantly evident many other wayes but especially by that Declaration of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-councell of London which was first by that pretended Committee of safety Ordered and then by the pretended House without reading a word of it approved to be published in the Parish Churches with an exhortation to the people to take up Armes in maintenance of the ends therein expressed which though the pretence were for the Defence of the King Parliament and City then alledged to be in great danger when as indeed none were in danger but onely the Authors Acters and Abe●…tors of the traiterous practises aforesaid yet the true ends thereof appear clearly to be the same with the said treasonable Engagement and tumult against the Parliament all

what hath been so done are frustrated but even the safety and immunity of the Speakers and those faithfull Members of both Houses that were driven away by the violence aforesaid and the immunity of the Army in advancing to London to bring them back and restore the Parliament to its honour and Freedome which hath been acknowledged with publique Thanksgiving to God for it as aforesaid is subjected and exposed to question where in theirs and ours and the Kingdomes enemies obtrude themselves to be the Judges●… for if those pretended Votes Orders and Ordinances whereby Warre was leavied against them and us were then good and valid though they should now be repealed yet we with the Speakers and those Members aforesaid in opposing of them while they were of force must needs remaine transgressors still and yet God and we are thanked for it what a mock is this to God and man But to returne to the more serious consideration of our case in relation to the security of the Parliament Kingdom and our selves against the like turbulent and treasonable practises in future since by the meanes aforesaid no security by exemplary Justice can at present be had to deterre any from the like we wish all men to consider what straights we are in this case put upon That which is the maine worke of the Kingdome and which we most earnestly thirst for and attend upon viz. the setling of a peace and consideration of our proposals in order thereunto will ask time to bring it to an issue and that done●… the relieving or remedying of the pressing grievances of the Kingdome will take up and require the sitting of the Parliament for some further time though upon the setling of a peace a period be set for the certain ending of it now for the body of this Army or so great a part of it as may serve to over-power any future tumults or force that may arise in or from the City to continue hereabouts so long the condition of the Country hereabouts and the necessities of the City in point of provision cannot well beare it and we doubt forreigne Forces that are alre●…dy upon the wing and turbulent spirits that in severall parts of the Kingdome are beginning Insurrections if we continue fixed here will have such opportunity and take such encouragement therefrom as that they may ere long necessarily call us off should we now or hereafter while the Parliament sits draw off the Army from about the City without exemplary Justice upon some would not the same or more dangerous tumults and violences probably returne upon the Parliament and the like or worse pactises of raising a new Warre be revived with more advantage to our enemies more danger to us and the Kingdom and lesse hopes of appeasing it so easily and happily as the former while the same viol●… and factious spirits both in the Parliament and else where shall continue in the sam●… power and opportunities as for●… 〈◊〉 and both they and all others shall have before their eyes the incouragemen●… of that impunity and protection yea rather that justification which they have hitherto found from within the Parliament it self in the past practises aforementioned though as grosly treasonable as any they can hereafter run into should we or any others for the obtaining of exemplary Justice upon some proceed to impeach any for their past treasonable practises what hopes of Justice or of a timely dispatch therein can we have while such a prevailing party of new interested and concerned in the same things shall in the House of Commons continue to be Judges therof or at least be ready to avow and justifie the offendors therein as having acted under their pretended Authority In this straight therefore though we ever have been and shall be most tender of all just Priviledges of Parliament yet finding the root of these and other difficulties to the Parliament Kingdome and our selves to lye in this viz. that those Members of the House of Commons who during the forced absence of the Speakers of both Houses continuing to sit and act as a Parliament did procure and consent to the pretended Votes Orders and Ordinances aforementioned for leavying of Warre and that as is before demonstrated in direct prosecution or maintenance of the aforesaid treasonable ingagement and the violence done to the Parliament and for the opposing resisting and destroying of this the Parliaments Army in its advance towards London onely to restore the Speakers and Members of both Houses that were driven away and the Houses themselves to their Honour and freedome and who are thereby and by their late owning and avowing of the same and many of them as we can prove by acting personally in the said treasonable practises become parties to the same do yet take the boldnesse to sit and Vote in Parliament especially in the House of Commons we say finding the maine root of our difficulties and dangers `lying in this first we appeale to all men whether 〈◊〉 be just or tolerable that any priviledge of Parliament should contrary to the Law of nature make a man Judge in his owne case and concernment and we wish those men themselves to consider if we had come to an ingagement with the Forces raised by vertue of their pretended Votes and Ordinances and that thousands had been sl●…ine and we had made our way by the Sword whether they would then have expected to have sate as Judges upon us therein and we are sure it is no thanks to them that it hath beene otherwise and had we found those Members in Armes against us and subdued and taken them whether had they not then been in the condition of prisoners of Warre and if so then having put Armes into the hands of others against us and still maintaining it whether can they in strict Justice challenge any better condition from us But that contrariwise we should suffer either that those whom by the course of Warre which they had chose to ingage in against us we might justly make our prisoners should in a course of Law become our Masters and Commanders or that those who the other day did in an hostile manner indeavour to have been our Executioners should now we have by force tooke their preparations against us become our Judges we suppose no reasonable man nor themselves when they well consider it can expect from us Upon all these considerations of the justnesse of the cause and the necessity of the thing for the safety of the Parliament Kingdome and this Army having no other way left timely to remedy the difficulties we are put upon or prevent the growing dangers of future violence unto the Parliament and disturbances of the Kingdome or to secure the Parliament in a quiet proceeding to settle the peace of the Kingdom And in such case the safety of the people being the supreame Law we do protest and declare That if any of those Members who during the absence of the Speakers and the rest of the Members of both Houses forced away by the tumultuous violence aforesaid did sit and Vote in the pretended Houses then continued at Westminster that hereafter intrude themselves to sit in Parliament before they shall have given satisfaction to the respective Houses whereof they are concerning the grounds of their said sitting at Westminster during the absence of the said Speakers and shall have acquitted themselves by sufficient Evidence That they did not procure or give their consent unto any of those pretended Votes Orders or Ordinances tending to the raising and leavying of a Warre as is before declared or for the Kings comming forthwith to London we cannot any longer suffer the same but shall doe that right to the Speakers and Members of both Houses who were driven away to us and to our selves with them all whom the said other Members have endeavoured in an Hostile manner most unjustly to destroy and also to the Kingdome which they endeavoured to imbroyl in a new Warre as to take some speedy and effectual course whereby to restraine them from being their own and ours and the Kingdomes Judges in those things wherein they have made themselves Parties by this meanes to make War that both they and ohters that are guilty of and Parties to the aforesaid treasonable and destructive practises and proceedings against the freedome of Parliament and peace of the Kingdome may be brought to condigne punishment and that at the Judgement of a free Parliament consisting duly and properly of such Members of both Houses respectively who stand clear from such apparant and treasonable breach of their trust as is before expressed By the appointment of His Excellency and the generall Councell of his Army Signed J●… Ru●…worth Secretary At the Head-Quarter of Kingston upon Thames August 18. 1647. FINIS