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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88740	The last votes from the armie: Iune 26. 1647. Communicated to the commons of England, and the citizens of England, and the citizens of London. Wherein they declare, their full resolutions, concerning their marching up towards the suburbs of London. As also, their last reasons and propositions, touching the over-awing power of divers persons, against the faithfull worthies of England, assembled in Parliament, and their besetting and shutting up of the doores against them.	England and Wales. Army.	1647 (1647)	Wing L511; Thomason E394_10; ESTC R201624	2,275	8

THE LAST VOTES FROM THE ARMIE Iune 26. 1647. Communicated To the Commons of England and the Citizens of London Wherein they declare Their full Resolutions concerning their marching up towards the Suburbs of London As also their last Reasons and Propositions touching the over-awing power of divers persons against the faithfull Worthies of England assembled in Parliament and their besetting and shutting up of the Doores against them London Printed for Thomas Watson June 28. 1647. THE LAST VOTES FROM THE ARMY Kind Sir THese are to certifie you that your present proceedings at this instant in your great and spacious Metropolis doth not a little perplexe the hearts of divers within the Army and the most hard and cruell censures which we now undergo doth not a little stirre up our spirits to be spectations and Auditors of the innumerable s●r● of tongues whose mouths a●● open against our present proceedings yet neverthelesse we doubt not but to make it appear to all the world our candid intentions and resolutions for the preservation of his Majesties Royall Person the Being and Priviledges of Parliament the Liberty and Propriety of the Subject and the good of the whole Kingdom in generall And although there be many false aspersions cast upon the army concerning our neerer approach towards your City by saying that wee come for the lucre of gain more then for the Kingdomes good and that we have many amongst us whose aymes are at the rich plunder of the City But I can assure you these inveterate suggestions are utterly false such barbarous actions we detest and abhor and I dare say this in behalf of the Army that there are none amongst us but would willingly sacrifice their lives for the good and preservation of that famous City having sundry times engaged with them against the common-enemy of this Kingdome But we hope our future actions will make it evident that all our former proceedings tended only to the peace and tranquility of this Nation and that our actions and endeavours were o●ly for the stating of his Majesty in his Royall Rights and preservation of the peace of the Kingdome And therefore the Army thought it meet to declare against such members whom they found enemies to the peace thereof but we do begin to discern some obstruction in the said businesse which is the only cause of the publishing of the ensuing Reasons touching the said party viz. That since the same difficulties or prejudices lye yet in their way as to the particular charging or proofe of those things against the Members and the Parliament though so often put upon it in our former Papers yet through the powerfull interest of the persons guilty hath not taken any cognizance what Members or others have so abused them to draw the Parliament to such dishonour and inconveniences We cannot but againe more fully and clearly assert as we have in former Papers and shall yet more particularly if neede be remonstrate That divers things lately done and passed from the Parliament against the Army as particularly the order for suppressing the Petition that high Declaration against it and against all that should proceede in it putting the faithfull Servants of the Parliament and t●e Kingdome out of the Protection of Law and exposing them as Enemies to the State c. to the forfeitures of the Estates Libe●ries Life and all but for going about in an humble peaceable and inoffensive way to desire what was undenyably their due and dearly earned and many other such like proceedings both against the Army and others do carry with them such a face of Injustice Oppression Arbitrarinesse and Tyranny as we think is not to be paralleld in any former proceedings of the most Arbitrary Courts against any private men but hath boought in insufferable dishonour upon the Parliamentary Authority and Ptoceedings which we are and others ought to be deeply sensible of hath tended to disoblige all men especially Souldiers or Subjects and hath conduced to all other the sad effecta and worse consequences expressed in the Charge an● gives us other cause to conclude Than those Worthies who have formerly acted and carryed on things in Parliament for publique good Right and Freedom are now awed or over-born by a prevailing party of men of other private Interests crept in and that neither we nor any other can reasonably e●pect Right Freedom or Safety as private men of to have things acted in Parliament for publicpve good while the same parties continue there in the same power to ab●se the Name and Authority of Parliament to serve nd p osecu e their priva●e Interests and passions and under the privileges of parliament to shelter themselues under the worst of evils or mischiefs they can do though to the Ruin of the Kingdom And lastly considering the mul●itudes of Reformadoes and othe Souldiers swarming about the Ci●y whom the persons we have charged and their complyces have at their beck to bring up to Westminster when they please and that by their frequent in ●ultuous confluences thither besetting and somtimes blocking up the Parliament doores threatning and offering violence to the persons of the most faithful Parliament-men the just freedome of parliament seemes to be taken away or at least for the present abridged insomuch as those Members who have served the Kingdome hitherto with most faithfulnesse diligence and integrity for the publike good many of them dare scarce come to the House or if they d● they come in feare and peril of their lives and when they are there are awed discouraged or disabled from discharging t●eir Consciences or doing their duties to the Kingdome A great part of our army quarters about Uxbridge and a party of horse are marched up further from us It is said the Kings Majesty lay at the Earle of Salisburies house upon Thursday night last Wee are in great expectation of an answer from the Parliament to the late Remonstrance presented to both Houses Thus for the present I remain Vxbridge Iune 26. 1647. late at night Yours to his power WI. L GIB The Desires of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax to the Army J do hereby strictly charge and command all Souldiers of the Army Horse and Foot and all others whom it may concern not to offer any violence or doe any prejudice at all to any country man or other whomsoever in their persons or goods either in quarters or upon their March thorow the Countries respectively as they tender the honour of the Army and as they tender the avoyding of the severest punishment that may be inflicted upon such offendors by a Counsell of Warre Tho Fairfax FINIS