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(a) The Sums affeffed upon Derbyshire, Devonshire, and Yorkshire, are omitted.

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June 24. A Packet was prefented to the House of Lords, from the Earl of Nottingham, one of their Commiffioners refiding with the Army, addreffed to the Earl of Manchester, containing,

1647. June.

An. 23 Car. I. An HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE from his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Army under his Command, concerning the prefent State of Affairs in relation to themselves and the Kingdom, with their Defires and present Refolutions thereupon (b)., St. Alban's, June 23, 1647.

A fecond Remonftrance from the Army to the Parliament.

UR Defires, as Soldiers, in behalf of ourfelves and other Soldiers that have faithfully ferved the Parliament in this Kingdom; as alfo ⚫ our remaining Diffatisfactions, in relation thereunto, may be clearly collected out of our feveral Papers that have formerly been presented to the • Parliament concerning the fame, to which Par⚫ticulars we have not yet received any further Sa

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In our late Representation (c) it may appear 'what our Defires are, as Members of the Common"wealth, in behalf of ourselves and all others, for the clearing, fettling, and fecuring of the Rights, Liberties, and Peace of the Kingdom; for the Juftnefs, Reasonableness, Neceffity, and common Concernment whereof unto all, we dare ap'peal to the whole Kingdom and the World; yet • we have hitherto received no Answer thereunto, nor can we hear of any Confideration taken thereupon, to put the Things contained therein into 'any Way of Resolution or Dispatch.

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We have fince that, in pursuance of the first and fecond Heads of our Defires in the faid Re< presentation, delivered in a Charge (d) against di< vers Perfons, Members of the Houfe of Commons, ' for divers Designs and Practices to the Abuse and Difhonour of the Parliament, the unfufferable C Injury of the Army, the Infringement of the Rights and Liberties both of Soldiers and Subjects, the Breach or Hazard of the Peace of this Kingdom, and the Hindering of the Relief of Ire

(b) Printed for George Whittington, at the Sign of the Blue Anchor, in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange, London, 1647. This Remonftrance is not entered in the Journals of either House. (c) Vol. XV. p. 455. (d) Ibid. p. 470.

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land, &c. Upon which, though the main Things An. 23 Car. I. charged, with the mischievous Effects and fur'ther dangerous Confequences of them, as alfo ⚫ the conftant and continued Activity of all or moft of the Perfons charg'd, in relation to thofe Things, for the most part are fufficiently and notoriously known, especially to the Parliament itself; yet 'we find neither any Thing done upon what is fo 'known, nor any Way resolved on or admitted by

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the Parliament, for the Examination or Difco< very of what is lefs evident unto them; but rather (as if neither the Things charged, nor the present fad Effects, nor future ill Confequences thereof, were at all confiderable) the whole Bufi• nefs seems to be flightly paffed over, or fet aside. Laftly, We did, with thefe, deliver in another Paper (e), whereof here is a Copy, annexed, containing divers juft and neceffary Things, which we did defire might be provided for and done for the better Proceeding in the Premiffes, with more Safety to ourselves and the Kingdom, and with more Affurance or Hopes of a timely and happy Iffue: To which Things defired (which we think ⚫ all Men will judge reasonable, juft, and necessary) we have yet received no Answer or Refolution; nor S can find any Confideration at all had of them, fave ' that a Month's Pay is fent down for the Army; ' whilst those that have deferted the Army receive, at • London, much more; and that fome Votes have ⚫ been paffed for annulling the Orders of the pre'tended Committee of Safety about lifting Men and ❝ drawing of Forces together; which Votes we find ' rendered but vain and delufive by the continued • under-hand Practices of those whom we have charged, and their Accomplices, in lifting and engaging Men for a new War; and, by a later Day's Votes, not admitting that the Forces fo lifted or engaged should, by public Order, be difmiled or discharged; which, with other Things, we cannot but attribute chiefly to the prevalent Influence of the fame Perfons.

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Now, whereas we find that our firft Defire in the Paper last mentioned, for present suspending 'the Perfons impeached from fitting in the House, is judged, by fome, to be against the Course and Privilege of Parliament; or of ill Confequence in the Precedent of it, the Charge being but general, and no_particular Proofs as yet produced to render the Proceeding legal; we cannot but remind the Parliament,

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1. That as the most and main Things charged, with the fad Effects and Confequences of them, fo the conftant and continued Activity of all, or most of the Perfons charged, in relation thereunto, in misinforming, deluding, abufing, or surprizing the Houfe, and otherwife, are fufficiently known to the Parliament itfelf; fo as the Houfe ❝ might upon their past and prefent Cognizance of the fame, moft juftly proceed to fufpend them; 'as in many other Cafes, upon far lefs Occafions, ' which never could have produced fuch fad Effects 'to the Kingdom, they have done many other of ❝ their Members, meerly for Words spoken, or Things moved in the House, alledged to be but against Order or Cuftom of the Houfe; and this " without any Trial, Proof, or Charge, but meerly 6 upon the Houses own Cognizance of the Things, as we could instance in many Cafes fince this Par⚫liament began.

2. Whereas many of the Things to which the Charge relates, are Things fpoke, moved, or done in the House, fo as we have yet no clear • Way opened particularly to charge or mention them, or produce Proofs to them, without fome • Pretence against us of Breach of Privilege; and therefore (though we think no Privilege ought to 6 protect evil Men in doing Wrong to Particulars or • Mischief to the Public, yet) we have been hitherto 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 6 we did and do believe, and if the Way were open ' without Breach of Privilege, should not doubt to 6 prove

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