VVHereas it hath pleased the Lord of Hosts (who was called upon to decide the con­troversie of this Nation) to write his name upon your Sword in very legible eharacters, as ap­pears upon record twice, viz. in the year —45, where wee had 114 Victories, and now this last Summer above 30, even to our astonishment, who were used by you in that service, that those proud Billows in Wales, England, & Scot­land, have bin bounded and calmed, in lesse then six months, yet behold, we have our sorrows repeated, and our fears in­creased, making our wounds even to bleed afresh.

Wherefore, we desire, in the name of our selves, and the abused and betrayed people of England, that your Excellen­cy will be pleased to assist us, in these ensuing requests and groans of our soules, which may not long be denyed us, lest we faint or struggle as we can for the life of good men, and a good Cause.

[Page 2] 1. That justice may suddenly and equally be dispensed, ac­cording to the desires of our honoured friends in London, Liecestershire, and others manifested by their severall Petiti­ons, and the Parliaments Declaration concerning the Kings evill asserted, or bewayled, and repented of.

2 That your Army be instantly reckoned withall, & paid and so dealt with for future (if they must be used) that eve­ry Reg. may know their own country, & there receive their pay immediatly, without any other Treasurers or wayes of trouble, that so the people themselves may see what they have for their money. In this we are impartent, or so passio­nately affected, that we gasp for help: this Regiment hath had but one moneths pay since May, having marched 1300 miles this Summer.

3 That the people may know in print, with all speed, which way all publike monies are disposed of in all counties and places, and that of all kinds, which may be done, if every col­lector and receiver of mony be forthwith enjoyned to print their receipts and disbursments; for if the souldiers be not paid, the people ask whats become of the Revenue, Compo­sitions, Sequestrations, Excise, Lands, &c.

4 That we may have just and righteous Government set­led in this Nation advancing Godlines, we abhorring Anar­chy, Confusion, and levelling mens estates; so often charged upon us: for which end, we desire these two things, in pursu­ance of which (by help from Heaven) we are resolved to venture all.

First, that the grand and capital enemies, may without de­lay, be brought to Justice, which is the maine root of our misery, we finding all other wayes attempted altogether in­valid to carry on this work of common safety.

Secondly, for the dispatch of Justice upon all Delinquents [Page 3]for rectifying all crooked things among us, & for the good of us, and the Generations to come, we humbly conceive our last and surest way will be for your Excellency and this ar­my, to make a speedy offer to the Commons house in your name and the Armies, and in the behalf of all England, that such of them as have been faithfull to the Kingdomes inte­rest, to declare with you and the Nation; and that the con­trary minded, false, royal, and neutral party may know, that our enemies must not be our rulers, we professing, that good men, rather then good laws must s [...]ve us, though we disjoyn them not. And if any shal obiect, we put violence upon au­thority, we hereby proclaim to the world, that neither your Excellency, nor our selves, have received Cōmissions from the parl as now constituted, but from that good party in it, who strugled through many hazards to model this army for the kingdoms fafety; nor are we to attend forms & customs in this extremity; we can as willingly sit down as march, suf­fer, as act, would but the godly party in the Kingdom cal us thereunto, and think themselves preserved by it.

But the people call to us for these things, and we to your Excellency, your known worth invi [...]ing us hereunto: in pro­secution of which, as an unparallel'd instrument, we shall live or die with your Excellency, having solemnly promi­sed to attempt and attend these two last expedients through all hazard. We cannot so undervalue our God, and the rich experience we have had in the behalf of this Nation, as to see them lie (like Issachar) under these sinful burdens, our colds nakednesse, want, hunger, hardship, difficul [...]i [...]s, dangers, out of which our blessed, and ever to be praised God hath brought us, suggesting these things unto us, for that flock of slaugh­ter in this Kingdome.

Sir, we can die, but not endure to see our Mother England die before us.

ON Tuesday Decemb. 12. 1648. a Troope of Horse and a party of Foot of the Army marcht to St. Cle­mens lane, unto the house of Alderman Viner, one of the Sheriffs unto whose house also came Major Gen. Brown in his Coach, where the said party seized on him, and from thence guarded him to the Head-quarters at VVhite-Hall, and being brought before his Excellency, and the Councell of the Army, some questions were asked, and matters of charge propounded, which were to this effect.

That whereas by the confederacy of the said M.G. Brown (now Sheriff of London) with the said impeached members, and others, the Scots were invited and drawn in to invade this Kingdom the last Summer, insomuch as when upon the actuall Invasion the House proceeded to declare them ene­mies, and those that adhered to them traytors; yet the said confederates and other treacherous members (to the num­ber of ninety and odd, as upon the division of the House appeared) did by their Councels and Votes endeavour to hinder the house from declaring against their confederate invaders.