A Petition was this day presented to the house from the Merchants trading to
the East-Indies; desiring that they may have leave as formerly, for the Transportation
of 13000 l. worth of Bullion. The house granted their Petition, and ordeed
the same accordingly.
The house was this day informed of the present want of moneys for buying provisions,
and otherwise for the service of the Navy, they thereupon ordered, That
the Committee of the Navy should conferre with a old Commissioners of the
Petty Customes, for the speedy advance of the summe of six thousand pounds for
this service, and that they make report of the said Commissioners Answer withall
convenient speed.
Severall Petitions and Declarations have beene presented to the Generall and
his Councell at White Hall, in complyance with the Armies Remonstrance : And
the like to the House of Commons, whereof some have beene printed already.
This following to the Generall (not before printed)is desired to be inserted.
To his Excellency the Lord Fairefax Generall of all the Parliaments Forces in this Kingdom;
The humble Petition of Col. Macworth, and the rest of the Officers and Souldiers in
the Garrisons of Shrewsbury, and Ludiow, in the County of Salop.
Humbly Sheweth,
THat the hearts of your Petitioners have been never freed from feares, since they
perceived are solution in the Houses of Parliament, to admit and carry on a Personall
Treaty with the King, which being Petitioned for clamorously, cryed out
for and at length professedly fought for by the Parliaments professed enemies, could
never be imagined to be intended for good to the Parliaments friends, & for that reason alone (beside the many more of great weight against it) could never certainly
have been affected, had not some of those intrusted by the Kingdome, by combination
which the Kings party vigorously promoted this designe in a Parliamentary
way, as that which at length must consummate and confirme what ever wa plotted
for the Kings ends and purposes : But that God who comforteth the abject,
and Loves to turne the wisdome of carnall men into folly, hath in part freed us
from our former feares, and hee having disappointed them in their other designes,
which were but in order thereunto, hath disappointed them also in this by putting
an end (if at this distance we have the truth) unto that evill Treaty : which notwithstanding,
and that our hopes are againe revived by that faithfull and judicious
Remonstrance, lately sent by your Excellency and your Councell of Officers to
the Parliament; wherein the mischiefes of the late Treaty, and miseries lying yet
upon the Kingdome with their probable remedies are declared ( whereunto we
hereby most gladly witnesse our concurrence) yet suth is the Apostacy of some,
Tresetery of many, and cowardsinesse, or to speake the best coldnesse of the most
That new contrivances will not be wanting suddenly, nay already begun in Ireland
(as appeare by the Marquesse of Ormonds Declaration now published to the world)
for the destroying of the well affected party in the three Kingdoms and to all adhere
to them; under such Notions and names as themselves please to give them,
and for the utter frustration of all that good, which this Parliament while they Acted
upon right principles, and unto right ends so happily had begun.
Wherefore you Petitioners humbly beseech your Excellency as you tender the
honor of God, the welfare of this Nation, in Generall, and more especially the lives
and liberties of those of the Nation that have engaged out of Conscience and honesty