THat many of your Petitioners have faithfully served the Common-Wealth, during these Wars as before, and [...]nce the reducement under your Excellencies command, for which there is great summes due and in arrears unto them as by their severall debenters and otherwise may appeare.

That some of your Petitioners necessitous condition hath required their long and chargeable attendance for supply in London; yet to this day hath not received one penny, whilest persons disaffected to the freedome of the people who deeply acted in the late tumults and distempers have received conside­rable summes, by which most of your Petitioners are reduced to such a miserable condition of living, that unlesse speedily relieved they must in all likelyhood perish.

Now forasmuch as your Petitioners have alwayes beene cordially affected to your Excellencies proceedings continu­ally, concurring in the Armies desires who for opposing these late tumults, distempers, mutinies, had their lives daily exposed to great hazard and danger.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray your Excel­lency would vouchsafe to take them and their distressed condition into your serious consideration, and out of your wonted goodnesse [...]e a meanes they may bee relie­ved with some considerable proportion of their arreares, [Page 4] in such way and manner as to your Excellencies wis­dome shall seem meet,

THe continued destructive designes and dangerous Combi­nations of perfidious men, formerly Members of Parlia­ment, which constantly blast the fairest hopes and expectati­ons of Peace and Freedome, rendring all our endeavours and hazards of our lives fruitlesse, and at present threatning the ruine and desolation of this poore distracted Kingdome, con­strains us once more to addresse our selves to your Excellency, to imp [...]ove the present opportunity that Providence hath put into your hands, of making them incapable of prosecuting their mischievous purposes; being fully confident that though their former treacheries were more obscure and intricate; yet their late unparalleld proceedings in violating the free legall Parliament, and usurping a Parliamentary power, on purpose to [Page 5] have embroiled this miserable (and almost, still, bleeding) Nation, againe in blood, cries aloud to Justice to remove them from their Ʋsurped, Destructive Power.

Seeing therefore those Honourable Members of Parliament that discharged their tru [...]t, have been forced to flye to this Army for refuge; that they might endeavour to secure them to fit as a free and legall Parliament, and your Excellency with this Army have engaged themselves to improve the utmost of your po [...]sibilities to that intent; and seeing those worthy Members are now againe dis-inabled for discharging their Trust, through the unexpected Intrusion of those Vsurpers, and their assuming to themselves a Power of voting among [...]t them, whereby those desperate enemies to the Kingdomes peace and welfare, doe againe obscure and pervert the true Parliamenta­ry power, and imprint the image of that highe [...]t Authority upon their owne designes, protecting themselves and their Accomplices from justice.

Wee cannot but humbly and earne [...]tly implore your Excel­lency, That those Usurpers of that supream Authority might not be permitted (even contrary to the Law of nature) to fit judges of their owne prodigious Treacheries. But that all and every person, that have sate in that pretended Parliament, or adhered to them or their Votes, when the free legall Par­liament was by violence suspended, might immediatly be de­clared against, as persons uncapable of sitting or voting in this Parliament; That so according to our last Declaration, and our former Proposals tendred to your Excellency for that end, we might secure that free and legall Parliament, till the differences of the Kingdome be composed, and the Peace and Liberties of the people [...]mly established.

HIS Majesty is in very good health & me­ry since he came hither, & hath had some thoughts of comming to London, affecting to be with his Children at St. Jameses, But in re­gard of their removall to Sion House, because of the sicknesse, I suppose his Majesty will come no nearer the City at present than that place, neither can it be safe for his person in regard that so many Houses are visited in all parts about the City especially West [...]inster, and the Strand, and upon advertisment that se­veral houses are shut up between White-hall [...] & S. Jameses on the street side about Char [...]ng-Crosse, and other parts adjacent, How can it bee thought that his Majesty can be at London with­out great danger; but I suppose His Majesty will sudainly visit His Houses neare London, where he may be ready to receive such things as shall be presented to him from the Parlia­ment, for the settlement and peace of the King­domes

Dated at Oatlands 14 August 1647,