A narrative of the proceedings of His Excellencie the Lord General Fairfax in the reducing of the revolted troops Appointed by his Excellency, and his Councell of Warre, to be printed and published, and signed by their order, May 21. 1649. Ri. Hatter Secret.
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             A narrative of the proceedings of His Excellencie the Lord General Fairfax in the reducing of the revolted troops Appointed by his Excellency, and his Councell of Warre, to be printed and published, and signed by their order, May 21. 1649. Ri. Hatter Secret.
             England and Wales. Army. Council.
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           A
           NARRATIVE
           OF
           THE
           PROCEEDINGS
           OF
           HIS
           EXCELLENCIE
           THE
           LORD
           GENERALL
           
             FAIRFAX
             ,
          
           In
           the
           reducing
           of
           the
           Revolted
           Troops
           .
        
         
           
             Appointed
          
           By
           his
           Excellency
           ,
           and
           his
           Councell
           of
           Warre
           ,
           to
           be
           printed
           and
           published
           ,
           and
           figned
           by
           their
           order
           .
        
         
           May
           21.
           1649.
           
        
         
           Ri.
           Hatter
           
             Secret.
          
        
         
           
             OXFORD
             ,
          
           Printed
           by
           
             H.
             H.
          
           Ann
           Dom.
           1649.
           
        
      
    
     
       
       
       
         
           A
           Narrative
           of
           the
           proceedings
           of
           his
           Excellency
           the
           Lord
           Generall
           FAIRFAX
           ,
           in
           the
           reducing
           of
           the
           revolting
           Troops
           .
        
         
           SOme
           Generall
           account
           hath
           beene
           given
           from
           
             Burford
             ,
          
           of
           the
           great
           mercy
           of
           God
           vouchsafed
           this
           Nation
           in
           delivering
           into
           our
           hands
           ,
           most
           part
           of
           the
           Mutiniers
           that
           lately
           revolted
           from
           their
           obedience
           ;
           a
           more
           particular
           account
           shall
           now
           be
           given
           ,
           of
           the
           designes
           intendments
           ,
           and
           wayes
           they
           were
           involved
           in
           ,
           which
           did
           so
           greatly
           indanger
           the
           Destruction
           of
           this
           Nation
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           sequell
           and
           present
           issue
           thereof
           ;
           to
           the
           end
           that
           all
           persons
           ,
           who
           indeed
           ,
           and
           in
           truth
           ,
           and
           not
           in
           word
           onely
           ,
           beare
           regard
           to
           the
           welfare
           of
           this
           Land
           ,
           may
           themselves
           receive
           satisfaction
           ,
           and
           have
           wherewith
           to
           convince
           others
           that
           may
           have
           beene
           seduced
           or
           misled
           .
        
         
           The
           grounds
           and
           manner
           of
           the
           proceeding
           of
           these
           men
           that
           have
           so
           much
           pretended
           for
           the
           Liberty
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           have
           beene
           as
           followeth
           .
           There
           was
           a
           Paper
           stiled
           
             The
             agreement
             of
             the
             People
             ,
          
           framed
           by
           certaine
           select
           persons
           ,
           and
           debated
           at
           a
           Generall
           Councell
           of
           Officers
           of
           the
           Army
           ,
           to
           be
           tendred
           to
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           by
           them
           commended
           over
           to
           the
           People
           of
           the
           Nation
           .
           It
           being
           hoped
           that
           such
           an
           expedient
           if
           assented
           unto
           ,
           at
           least
           by
           the
           honest
           part
           of
           the
           People
           that
           had
           appeared
           for
           this
           common
           Cause
           to
           which
           God
           hath
           so
           witnessed
           ,
           It
           would
           have
           tended
           much
           to
           settlement
           ,
           and
           the
           composing
           of
           our
           differences
           ,
           at
           least
           have
           fixed
           honest
           men
           to
           such
           grounds
           of
           certainty
           as
           might
           have
           kept
           them
           firme
           and
           intire
           in
           opposing
           the
           common
           enemy
           ,
           and
           stand
           united
           to
           publique
           Interest
           .
        
         
         
           The
           Generall
           Counsell
           of
           the
           Army
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           sorts
           of
           men
           ,
           going
           then
           under
           the
           name
           of
           
             Levellers
          
           (
           who
           by
           their
           late
           actings
           have
           made
           good
           the
           same
           ,
           which
           we
           then
           judged
           but
           an
           imputation
           )
           had
           (
           as
           now
           it
           appeares
           )
           different
           ends
           and
           aymes
           ,
           both
           in
           the
           matter
           and
           manner
           of
           their
           proceedings
           ;
           That
           which
           was
           intended
           by
           those
           men
           was
           to
           have
           somewhat
           tendered
           as
           a
           Test
           ,
           and
           Coercion
           upon
           the
           People
           ,
           and
           all
           sorts
           of
           men
           and
           authorities
           in
           the
           Land
           :
           That
           which
           these
           ,
           to
           wit
           ,
           the
           Counsell
           of
           the
           Army
           aymed
           at
           ,
           was
           to
           make
           an
           humble
           representation
           of
           such
           things
           as
           were
           then
           likely
           to
           give
           satisfaction
           ,
           and
           unite
           ,
           and
           might
           be
           remitted
           to
           mens
           judgements
           to
           be
           owned
           or
           dis-owned
           as
           men
           were
           satisfied
           in
           their
           Consciences
           ,
           and
           as
           it
           should
           please
           God
           to
           let
           men
           see
           reason
           for
           their
           so
           doing
           ,
           that
           soe
           it
           might
           not
           be
           only
           called
           ,
           
             an
             Agreement
             ,
          
           but
           through
           the
           freedome
           of
           it
           ,
           be
           one
           indeed
           ,
           and
           receive
           its
           stamp
           of
           Approbation
           from
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           to
           whom
           it
           was
           ●umbly
           submitted
           .
           Hereupon
           those
           other
           men
           tooke
           so
           much
           dissatisfaction
           ,
           that
           they
           forthwith
           printed
           and
           spread
           abroad
           their
           Paper
           ,
           which
           was
           different
           from
           that
           of
           the
           Army
           ▪
           using
           all
           possible
           meanes
           to
           make
           the
           same
           to
           passe
           ,
           but
           with
           how
           little
           effect
           is
           very
           well
           knowne
           ,
           and
           finding
           by
           the
           Armies
           Application
           to
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           likely
           according
           to
           their
           duty
           to
           stand
           by
           and
           owne
           them
           as
           the
           supreme
           Authority
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           They
           have
           by
           all
           meanes
           assayed
           to
           vilipend
           and
           make
           odious
           that
           authority
           presenting
           them
           to
           the
           People
           (
           in
           Printed
           Libels
           and
           otherwise
           )
           as
           worse
           tyrants
           then
           any
           who
           were
           before
           them
           ,
           (
           if
           they
           did
           not
           answer
           every
           unseasonable
           &
           unreasonable
           desire
           of
           theirs
           ,
           or
           correct
           their
           insolence
           ,
           &
           laboured
           likewise
           to
           divide
           and
           withdraw
           the
           Army
           from
           their
           obedience
           and
           to
           make
           it
           hated
           by
           the
           People
           as
           the
           prop
           of
           the
           Parliaments
           supposed
           Tyranny
           ,
           decrying
           it
           also
           as
           acting
           tyrannically
           ,
           if
           it
           did
           but
           maintaine
           a
           just
           and
           necessary
           discipline
           ,
           without
           which
           it
           is
           impossible
           to
           keepe
           any
           order
           at
           all
           .
           For
           if
           foure
           or
           five
           such
           unlimitted
           and
           ungovern'd
           spirits
           can
           by
           themselves
           and
           their
           Agents
           disturbe
           the
           Peace
           of
           a
           Nation
           what
           would
           an
           Army
           do
           if
           brought
           into
           the
           same
           distructive
           Modell
           ?
        
         
         
           What
           their
           carriage
           hath
           beene
           towards
           the
           Parliament
           shall
           not
           here
           be
           mentioned
           ,
           but
           onely
           what
           they
           have
           practised
           toward
           the
           Army
           ,
           To
           disaffect
           men
           of
           honesty
           and
           conscience
           in
           the
           Army
           .
           They
           have
           suggested
           that
           the
           Parliament
           is
           unfaithfull
           to
           their
           Trust
           ,
           unwilling
           to
           settle
           the
           Liberties
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           misplace
           Officers
           of
           Power
           and
           Trust
           ,
           and
           intend
           to
           perpetuate
           themselves
           ,
           with
           many
           other
           such
           like
           clamours
           ,
           the
           product
           onely
           of
           a
           slaunderous
           spirit
           ;
           To
           such
           as
           have
           an
           eye
           to
           their
           Arreares
           and
           pay
           ,
           they
           insinuate
           that
           the
           Parliament
           will
           not
           consider
           their
           hard
           travell
           ,
           &
           service
           ,
           nor
           make
           a
           just
           provision
           for
           their
           satisfaction
           .
           And
           to
           all
           they
           have
           endeavoured
           what
           they
           can
           to
           render
           the
           service
           of
           
             Ireland
          
           either
           as
           unlawfull
           (
           wherein
           they
           comply
           with
           Popish
           designes
           )
           or
           exceeding
           difficult
           and
           so
           discourage
           many
           ,
           or
           else
           to
           be
           post-poned
           to
           their
           fancies
           of
           Libertie
           ,
           as
           if
           the
           Liberties
           of
           this
           Nation
           could
           not
           or
           would
           not
           be
           settled
           without
           their
           inspection
           ;
           and
           thus
           by
           applying
           themselves
           to
           men
           of
           severall
           affections
           ,
           interests
           and
           tempers
           they
           have
           deceived
           and
           seduced
           some
           honest
           men
           ,
           and
           fed
           the
           discontents
           and
           sinfull
           homours
           of
           many
           .
        
         
           The
           course
           they
           have
           taken
           to
           divide
           the
           Souldiers
           from
           their
           officers
           (
           thereby
           insnaring
           and
           precipitating
           them
           into
           unlawfull
           and
           sinfull
           engagements
           )
           hath
           been
           by
           exercising
           the
           same
           spirit
           of
           falshood
           ,
           to
           decry
           ,
           not
           onely
           the
           Lawes
           of
           Warre
           as
           tyrannicall
           ,
           but
           the
           administration
           therof
           by
           the
           Councell
           of
           Warre
           much
           more
           so
           .
           Although
           it
           be
           an
           undenyable
           truth
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           conduct
           of
           all
           the
           Armies
           that
           ever
           any
           history
           did
           mention
           ,
           there
           never
           was
           so
           little
           severity
           exercised
           by
           Marshall
           Councells
           ,
           or
           with
           more
           tendernesse
           and
           regret
           in
           what
           hath
           been
           at
           any
           time
           through
           necessity
           executed
           upon
           offenders
           .
        
         
           When
           they
           h●d
           laid
           such
           a
           foundation
           of
           Lies
           and
           Falshood
           (
           wherein
           they
           have
           not
           been
           inferiour
           ,
           if
           not
           beyong
           those
           enemi●s
           we
           had
           list
           to
           deale
           with
           ,
           )
           and
           
           had
           thereby
           occasioned
           so
           many
           of
           Commissary
           Generall
           
             Iretons
             ,
          
           and
           Coll
           :
           
             Scroops
          
           Regiments
           to
           revolt
           ,
           and
           cast
           off
           their
           Officers
           (
           an
           Act
           not
           to
           be
           paralell'd
           )
           and
           that
           their
           businesse
           began
           to
           grow
           to
           an
           head
           ,
           they
           sent
           their
           Emissaries
           and
           Agents
           into
           all
           parts
           (
           as
           we
           have
           good
           intelligence
           )
           pretending
           from
           one
           Regiment
           to
           another
           ,
           that
           each
           regiment
           had
           declared
           that
           so
           by
           that
           Artifice
           they
           might
           draw
           each
           to
           declare
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           end
           they
           might
           not
           onely
           confirme
           discontents
           in
           those
           Regiments
           they
           had
           drawne
           into
           that
           unwarrantable
           course
           but
           heighten
           a
           resolution
           in
           their
           minds
           to
           stand
           it
           out
           :
           they
           reported
           that
           the
           Regiments
           waiting
           on
           the
           Generall
           in
           this
           service
           were
           so
           dissatisfied
           that
           they
           would
           not
           stand
           by
           him
           ,
           nor
           strike
           a
           stroake
           in
           this
           businesse
           ,
           although
           the
           Generall
           hath
           a
           ground
           of
           as
           much
           confidence
           of
           their
           resolution
           to
           venture
           their
           lives
           against
           a
           disobedience
           of
           this
           nature
           ,
           as
           ever
           they
           did
           against
           an
           enemy
           ,
           of
           which
           they
           gave
           a
           sufficient
           testimony
           when
           they
           came
           to
           the
           Tryall
           ,
           going
           on
           with
           as
           much
           chearfulnesse
           and
           alacrity
           as
           they
           were
           wont
           to
           doe
           upon
           any
           other
           Ingagement
           .
           But
           by
           this
           falshood
           and
           wile
           they
           had
           drawne
           in
           many
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           made
           use
           of
           it
           to
           keep
           them
           together
           :
           To
           the
           forces
           in
           
             Wales
             ,
          
           and
           the
           West
           they
           gave
           assurances
           that
           the
           forces
           about
           
             London
          
           would
           revolt
           .
           To
           those
           about
           
             London
             ,
          
           that
           those
           in
           
             Wales
             ,
          
           and
           the
           West
           would
           do
           the
           same
           .
           And
           to
           the
           Forces
           in
           the
           North
           used
           they
           the
           like
           Arguments
           ,
           and
           nourished
           also
           the
           distemper
           of
           the
           forces
           in
           the
           South
           .
           By
           these
           lies
           &
           boastings
           ,
           labouring
           to
           heighten
           discontents
           in
           all
           places
           .
           The
           knowledge
           hereof
           we
           have
           also
           by
           a
           full
           attestation
           from
           the
           mouths
           of
           some
           conscientious
           persons
           who
           were
           deluded
           with
           these
           vile
           and
           forged
           pretences
           ,
           and
           out
           of
           conscience
           discovered
           ,
           and
           since
           do
           exceedingly
           lament
           and
           abominate
           the
           same
           .
        
         
           When
           the
           Lord
           Generall
           was
           come
           to
           
             Aulton
          
           in
           Hampshire
           ,
           he
           had
           intelligence
           of
           the
           joyning
           of
           part
           of
           
           the
           Commissary
           Generalls
           ,
           and
           Colonel
           
             Scroops
          
           Regiments
           ,
           making
           tenne
           Colours
           ,
           and
           about
           600
           Horse
           ,
           They
           having
           disserted
           all
           their
           Commission
           Officers
           (
           except
           two
           or
           three
           )
           marched
           away
           to
           
             Marlborow
             ,
          
           with
           intention
           to
           make
           what
           speed
           they
           could
           to
           get
           a
           Conjunction
           with
           Colonell
           
             Harrisons
          
           Regiment
           .
           The
           Lord
           Generall
           Marched
           to
           
             Andover
             ,
          
           and
           thence
           sent
           Major
           
             White
             ,
          
           Captain
           
             Scotten
             ,
          
           Captain
           
             Peuerell
             ,
          
           and
           Captain
           
             Bailey
             ,
          
           with
           a
           Letter
           to
           the
           Revolters
           ,
           exciteing
           their
           present
           returne
           to
           their
           obedience
           ,
           with
           offer
           of
           pardon
           upon
           their
           so
           doing
           ,
           or
           otherwise
           ,
           to
           declare
           to
           them
           ,
           he
           would
           endeavour
           to
           reduce
           them
           by
           force
           ,
           and
           withall
           giving
           in
           charge
           to
           the
           Messengers
           ,
           to
           require
           a
           present
           Resolution
           and
           conformity
           thereunto
           ,
           and
           letting
           them
           also
           know
           ,
           that
           he
           would
           send
           a
           Declaration
           immediatly
           after
           them
           ,
           which
           is
           since
           published
           in
           Print
           ,
           and
           entituled
           
             A
             Declaration
             from
             his
             Excellency
             ,
             with
             the
             advice
             of
             his
             Councell
             of
             Warre
             ,
             concerning
             the
             present
             distempers
             of
             part
             of
             Commissary
             Generall
             Iretons
             ,
             and
             of
             Colonell
             Scroopes
             Regiments
             to
             undeceive
             the
             deluded
             party
             ,
             and
             to
             leave
             those
             excuselesse
             who
             refuse
             (
             upon
             pardon
             herein
             offered
             )
             to
             returne
             to
             their
             former
             obedience
             .
          
        
         
           The
           Generall
           intended
           to
           abide
           at
           
             Andover
          
           untill
           he
           could
           receive
           from
           his
           said
           Messengers
           an
           answer
           to
           his
           Message
           and
           commands
           sent
           by
           them
           ,
           which
           he
           expected
           and
           required
           should
           be
           returned
           next
           morning
           .
           But
           Major
           
             White
          
           and
           the
           rest
           letting
           his
           Excellency
           know
           ,
           that
           the
           said
           Troopers
           were
           marching
           towards
           
             Wantage
          
           in
           order
           to
           a
           conjunction
           with
           Colonell
           
             Harrisons
          
           Men
           ,
           His
           Excellency
           Marched
           the
           same
           day
           being
           Sunday
           the
           thirteenth
           of
           
             May
          
           to
           
             Theale
          
           about
           foure
           miles
           from
           
             Reading
             ,
          
           and
           appointed
           the
           Rendezvous
           of
           his
           Horse
           to
           be
           next
           morning
           at
           
             Inglefield
          
           a
           mile
           from
           thence
           ,
           with
           purpose
           to
           March
           towards
           
             Abingdon
             ,
          
           to
           prevent
           if
           possible
           the
           designed
           conjunction
           with
           Colonell
           
             Harrisons
          
           men
           :
           And
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           ,
           
           his
           Excellency
           having
           received
           a
           Letter
           from
           the
           Revolters
           ,
           that
           they
           would
           be
           obedient
           to
           Orders
           from
           his
           Excellency
           ,
           and
           come
           under
           his
           protection
           ,
           His
           Excellency
           dispatcht
           Coll.
           
             Scroop
          
           that
           night
           (
           being
           Saturday
           the
           13
           )
           to
           them
           to
           make
           triall
           of
           their
           obedience
           ,
           but
           they
           in
           the
           interim
           wee
           marched
           from
           
             Wantage
          
           to
           
             Blagrave
             ,
          
           where
           they
           expected
           to
           meete
           Collonell
           
             Harrisons
          
           men
           ,
           and
           abiding
           there
           for
           some
           time
           had
           the
           Accession
           of
           two
           Colours
           of
           Horse
           of
           that
           Regiment
           .
           So
           that
           they
           became
           12
           Colours
           in
           all
           ,
           besides
           Collon
           :
           
             Eyres
             ,
          
           with
           some
           other
           straglers
           and
           Citizens
           .
           At
           this
           Randezvouz
           Collon
           :
           
             Scroop
          
           found
           them
           ,
           and
           here
           also
           Major
           
             White
             ,
          
           and
           the
           rest
           did
           with
           faithfulnesse
           and
           honesty
           communicate
           the
           Generalls
           command
           offers
           of
           pardon
           and
           his
           Declaration
           ,
           but
           they
           by
           the
           increase
           of
           number
           heightned
           in
           their
           spirits
           ,
           continued
           in
           their
           contempt
           and
           disobedience
           ,
           slighting
           Coll
           :
           
             Scroop
             ,
          
           and
           his
           message
           ,
           and
           preferring
           the
           reading
           of
           their
           owne
           Declaration
           before
           the
           Generalls
           ,
           the
           Leaders
           of
           them
           and
           their
           Agents
           being
           unwilling
           the
           same
           should
           be
           published
           to
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Souldiers
           ,
           or
           the
           Lord
           Generals
           Messenger
           should
           have
           full
           and
           free
           discourse
           with
           them
           :
           or
           that
           his
           Excellencies
           Declaration
           should
           be
           communicated
           to
           any
           but
           the
           Agents
           .
        
         
           At
           this
           Place
           a
           principall
           person
           amongst
           them
           and
           of
           the
           greauest
           interest
           ,
           had
           two
           Messages
           (
           as
           he
           hath
           since
           ingenuously
           ,
           and
           conscientiously
           confessed
           )
           The
           one
           it
           s
           to
           be
           hoped
           was
           but
           a
           pretence
           and
           slander
           to
           wit
           from
           a
           Lord
           (
           whose
           name
           we
           forbeare
           to
           mention
           )
           that
           they
           should
           take
           encouragement
           ,
           for
           he
           should
           ere
           long
           be
           ready
           in
           the
           head
           of
           2000
           Horse
           to
           assist
           them
           :
           the
           other
           was
           by
           a
           Gentleman
           who
           seemed
           to
           be
           a
           person
           of
           quality
           who
           animated
           them
           to
           goe
           on
           with
           this
           assurance
           from
           a
           person
           living
           in
           London
           ,
           that
           they
           should
           not
           want
           money
           ,
           either
           for
           Horses
           ,
           Armes
           or
           other
           necessaries
           to
           carry
           on
           their
           businesse
           .
        
         
           In
           this
           confidence
           they
           marched
           away
           to
           
             New-bridge
             ,