A vindication of the armie, from some calumnious quæres being not so much a particular answer to those nine severall quæres, as to the scope of the author in them. By Jo: Harr: Esq. Harr, Jo. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A95949 of text R230533 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing V498A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A95949 Wing V498A ESTC R230533 99896040 99896040 153715 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A95949) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 153715) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2375:15; 2403:15) A vindication of the armie, from some calumnious quæres being not so much a particular answer to those nine severall quæres, as to the scope of the author in them. By Jo: Harr: Esq. Harr, Jo. 8 p. s.n., [S.l. : 1647?] Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Wing H803C reports title as: "A vindication of the armie, from sole ...". Identified as Wing V498A, reel 2375, and Wing H803C, reel 2403 of the UMI microfilm set "Early English books 1641-1700". Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library. eng England and Wales. -- Army -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A95949 R230533 (Wing V498A). civilwar no A vindication of the armie, from some calumnious quæres, being not so much a particular answer to those nine severall quæres, as to the scop Harr, Jo 1647 1075 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-05 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A Vindication of the Armie , from some calumnious Quaeres , being not so much a particular answer to those nine severall Quaeres , as to the scope of the Author in them . By Jo : Harr : Esq. THe honest use of making queres was heretofore , to be instructed and attaine satisfaction in those things whereof our reason doubted ; not to justifie our owne wilfull errors , and under colour of asking questions to vent opprobrious calumnies , and raile positively against the sense of other men . The nature therefore of queres is much mistaken by the Author of those nine against the Army ; for I cannot discern in what point he desires to be instructed himselfe , or teach others ; but instead of that , in a positive way , and with much bitternesse , he inveighs against the proceedings of those gallant gentlemen , to whose successefull valour , and indefatigable industry ( next under God , without whose blessing all endeavours are fruitlesse ) the Kingdome of England is indebted to for the rescue of her sinking ( and almost lost ) Lawes and Liberties . If this Army have well deserved of the Common-wealth , why should any man that loveth the Common-wealth flie so high against them , as by way of prejudice to censure their intentions worse then their actions shew . For no action of theirs hath yet produced any hurt . Can any candid or honest man harbour a suspicion , that the noble Fairfax and Cromwell , names honoured by the very enemies , whom no successe could ever puffe up , those miracles of modesty , in whom no selfe-seeking , no pride or ambition has in the least measure discovered it selfe ; should now be guilty of such a monstrous ambition as to affect an arbitrary power , to trample upon the State , to subject the Parliament , and enslave the nation to their owne will ? But it appeares by the queres ( saith he ) that they have broken the priviledges of Parliament , and are therefore suspected to aime at wicked ends . I , for mine own part , do so much honour the Parliament , that I thinke every Priviledge belonging to it of so tender a nature , as is unfit to be trod upon , or rudely dealt with : But I confesse I doe more honour the essence and being of the Parliament then I doe every small punctuality of Priviledge , and could be content rather to see the finger of it wounded ( for these contesting times have taught us such distinctions ) then the whole body perish . Some parts of a body may be a little afflicted sometimes , that the whole may live in the more health : Neither can I thinke that this Army which hath given so noble a testimony of their affections to the Parliament , as to preserve the very being of it ; would now violate any part or priviledge thereof , unlesse the safety of the whole did require such a seeming violation . Let honest English-men therefore suspect no hurt unlesse they see probable inducements to such a suspicion ; but hope still , that this Parliament whom the swords of so many Lords and others of the English-Gentry could not cut downe , whom the Votes of that Oxford Assembly ( which the King called his mungrill Parliament ) could not at all blast , nor many secret practices undermine , shall be still protected by Almighty God , and not ruined , but rescued from some inconveniences , which might have wrought a ruine , if not prevented . The particular queres are scarce worthy of severall answers : but to the first , wherein he makes it so great a breach of Priviledge that the Army printed their Declarations , and Charge against the Members without leave of the House , I think it a sufficient answer , that there was no other way to make the cleerenesse of their intentions appear , and vindicate themselves from farther jealousies , as their enemies might raise , who have beene too apt to throwgh causlesse aspersions on them . I could rather wish that the London Presses were not too open in these dayes , to reproachfull pamphlets of our greatest enemies , which are daily vented against the honour and essence of the Parliament it selfe . The second quere wherein this Religious and deserving Army is in many things compared to Cade and his fellow Rebells , being so injurious as that it cannot be answered with patience enough , may with discretion be scorned and passed over . As likewise the third , wherein he compareth this demand of the Members to another , which was made heretofore , and judged by both Houses to be a great breach of Priviledges , of which because the case is so notoriously different , J think it not fit to speak at all ; nor to say any thing at all to that cavill of his , because the Members are not particularly charged , because time must produce that , only to which it is referred . As for another comparison which he makes in a following quere betwixt the Armies proceedings , and those which Sleiden relates of the bloody & mad actions of those Anabaptists in Munster , J hope all judicious men will easily make a difference , without any vindication of mine , betwixt persons and actions so extreamly discrepant . As for another imputation of hindering the reliefe of Ireland , it may easily appear , and J make no question but it will in time , that the cause of that may with more reason be imputed to the enemies of this Army , who by unjust provocations have diverted that important service . To spare therefore farther expressions in this kinde , J shall onely stay with patience , and expect what it will please God to produce of these jarrs , hoping that it may be such a blessing to this afflicted Kingdome , as may rather justifie the charity of them , who beleeved well of the Army , then their suspitions , who are jealous in the other kinde . THE END .