A COPY OF A LETTER, Sent to Lieutenant General CRUMWEL From the Well-affected Party in the CITY.   printer's or publisher's device 
Printed in the Year 1647.   

A Copy of a Letter to be sent to Lieutenant General Crumwell, from the well-affected Party in the City.  
The Salutation. HE that is ignorant of Crumwels' Valour and Virtue, let him be ignorant. He is the Great Counsels Eye, the great General's Hand, England's, Ireland's, nay and Scotland's Wonder. Open thy Gates, O London, and let Crumwel enter, whose Gallant spirit is able to fill thy spacious Rooms, and whose unerring Genius will lead thee to that Religion and Liberty which neither Bess, not james, Charles, nor his Parliament had ever so much Happiness as to dream of.  
He that is not sufficiently Organised to see thy worth, 'tis not because thou wantest Splendour and Brightness; but because he wanteth his Eyes. He that is obstinate, and shuts the windows of his face on purpose, let him neither enjoy the light of the Sun, or which is worse, not the light of thy Countenance. O blessed Crumwell, thou art not only the finisher of the old War; but the Wise, the Valiant Restorer of a new one.  
A new one, we say: not only in respect of the Cause which is changed from Popery to Presbytery; But in respect of the Title from Truth and Peace to Truth and Righteousness.  
Formerly we fought for Peace and Truth: But Peace is an old overworn Malignant Title; and therefore now, as heretofore, waving Peace, we march on valiantly for Righteousness sake. And truly Sir, whoseever be our General, we unanimously resolve that you shall be our Ringleader.  
Our name shall be the New Army; the word Model is too peaceable a Title: and because we have new lights by your Permission, and new causes by your Invention, and a new war in hand by your Instigation, we will therefore call you not in disgrace (as was Cicero) but in honour by Antiphrasis our Novus Homo, our Newman.  
We are not ignorant that all your Papers to the Parliament, your humble or high Remonstrance, your particular Charge against the Public Members have the name of Fairefax before them; it is good policy, to make one man beat the Bush, whilst you catch the Bird; and we wish from our heart, that name may be ominous, of'at you may far & fac, say and do.  
But Sir, to our singular comfort, we by experience dare aver, that you are the principal wheel, the Primum movile, that moves and sublimates both him and others to this New, this Brave, this Holy war. Sir Thomas is the Esau, whose rough hands the Parliament feel with great regreat: But you are the jacob, the supplanter, that carries the Cause smoothly, and like the deep River, though you have most force, yet are you most silent.  
Pardon us dear Sir, our affection to you hath so fare ravished us, as we forget the Cause for which we writ, which shall be concluded in two particulars: 

1. In giving of Thanks.  
2. In giving, and desiring advice.    
Now that which is the grand occasion and Argument of our Thanks, is that long looked for Charge against the eleven Members, who have been as Motes in our eyes, as thorns in our sides, and have much infringed the liberty of the Saints.  
We have observed of these 11. Members in general before the particular Charge came in, that they had been very active to advance Presbyterial Government, and therefore long ago worthy to be cast out of the House, and exposed to our scorn and infamy; But we are sorry the iniquity of the times is such, that you must be put to so much pains, as to beat your brains for Articles, and that a bare Accusation qua Presbyter. will not serve the turn; you have indeed attainted them boldly (as Machiavelli instructs) and we are assured something will stick by them; But (O) that instead of eleven you had made them a Dozen, that is a Round Number; but in this case the Bakers Dozen which is uneven we hold the better.  
Truly Sir as we said before, we hope your design is against Presbytery not Injustice, against corruption in Discipline, not against corruption in Offices, for were it so, you would strike a terror into your own Party: now to Charge an Independent with a Presbyterian that be far from you.  
Alas Sir, you know we have had the Magazine both of Arms and Treasure, all the Committees and Sequestrators at our beck, we have placed and displaced, turned the Kingdom of England and Ireland topsie turvy, we have played Rex indeed. We displaced Waller, massy, Mitton, and divers others, and yet continued in C. B. who is B. of C. M. D. N. F. as our own creatures by that Almighty power which was vested in us, and if justice should now be done these were undone, for they behaved themselves so as some called them not Parliament drivers (as Mr. L. is in your Declaration) but War drivers, or War contrivers, of which Craft and Trade we hope one day you will be made free.  
And now Sir, having done with the first Part we come to the first Branch of the second Part, which is giving advice.  
And to speak freely, as we always do in either our public or private addresses, we could hearty have wished that you had abstained a while from Particularising of 4. Persons, not that either their lives or reputation is dear to us, but because they seem either popular, or else innocent men; your Ink in your Declaration is too little to make them black enough, is there not two false witnesses in a whole Army? they say, — Nulla fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur venalesque manus— or do we lack a jezabel instead of a Crumwell to mould the design; You know Massy is generally loved because of his Gallantry; Glyn is a noli me Tangere, because of the City; and as for Harley and Long, I doubt you may stay long enough before you have accusation or proof sufficient; for may not any man go to the Lady Carliles Lodging, is she or her house a Malignant, or may it not be lawful for people to assemble, or when two or three Parliament men walk or talk together, is this a design? beware you speak not a word, in any case which may bring up a scandal upon our conventicles.  
Besides, what is Mr L? why, you tell us he is a Parliament Driver (Peace man, the world is not our own yet) must he therefore by an express be driven out of Parliament because he is a Parliament Driver?  
The Gallantry of massy is known, because he did once save the Kingdom in saving of Gloucester; and though we conceive he did not fight for the righteousness of Christ, yet he hated the unrighteous Mammon. Horatius Cocles having defended th' Romans against the three Curiatij alone, though afterwards he killed his Sister, yet was he pardoned by the State for that Noble service which he accomplished for the States; and this Story will be laid in our Teeth.  
You have almost subdued him in subduing his Army, and his free Spirit hath made him not worth the fleecing, and therefore it were not amiss we conceive to reprieve him, and pick and choose another Member where you please.  
Glyn is the mouth of the City, and should we think to stop the City's mouth, (who know us well enough since we searched the Lord Mayor's Pockets to find the King) he would make such a Cry as all the Kingdom would hear, and then Scotland will hear too.  
As for his Wife if she be unsound, we desire she may be searched by a Jury of Women.  
Harley is an innocent Puny, a little Bit, and not sufficient to stay our stomaches: We have not time to dally, and with Commodus to kill flies: Besides, we conceive he goes but according to the Liberty of his conscience, which to maintain we now take up Arms: Non gaudet tenui sanguine tanta sitis: Long, as your Papers show us, is but a Coward, and that is pardonable, every man is not a Cromwell, or an Ironside; marry if Cowards must be complained of quà Cowards, what shall become of our Saw-pit Lord, or poor Nat. Fines?  
Now we are come to the last Branch, which shall not we hope be troublesome to your patience, and that is to crave advice to eight Queres. 

1. Whether it be not unseasonable to question men for malignancy while we are a closing with them, as judge Jenkins well observes?  
2. Whether the Accusation of Eleven Members be sufficient to daunt the whole Body?  
3. If love and honour be to be shown to the King, acquaint us with measure and time, that is, how much and how long?  
4. What is further to be acted for the bringing up of our Army into the City?  
5. How shall we answer the Objection, that we stand upon Puntilios of Honour, whilst in the mean space Ireland lies gasping?  
6. How shall we resolve that Objection, that the Army strives to be under pay, and yet strives against obedience?  
7. Is there not need of an Index expurgatorius, to blot out all the reverend Titles, all the obedient passages, concerning the Parliament out of our Independent Books?  
8. Whether the Assembly of Divines shall not be attainted of High Treason for labouring to introduce a foreign Power of Government, contrary to the Liberty of free Religion in this Kingdom?    
By the appointment of the new Fraternity. Signed john Worth-Rush. Secretary  
FINIS.