A NEW DECLARATION Presented to the COMMONS of ENGLAND: CONCERNING Certain Heads or Propositions, presented to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, for the voting home His royal Consort the Queen, and restoring of His Majesty to His Crown and Dignity.  
PRinted and published, to be communicated to the freeborn Subjects within the kingdom of England, and Principality of Wales.  
OXFORD, Printed for Leonard Williamson, for the use of all His majesty's loving Subjects, 1647.   

NEW PAPERS FROM THE army  

SIR,  
HAving lately received a printed Paper, entitled, Certain Heads or Propositions presented to the Kings most excellent majesty by the Army, which Propositions, as they are there entitled, goes under the notion of the whole army in general, which (as I conceive) hath been fomented and contrived, by some wicked Instruments, who desire to make the breach wider, betwixt the Parliament and Army, rather than to bring it to a happy close and period.  
Therefore, thus much I dare presume to declare, in behalf of all my fellow-soldiers, that the army had not the least thought of contriving or presenting any such papers to his Majesty, to desire the stile or title of his army, or sending for his royal Consort the Queen over, unless they conceived it might tend to the common good of the Kingdom; I have (to the utmost of my power, endeavoured to find out the authors or fomenters of the said paper, but cannot (in the least) find any man guilty of such an action. And therefore, it is further declared, that we do not desire to change that title, which we have for these 5 or 6 years endeavoured to maintain with the loss of our lives, having obtained many renowned Victories under the same; but according to our former Engagements, we desire to see the Kingdom settled in peace, his Majesty stated in his Royal Palace at Westminster, and the privileges of Parliament, and liberty of the subject, fully maintained and confirmed, our only aims being to obtain a firm peace, and not a new war.  
The governor of Warwick Castle doth not seem to hold correspondency with the army in their late Engagement, but doth utterly renounce and declare against the same. His Majesty moves according to the motion of the army, but upon his removal from the Earl of Salisbury's house, the chief Officers of the army, proposed to his Majesty certain propositions, concerning his advance from thence, desiring to know what place his majesty had a desire to reside at the next night. His Majesty is very merry and cheerful, and desires to see London, His Majesty received his two Chaplains, Dr. Hammond, & Dr. Shelden, very courteously, and (we hear) they have had a Conference together. For other particulars, concerning the army, I refer you to the ensuing papers. But by the next, you shall hear further from  
Your humble Servant. James Gardiner. Watford June 29. 1647.   

MY Lords and Gentlemen,  
In answer to the Letters of the House of Commons, which we received from you this expressing their readiness to receive any particulars, and to hear any witnesses against the Gentlemen impeached by the army, we shall be bold to mind you, That the Remonstrance sent to you the last night to be presented to the Houses, do express the desires of the army to have the Members charged to be suspended from sitting in the House, which if not granted to us) we know their interest and prevalency is such, That we can expect but small fruit in a further proceeding except the desires of the army be answered therein; Nor can we hope for good to the kingdom, or settlement of an happy peace, as long as men of their interests and prevalency have power to justify themselves and practices; who, that they may be able to effect it, do endeavour by all means possible ●o inflame this kingdom in a second War; so which we shall be forced to the utterost of our powers to apply a timely remedy, as being the only way and means we know of to prevent the involving this Nation again in Blood, then with nothing's more odious to us,  
By the appointment of his E●cellency Sir Th. Fairfax and the council of War. JOHN RUSHWORTH. St. Albans, June 24, 1647.   

Another Message from the Army.  
My Lords and Gentlemen,  
IN answer to your Desire of a reason of the army's motion this day, I thought fit to let you know, That our quatres are more contracted, but not nearer London than they were before, namely, at Watford, Uxbridge, and the towns about them. We have often said we cannot stand as lookers on to see the Kingdom ruined by the obstruction and denial of justice; and therefore we desire you to move the Parliament we may not● he holds still in doubt, and put upon the disputes of their commands, to which we shall yield ready obedience, when we see the Kingdom in a possibility of settlement, which we think cannot be, unless that the fountain of justice be delivered from those that corrupt it.  
By the appointment of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and his council of war. John Rushworth. Barkhamstead June 25. 1647.   

To the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common council of the City of London.  
My Lords and Gentlemen,  
WE have in all things dealt clearly and plainly with you, and hope we shall continue still to do so: As soon as the worthy Aldermen, and the other two Gentlemen, your Commissioners, came the last night to us, we acquainted them with our purpose, to draw the Head-quarter to Uxbridge, that so we might contract our quarters, which have hitherto lain scattered; at which place we hope to receive that which will be satisfaction to the kingdom, and will remove Obstructions out of the way of Justice, wherein if right were done, we should let you and all the world see, That we would be so far from pressing near your city of London, it should be indifferent to us, to march not only to the d●stance prescribed, but to any part of the kingdom we should be commanded to by the Parl. We have asked nothing hitherto but right, in the things that are known as if they were proved an hundred times before them from whom they have sought them; which if granted, would not only be a justice to the Army, but would let the kingdom see the Fountain in a way to be cleared without which nothing of Force or Power would be a security to any man.  
We wish the name of privileges may not lie in the balance with the safety of a Kingdom, and the reality of a kingdom, and the reality of doing, Justice; which as we we have said so often, we cannot expect whilst the persons we have accused are the kingdoms and our Judges, a little delay will endanger the putting the kingdom into blood; notwithstanding, what hath been said, if it be considered, That in Wales, besides underhand workings in your city and other places, Men are raised, and that in no small number; and are not those men in the Parliament, who have continued faithful to the principles of common interest from the beginning of this Par. to this very day still awed by the concourse of Reformado-Officers and others to their doors; expense of time will be their advantage only, who intend to bring evil purposes to pass.  
We have written this to you for your satisfaction, that so nothing may be done, without giving you a perfect account of our intentions and ends, and still to continue our assurance to you, that should necessity bring us nearer to the city, our former Faith given you shall be observed inviolably, there being nothing more (next to the good of the kingdom) in our thoughts and desires, than the prosperity of your city.  
By the appointment of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the council of War. Signed, John Rushworth. Barkhamstead, June 25,   
FINIS.