V Answ. No doubt but they will do what they can to keep out all such as adhere to the one side, and we humbly beseech them, that they endeavour likewise to keep out them that adhere to the otherside: there is no Heretic that will hazard his life for the truth, nor any outlandish Soldier will sighed principally for the good of England.  
VI Answ. We cannot by any means agree to this submission. 

1 For we are not by any sound argument convinced in our consciences that such a submission may stand with our Allegiance to our Sovereign.  
2 By this submission we shall give His Majesty just cause to reject our Petition, which we intent to present unto him, and shall image him, and his Army against us to our utter ruin.  
3 By this submission we shall give up our Liberties and Estates to an arbitrary Government, which is one of our greatest grievances; We shall submit ourselves to the weekly pay, excise, twentieth part, and the fifth part of our Estates, all which are already required by ordinance of Parliament; and if they require all the rest, we are bound to yield it by this submission.  
4 By this submission we give up our understandings and consciences too (possibly) to an error, for it is possible that a Parliament may err (and that foully) as well as a general Council, add yet what error soever this Parliament shall commit in Church or State (be it never so foul and horrid) we, by this Article must promise to submit unto it.    
VII. Answ. If we go on ready and ●●ce●tly according to our Articles for making of Peace, there are none but Enemies to Peace, self-seckers, and Plunderers will oppose us, and against such we are confident, all honest men in either Army will assist us, if not, we hope God will enable us to defend ourselves, and give us liberty to move according to our own directions.  
VIII. Answ. As we were thankful unto Sir Richard Grenvile for the good government of his Army, so are we no less thankful to Sir Thomas Fairfax for his good government, and we will continue 
Colonel Welden, and Colonel Vandrosse.  our thanks, as most due to him, if he continue his good government, and do not, after a strict discipline for a while, let loof his Army to plunder, as some have done before him.  
By the Peacemaking Army in the West of Somerset and Devon, who have refused fairs Propositions from the other side; and are resolved to stand to their first articles for Peace, and to assist one another in the prosecution of them.   

To the Kings most Excellent Majesty.  
The humble Petition of your Majesty's most loyal Subjects of the County of Somerset.  
Most humbly showeth,  
THat for the space of these three years last passed, we have miserably suffered under the Calamities of Civil War; and the Miseries Greaten so extremely upon us, that without a speedy Accommodation we can expect nothing but utter ruin and desolation; In a deep sense whereof, being large sharers in the miseries, we do in the anguish of our souls, most humbly beg your Majesty once more, according to your former Princely compassion to your People, to invite the Lords and Commons assembled at Westminster, to the composures of these unhappy differences by a Treaty; for which purpose we also intent to petition the Lords and Commons, hoping, by God's blessing upon your Majesty's pious endeavours herein, we may again enjoy a happy Peace; For which, together with the preservation of your Sacred Person, we shall hearty pray, etc.   

To the right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament.  
The humble Petition of the poor, miserable, and wasted People of the County of Somerset.  
Humbly showeth,  
THat we have a long time groaned under the burden of a Civil Sword, which hath brought this Country to extreme misery, and threatneth both it and the whole Nation with speedy ruin and destruction, it being the unavoidable Fate of a divided Kingdom: for the prevention whereof we humbly pray you to be pleased to be Suitors to His Majesty, that the late Treaty, so hopefully begun, may be renewed: And in pursuance of that great trust reposed in you, you will vouchsafe your utmost ●ndeavour for a settlement of a happy Peace, that we may enjoy our Religion, our Laws, and Liberties; And we shall, etc.   


The particulars which the Peacemaking Army stands for in the East; and thus fare we in the West are with them.  
1 IMprimis, We stand for the true Protestant Religion as it was observed and used in Queen Elizabeth's time.  
2 We are for to defend and maintain the King, and all the Prerogatives belonging to the Crown of England.  
3 We are for all the Privileges of Parliament, with earnest desire to see the King's Majesty and the Parliament united, as in former time.  
4 We are for the Laws of the Realm, and liberties of the Subject.  
5 To keep our Houses from burning, our Goods from plundering, and to take up all straggling and abusive Soldiers, of either side, and to give them the Law they deserve.   
Be it ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled, that all and every person of what degree and quality soever, that hath lived, or shall live within the King's Quarters, or been aiding, assisting, or adhering unto the Forces raised against the Parliament, or hath, or shall come to inhabit, or reside under the power or protection of the Parliament, shall Swear upon the Evangelists in manner following.  
I A. B. Do Swear from my Hart, that I will not directly nor indirectly adhere unto, or willingly assist the King in this War, or in this Cause against the Parliament, or any Forces raised without the consent of the two Houses of Parliament, in this cause or war. And I do likewise swear, That my coming, and submitting myself under the power and protection of the Parliament, is without any manner of design whatsoever, to the prejudice of the proceed of the two Houses of this present Parliament, and without the direction, privity, or advice of the King, or any of his Council, or Officers, other then what I have now made known; So help me God, and the Contents of this Book.  
ANd now let ●ny reasonable and i … ent ●an but compare this Oath now enjoined by the two Houses, either with the Oath of Allegiance enjoined by Law, and taken by every one of the Members of both Houses respectively before they were admitted to sit as Members, or with that first Protestation made and taken by themselves, and by them Ordered to be taken by all the Subjects of this Kingdom, & then let him judge whether these desperate men, having so often forsworn themselves, have not by this, and other Oaths and Covenants devised and imposed by them since, endeavoured to involve as many others as they can in the same crime of Perjury; which, together with Rebellion, is already the Great Burden, and crying sin of this Nation.  
FINIS.