ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT, ●greed upon by the ARMY under command of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, SENT To the Honourable House of Commons, together with their Charge, and Signed John Rushworth, Secretary;  
AGAINST 

Sir john Clotworthy.  
Sir Wil Waller.  
Sir Philip Stapleton.  
Sir john Maynard.  
Sir William Lewis.  
Maj. Gen. massy.  
Col. Hollis Esq.  
Mr. Glyn.  
Mr. Nichols.  
Mr. Walter Long.  
Colonel Harlow.    
Members of the House of Commons.  
Together with the gallant Answer of the said Members, to their Impeachment.  
LONDON, Printed for George Whiteing. June 19 1647.   

Articles of Impeachment proposed by the Army, under command of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, against Eleven Members of the House of Commons read in the said House, June 17 With their Answer to the said Charge.  
SIR,  
FOR yours which I received, I thank you; and for the Army, to satisfy you in what you desire to be resolved in, in those two great points of Monarchy & Justice. I shall tell you my opinion of them. They take not Holland, but God's Word for a Rule to walk by, & to look ●n Monarchy, shall we think our Neighbours the Hollanders more kind or less cunning than States are wont to be that thus by way of Empress, they publish to the World the wellspring of their own prosperity, and the grand root whereby all other States may both perpetuate and enlarge themselves. I believe rather, that as Physicians make not nice to give a receipt which they think some others know, and those that do not cannot procure the ingredients so the Hollander conceiving this Benedictum medicamentum, such as Commonwealths cannot be ignorant of, and Kingdoms hardly make use of, have been willing to boast this Motto, as the honour of Demacracies, and the reproach of Monarchies. The first of these have no being without it, since by concord, I suppose is here understood, a unanimous consent of the parts to pursue one and the same end, that is the good of the whole; and what constitutes a Weal-publike, but this? Whereas in Monarchies (I say not what should be, but what is) the two constitutive parts thereof, the King and People, have still such opposite interests, the one of more liberty, the other of more absoluteness, that it is hard to assign an object proportionate to both their happiness wherein to reconcile and concentricate their aims. I err to say, it is hard to assign such an object, since the happiness and flourishing of a Kingdom in general, is confessed by that wherein both Prince and People's felicity consists; but the difficulty lies in engaging both parties, in such zeal and ardence to promove that one and common end, as may overbear the more sensible interests of their own individuals that shall urge them contrary ways.  
The difficulty of kindling on both sides this uniting and evertuating ardour proceeds principally from three causes, one peculiar to each, and a third common to both.  
First, that Princes seldom or never reflect upon the originals of their authority and pre-eminence.  
Secondly, that the people think as rarely of the reasons of their subjection.  
And thirdly, that neither do rightly consider themselves in their noblest condition of relation to the whole, but in the abstractednesse of their inferior and personal beings.  
For did Kings but remember how they became such, by the people's confidence in their virtue, and why that feed, as it were by dignity and honour above all, they might make the tranquillity and comfort of all their care; and did the people weigh the voluntariness of their own subjection how their Votes were given for Monarchy in their predecessors assents, or the motives thereunto, their own greater quiet and security, by conferring more cares than honours on their superintendent. Or lastly, did both but ponderate what a superior thing in nature to either of them, is that result from them both which we call a Kingdom; and of what greater dignity even they are, as constitutive parts of that whole, then as headless or bodiless subsistents of themselves, it were impossible but both Prince and people must flame into as strict an union of affections to advance that excellent end, as we see all parts of nature itself combined in for the preservation and ornament of the universe. In God, Unity and Eternity are convertible, in nature, the best imitation of his perfection, union, and duration, are unseparable, and in State's permanence without unanimity imp●ssible.  
And for Justice and Righteousness, to satisfy you in that also as concerning the execution thereof, they desire the ex●end ●o all persons, and in all cases. But to give you account to that which you desire more particularly, in relation to charge against Members; it is thus.  
For the settling and securing of the common right, freedom, and peace of the Kingdom, whereof the Army have a share: they have received such informations as have been brought to them concerning divers persons, some of whom are persons of eminency: yet they have proceeded to a charge, which they have drawn up, and sent to the house of Commons against 11 of their own Members. 

I. The Army hath charged them in a general way to appear. 

1. To have a will, confidence, credit, and power to abuse the Parliament.  
2. To have the like will, confidence, credit, and power to abuse the Army.  
3. To be unjust and high in the proceed against the Army.    
II. The Army hath sent up a particular Impeachment against them, consisting of several heads, As acting things tending to the subversion of the Laws and Rights of the Subject To stir up persons against the Parliament. To hinder the business of Ireland, and other general things Signed by John Rushworth Secretary, by their appointment, expressed in their papers sent to the house of Commons.    
If these Gentlemen, upon trial, shall appear innocent, than it will justly appear, that the Armies designs are dangerous, and that be clear which now is made an obstruction.  
As for the Lords, there are no Members of the house of Peers charged by the Army, as yet, nor any Citizen of London But the Army have another Proposition concerning the houses, and that is to have them purged of such Members as they shall make appear to be Delinquents, etc. Something also they have to bring, Deputy Lieutenants of Counties, Members of Country Committees (and others who have been entrusted with the State's Money) to account: And the protest, the uttermost of their ends in all this to b● chief for God's glory, and for justice and Righteousness. God grant a firm peace, and prevent further bloodshed: so prays,  
St. Albans this ●8. of june 1647. Your most humble serva●● R. CORBET.  
We wait in great expectation of the City Commissioners.   

Upon Thursday last being the 17. of this instant June, the house of Commons took into consideration the Impeachment of their Members, and read their charge sent up from the Army: at reading whereof, the Members charged delivered in their Answers, which was to this effect,  
That they desired their Charge might be speedily put into a way of trial, declaring their willingness to deny themselves, and their own privileges, to give satisfaction to the whole Kingdom.  

The Names of the Eleven Members of the House of Commons, impeached by the ARMY.  
Sir john Clotworthy.  
Sir William Waller.  
Sir Philip Stapleton.  
Sir john Maynard.  
Sir Wil Lewis.  
Maj. Gen. massy.  
Denzil Hollis Esq.  
Mr. Glyn.  
Mr. Nichols.  
Mr. Walter Long.  
Col. Harlow.    
FINIS.