THE DECLARATION AND RESOLUTION Of the Citizens of LONDON CONCERNING The KING'S MAJESTY, and the ARMY; AND Their Message, Proposals, and Desires, to the Lord General Fairfax, concerning their Dread Sovereign the King, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of York. With a Declaration of the Lord Major, Aldermen, and Common-council of the said City, on Saturday last at Guild-Hall, touching the Lord General, and His Forces. Also, the further Demands of the Army, and their Summons and Proposals to the House of Commons.  
LONDON. Printed for GEORGE HORTON, 1648.   

A MESSAGE From the Citizens of LONDON TO The Lord General Fairfax, concerning the King's Majesty, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of YORK.  
May it please your Excellency,  
Upon mature and serious consultation of your late Remonstrance and Declaration, for the settling of this bleeding Kingdom in a more safe and mutual posture, the executing of Justice upon his Majesty, and all other person or persons, who have acted contrary to the known Laws of the Realm, the summoning in the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of York, and the setting of a period for the ending and dissolving of this present Parliament, &c In reference whereunto, we do desire, That there may be a mitigation, and favourable construction of the precedent actions and proceed of his Majesty, and their Highnesses the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of York, in relation to the late War, and that there may be a more equal dispensing of Justice and Mercy, in relation to things done or suffered in the said wars; and for all other particulars therein specified we do unanimously declare, that we shall most willingly and freely concur with your Excellency, and the Council of the Army therein; protesting, to sacrifice lives and fortunes, and all that is near and dear unto us, in pursuance of the same.  
Signed by many thousand well affected Citizens within the Cities of London and Westminster, and paats adjacent, who subscribes themselves, Your Excellencies most humble, and obedient serants, etc.   

A new Remonstrance from the Army, to the City and Kingdom.  
BEing full of sad apprehensions concerning the danger and evil of the Treaty with the King, and of any accommodation with him, or restitution of him thereupon, We did by our late Remonstrance upon the Reasons and Grounds therein expressed, make our application thereby unto the present House of Commons, that the dangerous evil of that way might be avoided, and the peace of the Kingdom settled upon more righteous, safe and hopeful grounds, viz. a more equal dispensing of Justice and Mercy in relation to things done or suffered in the late wars, and the establishing of the future Government of this Kingdom upon a safe succession and equal Constitution of Parliaments, and that (for the ending of present, and avoiding of future Differences) to be Ratified by an Agreement and Subscription of the people thereunto. Which things we pressed in the way of Reason and Persuasion only, that they might be duly and timely considered. But to our grief we find, in stead of any Satisfaction or a reasonable answer thereto, they are wholly rejected, without any consideration of what ever Reason or Justice might be in the things set forth or propounded therein; for what less can be understood, when the things propounded were mainly for the avoidance of evils appearing in the Treaty with the King: And seeing the prevailing part of those, to whom we did apply, to have as it were their eyes wilfully shut, and ears stopped, against any thing of Light or Reason offered to them, we find no place left for our former charitable or hopeful apprehensions, concerning their error in such evil ways; but remaining fully assured of the danger and destructiveness thereof, as to all those public ends for which they were entrusted, and also of the just advantage and necessity which lie in the things we have propounded and insist on, we now see nothing left, to which their engaging and persisting in such ways, and rejection of these better things propounded, can rationally be attributed less than a treacherous or corrupt neglect of, and Apostasy from the Public Trust reposed in them; although we could wish from our souls, we might yet find the contrary.  
Therefore it is our hearts desire, and shall be our endeavour, that so much, both of the matter and form of the present Parliamentory Authority may be preserved, as can be safe, or will be useful to these ends, until a just and full Constitution thereof, both for matter and form (suitable to the public ends, it serves for) can be entroduced.  
And therefore first, it should be great rejoicing (if God saw it good) that the majority of the present House of Commons were become sensible of the evil and distructivenesse of their late way, and would resolvedly and vigorously apply themselves to the speedy execution of justice, with the righting and easing of the oppressed people, and to a just settlement of the Kingdom upon such foundations as have been propounded by us, and others for that purpose, and would for the speedier and surer prosecution of these things exclude from Communication in their Counsels, all such corrupt and Apostarized Members as have appeared hitherto, but to obstruct and hinder such matter of Justice, Safety, and public interest, and to pervert their Counsels a contrary way and have therein so shamefully both falsified, and forftied their Trust,  
But however of God shall not see it good (to vouchsafe that mercy to tem and the Kingdom) we shall secondly desire, That so many of them as God hath kept upright, and shall touch with a just sense of those things, would by protestation or otherwise, acquit themselves from such breach of Trust, and approve their faithfulness, by withdrawing from those that persist in the guilt thereof, & take such a posture, whereby they may speedily & effectually prosecute those necessary and public ends, without such inteeruptions, Diversions, or depravations of their Council from the rest, to their endless trouble, and hazard of the Kingdom as formerly, and for so many of them, whose hearts God shall stir up thus to do.  
We shall therein, in this case of extremity, look upon them as persons having materially the chief Trust of the Kingdom remaining in them, and though not a formal standing power to be continued in them, or drawn into ordinary Precedents; yet the best and most rightful that can be had, as the present state and exigence of affairs now stand; And we shall accordingly own them, adhere to them, and be guided by them in their faithful prosecution of that trust, in order unto, and until the introducing of a more full and formal power in a just Representative to be speedy endeavoured.  
Now yet further to take away all jealousies in relation to ourselves, which might withhold or discourse any honest members from this courage, as we have the witness of God in our hearts, that in these proceed we do not seek, but even resolve we will not take advantages to ourselves, either in point of profit or power; and that if God did open to us a way, wherein with honesty and faithfulness to the public Interest, & good people engaged for us, we might presently be dischargeed, so as we might nor in our present Employments look on, and be acessary to, yea supporters of the Parliament, in the present corrupt, oppressive and destructive proceed, we should with rejoicing, and without more ado embrace such a discharge, rather than interpose in these things to our own vast trouble and hazard; so if we could but obtain a rational assurance for the effectual prosecuting of these things, we shall give any proportionable assurance on our parts, concerning our laying down of arms, when, and as we should be required.  
But for the present as the case stands, we apprehend ourselves obliged in duty to God, this Kingdom, and good men therein, to approve our utmost abilities in all honest ways, for the avoiding of these great evils which we have remonstrated, and for prosecution of the good things we have propounded; and also that such persons who were the inviters of the late invasion from Scotland, the Instigaters and incouragers of the late insurrections within this Kingdom, and (those forcible ways failing) have still pursued those wicked designs by treacherous and corrupt counsels, may be brought to public justice, according to their several demerits. For all these ends we are now drawing up with the Army to London, there to follow providence as God shall clear our way.  
Signed, John Rushworth Secretary  
On Saturday Decemb. 2. Upon further debate of the Desires of the Army, The Lord Major, Aldermen, and Common-council, declared, That all means possible should be used, for keeping a right understanding and mutual correspondence between the City and Army, and that no means should be left unassayed (on their parts) for the establishing of a firm and lasting peace, throughout all His Majesty's Realms and Dominions.  
FINIS.