A LETTER Of His Excellency THOMAS Lord FAIRFAX, To the Right Honourable, The Lord Major of the City of LONDON, For the better preserving a right Understanding between the CITY and ARMY.  
WITH An Order of His Excellency to Col: Dean, to march into the City of London, and seize the public Treasuries of Goldsmiths, Weavers, and Haberdashers-Hall, that thereby they may be supplied with Moneys to pay Quarters, and free the Countries from that grievous Burden of Freequarter.  
BY the Appointment of His Excellency the Lord Fairfax Lord General, and His General Council of Officers.  
Dec. 8. 1648. Signed, JOHN RUSHWORTH Secr '  
London, Printed by JOHN FIELD for John Partridge and George Whittington. Decemb. 9 1648.   

For the Right Honourable, The Lord Major of the City of London.  
My Lord,  
I Have given Order to Col: Dean and some others, to seize the Treasuries in Goldsmiths-Hall and Weavers-hall, that by the said Moneys I may be enabled to pay quarters whilst we lie hereabouts; having also Ordered Receipts and Assurance to be given to the Trersurers of the said moneys, that they should be fully reimbursed for the said sums, out of the Assessments of the City due to the Army, and out of other Assessments thereunto belonging; and indeed, although I am unwilling to take these strict courses, yet having sent so often to you for the said Arrears, and desired sums of money to be advanced by you, far short of the sums due from you, yet I have been delayed and denied, to the hazard of the Army, and the prejudice of others in the Suburbs upon whom they are quartered; wherefore I thought fit to send to seize the said Treasuries, and to send some Forces into the City to quarter there, until I may be satisfied the Arrears due unto the Army: and if this seem strange unto you, 'tis no less than that our Forces have been Ordered to do by the Parliament, in the several Counties of the Kingdom where assessments have not been paid, and there to continue until they have been paid: And here give me leave to tell you, the Counties of the Kingdom have born Freequarter, and that in a great measure, for want of your paying your Arrears equally with them; wherefore these ways, if they dislike you, yet they are merely long of yourselves, and are of as great regret to me and to the Army, as to yourselves, we wishing not only the good and prosperity of your City, but that things may be so carried towards you, as may give you no cause of jealousy: I thought fit to let you know, That if you shall take a speedy course to supply us with 40000 l. forthwith, according to my former Desire, and provide speedily what also is in Arrear, I shall not only cause the moneys in the Treasuries to be not made use of, but leave them to be disposed of as of right they might, and also cause my Forces to be withdrawn from being in any sort troublesome or chargeable to the City; And let the world judge whether this be not just and equal dealing with you. I rest, My Lord,  
Your affectionate Servant, T. FAIRFAX. Westminster, 8 Dec. 1648.   

His Excellency's Order for the seizing the Public Treasuries of Goldsmiths, Weavers, and Haberdashers-Hall.  
WHereas the Arrears of the City to the Army being near an Hundred thousand pounds, and upon the Security of them, there being but Forty thousand demanded by us, to be advanced by the Lord Major, Aldermen and Common-Councel, for the present supply of the Army, yet the same hath been now for a week delayed, and at last refused: And whereas to avoid the Grievance of Freequarter, and inconveniency of quartering Soldiers at private men's houses, the Forces in these Suburbs having for the week passed been kept in void houses, Inns, and the like; without trouble to private Families, or Free-quartering to any; and that the extreme necessity of the Forces before Pontesract may be supplied, you or any one or more of you are hereby required, with the assistance of such Forces as shall be needful, to march into the City of London, and there to seize upon all such sums of Money as you shall find in the public Treasury at Goldsmith's Hall, Haberdashers-Hall, and Weavers-hall, or in any of them, giving to the Keepers of the said Treasuries respectively, Receipts under your or one of your Hands for the Sums, or number and proportion of Bags so seized; All which Sums you or any one of you are to cause forthwith to be conveyed into Blackfriar's, there to be disposed of for the end aforesaid, as shall be further directed by his Excellency the Lord General; and you are to acquaint the Treasurers or keepers of the said Treasuries, That they repairing to morrow or on Monday next to the Headquarters, shall have assurance of their payment of the respective sums so seized, out of the Arrears of the City, or the Assessments of the Army.  
By the Appointment of His Excellency and the General Council. JOHN RUSHWORTH Secr '  
FINIS.