TWO LETTERS From His Excellency Sr. THOMAS FAIRFAX. One to the Commissioners of the ARMY, the other to the Right Honourable the Lord Major, Aldermen, and Common-council of the City, of London. As it was presented, July 29-1647.  
My Lords and Gentlemen,  
HAving resolved upon this enclosed dispatch from the City of LONDON, I thought it my part to give you an account of it, and to give you all assurance that my heart is deeply affected with the late carriages to wards the Parliament. And however others have neglected their duty towards them for their security & defence; yet as God shall enable me, it shall be my great business, to improve all that is in my hand for the preserving of them, & in them the interest of this Nation, and what construction soever, some formerly may have put upon the proceed of this Army: I trust the Lord will by his good hand lead us into such good actions as shall witness our end answerable to all our profession, to wit, for the good of the Kingdom, and there into be an effectual saving to great authority of the Kingdom in the parlia. I rest,  
Bedford july, 29. 1647. Your most assured friend Tho. Fairfax.  
To the Right honourable the Lord Major, Aldermen, and Common-council of the City of London.  
My Lord and Gentlemen,  
YOu may please to remember the forward compliance of this Army with your desires to remove to this distance, and that upon the assurance you gave them of your concurrence with their declared d●si●es, for the settling the liberty and peac of this Kingdom, (against which you never yet offered us one exception or any ground of descent) as also of your great tenderness and resolution to secure the, Parliament and their Privileges, from any violence or attempt, the chief reason given us of your late listing of new forces, and wherein we did most acquiesce.  
That upon this confidence we had disposed the Army into several parts of the Kingdom; for the ease of the whole to above 100 mile's distance: we had given up ourselves, to the effecting of such proposals as might tend to the comfortable settlement of this poor Kingdom, and we were in a hopeful way for the speedy relief of Ireland.  
We cannot then but be deeply sensible of the unparallelled violation acted upon the Parliament, upon Monday last, by a rude multitude from your City, because therein (the guards sent from the City did not only neglect their duty for the security of the Parliam. from such violence, and the whole City to yield any relief to the houses in that extremity, but I am assured from eye and care witnesss that divers of the Common Council gave great encouragement to it, which doth not only gainsay your former professions, but does violence to those many obligations that (by your Charter Protestation and sundry otherways) lie upon you to protect the Parliament.  
For my p●rt I cannot but look on yourselves (who are in Authority) as accountable to the Kingdom, for your present interrup●ions of that hopeful way of Peace and settlement, things were in, for this N●tion and of releiveing Ireland occasined by the late Tresonable, and destructive Engagement: Especially by the latter Prodigius and horrid force done upon the Parliament, tending to Dissolve all Government upon which score w●e and the whole Kingdom shall have cause to put ev●ry th●ng of the like nature that m●y h●ppeen to the Parliament, or to any who are friends to them and this Army except by your Wisdom care, and Industrey the chief Actors in the premises, may be Derected secured and given up to the procuring of justice for the same, and the best Endevonis used to prevent the like for the future And so I rest.  
Bedford 29, July; 1647. Your most assured Friend to serve you Thomas Farirfax.  
FJNJS.