A LETTER FROM THE HEAD-QVARTERS, At St. Albans, Communicating, the Proceedings of the general council of the Army the week past: Setting down such Queries by the Officers and soldiers, as were presented to the general and council.  
Written to a Friend in London, November, 10.  
Printed in the year 1648.   

A Letter from the Head Quarters.  
Sir:  
IT is fit my service should last as long as your commands; and since your desires are but the discharge of my engagements to you, it being my positive promise to communicate to you the Debates, Results, and desires of the counsel, and private soldiery, and Officers of the Army; I here send you what hath been transacted since Saturday, which transactions are very high, and may do much good for this kingdom, if God be but pleased ●o own us in counsel as he hath owned us in the Field: the Regiments have delivered in their desires, and some Queries to the counsel, and we do daily expect some more from the lieutenant general's Army, which we conceive will be as high as our Armies; the soldiers are grown to a great dislike of the Parliament, and much doubt their own safety under the hands of them, and conceive they have great reason, considering the mutability and unconstancy of their ●esolutions, and are ready to say, that the Majo● part of the now sitting Commons, and the whole House of peers are as changeable as the chameleon; vote an affirmative, and as contrary with the same breath, which we believe is very dangerous to both kingdom and Army, and much tends to the ruin and destruction of both; knowing very well that instability and changing is bid to be ware of by the wisest of men; meddle not with them that are given to change, for their calamities shall be great, and who shall know the ruins of them? but you shall receive the Queries and desires here enclosed, which we conceive to be both reasonable and honest▪ and much tending to the happiness of both kingdom and Army: I am something in haste, and cannot enlarge myself at present, but in my next you shall receive a full account of all the pr●ceedings of the counsel and Army; from him who is, Sir,  
Your Friend to serve you, R. Johnson.  
Let my service I pray salute all our friends in Holborn, Queen-street, and Savoy.   

Honourable:  
we should, and are worse be witched then the Galatians, if we should believe that this Treaty were any thing other than a snare to enslave and ruin, and truly we cannot but think a spirit of madness hath possessed the hearts of all those who believe this Treaty, or a Treaty with those we have conquered twice, can any way prove propitious to us, or this kingdom, there is none so blind as those which do not see slavery and bondage coming upon us, and our Posterity, as travel upon a woman with child, which we cannot escape if this Treaty take effect; therefore we present our sense of it, with all humbleness to this Honourable Couns●ll in a few Queries, desiring that they may be speedily taken into consideration, as things that are the sole good, and in which all our happiness is wrapped up in.  
First, whether an Ordinance made by Parliament in a time (unquestionable) of freedom, and liberties, and in a full House upon mature deliberation, and after many day's debate, and after all objections made against no Addresses to the King, and a full Vote passed in the House to govern without Him: Let it be judged whether the safety of a kingdom can be free in the hands of such, when they vote the contrary upon a tumultuous Petition, and treat with, and court our conquered Enemy.  
2. What is an Ordinance of Parliament worth, or will be accounted of by any, if as soon as it's granted, or upon any Rebellion or Insurrection, though at a hundred miles' distance it may be recalled? what a slender ground and foundation, nay upon what a broken reed, do, and will men say they have built on all this while, in venturing their lives, and hazarding all that is dear unto them, or in acting for the Parliament, or by an Ordinance? therefore we cannot think ourselves in safety, so long as things are thus carried.  
Whether or no in the judgement of any indifferent men it can stand with the honour, justice, authority, and gravity of the supreme Court of judicature, and the great counsel of a kingdom, when upon mature deliberation, and weighty reasons in the most legal way, when no addresses have been voted in a full House to the King, and now addresses made, & he courted as one that hath not had the least finger in all ●hat innocent blou● that hath been shed, when he himself hath confessed to be the Author of all, and guilty of that blood that hath been spilled in these 3 kingdoms.  
3. Whether the Army can be in safety when those their known Enemies have the managing of this Treaty, and are most forward to support that which will ruin us and our posterity.  
4. Whether the Army can be in safety, when the counsel of the Citizens are the sole guide of the Parliaments transactions, and the absolute influence into the counsels of the same, and those of the Citizens too, which are our professed enemies.  
5. Whether the Army and kingdom can be in safety, when the desires and requests of the Malignants are so frequently granted, and the only men put in places of trust.  
6. Whether the kingdom and Army can be in safety, or we ever expect a blessing from heaven, so long as the chief abetter, and maintainer of these wars live without punishment, and be not brought to justice.  
7. Whether there can be safety for the kingdom and Army, so long as the King's friends go abroad, and are suffered to wear arms, and pistols, and murder our friends, and are not put to death, and brought to condign punishment.  
And now we conceive that it is the sense of your Excellency and this council, that the kingdom is in danger, if these things be not tak●n in your serious consideration, and by your wisdom and care prevented: & we present unto you our humbledesire.  
First, that those which have been the princip●l of the first and second war, may be tried by a Coun●cil of war, as prisoners at war.  
2. That all those of both Houses, who v●ted with those that would have further addresses may be ●questred the House, as well those of the peers as th●●e of Commons.  
3. That those Citizens which endeavoured the raising of an Army, when we were at Colchest●r may be forthwith apprehended, and brought to ex●mpla●y punishment▪ being they endeavoured to rai●e without any Authority or Ordinance of Parliament.  
4. That the Treaty may not go on any further, but may be speedily broke off, and a course taken that no terms may be h●●kened to, or offered to that Party but that speedy justice may be done upon Him and His adherents.  
FINIS.