A LETTER FROM THE army. Concerning the KINGS MAJESTY And the proceedings of the ARMY.  
AND A Letter from both Houses of Parliament to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, concerning the City of London, and other things related to the Peace of the kingdom.  
AND The manner of the late fight at Dedford, near London, where four of Sir Robert pies men were slain, some taken, and divers wounded, by a party of Horse in KENT.  
Printed at London by R. I. 1647.   

A LETTER From both Houses OF PARLIAMENT to His Excellency Sir THOMAS FAIREFAX.  
May it please your Excellency,  
THE Houses having this day received from their Commissioners a copy of your Letter to them, dated at Bedford July 29. with a Copy of another Letter of the same date, writ to the City of London, in both which though there be no accounts at all of the motion of your Army, yet the Houses understand by the Letters from their Commissioners in which the said Copies were enclosed, and otherwise, that you have given Orders for the marching of the Army towards London, upon pretence of defending the Houses from the danger of Tumults; upon consideration whereof the Houses have commanded us to let you understand, that as they cannot but have a deep sense of the undue liberty which some Apprentices of the City of London, and others, from whom they might have expected more obedience, have taken to themselves to violate the just Authority, privileges, and freedom of Parliament, in which the safety of the whole kingdom is concerned and so they doubt not but the sense of so great an offence will at last strike all their breasts that have been accessary thereunto, with a detestation of any practices of the like nature for the future, And as the Houses cannot imagine, That the disorder committed by some Apprentices, or those that mingled with them; had the allowance of the City of London so they have since received full satisfaction by the strict Orders given out by the Lord Mayor, and common-council of the City to all Masters, to have care of their Servants, and by their Declaration proclaimed in the several parts of the City, for the preventing and suppressing of Tumults, that they shall sit with much freedom and security, for the preventing and suppressing of Tumults, that they shall sit with much freedom and security from any disturbance for the future. And therefore the Houses seeing no cause to Command that Army; or any part thereof to march up for their defence, but rather judging( by the distractions raised at the news thereof) that the motion of the Army near the City, is like to precipitate the City and Army in a desperate and bloodly engagement, not onely to the disturbance of the Parliaments sitting, but also to the destruction thereof, and of all authority, by casting the whole kingdom into confusion. For prevention thereof, they have sent you this enclosed Order, requiring you as you tender the freedom of Parliament, the safety of the City and whole kingdom, to give exact obedience thereunto; this being all we have in command, we rest.  
Westminster, 30 July. 1647.   

A Letter from the Army, Dated at colebrook, August, 2. 1647.  
Right Honourable,  
THE Generals head-quarters are yet here at colebrook, but this day they are intended to march to a rendezvous at Hounslow Heath, part of the Horse are gon over into Kent, of the Generals own Regiment under mayor Desborrough, the other part are in Essex, those( we hear) have seized on the Fort at Tilbury, called the Block-house; as for the Block-house at Graves-end, that we hear is not much tenable and of little use to be kept, except it be guarded when taken.  
The King is resolved to remove from Latimer to a house nearer Windsor, which his Majesty hath made choice of, and I suppose will not be denied him,  
The Army hath contracted their Headquarters closer, out of the several Counties where they were quartered; the last being now come up, and( I suppose will be at the rendezvous this day on Hounslow Heath.  
This night it is to be resolved, by a council of war what shall be done in matter of advance against the City, when to approach and where.  
There is no Answer sent from the general or the council of war, to the Letter from the Parliament, by reason that they do not take notice of the Houses sitting.  
I am sorry to see things so high.  
I am grieved at the very heart to see the eminent dangers hanging over us, if God divert not the deluge of blood threatening us.  
colonel Tuleday had notice that Sir Samuel Luke was at his house at couple in Bedfordshire, nere Bedford, and thereupon he sent out a party of his Regiament thither, who as we hear, have taken him prisoner.  
Divers Members of both Houses are with the Army, & more with the Head-quarters.  
The council of war have had some debates about a Declaration, but as yet it is not concluded. I hear they are intended to summon the City of London first, but the truth is( I suppose) it is not fully resolved by the general and council of war in that particular.  
The printed Declartion from the City of London was yesterday brought to the general, and red at a council of War.  
The Lord Lotherdale( one of the Scots Commissioners) is put away from the Court not being admitted to the King, before he went from Owburne.  
God sand a composure of these unhappy differences.  
colebrook the 2 of August. 1647.   

A Letter from a Gentleman that was at Greenwich, to a friend of his in London.  
dear Sir,  
I Have a sad subject to writ unto you of, which makes me tremble; it is briefly thus, that colonel Sir Robert Pies Troope quartered at Dedford within a mile of this town, and at some other adjacent villages, a party of Horse came upon them( as it is said they came over Henly Bridge and so into Kent and wheeled about this way) they came to parley with the Souldiers, intending( as it is believed to have taken them prisoners) but upon the parley some of them came to such high words, they called them Runaway Rogues, the other retorted to them again, and the mean while some got to Horse, but at last it came to blows, some they took in pursuit, four were slain in the pursuit, and divers wounded of Sir Robert Pies men. Here is blows struck, here is blood  shed, the Lord direct the Parliament, and the City, and the Army, to study how to compose these fresh divissions, least poor England bee whelmed in the red Sea of the subdivission.   
FINIS,