A NEW REMONSTRANCE Of the Eleven Impeached Members, Declaring the true reasons, why some of them have now chosen to go into foreign kingdoms, and others to obscure themselves in this.  
Also the cleereing of themselves from the several Accusations, which since the last Answer and Vindication have been lately laid unto their charge.  
Together with their last Resolution, and Protestation, and their assurance of a happy meeting in the Haven of Peace, and their re-union, although now disjoined for a season, by the foul weather of these uncertain Times.  
Printed in the year, 1647.   

THere having been already so much declared by us concerning the uprightness of our intentions, and the reality of our proceedings, in the fi●st of which, our consciences assuring us, that God is satisfied: And in the latter( having well hoped) that we had already satisfied the kingdom, wee believed indeed that there had been no need of a second Vindication, or that a new door would have easily been opened to let in more detraction to our famed, or danger to our Persons: But seeing that after our last receding from the House, we do still continue persecuted by the black tongues of secret revilers, and by the daily pens of unruly Pamphlets, and that we cannot have granted to us the happiness to enjoy a Quiet misery: We have once more adventured to be seen in public, and not so much to silence slanders( which is a work we scorn, and do esteem to bee far beneath us) as to testify to the World, how ready we are, some of us, to enjoy our sad retiredness, and others to embrace a willing B●nishment for the peace and happiness of our Country.  
For though it be alleged, that some delay was made by those of us who were known to be most expert in Military professions, after that Passes were ordered to bee granted by Mr. Speaker, to travel beyond the Seas; we do profess, that it was no way to take an advantage by delays, to advance ourselves in the distempers and ruin of the public, the safety whereof wee have always preserved above our own, as the wounds of some of us,( who have suffered in the Warres) with wide mouths can witness, without a tongue, but onely to draw more near together, and to confirm in an established course, some Fortunes, when the war had left, and to make an Accommodation more convenient for such necessaries as were requisite for our traveling condition, being well assured of our uncertainty in this life; and that though we had permission to bee absent for six moneths out of this kingdom, yet do we not know whether God would give us leave to bee six dayes in the world or no.  
It is again alleged, that some one or two of us, were chosen to be Commanders by the City for the defence therof, after they had dismissed themselves from sitting as Members in Parliament: To which it is answered, That as there is great difference from sitting as a Member in the House of Parliament, and being a Commander of a Power in City, or Field, so they will not dispute by what power they received their authority: This may suffice all indifferent men that with much unwillingness the Commissions were taken up, it being a Dignity not sought after, an employment at this present not delighted in, and as it was taken with unwillingness, so in a few houres after, it was with much wisdom and modesty laid down again.  
But again it was objected, That having dismissed ourselves from the House, contrary to the expectation of many: We made bold to fit in Parliament again; to which wee answer, That the same power which driven many of the Members away from the Parliament into the Army, and which since hath been adjudged justifiable, both by the Army, and by council, were the onely means of bringing us again into the Parliament House, and wee see no reason why they should be defended for being forced away from the Parliament, and we not excused, being in a manner forced by the same instruments to sit again in it, especially it being at that time, a burden not to be delighted in, for woes me( with his majesty) nothing is more dishonourable then to be beholding unto Tumult for Honour, or for voices from such a number, to seat ourselves in the House of Parliament.  
If it bee again demanded, Why wee do not appear in public, and show our faces as open as our apology: The answer is ready; Wee were no way afraid of our cause, but the times; for wee do well perceive, how violent they lately were, and how learned by old experience, that violent thoughts may and do thrust men into violent actions, and to perform those things, which afterwards they may have reason to repent at leisure: Yet there are not wanting some of us who are every day to bee seen where observation lies most open, but there are degrees of virtue, and one man is often looked on with a stranger eye of malice then another.  
But having satisfied the Parliament, who have given us a sufficient approbation of our integrity( wee do not know what second counsels may do, nor do we fear them) we will give a little satisfaction to the World, and to the worst of men, who are the daily revilers of us in their licentious libels of our Resolution: We do therefore declare, That wee find, it is unwholesome to continue in an air where such contagious libels reign: every last day hath more of the dog in it then the former, and by the access and heat of Humours, the sad infection doth increase, we are therefore resolved some of us to retire for a while into the country, and some to travel unto other kingdoms, but not without this resolution, That if it shall please God to continue life unto us to return before the expiration of the prefixed time, to answer to what ever accusations shall bee made against us; for we have thoroughly examined our consciences, and looked into the most hidden part and bottom of our hearts, and wee do speak what there we find, and God is our witness that wee do speak the truth, That wee have always endeavoured( as far as possible wee could conceive) the safety of Religion, and happiness of the King and kingdom; wee do therefore presume upon our Innocence, but( above all) upon the mercies of the almighty, that he will continue to protect us, and graciously to deliver us from all that shall make us the objects either of their malice, or their power: And though that all our actions, our words, and most private conversations have been preached unto, and brought unto the balance, and examined in the severest way that might bee, yet as nothing hitherto, could with Authority, and by witnesses bee produced to proclaim us guilty, or to make good an impeachment against us, so wee hope wee shall carry the same Integrity and uprightness with us to our Graves, which may by some be blemished by our absence, but can never suffer in itself. Wee have laboured to the uttermost of our power, to procure a settlement to the Church and State: Wee have desired a Peace, and are proclaimed guilty of war: As Members of the Parliament, and as Members of the Common-wealth, wee have laboured with the loss of our blood, and the loss of our Fortunes, for the health and welfare of the kingdom; and wee are condemned for the Firelocks of Sedition and Destruction: All practices have been used both to descry, and then to proclaim us guilty, but wee hope that the grace of God which hath hitherto in the labyrinth of am●zement, directed us, will bring us with safety to our journeys end.  
Neither can it appear strange unto us to obscure ourselves from the World, and endure a willing banishment for a while; Even the Heathen have instructed us in this exercise of honourable p●tience: Thus did Aristides, Pericles, and Scipio that Thunderbolt of war, and many other Worthies, whose virtues wee do rather strive to imitate, then to repeat their names, who by denying of themselves, and refusing what Honour or Fortune could promise them at home, have( after most remarkable services performed for their own Country,) willingly afterwards abandoned it, and have been content to adventure and lose their own safety to please the unruly people, mad to enjoy onely but the shadow and the empty title of Liberty. And as these examples of honour and Fortitude, have power to put more dull and heavy spirits into the like noble resolutions, so wee who in all our thoughts and actions shall bee ever careful to make God their beginning and their end, do jointly and severally all of us profess, that in all our troubles what ever shall befall us, nothing shall more delight us, then to hear of the happiness and flourishing of this kingdom, and that Religion is established according to the purity of it in the Primitive times; That his majesty is returned with Honour, freedom, and Safety, to his Parliament, and the Prince returned with safety unto the King, that the Parliament do enjoy their privileges, and the people their Liberties which have cost them so much money, and so many showers of sweat and blood: And that in the end it may appear to all the World; that there dwells not in any of us, any thought of returning the least of injury for any thing that hath been commenced against us. Wee do solemnly protest, that whatsoever hath been said against us, that cannot be proved, whatsoever hath been done against us, that cannot be maintained, wee do fairly, freely, and fully remit all, and do forget it, and race it from our memories and do forgive it from our hearts.  
FINIS.