The Totall and final DEMANDS already made by, and to be expected from, the AGITATORS AND ARMY: upon the Concession whereof they will rest fully satisfied; and DISBAND When they shall think seasonable, but not before in all probability. ECCLES. 2. 14. The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness. LONDON, Printed in the Year. 1647. The Totall and final DEMANDS of the AGITATORS and ARMY: Upon Concession whereof they will rest fully satisfied, and Disband when they shall think seasonable; but not before, in all probability. 1. THat all the * Sir Thoma● Fairfax last Letters to the House, and the Apprentices Petition to him, sent to the Agitators, (newly Printed) their own speeches, and Papers, and 14 Article against the Impeached Members and the Agitators massage to Trinity House, evidence this. Forces and Militia of England, Ireland, Wales, and the Islands thereunto belonging; the City and Tower of London, with all the Towns, Forts, and Garrisons within England, Ireland, Wales, and the Isles; and the Navy of the Kingdom, may be immediately put into their hands and power; not to enthrall the Parliament and people to their wills and tyranny, but to maintain the Subjects Freedom and Liberties; the King's Prerogative and Parliaments privileges, in such sort, and for so long time, as they in their just discretions shall think meet: (A demand already concluded, and in substance already propounded and granted;) that so the General (only in name) and Lieutenant General, in truth, may become absolute Emperors of all King Charles his Realms and Dominions (now Captive under their sovereign Power,) till the Agitators and Army shall think fit to dethrone him, to set up either a new John of L●yden of their own creation, or introduce a Popular Tyranny, & Anarchy, which suits best with their * Laid down in Regal Tyranny discovered; A clear and full Vindication of the late proceedings of the Army; A Declaration from the Army June 14. 1647 England's Birthright, and oth●r Pamphlets. principles, and the people's Freedom, the supreme power and Authority, to whom all other powers are subordinate de jure, and must be so de facto; before this Army disband; as their Papers intimate. 2. That not only the X-I. accused Members, but all Presbyterians and other Members in both Houses, opposite to the Armies proceedings or designs in any particular, may be cast out of both [as well as all such Officers cashiered the Army;] predicted in England's birthright, and now actually demanded in many of their printed Papers, but most clearly expressed in that of 7ᵒ Julii, at Reading, wherein the Commissioners of the Army render this as a reason why they refuse to proceed in the Treaty; That notwithstanding the Votes of the House of the tenth of June, and those since of the fifth of July, for the present purging of the House, yet divers persons comprised in these Votes continue still to sit there; And what comfortable effect may we expect of a Treaty so long as THE PARLIAMENT (the supreme judicatory of the Kingdom) is constituted ☞ OF SOME THAT ARE MEN OF INTERESTS, CONTRARY TO THE COMMON GOOD THEREOF, from whom we can expect nothing but banding and designing to obstruct and frustrate all proceedings (contrary TO THEIR INTEREST.) And if a seasonable remedy be not given herein, we despair of any good to the Kingdom by way of Treaty. And when both Houses are thus fully purged, That then King Charles, their Prisoner (whom now they flatter only for the easier accomplishment of their own ends, & to take off the envy and opposition of his party, as some of them acknowledge in plain terms) be forthwith articled against, * This Lilburns Regal Tyranny discovered, The Title pa. and p. 14. 62, 53, 54, 55, 57, &c. England's Birthright. Overtons, and other sectaries printed Pamphlets clearly demonstrate and advise, which have a great influence on the Agitators and Army. impeached, arraigned, deposed, executed, and his posterity disinherited by the Parliament, as the Grand Delinquent, and Author of all the late Wars, Mischiefs and bloodshed in his three Kingdoms; And after that the Members of both Houses, who have been opposite to them, arraigned and condemned as breakers of trust and Invaders of the people's Liberties; and than the domineering House of Peers perpetually abolished, and a new-modeled Parliament consisting merely of Commoners (elected by the Army) constituted, to execute only what the generality of the Agitators and people shall prescribe them. 3. That the * The arraignment of Persecution, the Bloody Tenet. Sir Simon Presbyter, and many other late Pamphlets of Sectaries, clear all this, with Hartfordshire Petition against tithes and other Petitions of like Nature. Assembly of Divines be immediately dissolved and impeached of high Treason; Presbyteries suppressed, the Directory, National League and Covenant, Parishes, Parish Churches, chapels, Tithes, Oblations, Ministers made by Ordination, Universities, and all Schools of learning (except only such as teach to read English, write and cipher) all set forms of Prayer, the Lord's Prayer, Creed, and Ten Commandments, baptising of Infants, and singing of Psalms utterly abolished as Antichristian, and an Act of eternal oblivion passed against them; That a full and free Liberty be granted to all persons whatsoever to preach, baptize, dip, set up what new Congregations and Religions they please, and broach any heresy, Error, Blasphemy, or new opinion without the least inhibition, as they do now within the Armies Precincts. 4. That all * Regal Tyranny discovered. p. 15, 16 etc England's birthright, Lilburn● apology to Judge Reeve, the Harfordsh. and other late Petitions to the general and Army manifest this design. inns of Court and Chancery, all Courts of justice now erected, as well Civil as Ecclesiastical, with the Common, Civil, Canon and Statute Laws formerly in force; and all Corporations, Tenures, Copyholds, rents and services, with all Titles and Degrees of honour, Nobility and Gentry, elevating one free-subject above another may be totally abolished, as clo●gs snares, and grievances to a freeborn people, and inconsistent with that universal parity and equality of condition which ought to be among freemen, & opposite to the Communion of Saints 5. That all the * This divers of the Army and their friends have propounded in print and discourse. Lands and Estates of Deans, Chapters, Prebends, Universities, colleges, Halls, Free-schools, Cities, Corporations, Ministers Gleablands; and so much of the Lands of the Nobility, Gentry, and rich Citizens and Yeomen, as exceeds the sum of 300 l. per annum▪ and all the Revenues of the Crown belonging to the King or his children, be equally divided between the Officers and Soldiers in the Army to satisfy their Arrears, and recompense their good services (all the wealth of London being too little to reward them, as their friends have published in Print) that so the Prophecy of Daniel 7. 22. may be fulfilled, Judgement is given to the Saints of the most high, and the time came that the Saints possessed the Kingdom; much descanted upon in the Army both by the Soldiers and their * M. Sedwicks' Sermon at S. Albans. Chaplains, as now or never to be accomplished. 6. That all * This is positively demanded in the Armies Remonstrances & printed Papers to disengage & mutiny the Reformadoes and leave the Parliament and City naked of all defence. Reformado Officers, Soldiers, and Forces in or about London, or elsewhere not actually under the army's power may be immediately dispersed; all listings of men, but only by the Generals and Armies order, prohibited under pain of high Treason; the old City and Parliaments Guards removed; and a New strong Guard of horse and foot presently sent from the Army to secure the City and Tower of London, and the * This was moved in the House, and that by an Alderman, and desired, in the Young man's Petition to the General. Commons House (under pretence of preventing a new War;) that so the Lives, Liberties and Estates both of Lords, Commons, Citizens, Gentlemen, Reformadoes, Soldiers, and people of all sorts, may be at the absolute mercy and free disposal of the Army, without the least hopes of resistance, or opposition, till all the precedent demands be granted and accomplished; and then we shall be as free a people as the slaves in Turkey or Algiere. When all this is effected, and the Kingdom utterly exhausted with taxes and freequarter to keep up this unmercinary and most meritorious Army, who have such glorious designs in hand for the kingdom's ease, and people's Liberties and enfranchisement from their ancient vassalage to the King, Parliament, Laws, Magistrates, Ministers, &c. our supreme Lords and Masters (the Agitators and Army) will be satisfied, and contentedly disband to divide the spoils in the fifth demand, but not willingly before, if their Principles or printed Papers; their private free ingenuous discourses; the Pamphlets and Petitions of their Confederates, the practices of their Predecessors in Germany, and the series of their late high proceedings and multiplied demands (growing every day higher, and more than formerly) may pass either for demonstrations, or more than probable presages. Let all wise, honest, and wealthy men then, both in Parliament, City and Country be no longer gulled or blinded with specious pretences, but look about them in time; and provide for the public safety and the Liberty of the King, Parliament, Kingdom, and their own preservation, before it be over late: and take the poet's advice to heart. Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur Cum mala per longas invaluere moras. In fine; In bello non licet bis errare; hic nec semel. Reader, consider these Passages among others in Lilburns new printed Regal Tyranny Discovered, (whose brothers are chief sticklers in the Armies Treasonable proceedings) p. 14. We may evidently perceive, that this Office of a King is not, in the least, of God's institution; neither is it to be given to any man upon earth. And p. 56, 57 Charles Stewart, hath committed treason against the kingdom of England, &c. To sum up all, he is guilty of all the innocent bloodshed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, since the Wars, which is the blood of thousands of thousands. For which if all the Sons of men should be so base and wicked as not to do their duty, in executing justice upon him (in deposing and beheading him) which legally may and OUGHT TO BE DONE, by those especially who have Power, and Authority in their hands; Yet undoubtedly the righteous God will, and that I am confident in an exemplary manner, in despite of all his bloody and wicked Protectors and Defenders. And then judge in what condition the King, kingdom, and Parliament now are in, under the power of men of Lilburns Spirit and Principles. FINIS.