THE resolution of the AGITATORS of the ARMY, Concerning the prosecution of their late Remonstrance and Protestation against the sitting of the late Usurpers of Parliame●tary power in the Parliament. With the Reasons constraining them so resolutely to adhere to that their Protestation. As they presented to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax 7 ber 4th Septemb. 2. 1647. London, Printed for John Harris, 1647. THE resolution of the AGITATORS of the ARMY. WHereas by the insolency of the City and the treacherous complotments of many persons formerly Members of Parliament, was after an unheard of horrid manner forced, and for security of their own lives constrained to fly for refuge to their Army; and for as much as your Excellency with your Army have engaged both to the Parliament and Kingdom to use their utmost endeavours to reinstate them in their just power and freedom, and have been necessitated to declare and protest against the sitting of all those in Parliament, who lately usurped the Parliamentary power for the better prosecution ●f their bloody intentions, and by their present intrusion obstruct the freedom of al votes, notwithstanding contrary to the Armies Remonstrance and protest, and the Kingdoms expectation of its pursuance, those Intruders are stil permitted to vote as Members; we therefore humbly conceiving that the policy of those intruders stil prevails to the danger of the Parliament and Army, as appears by their late Ordinance on friday last, wherein they not only declar●d against the Army, by acknowledging those usurpers to be the two Houses of Parliament, but also have laid the foundation of a dangerous deltaory way of proceeding against all the fomentors of a new war, and likewise conceiving that the Armies faithfulness to God and the Kingdom, before whom they have protested, and their honor and Reputation engageth them not to permit those usurpers any longer to sit in Parliament, we thought ourselves obliged to represent unto your Excellency our apprehensions of this engagement of the whole Army, to restrain all those persons from sitting any longer in Parliament, as Judges of those things wherein they have made themselves parties, and we do humbly submit unto your Excellencies Consideration these ensuing Reasons for the Armies immediate fulfilling their protestation to that purpose. First, the Army being engaged to remain near London until the Parliament be settled in its full freedom, and all disturbers of their just proceedings removed, will by their long continuance in these quarters, if any delays in the expulsion of those intruders very much impoverish the Adjacent parts to London, which will consequently straighten the City in its provisions to the hazard of dangerous discontents. 2. Much time is already lost, to the great damage of all the Kingdom, through the continuance of those Incendiarys in the Houses. 3. Those usurpers having already contracted the guilt of fomenting a new war, are necessary engaged to obstruct all proceedings which tend to the settlement of the Kingdoms peace, whereby the service and relief of Ireland also retarded. 4. The permission of those Incendiaries to sit in the Houses, may possibly give them opportunity to find a time to over vote the Parliament, and thereby stamp the image of Parliamentary Authority upon their own bloody desig●s. 5. The doting of those in the Houses, who are declared to be under an incapassity of sitting there, may possibly make the validity of all Votes, Orders and Ordinances doubtful, that either are or shal be past during their sitting. A second Paper delivered by the AGITATORS of the ARMY to his Excellency Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX. May it please your Excellency, WHereas upon the 23 of August last, the Conscience of our duty to God and the Kingdom to prosecute our Protestation constrained us to declare our sense of the inviolable engagement of the Army, immediately to restrain those late usurpers of Parliamentary power from sitting in Parliament, to obstruct all proceedings tending to the kingdoms peace: and notwithstanding we have waited with much patience, expecting that the Parliaments zeal to the public good would have made those Intruders & Designers of mischief a burden so intolerable to their spirits, that they would rather have called for for the Armies assistance to eject them, then to have permitted them to sit there; yet all our expectations are hitherto frustrate, and no endeavours to that end are visible, we therefore in faithfulness to our principles and in a deep sense of the blood and confusion that threatens the Nation by reason of the delays of removing ehe peoples burdens, and clearing and securing their Rights and Freedoms, which proceeds from those Incendiaries sitting in Parliament, cannot but humbly represent once more to your Excellency. That we are weary of waiting and that the peoples growing miseries and distresses presseth us not to forbear any longer to use the utmost of our endeavours to make our Protestation real and effectual in restraining all those Usurpers and Incendiaries from sitting in Parliament in case they should not before Saturday next be removed, that then those retarders & obstructors of the Freedom of all Parliamentary actings, being expelled from the House; that wicked design of our enemies to make the Army burdensome to the Nation by enforcing them to take free-quarter through want of pay might be crushed, and the Parliament might pr●●●●● speedily to settle the Kingdoms Peace. SEPT. 2. Which is the continued 〈◇〉 of us whose names are subsc●●●●● Jo. Renolds Fran. Allen Wil. Rainsborow Jo. Willoughby Geo. joice Fran. White Edw. Vaughan Nath. Foxgill Jo. Dober John Wells John Wilson J. Blackmore Tobias Bridge Wil. Ioans Tho. Sheapard Nat. underwood jo. Wood Steven comb Nich. Rawlins Rich. Nixon Tho. Robinson Edw. Sexby Timo. Thornbrough Rich. Johnson Henry Githings Rich. Grant Wil. prior Edw. twig Edw. Orpin Wil. knolls Jo. tailor Wil. Wilkinson Geo. Stenson Rich. Flower Rich. Thomas Edm. Garne Rich. Creed Tho. Michel. jo. Radman jacob Summers Bart. Willock.