The RESOLUTIONS of the Private soldiery of Col. Scroop's Regiment of Horse (now quartering at and near unto Salisbury) concerning their present Expedition for the Service of IRELAND.  
Wherein they Declare their Integrity and Faithfulness to the Solemn Engagement of the Army made at Newmarket, and Triploe Heaths, June 5. 1647. and to that end have chosen Agitators for their Respective troops; Agreeing and Resolving not to disband or divide, or suffer themselves to be disbanded or divided, till the Freedoms of England be first settled, and the Rights of the soldiery obtained, according to the many Declarations and Remonstrances of the Parliament and Army.  
Directed and Presented to the Consideration of all the soldiery of the Nation, both of Field and garrison.  
THE Consideration of the great Preparations that are made for Ireland; And understanding that we are by Lot assigned for that Service, hath put us upon serious Meditations for to find out such good Grounds and Principles as might carry us on in that Service, which causeth us in the First place to Consider of the Ground of our Engagement in England, which was against all Tyranny and Enslaving of the People of the Nation, whereof we are a Part: and to preserve them from Destruction and Destructive laws; as also the Restoring them to their just Rights and Freedo●s: in the prosecution of which Engagement, many of our dear Fellow soldiers have lost their Lives; and many amongst us have received many Wounds, and all of us have adventured our Lives, and undergone much hardship; and it hath pleased the Lord to bless us with▪ Victory, and qu●stionless to this end, that we might perform the same: And upon this Account, the Parliament and Officers of the Army have promised often unto the People and soldiery, That after the Victory, the People should have Freedom, Peace, and Happiness settled in the Nation, and that the soldiery should have Satisfaction; which hath been often published both in Declarations and Remonstrances in the name of the General and General council of the Army, and we Private soldiers willingly assented thereunto; and to that end we have endeavoured to uphold your power, and to ●eat down all that did oppose you herein▪ And thus for our parts we have kept close to our Engagement that you might perform the same; but as yet we do n●●●…e them performed neither to the People nor to us as soldiers; and yet you would have us to Engage to give you ●ower over an other Land before we have fulfilled our Engagement at Home in our own Native Country. We have waited with long Patience, expecting that when you had Power in your own hands, you would have been faithf●l to the Nation and to us; but we find, the longer we wait, the more unreasonable your Desires are towards us: We Appeal to any Rational men▪ whether this be just and equal, to carry us into another Land before you have made good your Engagement at Home; and that upon such slight terms, as if a man should owe a Servant Twenty pounds, and then tell him he will give him Five pounds of the same, upon Condition, that he will do another Service for him (which is greater) in another place, and furnish himself for that Service with the money which he receives. For who is at the greatest Charge in the setting forth of the Service? Is nor the Two months' pay we are to have as our Advance, a part of that which is due unto us for the Service we have already done? and the Horses we are to serve upon, are they not those which we have bought or must buy with our own money? Have we left our Trades and Callings, spent the prime of our Youth, exposed ourselves to so many Dangers, and many of us spent our Estates to buy us Horse and Arms, and now to be thus dealt withal! and not only so, but to be made a Reproach to the People, and to be accounted the falsest of men by reason of your not fulfilling your Promises made to the People and us in your Remonstrances and Declarations, and now to engage us to go out of the Land before we see them fulfilled.  
We thought also you would have been so reasonable, as to consider our condition by your own; For we know you cannot be ignorant of the dearth of Provision, both for Man and Horse: Can any of you Quarter himself and horse one night in an inn, under four or five shillings? Your own Consciences will tell you that you cannot: How then can we find ourselves Horse, and Arms, and Provision both for Man and Horse, at two shillings a day, but that we must of necessity oppress the People where we come? And this is the way to make us a Reproach, and to cause the People generally to hate us: We therefore entreat you to consider of these things, and to be more reasonable in your Actings towards us, which will be for your Honour and our Happiness.  
Further, We desire that what hath been here declared, might not be understood, as if it were our Desires to hinder or retard the Service of Ireland; For when we shall see the Freedom and Liberty established in the Nation, for which we did engage, and which hath been so often Promised in your several Remonstrances and Declarations; As also such satisfaction for ourselves as shall be reasonable, we shall to the utmost of our Abilities engage ourselves in the Service of that Land, as we have done in this.  
In the mean time, we are resolved (according to our Engagement) not to go out of the Land, nor suffer ourselves to be divided or disbanded, upon any pretence whatsoever.  
In these Lines lieth the substance of our Desires and Resolutions, which we humbly Present to your serious Considerations.  
Subscribed by the whole Regiment, and Published by the Appointment of their Agitators. Salisbury this First of May 1649.