A late LETTER FROM Sir Thomas Fairfax's Army now in TRURO. Relating the several Passages in the TREATY, And what is concluded. Communicated to both Houses of Parliament upon Monday 16. March 1645.  
Die Lunae 16 March 1645.  
ORdered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that this Letter be forthwith printed and published.  
joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.  
LONDON, Printed for john Wright at the King's Head in the old Bayley. 17 March 1645.   

For the Honourable William Lenthall Esquire, Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons.  
Being a Letter sent from Sir Thomas Fairfaxs Army now in Truro.  
SIR,  
I Wrote to you this day of the further progress of the Treaty held all this day, and till twelve at night, and yet could not be finished, though all the material parts were over; those which remain are only circumstantial, yet so necessary to be concluded in order to the perfecting of the Treaty, that more time is granted for the finishing thereof, so the Treaty and Cessation is to continue to morrow also; and the Rendezvouz of this Army, that should have been to morrow, is put off till the next day, at which time the Enemy is likewise to draw out to a Rendezvous, and there according to the Articles, or as shall be further agreed on, dismount their common Troopers, and deliver up their Horses and Arms: The Enemy is so impatient till the Treaty be done, that this very day there hath no less than between thirty and forty Lieutenant Colonels, Majors and Captains, come away from the Enemy to us, besides others that came to visit our Quarters, that did not return; This evening likewise there came a Captain and forty Gentlemen of quality, with their Horses and Arms, who likewise by the Articles are to have the benefit of their Horses: And likewise there came from Penryn 96. Common Soldiers, with their Muskets and Matches lighted, and twelve more since came, and forty more gone another way, which so much disheartened Colonel Trevanian, the Governor of the Fort and Harbour at Penryn near Pendennis, that he sent unto the General late this evening, to desire that he might be included within the Treaty with the Lord Hopton, and have the same Conditions that other Officers have, which are, Passes to go home, and Protections to live quietly from the violence of the Soldiers; we conceive there will be all Officers and others of quality, being allowed their Horses according to the Articles, near two thousand Horse that will come to be delivered up to the General for the use of the State; and though they stand the State in two thousand pound Horses and Arms, yet they will be worth to the State ten thousand pounds at the least, but that is the least thing considerable in this great business. The dissolving of such a strength, by which means the West of England is cleared of a Field Enemy, and Foreign adversaries deprived of that assistance they did expect from this force, whilst it was in so considerable a Body; We doubt not, but Pendennis will upon the disbanding of these Forces, incline to moderate terms, the Governor thereof is a Gentleman of good Fortune and Estate in the County, and in all likelihood will not be so mad to see all the whole Gentry at liberty, enjoying their own, and himself as it were in Prison, enjoying nothing that is his own. I cannot express with what joy most of the Officers receive those Conditions, and wish they had sooner known our intentions to wards them: those which are most discontented at this business, are the Troopers that were to be dismounted, but many of them do, during this Cessation, use ways in an handsome manner, to recompense themselves and ours too, by exchanging good Horses for bad Horses, gaining twenty shillings or thirty shillings in exchange from our Troopers, they reserving the bad Horses, to receive twenty shillings upon the delivering of them up unto us again; so we have many of the Horses already, though not in manner according to the Treaty. I had directions to prepare a Letter for the Committee of the Army, to make stop of the providing of Horses for the Train, for that here will be six hundred to be spared for that purpose, and the rest that are serviceable to be likewise disposed for Recruits in the Army. I am Sir  
Truro, March 11. 1645. Your most humble Servant J. R.  
I Stayed the Messenger till this forenoon, but can add no more, but that the Commissioners are at it, and as some of them tell me, almost finished the Treaty; (I shall as soon as they are signed by both sides) send an Express with the Contents. Though one Army visit another during the Cessation, yet we are more circumspect in keeping strong Guards, than when the Enemy was most active against us.  
Truro March 12. 12 at noon.  
This morning 100 Soldiers of Colonel Champernoons Regiment are come in, with Muskets, Swords, and Bandeleers.  
FINIS.