To the Right Honourable THE L D. FLEETWOOD, To be Communicated to the OFFICERS Of the ARMY, THE Humble Representation of divers well-affected Persons of the City of Westminster and parts Adjacent.  
April 27 LONDON: Printed for L. Chapman. 1659.   

To the Right Honourable THE LORD FLEETWOOD, To be Communicated to the OFFICERS of the ARMY.  
WHeteas you have by your late Declaration and Transactions, made it manifest, that you are sensible of your backslidings; and that yet you have cordial affections to the Good Old Cause, and to our Liberties, both Religious and Civil; we with many thousands more rejoice on your behalf, and bless the Lord for your seasonable appearance for the vindication and resurrection of that precious Cause, which hath cost so much Blood and Treasure: several corrupt Parties having lately with much subtlety combined and improved their several interests to destroy the same; and to bring in upon us an Inundation of Tyranny and slavery, both in things Civil and Religious.  
You cannot be ignorant, and it is the sense generally of all the well-affected people, who have constantly adhered to you in the prosecution of the Good Old Cause, that the Lord did vouchsafe his glorious presence with that renowned long Parliament, in their Counsels and Armies: never was there a Parliament more victorious by a constant series of gracious Providences: never was there a Parliament that did more fully assert and vindicate the Liberties of the People, and make better provision for the Soldiers in defence thereof; though in all Politic Bodies, through humane frailty, there will be great miscarriages and mal-administrations.  
But alas, how hath the presence and glory of God departed from these Nations, and from you in particular, since the interruption of that renowned victorious Parliament, and the advancement of a private personal Interest, in stead of the Weal-public! Our Treasure hath been exhausted, many thousands of our dear Countrymen slain, and illegally Imprisoned, and ruined, and our poor Nation like to be made a prey to a foreign Enemy, if the Lord in mercy prevent not: Whereas before, the Parliament of England, and their Armies, were a terror to all the Nations round about us.  
And among other evils, this renowned Army hath been exceedingly corrupted, by the endeavour of self-seekers; many of their faithful Officers have been laid aside, and others put in their places, who never adhered to the Good Old Cause, and the assertors thereof in their great straits.  
We hope that the Lord is now about to restore in some measure the primitive beauty and glory of this Army; which no doubt will be done, if your actions and performances be suitable to your words and expressions; the times now requiring that you should be active in purging the Army in order to the settlement of this Commonwealth; and that you should constantly consult and advise with the most prudent and judicious of your old friends, who having kept their integrity, may administer much light and help to you in this wilderness of distraction.  
Wherefore we humbly desire you, for the honour of God, for the satisfaction of the Saints, and the good of your poor dying Country; That you would forthwith recall, and restore your honest public spirited Officers, of whose fidelity you have had sufficient experience, to their several places and Commands in the Army; and to turn out those, be they never so great, who have manifested their enmity and disaffection to that Good Old Cause, and the public interest of these Nations. It being impossible that you should cheerfully and unanimously carry on the great Work which is now upon the wheel, so long as such corrupt Instruments and Time-servers have such Commands in this Army, which God so eminently owned whilst they owned him and his Cause.  
We further desire, that you would be a means, that the Long Parliament, who declared for the Government of a Free-State in the Legislative Authority of this Commonwealth, may speedily return to their trusts: They and you being engaged against Monarchy, and to be true to the Government as then established without King or House of Lords.  
And this we humbly propose as the best and safest way to revive and strengthen the Good Old Cause, and all those honest men that are concerned therein. Many of the Members of that Parliament, being, we hope, more refined and fitted by their several Trials, for carrying on the Work, since they were disturbed in managing the Government of this Commonwealth.  
Nor can we rationally conceive, that any other way or model which can be thought of at present, will be an effectual means to prevent a new War, and to restrain the abuses of the Law, and secure and preserve us from Monarchy and Tyranny, or the Arbitrary and unlimited power of the Sword, if this means and expedient, which legally ought to take place, be rejected; all other ways and means which have been attempted hitherto, having proved ineffectual and fruitless.  
And hereby you will make it appear, that in this late great undertaking of yours, you have not sought your own particular advantage, or the greaming of yourselves, but the public good of your Country; it being your wisdom and safety, to return again into that way, where you found much of the presence and assistance of God; and from which having departed, your way hath been hedged up with thorns, and surrounded with insuperable difficulties.  
In doing those things, and whatsoever else hath a tendency to the public good of these Nations, we trust the Lord will yet delight to dwell in the midst of you, and will make you a further blessing to this Commonwealth, and specially to his own peculiar People, who have poured out many prayers and tears for you in the defence of that precious Cause, whereunto you have so often born witness; and in the further prosecution whereof, we are resolved by the Lord's assistance to live and die with you.  
But if after all these shaking and stupendious Providences, and this late undertaking of yours, you should lift up yourselves or any Party among yourselves, or should be instrumental by the Sword to advance any other private Interest or family whatsoever, against which the Lord hath so eminently witnessed from heaven, we, with thousands more, who cordially love the Good Old Cause, cannot own you in such ways; nor will the Lord go along with you in your Counsels and enterprises; but will visit by some remarkable Judgement or other, for this perpetual Backsliding from Him and his Cause. But we hope better things from you by the Lord's assistance, and such things as may rejoice the hearts of all your true Friends, and be a terror to all the Enemies of this Commonwealth.  
This Paper was presented April 25. 1659.  
And this Answer was returned, (to wit) THat several of the Things therein contained, were already under consideration, and they should do as the Lord should direct them.