A COLLECTION OF Paſſages, concerning his Excellency and Officers, at the TOWER OF LONDON: WHERE They Dined yeſterday, being Tueſday Feb. 1. 1647 AND Several Speeches were made by his Excellency, and the Lieutenant of the Tower and the reſt of the Officers.
WITH The disbanding of all his Excellencies Life-Guard.
ALSO The Copy of a Letter ſent from his Excellency to all Collonels, and Commanders in Chief, in the Kingdome of England, and Dominion of Wales.
Printed at London by Robert Ibbitſon in Smithfield, neere the Queens-head Tavern. 1646.
HIS Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax with a few Gentlemen came from Winſor to London on Saturday January 29 (but had intended a day ſooner, onely was ſtayed to diſpatch ſome buſineſſe of conſequence at the Head-quarters,) And lyes at his owne Houſe in Queen-ſtreet, But the Head-quarters continue at Winſor ſtill.
And for the eaſe of the Kingdome is disbanding of His own Life-Guard, that ſo the Kingdom may be put to as little charges as may be.
2His Excellency was by Colonel Titchburne Lieutenant of the Tower of London, invited to dinner to the Tower on Tueſday February the firſt inſtant to which His Excellency granted.
And on the ſaid Tueſday in the morning Colonell Sir Hardreſſe Waler, Colonel Baxter, Colonell Whaley and ſeverall other Colonels and Officers waited upon His Excellency at His houſe in Queene ſtreete where His Excellency received, and anſwered ſeverall Petitions.
About 11 of the Clocke His Excellency with the Officers went from his Houſe and came to the Tower about 12. where His Excellency was entertained by the Lieutenant thereof, And dined.
His Excellency and Officers with the ſaid Leiutenant were very cheerefull, and had ſuch good diſcourſe of the mercies of God, as may be a patterne to all others in the Kingdome.
And this may remind us, and His Excellency and Officers alſo of that ſweet harmony which was in the reciprocall imbraces of all at the thankſgiving dinner which his Excellency lately invited his Officers to, at which time ther was a renumeration of the great mercies of God to them, at which time there was much of Gods goodneſſe repeated, and what wonderfull things God had done for them, which was a generall meeting of above one hundred Officers, with ſuch imbraces and much love, and expreſſions of mirth and affections.
His Excellency on Tueſday aforeſaid came onely privately to dinner to the Tower, and kept no Councell there, onely with the Lieutenant, and ſome Officers3 viewed the Artillery and the Magazeen, and made ſome inquiry into the ſtate of things.
Some ſpeeches paſſed from His Excellency, from the Lieutenant, and from the reſt, and all tending to love, and peace, and the execution of the Ordinances and Inſtructions, from the Parliament and to aſſiſt the two Houſes of Parliament againſt all oppoſers.
His Excellency gave ſome inſtructions to the Lieutenant of the Tower, and returned backe to His Houſe in Queene-ſtreete, but the Head quarters are ſtill at Winſor.
Dated at the Tower of LondonTueſday the 1 of Feb. 1647.
BY vertue of a warrant to me directed from His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax4 Knight Generall of all the Forces in England and Wales, And according to, and in purſuance of, the late Reſolutions and Orders of Parliament for disbanding of the ſupernumerary Forces under my command, I do hereby publiſh and declare the of under the command of to be from hence forth Disbanded, And all Officers and Souldiers thereof are from henceforth diſcharged from any further command or duty relating to each other as Officers or Souldiers of the ſaid Troop, or otherwiſe in relation to the Service of the Parliament, And all and every of them are hereby required forth with to depart and repaire to their ſeverall houſes or places of abode, or where their ſeverall occaſions doe lye, Given under my Hand and Seale.
WHereas in purſuance of ſeverall Reſolutions and Orders of Parliament5 for the disbanding of ſupernumerary Forces.
I have lately given a Warrant or Order to you directed under my Hand and Seal wherin under your Command were appointed to be disbanded as Supernumeraries and all due compliance with the Commiſſioners of Parliament imployed for that purpoſe and all ready obedience was required on your part in the diſpatch of that Service.
Theſe are further to authorize and require you That the thing appointed by the Parliament to be don in Order to disbanding being performed, & ſo ſoon as you ſhall be ther unto required by the ſaid Commiſſioners you doe cauſe Proclamation for disbanding to be made and publiſhed in the head of each that is to be bisbanded, to the effect and according to the forme here incloſed; it is to paſſe in your Name, and under your hand and Seale, as by VVarrant from me.
And upon the publication thereof, you are to cauſe all Officers and Souldiers, of the6 ſaid reſpective to ſeperate and depart according to the effect thereof, and for ſo doing, this ſhall be your warrant.
Given under my Hand and Sealethe firſt day of February, 1647.To Collonel or the Commander in cheife with His Forces.
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