A Letter from the Commissioners of the Militia of Westminster, and parts aedjacent; Directed and Delivered to Lievtenant General Fleetwood, to be Communicated to the Council of Officers: As also a Resolve of the said Commissioners, in Answer to a Letter directed to [...]hem, from the pretended Committee of Safety.
VVHereas We understand there are Commissioners Arrived in this Place from General Monk, to treat concerning the Restauration of the Parliament, We being unwilling and (indeed through the dear love of our Country) unable to omitt any thing that may be in our Duty, or in our Power, conducing to so Pious and Conscientious an End; most earnestly desire that You would be Instrumentall in this Juncture towards the Restauration of the Parliament. Not to trouble you at this time with such Arguments for a Duty (as we conceive so incumbent upon you), as you have heard or met with from other hands, or that may concern your Countryes, or our Selves, but with such onely as relate to your own peculiar Interest; we do not think that you will find any example of an Army, taking Civill Power upon them, which hath not been forthwith debauched or broken with the weight of it. This Recommendation of our selves unto you, and of your selves, unto your selves, we thought fit to lay before you: And remain
Ʋpon reading of a Letter, from the pretended Committee of State, directed to the said Commissioners; They came to this Resolution.
REsolved, That the Commissioners of this Militia hold themselvs bound in Duty and Conscience, to be faithful and constant to the Authority of Parliament, by which they sit, and not to receive any Order from, or give Accompt unto, any other than the Parliament, or Council of State.