The foxes craft discouered;: in destroying the peoples best friends, who stand in their prerogative way for perfect peace and freedom. As it will appeare by their usage, not onely of Captaine Bray, but also of his troop, that raised themselves at their own cost, and have continued in many hazards, but now must be ... with the reward of threats or imprisonment, or be ... to serve under one of the foxes new creatures. Wherein is anexed a congratulatory letter, to the ... of a large petition of the 11th September, for discovering their apprehensions to prevent our new slavery. / By John Naylier quartermaster, Richard Ellegood, and John Marshall, appointed by the troope for the prosecuting these things.

Certaine PASSAGES BETWEEN Some Members of Parliament, and the Presenters of the following Petition.

OF all the expectations of men, the most Justifiable expe∣ctation of Justice is the greatest misery to men, when frustrate; but we whose Names are here subscribed, have most wickedly, partially and unjustly been frustrate of our Ex∣pectations, as we expected Justice to our selves, and the Nation in generall, being without reason shewed us, dismissed of the Conduct of those our Officers, which we are all of us, with many more, certaine of their Integrity, but with Resolution to address our selves to the Parliament, as the onely helpe, under God, that we knew of to do us Justice, we were discouraged severall ways, which made us desist from any further hoping to get any Justice done us.

First, when we had sent some of our men to London with our Desires, which was the Seventeenth of this instant March. 1648. with resolution to have delivered this Petition to the Parliament the 19. comming to the Parliament door, we found our Captaine committed to Windsor Castle, for appealing to the House, against some dealings with him by one that was inferiour to that Su∣pream Authority, which was the amazement of our Spirits to see that just right of the People so trampled upon, and gave us (as we thought) great cause of feare, lest we should be served the same sawce with our Petition, we knowing the honesty and integrity of our Captaine; but yet howsoever, on the 21. of this present, one of those which we intrusted, went into the House upon the r sing of the House, and delivered our Petition to the Speaker, who looking upon it, and finding Captain Brays name in the Title of

the Petition, he began to make slight of it, asking the Party that delivered it, whether it were in behalf of Captaine Bray, or not? Who answered, It was in behalf of the Troop, and Captaine Bray beside; when he heard it was in the Troops name, and saw the sub∣scriptions of our hands, he did vouchsafe to read some part of it, and commended some of the former part of it to be very honest, Collonel Harrison standing by in the House, did alone seem to be the most pittifull to us, in relation to the hard measure that was cited in it, measured to us, but Commissary Generall Ireton told our Souldier, That whereas it touched upon an Ordinance for no deduction for Free-quarter for those raysed for this summers ser∣vice, he told the Souldier againe, That that Ordinance did not extend to Forces of the County of Kent, which was very strange to us, but the Comissary Generall told the Souldier, That there was care taken for us to serve in the Army under a new Captaine, but the Souldier told him againe, That we would serve under no other Captaine then Captaine Bray; but Alderman Permington then replyed, That it seemed we would not obey the Generall; the Souldier asked him, when we ever disobeyed any of the Generalls just Commands? whereupon the Alderman seemed to catch some advantage of the Souldier, and asked him, Whether he thought the Generall would command any unjust things? who made him answer, That he should not catch him, for he did not say he did; but in fine of all, we finding that we had beard the sense of so many eminent men in the House, we were discouraged to trou∣ble them any more with our Petition; for the Speaker told our Souldier, That he look'd for some such stuffe in the tayle of the Petition, as he look'd upon in the end of it, which you may here see; but yet having read as much of our Petition as he thought fit, he thrust it into the hands of our Souldier again, and so left him, but yet these our intrusted men waighted at their door that af∣ternoon againe, but could not get our Petition into the House to the Speaker, although the Seargeant courteously went and asked the Speaker. Whether he should bring it in, or not.

Now we desire all honest Censciencious unbyassed men to judge, Whether we are not unworthily dealt withall, for all our integrity to the Nation, as our Petition, (which we have made publick here will shew) for we must either at last all of us leave our imployment in the Army, or at least break this Troope,

which is one of the most Unanimousest Troopes in the ARMY, (as it stood under Captaine Bray; for the setting up or purify of Iustice in the Nation.