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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	law_n	power_n	resist_v	2,109	5	9.2401	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84029	The English souldiers standard to repaire to, for wisdome and understanding, in these doleful back-sliding times. To be read by every honest officer to his souldiers; and by the souldiers, one to another.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing E3119; Thomason E550_1; ESTC R205638	8,821	13

The English Souldiers STANDARD To Repaire to FOR WISDOME AND UNDERSTANDING In these doleful back-sliding Times To be read by every honest Officer to his Souldiers and by the Souldiers one to another Printed in the Yeer 1649. The English Souldiers Standard to repair to for Wisdom and Vnderstanding in these doleful backsliding times To be read by every honest Officer to his Souldiers and by the Souldiers one to another IT was most worthily said of you in your Declaration of the 14 of June 1647 page 6 That you were not a meer mercenary Army hired to serve any arbitrary power of a State but were called forth and conjured by the severall Declarations of Parliament to the defence of your own and the peoples just Rights and Liberties and so you took up Arms in judgment and conscience to those ends Which expressions of yours and the like gave so great content and satisfaction to all sorts of well-minded people that the meanest private Souldier amongst you was more honourable in their esteem then the most glorious out-side man in the world you had been their guard by day and their defence by night you delivered them from the Bear and from the Lion and when the Parliament began to turn Tyrants themselves and would have broken you in pieces by dividing of you and sending a part of you for Ireland that so they might without obstacle have trampled upon the peoples Liberties you resolved as became an Army whom the Lord had blessed to deliver the people also from those uncircumcised Philistims And when they would have terrified you from so doing with urging that you resisted Authority you spared not to tell them and that truly That it is no resisting of Magistracy to side with the just principles and Law of Nature and Nations And that the Souldiery may lawfully hold the hands of the Generall who will turn his Canon meaning his strength power and authority against his Army on purpose to destroy or enslave them And such you say were the proceedings of our Ancestours of famous memorie to the purchasing of such Rights and Liberties as they have enjoyed through the price of their bloud and we both by that and the later bloud of our dear friends and fellow-souldiers with the hazard of our own do now lay claim to And truly friends it will be necessary for you to look quickly about you and that to purpose and to be like unto our Ancestors or like unto your selves in what you then declared and to enquire whether you and the rest of the people of this Nation are yet restored to those their Rights and Liberties and accordingly to be satisfied in your Judgments and Consciences You have been many of you Country-men and know well what a miserable burthen Tythes and Free-quarter are many of you have been Trades-men and laborious people and can be sensible how intolerable the burthen of Excise and Customs and Monopolies in Trade are Officers and Usurers running away with that which should pay you and the poor labour for to the ruine of Trade You cannot but know what it is to live continually in prison in penury and beggery hearing and seeing the misery of such poor people in all places You know we live under unknown Laws written in canting French vext and molested with a whole drove of corrupt Judges Lawyers Jaylors and the like Caterpillers of the Common-wealth Your great Officers indeed have reduced the Supreme Authority into one Jurisdiâ—tion but what are we or you the better when it is used to set up now ways of tryals for our Lives and Liberties new Courts of Justice denying both you and us when they please the benefit of tryals by twelve sworn men when already they have punish'd for matters of Religion as other corrupt Parliaments use to do and when they have erected a Councell of State that already examines men upon Interrogatories against themselves in criminall Cases when they stop the Presse that no information shall be given to you or the people and imploy worse beagles to hunt after books then the High-Commission or Star-Chamber ever did Nay Friends where are you and our Liberties when your Generall Councel of Officers make it so hainous a crime for Souldiers to petition Parliaments without licence of their Officers It is but few years since that in London the Aldermen of the City endeavoured that no Citizens should petition the Parliament but first they should passe the Common Councel But it was when those great men intended to grasp into their hands all power both of Parliament and people as appeared soon after by their pernitious Remonstrances and desperate Engagements which we beleeve had done much more mischief if honest and resolved Citizens had not made bold with their Greatships and frequently visited the House with Petitions which would as soon have past the sire as the Common Councell And you had best look unto your selves and to your and our Liberties when as your Officers many of them begin to combine together and punish men for petitioning assure your selves if they go on your Liberties and ours are not long-lived nay are they not at last gasp when they are grown so raging mad as to importune for a Law to have power in themselvâ—s to hang and put to death any person though not of the Army as shall hold any discourse with Souldiers about their own and the peoples just Rights and Liberties Pray friends were these men any part of the Army when you published to the world that you took up Arms in Judgment and Conscience for the peoples just Rights and Liberties or have those your Officers forgot themselves and utterly lost their consciences and all sense of their then promises Declarations and Remonstrances if so you shall do well to remember them as you did those Officers of yours that made scruple to engage with you for your right of petitioning and for the peoples Liberties at New-market Or are these Officers usurpers and not properly the Councell that was then chosen by the Army pray look to it for your Declarations and their works differ exceedingly the one tending to freedom but the latter to such a bondage as all true English Souldiers will abhor and if you find that you have not chosen them to deal with you in those affairs of the Common-wealth which concern every private Souldier as the greatest Commander What have you then to do but to chuse out from amongst your selves such faithfull men whether Officers or Souldiers as in those doubtfull staggering times have stood firm to their first principles and do evidence by their humility and resolution that they took up arms in judgement and Conscience for their own the peoples just Rights Liberties such as rather then the Nation should be deprived thereof being purchasted with so vast expence of blood durst hold the hands of the Generall and all the Generall Officers if they shall persist to turn their Cannons their strength power and

authority to the enslaving of the Common-wealth For what else is become of that judgment and Conscience in which you took up armes certainly your Consciences cannot be satisfied that your Generall and Generall Officers no nor the new Generall Councell of Officers which seldom exceeds threescore persons shall after all your tedious strivings and struglings for liberty against all other parties make both you and us slaves to themselves in a Counsell of State or their own packt Parliament certainly Tyranny Cruelty and continuance of oppression is not the lesse because your Officers are now the Authors and continuers of it but should rather be esteemed the greater and more abominable by how much their promises have exceeded others it cannot stand either with found judgment or good Conscience that now you should be so far respecters of persons as to beare with that wickededness and treachery in your pretended friends and Commanders which you have by many years war laboured to destroy and root out in two great and powerfull parties You are seriously to consider that you have an alseeing God to give an account unto and are not to please your Commanders in fulfilling their wils but to be sure that you give satisfaction to your Conscience in the well pleasing of Almighty God And it will be no satisfaction at all to his justice when he shall call you to an account for the killing and slaying of men for you to say you that did it in obedience to the Commands of your Generall and Officers for you must note that it is those just ends the rights liberties of the people that only can acquit you from being murtherers in all you have done so that you may at highly once please your commanders in killing and slaying of men to make way for their greatness wealth and domination more highly displease God in being murtherers in so doing nor can you escape his heavy Judgments except you persevere and go on to those just ends unto which you have made your way as through a Sea of blood and to be no respecters of persons but to take whomsoever for an enemy that shall oppose you therein It is observed that you are very strict agaâ—â—â—t your own fellow Souldiers in case they offend though in small matters inflicting very severe punishments for particular offences and why then look you not after and consider the ways of your Commanders but let them pass with all their delusions of the Army abusing the faith and credit thereof with all sorts of people breaking your Counsell of Agitators corrupting and terrifying both Officers and Souldiers to mould them to their own vile and unworththy ends and are now in a ready way to make themselves and their creatures in Parliament and elsewhere absolute Masters over the Common-wealth Nay do you not help them in it for want of consideration for why else are you so ready to execute their cruell sentences upon honest and faithfull Souldiers as your shooting the man to death at Ware and imprisoning of divers about the agreement of the people And now also of late your forcing of five worthy Souldiers to ride the Horse with their faces to the Horse tails and breaking their swords over their heads for standing to their and your Right in petitioning and for presenting a letter to your cruell Counsell in justification thereof It seems it is a very true proverbe that honors change manners and is fully verified in your great Commanders whom the fore recited Declaration of the 14 of June 1647 earnestly desired that the right and freedom of the people to present petitions to the Parliament might be cleared and vindicated haveing made it before hainous crime in Hollis and Stapleton to hinder the Souldiers from petitioning and yet now being in honor and power judge and sentence honest faithfull Souldiers to base unworthy punishments for but resolving to petition But truely friends suffer this and suffer any thing experience saith he that takes one box on the ear invites another and when Souldiers that should be men in all things stand still and suffer their fellow Souldiers to be thus abused by a pack of Officers no marvell if these officers turn Tyrants and presume to do any thing to any man What right hath a Generall Generall Officers or a Counsell of Officers to petition more then the meanest private Souldier surely to be a Generall is not to be above Law except he make himself a Tyrant is he or any Officer any other but a person under authority and accomptable for discharge of their trusts nor is a private Souldier a slave because he is a private Souldier but to have as full benefit of the Law as clear a use of his liberty in petitioning or otherwayes as his Generall of Officers and there is no surer mark to know a Tyrant by or such as would be so then for any to argue otherwise And it will be good to mark such with a black coale Pray consider it and lay it to heart Is it not a shame that your fellow-souldiers should undergo so slavish so severe and painfull punishment as to ride the woodden horse or run the gauntlet and be whipt for small particular offences and that you should suffer in the mean time your Officers and Commanders to â—urn Tyrants and never punish them at all for it Is this to take up Arms in Judgment and Conscience when one man being your Commander may as the proverb saith steal a horâ—e and you will hang a private souldier for but looking over the hedge for what comparison is there between a private souldiers offence and an Officers turning a Bear a Wolf a Tyrant Beleeve it if you look not to it speedily your Officers are in a ready way to make you and the Common-wealâ—h absolute slaves for they mould and fashion the Army even how they please preferring none to commands but flatterers and servile men and catch at all advantages to turn all such out of command as are anyway sensible of the rights of the people and have taken so absolute a power therein so long that they have done very much of their work And do beleive all is formed to their own bent and that 's the reason they presume now to propose the sending of many of you for Ireland pretending extraordinary necessity and that that Nation otherwise will be utterly lost but surely all parties are not so soon agreed 't will not be amiss to make two words to such a bargain This you know is not the first fetch for Ireland and you must note 't is neither Ireland nor Scotland nor any other forces they fear but the sting of their own consciences perpetually tels them they have dealt most perfideously and Tyrannously with the Army and Common-wealth and they perceive by the many motions of Souldiers and others that the Army is likely to draw out Adjutators once more whose morning they know will be the evening of their domination and the next day

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