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A45382	The loyal indigent officer being a brief description of the truly loyal commissioned officers, which hath faithfully served His late Majesty, of ever blessed memory, and His Majesty that now is : with a discovery how to be known from the number of the pretended commission'd officers, which formerly hath appear'd, and hath participated of His Majesties gracious gifts and favours and, not contented, secretly contrived for more / written by Charles Hammond ...	Hammond, Charles, 17th cent.	1670 (1670)	Wing H496; ESTC R21942	13,686	32

and abused sufficiently by our pretended Friends I count it not wisdom to abuse God in Swearing and Cursing of them in thinking to Revenge our self thereby For matter of Deboystness and Drinking which is laid upon the Party For my part I know there hath been them that hath walkt from Morning till Night and could scarce meet with a Breakfast or Mornings Draught though they have met with them that could a Reliev'd them with both some of our Trustees nor lend them a shilling if they had askt them though they know how to pay themselves unless you would sell your Lot or Part to them then they would find Money as wants hath made many done of late having neither Imployments Trades nor Credit having wearied all our Friends and Relations with promises hoping we shall have some ways provided for us to satisfie them and Relieve us There are many of us I believe if they had it would not see one another want Many times we meet and are glad we can make our selves merry with Melancholly and hopes together more than our Purses are able to do in Drink We that had little or nothing left when his Majesty was returned cannot have that plenty now as to waste it in superfluities of Meat and Drink We have made hard shifts for Food and Raiment and been content with little Drink But it is none but a never contented Party that says we are a discontented Party and would have nothing done for none but themselves unless they have a part in it that will cast Aspertions upon those they thinks will declare the Truth against them thinking that by that favour they have got to throw all out of favour but themselves and those that can flatter with them for fear or self-ends I hope those that can appear before his Majesty or whom he shall appoint and make themselves cleerly out That they have been Truly Loyal Commissioned Officers and such as they declare themselves to be in the List Faithful Subjects to his Majesty from the first to the last and no such persons of Carriage nor Behaviour as some are pleased to Render them But such as when Examin'd shall be found as deserving Men according to their Commands they had as those that hath been pleased to Report us such persons because of our Poverty and nothing done for us then it will be found it is more their Malice and Covetousness than any Religion or fear of God they have in them as shall appear between their Actions and ours e're long when the Truth is made known to those that may have the hearing of it which is the cause I have VVrite this Book First To acknowledg what his Majesties Care and Love hath been for us in providing as we thought a subsistance for us if it had been manag'd according to the intentions of the Act of Parliament for the performing of it Secondly To make it appear we are no such discontented persons but content If not abused Thirdly How much hath been done for us and how little it hath come to and long of those that hath been intrusted in the Managing of it And Lastly If his Majesty be Graciously pleased to do any thing for us we desire to make it known we are such Men as we Report our selves to be Truly Loyal Commissioned Officers having had Real Commands according to our Titles very Indigent many of us and not provided for which we shall leave it to God and his Majesty to look upon us according to our Loyalty and Sufferings Knowing none will be offended that Truly Fears GOD and Honours the KING FINIS 2 Chron. 8.9 Luke 3.14 Queen Eli. Zach. 5.3

of us that I believe was as able and as honest as any were implo'd and would a given a good Satisfacton of your integrety to those that were mistrustful of you but you thought they were not fit for your Secrecy and therefore not fit for your Service But some of you say we are a discontented People and never Satisfied what is done for us Let all men that hath any Conscience or Christian Reason in them Judge after I have as near as I can cast up how much you have been pleased to allow us since you have been our Stewards whether we have not had more Reason to complain than give you thanks for your pains and care you have taken for us this six Years The first payment we had a 11 days pay from you out of all the Lotteries and 10 days 3 quarters pay since out of the Royal Oak which makes not 22 days pay in all cast up for the time it amounts to about six pence a day between a Colonel of Horse and a Collonel of Foot other Field-Officers on with another not Two-pence a day A Captain of Horse and Foot Three half-pence a day three pence between them Leiutenant Ensigns and Cornets about a half-penny a day one Officer with another not two-pence a day to maintain them I would have you reason with them how they have spent and consumed it and not benefitted themselves by it as you have done but murmure at your actions The Servants that you have imploy'd for the managing of our business that you were intrusted for hath made their Saleryes many days better then a Regiment of Officers pay hath been a day and good keeping by you besides I hope you have gain'd this six Years sufficient enough by us what we have gain'd by you I have made it appear I hope when it is known how we have been dealt withal since his Majesties Restauration as this Book relates part we cannot be blam'd formaking our Grievances so much known and have had so little done for us yet and long of such as have had the managing of our business I hope you will give an Account what Moneys you have left in your Treasury of those that are dead since and either pay it to the Widows Children or to them that Relieved them when you would not Unless they would Administer and so it may be undo themselves for that little you would do for them If you have not the Curses of the Widows and Fatherless I am afraid you have the Prayers of very few if you have done for us as you would be done to your selves you have done like Loyal Subjects and good Christians and I wish your prosperity according the same I wish to my self Give loosers leave to speak the Truth and not all neither till occasion serves If I have drawn you out here with my Pen it is not to the Life for I have shadowed you and it is well known to some of you your selves and to others for the present I shall leave you as you have left us If we be thrown out of your Favours which I am apt to believe you had never none for us unless it were for your own ends We hope we shall not be thrown out of his Majesties favour nor none that truly loves those that faithfully served him as I shall make it appear who they are and how to be known from those that takes the Names and Titles of Loyal Commission'd Officers There is your Truly Loyal Commission'd Officer and your Truly Loyal Indigent Officer Two Titles but one Subject different in habits but all one in Hearts Some it may be hath some Livelihood Credit Subsistence some Friends in hopes of somthing to be done for them Others may have Imployments during pleasure not Life subject to be turned out because of their Age but others again as I know hath neither so indigent and their wants so great they are ashamed to make it known Men fit deserving Men to be trusted in honest Imployments and as able to perform which I believe his Majesty knows not off And there are them that knows those things but being provided for themselves grows forgetful of their Fellow-Sufferers The pretended Loyal Commission Officers hath been the cause of those things and the Aspertions that hath been laid upon us besides The Truly Loyal Commission'd Officer is he that can make himself out so according to the Title and Command he had formerly Having a Real Command of Men answerable and able to perform the Duty of a Souldier according to that Command that served his Prince for Loyalty not Lucre that feared neither the Complaints of the Souldiers nor the Countries to rise against him for abusing or wronging of them that served and suffered till the last without deserting that never was a shame to his King nor the cause he undertook by his deboist living or behaviour that strived as much to serve God as he did to honour and serve his King These are brave Principles you will say to be found in Commanders and Souldiers Such as never wisht his Majesty nor his Armies well say there were very few then and appears as few now but it is well known to them that were in the Armies of either side that there were many such in all parts of his Majesties Armies there is many lies now in the Earth whose Memories will never dye on Earth Some dyed in the Field of Honour others Murthered for their Loyalty I will name none but let Truth and Equity Judge and then their Actions in all parts where they were known will sound their Fame to those that are now living and strives to imitate them which is no disgrace to a Souldier to be Religious as well as Valorous some of those men I mean though not declared here had been brought up in other parts beyond the Sea before they had occasion to show their Valour and knowledge here in his Majesties Service and were not ashamed to own they were Commanded before they came to Command and knew what belong'd to a Souldier from a Sentinel to a General and of good Birth which if now living would not despise Age and Poverty in Old deserving Souldiers and Officers formerly as some do and lookt upon as such pittiful fellows that deserves more disgrace or shame to be thrown upon them for their Loyalty and good Service then either Charity or Equity to be done for them as for Example Two that are now in good Offices which I shall not name and are imploy'd about business that lyes in dispute concerning the Loyal Indigent Officers one of them was pleased to say What a stir there was about a Company of Idle Fellows let them go to Work for 3 pence a day The other spoke more inveterate words which I shall wave relating here I know not what they have been nor what their parents were though now got in good Imployments such words they spoke savours more of the Seed of Rebellion