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A93459 The souldiers demand· Shewing their present misery; and prescribing a perfect remedy. 1649 (1649) Wing S4421; Thomason E555_29; ESTC R3057 11,196 16

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Souldiers and have tasted longest of their barbarousnesse it s we they would be soonest rid of for the new Novices they suppose they may a while lead them by the noses as they have done us by suffering of them like idle rogues to ride a horseback up and downe the Countrey and pill and powle the poore people which may very well please them for a time but alas they will find little benefit that way because we gave skim'd it so cleane over and over that peradventure if the people should be exasperated against them as who can tell what necessity and want at last may drive them to perchance they may get that they unexpected But it is us they feare for if we perish then they think they are cock-sure besides all our Arreares which they never meane to pay us will fall into their owne clutches If they withhold from us our moneyes here in England what will they doe in Ireland when we cannot come to their faces to demand it what hope is there that we shall ever have it And if we have no pay but what they thinke fit how shall we live But in case we have money what shall we doe with money we cannot eat it peradventure they hope to tempt us with a little ready money in our hands for victuals and clothing will be so difficult to be had there that notwithstanding our money we may be all starved but they will make you beleeve that victuals and all other provision and necessaries shall be convayed out of England let us be no longer gull'd with that fopperie for we too too well know the scarcitie of all things in England that nothing can be affoorded out of it and if here it be not to be had how is it possible to be brought from hence thither And have we not very well observed how often this poore State has been cheated with sending reliefe into Ireland which never went but all converted into their grasping clawes and poore Ireland lost for want of it and now at their pleasure we must be sent to recover it Besides are we not ey-witnesses how many poore Souldiers and other People come daily from Ireland and cry out they are starved and want their pay worse than we doe neither if we want our pay can we find the free quarter we have here So in conclusion we are like neither to get necessaries or money there a faire encouragement to make us goe But I hope by what is here set downe our Brother-souldier will well consider before he goes and first get in their money that is already due and then we will talke further upon this undertaking-voyage Neither will they find it so easie a matter to be so rid of us as they suppose to doe by all their cunning and policy But one more case will we put you suppose we had money to our desires provision sufficient in England to be sent us Yet what danger and hazard will there be to conveigh it over to us for if it should be surprized or cast away or wind-bound what shall become of us are we not in a lamentable case And why must we goe over thither under all these hazards and danger of our owne lives only to kill the people there that our Tyrannicall Masters may the easier rule over a few poor sort of base people and for this reason we must venture bodies soules and lives to fulfill their wils and pleasures surely we have great cause to doe it for them they have been such gracious Masters to us We hope these reasons will make any sensible men advise with their pillow before they will voluntarily and rashly run themselves upon this Rock and let Ireland be quiet except there may be better reasons readred than we understand yet FINIS
THE SOULDIERS DEMAND Shewing Their PRESENT MISERY And prescribing A PERFECT REMEDY Printed at Bristoll in the Yeare of intended Parity 1649. The SOULDIERS Demand Fellow Souldiers IT has pleased the Lord to open our eyes and to let us see the wretched conditions we are brought under and our crying sinnes which cry aloud in the eares of God Oh! the Ocean of bloud that we are guilty of Oh! the intollerable oppression that we have laid upon our Brethren of England Oh! how these deadly sinnes of ours doe torment our consciences Oh! how are we able to answer these pestilent acts of ours at the dreadfull bar of Gods divine justice Nay this is the most sharpest conflict to them that we never understood a true Cause or just reason for the shedding of so much innocent bloud in our own Nation nor why we have done such horrid oppression to our owne Countrey-men Has not the dissembling and hypocriticall Parliament gull'd and deceiv'd us by their faire pretences of reforming the Protestant Religion of rectifying the State and reducing of the ancient Liberties of the People of England Have ye observ'd any thing lesse or any thing more contrary sit hence the Parliament hath been for these eight years past We poore simple men did verily beleeve that these had been the true Causes and Reasons all this while for which we have fought thus eagerly one against another And ever since our Army did first enter into the great City of London what Declarations and specious promises have been set forth to the same effect And doe ye not perceive how they walke still in the same wayes yea far worse every day than other will you be any longer led by the noses by these delusions and mockeries and suffer your bodies and soules to be utterly ruined Oh our worthy Companions and Fellow-Souldiers be not any longer misled by the dissembling showes of our Superiours as we must call them and the wicked Instruments their pretended Parliament lest you be tortured in your Consciences as we are and make your selves the basest slaves in the whole world and eternall slaves in Hell hereafter Yet brave Souldiers let us give every body their due has not brave Fa●rfax and gallant Crumwell and we their dependents made the English and Scottish earth to tremble wheresoever we have set our feet and have not our hands convinced all our foes and opposers and brought gallant Fairfax and Crumwell to this high pitch of honour that they have da●●d to lay their Soveraignes head under their feet and many of his Nobles in the dust and there is not a Lord left nor any of the gallantest men in the whole Kingdome that dares to budge against them For if they doe require any thing of them they will rather licke up the dust under their feet than dare any manner of way to oppose them Nay further have not they and we brought the Royall City the great Metropolis of this Kingdome to that subjection and basenesse that we dare sweare on hundred of us though there be a CM and a CM fighting men in it would drive them out of their Towne and make them to lye downe at our seet like Spannels and suffer themselves to be bastinadoed and give us whatsoever we would desire of them they doe so dread a souldiers face and tremble at the very sight of one And as for the Countrey poore slaves we have so tained awed and domineered over them that we can make them like setting-doggs to come when we call to doe what we command and to lye downe when we bid them And yet these base peasants for we can terme them no better though they are such milksops let any of them be entred into our society and a little impudence put into them and after they are hardened therein they will presently turne Lyons such gallant spirits doth the art of Armes many times put into base and ignoble clownes Oh out upon these vaine Fooleries what would we give to have our troubled consciences setled in peace Oh this bloud and oppression does more exasperate us than we are able to expresse If the Lord be not pleased to shew us mercy what will become of us the most miserable of all men And will you not have discovered unto you the unworthinesse of our base Generall and his subordinate Officers towards us and their small esteeme of us though we be the only means of their high advancement Doe they not now raigne and rule above Kings Is it not by our valour Is not their owne will a Law to which every body must be subject Or else are not we their strength and power to force and compell all opposers to their lusts and pleasures Who dares to affront them that we doe not presently subdue and make obedient Have not they likewise by the terror of us set up a Councell of State forsooth as they call it and a Parliament of Knaves according to their owne humour to act force and order whatsoever our Superiours will have them to doe that under the name of a Parliament all their villanies oppressing and cheating of the poore people must be overshadowed and varnished as Taxes Excise and other oppressive Acts first ordered and made by our Superiours but must beare the stamp and face of a Parliament And is it not the terror of us that makes this base Parliament their Bawd and Pander And will you give leave to set forth unto you our base and vile usage from these Caterpillers and ungratefull villaines that very well know how they dare not shew their heads in any honest place but for us it is our valour that supports them and if we decline from them they will fall and consume like smoke And yet if we run not like slaves to fulfill their lusts are we not scorned and abused and kicked like dogs by them as if we were the very scumme of the world in their esteeme Are we not unpaid our wages and hire by them by which we should live and for want of it are we not forced to get our bread by force and rapine else we must starve from our poore Countrey-men Have we any clothing but at their pleasure so that for want many of us sundry times are constrained to goe to a hedge or breake into a house or else to the High-way and if any of us be but taken in this misdemeanor on what an high offence is it up we must to the gallowes and be condemned or censured by our Commanders who are the only reason by their unhonest and unjust retaining of our wages in their owne fingers for want whereof we are many of us forced to doe that we ought not to doe Doe they not upon any occasion quarrell against us if we be but absent or doe not instantly what they will have us are we not cudgelled horsed our Armes broken over our heads to our disgrace Are we not threatned upon every slight occasion to be cashiered our Arreares to