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A93459
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The souldiers demand· Shewing their present misery; and prescribing a perfect remedy.
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1649
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Wing S4421; Thomason E555_29; ESTC R3057
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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