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cause_n	bring_v	good_a	see_v	2,547	5	3.0771	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26599	An Alarm to the officers and souldiers of the armies of England, Scotland, and Ireland		1660 (1660)	Wing A835; ESTC R8339	8,386	14

his designs to perfect maturity And that the same was designed in Scotland long since Observe how peaceable they are there and how the Irish Army have proceeded answerable to himself And besides say some of them being Officers of the late Kings Army who had been with him since his coming to London and offered their service to him which they said he accepted and told them he would before it were long be in a capacity to give them imployment much more of that nature which for brevity sake I omit onely this one thing more which very much increases their hopes and that is say they what signifies the peaceable return of the Kings friends from their Exile as Alderman Bonch and many others who had been so long fugitives if the return of the King was not likewise intended And further what doth signifie that proviso in that Act of dissolution concerning the Lords being a part of the Parliament of England if there must be a Commonwealth As for the sober Presbyterians they do of late begin to suspect the said General whom say they gives so much advantage to Charles Stuart and to his old and new rigid Cavaliers who for certain truth are at this juncture of time at work in arming themselves in all parts of the three Nations and will upon a sudden come like a flood upon you and the rest of the engaged party in the Nations and so conquer all by force of Arms and then what must or can be expected to follow but onely absolute ruine for undoubtedly say they Charles Stuart will bring with him Archbishops Bishops and the rest of that Hierarchy and we shall then be accounted no other by them but Sectarians and Phanatiques and be in the same predicament or worse for service than those who are so called and say they must not expect to be better used than they And besides his Mother the Queen will come which infallibly will bring with her Jesuits Priests and Monks of all sorts whereby Popery will cum privilegio be again re-admitted in the Nation so that they consider that if the General and your selves do not speedily prevent the same that the Cause so much contended for together with the interest of good people will sink and be utterly lost and so your Harvest will end in chaffe and you and them be carried back through a red Sea of blood in the land of Bondage and misery there to serve and bear the heavy yoke of one who will not forget that which hath as well been acted against his late Father the King as against himself it being the common talk of the Cavaliers that the Presbyterians brought his Father to the Block and the Independents cut off his Head As to your best friends which have bled with you and prayed for you and who have been constant assertors of the cause and interest of the good people of these Nations against Kingship single persons house of Lords they all of one voyce conclude that under God there is no other Bulwork of defence against the return of Monarchy but the Army which now they see to be absolutely designed for destruction by disbanding and reducing or else what meaneth the new Militia now setled and intrusted in the hands of persons almost all enemies to a Free-state Government several of the secluded Members both in the House and out of the House speaking it openly as likewise several of the Commissioners of City and Country which have been heard in their Cabals affirm that as soon as their Militiaes are setled they will quickly break the Rogues meaning you to whom they can scarce afford so good language and moreover they hope that the Supreme Authority being once devolved in the Councel of State as now it is that the said Councel will by subtil means and practises with the General gain him to condescend to the disbanding most of you to the end that the intended new Parliament may be able with more facility to bring the design now in hand to perfection which in plain English is to bring Charles Stuart to be King And that which your said friends do thereupon apprehend to follow in order to yours and theirs destruction is First if you can be perswaded by your enemies to admit Charles to be King upon any conditions then rest assured that he will not want an Army and specially such an one as brought his Father to the Block and kept him in Exile so many years therefore the first work will be to disband you and so leave you to the mercy and cruelty of those that by force you have subdued who in revenge will without any doubt take opportunity afterwards to hang many of you and banish others as Rebels and Traytors or at least cast you in noysome Dungeon but that onely will not satisfie their cruelty but be sure they will have all your estates and destroy your Wives and Children and persecute you and your friend unto death you may therefore say they with ease discern whether it be your interest or security to bring the Nation back under the old bondage of Kings or else to maintain and defend a Commonwealths Government the difference is plain the one will destroy you and your friends and the other will protect you both and you will be sure under a Commonwealth not to want as long as any of you shall live nor your Wives and Children And you will be sure also not to become your enemies slaves Secondly If you should be so fooled as to be perswaded to admit of the said Charles to return upon any termes then you will be reputed the most perfidious Army that breaths in breaking the engagements promises you have made to the contrary and so render all the blood spilt and treasure exhausted of no effect and thereupon give cause to the children unborn to curse such a generation of men as then you would be reputed But sayes your friends If you do withstand it and leave the success to God then you will have done your parts as English men and Christians and will in after Ages be esteemed faithful Patriots and Assertors of your Countrie Liberties and consequently of yourselves and posterities And say they when the late King had near a hundred thousand men in Field and Garrison you were not afraid and whensoever you encountred with any part thereof God strengthned your hearts and hands and gave you several Victories to the absolute overthrowing of them all in the three Nations therefore they wish you courage and blessing from on High and do heartily pray that God may go along with you in disappointing your enemies who as yet make no use of weapons save of their venemous and lying tongues Thirdly If you should be so deluded as to admit the said Charles Stuart to be King then your friends desire you further to consider that besides the foresaid ruine upon yourselves and them what further ruine will attend the three Nations by such