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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80281	A complaint to the House of Commons, and resolution taken up by the free Protestant subjects of the cities of London and Westminster, and the counties adjacent.		1643 (1643)	Wing C5623; Thomason E245_5; ESTC R18737	11,598	15

Protestation or else they respect not their vows made to Almighty God and to break such a publike vow is an heavie and fearfu l crime God keep such guilt out of our souls for in the Protestation they do professe vow and protest before Almighty God as far as life power and estate to maintain and defend the power and priviledges of Parliament and every person c. in pursuance of the same c. Others finde fault with the committing of malignants to prison but they are used like men not as Smith the Provost Marshall useth them not as Captain Lilburn Captain Wingate Captain Walton c. are used like dogs rather then Christians almost pined to death for want of sustenance eaten with vermin for want of help and shifts of cloaths loaded with fetters of iron debarr'd of the company of their wives children or friends debarr'd of the charity that friends would relieve them with cannot have the favour which Chaistians have of Turks from those blood-thirsty Cavaliers who use them like Hackny-Jades nay worse like dogs for though it is true the King allows six peace a day But Smith detains four pence three farthings of it here is cruelty indeed unspeakable cruelty what would these men do if they should suduens we have cause indeed to complain of those that would by a pretence of Peace betray us into these blood-sucking hands Good Lord deliver us from them it is to be feared if we submit to them we shall be more persecuted then ever our Predecessors were in the bloody times of Queen Mary How publikely have they in their scandalous Pamphlets abused the high Court of Parliament the Honorable the Lord Major of London the City of London and Westminster belched forth their threatnings in the speedy execution of their devilish practises and terible threatnings of their resolved purposee And give God thanks that their Papists and Jesuits keepe in their heades I wonder that many will say seeming to be juditious men that they think the Malignants desire peace as well as pretend to desire it see how cunningly they have wrought against the Parliament first they covertly abuse them by the defaming of their proceedings in their Petition this being discovered their Petition was rejected then they send a company of prentice-boyes to Westminster and they make a vapouring shew of desire of peace And now at last of all they have brought forth the most rebellious treacherous Pamphlet that ever was writ stuffed with insufferable languages full of bitternesse and railing against the Parliament and in plain earnest desires the people to take up Arms to destroy the Parliament if this do not convince you of the poison of these viperous generation of damnable Malignants what will you do surely if you be not wedded to your own ruine you must needs abhor such things as these They disturbed Scotland they have almost over-run Ireland and they have gotten too much head in England if it please God to see it good that it might be otherwise and are English people so blinde th●t they cannot yet see Oh noble Senators we have great cause indeed to put up our Complaints against these Cerberusses that dare thus to come up barking to your very doors scattering their poysoned Pamphlets about your houses making Proclamation to all the Countries in England to assist them against the Parliament should we assist a company of Papists and wicked people of desperate fortunes to attempt such a damnable design it is very probable the next Project would be to murther us and all the Protestants in England Another envious fit they have of railing against the Honorable the Lord Major of the City of London an honest religious godly man one in whose brows is the very Emblem of Love chosen by the Votes of the City confirmed by the Authority of the High Court of Parliament and with great care and pains doth execute his office yet is scorned and contemned by some wicked debauched Shagamuffins whose words no wise man will regard such as Dudly that was hanged for robbery the last Sessions at Newgate will wise men be deluded by the examples of such as are fitter for the Gallows the Cage or the Whipping-post then to meddle in State-matters surely methinks it becomes not the gravity of the City to be so unwise thus to procure their own ruine Right Honorable Senators they have abused the whole City of London and Westminster a few Papists and factious people amongst us that have seduced others to set their hands to their Petition presume they will joyn with them in their so great and saucie malipertnesse against you nay they boast as if we would all joyn with them but we will not no we conceive it concerns us greatly to complain against them they have abused us we disclaim their fact and brand it with the desert of condign punishment amongst all the saucinesse that our Chronicles give report of we do not finde the like onely one of them now a great Commander a Papist to a Petition from Cheshire against Reformation forged hands for dead men mad men Sea men out of the land brought childrens hands and Papists and presented it in the name of all Cheshire so have these few rebellious elves belched forth their poyson against you in the name of all London and Westminster And they are very terrible in the threatning of the execution of their purposes Resolutions they have devillish Resolutions Resolutions for the overthrow of Religion Resolutions to destroy the Parliament and in them all the priviledges of the Subject Resolutions to set up Popery Oh most noble Senators we had never more cause to complain against a bastardly brood of Popish Traytors then now now they are grown 〈…〉 now they are every day plotting and practising all the mischief they can against us and such is the simplicity of many amongst us that for all this they believe these Incendiaries of mischief will do us no hurt they say is it possible that men should be so blinde and deluded by them They are very terrible in their threatning they protest to bring us suddenly to ruine to dissolve the Parliament suddenly and what do you think they would do next you that are well opinionated of them first they say they will defend themselves by Arms that is of Rebellion and then they will make use of what is next as themselves say in their calumnious Pamphlet Oh what cause have we to complain of these dangerous Malignants what will they spare nothing no they say they will make use of what is next make use of our goods by plundering and robbing us make use of our wives and daughters by ravishing them and murther us our wives and children as they have done in Germany and as they still do in Ireland shall we trust such as these Oh let us take heed how we admit of any peace or confederacie with them that thus despise the Parliament Religion and the people of God