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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.
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1643
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Wing C5623; Thomason E245_5; ESTC R18737
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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 thâ—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
his most faithfull Councell and Highest Court And Who are they that set up other rules for themselves to walk by then such as are according to Law but they that will make other Judges of the Law then the Law hath appointed and so dispence with their obedience to that which the Law calleth authority and to their determinations and resolutions to whom the judgement doth appertain by Law for when private persons shall make the Law to be their rule according to their own understandings contrary to the judgement of those that are the competent Judges thereof they set up to themselves other â—â—les then the law doth acknowledge Surely if the Priests Jesuits and the power of papists were removed from amongst us one great part of the work were done towards an happy peace a religious peace a godly peace Oh down with them most noble Senatours doe not let them domineere as they doe you shall have our hands our purses our hearts our lives to assist you they are too bold nay even those in prison have their Confessions Absolutions weare their Beads and their Crucifixes Sing and roare and dance day and night at the Tavern with their company and doe very evill offices in the hinderance of peace nay there are some of their Priests will openly affront protestant prisoners and quarrell with them for their religion How backward are the Monopolists to this day to doe any good for the Kingdome And how do the Prelates labour to keep back all the means of an happy peace Oh how hath your Clemency appeared Right Honourable towards these incendiaries of mischief who would ruin both you and us the City and the whole Kingdome forgetting that old counsell which one of them D. Hall by name gave to Canterbury before they came to be Prelates If you love Peace without truth saith he keep peace to your self Let us have truth if it may be Peace too How many still are there who are as mad after Innovation as ever they were when the Popes Nuntio put his Arch grace in hopes either of a Cardinalls Har or a Patriarkes place And as for those desperate fortunes who long to fish in troubled waters because they have no better hopes to rest upon We doubt not but your Honours will find out a way to pievent the bloudy Tragedie of their desires Do damned Cavaliers sweare and dâ—maâ— themselves with all the fearfull oaths that can be imagined nay there was one of them not long since offerâ—d to give 3 l. to any one that could invert a new oath and shall such as these be suffered to revile a Parliament We have great complaint about the City some cry out of these wars would we had peace again as we had before not considering the miserable condition of bleeding Ireland intended first to have been performed against us nay to come to our own doors as it were in our own Land what is the condition of all the Country places where the Cavaliers come the Battell at Worster Keynton Brainford if these murmurers had seen the blood that was shed at the sight at Edge-hill c. What would they then have said they would it seems have peace with the enemies of God and Religion the enemies of the PARLIAMENT of the City of the Gospell alas what good will such peace do us Oh Noble Senators have not we cause to complaine against these men as against madmen that do so desperately seek to move you to betray your honours us and them yea Religion Lives Estates wives lands goods and all that we have into the hands of those that continue wars against us in hopes to plunder our houses ravish our wives spoile our goods and bring the City to ruine then say they shall the Borough of Southwark be our stables Others complain for want of trading but how would such complaine if their living was out of the Coales at Newcastle or if they had a shipp there to fraught therewith hither to be under tax of 30.40 or 50. pounds as it is imposed on them there before they can passe what a case are they like to be in about twelve thousand people that live only upon Coales there how are they like to be deprived of their trade alas the want of trade in the City is nothing to that it is in the Country in many places Oh Right Honorable what cause have we to complaine of the poor ignorant people that do not know what freedom they enjoy by being protected by you to enjoy a quiet and peaceable Trade though little Some there are again that cry our of the Sectaries amongst us and the many opinions that are between man and man But they do not consider the armies of Papists that are raised against us and the Standard sent the Earl of Newcastle from the Queen for their army to which army is brought over armes for ten thousand men by Colonell Goring Oh what cause have we to complain against those that would have an agreement with these cruell Papists that were ever bloody and treacherous to Protestants that they might the more freely chide with those that do not meddle with them at home I pray God reconcile all the differences both in Church and State but certainly a Papist army cannot but be expected a dangerous reconcild enemy to all true hearted Protestants and we have a just cause to complaine against them that desire it Others are agreed to pay any thing as they are taxed for the assisting of the Parliament in their defence of Religion and the Laws of the Land one complaines he is taxt 20. s. another 40. s. c. Look downe to the rigorous manner whereby the Earl of Newcastle doth tax men in Yorkshire 1000. l. a man 2000. l. and 3000. pounds a man Mr. Savill of Medbor by name 3000 pounds c. You will say you are forced to pay this mony and that the gatherers have power to sell your goods for it if you will not pay it Oh But how cruell did the Earl of Newcastle use Mr. Wentworth sent for him and after he was condemned to be shot to death for not coming to pay the mony he was unreasonably seas'd and was brought to the stake the place of execution and had he not payed what they would have he had bin shot to death How many Religious Ministers have been plundered and all that they have taken from them our Briefs we have so often read in Churches can testifie and yet many foolish drones amongst us would have us to beleeve a covenant of peace with such desperate Cavaliers to betray our own power and give our enemies leave to cut our throats oh noble Senators we must needs complain of these that are unwilling to help you by Loan upon the publike Faith according to their power yea and beyond their ability in such an extremity surely they that deny this it must needs be granted either that they are old enemies to the Parliament and never took the