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Englands troublers troubled, or the just resolutions of the plaine-men of England, against the rich and mightie: by whose pride treachery and wilfulnes, they are brought into extream necessity and misery.
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Wing E3067; Thomason E459_11; ESTC R201939
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ENGLANDS Troublers Troubled Or the just RESOLUTIONS OF The plaine-men of ENGLAND Against the RICH AND MIGHTIE by whose pride treachery and wilfulnes they are brought into extream necessity and misery IAM 5.1.5.6 Go to now ye rich men weep and howle for the miseries that shall come upon you ye have lived in pleasure and wantonnes on the earth ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter 〈◊〉 ye have condemned and killed the just and have not been resisted Printed in the yeare 1648. Englands TROUBLERS TROUBLED Or the just RESOLUTIONS Of The plaine-men of ENGLAND c. THough ye have dealt most fraudulently and and treacherously with us yet we shall deal plainly and honestly with you especially you of the City of London When before this Parliament the whole land was over-burdened with unlawfull taxes and pattents then the Magistrates Aldermen Common-Councell and other rich Citizens joyned therein with the King and Courtiers vexing reproaching and imprisoning all that would not submit to any thing imposed though never so unjust many of you becoming projectors your selves and so betrayed the liberties of the Nation and caused the evils of the Common-wealth to arise unto that height which have occasioned and increased the troubles ever since When the oppressions and cries of the people had gotten a Parliament Oh then what heave and shove there was to get all out of Office that had complyed with the King and to get in such as shewed themselves forward for the Parliament but to our grief and misery we find our selves much deceived and abused too many wolves and foxes in sheeps cloathing geting in amongst some honest men who ever since have perverted all honest endeavours diverted all just proceedings and from time to time strove to set differences between the Parliament and City and so have devised all waies and used all means to leng then and increase our miseries At the first and for some time after this politick worke of theirs proved somwhat difficult because for a season the major part of the Common-councell were so wise and honest as to discerne and oppose them therein during which time not one evill word was suffâ—red to be whispered or past unpunished that was spoken against the house of Commons or in behalf of the common enemy the King and his party then if the Lords did in any thing dispute with the Commons the Common councell instantly laid it to heart and ran to Westminster with Petitions declaring for the authority of the house of Commons as representing the people such a happy and hopefull time there was ye cannot deny But the House of Lords who have been and are chief in this politick work ever carrying on both the King and Courtiers designs perceiving this difficulty strike in with the Lord-like men of the City the Aldermen and with other rich men in all places of the Country all proceedings ever since evidently demonstrating a confederacy amongst the rich and mighty to impoverish and so to enslave all the plaine and mean people throughout the land And hâ—nce we evidently see it is that we have had so many bones cast amongst us to devide and make us quarrell one with another driving all men into parties and factions that so we might never agree together in any thing tending to our good and preservation untill we were so wasted and impoverished by your wicked meanes that we must be forced to serve you and your vile ends for a morsell of bread We feel â—arly it is from the House of Lords that the house of Commons have been corrupted drawn into factions put upon such courses as should make them odious to us and all honest men that so when time should be we might be induced through their unjust dealings to oppose their authority and for this end it is that the Lords have packt so many of their sons servants and tenants therin and countenance all Lawyers there who are the manifest perverters of of justice and corrupters of all places By these their creatures they put the House of Commons upon taking offices and disposing the publike treasurie of the Common-wealth amongst themselves their children kindred and servants upon enriching themselves by Bishops and other Delinquents lands upon obstructing and perverting legall tryals and imposing a multitude of illegall taxes as excise and the like upon us wiherein we are miserably over-butthened in our trades and painfull callings and wealthy men favoured By these such other subtile practises they cuningly corrupt them and then they cry out on their corruptions that so all men might be induced to undervalue and despise them and be ready to trample upon their authority and erect that of the Lords and the Kings which indeed are both one above the power of the people in the House of Commons being stomackt repined at by both alike So that now we not only see but begin to feele that the ground of all our wars and the continuance of them and of all our miseries have been and is to erect the power of the King and Lords above that of the people in the house of Commons And therefore unanimously to this end they bend their joint endeavours for when many of the Lords went with the King to help him to raise forces and to be Commanders in his Atmies many of them also were left here and sent back to corrupt the House of Commons to devise plots and stifle discoveries as that of Challenor and Tomkins to pervert the City to divide the people to preserve traytors and delinquents from due punishment as Waller and many others to favour richmen and monopolizing companies to crush mean men impose burthens and destroy the Parliaments Armies as that of Essex Manchester and others For this cause the house of Lords agreed not to the raysing of this succesfull Army but obstructed it all they could endeavoured to have bound them fast at Oxford from following the King kept them without pay fourteene Moneths together wrought the City and other places to become their enemies to remonstrate and Petition for their disbanding stirr them up to an engagement to force the house of Commons that adhered to the Army and in conclusion to raise an Army against them and proclaime them enemies and vote the King to London And all this for no other cause but that this Army proved not deceitfull like others but faithfull and in good earnest against the King and his forces and endeavoured to restore the power of the house of Commons above that of the House of Lords having in all their victories made no use of any Lord at all It 's true some few of them seemed to comply with the Army when there was little or no need of their help but thrice happy had it been for this nation that they had never mixed their councells with such time-serving hypocrites as these Lords are for they semed to hold with the Army meerly to betray them puting them upon tampering with
Law will put men upon further and higer matters then either ye would be willing to heare or we desirous to utter for we desire only such competency of meaneâ— whereby to live quietly that we be not chaâ—gable but rather helpfull to the Common-wealth and no wise to disturbe you either in your wealth or honours if ye would desist from doing us wrong and suffer us to enjoy what is due unto us by proper right Therefore as ye love your wealth honour and greatnes study and endeavour by all good meanes to put an end to these long lasting troubles and as ye ought referre the Government in every part of this destressed Nation to those who are chosen from all Cities and Counties thereof and thinke not because ye are happily more wealthy then they to trample them under your feet which is such a presumption as will never be indured in England And as it hath beene so may iâ— ever be the certaine downfall of you and all that attempt so pernirious and distructive an enterprize Nor can we but wonder why the Parliament having so great a number of true friends should suffer themselvs to be thus continually vexed and affronted as they have been and are by your destuctive fire-brand Remonstrances and Petitions wherein from politique hypocrites long time pretending zeal and conscience ye are grown impudent professed malignants and traytors to the Common-wealth as hath manifestly appeared in your Petition of the 8 of August last and your persisting to list horses without authority and against command of Parliament For what else importeth that ye deeme the King in a sad miserable and deplorable condition as in your Petition is expressed Is not his condition too good for him considering so many thousands and ten thousands honest people that have been seduced and destroyed by his obstinat tyrannous disposition and by whom this long and bloudy war hath been contrived continued Could such language proceed from you in his behalf but that ye and he are of one mind and are confederated together with the house of Lords your gracious answerers to destroy the House of Commons the only obstacle of your tyranny If you would not be so esteemed why call you those Scots your brethren that by your owne acknowledgement are come into this Nation in an hostile manner ye know sufficiently the house of Commons have voted all those Traytors that had any hand in bringing them in or shall any wise assist them and if these be still your brethren God blesse us from such Common-Councell Petitioners And why is it that ye beare your selves so respectfully towards him who hath now made himselfe Prince of those Rebells in the revolted Ships as to fawne upon him in these corrupt expressions His Hignesse the Prince of Wales Commanding at Sea a considerablle part of the Navy and other Ships as if ye thought him justly there but that ye desire to honour him before the people and thereby increase his party Were ye otherwise minded ye would have layd all those evils ye there mention upon him whether it be the destruction of Navigation the deserting of Seamen obstruction in the trade of Merchandize clothing manufactures wooll and the like for who is the cause of these and the rest ye mention but he And had ye not been of his faction ye would have stiled him the Grand enemy of England and destroyer of this City and would have tendered your utmost assistance to the Parliament to have brought him to justice and which if ye would ye could as easily yet do as ye could have stopt Gorings passage to Colckester But we see ye will never leave ploting till ye have brought this City into as grrat misery as that Town is now in ye have wealth at will and can it seems outlast these times of destruction and poverty Trade ye thought was over-wrought before Tradesmen and Marchants were so numerous that your wealth came in too slowly and it seems ye hope this will cure your disease and weed out all inferiour traders and then ye think ye and your gallant Sonnes shall soone recover with the Princes favour all that ye disburse underhand or are willingly robb'd off by him So that it is only we of the meaner sort that must be robb'd begger'd and undone in good earnest and so it shall be if we cannot help it but we hope you will find your selves mistaken ti 's not your dissembled care of us in your Petition that will now blind our eyes when wee want work and bread we shall neither run to disturbe our friends at Westminster nor into forraign parts but our innumerable number as ye call us shall find a nearer way to food and rayment till as ye have begun them ye put an end to these distempers Nor is it your Bishop-like out-cries against the unsetlement of the Church or the increase of blasphemy Heresie Schisme and prophanenes that will any longer keepe us from discerning you to be our worst of enemies and those whom thereby yee intend to reproach to be our best of friends for we know ye mean therby to asperce principally the Grand enemy of your Scotâ—s brethren the Army commonly called by them their King and Prince the Army of Sectaries But when ye have spett all your venome ye must find more honest expedients to prevent the apparent ruine ye indeede intend then so speedy a freeing of his Majesty from the unjust restraint wherein he now remains by a Personall Treaty Your meaning is ye would have Him to your City and put Him in the head of a new Army that so He might restore Himself to His unjust power which ye call His just Rights because thereby only ye expect to be protected in all your oppressions and dominations over us The Parliament is now sufficiently acquainted with your delusions of this nature and how carefull ye will be to preserve their undoubted Priviledges whereof ye and the King would be competent Judges and soone put them out of all question as also of our native Liberties would they but once be so cruell to themselves and us as to grant your Petitions or a Cessation of all acts of hostility untill the Scoss have increased and your Prince grow more absolute Master at Sea or his Father get loose againe then we should soone lye at your mercy and in stead of this Army which ye so eagerly seeke to have disbanded we should in all probability have such a wretched one as was led by Rupert and Maurice to robb and spoyle us at land as now your new Prince Pyrat doth at Sea But we trust God will preserve both Parliament and people from all your malitious stratagems and intended mischeifs and give you to drink deep of the cup of your owne so recries and abominations FJNJS