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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91251	A publike declaration and solemne protestation of the free-men of England and Wales, against the illegall, intollerable, undoing grievance of free-quarter.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1648 (1648)	Wing P4044; Thomason E426_3; ESTC R203278	6,769	12

the Danes held their wives in the meane time at pleasure with daughter and servant And when the Husband-man came home he should scarsly have of his owne as his servants had so as the Dane had all at his commandement and did eat and drinke his fill of the best when the owner had scant his fill of the worst And besides this the common people were so of them oppressed that for feare and dread they called them in every such house as they had will of and quartered in LORD DANE which so vexed and discontented the people that by secret Commission from the King directed to all the good Towns Burroughs and Cities of the Land they were on St. Brice day at a certaine houre assigned all suddenly assaulted and slaine by the people every mothers sonne of them throughout all England this slaughter of theirs beginning in Hertfordshire at a little towne called Welden for the which deed it took the first name because the Weale of that County as it was then thought was there first won And the Sicilians did the like to the Dominiering French forces who oppressed them with their insolencies and free-quarter cutting all their throats in one evening and so freeing their Countrey from captivitie Truly our condition now under the Lording Army and Souldiery hath been and yet is altogether as bad if not worse in many places then our Predecessors was under their free-quartering Lord Danes or the Sicilians under the French forces and we heartily wish it may not now produce the like Tragicall and bloudy effects which pure necessity will enforce the Malignant and poorer sort now ready to starve and the very best friends to the Parliament unto for their own selfe preservation and defence as we may justly feare if not timely prevented by the Houses and Generalls strict care and discipline in making good their Engagements to us wherein they have hitherto failed and speedily reduce the Army to such a small proportion of five or six thousand only as they may well pay and master and quarter in Innes and Alehouses without any pressure to us Being peremptorily resolved in their defaults by Gods assisting power to right and ease our selves of them and all other oppressing Grievances by the best and most expeditions meanes wee may to preserve our selves our Posterities Kingdome and neglected Ireland whose supplies are wholly frustrated and engrossed by our idle super-numerary and super-necessary Army and Souldiers from utter vassalage and ruine And therefore we doe hereby earnestly desire and admonish all Officers and Souldiers at their utmost perill from henceforth after this our publike Remonstrance to take no more free-quarter nor force any more moneys from us against our wills but carefully to follow Iohn Baptist's Lesson to them a burning and shining Light Luk. 2. 14. And the SOVLDIERS likewise came to John saying And what shall we doe And he said unto them Doe violence to no man neither accuse any man falsely and be content with your wages Lest they so farre discontent and enrage us so farre as to fall a quartering of them in good earnest which we heartily desire if possible to prevent by this timely admonition and notice of our unalterable just and necessary resolutions from which neither feare nor flattery nor intreaties shall remove us And shall likewise humbly importune the Honourable Houses of Parliament to order and declare according to the Tenor of the Petition of Right that all Officers and Souldiers whatsoever shall be liable to the Jurisdiction Arrests Warrants and power of High Sheriffs Justices of Peace Mayors Bayliffs Constables Tything-men and other publike Officers of Justice for Felonies Breaches of Peace and other misdemeanours punishable by the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme as farre-forth as any other Subjects are and bee and that all those may be particularly enjoyned to discharge their duties herein and all Officers of the Army ordered to be ayding and assisting to them therein under paine of Fellonie and being casheered without which wee shall enjoy neither security nor peace in Country or City no nor in our owne beds and Houses FINIS a Rastall Tit. Purveyours and Warre b Grastons Chron. p. 390. c An exact Collection d Mr. St. Iohns his Majesties Sollicitor Generalls argument at a Committee of both Houses concerning the Earles Attainder by Hill p. 35. 36 c. e 24. H. 8. c. 5. 21. Ed. 1. de Malefactoribus in Parcis Fitz. Coron. 192. 194. 246. 258. 261. 330. 22. Asse 46. Stamford Pleas l. 1. c. 5. 6. 7. 11. H. 6. a 16. 14. H. 6. 24. b. 35. H. 6. 51. a. 9. E. 4. 48. b. 11. E. 4. 6. a. 27. H. 7. 36. 12. H. 8. 2. b. Brooke Corone 63. Trespas 207. Cooke 5. Report 91. Ashes Tables Coron 6. 7. f This is evident by this clause of the Writ for their Election Ita quòd iidem Milites Cives Burgenses sufficientem potestatem pro se COMMVNITATE Comitatus Civium Burgensium praedictum ad faciendū faciendū his c. Ita quod pr● defectu ejuusmodi potestatis dicta negotia infecta non remaneant quovis modo (g) Grastons Chronicle p. 162. 163. Cambdens Brittania p. 143.