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A88230	An outcry of the youngmen and apprentices of London: or, An inquisition after the lost fundamentall lawes and liberties of England. Directed (August 29. 1649.) in an epistle to the private souldiery of the Army, especially all those that signed the solemne ingagement at Newmarket-Heath, the fifth of Iune, 1647. But more especially to the private souldiers of the Generalls Regiment of Horse, that helped to plunder and destroy the honest and true-hearted English-men, trayterously defeated at Burford the 15. of May, 1649. Signed by Charles Collins, Anthony Bristlebolt, William Trabret, Stephen Smith, Edward Waldgrave, Thomas Frisby, Edward Stanley, VVilliam VVhite, Nicholas Blowd, John Floyd in the nameand [sic] behalf of themselves, and the young-men and apprentices of the City of London. Who are cordiall approvers of the paper, called, The agreement of the free people, dated May 1. 1649. and the defeated Burford-mens late vindication, dated the 20. of August, 1649.; Young-mens and the apprentices outcry.	Collins, Charles, apprentice.; Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing L2152; Thomason E572_13; ESTC R202784	16,945	12

AN OUTCRY Of the Youngmen and Apprentices of London OR An Inquisition after the lost Fundamentall Lawes and Liberties of ENGLAND Directed August 29. 1649. in an Epistle to the private Souldiery of the Army especially all those that signed the solemne Ingagement at Newmarket-Heath the fifth of Iune 1647. But more especially to the private souldiers of the Generalls Regiment of Horse that helped to plunder and destroy the honest and true-hearted English-men trayterously defeated at Burford the 15. of May 1649. Signed by Charles Collins Anthony Bristlebolt William Trabret Stephen Smith Edward Waldgrave Thomas Frisby Edward Stanley VVilliam VVhite Nicolas Blowd John Floyd in the name and behalf of themselves and the Young-men and Apprentices of the City of London Who are cordiall approvers of the Paper called The Agreement of the free people dated May 1. 1649. and the defeated Burford-mens late Vindication dated the 20. of August 1649. LAMENT 2.11,12 Mine eyes do faile with tears my bowells are troubled my liver is powred upon the earth for the destruction of the daughter of my people because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the City They say to their mothers Where is corne and wine when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the City when their soule was powred out into their mothers bosome Gentlemen VVE are all of one Nation and People it is the sword only that differeth but how just a title that is over us your owne private thoughts surely are our determiners however your actions import For it is not imaginable except amongst Bears Wolves and Lions that brethren of one cause one Nation and family can without remorse and secret check of conscience impose such iron yokes of cruelty and oppression upon their fellowes as by the awe and force of your Sword rampant is imposed upon the people of this Nation you see it we are at best but your hewers of wood and drawers of water our very persons our lives and properties are all over-awed to the supportation only of the raging lawlesse Sword drench't in the precious blood of the people the ancient and famous Magistracy of this Nation the Petition of Right the great Charter of England above thirty times confirmed in open and free Parliament with all other the fundamentall laws safeties and securities of the people which our Ancestors at an extraordinary dear rate as with abundance of their blood and treasure purchased for the inheritance of us and of the Generations after us and for which you pretendedly took up arms against the late King and his party are now all subverted broken down and laid wast the Military Power being thrust into the very office and seat of the Civil Authority The King not onely most illegally put to death by a strange monstrous illegall arbitrary Court such as England never ●…ew Monarchy extirpated not rectified without and besides the consent of the people though the actors of that bloody Scene have owned and declared them to be the original of all iust humane Authority but even our Parliaments the very interest marrow and soule of all the native rights of the people put downe and the name and power thereof transmitted to a pick'd party of your forcible selecting and such as your Officers our Lords and Riders have often and frequently stiled no better then a mock-Parliament a shadow of a Parliament a seeming Authority or the like pretending the continuance thereof but till a new and equall Representative by a mutuall Agreement of the free People of England could be elected although now for subserviency to their exaltation and Kingship they prorogue and perpetrate the same in the name and under colour thereof introducing a Privy Counsell or as they call it a Counsell of State of superintendency and suppression to all future successive Parliaments for ever erecting a martiall Government by blood and violence impulsed upon us making souldiers to be executioners of Orders and VVarrants pretending to the Civill Authority and in every particular notwithstanding all your famous and glorious Declarations of Freedom and Liberty dealing with us as an absolute conquered and insl●…ed People The Law being nothing but a mock protection to our lives liberties and properties the Judges set apart for the executors of it a meer delusion our Sheriffs Mayors Justices of Peace Constables c. being laid by or made no better then ciphers the choice of them by will without right appropriated to a few factious men while the right owners the people are rob'd of their free and popular elections of them as not daring to execute Justice upon the rudest or meanest souldier in England although the Law sufficiently warrants them thereunto but contrarywise Commoners are forceably convented and tryed before a Councell of VVarr and some sentenced even unto death others by a private verball order made to run the gantlop and whipt most barbarously for refusing to take false and illegall oaths and the blood of war expresly against the Petition of right and for which amongst other crimes the Earle of Strafford lost his head as a Traytor shed in times of Peace as the blood of Mr. Richard Arnell upon the 15. November 1647. near Ware of Mr. Robert Lockier the 27. of April 1649. so much bewailed and lamented at London of Col. Poyer of Cornet Thompson Mr. Perkins and Mr. Church upon the 16. of May 1649 at Burford contrary to promises and solemn ingagements at the taking of them as their friends lately defeated with them in their vindication of the 20. of August 1649. fully declare pag. 6. 7. and others yet fresh in our memory doth witnesse parties of horse and foot contrary and in direct defiance of the due course and processe of Law sent at unseasonable houres to hale and pull people out of their beds and houses from their wives and children without so much as ever summoning of them and without any crime or accusation showne or accuser appearing or the least pretence or shadow of Law produced some sent into remote Garrisons where they have been most barbarously used and indeavoured to be starved and tost from Garrison to Garrison others lock'd up close prisoners with centinels night and day upon their doors and all due tryalls and help at Law stop'd and denyed and no remedy to be obtained yea free men most barbarously put out of their legall possessions by force of arms without any manner of triall at Law yea the Law damn'd and stopt up against them for recovering of their legall rights and they threatned severely to be punished if they desist not their suits at Law yea and free-mens estates never pretended to be within the compasse of the Ordinances of sequestrations seized on to a great value by some great mens wills protected by their swords to do even what they list without controul without any manner of tryall or conviction or any shadow of legall pretence or ever so much as laying any pretended crime to the parties charge

popular petitions addresse our selves to the men sitting at Westminster any mo●e or to take any notice of them then ●s of so many Tyrants and Vsurpers and for time to come to hinder as much and as farr as our poor despised interest will extend to all others whatsoever 〈◊〉 subscribing or presenting any more popular petitions to them And only now as our last Paper-r●fuge mightily cry out to each other of our intolerabl● oppressions in Letters and Remonstrances signed in the behalf and by the appointment o●●…l the rest by some of the stoutest and st●…est amongst us that we hope will never apostatize but be able through the strength of God to lay down their very lives for the maintaining of that which they set their hands to You our fellow-Countrymen the private Souldiers of the Army alone being the instrumentall authors of your own slavery and ours therefore as there is any bowels of men in you any love to your Native Country Kindred friends or relations any sparke of conscience in you any hopes of glory or immortality in you or any pity mercy or compassion to an inslaved undone perishing dying people O help help save and redeem us from totall vassalage and slavery and be no more like brute beasts to fight against us or our friends your loving and dear brethren after the flesh to your o●n vassalage as well as ours And as an assured pledg of your future cordialnesse to us and the true and reall liberties of the Land of your Nativitie we beseech and beg of you but especially those amongst you that subscribed the solemn engagement at New market heath the fifth of June 16●● speedily to chuse-out from amongst your selves Two of the ablest and constantest faithfull men amongst you in each Troop and Company now at last by corresponding 〈◊〉 with ot●er and with your honest friends in the Nation to consider of some effectuall course bey●nd all 〈…〉 and cheat● to accomplish the real end of all your engagements and fightings ●iz the settling of the Liberties and Freedoms of the people which can never permanently be done but upon the sure foundation of a POPULAR AGREEMENT who viz. the people in J●stice gratitude and common equity cannot choose but voluntarily and largely make better provision for your future subsistance by the payment of your ARREARS then ever your Officer● or this pret●nded Parliament intends or you can rationally expect from them witnesse their cutting off three parts of your Arreares in four 〈◊〉 for Free-quarter and then necessi●ating abundance of your fellow-Souldiers now cashiered c. to s●ll their Debenters at two shillings six pence three shillings and at most four shillings per l. by meanes of which you that keep your Debenters being necessitated to vie with the greatest bidder in th● purchase of the late Kings Lands they are able ●o give above ●… years purchase for that you cannot give 8 years purchase 〈◊〉 and if you will not give with the most you must have no Land so that the most of your Debenters are likely to prove waste papers and those that purchase will have but a slippery security of their possessions by reason of generall discontents amongst all sorts of people and particularly by so extraordinarily disengaging and cheating so many Souldiers as they have done of their just expected recompence of reward And also as a further demonstration of the cordialnesse of your hearts to us OUR BURFORD FRIENDS and your own and our Liberties we desire you to take some speedy course for the faithfull restoring to the right Owners all such Horses Money Clothes c. as you or any of you plundered or stole from our true friends cheated and defeated at Burford and publish some kinde of Demonstration of your or any of your remorse of Conscience for your being instrumentall in destroying of them there that stood for your good freedomes and ARREARS as much and as well as their own especially considering they have by their foresaid Vindication made it evident and apparent and we understand they are ready face to face to prove That both your Generall and Lieutenant Generall Cromwell broke their solemn faith with them and treacherously surprised them and so dealt worse and more vildly with them then ever they did with the worst of Cavaliers with whom in that kinde they never broke faith with in their lives but more especially we desire the last fore-mentioned thing at your hands because upon that Trayterous and wicked defeat of those our true Friends and wilfully murthering of three of them that really stood for the Nations interest Liberties and Freedoms your Generall and Cromwell with the rest of their faction made a most transcendent Feast to insult over the Liberties and freedoms of the servants of the most h●gh God as though by that most vile act they had subdued and buryed all the Liberties of the Nation in eternall oblivion and FOYL'D the Lord of life and glory himself from distilling any m●re Spirit of Courage and Resolution into any to stand for them and in that wickedest of Feasts not onely in a great measure imitated Belshazzar Dan. 5. That made a great Feast to a thousand of his Lords and fetched out the vessels that by the spoile of the people of God his father Nebuchadnezzar had got out of the Temple of the Lord and drank wine in them and praised the gods of gold and of silver of brasse of iron of wood and of stone but also imitated the greatest of the enemies of Christ who at the slaying of the two witnesses Rev. 11. rejoiced over them and made merry and sent gifts one to another as in Gold and Silver plate c. was most largely done to your General Fairfax and Lieutenant Gen. Cromwell the reason of which is there rendred which is because the two Prophets of Truth and Justice tormented them that dwelt on the earth but with comfort and joy we cannot but observe the next words to them which is That within a little season after the Spirit of life from God entred into them as we hope and doubt not but it will abundantly now doe upon the true standers for justice and righteousnesse amongst men and they stood upon their feet and great feare fell upon them that saw them and great Earthquakes followed in the nick of which is proclamation made that the Kingdoms of this world are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ● and he shall reign for ever and ever unto which we heartily say Amen Amen So with our hearty and true love remembred to you all expecting your or some of your speedy answer we commit you to God and rest Your faithful though abused Countrymen Signed in the behalf of our selves and the unanimous consent of the Agents of the Youngmen and Apprentices of the City of London that love and approve of the Agreement of the People dated May 1. 1649. and the Vindication of the late defeated men at Burford entituled The Leveller vindicated Charles Collins William Trabret Ed. Waldegrove Ed. Stanley Nicholas Blowd Anthony Bristlebolt Steven Smith Thomas Frisby William White John Floyd London this 29. August 1649. FINIS