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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70420	Goodman Country to his worship the city of London	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1680? (1680)	Wing L1255B; ESTC R36248	5,748	5

we call them You have a Magazine of Arms and a Bank of Money within your self And therefore if you have a mind to fight Draw your Parties out every morning to Mile-End-Green Moorfields or Islington there let them combat all day and at night receive them that come off alive into your own quarters But be sure you march not one foot out of the Lines of Excommunication For should you come once more into our Parts with your Essex-Garters Orange coloured Scarfs with great Gold Fringe at the end of them you are like to have cold Entertainment and no Lodging for now we have no Cittadels no Castles no Forts nor any Remains of a Town or City Wall to shelter your selves so much as from a shower of Rain And as for Mony alack we have not enough by a great deal to pay our Landlords And as for quartering you in our Villages Inns or Alehouses our last prudent Parliament hath by a Law secured us against you Nay our very women are grown stark mad to hear that there is any cause to fear another Rebellion because that they know upon experience that they shall all then be rifled of their Plate Pewter and Brass their Pigsties and Henroosts robb'd and they and their Daughters ravisht And as for our younger sort they are resolved never to part with their Bodkins Thimbles and silver Spoons because their Sweet-hearts made them swear at the giving of them that they would never more lend such things upon Publick Faith And as for our Landlords though they hate Popery as much as your Worship Mr. City yet they cannot endure to think of rooting it out of England by an Army because they know that their own houses then will at one time or another be exposed to Plunder their Horses stole out of Field or Stables their Coffers broke open Rents run all away into Taxes and they and their Children be sent to beg or serve as Slaves to those that will pity them so much as to give them Bread and Water And I have heard three or vour of our Gentry Volk that wear Velvet Coats on Christmas and Easter-Day zay that if ever an Army of threescore thousand men get into the heart of our Kingdom they may easily conquer it and when it is once conquered they may make all the People their Tenants For where Power is there is Right and Possession saith that Varlet Hobbes And then the Stile of our Petitions will be May it please your Majesty our Sovereign Lord the Army Nor will your Worship Mr. City fare any better for you shall be continually bridled and sadled as well as chain'd Then no Counters Newgate Ludgate or Kings-Bench will be allowed for as fast as men become malefactors or run in debt or break they will presently take refuge under the wings of the Army and live upon Pay and Plunder Nay the very Apprentices if they do not like their Masters will presently run to the Army and be dubb'd Freemen Whatever may be the cause of your Heats and Divisions we are sure that none amongst us clamor and rail against the present Government but the disgusted discontented and indigent persons For we observed in our Towns that the most active and violent men for Petitioning were quondam Committee-Men and Sequestrators and those that were concerned in Crown and Church-Lands and those that were decaying in their Trades for men that have good Estates and thrive in their Callings will never be so mad and foolish to put Government into Confusion and War since they only all men must run the hazard of losing all they have For as the contesting between parties for Superiority in a Nation will at last come to blows and fighting so such a sort of Controversie cannot be maintain'd without Money And as our late unnatural War begat such Taxes and Impositions as England never heard of before so another like War will revive the same or put some men upon inventing others far more grievous and intolerable And then how like fools shall we all look one upon another when we have changed our King and civil Government which secures our Rights Liberties Properties and Priviledges for a Sovereign Lord the Army and the tyranny of the Sword which alwayes plunders a People of these Riches and oppresses them with slavery and bondage Perhaps Mr. City you are not now designing such a thing as this and without a pair of Spectacles you cannot see those that are But if it should come to pass which God forbid then you will say I am a Conjurer and cry A vow to God who would a thought it No doubt but very good and honest men were concern'd in those unhappy affairs of Vorty and Vorty one and had no other inteniton at first but to remove or redress some grievances which they then zaid were in Church and State Yet when these good men went to Reformation how soon were they carried off from the Jack they aimed at by an undiscernable byass that was in the Bowl and unexpected rub in the way And then by the wiles and stratagems of Jesuited Polititians how strangely were they carried to all manner of extravagancies insomuch that they found they could not be safe without being the monsters of Wickedness and Villany And the same restless Spirits and Machiavillian Brains are now at work and unless there be a very speedy prudent and vigilant care taken to cool and moderate the furious temper and fiery zeal of some that are call'd Protestants I dare foretell you will have another civil War and far more bloody than the former It 's no matter who are Presbyterians or Independents or Anabaptists so they be for the Protestant Religion and Interest And as long as they are for that the Church of England-men heartily joyn with them But if these several persuasions to gratifie the Papists and further their designs shall persist to vilifie the Church of England-men by saying they are Popishly affected or Protestants in Masquerade Then the Church of England-men have nothing else to do but to commit their Cause to God and to acquiesce in his Providence with this Declaration to the World That Fire and Fagot will never make them Papists and Sequestration Imprisonment and Death will never force them to be Fanaticks and Rebells Thus wishing you all Peace and Prosperity and to keep out of the need of another Act of Indempnity I rest your Worships true and hearty lover and humble servant Honest Country The Reason why the Country applauds the Cities Choice It is no matter who the City chooses for Sheriffs so they are Protestants and wealthy It is very irrational to change Protestantism for Popery Especially if a man have been bred up in the Protestant Religion and is heir to a good Estate The imprudence of the City in calling the Church of England men Protestants in Masquerade Or saying that they are Popishly Affected Country Church wardens and Sidemen can prove out of the Book of Martyrs and the Statute Law of England that the men of the Church of England are the best and truest sort of Protestants Advice to leave off Nicknames Or else your Sheriffs Elect are Protestants in Masquerade and Popishly Affected Where is the most proper place to manage a rebellious War The Country unfit to entertain a rebellious Army The Country unwilling The Country unable to maintain another Civil War Have a care of making an Army our Sovereign Lord and Tyrant The City utterly undone if they set up an Army None discontented at the present Government but old Committee men Sequestrators Purchasers of Crown and Church Lands and Bankrupts No war without Money and no Money without insufferable Taxes Folly to change a good condition for a bad one The City perhaps doth not intend Tumult and Rebellion But the Papists will drive them to it unless speedily and prudently prevented Lay aside Parties and Factions The Church of England-men are resolved neither to be Papists nor Rebels