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A caveat for knaves.
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1648
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Wing C1611; Thomason E451_45; ESTC R205303
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more service Purse London shaking you off by degrees refusing to disgorge any more bags to support you any longer London Trained-bands ready to forsake you your deare brethren the Scots ready to devoure you for falsifying your Oath to your King your Covenant with them and the two Kingdomes and the severe judgement of God threatning ruin and destruction for your damnable devillish dealings upon this most miserable kingdome and if none of these will prevaile then looke unto the handy-worke of the Lord in raising such suddain and unexpected Armies in his Majesties behalfe the unthought of store of Arms and Ammunition the multitude of Garrisons taken and rendred up for the Kings Royal Majesties use the multitude of Shipping the fortunate successes that his Majesties smal forces have continunally had if truth might bee believed and right take place which will be hard for to make the world to believe they have been so long blinded with lyes however it is now visible to us here by the multitude of your maimed Souldiers that are brought into the Hospitals in London that there hath been many of your Saints cut off your invincible Army is much weakned your Saints are amazed your wounded men curse ye and vow that were they as well as ever they were they would never serve you your sound men wish that they had but half their Arreares they would curse you to your face and tell you that you are but blind guides and have been the ruinning of many a soul and if your freinds reward you thus what shall you exspect from those that you call your enemies and at the latter daies what may you exspect from the just severe God But you are Saints whether God will or not and you will make the world believe that God gives you a daily blessing or else your intelligence lyeth with great Victories Langdale hee is totally routed and the party that was in Lincolnshire for the King clean disperst not two to be seen together ask Walkers imperfect Occurrence else and he shall make al the world to believe it the Scots too they are so far together by the eares themselves that they cannot come in against us have not we Letters daily to that effect Yes I must needs confesse that you have Letters as from thence although made in the Inner-Temple for I will justify that one Gentleman there made three Letters himselfe in one day and they must come from Scotland and are not all these routing Letters of the same stamp how can there be 4000 Souldiers spared out of Lancashire to recruite Lambert when it is not able to withstand the Lord of Darbies forces that is now there and what County is there in England now that you may spare any out or that is able to defend themselves and for believing experience look here at home into every county about you and you shall plainly see the good affection of them unto their King and so by these you may plainly discern the rest they are not meane men that are the Leaders of them neither as yours are Brewers Shoomakers Tailors Weavers Tinkers Coblers but they are Dukes Earles Lords Knights Gentlemen and Commanders most of them and as soon as ever thâ—t the Prince is once seen to set foot in England how many thousands more in England will there then appeare and rise against you ô yee of little faith it is not the Independent Army nor the so many thousand hands that you have presented unto you to have no King nor no Personall Treaty that can defend you nor all the Devils in hell to boot to help you if the Lord but once lift up his hand against you as you may now apparently see he begins to doe by stirring up the hearts of all the Country against and for every thousand of Independents that stick unto you you will have five thousand of good Christians against you and therefore repent and amend least it bee too late and the Devill teare you in pieces FINIS