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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96501	A cal to all the souldiers of the Armie, by the free people of England. 1. Justifying the proceedings of the five regiments. 2. Manifesting the necessity of the whole Armies joyning with them, in all their faithfull endeavours, both for removing of all tyranny and oppression, chiefly tythes and excise, and establishing the just liberties and peace of this nation. 3. Discovering (without any respect of persons) the chiefe authors, contrivers and increasers of all our miseries, especially the new raised hypocrits, by whose treacherous practices, all the just intentions and actions of the adjutators and other well minded souldiers, have been made fruitless.	Wildman, John, Sir, 1621?-1693.	1647 (1647)	Wing W2167; Thomason E412_10; ESTC R204124	11,044	16

had never been so much as once mentioned amongst you had it not been for that wicked end 't is an old thred-bare trick of the prophane Court and doth amongst discreet men shew plainly who is for the Court against the liberties the people who when soever they positively insist for their just freedomes are immediatly flap't in the mouthes with these most malignant reproaches O yee are for Anarchchy yee are against all Government yee are Sectaries sedicious persons troublers both of Church and State and so not worthy to live in a Common-wealth there shall be a speedy course taken both against you and such as you Away with all such from Parliament doores and head-quarters And if yee can escape these delusions as through Gods assistance wee trust yee will and not be satisfied with halfe or quarter remedies or things holding a shadow only of good without the substance we cannot in the least doubt of your good successe being firmly resolved to stand by you and to live and dy with you Yee had need to bee well armed and fortified against the devices that will bee put upon you Ireton yee know hath alredy scandalized the Case of the Army in the generall counsel where by his owne and his confederats craft and policy he raigneth as sole master in so much as those freinds yee have there which wee hope yee will see in dew time not to bee few find it to little purpose to shew them selves active in opposing him and as hee undertooke so hath he answerdy your Case wherein hee sheweth himselfe soe full of arte cunning smooth delusion being skilled in nothing more that if yee did not censibly know the things to be really and experimentally true which yee have therein exprest and published 't is ten to one but he would deceive you This is certaine in the House of Commons both he and his Father Cromwell doe so earnestly and palpably carry on the Kings designe that your best friends there are amazed thereat and even ready to weep for griefe to see such a sudden and dangerous alteration and this they doe in the name of the whole Army certifying the House that if they doe not make further addresse to the King they cannot promise that the Army will stand by them if they should find opposition and what is this but as much in effect as in the name of the whole Army to threaten the House into a compliance with the King your most deadly enemy and who if things go on thus will deceive both you and them yea and all that act most for him To what purpose then should you either debate conferre or treate with such false sophisters or treacherous deceivers as these who like the former Courtiers can alwaies play the hypocrites without any check of conscience To what end should yee read or spend time to consider what they either write or speake it being so evident that as they did intend so they proceed to hold you in hand till their work be done But if you will shew your selves wise stop your eares against them resist the Devill and he will fly from you hold not par lee with them but proceed with that just work yee have so happily begun without any more regarding one word they speak for their consciences being at liberty to say or do any thing which may advance their owne ends they have great advantage against you whose consciences will not permit you to say or do any thing but what is just true what yee mean to performe they having shamfully proved themselves to be large promisers thereby to deceive both you and all the people but the worst performers that ever lived And therefore certainly ye have no warrant from God to treat either with them or their deceitfull instruments who will be speedily in great numbers sent amongst you but as ye know most of them for evill so are ye to avoid them as the most venemous Serpents faill not in this your just enterprize to cast yor selues chiefly upon God in the use of all the knowledge experience means and power wherewith he hath furnished you and secondly upon the people who will be ready with all their might and strength to assist you whil'st yee are fathfull reall for them joyne and be one with them in heart and hand with all possible speede in some substantiall and firme AGREMENT for just freedom and common right that this nation may no longer flote upon such wavering uncertain and sandy foundations of Government which have been one of the greatest causes both of all your our predicessors miseries Otherwise if ye be not at a firme establish't certainty of all particulars therein conducing both to the prosperity and safety of the People we see no other remedy but that now after all your victories both ye and wee will come to live that dying life even at the cruell mercies of most wicked Tyrants and blood oppressors Thus yee may assure your selves if ye now suffer your strength either to be wronng or flattered out of your hands though it be a most sad thing to speake before many moneths passe both yee and wee are like to be driven yea and even glad to begge our bread and why is it they keepe you still so poore as they have a long time done to the great griefe of us all but that yee might not be able to helpe or stirre more then as many prisoners Yea they intend when they are advanced to the hight of their preferment that many both of you and us shall be whipt or banished as Vagabons starved in prisons or hanged on Gallowses by dosens scores and hindreds as theeves and murderers Therefore let the foresight and consideration of these sad rewards of all our good services which are fast hatching for us make you wise and provident in time who have sufficient power with our assistance to defend both your selves and us and the rather use all lawfull meanes to prevent then to be in any wise forced to repent worke whilst it is called to day the night commeth on a pace even the blacknesse of darknesse of a most wicked accommodation and then no man can worke Up therefore and be doing what is just and the Lord our God will assist you and wee shall spend our lives and estates with you Fare-well A CALL TO ALL THE SOULDIERS OF THE ARMY by the free People of England FAITHFUL friends ye and we have had so much experience of all sorts of men that if now wee bee any longer deceived wee are to complain of none but our selves for as concerning the King yee know the whole time of his reign before this Parliament 〈◊〉 time of most intolerable oppression as his deferring and 〈◊〉 ●●●ng up of Parliaments knight-hood and loane-money enfo●●●●●ent of customes and impost cruell and bloody censures in Sta●●●●mber and high Commission selling of Offices bribery and exte●●●●●s in all Courts extention of law-suits