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A94414	To His Excellency, the Lord General Cromwel: And all the honest officers and souldiers in the Army, for the Common-wealth of England. The humble remonstrance of many thousands in and about the City of London, on the behalf of all the free-commoners of England.	Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.; Pendred, William.	1653 (1653)	Wing T1354; Thomason E692_4; ESTC R203950	6,689	8

To His EXCELLENCY The LORD GENERAL CROMWEL And all the honest Officers and Souldiers in the Army for the Common-vv*ealth of ENGLAND The Humble Remonstrance of many Thousands in and about the City of London on the behalf of all the Free-Commoners of England SHEWETH THat the 22 of March 1648 the Parliament declared That they were trusted by the people for the Common good and to procure the well-being of those whom hey serve and to remove Oppression and Arbitrary power and all oppositions to the peace and freedome of this Nation and that they intend the common Interest of those whom they serve more then their own particulars And they then promised the due reformation of the Law for the taking away of corruption and abuses delays vexations and unnecessary travel and expences and whatsoever should be found really burthensome to the people that evil might be punished and the good rewarded and the people be eased in their burthens and Taxes and the debts of the Common wealth be justly satisfied But alas with grieved hearts we have long expected some fruit of their promises and that multitude of days should utter knowledge Yet all in vain insomuch that we can no longer forbear but shew our grievances for they are many and intolerable My Lord there was a time when your Excellency and our unparalel'd Army was in a low condition and in your straights you affirmed that you called upon God and he heard you and delivered you in your distress sure God was pleased with you in that for he gave your enemies into your hands and setled the soles of your feet in peace gave you large possessions houses that you built not was all this that you onely might live in peace ease and rest and say you have married Wives have Farms Parks Mannors and Kingly houses to see and forget the vows you then made surely no. Are the people free is perfect liberty wrought for them or are your vows quite forgotten Is not the safety of the people the supreme Law Nay are not you the peoples Army and have they not paid you Are your promises yet performed Why are you so remiss in the work of the Lord why do the people yet complain Is not justice as necessary now as when the Parliament began Our eyes have been upon you but our hope is in God and though we be yet clouded and in the dark yet deliverance will come and we shall not be deceived And though the sons of Zerviah have seemed too strong for you yet if your Excellency now appear all the honest members which have not bowed their knees to Baal will to a man second you and make good every sillable of that Declaration and revive the self denying Ordinance and scorn to sit with a company of mercenary Lawyers who poyson the counsels of the Parliament and turn justice and judgment to gall and wormwood meerly to inrich themselves by the ruine of the people Then your Excellency and those honest Members may forthwith pass an Act to authorize the Justices of peace to keep a Court in their several Counties twice a week in the most convenient place in each County to hear and determine all matters of debt titles of lands and other civill differences the same day they be brought before them and put the people to no more charge but their attendance according to the practise of the Court of Requests London sitting in Guild-Hall by vertue of an Act of Parliament made in the third year of King Iames and the 25 Chapter Then your Excellency and those honest Members may forthwith pass the annexed Act to authorize Commissioners of known fidelity for the speedy examination and redress of all the peoples grievances though the several Committees appointed by Parliament have done little or nothing therein And then we shall see an Act to settle an Annual equal Representative and Indentures drawn between the Representors and the Representative Counties that we may no longer trust in man but have it known to the world that the people are the Legislative power and that all that are entrusted by them must act for them and be accomptable to them Surely then may there be found men of such pure principles that will not forget the self-denying Ordinance nor be seduced by the Clergy to act in Spirituals when their Commission is for Temporals Then shall those faithfull persons who hazarded all for the Parliament and many of them lent more then their whole Estates and now live in prison nay starve for want of it not to be put to uncover Cathedrals and ransack the Monuments of the dead but be honestly paid with thanks and requitals Then should not the Publick Faith be out-pawned and so little care taken to redeem it whilest Millions of Treasure hath been conveyed beyond the seas Then should there be a new little Book of onely usefull Statutes portable that those that should keep them may know them and not a Voluminous Idol the studie of Lawyers their whole life time to teach the people at great cost and with the hazard of their lives Then shall justice be done at the charge of the State as of old the poor fear no bribes and the peoples whole inheritance not spent every hundred year or less in tedious and useless suits in Law without accompt or punishment Then should not poor Souldiers Debenters be sould for a Twentieth part and the benefit of the reft redound to their enemies Nor the honest Souldier pay twice for his quarter whilest your bloudy enemies are forgiven plunder and outrages Was not this the price of their bloud and wo be to him that erecteth a City by bloud c. Nor the honest Souldier that would not do all things laid aside without place or pay and starve for want thereof whilest unworthy persons are imployed both by sea and land in very great trust to the losing the Honor of the Nation gotten by the bloud and treasure of those who are now laid aside Nor should the honest sufferer for the Parliament be left without all provision as if they had no bodies promise for it Nor should there be a five pound Act a meer deceit as it is now used while men of Estates lie in the upper Bench and other prisons and cheat the people and their Lands unsold Nor the poor distressed Protestants of Ireland that lost their Estates and fled hither for their lives starve here and no account rendred of the moneys that was collected for them both in England and elsewhere and many of their bloudy Enemies suffered to be released out of prison Then should the head of no Injustice stand upon any shoulders since for that the late King lost his Then should perjuries forgeries and briberies which are grown to a great head amongst us be punished though the Committee do little or nothing therein Nor should Death be inflicted for a trifle of five shillings a thing called Felony whilest vast sums are taken from the

deeds are evill Iohn 3.19 20 21. and hence it is that so many do oppose a new Representative how can any rational man think it safe to confide in such unfaithfull trustees who neither discharge their trust reposed in them nor make conscience of their oaths nor promises in paying their debts but let the most faithfull friends of the Common-wealth lie starving in all corners of the Common-wealth and yet they can take care to provide for our enemies by an Act of free pardon O how do these and a multitude of other actions declare their unfaithfulness certainly they are not the men whom we chose if they be we were deceived in them and will no longer trust in them but will have all Traitors Cheaters Arbitrary actors and betrayers of their trust called to a strict account that so many industrious families may not starve through oppression the Prophet telleth us that Christ is just Zachary 9.9 therefore we will never own any other King but him he shall be our King and our Law-giver and at his feet will we sacrifice our lives and all that is dear unto us Esay 33.22 Iames 4.12 therefore all those that are for Christ and justice let them declare themselves that we may know and own them and then we shal adhere to them even from Dan to Beer-sheba for we are resolved that all those that have been faithfull in the House Army Navy and Commonwealth by owning of Christ and standing for Justice shall be had in singular honour and shall shine like stars in the firmament and those that stand for Antichrist in the opposing justice or oppressing the people shall like clods of dirt or unsavory salt be thrown to the dung-hill and there remain Matth. 5.13 for we do clearly see that we are sold to the bloudy Butchers of Rome but we are resolved we wil not be delivered up to them Therefore we beseech you before it be too late to go with us to the House door and not depart thence till we have an Act for a Committee to discover and redress the grievances of the Common-wealth that so those that have betrayed their trust and sold us to Antichrist may reap the fruit of their treachery for these men as they stand corrupted will never let us have a new Representative How many moneths nay years we think have they spent in contriving a way for a new Representative and will not do it But we doubt not but a Committee of upright unbiassed men will quickly find out the Achans and the execrable things which will so unite us together in love and raise such a vast Bank of treasure and perpetual revenue as will make this Nation a terrour to the whole earth and then our Trustees may carry on the work of the Nation with ease and chearfulness And we do heartily beseech you as you tender the safety of your own persons families estates and this whole Common-wealth that you do forthwith call a General Councel that so we may not be betrayed in our discoveries nor destroyed for our fidelity to our Countrey And then we shall discover a most dangerous design tending to the destruction both of Army and Common-wealth For God hath made the hearts of those men fat and their ears heavy that they will not hear the crie of the poor Esay 6.10 Therefore they shall cry and not be heard Prov. 21.13 They are Physitians of no value they will not cure us but rather make our wounds deeper and wider But the Sun of Righteousness will arise with healing on his wings Mal. 4.2 and all Nations people or persons that will not submit to his Government and let him rule over them shall be destroyed Luk. 19.27 Esa 60.12 For behold the day commeth that shall burn as an Oven and all the proud and all that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day that commeth shall burn them up saith the Lord of Hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch Mal. 4.1 And now my Lord and Gentlemen all we do humbly spread these things before you conceiving our condition just paralel with Pauls when the ship was between Sylla and Charibdis and as we know you in your full condition swimming in prosperity cannot be without strong temptations neither can you conceive that we can be free from the like and greater for you know what oppression will make wise men do Eccles 7.7 Therefore if we in our sinking condition shall catch at any thing hoping to be delivered by it if it prove to be our destruction we do appeal unto God Angels and Men whether you shall not answer for all the bloud which shall be spilt upon this account or no For we dare call the most High God to record our onsciences also witnessing with us that we have nothing in our eye but the preserving of this nation from perpetual slavery or from suddain destruction by unsatiable bloudy monsters so we do commit both you these lines into the hands of that God who is able to give them such a setting on upon your spirits that both sleep and food shal depart from you until you by joining with us have put us into a safe posture FINIS