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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25504	An Answer of some if not all the citizens of London & freemen of England ...		1659 (1659)	Wing A3287; ESTC R38625	6,446	8

were contemporary This jugling away the lives and souls of men is a sad businesse A Free Parliament hath been pretended in the several Moods and Figures of the Old Protector till at last we came to a Linsy-Woolsy Parliament of English Scottish and Irish as being all alike enslaved to his Will And the first work was in pure zeal to enslave the Conscience of those whom their godly Ministers could not convince whose powerful preaching hath at last enslaved you into this Bellum Presbyteriale Wherein though you challenge us to be of the same Body of the English Nation yet you cannot be ignorant that if every member of the Body inflame into a Gangreen it must be cut off lest the whole perish A Free Parliament you fight for secured from Violence And a Free Parliament we have already secured from Violence secured even from your violence that would invade it A Parliament freely chosen in the most dangerous of times A Parliament confirmed by King and Lords and owned by all the Counties of the Nation A Parl●ament whose Authority God himself hath owned and born witnesse to in all the great things he hath done in these three Nations and hath miraculously given them a Resurrection beyond the very design of those that brought it to passe And whilest this is printing sendeth Tidings of Victory in further confirmation A Parliament sifted and refined Would you have it now fil'd with drosse again and rubbish But you despise it because the number is small Will you despise the day of small things You despise it because deserted by so many Therefore the more they are to be esteemed who so long have continued constant But you could not Act with them or some of you were driven away from them the more unfit such to be 〈…〉 Parliaments who want eit●e wisdom to argue out a good Cause it they 〈◊〉 or valour to protest against a bad one o●●dy in the controve 〈◊〉 And now at present had you ●ad reason in your doings what needed you a●ter 〈◊〉 ought ●y force since Beasts overco●● by force and Men by Reason even to the engagin of force against unreasonable and beastly Men. But why is the spleen against these men Can you exclude the your New Parliament who could not 〈◊〉 their choice your Inst motley Parliament nor outereason their Arguments against you though 〈◊〉 under one roof And why must you do it in haste and all in ●lood● Could you not stay till their short me by themselves Emitted to May next to have left the without excuse For whilest you now find fa●le you furn 〈◊〉 them with just excuses and vindreations by your frequent and most dangerous interruptions We know the Liberty of the Nation is invaded Treasure wasted and Trade decayed and the poor famished But is all that to be mended by your Laws They are the Laws that cause them For whilest the Legislative Power remains in lowder ye●s or nays of Parliament though many things may be unjust yet nothing is illegal especially being into pre●ed by a gang of Judges and Lawyers alwa●es to want is uppermost And this is the reason why Lawes are as Changeable 〈…〉 And 〈…〉 prove●● good New Lords new Laws Whereas if the 〈…〉 power be owned by whom Kings Reign Whereby in King Alfred days Peace and prosperity rejoyced this whole Nations And in King Solomons dayes Silve was as the Stones in Jerusalem and all the people dwelt in lafety every man under his own Vine and under his 〈◊〉 Then may we ●oyn in peace with joy and gladness eating and drinking and making merry and none to make us afraid Then shall we nay Judges as at first and Counsellors as at the beginning All tears shall he wiped from our eys all sorrows from our hearts The poor shall be no more Oppressed nor honest men Arrested nor Imprisoned Men shall no more be Prest to fight against their Will or Conscience But our Swords shall be bearen into Plough-shares and our Spears into pruning hooks Nor shall there be any complaint in all the Holy Mountain of the Lord. Published for generall satisfaction LONDON Printed by J. Clowes 1659.

AN ANSVVER of some if not all the CITIZENS of London Freemen of ENGLAND To a Paper entituled An Express from the Knights and Gentlemen now Engaged with Sir ●eo●ge Booth to the City and Citizens of London and all other Freemen of ENGLAND AS we are English-men we are all incorporated into one Body and though 〈◊〉 and different Families Fortunes and Qua●●● yet fellow Members and Col●irs of one and the same Bir●●●g●t not only by 〈◊〉 as we are the Sons of ●●en 〈◊〉 obliging all in ●●e Common and equal Bond of Freedom and Unity but b●●ce ta●● sacred Laws and Customes of peculiar and inherent Flight to this Nation general equal and impartiall to all 〈◊〉 without effect of persons rank quality or degree de●ved through all successions of Ages by the Blood Justice and prudence of our Fore fathers to us their Posterity as ours and the Right of our Children after us not 〈◊〉 it able though this Age were wholly made up or Apostates and Traytors to Common Justice and Freedom and should make sale of and deliver up their Children as Slaves and Vassals yet English I Right at 〈◊〉 to wit our ●●st Lawes and Liberties and may justly beste-inforced as oporturity may present Sometimes they sleep but never die their total E●●tingu●●●ment is not to be imagined so long as any English-man or English-blood abideth and whoever undertaketh though by Arms or otherwise their recovery and Redemption is justified in that very Action by the Laws of God of Nations Nature Reason and by the Laws of the Land and within the Bowels of our Nation among our selves no War can be justified but upon that score the contrary is Sedition Murder Treason Tyranny and what not and the Instruments thereof no other in the Eye of English Freedom and Right but as Bears Wolves and other Beasts of prey Now right worthy and noble Citizens and all other our English Brethren let us consider and lay to heart the sad and deplorable condition of our native Countrey Oppression Injustice and Tyranny reigneth Division Discord and Dissimulation fomented and fostered Trade and industry discouraged our Land-rent into parties and factions and the common Band of Unity Cancell'd our Fundamentall Laws supplanted High Courts of Justice introduced the blood of War shed in times of Peace A bitrary and illegal imprisonments Pattents Monopolies Excise and other payments brought upon us and continued contrary to Magna Charta and the Petition of Right no form or face of Government of English Constitution among us the Name and Authority of the People in Parliament usurped and abused and the stamp thereof put upon strange and prodigious Actions vexing and oppressing the People with daily changes and alterations in Government as the Interest of some few ambitious Grandees alter and change or 〈◊〉 advantages one of another and all under the ●am● of a Common-wealth when as the Nature is not practised or intended at all it being utterly incons●●ent with their very temper and interest they are wrapt up and compounded of nothing but guilt blood and Tyranny and Equal and Common Justice the Essence of a Common wealth are utterly repugnant thereto and whatsoever they 〈…〉 must be planted and maintained by Sword and violence against the very Heart and Sence of the Nation and they know not where nor ●ow to centre an Oligarchy 〈◊〉 something they would have to be Masters of the People and perpetuate their power and Tyranny and therefore would amaze and confound us with their New Debates of a Co-ordinute Power or Senate for life such as our English Laws and Liberties know not of and of pernitious Consequence to this Nation so that from these men that thus handle the Stern at VVestminster there is no expectation of any just settlement of Peace or Freedom from Oppression especially considering the Apostacy Hypocrisie Deceipt and Perjury of those men their manifold solemn Engagements Oaths Vows Protestations Appeals unto Heaven Promises Remonstrances Declarations all by them broken again and again never keeping Faith Truce or Oath being unbounded unlimitted certain to nothing not to be held either by the Law of God of Man of Conscience or Reason and from such persons in Government good Lord deliver 〈◊〉 and all the good People of England 〈◊〉 And that all this is true of them your own Consciences Noble Citizens and all other the Free people of England can witness there is no tongue no pen is able to vindicate them in this point it is known of all owned by all and can be denied by none how then can any honest or just man shed any blood in their Quarrel of lend them Assistance surely that blood will be required at their hands and we doubt not but you will be carefull what you do And therefore from those Considerations and just provocations we have taken up Arms in pursuance of and Inquisition after our Government Lawes and Liberties that every English-man may be protected and secured in his Religion Liberty and property and though it may be suggested that we intend to introduce Prosecution for Conscience into the Land again we do hereby in the presence of Almighty God protest and declare against all Coercive Power in matter of Religion and that to the utmost of our strength through Gods assistance we will endeavour to the hazzard of our blood and Fortunes the Freedom and protection of all vertuous and religious people by what name soever differenced from us equall with our selves And that no Forreign or other Authority s●ve only the Civil be exercised in England That the practise of the Law be reformed all corrupt Statute repealed Annual Elections of all Officers and Magistrates with the constant Succession of Parliaments restored our Fundamental Laws cleared and asserted and whatever is contrary there to be abolished That no Tayals be admitted in England for Life Limb Liberty or Estate but by the good old way of Juries and that they be restored to their Original power and purity That all Extrajudicial and illegal proceedings by High-Courts of Justice or otherwise with all Illegal and Arbitrary Comittees be strictly provided against That the Excise and all other Payments and Taxes such as our Ancestors never knew of together with all Monopolies and Patents destructive to Trade and the Comnion good of the Nation be also abolished And that our Parliaments and Magistrates be secured from all Force and Violence and utterly cleared from all boundless Prerogative and unlimited priviledge That the Right of the Poor in the Commons of England all Donations for Charitable Uses and all Lands formerly belonging to the People be restor'd again And that Mercy and Justice be truly established amongst us And for these ends and what else may be of publick good to the Nation we do desire and indeed challenge as of English Right the speedy Election of a New Free Parliament And thus Most noble Citivens Brethren and fellow Free 〈◊〉 of England we have dealt 〈◊〉 and plainly with