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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56421	A Parliamenter's petition to the army, the present supreme authority of England		1659 (1659)	Wing P510; ESTC R14795	14,455	15

benefit of the Nation by disturbing our Settlement by obstructing our Trade by beggering the Nation by undoing every thing as fast as it is done by breaking our Parliaments by setting the Sword above our ancient Birth-rights is this your providence for us Gramercy Horse But stay what did you get by breaking this Parliament before but subject your selves to the pleasure of your General who turned out all he pleased that would not be his Janisaries and after Six years were forced to call them back again with shame enough And now you have broken them again what will you be gainers Whoever gets the power and not by right will make us Slaves and you too insinuations and fair pretenses must be used to Trepan you at first but they that are faithful among you will be known and weeded out as soon as the businesse is effected honest men may be instrumental to set up a Tyrant but are not fit instruments to keep them up nay honest men shall be so sure to be rooted out that it is among their Politicks to remove all that have been the instruments of their advancement least they should presume that their good Services had for ever obliged their Master or Masters and so should not be so wholly at their devotion as others that they should gratifie with their places who were bound to deserve that which they received without any merit Are the pretenses fairer now then before No there is not half that pretense that was on old Olivers side Can you not see through them No single Person no by no means we abominate the thoughts of that What then No body knowes unlesse something that is a thousand times worse Three Ten Thirty or it may be Seventy Tyrants for a while till some one can get above the rest The Second General Officer is an unlucky place it was Lieutenant General Cromwell once and then he was a Saint a precious Saint could preach and pray and promise strange matters then it was Is thy servant a dog that he should do so and so what be Protector be King rule by my meer will no by Gods grace I will never doe it But case Fleetwood will not act as General nor grant Commissions to them that have none them the Parliament Voted out and those that shall be brought into the place of those honest Commanders that did their part for the Parliament the salt of the Army who being put out as certainly that will be their fate if the weather clear towards the North the Army will stink in the noses of all Europe I say if Fleetwood will not I hope somebody else will what 's next then why not a King one King or another King and then what is the benefit Richard Lord Protector is laid aside and King JOHN the Second comes up in his place At first it may be a Senate but then something for the honour of England a Duke of Venice Elective Election will do the work to get into the Throne but when once up it must be theirs and their heirs for ever if it be not made hereditary I 'le warrant you they know whom to nominate their Successor for it will not be prudence to leave that matter undetermined to go out of the world lest these Disciples should fall together by the ears about the question Who should be greatest If you will not believe your own experience who can help it I hope by this time your Commander in chief may make bold to put in and pull out who he please out with an Overton a Rich a Harrison and in with my Son Falconbridge my Cozen Lockhart and the rest of his well affected kindred and I shall not pity you a jot But if it should hap to Lamberts chance to be Dominus fac totum I hope those thorough-paced Protectorians who laughed so heartily when his Lordship was turned out of service by the Old Protector some of whom told me when I complained of my Lord Protectors carriage to him that it was no matter never was any man lesse pitied or lamented after he was all for himself he hoped to be next Protector and because nominating a Successor was agreed of therefore he was discontented I say certainly these men will now be contented to yield their places to men that were better affected and are the more endeared friends of his Lordship hitherto then you have notably well projected for your selves ye are shrewd Politicians What then shall you Govern the nation your selves a great purchase a burden to any honest man more then a benefit how many of you are like to share in this if that were true two or three of your Grandees and there 's your design no you hate the thought of this we mistake the matter and do you a great deal of wrong to suspect this What then you shall be better paid that 's well guessed in good sooth how will you have it why one way or other any how rather then fail we will have it by foul means if it will not come fairly no no you abuse us nothing shall be gathered but what is levyed by the people in Parliaments so far you are right and if ever you see a Parliament in England that will take so much care of you as this Parliament hath taken and was a taking for you that will raise you 120000 l. per mensem or 100000 l. per mensem as they have done for you if you could have kept your selves honest then spit in my face and tell me I lie No t is this Parliament that must hazard their Reputations to pay your Arrears and the Debts of the Nation and then future Parliaments may be more easily perswaded to grant such a Tax as may keep us always out of your Debt What then hath the Parliament Voted 9 of your Commanders out of their places doth this anger you and is this the bottom of the business and is this all your design to be avenged of them and the Nation for it goodly great ones What are these men trow that their particular concernments to be kept in Pay and Command should stand in competition with the Ruine of Three Nations a huge reach indeed But pray was it without good reason could the Parliament do lesse had not some of them promoted a General being of the Northern Brigade notwithstanding after the Parliaments dislike of it and after the Petition and Representation of the Army was presented and debated in the House which though it did not expresly require a GENERAL yet did strongly imply it and required some things of lesse consequence I say after this these 9 Grandees combined together in a Letter signed by them all to engage the subscriptions of a Regiment thereunto which was produced in Parliament and could have no other construction but if the Parliament would not grant their commands they should be made to do it which deserved a greater severity then being put out of their places The like practise