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A26599 An Alarm to the officers and souldiers of the armies of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1660 (1660) Wing A835; ESTC R8339 8,386 14

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An Alarum TO THE OFFICERS and SOULDIERS OF THE ARMIES OF England Scotland and Ireland Gentlemen and Fellow-Souldiers IT is an old and true saying That Standers by do often see more than the Gamester And having been out of play for some time I have perhaps discovered more than many of your selves who do not dive in secrets of State but are content onely to take care how you may receive the pay I have been engaged in one and the same Cause and Quarrel with you against the late King and his Sons during which time I observ●d very many miraculous providences of God in several conflicts and bloody Battels honoured with eminent Victories God owning an Army which consisted of persons of low estate condition knowledge or education either in Politick or Military art when on the other side I saw very numerous and potent Armies of the late King and his Sons who consisted of most of the Noble and Gentry of the three Nations very expert both in knowledge and education of that nature to be by those despicable ones absolutely vanquished and thereupon the late King brought to Justice and hitherto all the endeavours of his Sons blasted and dis-appointed If you please to look back and remember all those signal Victories and deliverances and what thereupon you promised and engaged to do for these poor afflicted Nations which in few words and substance was that before you would suffer your selves to be dis-banded or divided you would see the Government of these Nations established upon the just and secure fundamentals and constitutions of freedome and safety to the people in relation as they were Men and Christians and that in the wayes of a Commonwealth and Free-state Government without a King single person or House of Lords I shall not at this time minde how far you have gone astray from that Engagement seeing that most of you have repented and returned to your duties But I shall onely by sounding this Alarm endeavour to render you sensible of the eminent danger which hangs over your heads and of your best friends of the three Nations And in the first place tell you what the old and new enemies the Cavaliers do now say of your proceeding and late actions Secondly what many honest and sober people of the Presbyterian judgement think Thirdly What danger your best friends scornfully called Commonwealth-men and Fanatiques do fore-see concerning the present transactions in the three Nations And lastly my own observations and seasonable advice First The Cavaliers do confidently affirm that your Generals late actions do sufficiently demonstrate that the bottome of his intention tends only to bring Charles Stuart to be King of these Nations grounding the same upon several reasons As first say they did he not intend the same he would never after so many Declarations and Protestations to be true to the Parliament which in scorn they call the Rump have the 11. of February last sent them such an imposing Letter and thereupon without any order from them marched with their Army to London then esteemed and made by him in destroying their Gates c. their implacable enemies and at night suffered so many bone-fires and ringing of Bels and publickly drinking healths to the King and a free Parliament ro●●●ng and burning of Rumps hearing and seeing his Masters in open street declared Murtherers and Rebels and that in a most vile and dissolute manner and all this in the presence of the Army a thing say they not to be paralleld in any Historie of ages past and besides without Orders of his Masters quartered himself an Army amongst their Enemies till the 21 of the said Month during which time he feasted daily at most of the Kings friends and admitted them to him with great respects and affection without returning to White-hall although several times invited thereunto by his Masters Secondly say they that although by his Letters and verbal promises he had engaged to them that in case they would effect what was contained in the said Letter he would be satisfied and still be their servants notwithstanding which he was so far from performing the same that although they had within the the time by him limited fulfilled in all things what in that Letter was imposed upon them yet not regarding neither the said Letter nor verbal promise and without acquainting in the least any of his Masters who some of them had ventured their all to secure him from being ruined by Lrmberts Army your said General say they further caused his Army upon the 21. of the said Month to march back to Westminster and there admits the secluded Members to sit in the Parliament House most of whom he absolutely knew to be for the restoration of Charles Stuart who they call King and again at night suffer Bone-fires and ringing of Bells and his said Masters and others of their friends to be as much or more abused and vilified than they were upon the 11. at night of the said Month whereupon the Cavaliers do conclude as being thereof assured that your said General in like manner would surprize them and then bring in the King upon a sudden and then give the same reason for his so doing as he did after he had admitted the secluded Members to wit the reason of not discovering the same was because he knew they hated them and would have endeavoured to hinder their admission in the House Thirdly To demonstrate further say they that the said General will bring their King let any rational man consider whether he can have any other design seeing he hath suffered the said secluded Members to release Sir George Booth and his party and to discharge their Sequestrations and to sit and vote with them in Parliament And besides although he knoweth how several of the said secluded Members have daily moved in the House against the Government of a Free-state and for King Lords and Commons and how they have in order thereunto voted the Covenant to be de novo printed read and set up in every Church of the Nation whereby they evidently acknowledge the late Kings Posterity yet he suffered the same as likewise to be maintained in the House that none but Jesuits and Priests are for Free-state Government And to evidence further that the General is resolved upon that point Observe say the Cavalier who he causeth to be imprisoned and released put out and put in the Army to wit Commonwealth men imprisoned and turned out of the Army and Garrisons in the three Nations and Royalists taken in Arms at Worcester fight released and several others of that stamp entrusted with eminent places in Army and Garrisons in the three Nations And lastly His countenancing the raising of the Militia of City and Country entrusting the management thereof to most of the Kings friends the said Militia being raised and formed to no other end than murther to destroy the Army in whom the Cavaliers say the General cannot well confide in as to bring