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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91251	A publike declaration and solemne protestation of the free-men of England and Wales, against the illegall, intollerable, undoing grievance of free-quarter.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1648 (1648)	Wing P4044; Thomason E426_3; ESTC R203278	6,769	12

levyed treble their pay upon us under colour of freequartering and compositions for it the horse enforcing us to pay them 14. 16. and 20. shillings a weeke and the foote 6. 7. 8. 10. 12. and sometimes 14. shillings a man towards their quarters and yet take quarters upon us and others and sending fresh quarterers on us as soon as the former are removed which we here protest and declare to be direct Burglary and Felony in them and no lesse then Treason in their chiefe Officers and a levying of Warre upon us by this present Parliaments resolution in the Earle of Straffords case for which we must now crave reparations and justice against them and satisfaction for all the quarters thus forcibly taken on us being resolved to pay no more Taxes towards the Army till all our quarters and the mony raysed and extorted from us for compensation of it be fully satisfied And seeing divers Officers and Souldiers of the Army notwithstanding the late Ordinances of both Houses against Free-quarter and their and the Generalls and Officers engagements published in print that upon our paying in of six moneths Contribution towards the Army upon the sixty thousand pounds tax principally intended for Ireland but now wholly Monopolized by the Army no Officer nor Souldier should after the 15. of January take free-quarter upon us under paine of death against our wills which notwithstanding they doe in many Counties which have payd in their six moneths Contribution refusing to obey the Parliaments Orders and protesting they will take Free-quarter notwithstanding and forcibly breake into our houses and take away our provisions with more insolency then before Wee doe here publikely remonstrate and protest against this dishonorable breach of faith and promise and this intollerable oppression and cheating of us to our faces and demand open and speedy justice and reparations for the same from the Houses and Generall and doe require and enjoyne all our Knights Citizens and Burgesses who are our Substitutes and derive f all their authority and Commission from us whom we have authorized only to maintaine our just Rights Liberties and Properties not to invade or betray them as they will answer the contrary at their perills to the Kingdome and the respective Counties Cities and Burroughs for which they serve to right themselves and us and make good the Houses and their own promises to us herein otherwise we are resolved never to trust nor believe them more and to disclame them for our Trustees or Representatives in Parliament for the future for breaking of their trusts and disobeying our Instructions And because the quartering of Souldiers in our Houses against our wills against the Houses and Generalls engagements is such an intolerable Grievance and Vexation as utterly deprives us of the freedome comfort and command of our own houses wives children servants beds stables bread heere provisions for horse and men which are all exposed to the arbitrary commands of every base dominiering deboist and insolent Souldier and Officer who command all we have and may cut our throats at pleasure every houre in our own houses where we cannot sleep nor remain secure now renders our condition worse then any Turkie-Gally-slave undoing and enslaving us at once even to those who were once our servants and now become our Lords and Tyrants over us who doe nothing but pick quarrels with us and will be content with no ordinary provisions purposely to extort compositions from us in money above double and treble their pay whereby they grow rich and the whole Kingdome poore even to extremity all trading being now utterly gone and decayed by reason of Free-quarter and excessive raues daily multiplyed which ingrosteth all the Treasure of the Kingdome whereby trade should be supported and the poore employed who are now upon the point of starving and are ready to rise up and mutiny in City and Country for want of bread and employment whiles many thousands of strong lusty boyes youths Souldiers and their horses whose labours might much enrich the Common-wealth lye idlely like so many drones and Caterpillers upon us taking both pay free-quarter too for doing nothing but eating drinking swearing whoring stealing robbing and undoing us and the Realme too We doe here publikely Protest and declare against allowing any more free-quarter to any Officers or Souldiers on us for the future as such an intollerable and undoing Grievance as we neither can nor will any longer undergoe and that if any of them shall hereafter against our wills forcibly enter our houses or take away or devoure our provisions and goods as they have injuriously and feloniously done for many moneths last past wee are unanimously resolved to proceed against them for it as Burglairs Theeves and Felons and to defend our houses and goods against them with force and armes with the hazard of our lives resolving rather to die Free-men then live any longer Slaves especially to those who have been our mercenary servants and pretend they have hitherto fought and continued in armes together by their own authority almost a full year against both houses Votes for their disbanding of purpose as they pretended in their printed Declarations though we find it otherwise to make us absolute Free-men Whereas we feele and discerne by wofull experience that their designe is quite contrary even to make us the King Kingdome and Parliament no other then conquered slaves as many of them stick not to terme us to our faces who dare not be any longer accessories and contributors to our owne and the Kingdomes imminent ruine bondage and captivity in the least degree against our right and Covenant and will no longer sit still like so many tame silent fooles and conquered slaves whiles they put new yoakes of bondage on our necks and fetters on our feet to inthrall us to a more intollerable Arbitrary Power and Tyrannie then ever the King or his Cavalliers intended in England or Strafford himselfe in Ireland and rule us only by the Sword and Martiall Law And our very Knights Citizens and Burgesses representing us in Parliament whom they impeach suspend expell the House and over-awe by their power new Guards and Garrisons put upon them and the Lords House too at pleasure so as they neither can nor dare to doe us that right ease and reliefe against the Souldiery as otherwise they would and are bound to doe being enforced daily to passe new Ordinances of Indempnity from them even for their very felonies burglaries plunders and murthers too for which they must not be questioned which encourageth them now to commit the like offences with greater boldnesse then ever in hopes of the like indempnity for the future as they have forcibly obtained for what is past Our (g) Historians record that in the Reigne of King Egelred the Danish Souldiers exercised such pride and abusive oppressions over the people in England on whom they quartered that they caused Husband men to doe all their vile labour and