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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82208	The declaration of the officers of the garrison of Hull: in order to the peace and settlement of the Kingdome. Presented to his Excellency the Lord Generall, and the Generall Councell. Also a petition, presented to the Parliament of England, by the officers and souldiers of his Excellency the Lords Generalls Regiment of Horse, for the speedy calling of all publicke treasurers to an acompt, and for the speedy taking away of that heavy burden of free-quarter. With the result of the Generall Councell upon the same. By the appointment of the officers at a general meeting, Signed, Jo. Hemingway.	England and Wales. Army. Overton's Regiment.; Overton, Robert, ca. 1609-ca. 1668.	1649 (1649)	Wing D733; Thomason E545_17	16,642	24

and avarice are grown heavi●●hen the loynes of Soveraignty or Episcopacy For besides what our State-mongers have perverted to private ends some of the Long Robe who have preached against Pluralities have annual salaries amounting almost to 1000. l. per annum If we inquire what their imployments are to answer such in-comes we shall finde amongst many little besides the preaching of themselves and their owne authority over their fleeced flocks yet whatsoever some of them decree in the Church or the Parliament in the State must as if infallible be received with an implicite obedience no dispute no Petition no Remonstrance unlesse it speak the sence of a prevailing party in the Parliament and be ushered in by a totall resignation of our selves can be accepted To this tamenesse have we suffered our selves to be brought and might so perhaps have continued had not the late actings of our Trustees sufficiently informed us that warr cannot be too much suspected which is obtruded upon termes not to be looked into And therefore if the attempts of such lawlesse usurpers run so high whilest we have a faithfull Army on foot what will they do when we are disbanded and they backt with an indisputable power If they once dare to declare us enemies for but intending to Petition for due pay and deserved indempnity how boundlesse would they be if under private and popular Notions they could without controule pursue their own interests and appetites Is not therefore the present actings of our Officers and Army proper to settle Peace as to disappoint the pursuances and plots of private spirits would it not better become us to die with our swords in our hands then after we have vindicated the publique Liberty against the power and pride of Princes to succumb under the servitude of our fellow-subjects how great soever for which of our good deeds do we deserve to be destroyed are they angry because we are about to expedite the peoples Peace and preservation are we not therefore properly provoked to snatch the wreath from off their brows which by the mercies of the Almighty our late conquering swords have crowned them with is this the requitall and income of all our difficulties undergone perills past lives lost Is this the fruit of our victory acquired have we for this so frequently removed their foes and feares secured their safety or rendred them capable of the full execution of due but deferred Justice Was it not for this cause we covenanted hazarding our lives ao preserve our Liberties yet after all must we sit still to see oppressions unsupprest Justcie perverted grievances augmented and Tyranny Re-inthroned In this so sad a condition may we not with Adrian the Emperour cry out Multitudo Medicorum me perdidit may it not properly be applyed to the late prevailing party in our present Parliament whose apparent declinations from their honoured undertakings whether we eye their private leterests or unparliamentary proceedings looke with so foule a face upon us as we may justly question whether there be not as great a necessity of transferring that Trust from its abusers as erst to make use of their undertakings Nay we may boldly assert their carryings on for pretended preservations have been so costly to us and so commodious to themselves that there is no capacity so weak but too aptly apprehends it for a truth that it is better to be stung with one Hornet then a whole nest better one Pope or one Tyrant then a multitude may never so malignant a Genius possesse a Parliament as to render our endeavours to regaine true liberty uselesse Yet how is the State of England altered and from the pity of its enemies become the envy of her false and feigned friends for whom our care and conscience gave us courage to ingage our courage begot their present power their power our servitude and calamity A strange kind of requitall some will say that those heads should cut off these hands by which they have climbed to that dezelling greatnesse from whence they but giddily discern either themselves or us whom they still strive to thrust even with the hazzard of the Nation and their owne ruine beneath the honour of our Armes into a condition of servitude beggery and basenesse witnesse the contemptible price of blood paid to some whilest other impoverished Petitioners are constrained to stand perpetuall Centinells to want and wrong whilest some of their own indeered darlings lie stowed in plenty and secure reposes being in as deep Arrears for service to be done as others are for pay that 's due Certainly the free and faithfull Commoners of England did not intrust them thus to act their own ends or to accumalate and divide such vast proportions of treasure amongst themselves and Sycophants whilest worthier Members and more publike spirited persons are famished and defrauded this is so cleare a truth as he that runs may read Have we any thing desirable here more then the care of our consciences the freedome of our persons community of friends and propriety of goods In all which should we declare how much both our Countrey and we have suffered in a patient expectance of a happy issue we should adde to our calamities one vexation more then ever our Trustees intended us for had they believed that any durst have been so bold us to arraigne their actions we may charitably think they would have been more wary in disobliging those for whom they are and ought to act For those last six yeares what hath been the constant cry of the prime Potentiaties in our great Councell but the Liberty of the Subject and the Priviledge of Parliament the former whereof we now see is almost swallowed up of the latter witnesse the Goale-books of Newgate the Tower the Gatehouse and other places of Purgatory where publike spirited persons lie impoverished and imprisoned in a hopelesse and helplesse condition languishing after a legall tryall Be assured all ye native noble English that the same contrivance which provides mannacles for their hands would in time see that no fetters should be wanting for your feet But must the Medium whereby we are conveyed into this pretended blessednesse and by which so many millions have been serewed forth of seduced purses be no other then that old and ancient Qualepipe publike necessity Oh invincible argument endlesse necessity which perhaps our abusers did never resolve to have done withall whilest we had either juice to squeeze or tamenesse to suffer it Is any Art either ancient or moderne omitted to exhaust the treasure of these times witnesse the reported dividend of some hundred thousand pounds amongst some select Members to recruit not so much perhaps their pretended losses as their crack'd estates whilst the publike debts of the Kingdome with our dearly earned Arrears are throwne in amongst things most fit to be forgotten Surely strangers might think the Parliamentary Revenues were at a low ebbe when they are seen and seem compelled to shuffle off their friends and the