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A30774	A letter from Mercvrivs Civicvs to Mercurius Rusticus, or, Londons confession but not repentance shewing that the beginning and the obstinate pursuance of this accursed horrid rebellion is principally to be ascribed to that rebellious city.	Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.	1643 (1643)	Wing B6324; ESTC R5573	26,143	35

poores stock it selfe be invaded and spent in this Warre while ●hose that fed them are left in this unnaturall Rebellion Nay how many disconsolate parents have you in the Country that sent their Children hither to this City and gave great summes with them to bind them Apprentises to Trades Manufactures hoping that hereafter they might live like men nay perhaps some of their Mothers out of an overweaning opinion might fancy to themselves hopes that they might live to see their sonnes Lord Majors of London and why not that now sit mourning and wringing their hands and curse the day not onely in which they sent them hither but in which they were borne not because they have lost a Legge or an Arm● or returned maimed so that all they can hope for is to have entertainment in an Hospitall and that no longer neither then till the Kings maimed Souldiers shall come and tell them that that Charity was never provided for men disabled fighting against their King but because they have lost their lives and not onely their lives but their pretious souls too dying in a grievous sinne in the very act of Rebellion methinks you in the Country if there be any bowels of compassion yearning over the fruit of your bodies if there be any sense of that eternall condition that doth attend them after this life if there be any hope of the joyes of Heaven or feare of the Torments of Hell should be very sensible of this And though God hath manifestly fought against them for the King giving him victory in many Battailes when all humane helpes and advantages were on the Robells side though God hath miraculonsly and beyond the hope of man restored unto Him the hearts of the people which the heads of this Rebellion by slanders had stolne from H●m th●ugh from small and contemptible beginnings in the eyes of His enemies few or 〈…〉 for H●m but God and the just●ce of his Cause God hath prosp●red Him into many mighty Armies which ●ender him formidab●e to the proudest and stoutest of the Rebells ●●ough every Victory hath beene seconded by a 〈◊〉 of peace and with an overture of pacification so that as himself spe●kes in 〈◊〉 Declaration Pu●lished Iuly ●●●643 He could not probably 〈◊〉 unden the Scandalous Imp●●●tion which ha●h usually 〈◊〉 His Messages of p●ace 〈◊〉 they proceed from t●e W●ak●esse of His P●●er ●ot l●ve of His People Lastly●though like a● ind●●gent Father of R●bellious Children He hath 〈◊〉 his City and VVood it by many pardons many and often repeated Acts of Grace and Favour to recall us to our former Loyalty 〈…〉 we were Loyall yet inconsiderate unthankfull wretches as we are we overlooke or sleight all these invitations For 〈…〉 we have added this as the complement of our other R●bellions that whether more unthankfully or undutifully I ●●●●not tell we have cast dirt in our Soveraignes fa●● and 〈◊〉 the foo●stpes of Gods Anoynted as if he were guilty of all 〈◊〉 Miseries which at this time threaten the subversion of this Na●●on we will no longer wrong our King secretly through 〈◊〉 sides of His evill Counsellors or Cavallers but ●hrage him 〈◊〉 and poynt blanke as in that most seditious Declaration or what every you will call it presented by Sir Dauid VVatkins and that broken Citizen out at elbowes called Satten Shute to the Common-Councell and by them to the remainder of the 〈◊〉 House if it be not breach of priviledge to call it so How willing have we ob●yed every Commandement except God and the Kings How forward have we beene to imploy the large Revenues of our severall Companies and Brotherhoods as heretofore to excesse and gluttony so now to support this Reb●llion how ready even b●yond our Ab●lities have we bin to submit to every Tax and illegall Impistion even to the bondage and sl●very of 〈◊〉 b● which we are not so much Proprietaries of our owne as Stewards or Cashieres to the heads of the Rebellion and all this to no other end but to keepe up the Rebellion wee have not only protected supported the Kings Mortall Enemies but as much as in us lay have persecuted all His Friends or if but suspected to stand well-affected to Him and the Justice of his cause not sparing the effusion of I●nocent blood as that of M. Tomkins and M. Chaloner which like the blood of Abel calls loud to Heaven for vengeance on this bloody City and Q●●stionlesse will in time be heard For not Content to buy these mens bloods with great summes of monies which could not be advanced but on this Condition that M. Tomkins and M. Chaloner be delivered up to their pleasure and murthered for a strange Conspiracy called Obedience to the King but being dead in an unheard of barbarousnesse they presse into the houses where their dead bodies lay before their Funeralls and thinking they could never be sure enough of so great a guilt they will not beleeve that they are dead unlesse they force the houses to see the bodies of them whom themselves had murthered Insomuch that to avoyd further violence and rage of the Citizens they were faine to set open the doores where their bodies say and expose them to the view of all that so they might glut them●elves with beholding that sad spectacle which themselves had made That the Kings Gracious offers of Peace have beene sleighted and rejected with scorne and Con●empt and His Messengers that brought them contr●ry to the Law of Armes and Nations Impriso●ed That those miserabl● distractions which have rent and 〈◊〉 this flourishing Kingdome are so farre from being closed that they are rather made wider That the sword of Warre so long d●vouring is not yet sheathed except in one anothers bowells That this Kingdome is still made the Scene of Marthers Rapines Oppression and P●nderings and whereon all the horrid acts of rage and injustice are every day acted and the Nation put almost out of hope ever to injoy her former Peace and plenty is our fault and ours wholly Had not the heads of this Rebellion beene anima●ed by this City and Incouraged by promises of more supplies of men and Mo●ies They had long 〈◊〉 this layd downe their Armes and come with halters about their necks and cast themselves at the Kings feet submissely begging those Pardons which they have presumptuously rejected Time was when the two Houses gave a Law to the City now it is come to that passe that the City prescribes to the Reliques of the two Houses They must not Conclude of Warre or Peace without consulting the City if they doe they reckon without their Hoste Nay though Fairfax be utterly routed in the North and William once sirnamed Conqueror be totally defeated in the West yet they can neither be perswaded nor beaten into thoughts of Peace on the 20 Iuly last no longer agoe many Thous●nds as the printed Paper tells you preferred a Petition to the House of Commons presented by M. Norbury of

A LETTER FROM MERCVRIVS CIVICVS TO MERCURIUS RUSTICUS OR LONDONS CONFESSION but not Repentance SHEWING That the beginning and the obstinate pursuance of this accursed horrid Rebellion is principally to be ascribed to that Rebellious City En quo discordia Cives Perduxit miseros Virg. Egl. 1. Printed 1643. A LETTER FROM MERCVRIVS CIVICVS TO MERCURIUS RUSTICUS Good Brother RUSTICUS THough there have been some unkinde jars between my brother Aulicus and me yet my earnest desire is to keep a good understanding between your self and me I cannot but congratulate your happinesse that breathe in so free an ayre wherein it is lawfull to heare and speak truth O Truth sacred Truth whither art thou fled if you at Oxford did not give her entertainment I know not where she would find a place of aboad for here at London we fortifie against her to keep her out Nay with us in the City it is come to that passe that it is almost as dangerous to speak truth as Love the King you know how famous we have been here for publishing and printing Lyes he that will not lye to advantage the great Cause in hand is not amongst us thought fit to have accesse either to the Pulpit or the Presse And therefore when I was first set on work to communicate Intelligence to the Kingdom to indear my self to them that imployed me I played my part reasonable well I Lyed my share but at last admonished by our brother Aulicus and to confesse to you touched a little in conscience I began by degrees to take off my self from that unwarrantable course and did here and there sprinkle a little truth yet very sparingly least I should be thought to be turned Malignant or Cavaleer but as little as it was it was distastfull for hereupon Mr Pim and the Remainder of the five Members assisted by Mr Martyn illiterate Serjeant Wild Peard that hath lesse Law if it be possible then the Serjant some others that have sworn never to indure truth again since they have thriven so well by Lies moved at the Close Committee to have me silenced yet to blind the world as if their ayme were not at me alone they involve others in the same doome and for Intelligencers by an Order they bung up all our mouths at once yet knowing how much it cōcerned them that the old trade went on though since they have permitted another to make use of my name yet at first they gave authority to one man onely to lye for all the rest him they call the Parliament Scout not Bulmore the Scout that was slain at Whetley bridge neer you at Oxford I meane not him yet if you look into his weekly Pamphlets you would sweare that he had no more braines in his head then Bulmore had when they were shot out This man indeed tels you some truths but such antiquated ones that they were stale newes above a Thousand yeares since as that on the borders of Scotland there dwelt a People whom they called Picts that there was a Wall built between England and Scotland and the like while he keeps at this distance and comes no nearer he never needs feare that the heeles of the times may chance dash out his teeth he may write on but if once he come to publish any Moderne truths as that his Excellency durst come no nearer Oxford then Thame that Fairfax is beaten in the North and Waller and Warwick in the West or the like he were best looke to himselfe he may read his fate in us These new Reformers will never Brooke it Since therefore we are here inslaved either to Lies or Silence that the world may not for ever be kept hoodwinkt goe on I pray as you have begun to let her see the Miseries under which she dayly suffers But me thinks it would be a work well worthy your endeavour to let the Country see not only their miseries but to point them out the fountain source from whence they flow This discovery hath beene within me as wine that hath no vent redy to burst like new bottles yet as ful as I am I dare not vent my thoughts concerning this here but have chose rather to whisper them to you for it is in vaine to dissemble it your sad stories of the Ruine and devastation of the Countrey are ecchoed in our Streets and though we beare it out in a Vaunting way as if these things concerned not us yet I assure you there are many soules that mourne in private for in publique we must be as mad as the rest or else we suffer as Malignants as knowing how justly we stand charged with all those Calamities which the sword of Rebellion hath brought upon you I never heare that of the Prophet read Woe to the bloody City it is full of Lies and Robbery but I cannot choose but think of London It is too too manifest nor can it be denied but that all your Sufferings have been derived from us when Common-Prayer was in use amongst us I remember such a Query in one of the Prophets Is there any evill in the City and the Lord hath not done it But you may aske Is there any evill in the Countrey and the City hath not done it You have made us Rich and Populous and we in foule Ingratitude have prodigally powerd out both our Wealth and Strength to make you and our selves miserable Well might the Incendiaries of this present Rebellion so I dare call it to you though I dare not speak so plain here bring violent affections eager endeavours to set this flourishing Church and Kingdom in Combustion but alas all this had signified little or nothing had they not gained our consent and we resigned up our persons and estates to their disposall to be made the base instruments to compasse their most Trayterous designes Could Say or Pim and their beggerly Confederates have found money to Levie an Army against their Leige Lord that had not money to pay their own Debts had not we furnished them If we shall without partiality consider the severall helps which this City hath Contributed to this Rebellion we must confesse that both the beginning and continuance of this unnaturall Warre may be ascribed to us So that in all England there is but one Rebell that is London To reflect a little look back on those times when this Rebellion was but an Embrio or else did begin to creepe into the world for we may not think that this Monster was a Brat of a suddain birth though it were conceived some Say ne●re Banbury shaped in Grays-Inne-Lane where the undertakers for the Isle of Providence did meet and plot it yet you know it was put out to Nurse to London For first you may well remember when the Puritans here did as much abominate the Military-yard or Artillery-Garden as Paris-Garden it self they would not mingle with the Profane but at last when it was instill'd into them that the blessed