ALthough, as Citizens, wee are reduced to a necessity of Violence; and as Christians, obliged to the Exercize of it; Vnless we will rather prostitute our Lives and Li­berties, Fortunes and Reputations; Nay, our very Souls, and Altars, to the Lusts of a Barbarous, and Sacrilegious Enemy: Wee have yet so great a tendernesse for Christian bloud, as to leave unattempted no means, of probability to save it. This is it which hath prevayl'd with us to Declare, First, to the World, what wee Propose, and Resolve, ere we proceed to further Extremities: and to Satisfie the Publique, as well in the Reasons of our Vndertakings, as to Justifie our Selves, in the Menage and Event of them.

We find, in the Midst of us, the House of Prayer converted into a Den of Theeves: Our Coun­sels Affronted by Armed Troups, our Fellow Citizens knock'd on the head, like Doggs, at their own doors, for not so much as barking; Nay, tis become Death, now, to desire to Live; and Adjudg'd Treason, but to Claim the benefit of the Law against it. Witnesse those Infamous Murders committed, but Monday last, upon our unarmed Friends: and the glori­ous Insolencies of that Rabble, towards such of the rest, as they seized, and carried away. But this is nothing: to make us a Compleat Sacrifice, we are to be Burnt too: a thing, not only Threatned, in the Passion of the Tumult, but Soberly intended; for they have layd in their Materials for the work already: a Prodigious Quantity of Fire-Balls in Pauls, and Gresham Colledge. Briefly, We are design'd for Fire, and Sword, and Pillage: and it con­cerns us now, to look a little better to our gratious Guards. Not to insist upon the losse of Trade; how many Thousand Families have nothing now to do, but Begg, and Curse these wretches? the Honour and the Safety of the City lies at stake: and God so blesse us as wee'll fall together. We will not live to see our Wives, and Daughters ravish'd: our Houses Rifled, and our Children Beggars, that shall only live to Reproach their cow­ardly Fathers: and all this done too by a People, which we can as easily destroy, as men­tion: by a Party, so barbarous, and so Inconsiderable together, that, certainly, no creature can be mean enough, either to suffer the one, or fear the other. In this Exigency of Affairs, we have found it both our Duty and our Interests to Associate; and we desire a Blessing front Heaven upon us, no otherwise than as we do vigorously and faithfully pursue what we here Remonstrate.

First, We do engage our Selves, in the presence of Almighty God, with our lives and fortunes, to defend the Rights and Liberties of the City of LONDON; and if any person that subscribes to this Engagement, shall be molested for so doing; We will unanimously, and without delay, appear as one Man to his Rescue.

Next, we demand, that all such Troups, and Companies, as do not properly belong to the Guard of the City, nor receive Orders from the lawfull Magistrates thereof; that such For­ces withdraw themselves from the Liberties, within 12. hours after the Publication of This: upon pain of being deemed Conspiratours, and of being Proceeded against accordingly, (for to this extent, both of Iudgement, and Execution, is every Individual qualified in his own defence.)

We are next to demand the Inlargement of our Fellow Citizens, which were taken away by Force, and in a tumultuons manner, contrary to the known Lawes of the Place and Nation.

This being performed, we shall acquiesce, in the Enjoyment of those Liberties, which we will not lose, but with our Lives. In fine, to remove all Impediments of the peace we desire: We do undertake, both as Men of Credit, and Iustice; that such of the Sol­diers as will betake themselves to honester Imployments, shall receive their Arreares from the City, and such a further care of their future well-being, as is suitable to the Necessities of the one part, and the Charity of the other.