COmmend me to Nol Nod, and tell him that he hath very good friends abroad, that will not see him starved in these hard times; as­sure Mr. Sorwind that he is in some danger, tell him he had need be well victuall'd, and man'd in these straights, the sooner the better. Did you not hear the News from France, that Mounsieur Lia­mentrap, and some of his friends are impeached of high Treason? there is a very subtle plot layd to blow up Mr. Donys. Mr. Grips and his two Sonnes are very active against Mounsieur Liamentrap they plead that we must all be ruled by the Law of Nature; that Liamentrap hath forfeited all and therefore is not to be accounted himself. France, you know, is governed by a standing Parliament, but standing pools gather mud, and therefore must be drawn dry, and rid once a yeer; all he power, say the Populars, is in the people, they set up the Parliament, and they may pluck it down. On the other side it is plead­ed, that the Populars have a minde to introduce Tyranny and Anarchy both at once; for if they (do in the State, or in an Army, as they have done in the Church) place all the power in the Body, and none in the Officers, the bo­dy of the Army being most commonly corrupt, the Of­ficers must not be Dissenters under pain of cashiering, or somewhat worse; It is whispered that London is like to be besieged: and Mr. Grips said shrewdly, that though the Demands which Joyce and his 400. men are about to make, will seem strange and unreasonable to the City and Parliament, yet yeeld they must, saith he, when they are [Page 2]under the Rod. The King, they say, did forfeit all his Power by abusing it; and now the Parliament have too after the like manner forfeited theirs. They talk of fortify­ing at Reding Albey, of possessing Windsor Castle, keep­ing strong guards at Staines, and at Kingston-bridge, that they may command the River. If some little Garrilons were made 4. or 5. miles round about London, they could never come to sit down before it; and if they sit down at a distance, it will be easie to beat up their Quarters, and it will be impossible for them to relieve one another, be­cause they can never have any Communion of Quarters. If Donys were dissolved, they might undeceive the honest and ingenious people in every County.

Put on heroicall Spirits, brave Boyes of Mars, the 20. Guns sent from hence are onely fit for to keep the Field, most of them were Sakers: the Pieces that are for battery are as yet left behinde; Mr. Grips and his two Sons are here making Proselytes, but we are not easily perswaded though they assure us that we do but rise against the rising Sun.

WE of the County of — observing (the over­throw of the Priviledges both of Parliament and people [...]o be seriously endeavoured by some (who were not long since professed Cavaleers) now in Arms under the fair vail of their love to the Parliament, make this fain and just Remonstrance to all true English hearts:

We consider, that if the Parliament of England be af­fronted, reviled, threatned, and even almost forced in a mutinous and rebellious way, to Answer the De­mands of daring Cavaliers, the Parliament is then no free Parliament, and the Act made by the three Estates for the Continuance of this Parliament being violated, we have cause to fear, that no Parliament will ever hereafter be free, or safe, and no Acts of Parliament be observed; and then no man can call his wife, or lands, or goods his own; farewell Liberty and Property.

We cannot but beleeve, that the rich City is an invi­ting bait not onely to some poore hungry Souldiers, but to some rich, yet greedy, Commanders; If some Mem­bers of either House, against whom nothing is yet pro­ved, be demanded, must London be besieged till eleven Members of the House be tryed? Many women and chil­dren, in all probability, will be aff [...]ighted out of their wits, and some out of their lives; the free Trade of the Kingdom will be stopped, hundreds undone, thousands starved, and the City of London sacked, and ruined by the unjust practises of those who cry for Justice.

We do therefore by these Presents testifie and declare, [Page 4]that we approve the Piety, Noblenesse, and Prudence of those Collonels, other Officers and Souldiers, who re­fuse to jovn with those who are now drawing up in a Bo­dy to besiege and force the two Houses of P [...]rliament, the famous Cities of London and Westminster, and the ad­jacent parts to yeeld and submit to such Conditions as these men in Arms shall think fit to put upon them. And we do clearly protest, that we are ready upon Com­mand to serve both the Houses, and the Cities with our lives and Estates against these gallant Mutineers, who complain of Grievances, and protest against Enemies, but will not declare what are their Grievances, or who are their Enemies.

We observe, that by sundrie Declarations, false sug­gestions, and otherwise, these men in Arms do insinuate into the favour of those foolish people whom they do daily oppresse, by taking free quarter and otherwise; they promise in lord to prevent effusion of blood, and yet en­deavour to engage and embroyl more Kingdoms then one in a bloody War; they vow that they will settle the just Liberties of the People, whom they do more and more enslave.

Wherefore we call upon our Friends in this and the neighbouring Counties, even upon all our fellow-sub­jects, to fall upon these Confederates (who are none of our fellow subject, because they will not be subject to King or Parliament) and doubt not but that all ingeni­ous and honest people throughout the Land, will detest and abhor the cursed practises of these vain-glorious Hy­pocrites, now they are thus clearly discovered to the world.

We hear, that Joyce and some of the Isle of Ely are to rule the King of three Kingdoms, and the Parliament is [Page 5]to be in Wardship (now the Court of Wards is down) to Wat Tyler and Iack Straw; Sirs, the Spirit of the Eng­lish cannot (and the Scottish Nation will not) bear it; onely peradventure some Irish, French, Spanish, Italian Negroes may come under Goring to do Justice upon Lon­don.

Friends, you of the meanest Rank, even you my Coun­trey-men that handle the Plough, and Whip, are free­born English, and have as good a Commission as these Disbanded Bands: Come take up your Swords and come away; you are English-men, & may be Souldiers; Come, come let us cry for Justice, Justice against these self-Justi­ciaries, and cry even whilest we are fighting and bleeding with one lip and hand, we have not that Liberty, which true English-men are born to; and we will rather dye than loose our Parliament, our Liberty, our London, our All.