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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	lord_n	richard_n	3,140	5	8.4338	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62655	Timely advice from the major part of the old souldiers in the army, to all the rest of our fellow souldiers wherein is held forth the politically intended destruction of the whole souldiery by our new masters / from an officer out of Scotland.	Officer out of Scotland.	1659 (1659)	Wing T1281; ESTC R4577	2,457	9

Timely Advice From the Major part of the old SOULDIERS In the ARMY To all the rest of our Fellow SOULDIERS Wherein is held forth the Politically intended Destruction of the whole SOULDIERY By our new Masters From an Officer out of Scotland Printed in the Year of our Lord 1659. Brethren and Fellow-Souldiers UPon the serious and sober review of all our pristine magnanimous and undaunted Actions in the Army in time of Warre And that while we were all unanimous and zealous for the common good and welfare of this Nation We were a Terrour to all our Enemies round about though now become a laughing-stock to all our enemies that see our inconstancies whom nothing can please but what we cry up to day we cry down to morrow onely led thereunto by the Capricious brains of a few weak single persons Who without us are nothing yet we looke not into our own Abilities and Power but like heedlesse Children cast our dearly bought Honour at our heeles So we are emptied from Vessel to Vessel and every day made more and more Slaves to to our own Countrey-men which is as dishonourable in every true English man to suffer as it is unworthy in them to impose and yet all must be done politically under pretence of Religion and the Liberties and Priviledges of the People when dayly Experience shewes us that nothing lesse is intended Is it not then a shame the Power and change of Government being in us that we cannot see and prevent our own Ruine and Destruction when every Man can clearly discern the Face of Fallacies in the Glasse of his own Woes and that we are headlong running to Confusion In the abundance therefore of our zeal and Cordiall Love towards the rest of You our Fellow-sufferers and Souldiers in the Army We have thought very fit to acquaint you as well with what we have Discovered and Collected from the Actings of our Superiours as our resolutions to let loose the Raines of our Power and Libertie For it is not a Time for our Superiours to strive who shall be Greatest and perpetuate themselves a Multitude of Princes Feeding upon the Ruines of the People and Fat of the Nation when We our Families Wives and Children and all that is neare and deare unto us may beg starve and perish Therefore as stout Souldiers whet and rowse up your Spirits Let us not any longer with great Words be over-awed like Doggs with a Cudgell It is well known that we are all very much in Arreare of Pay And that the Monethly Taxes have been paid before-hand with the the Excise in all the Counties Customes Delinquents Estates besides many other Advantages whereby farre greater summs have been raysed then would satisfie all our Arrears through want whereof our Wives and Children have been so much destitute of Bread and Drinke that we have been forced to sell and pawn what we had for Bread to satisfie their hungery stomacks yet no care or provision is made for our payment by our present Masters who will still exact Taxes though they distract Trading and make many thousand Beggers as well in the City as Countrey nor care they how despicable or to what extremities they expose us so they make themselves great In the time of Oliver late Protector there was constantly some reasonable time taken for payment of us And doe but consider how carefull was Richard the Protector for paying off all our Arreares to which purpose he was very earnest with the late Parliament and they thereunto with him did Comply so that we are truely sensible to have been paid off cleare before this time if they had been suffered to sit for which we now repent at our own weaknesse in suffering the Dissolution thereof by a few Ambitious self-ended persons who dayly studie new Formes of Government thereby to Advance themselves though to the ruine of a Nation When time and experience hath taught all Ages that a Government in a single person lawfully Elected is most safe most for the ease and appeal of the Oppressed most Honourable most Peaceable most Heaven-like and most Consentaneous to an English heart That we well understand the Resolves and Intentions of Parliament are first to settle the Militia as stawking Horses for them the the better to catch their Game then after that either to send us beyond Seas out of our Native Countrey to be destroyed like Vagabonds in a strange Countrey at their pleasures Contrary to the Libertie of Free-born People or else Disband us at Home and leave us with our Wives and Children to beg our Bread in our own Nation where we shall be quickly destroyed and our Posterities by such as have been and are inveterate Enemies to us and the Common-wealth And which shall be all our reward after shedding of so much bloud as hath been lost for regaining our lost Liberties And therefore is it not pertinent we all in time provide for our own safetie which we shall never enioy without the Government of a single person our absolute and chief preservation That Richard Protector nominated by his late Father according to the humble Advice Chosen and Proclaimed by Consent of Councell Parliament and Army is undoubtedly the Lawfull Successive Governour over these Nations and acknowledged by the many Addresses from most Counties and Corporations in England and also from the Armies in Scotland and Ireland looking upon him as their Lawfull and Supreme Governour which we are Unanimously resolved to maintain being well assured of the City of Londons Faithfull Complyance with us And doe therefore require your willingness and undaunted Spirits of Assistance to joyn with us That we are not resolved to passe any Musters though we may draw to the Field the better to be informed of all your freenesse and willingnesse herein untill our present Masters shall and have paid all the Arreares due unto us That so soon as the Lord Henry Cromwell shall appear with an Army in England We are and shall be generally resolved to joyn with Him for Re-establishing Richard Lord Protector in which Resolution we hope you will be as free to joyn with us as the Citie And chiefly it being the onely way for all our Advancements and Preservations of our selves and you yours and your Wives and Children from the intended Destructions And lastly The whole Countrie being gererally sensible our new and present Masters act no good or settlement of Trade in the Common wealth nor for relief of the Oppressed We are resolved to Dissolve them without advice or consent of Officer at such time as shall be concluded upon at our next generall meeting having many thousands with and about the Citie in readinesse to joyn with us And doe there desire your Appearance and Compliance at the time for doth not the power of change of any Government test upon us Then let us act like Men and Christians not fearing any so shall we bring a setled Government in a single person again and perfect Libertie as Free-born People which at present is enjoyed but by some particular persons FINIS