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An alarum to the headquarters
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worke yet haâ—e a new one now to begin and when it will be at an end the wifest know not except yee juggle together with the King you and the Parliament make a compact to send the Propositions that will easily downe when he has a hood for his swelling stomacke and malice you may be sure they will easily take when he sees their is no other helpe for him but wee beleeve they will prove broken Reeds run into the side of those that lean thereon Gentlemen and dear friends whom wee prize as the apple of our eye who have preserved us from the raging insolent swelling waves of a prerogative negative voice by the power of which wee and our estates might have gone to stake if you had not stood in the way to curb cut off and throw it down to the ground Concious and confident wee are of your integrity uprightnesse and valour but let us tell you that the standers by may often times perceive more then the gamsters not but that wee honour your wisdomes and watchfulnesse for our good but surely all is not at it should be some viser then some some more vigerous then some as some of you to your everlasting honour be it spoken have witnessed of those men who now appear and stand up for common rights and freedome in the Remonstrance of the CAâ—E OF THE ARMY truly stated by the Agents of sive Regiments but let not your ioyning with them he a hinderance to their proceedings do not goe about to undermine or abstruct the worke that is begun rouze up your spirits and doe not give your selves u … nor the Kingdome the rights â—nd liberâ—ieâ— thereof unto the sweeping power of a negative voice to deny the passing an act for our good If this most stand and yee yeild up this yeil up all make us free now for ever or absolute slaves villens and vassals What will you maâ—â— your selves to be Or what will your actions in contesting with such a Prince of your owne prove you to be but Rebels and Traytors that have forfeted your lives and estates What will this Army be what will the Parliament be but a rebellious Army a rebellious and trayterous Parliament and accordingly such shall be their reward Or doe you intend to make your peace with him whom yee have overcome and brought in subjection by making our liberties and priviledges to be of the Court fashion and to have the royall stamp And that wee shall give up and resigne the whole ware house of our liberties with all the locks and keyes into the power of a negative voyce what doe yee meane else by this your delatory and slow proceedings What one good deed have you done since your march through the City of London Shew us if you can the people cry none now you have removed those that were in your way and clockt neere the City You would make us beleeve the worke is done and as a fore you went a King catching now yee will goe a King courting is this faire play This must not be you will ruine us your selves and families and the whole Kingdome Doe but you your duty remove all oppressions ease the Country down with all monopolies and tyrannous oppressions draw up a Declaration fully to the People and Remonstrate that this ye will doe for them this yee will have this yee have fought for this you will maintaine live and dye for resolvedly wee 'le warrant you hobnailes and clouted shooes will give you harty thankes and help and assist you You need not feare them ease them of their oppressions pitty their cries redresse their grievances and the work is done for them for what say people doe somthing or nothing and if yee will not do it tell the people so if yee be faint-hearted after all your worthy and honourable courage and valour for your Country tell the people so if it be so give way let others come in whose firme resolutions will stand to engage for common right and freedome for liberty and for justice unto bloud doe not therefore hinder others those that now appeare and those who shall joyne with them but suffer us to free our selves and the whole commonalty of the Kingdome from such an intolerable burden and slavery to shake and tumble downe that mountain of dishonour and oppression that this Kingdome for so long time hath groaned under which the flattery of succeeding times and the servile slavishnesse of our times Have attributed to those grand usurpers our Kings and their domineering progenitors or successours as though the Right Title and power over us free Commoners did run along in the vaines in the loyne and in the bloud of our insolent usurpers and task-masters Is this liberty nothing more insufferable to free Denizons and to such as would be accounted other then the progeny of Cham Therefore wee say if you doe not wholy free us from and take him off from this his insolent domination and usurpation and degrade him and his posterity of that pretended usurping name Right power and Title that he insultingly laies claime to and that he hath so many yeares together truly executed you shall find and feele hee 'l shake it as a Rod over your heads one day he will cry quit with you and recover dammages of you to some purpose Therefore wee professe seriously from our hearts wee cannot owne you nor your proceedings nor should never have assisted you with so vast an expence of our treasure and bloud if you were resolved to keep up this Dagon amongst us and over us For how can wee cordially receive or imbrace him or any of his posterity that shall lay claime to us after such a way and manner of usurpation and domineering How can wee love or fight for those lawes which are imprisoned in the barbarous language of our enemies and are ours only by our enemies introduction and are our disgrace instead of honour tokens and badges of servile slavery and subjectednesse to our exatick exorbitant prerogative Lords and Task-masters and as little heart have wee also to pray or wish for the safety and preservation of others more sound and wholsome more reasonable sutable and consonant to the commonalty of England untill that grand and yet neglected grievance and oppression of Normand prerogative negative Voyce of our usurping Lord be removed and wholy taken away and what if it be pleased that power is alone residing in him to passe or not passe to consent or not consent to the good things agreed on by the Commons and that it is inherent in him by vertue of succession that is by a pretended right of conquest over us for so argues the negative voyce and all are Kings since the death of that perjured bastard Duke William of Normand râ—â—kon the time of their reign not from the time of their coronation but death of their predecessours and the prerogative royall Title is attended with a POST CONQUESTUM as if dishonour mischiefe
oppression and slavery were to be invincibly entailed upon us and our posterityes by a law even by this law of their own making and forcing it upon us Yet let me tell you his domination over us is not such as against the right equity whereof there is no pleading yea but there is much pleading for first consider Vinci humanum est no people but may be overcome that may be born withall but sub virtoria aquiessere to lye snoaring in a captive and servile condition as though wee were perpetuall slaves eare-board slaves Now we have after so vast an expence of bloud and treasure regained our liberties from of our his cruell bloud-thirsty cluthes now we have conquered him subdued all the visible enemies in the Kingdome and reduceâ— that power to it 's proper center that at first was originally naturally and legally inherent and residing in us the free Commoners of this Nation yet not withstanding we must still keepe up the usurper and his usurpers power and greatnes over us and must be beholding to his negative Voice pray beseech and obsecrate for it's concurrence in an act of Indempnity which is as much as to cry PECCAUI and to come on your knees to him so conquered and ask him forgivenesse that he may grant and give you a pardone for what you have done as though yee could not indempâ—ify your selves and save your selves harmlesse but must be beholding to the conquered to an enemy to one that could eate your flesh drink your blood to a usurpor to indempniâ—y you wee thanke you for nothing you have brought your hogs to a sarre market have you not And if he doth passe this Proposition to indempnify you and to give free and full power to the representative body of the Commonalty to make Lawes and repeale Lawes which he is as willing to part with as his eyes witnesse his stiffe standing out still Wee are then much bound to him are wee not He doth but give us a pig of our owne Sow he gives us that which wee never yet forfited or lost but hath been violently wrested from us or if wee did wee have since regained it and therefore are no longer under the pleasure or displesure of the conquered and therefore choose him whether he be willing to part with it yea or no wee will no longer stand to his courtesie wee have the best end of the Staffe and he must be forced to let goe when wee knock off his fingers Therefore declare unto the People this you have gained this you will keep Secondly admit he were a conquerour of us and that his right and Title was good by vertue of the Law of conquest and consequently by the same Law he had power in him to overtop all the powers and wils of his Subjects and to stop all proceedings and that what he passes in the affirmitive are but acts of meer grace and favour revokable at pleasure and what he passeth in the negative must stand for a law yet what is that now to us We know him not the case is altered now there is now no pleading for that but you are taken off with a VICTUM EST he is conquered and over come and so subject unto us and therefore our sending Propositions asking an act of Indempnity c. is but superfluous more then we need do is but an argument of our clemency and goodnesse towards him acts of our meere grace and favour we had almost said an argument of our willing mindednesse to slavery still or of our own selfe-guikinesse And professe we unto you Gentlemen that if that Right and Title which is but pretended and usurped at the best must stand remain in him or any of his consanguinians 〈◊〉 we so again receive him we look to see our selves you and every honest man in the Kingdome that is resolved to put himselfe in the gap to stand up for common right and freedome to fall and moulder away like durt and he is a novice too if he doe not in time cry quit with you for what yee have thus many yeares together done towards him I 'le warrant you he will thinke upon all your carriages towards him and bring you in such a bill of Items that shall breake your backs and yet noâ—e of you be sensible of it or know by whom it is done but as you may ghuesse and let us deale truly with you what can yee expect lesse Or how can yee gain say or contradict it or in the least know how to help it Or if you doe goe about to free your selves and the Nation as you have already pretendedly done what will you prove your selves to be but Rebels and Traitors And besides what will all your Propositions and his passing of them availe you if that insolent insulting usurping Title and power that is claimed must stand What good will his act of oblivion Your act of Indempnity doe you What send propositions to a conquerour who dares doe it What to be your own carvers and choosers and hourly lye at the mercy of your enemy and conquerour that has the prerogative power of a negative voice Monstrum horrendum No no he may make you smart for this your boldness presumption be content you are vassels villenâ— slaves â—arâ—bor'd slaves uncapable of enjoying any thing that is properly your owne in as much as it is at the dispose of your prerogative Task-master uncapable of enjoying free-hold land though you purchase never so much it belongs to your absolute Lord and conquerour and his prerogative Creatures Witnesse the transplantation of colonies in other Countries If this usurping power of a negative voice must yet stand notwithstanding the incapability thereof as â—eing conquered what have weâ— fought for â—ll this while and so hotly contested with him If we must still stand to his pleasure or displeasure and stand or fall to his mercy and act of grace in passing in the affâ—rmitive or denying in the negative by this his tyrannicall prerogaive voice Consider into what a predicament and miserable condition wee have cast our selves such as makes us uncapable of acquiring demanding or asking any thing at his hands tending to our peace well-fare liberties and freedomes and for 〈◊〉 dis-inabling us to stanâ— in our own defence to contest with him either by word 〈◊〉 sword for any justice or freedome or any thing else whatsoever though in neerest relations to us for as much as wee contend with him and so have done all this while for un-granted priviledges things that wee have no right to either to sue for ask or demand seeing that his negative voyce must stand by vertue of that insolent usurping right and Title that he pretends to us and over us and wee lye at his mercy and favour insomuch as but for the meere and only asking or begging of a common boon tending to the Kingdome to our selves or families it may passe in the negative and so wee shall be checked controuled affronted abused fined imprisoned and what not and at last have no remedy for this or any where to goe for help seeing wee ask wee know not what things that belong not unto us for our selves and all thâ—t belong unto us are at the disposing of him and his creatures and if he be graciously pleased so farre to condiscend and demeane himselfe as to extend his grace and favour towards us in passing any proposition for our good it is more then he needs doe or you can acquire and moreover this it is revocable at his pleasure and but for durance or gracious permittance for season for so are all acts of grace that proceed from the prerogative power of a negative voice which things should have been aboundantly proved but that this was intended chiefly for an Allarum to awaken the drowsie spirits of you and those that lyâ— snoaring under the overtoping insolent swelling and overgrown usurping power of a negative Voice and therefore in a word never talke of getting honour in regaining your and our Countries libertyes except yee first unconquer your selves a word to the intelligent man is sufficient FINIS