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A88230	An outcry of the youngmen and apprentices of London: or, An inquisition after the lost fundamentall lawes and liberties of England. Directed (August 29. 1649.) in an epistle to the private souldiery of the Army, especially all those that signed the solemne ingagement at Newmarket-Heath, the fifth of Iune, 1647. But more especially to the private souldiers of the Generalls Regiment of Horse, that helped to plunder and destroy the honest and true-hearted English-men, trayterously defeated at Burford the 15. of May, 1649. Signed by Charles Collins, Anthony Bristlebolt, William Trabret, Stephen Smith, Edward Waldgrave, Thomas Frisby, Edward Stanley, VVilliam VVhite, Nicholas Blowd, John Floyd in the nameand [sic] behalf of themselves, and the young-men and apprentices of the City of London. Who are cordiall approvers of the paper, called, The agreement of the free people, dated May 1. 1649. and the defeated Burford-mens late vindication, dated the 20. of August, 1649.; Young-mens and the apprentices outcry.	Collins, Charles, apprentice.; Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing L2152; Thomason E572_13; ESTC R202784	16,945	12

popular petitions addresse our selves to the men sitting at Westminster any mo●e or to take any notice of them then ●s of so many Tyrants and Vsurpers and for time to come to hinder as much and as farr as our poor despised interest will extend to all others whatsoever 〈◊〉 subscribing or presenting any more popular petitions to them And only now as our last Paper-r●fuge mightily cry out to each other of our intolerabl● oppressions in Letters and Remonstrances signed in the behalf and by the appointment o●●…l the rest by some of the stoutest and st●…est amongst us that we hope will never apostatize but be able through the strength of God to lay down their very lives for the maintaining of that which they set their hands to You our fellow-Countrymen the private Souldiers of the Army alone being the instrumentall authors of your own slavery and ours therefore as there is any bowels of men in you any love to your Native Country Kindred friends or relations any sparke of conscience in you any hopes of glory or immortality in you or any pity mercy or compassion to an inslaved undone perishing dying people O help help save and redeem us from totall vassalage and slavery and be no more like brute beasts to fight against us or our friends your loving and dear brethren after the flesh to your o●n vassalage as well as ours And as an assured pledg of your future cordialnesse to us and the true and reall liberties of the Land of your Nativitie we beseech and beg of you but especially those amongst you that subscribed the solemn engagement at New market heath the fifth of June 16●● speedily to chuse-out from amongst your selves Two of the ablest and constantest faithfull men amongst you in each Troop and Company now at last by corresponding 〈◊〉 with ot●er and with your honest friends in the Nation to consider of some effectuall course bey●nd all 〈…〉 and cheat● to accomplish the real end of all your engagements and fightings ●iz the settling of the Liberties and Freedoms of the people which can never permanently be done but upon the sure foundation of a POPULAR AGREEMENT who viz. the people in J●stice gratitude and common equity cannot choose but voluntarily and largely make better provision for your future subsistance by the payment of your ARREARS then ever your Officer● or this pret●nded Parliament intends or you can rationally expect from them witnesse their cutting off three parts of your Arreares in four 〈◊〉 for Free-quarter and then necessi●ating abundance of your fellow-Souldiers now cashiered c. to s●ll their Debenters at two shillings six pence three shillings and at most four shillings per l. by meanes of which you that keep your Debenters being necessitated to vie with the greatest bidder in th● purchase of the late Kings Lands they are able ●o give above ●… years purchase for that you cannot give 8 years purchase 〈◊〉 and if you will not give with the most you must have no Land so that the most of your Debenters are likely to prove waste papers and those that purchase will have but a slippery security of their possessions by reason of generall discontents amongst all sorts of people and particularly by so extraordinarily disengaging and cheating so many Souldiers as they have done of their just expected recompence of reward And also as a further demonstration of the cordialnesse of your hearts to us OUR BURFORD FRIENDS and your own and our Liberties we desire you to take some speedy course for the faithfull restoring to the right Owners all such Horses Money Clothes c. as you or any of you plundered or stole from our true friends cheated and defeated at Burford and publish some kinde of Demonstration of your or any of your remorse of Conscience for your being instrumentall in destroying of them there that stood for your good freedomes and ARREARS as much and as well as their own especially considering they have by their foresaid Vindication made it evident and apparent and we understand they are ready face to face to prove That both your Generall and Lieutenant Generall Cromwell broke their solemn faith with them and treacherously surprised them and so dealt worse and more vildly with them then ever they did with the worst of Cavaliers with whom in that kinde they never broke faith with in their lives but more especially we desire the last fore-mentioned thing at your hands because upon that Trayterous and wicked defeat of those our true Friends and wilfully murthering of three of them that really stood for the Nations interest Liberties and Freedoms your Generall and Cromwell with the rest of their faction made a most transcendent Feast to insult over the Liberties and freedoms of the servants of the most h●gh God as though by that most vile act they had subdued and buryed all the Liberties of the Nation in eternall oblivion and FOYL'D the Lord of life and glory himself from distilling any m●re Spirit of Courage and Resolution into any to stand for them and in that wickedest of Feasts not onely in a great measure imitated Belshazzar Dan. 5. That made a great Feast to a thousand of his Lords and fetched out the vessels that by the spoile of the people of God his father Nebuchadnezzar had got out of the Temple of the Lord and drank wine in them and praised the gods of gold and of silver of brasse of iron of wood and of stone but also imitated the greatest of the enemies of Christ who at the slaying of the two witnesses Rev. 11. rejoiced over them and made merry and sent gifts one to another as in Gold and Silver plate c. was most largely done to your General Fairfax and Lieutenant Gen. Cromwell the reason of which is there rendred which is because the two Prophets of Truth and Justice tormented them that dwelt on the earth but with comfort and joy we cannot but observe the next words to them which is That within a little season after the Spirit of life from God entred into them as we hope and doubt not but it will abundantly now doe upon the true standers for justice and righteousnesse amongst men and they stood upon their feet and great feare fell upon them that saw them and great Earthquakes followed in the nick of which is proclamation made that the Kingdoms of this world are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ● and he shall reign for ever and ever unto which we heartily say Amen Amen So with our hearty and true love remembred to you all expecting your or some of your speedy answer we commit you to God and rest Your faithful though abused Countrymen Signed in the behalf of our selves and the unanimous consent of the Agents of the Youngmen and Apprentices of the City of London that love and approve of the Agreement of the People dated May 1. 1649. and the Vindication of the late defeated men at Burford entituled The Leveller vindicated Charles Collins William Trabret Ed. Waldegrove Ed. Stanley Nicholas Blowd Anthony Bristlebolt Steven Smith Thomas Frisby William White John Floyd London this 29. August 1649. FINIS

all which are the very if not higher crimes then the Earle of Strafford principally lost his head for as a Traytor as clearly appears by his Act of Attainder and by his large printed additionall Impeachment 1640. both in English and Irish cases as clearly appears in the preamble thereof and in Article 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. But that which is worst of all the best and most faithfull maintainers of the English Freedomes are most maligned abused and vilified that it is now become a crime of the greatest perill and penalty to be faithfull to the declared interest of Parliaments or rights of the people therein a thing so dreadfully complained of by the Parliament in the beginning of their first Remonstrance of December 1641. New Acts of high Treason to that end devised to ensnare and intrap the most conscientious so that we cannot talk or discourse of our lost Freedomes or open our mouths of our oppressions but we are in as bad a condition as our Fore-Fathers were in the daies of VVilliam the Conqueror that thought any fact crime enough to intitle him to their estates if not worse by being Treason struck and besides all this multitudes of pick pocket murdering taxes are heap'd and continued upon the old and in default of payment souldiers are put upon straining seizng and plundering of our Masters goods and houses for which violence and villany they must be largely paid or else they will plunder over again for that yea and the late large Act about Excize so transcendent and insnaring in its p●nalties that no man well knows how to behave himself in his trading for fear of being undone yea so numberlesse are our most insufferable cruelties overspreading and wounding the whole Land and people that our borders are even filled with the lamentations mournings tears sighs and dolefull groans of the oppressed and inslaved ruinated people Trade decayed and fled misery poverty calamity confusion yea and beggery grown so sore and so extream upon the people as the like never was in England under the most tyrannicall of all our Kings that were before these in present power since the daies of the Conqueror himself no captivity no bondage no oppression like unto this no sorrow or misery like unto ours of being inslaved undone and destroyed by our large pretended friends for whose preservation we could have even pul'd out our very eyes the people become desolate and forsaken wandring pining and mourning like those in Jeremies Lamentations unto whose sorrows they said none was like after their lost fundamentall Laws their native and just freedoms and rights and there is none to comfort none to pitty none to relieve none to help or save Alas alas for pitty For Your hearts seem to us as obdurate as the flinty rock as savage and inhumane as if the flesh and blood the bones and marrow of the people were become your meat as already it is in effect and instoad of incouragement and support to our true friends and reall relievers at least in faithfull desire and indeavour as shall stand in the gap betwixt our destroyers and us all waies and meanes are used to impoverish destroy and suppresse them and in them to break and vassallage the spirits of all the English which in all ages have had the preheminency of other Nations that there may not be so much of gallantry or courage left amongst the people that one amongst them shall dare to assert or maintaine their freedomes which Act is not a little aggravated by M. John Pym in his remarkable Speech against the Earl of Strafford as the highest of Treasons against any Nation or Common-wealth for if any do but murmure and complain or seek for remedy though by way of Petition or Addresse to the House presently their houses as with Furies are beset with armed mercenary Janisaries Guards and Centinels set upon their doores and passages no consideration had of the terror or affrightment of our Masters their wives children or servants or of reason or law and their persons as Traytors therefore imprisoned for weeks and moneths yea and close imprisoned from the society of all their friends without so much as ever seeing either informer accuser prosecutor or witnesse yea or ever seeing Indictment impeachment or Charge yea or face to face or in their Mittimus's or any other formall or legall way ever so much as having any crime or pretence of a crime laid unto their charge by those very men before whom they are brought and who by the rules of their meer will commit them therefore although the Parliament in severall Declarations have declared That they have received Petitions for the removall of things established by Law and we must say and all that know what belongeth to the course or practise of Parliament will say that we ought so to do and that both our Predecessors and His Majesties Ancestors have constantly done it there being no other place wherein Lawes that by experience may be found grievous and burthensome can be altered or repealed and there being no other due and legall way wherein they which are agrieved by them can seek redresse and that it is no tumult to deliver Petitions by popular multitudes 1 part book of Parliaments Declarations pag. 123. 201. 202. 209. 533. 548. 691. 720. Yea and your very selves and your Jugling Officers quarrell'd with and took up armes against the Parliament your creators and originall Lords and Masters for prohibiting you to petition and make knowne your grievances to them and sufficiently envy and exclaime against them for so doing and impeach some of them as Traytors therefore as clearly appears in your own book of Declar p. 10. 11. 17. 23. 33. 35 44. 60. 61. 62. 83. 85. 118. And yet nothing but the boundlesse wills and humors of those fore-mentioned men of blood rageth and ruleth over us and is this all the return and fruit that people are to expect at your hands doth your solemn ingagement at New-market and Triplo heath with your Declarations Remonstrances Vowes and Protestations unto us all center in this bed-roll of cruelties we pray you give us leave to make inquiry amongst you after those things and give losers leave to complain Remember you not with what cheerfullnesse and alacrity our fellow-Apprentices the glory and flower of the youth of this Nation and multitudes of our selves yet surviving ran in to your assistance out of a conscientious intent to uphold and maintain the fundamentall Constitution of this Common-VVealth viz. the interest and right of the people in their Parliaments it being most rationall and unquestionably just that the people should not be bound but by their owne consent given to their Deputies in Parliament which by the Laws and customes of England ought wholly new to bee annuall to deliver and clear the Land from its heavy pressures and bonds not ingaging in the least against the person of the King as King or with any thoughts or pretence of

the firm setling of the peace Liberties and Freedoms of this distracted nation which hath so much justice righteousnesse and safety in it that we hope it will in a very short time levell all self interests before it make it clearly appear to him that claims the greatest personall share in the government of this Nation that there is no way to obtain the true love of the understanding English people without which he will never obtain his desired Crown but by a cheerefull hearty and reall promotion of such principles therein contained as doe sufficiently tye his hands from cutting the peoples throats at his will and pleasure the endeavoring of which exposed his father to that fatall end that befell him which may be a seasonable caveat to all Princes c. to take heed of that d●sperate rock viz. the attempting to govern the people by will and not by Law by force and not by love the onely and alone durable and permanent tie or bond amongst the sons of men We say that expedient of an Agreement of the free people appears to us to have so much ●…uity righteousnesse and common safety in it that we are resolved to bury all by-past DISTASTS at the greatest of English-men that shall heartily and cordially signe and put forth their power and interest to promote the establishment of the principalls therein contained and in the ADHERING TO AND STANDING BY all such as shall be in any danger for walking in such paths we shall through the strength of the Lord God Omnipotent to the uttermost of our power and abilities resolvedly hazard our lives and all that is dear to us For the effectuall promotion of which said Agreement we are necessitously compeld to resolve in close union to joyn our selves or our Commissioners chosen for that end in Counsel with our foresaid Burford friends or their Commissioners and to resolve to run all hazards to methodize all our honest fellow Prentises in all the Wards of London and the out-Parishes to chuse out their Agents to joyn with us or ours to write Exhortative Epistles to all the honest hearted freemen of England in all the particular Countries thereof to erect several Councels amongst themselves out of which we shall desire and exhort them to chuse Agents or Commissioners impowered and intrusted by them speedily to meet us and the Agents of all our and the Agreement of the People adherents at London resolvedly to consider of a speedy and effectuall method and way how to promote the Election of a new and equall Representative or Parliament by the Agreement of the free People seeing those men that now sit at Westminster and pretendedly stile themselves the Parliament of England and who are as they say although most falsly in the Declaration for a Free State dated March 17. 1648. p. 27. intrusted ●…nd authorizedly the consent of all the People of Engla●d whose Representatives ●…ey are make it their chiefest and principallest work continually to part and share amongst themselvs all the great rich and profitablest places of the Nation as also the Nations publike treasure and Lands and wil not ease our intolerable oppressions no nor so much as of late receive our Popular Petitions having upon Thursday last August 23. 1649. rejected that most excellent of Petitions re●dy at their door to be presented to them by divers honest men our true hearted neighbours of Surrey the true Copie of which for the worth of it although it be at large already printed in Friday Occurences and the Tuesday Moderate we desire here to insert To the supreme Authority of this Nation the Commons of England assembled in Parliament The humble Petition of the oppressed of the County of Surrey which have cast in their Mite into the Treasury of this Common-wealth SHEWETH THat as the Oppressions of this Nation in time foregoing this Parliament were so numerous and burdensome as will never be forgotten so were the hopes of our deliverance by this Parliament exceeding great and full of confidence which as they were strengthened by many Acts of yours in the beginning especially towards conscientious people without respect unto their judgments or opinions so did the gratitude of the wel-minded people exceed all presidents or example sparing neither estate limb liberty or life to make good the authority of this honorable house as the foundation and root of all just Freedom although we many times observed to our grief some proceedings holding resemblance rather with our former bondage yet did we impute the same to the troublesomness of the times of War patiently and silently passing them over as undoubtedly hoping a perfect remedy so soon as the Warres were ended But perceiving our expectations in some particulars frustrated and considering some late dealings with some of our friends c. the consideration of which lies so heavy on our spirits that for prevention thereof we conceive our selves bound in conscience and duty to God to set before you once more the generall grievances of the Commonwealth and the earnest desires of the ingenuous and well-minded people First That the Petition of the Eleventh of September last and the Agreement of the People may be reassumed and the particulars therof speedily established Secondly we most earnestly beg with many other of your faithfull friends in all the Counties of England that that most irksome and intolerlable oppression of Tythes which is retained in no Reformed Church neverthelesse more firmly established then ever by your Ordinance for treble dammages made in the Parliaments corruption and yet no Act against it which causes our hearts to be discouraged and brought into much fear and doubt of the removall of these and other bondages by this Representative Wherefore we cannot passe it by but again intreat that the Ordinances for Tythes may be speed ly revoked and that a more equall way of maintenance be provided for the publique Ministery Thirdly That all proceedings in law may be in English that a short time may be inserted for the tryall of all causes and that by Twelve men of the Neighborhood and that none may be debarred of Freedom to plead his own or his Neighbors Cause as by Law any man may and ought t● doe as clearly appears by the Statute of 28 Ed 1 ch 11. before any court of Justice although no Lawyer And that no member of your House be suffered to plead as a Lawyer whilst a member thereof Fourthly That some course may be taken for the future to pa● the Army not l●…ing such intolerable Burthens and Taxes on the people whi●h we are not able to ●…ar And so we shall for ever stand by you and ●ll Representatives for the freedom of this Nation as formerly Desiring that we may obtain speedily a new and equal Representative We say considering what is before premised we are necessitated and compeld to doe the utmost we can for our owne preservations and for the preservation of the Land of our Nativity and never by