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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47853	The finall protest, and sence of the citie	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704, attributed name.	1659 (1659)	Wing L1247C; ESTC R217624	1,905	1

The Finall Protest and Sence of the CITIE HAving diligently perused two printed Papers bearing date the 14th of this instant December The one in form of a Proclamation concerning the summoning of a Parliament The other as an Order of the Common-councell commanding the City to acquiesce in expectation of that Parliament We finde therein contained matters so contrary to the Honour of the Nation and to the Freedom of the City that we stand obliged both as Englishmen and as Citizens to protest against the Impositions of the Former as Illegal and the Concessions of the Latter as a direct Combination against us These two papers are Seconded by a Third for the Two are One both in effect and Design and that is a Proclamation of Banishment directing to the late Kings Party under the notion of the Common Enemy so that there 's no love lost betwixt the Committee of Safety and the Common Council when the General provides for the Peace of the City and the Mayor for the Safety of the Army not to argue Acts of Oblivion and the violation of publique Faith in the case that they conditioned for their Lives and Liberties and compounded for their Fortunes This is not our concern what they do suffer but what we may if we Trust those that Keep no faith with them And that we 'll take a care of When They are gone Then we are the Common Enemy So are the Laws of God and of the Nation and such is every Man that Loves them What this Malignant party is these People talk of we neither Know nor Meddle the Gentry 't is we Live by and by the Laws of Gratitude and Hospitality we are Bound to Protect them and as well resolved to do it within our Walls against any other power than that of the Known Law The short of the Design is this a Danger is pretended to the City from the late Kings party and to prevent the mischief the Kind Committee Banishes the Gentlemen with Order to the Mayor of Wallingford late of London c. to make strict searches for Delinquents Now in pursuance of this pretious Order our Houses must be Forced and we Disarmed and then our Throats cut to preserve the City Let those that would be Chronicled for Slaves and Fools submit to suffer this and after that Infamous Hour may a Yellow coat and a Wooden Dagger be the Badge and Distinction of a Citizen To conclude We our selves are that City so much the care and cry of the Proclamation and This is our Vnanimous sence and Resolve The Army proposes to Pillage and Murther us the Mayor and his worthy Advisers Ireton c. are to hold our hands whiles they give the Blow So that we are now to provide against Force and Treason having One enemy within our Walls and another in our Councils But withal we have our Swords in our Hands and our Brains in our Heads so that only to Strike the One and to Dis-believe the Other is to Subdue and Disappoint them Both We do therefore declare to the World that we will by Violence oppose all Violence whatsoever which is not warranted by the letter of the Established Law and that in pursuance of this duty both toward the Nation and City an insolent Souldier and an Apostatized Magistrate shall be to us as the same thing Not to word it much further as we will not be Bafled by Affronts so neither will we be Fooled by Flatteries After the loss of Trade and Liberty a vast expence of Blood and Treasure after many Injuries received more Threatned and none Returned we made a sober and regular Application to the Authority of the City for Redress This they Promised and we Expected till at last instead of a Reparation for past Wrongs or a Security against worse to come we are paid with an Expectation of a Parliament in Ianuary This is is a Logique we understand not It is in English Lye still till you have your Throats cut It would be well to commit the disposition of our Fortunes to those people that are at this Instant designing an execution upon our persons and to requite those Worthies that have already Robb'd vs of all we have Lost with the Offer of that little Rest they have Left But this will not do our businesse we will not have our Murtherers for our Iudges not will we wait That Parliament they Babble of so much will not soon Vote up the City again out of Ashes nor all the Saints in that holy Assembly be able to bring the poor Cobler into the world again that was Kill'd by order of his Brother Hewson No the cheat is too stale and we are determined to redeem our selves but with this caution we do solemnly profess that we will exercise all the tendernesse which possibly the case will bear The Common Souldier is engaged rather out of a Heedlesse than Malitious Interest We do therefore protest that such of those as shall not evidence their Malice by their Obstinacy shall receive a fair consideration But for such as Lead them we do Resolve not to allow Quarter to any one of them that draws his Sword in the Quarrel and in order to the quicker and Gentler Dispatch of the businesse we conclude with a Text Fight neither with small nor Great but with the King of Israel And so God give a Blessing to the Endeavours of all Honest Men