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<HEAD>&leaf; A Letter of advice to the LONDONERS to forewarn them of their neere approching mi&s;eries, and to rouze them (if it be po&s;&s;ible) out of their &s;en&s;le&s;le Security.</HEAD>
<P>_A Man would wonder (O yee Londoners) to &s;ee how amid&s;t your greate&s;t dangers you are lea&s;t circum&s;pect and active in prevention thereof: you thinke you haue done well enough, and plaid the parts of good Common-wealths men, if you can hinder the Kings Forces from doing execution upon you; and never think upon them with any re&s;pect to your &s;elves, till they advance within few miles of your walls, that in the meane time while they are ab&s;ent from you, they are plotting and contriving all wayes that po&s;&s;ible can be to endamage you, and worke you into &s;uch a condition, that when they come next at you, they may the ea&s;ier make them&s;elves Ma&s;ters of your Citie. When they have gained to their Party all the We&s;terne and Northerne Counties, and di&s;armed or cut off all tho&s;e your friends that &s;tand out again&s;t them (as you perceive they re&s;olve to doe, and are like enough to effect unle&s;&s;e you interpo&s;e) they will by that meanes not onely &s;ubdue halfe part of <HI>England,</HI> but thereby likewi&s;e halfe conquer <HI>London</HI> it &s;elfe: for as the Countries are not like to hold out, if the Kings Forces po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them&s;elves of <HI>London;</HI> &s;o neither can <HI>London</HI> hold out if provi&s;ions be cut off from comming thither. To me you &s;eeme to beare your &s;elves as if you had no warre in your Land, or as if you thought the <HI>Cavahers</HI> and de&s;perate Roy&s;ters intended no evill towards you, or that the De&s;igne of making you &s;laves were therefore laid downe, becau&s;e 'tis found &s;o ea&s;ie a matter to compa&s;&s;e, and you are &s;o ea&s;ie to admit it. What doe you think of the condition you now are in? Or, doe you not thinke of it at all? Verily, a man might &s;weare you did not, you are &s;o &s;ecure and quiet; &s;o bu&s;ie about your trading, You &s;ee it is otherwi&s;e with the King and his Friends, you &s;ee how active they are, that they &s;et them&s;elves wholly to this worke, you &s;ee that every weeke produces &s;ome notable exploit they have enterpriz'd to their reall advantage, be&s;ides what private &s;uccours and &s;upplies each houre affords, in&s;omuch that they have made them&s;elves in a &s;hort time, by their Policie and la|borious indu&s;try of a weake and contemptible Party, a &s;trong power and overawing army of Traitors: when in the meane time you by your &s;lackne&s;&s;e and drowzy managing of your Affaires are much wa&s;ted, have lo&s;t much of your &s;trength, and are like to lo&s;e more, un|le&s;&s;e you looke better about you then you have done heretofore: Your eyes are altogether upon the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and you doe well; but can the <HI>Parliament</HI> &s;ight for you? They are your Coun&s;ell and directors; but 'tis you the People that are the &s;trength and power of the Kingdome: neither is it to be hoped that the Kings Forces &s;hall ever be vanqui&s;hed by Words and Writings; it mu&s;t be your Swords and valiant prowe&s;&s;e that mu&s;t &s;ubdue them. Why, what would you have us doe you will &s;ay? Or, what can you doe more then you have done? You have contributed freely out of your E&s;tates; and you have likewi&s;e &s;ent away your &s;ervants to the Wartes; I applaud you for it: but let me withall tell you, that if you doe no more as the ca&s;e &s;tands, you have done as much as nothing, for all this will not availe you; for you &s;ee that the nature of the Country is &s;uch that the King can avoid your Souldiers, and choo&s;e whether ever he will &s;ight, but when he is &s;ure to conquer, where his Enemies are weake and unprovided, or that our &s;ouldiers come on upon many di&s;advan|tages; &s;o that unle&s;&s;e your courage and re&s;olution be the greater, and yee &s;et your &s;elves more clo&s;ely to your bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, yee &s;hall be &s;ure to have this Warre la&s;t long enongh, &s;ince his intere&s;t depends upon the prolongation thereof, whereby he finds his Party to be increa&s;ed, and you impoveri&s;hed and thereby unable to &s;&s;ue out &s;upplies to oppo&s;e your enemies: and &s;o wearied with the Charge, many of you will be willing to make peace; which (the King being &s;trong) mu&s;t be expected to be upon &s;uch conditions as &s;hall leave the way ea&s;ie to make you perfect Slaves, and him&s;elfe ab&s;olute. Well, you will &s;ay, what then mu&s;t be done? Verily, I think 'tis to no purpo&s;e to tell you; for you are &s;o heavy a People, that you make nothing of good Coun&s;ell; you are onely well-aflected; but you want abilities to deale with your cunning Adver&s;aries, and all becau&s;e you cannot find in your hearts to &s;et about it: there is little difference in men be|&s;ides cu&s;tome and exerci&s;e in bu&s;ine&s;&s;es, which principally makes one excell another: you doe not &s;et your &s;elves to contrive waies to circumvent them in their Policies, and to meet them halfe way; you are behind hand &s;till, as your Army is with the Kings: You &s;pend your time about telling and asking of newes; and O how you are taken with &s;ome forged Report of Sir <HI>Ralph Hoptons</HI> overthrow, or the Lord of <HI>Newcastles</HI> being driven into <HI>York?</HI> of &s;o much money taken in one place, &s;o much Armcur, and &s;o many Hor&s;es in ano|ther? and your Enemies, &s;ince they find &s;o &s;mall matters will content you, bu&s;ie your heads, and keepe you from ri&s;ing as one man, they will be &s;ure to furni&s;h you. You are meere News-mongers, and when you have any, Oh how you flutter about to tell it, becau&s;e you would be thought to know &s;omewhat, as if the Warres were in <HI>Sweth-land</HI> or the <HI>Low-Countries,</HI> and not in your owne Countrey, and ready to de&s;troy you, as it hath done many of your friends already. And when you have a little victory, how you amplifie it! Then your Bells mu&s;t ting, and Bone&s;ires be made, when perhaps the lo&s;&s;e was equall, and the Victory doubtfull, and you are little neerer a conclu|&s;ion of your Warres then you were before: you are mo&s;t unmanly in your behaviours; when if the King overthrowes you or your Friends, as at <HI>Ci&s;&s;eter,</HI> the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e is concealed; your Friends conceale it, becau&s;e by declaring it they thinke you would be dejected, and your Enemies conceale it, le&s;t by hearing thereof you be ju&s;tly enraged and provoked to revenge: they are glad to keep your an|ger downe, and Iull your courages a&s;leep, lea&s;t by awakening thereof it devoure them: you are &s;o farre from ca&s;ting about to &s;uccour and relieve your Friends abroad; that you neglect your &s;elves, and are not yet Ma&s;ters of your owne Citie, that place de&s;ign'd for a re|compence to the <HI>Cavaliers</HI> hard &s;ervices and dangerous hazards they now run; the hopes of pillaging thereof makes their labours and wounds plea&s;ant to them, and &s;weetens all difficulties and dangers they now undergoe in the Kings Service. Doe you looke for advice? it will be good that you make it appeare that you haue fir&s;t &s;hook off that Lethargie that ha's po&s;&s;e&s;t you, for till then you are not ca|pable of advice: if I thought you were a wake I would advi&s;e you to doe what? to &s;top your eares again&s;t the Syren inchantments of &s;uch as you may be &s;ure (by your former &s;ufferings, and &s;orcing you to the&s;e pre&s;ent &s;hifts and 02 extremities) wi&s;h you not well; and to o|pen your eares to &s;uch your Brethren who hazard them&s;elves and their Fortunes in your behalfe, who have liv'd among&s;t you, and of who&s;e faith and &s;ound affection you have had &s;o much experience: follow their advice, I am a &s;tranger to you, and thinke not much if they &s;hall put you upon what for the pre&s;ent &s;hall be irk&s;ome to you, your &s;ickne&s;&s;e is &s;o de&s;perate that 'twill be well if rough and chargeable meanes can cure you. Onely let me tell you thus much, that 'tis not your fa&s;ting and repenting that God requires at your hands, &s;o much as doing ju&s;tice upon the wicked brood in the Land, who&s;e pro&s;e&s;&s;ion in former times hath beene to oppre&s;&s;e you, and is now to de&s;troy you. God is not wanting to you; neither can you make him more willing to a&s;&s;i&s;t you, then he hath already beene; he hath given you under&s;tanding to di&s;cerne your Afflictions and Afflictors, and power likewi&s;e to free your &s;elves from both: but 'tis you that are wanting to your &s;elves, you want courage and endeavours; you have &s;trength to help your &s;elves given you by God, and yet you lie &s;till and cry God help us. Well according as I heare you beare your &s;elves herea&s;ter, and either amend, continue in the &s;ame &s;leepy &s;tate, or grow wor&s;e; you &s;hall receive further from me: For this time farewell.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Friend and Remembrancer. P. A.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Compo&s;ed by a zealous Well-willer of the whole Kingdome and <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
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