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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>The Final Prote&s;t, and Sen&s;e of the CITIE.</HEAD>
<P>HAving diligently peru&s;ed two <HI>Printed Papers,</HI> bearing <HI>date</HI> the 14th. <HI>of this in&s;tant December:</HI> The one, in form of <HI>a Proclamation concerning the &s;ummoning of a Parliament:</HI> The other, as an <HI>Order of the Common Council,</HI> commanding the City to acquie&s;ce in expectation of that Parliament: We find therein contained, matters, &s;o contrary to the <HI>Honour</HI> of the <HI>Nati|on,</HI> and to the <HI>Freedom</HI> of the <HI>City,</HI> that we &s;tand obliged, both as <HI>Engli&s;hmen,</HI> and as <HI>Citizens,</HI> to pro|te&s;t, again&s;t the <HI>Impo&s;itions</HI> of the <HI>Former,</HI> as <HI>illegal,</HI> and the <HI>Conce&s;sions</HI> of the Latter, as a direct <HI>Com|bination</HI> again&s;t us. The&s;e <HI>two Papers</HI> are <HI>Seconded</HI> by a <HI>Third:</HI> (for the <HI>Two</HI> are <HI>One,</HI> both in <HI>effect,</HI> and De&s;ign,) and that is, a <HI>Proclamation of Bani&s;hment,</HI> directing to the late Kings Party, under the notion of the Common Enemy: &s;o that there's no love lo&s;t betwixt the <HI>Committee of Safety,</HI> and the <HI>Common Council,</HI> when the <HI>General</HI> provides for the <HI>Peace</HI> of the <HI>City;</HI> and the <HI>Mayor,</HI> for the <HI>Safety</HI> of the <HI>Army;</HI> not to argue <HI>Acts</HI> of <HI>Oblivion;</HI> and the violation of <HI>Publique Faith</HI> in the Ca&s;e: that they <HI>Con|ditioned</HI> for their <HI>Lives</HI> and <HI>Liberties&punc;</HI> and <HI>Compounded</HI> for their <HI>Fortunes.</HI> This is not our <HI>Concern,</HI> what <HI>they do</HI> &s;uffer; but what <HI>we may, if we Tru&s;t tho&s;e, that Keep no Faith with them:</HI> And that we'll take a care of: When <HI>They</HI> are Gone, Then <HI>we are</HI> the <HI>Common Enemy; So are the Laws of God, and of the Nation, and &s;uch is every Man that Loves them.</HI> What this <HI>Malignant Party</HI> is, the&s;e People talk of, we neither <HI>Know,</HI> nor <HI>Meddle;</HI> the <HI>Gentry</HI> 'tis we Live by, and by the Laws of <HI>Gratitude,</HI> and <HI>Ho&s;pitality,</HI> we are Bound to <HI>Protect</HI> them, and as well re&s;olved to do it, within our Walls, again&s;t any other Power, than that of the Known Law. The &s;hort of the De&s;ign is this, a <HI>Danger</HI> is pretended to the <HI>City,</HI> from the <HI>late Kings party,</HI> and to prevent the mi&s;chief, the Kind <HI>Committee Bani&s;hes</HI> the <HI>Gentlemen;</HI> with Order to the <HI>Mayor of Wallingford,</HI> (late of <HI>London</HI>) &amp;c.&mdash;<HI>to make &s;trict Searches for Delinquents.</HI> Now in pur&s;uance of this Pretious Order, our <HI>Hou&s;es</HI> mu&s;t be <HI>Forced,</HI> and <HI>we Di&s;armed,</HI> and Then, our <HI>Throats cut, to pre&s;erve the City.</HI> Let tho&s;e that would be <HI>Chronicled</HI> for <HI>Slaves,</HI> &amp; <HI>Fools, Submit to &s;uffer this; and after that Infamous Hour, may a Yellow Coat, and a Wooden Dagger be the Badge, and Di&s;tinction of a Citizen.</HI> To con|clude, <HI>We</HI> our &s;elves <HI>are that City,</HI> &s;o much the Care and Cry of the Proclamation; and <HI>This</HI> is our <HI>Una|nimous &s;ence,</HI> and <HI>Re&s;olve.</HI> The Army propo&s;es to <HI>Pillage,</HI> and <HI>Murther</HI> us, the <HI>Mayor,</HI> and his worthy <HI>Advi&s;ers, Ireton&punc;</HI> &amp;c.&mdash;are to hold our <HI>hands,</HI> whiles they give the <HI>Blow;</HI> So, that we are now to pro|vide both again&s;t <HI>Force</HI> and <HI>Trea&s;on;</HI> having <HI>One</HI> Enemy within our <HI>Walls,</HI> and <HI>Another in our Coun|cils.</HI> But withall, we have our <HI>Swords</HI> in our <HI>Hands,</HI> and our <HI>Brains</HI> in our <HI>Heads;</HI> &s;o that only to <HI>Strike</HI> the <HI>One,</HI> and to <HI>Di&s;-believe</HI> the <HI>Other,</HI> is to <HI>Subdue,</HI> and <HI>Di&s;appoint</HI> them <HI>Both.</HI> We do therefore de|clare to the World, that We will by <HI>Violence</HI> oppo&s;e all <HI>Violence</HI> what&s;oever, which is not warrant|ed by the Letter of the <HI>e&s;tabli&s;hed Law:</HI> and that in pur&s;uance of this Duty, both toward the <HI>Nati|on,</HI> and <HI>City,</HI> an In&s;olent <HI>Souldier,</HI> and an <HI>Apo&s;tatized Magi&s;trate</HI> &s;hall be to us as the &s;ame thing.&mdash;Not to word it much further, as we will not be <HI>Bafled,</HI> by <HI>Affronts,</HI> &s;o neither will we be <HI>Fooled by Flatteries.</HI>&mdash;After the Lo&s;s of Trade, and Liberty, a va&s;t expence of Blood, and Trea&s;ure; After <HI>many Inju|ryes received, more Threatned,</HI> and <HI>none Returned;</HI> We made a &s;ober, and Regular <HI>Application,</HI> to the <HI>Autho|rity</HI> of the <HI>City,</HI> for <HI>Redre&s;&s;e.</HI> This They <HI>Promi&s;ed,</HI> and Wee <HI>Expected,</HI> til at la&s;t, in&s;tead of a <HI>Reparation for Pa&s;t Wrongs,</HI> or a <HI>Security</HI> again&s;t <HI>wor&s;e to come;</HI> We are paid with an <HI>Expectation</HI> of a <HI>Parliament</HI> in <HI>Janu|ary.</HI> This is a Logique We under&s;tand not. It is in <HI>Engli&s;h, Lye &s;till,</HI> till you have your <HI>Throats cut.</HI> It would be well to commit the di&s;po&s;ition of our Fortunes, to tho&s;e people, that are at this In|&s;tant de&s;igning an Execution upon our Per&s;ons; and to requite tho&s;e <HI>Worthies,</HI> that have already <HI>Robb'd</HI> us of <HI>all</HI> we have <HI>Lo&s;t,</HI> with the <HI>Offer</HI> of that little <HI>Re&s;t</HI> they have <HI>Left.</HI> But this will not do our Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e; we will not have our <HI>Murtherers,</HI> for our <HI>Judges:</HI> nor will we wait. That <HI>Parliament</HI> they <HI>Babble</HI> of &s;o much, will not &s;oon <HI>Vote</HI> up the <HI>City</HI> again out of A&s;hes, nor all the Saints in that holy A&s;&s;embly, be able to bring the <HI>poor Cobler</HI> into the World again, that was <HI>Kill'd</HI> by order of his <HI>Bro|ther Hew&s;on.</HI> No, the <HI>Cheat</HI> is too &s;tale, and we are Determined to Redeem our &s;elves; but with this Caution; we do &s;olemnly profe&s;&s;e, that we will exerci&s;e all the Tenderne&s;&s;e which po&s;&s;ibly the Ca&s;e will bear. The <HI>Common Soldier</HI> is engaged rather out of a <HI>Heedele&s;&s;e,</HI> than <HI>Malitious Intere&s;t:</HI> We do therefore Prote&s;t, that &s;uch of tho&s;e as &s;hall not evidence their <HI>Malice,</HI> by their <HI>Ob&s;tinacy,</HI> &s;hall receive a Faire Con&s;ideration; But, for &s;uch as <HI>Lead</HI> them, we do <HI>Re&s;olve,</HI> not to allow Quar|ter to any one of them, that draws his Sword in the Quarrel: and in Order to the Quicker, and Gentler Di&s;patch of the Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e: We conclude with a Text. <HI>Fight neither with Small nor Great, but with the King of I&s;rael.</HI> And &s;o God give a Ble&s;&s;ing to the Endeavours of all Hone&s;t Men.</P>
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