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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<HEAD>The RESOLVE of the CITIE.</HEAD>
<P>OVr Re&s;pects to <HI>Peace,</HI> and <HI>Order,</HI> are too notorious to be que&s;tioned, &s;ince by the meer Im|pre&s;&s;ions of <HI>Charity</HI> and <HI>Obedience,</HI> we have thus long &s;u&s;pended the <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> we owe to our <HI>Selves,</HI> together with that <HI>Vengeance,</HI> which the <HI>Blood</HI> of our Murthered Companions re|quires at our hands. Nor hath the Power of the&s;e Principles of Publique tenderne&s;&s;e been le&s;&s;e Eminent, upon our <HI>Judgements,</HI> than upon our <HI>Pa&s;&s;ions;</HI> For, We have as well <HI>Believed,</HI> in <HI>Contradiction</HI> to Evidence of <HI>Experiment,</HI> as we have <HI>Suffered,</HI> in <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to the very Elements, and Dictates of <HI>Humanity. Witne&s;&s;e that Execrable Munday</HI> (&s;acred to the Eternal Infamy of this City) even <HI>Then;</HI> When we had that Enemy at our <HI>Mercy,</HI> toward whom, by the Rights of Nature, and of Genero&s;ity, we were not bound to exerci&s;e <HI>any;</HI> even then, I &s;ay, in the very <HI>Heat,</HI> and <HI>Cour&s;e</HI> of an Hone&s;t, and Powerfull <HI>Indignation,</HI> we returned <HI>Quietly,</HI> to our Hou&s;es, upon the fir&s;t Notice, that the <HI>Authority</HI> of the <HI>City</HI> would have it &s;o. But it is likewi&s;e true, that this A&s;&s;urance, was added to the Me&s;&s;age, <HI>viz. That the Common Council, was Sen&s;ible of our Grievances, and would duly Con&s;ider them.</HI> Since this, we find nothing done in Pur&s;uance of that Promi&s;e; but on the Contrary, Iniuries are Multiplyed upon us; and tho&s;e of that Day, &s;erve but as Arguments of Encouragement to Greater. <HI>Some</HI> of us <HI>Killed, Others Wounded,</HI> and <HI>lead in Triumph Naked</HI> through the Strets: Two or Three Hundred Thou&s;and Per&s;ons <HI>Looking on, to Celebrate the Conque&s;t, and the Shame.</HI> A Citizens Skull, is but a thing to try the Temper of a Souldiers Sword upon; Give us but every man a <HI>Red-Coat</HI> for a <HI>Ca&s;h Keeper,</HI> and the work's done. They're come within a Trifle on't already; and all this while, an <HI>Order</HI> to be <HI>Quiet,</HI> is all our Patient Ma&s;ters would afford us. Give us an Order that may make us <HI>Safe</HI> (although we need not <HI>Ask,</HI> what we can give our &s;elves) <HI>Per&s;wade</HI> the&s;e peo|ple to be <HI>Gone,</HI> or <HI>Bid us</HI> Drive them out; What <HI>Law</HI> made <HI>Pauls,</HI> and <HI>Gre&s;ham Colledge, Garri&s;ons?</HI> If nothing el&s;e will do, wee'l do't our &s;elves: We have <HI>Engaged,</HI> and <HI>Sworn</HI> the <HI>Vindication of the City,</HI> and nothing can <HI>Ab&s;olve</HI> us from the <HI>Oath</HI> we have taken This mu&s;t be done betimes too, 'twill come too late el&s;e, to prevent, either the Nece&s;&s;ity of a Tumult, or the greater Mi&s;chief, of a Supine, and Credulous &s;ecurity. <HI>A Parliament</HI> in <HI>January,</HI> will do us no more good, than a Cordial will do him that was <HI>Hanged</HI> la&s;t Se&s;&s;ions. Our Sen&s;e at Large, we delivered to the world, in a Paper, En|tinuled, <HI>The Final Prote&s;t, and Sen&s;e of the CITY:</HI> Which is Publique enough, notwith&s;tanding the great De&s;ign u&s;ed to &s;uppre&s;&s;e it, and the In&s;olences of diver&s;e Per&s;ons, di&s;affected to the good of the City, toward tho&s;e that &s;old them. <HI>To that we adhere,</HI> That <HI>Prote&s;t</HI> of <HI>Ours,</HI> produced <HI>Another</HI> from the <HI>Common Council,</HI> of the 20th. Current, to which &s;omething ought to be &s;aid, (by the way, let the Reader take Notice of an Error in the Printing, and, for&mdash;<HI>Not Soon</HI> Vote up the City, &amp;e. Read, <HI>Soon</HI> Vote up, &amp;c.&mdash;) The &s;um of that Order is, but in effect, the Iu&s;tification of the Lord Mayor, in the matter of Prudence and Integrity: we do not Deny, but finding our &s;elves aban|doned to all &s;orts of Outrages, by the Cold Proceedings of the Court, in our behalf, We were tran&s;ported to &s;ome bitter Reflections: Involving the <HI>pre&s;ent Mayor,</HI> with his more Criminal <HI>Pre|dece&s;&s;or, Ireton,</HI> in the Imputation. We &s;hall not more <HI>Gladly find</HI> it a Mi&s;take, than <HI>Readily Confe&s;s</HI> it one, when we reap the Effects of that Care for the Good of the City; but &s;o long as <HI>we</HI> are <HI>tyed</HI> up from all <HI>Lawful Defence,</HI> and the <HI>Publique Enemy</HI> at <HI>liberty</HI> to Practi&s;e all <HI>Unlawful Violences</HI> upon us, We de&s;ire to be Pardoned, if we &s;u&s;pend in the Ca&s;e. The Cloze indeed is very Noble, and wor|thy of the Court, where they Declare; <HI>For the Fundamental Lawes, and the Prote&s;tant Religion, &amp;c.&mdash;and in fine, to endeavour the Convening of a Free Parliament,</HI> in order thereunto. But in Contradiction to this Re&s;olve, the Committee of Officers have ye&s;terday publi&s;hed a Paper, Entituled, <HI>The Agreement, &amp;c.</HI>&mdash;&mdash;fairly telling us, That we are to be Governed by People of their Chu&s;ing, &amp; by a Model of their framing, without any regard had to the <HI>Practice,</HI> and <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> of the <HI>Antient Laws,</HI> or to the <HI>In|tere&s;t,</HI> and <HI>Liberty</HI> of every Freeborn <HI>Engli&s;hman.</HI> This V&s;urpation is to be con&s;idered in its due Place; at pre&s;ent it concerns us, to hinder them from making the Slavery of the City, their fir&s;t Step towards the Subjection of the Nation. The &s;ea&s;onable Care of This, we do Humbly, and Ear|ne&s;tly recommend to the <HI>Court of Common Council;</HI> Our Hopes are, that we are now fallen into Bet|ter hands, and if our Magi&s;trates will but Command us, they have an Hundred Thou&s;and Lives in Readine&s;s to Engage for them. If wee &s;hould be &s;o unhappy, as to be &s;till delayed; wee doe however wa&s;h our hands of the Con&s;equences: And &s;o <HI>God Direct and Deliver Us.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATE>December 23.</DATE></CLOSER>
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