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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>The Engagement and Remon&s;trance of the City OF LONDON&punc; Sub&s;cribed by 23500 hands&punc;</HEAD>
<P>ALthough, as <HI>Citizens,</HI> wee are <HI>reduced</HI> to a <HI>nece&s;sity</HI> of Violence; and as <HI>Chri&s;tians,</HI> obliged to the <HI>Exercize</HI> of it; Vnle&s;s we will rather pro&s;titute our <HI>Lives</HI> and <HI>Li|berties, Fortunes</HI> and <HI>Reputations;</HI> Nay, our very <HI>Souls,</HI> and <HI>Altars,</HI> to the Lu&s;ts of a <HI>Barbarous,</HI> and <HI>Sacrilegious</HI> Enemy: Wee have yet &s;o great a tenderne&s;&s;e for Chri&s;tian bloud, as to leave unattempted no means, of probability to &s;ave it. This is it which hath prevayl'd with us to Declare, Fir&s;t, to the World, what wee <HI>Propo&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Re&s;olve,</HI> ere we proceed to further Extremities: and to <HI>Satisfie</HI> the <HI>Publique,</HI> as well in the <HI>Rea&s;ons</HI> of our Vndertakings, as to <HI>Ju&s;tifie</HI> our <HI>Selves,</HI> in the <HI>Menage</HI> and <HI>Event</HI> of them.</P>
<P>We find, in the Mid&s;t of us, <HI>the Hou&s;e of Prayer converted into a Den of Theeves:</HI> Our <HI>Coun|&s;els</HI> Affronted by Armed <HI>Troups,</HI> our <HI>Fellow Citizens knock'd on the head, like Doggs,</HI> at their own doors, for not &s;o much as <HI>barking;</HI> Nay, tis become Death, now, to de&s;ire to Live; and Adjudg'd Trea&s;on, but to Claim the benefit of the Law again&s;t it. Witne&s;&s;e tho&s;e <HI>Infamous Murders</HI> committed, but Monday la&s;t, upon our <HI>unarmed Friends:</HI> and the glori|ous <HI>In&s;olencies</HI> of that <HI>Rabble,</HI> towards &s;uch of the re&s;t, as they &s;eized, and carried away. But this is nothing: to make us a Compleat <HI>Sacrifice,</HI> we are to be <HI>Burnt</HI> too: a thing, not only <HI>Threatned,</HI> in the Pa&s;&s;ion of the Tumult, but Soberly <HI>intended;</HI> for they have layd in their Materials for the work already: a <HI>Prodigious Quantity of Fire-Balls in Pauls,</HI> and <HI>Gre&s;ham Colledge.</HI> Briefly, We are de&s;ign'd for <HI>Fire,</HI> and <HI>Sword,</HI> and <HI>Pillage:</HI> and it con|cerns us now, to look a little better to our <HI>gratious Guards.</HI> Not to in&s;i&s;t upon the lo&s;&s;e of Trade; how many Thou&s;and Families have nothing now to do, but <HI>Begg,</HI> and <HI>Cur&s;e</HI> the&s;e wretches? the <HI>Honour</HI> and the <HI>Safety</HI> of the <HI>City</HI> lies at &s;take: and God &s;o ble&s;&s;e us as wee'll fall together. We will not live to &s;ee our Wives, and Daughters ravi&s;h'd: our Hou&s;es Rifled, and our Children Beggars, that &s;hall only live to Reproach their cow|ardly Fathers: and all this done too by a People, which we can as <HI>ea&s;ily de&s;troy,</HI> as <HI>men|tion:</HI> by a Party, &s;o <HI>barbarous,</HI> and &s;o <HI>Incon&s;iderable together,</HI> that, certainly, no creature can be <HI>mean</HI> enough, either to <HI>&s;uffer</HI> the <HI>one,</HI> or <HI>fear</HI> the <HI>other.</HI> In this Exigency of Affairs, we have found it both our <HI>Duty</HI> and our <HI>Intere&s;ts</HI> to <HI>A&s;&s;ociate;</HI> and we de&s;ire a Ble&s;&s;ing front Heaven upon us, no otherwi&s;e than as we do <HI>vigorou&s;ly</HI> and <HI>faithfully</HI> pur&s;ue what we here Remon&s;trate.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t, We do engage our Selves, in the pre&s;ence of Almighty God, with our lives and fortunes, to defend the Rights and Liberties of the City of</HI> LONDON; <HI>and if any per&s;on that &s;ub&s;cribes to this Engagement, &s;hall be mole&s;ted for &s;o doing; We will unanimou&s;ly, and without delay, appear as one Man to his Re&s;cue.</HI></P>
<P>Next, we demand, that all &s;uch <HI>Troups,</HI> and <HI>Companies,</HI> as do not properly belong to the Guard of the City, nor receive <HI>Orders</HI> from the <HI>lawfull Magi&s;trates thereof;</HI> that &s;uch For|ces <HI>withdraw</HI> them&s;elves from the Liberties, within 12. hours after the Publication of This: upon pain of being deemed <HI>Con&s;piratours,</HI> and <HI>of being Proceeded again&s;t accordingly,</HI> (for to this extent, both of Iudgement, and Execution, is every Individual qualified in his own defence.)</P>
<P>We are next to demand the Inlargement of our Fellow Citizens, which were taken away by Force, and in a tumultuons manner, contrary to the known Lawes of the Place and Nation.</P>
<P>This being performed, we &s;hall acquie&s;ce, in the Enjoyment of tho&s;e Liberties, which we will not lo&s;e, but with our Lives. In fine, to remove all Impediments of the peace we de&s;ire: We do undertake, both as Men of Credit, and Iu&s;tice; that &s;uch of the Sol|diers as will betake them&s;elves to hone&s;ter Imployments, &s;hall receive their Arreares from the City, and &s;uch a further care of their future well-being, as is &s;uitable to the Nece&s;&s;ities of the one part, and the Charity of the other.</P>
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