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<HEAD><HI>July,</HI> 25. 1643.</HEAD>
<HEAD>A MEMENTO TO THE LONDONERS, To put them in minde how neere their de&s;truction is, and what meanes is left to prevent it.</HEAD>
<P>_IT much concernes you (my Brethren) to &s;it &s;till one quarter of an houre, and con&s;ider the peri&s;hing condition you are in, for then I per&s;wade my &s;elfe, you will &s;ee your &s;elves &s;o &s;urrounded with ap|proaching mi&s;eries, that you will thinke it more then time that you were all in armes, and no long|er indure to remaine in &s;o naked and de&s;picable condition as you now are in. Will you not bee a|wakened till you heare your Enemies are at your Out-workes? cannot the noy&s;e of dangers on all &s;ides, and in the mid&s;t of you, rouze you out of that de&s;tructive Lethargy that hath po&s;&s;e&s;t you; but you will continue dreaming about your Trades, till the outragious hand of your implacable enemies &s;ei&s;e upon you, your Wives and Children? I wrote to you before to this purpo&s;e, but it made no impre&s;&s;ion in you, and there|fore I had thought never to have wrote unto you againe, but that I have &s;ome hopes left, that now you are ready to peri&s;h, you will looke about you, and heare good Coun&s;ell: and a&s;&s;ure your &s;elves that if this Letter be not an alarme to rouze you, it will prove a pa&s;&s;ing Bell, rung before your de&s;truction. Never were a People in &s;uch nece&s;&s;ities as you are in. The Kings Forces are growne &s;trong and powerfull, and will in &s;hort time, if you prevent it not, be as able to execute their malice upon you as they are willing; from whom you of all the People in the Kingdome, can expect no more favour than from the Turke or Spaniard, were he come among&s;t you. The Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> you heare, is unprovided in many re&s;pects, and what opportunities that will admini&s;ter to your Enemies, let your feares &s;ugge&s;t. <HI>Hopton</HI> and <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> the Queene and Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Hartford,</HI> are all potent and re&s;olved to de&s;troy you. The hopes they have &s;wallowed, and brags they have made of pillaging and ran&s;acking this City, may &s;ufficiently informe you what mercy you are like to find when they come among&s;t you. The Malignants in <HI>Kent</HI> are in Armes already. A Pro|clamation is gone out already, forbidding all Trade and trafficke with the <HI>Londoners.</HI> Have you dangers enough thinke you, or will you &s;tay till you are more mi&s;erable? Perhaps you expect to be &s;aved by a Miracle. Alas! incon|&s;iderate men! 'Tis true indeed there is nothing too hard for the Omnipotent and Almighty God. But is it to bee expected that his omnipotency &s;hould pre&s;erve us, when he hath given us under&s;tanding, &s;trength and opportunity to pre&s;erve our &s;elves, and we out of ba&s;e feare or other poore re&s;pects dare not &s;et about it? Why, what would you have us to doe, you will &s;ay? Aske your owne hearts what you have to doe; is there any thing el&s;e to be done, but for every man that is able of body to li&s;t him&s;elfe immediately for the warres, and every man contribute to the utmo&s;t for the maintenance thereof; A Committee of Parliament are appointed you know for the &s;ervice, and where they fit, &s;uch as have beene tru&s;ted by thou&s;ands, and approved by tho&s;e from among whom they were cho&s;en, who will no doubt take care for the choyce of &s;uch men onely into Office as are of knowne faithfulne&s;&s;e and integrity, not a &s;u&s;pected or unknowne man to be admitted: Your monies &s;hall be employed to the proper end you intend them; make u&s;e of this opportunity to pre&s;erve your &s;elves, or expect &s;uddenly to be de&s;troyed. You doe but ruine your &s;elves, your be&s;t Friends, and chiefe Commanders, by venturing in &s;mall bodies to &s;ubdue your Enemies: what can you hope thereby, but onely a prolongation of the Warre, and deferring your de&s;truction for a &s;ea&s;on, when in the meane time you wa&s;te and con&s;ume your &s;elves away to nothing? No, you mu&s;t all ri&s;e, or nothing can be done to any purpo&s;e. The poore will &s;hortly want bread, and what their wants will nece&s;&s;itate them to, let the rich con&s;ider. You have talked a great while that nothing can pre&s;erve you but a generall ri&s;ing, and in private di&s;cour&s;es every man concludes that it is the onely thing nece&s;&s;ary; now &s;hew that you are not meere Talkers, the Countries will come in to you, who long to be up and doing, they awaite but your leading them the way, let no ceremonies nor excu&s;es hinder you, let not your wife and children with-hold you, this is the onely way to pre&s;erve them: I know you may be furni&s;hed with excu&s;es, and that they who are unwilling may have much to &s;ay for them&s;elves; But thinke all of you what lies at the &s;take, your Religion, Lawes, Liberties, your Lives, Wives, Children, E&s;tates, all is lo&s;t if you doe not now be&s;tirre your &s;elves. Be couragious, and God will ble&s;&s;e you; Lie &s;till, and peri&s;h.</P>
<CLOSER>Farewell.
<SIGNED>Your Friend, and plaine-dealing Remembrancer&punc;</SIGNED>
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<P><HI>This is licen&s;ed and entred into the Hall Booke according to Order.</HI></P>
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