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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<P>THE RED-COATS CATECHISME OR INSTRUCTIONS TO BE LEARNED By every one that de&s;ires to be admitted to be one of the PARLIAMENTS JANIZARIES.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON.</HI> Printed in the Year, 1659.</P>
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<HEAD>The <HI>RED-COATS</HI> Catechi&s;me, or In&s;tructions to be learned by every one that De&s;ires to be one of the <HI>Par|liaments Janizaries.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>WHat is your Name?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Red-Coat.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Who gave you that Name?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> My God Fathers and God Mothers.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Who were they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Several. Nece&s;&s;ity, Idlene&s;&s;e, Murder, Rapine, Theft, principally the Divel and the Par|liament.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>I perceive you have Te&s;timonies &s;ufficient to bear witne&s;&s;e to your Name; But what did the&s;e your God-Fathers and God-Mothers promi&s;e for you?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That I &s;hould all my Life long Live in Penury, and Mi&s;ery; that I &s;hould alwaies with the DOG preferre Hunger and Ea&s;e, before Plenty and Diligence; and not &s;tick at any ad|vantagious Acts though never &s;o Villanous, and that I &s;hould promote the Slaughter, and Butche|ring of my lawful Soveraign, and Sacrifice him to
<PB N="4" REF="3"> the lu&s;t of the <HI>Elders</HI> the Parliament, and their <HI>Caiaphas Cromwell.</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Was this all they did engage for you?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No. They did Promi&s;e and Vow three things in my Name Fir&s;t, That I &s;hould utterly for&s;ake God and all his Works, and &s;hake of all Obedience to the Pomp and Vanities of KING or Hou&s;e of LORDS with what&s;oever is con|&s;onant either to Law or Go&s;pel. Secondly, That I &s;hould believe all the Articles of the Parliaments Faith, without He&s;itation or Scruple. And Thirdly, To keep and ob&s;erve all their Acts and Ordinances, and walk in the &s;ame all the daies of my Life.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Do&s;t thou not think that thou art bound to believe and do, as they have promi&s;ed for thee?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes Verily and by the D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">vels help and Sir <HI>Arthurs</HI> I will, and I hartily thank our infernal Fa|ther <HI>Belzebub,</HI> that he hath called me to this &s;tate of Damnation, through his dear Child the Parlia|ment. And I pray Satan to &s;upply me continu|ally with &s;uch Diveli&s;h intentions, as may conti|nue me in it unto my lives end.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Rehear&s;e the Articles of thy belief?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> I believe in the Divel the Father of Secta|ries and &s;worn enemy to Religion or Rea&s;on, and in his dearly beloved Spawn the Parliament, which was conceived by the nece&s;&s;ities of the King, born of the di&s;contents of the people: &s;uffe|red under <HI>Oliver Cromwell,</HI> was di&s;&s;olved, ca&s;hiered
<PB N="5" REF="3"> and turned out, and for a while &s;ent packing to Hell; but at la&s;t ro&s;e again, and a&s;cended into its former place, and now &s;itteth on the right hand of <HI>London</HI> that Rebellious and &s;tiffe-necked City; from whence it &s;hall come to take vengance of them for their &s;tubborn mi&s;demeanours, I believe in Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;ilrigge</HI> the whole number of Se|ctaries and Conventicles the Council of State, the Act of Oblivion, the re&s;urrection of my Lord <HI>Lambert,</HI> and the contriuance of our power to e|verla&s;ting.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What do&s;t thou chiefly learn by this thy belief.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fir&s;t, I learn to believe in the Parliament, who hath made me and all the re&s;t of my good brethren.</P>
<P>Secondly in General <HI>Monke</HI> who hath redemed our Good old Cau&s;e from the jaws of the wicked.</P>
<P>Thirdly, In Sir <HI>Arthur He&s;ilrigge</HI> who by his &s;tre|nuous endeavours hath &s;anctified our intere&s;t.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>You told me that your God-Father, and God-Mother did promi&s;e for you, that you &s;hould keep and ob&s;erve all the Parliaments; Commandments tell me how many there be?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Divers.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The&s;e were given to us by our God the Parliament, when they a&s;&s;umed illegally the whole power and authority of the&s;e Nations into their hands, telling us. We are your only Lords and Ma&s;ters that have redeemed you from the Tyran|nical
<PB N="6" REF="4"> Government of a King or Single per&s;on, and brought you into the Freedom of a Lawle&s;s u&s;ur|pation.</P>
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<ITEM N="1">1. Thou &s;halt have no other Generals but us.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="2">2. Thou &s;halt not &s;et up any lawful Magi&s;trate, King, Protector, or Single Per&s;on, or any thing in their likene&s;&s;e. Thou &s;halt not &s;ubject thy &s;elf to them nor truckle under them. For we your Lords and Ma&s;ters are of &s;o boundle&s;&s;e &s;pirits and &s;o furious ambition, that who&s;oever &s;hall offer re|&s;i&s;t to us, we &s;hall puni&s;h them, Seque&s;ter their E|&s;tates, and ruine their Families for ever; but tho&s;e that will quietly &s;ubmit their A&s;s-like backs to the intollerable &s;lavery of our Lawle&s;&s;e burdens, we will feed with the gracious Sugar-plums of <HI>Kings Deans</HI> and <HI>Chapters</HI> Lands for the maintenance of their Wives and Children.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="3">3. Thou &s;halt not abu&s;e our name with tho&s;e ignominious terms of <HI>Rump, Tail, or Fagg end</HI> for we have deeply &s;worn, that his Ar&s;e &s;hall make But|tons, who &s;hall dare to affront us in that Nature.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="4">4. Thou &s;halt remember to be pre&s;ent at the <HI>Guard</HI> day, the re&s;t of the daies you may follow your lawful Vocations of Pimping, Picking of Pockets, Filching or the like; but that is who|ly to be re&s;erved to our &s;ervice: thou &s;halt be &s;ure then to give thy attendance with all due and care|ful
<PB N="7" REF="4"> preparation of Sword, Musket, and Bande|leers: for this is a day wherein you mu&s;t be dili|gent, to pre&s;erve our &s;ecurity, le&s;t we &s;hould be di&s;turbed in our making tho&s;e good Ordinances of Laws, Exci&s;e and &s;uch other Acts of Grace for your good &amp; the ruine of this malignant Nation.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="5">5. Have an awful and reverent fear in thy mind of us, that &s;o thou maye&s;t long enjoy thy place, without danger of being Disbanded or ca&s;hiered.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="6">6. Thou &s;halt when Commanded, Commit what Murder or Slaughter, we &s;hall think fit.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="7">7. Thou &s;halt at all times hold it lawful and take all occa&s;ions to lye with the Citizens Wives, wich may be a means to provide you with Linnen and other nece&s;&s;aries, which your want of pay may cau&s;e your indigence of.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="8">8. Thou &s;halt Plunder, Filch, and Steal any thing thou can&s;t lay thy hands on, for herein you come neare&s;t to our example, and &s;imilitude in our grand Robberies and Seque&s;trations.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="9">9. Thou &s;halt not &s;tick to Trapan, betray, &s;wear, for&s;wear any thing never &s;o fal&s;e which may con|duce to our intere&s;t and advantage.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="10">10. Thou &s;halt de&s;ire &amp; covet above all things the Plunder of the City, the Ravi&s;hing of their
<PB N="8" REF="5"> Wives, the Knocking down of their Prentices, and taking from them all that they have for the inrich|ing of us and the Good old Cau&s;e.</ITEM>
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<P>Well my Friend, I &s;ee you are &s;ufficiently en|&s;tructed in your Duty and Cau&s;e, and &s;o I &s;ee no rea&s;on why you &s;hould not receive confirmation, and have the Red-Coat laid on your &s;houlders.</P>
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