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<HEAD>&para; The mournfull Cryes of many thou&s;and Poore Trade&s;men, who are ready to fami&s;h through decay of Trade. <HI>Or, the warning Teares of the Oppre&s;&s;ed.</HI></HEAD>
<P>OH that the cravings of our Stomacks could bee heard by the Parliament and City! Oh that the Teares of our poore fami&s;hing Babes were botled! Oh that their tender Mothers Cryes for bread to feed them were ingraven in bra&s;&s;e! Oh that our pined Carka&s;&s;es were open to every pittifull Eye! Oh that it were knowne, that wee &s;ell our Beds and cloaths for Bread! Oh our Hearts faint and wee are ready to &s;woone in the top of every Street.</P>
<P>O you Members of Parliament and rich men in the City, that are at ea&s;e, and drinke Wine in Bowles, and &s;tretch your &s;elves upon Beds of downe, you that grind our faces and Flay off our skins, will no man among&s;t you regard, will no man behold our faces black with Sorrow and Famine, is there none to Pity. The Sea mon&s;ter drawes out the bre&s;t and gives &s;uck to their young ones, and are our Rulers become cruell <HI>like</HI> the O&s;trich in the Wilderne&s;&s;e, <HI>Lament.</HI> 4. 3.</P>
<P>OH yee Great men of ENGLAND, will not (thinke you) the righteous GOD behold our Affliction, doth not hee take notice that you devour us as if our Fle&s;h were Bread? are not mo&s;t of you eyther Parliament-men, Commitee-men, Cu&s;tomers, Excize-men, Trea&s;urers, Gouernonrs of Townes and Ca&s;tles, or Commanders in the Army, Officers in tho&s;e Dens of Robbery the Courts of Law? and are not your Kin&s;men and allies, Collectors of the Kings revenue, or the Bi&s;hops rents, or Seque&s;trators? what then are your ruffling Silkes and Velvets, and your glittering Gold and Silver Laces, are they not the &s;weat of our Browes, and the wants of our backes and bellies?</P>
<P>Its your Taxes, Cu&s;tomes, and Excize, that compells the Country to rai&s;e the price of Food, and to buy nothing from us but meere ab&s;olute nece&s;&s;aries; and then you of the City that buy our Worke, mu&s;t have your Tables furni&s;hed, and your Cups o|verflow; and therefore will give us little or nothing for our Worke, even what you <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">And &s;ince the late Lord Ma|jor <HI>Adams,</HI> you have put in exccution an illegall, wicked Decree of the Common Coun|cell; whereby you have taken our goods from us, if we have gone to the Innes to &s;ell them to Countrimen; and you have murdered &s;ome of our poore wives, that have gone to Innes to find Cuontrsmen to b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">ie them.</NOTE> plea&s;e, becau&s;e you know wee mu&s;t &s;ell for monyes to &s;et our Families on worke, or el&s;e wee fami&s;h: Thus our Fle&s;h is that whereupon you Rich men live, and where|with you decke and adorne your &s;elves. Yee great men, is it not your Plenty and abundance which begets you Pride and Riot? and doe not your Pride beget Ambition, and your ambition Faction, and your fact on the&s;e Civill broyles; what el&s;e but your Ambition and Faction continue our Di&s;tractions and Oppre&s;&s;ions? Is not all the Controver&s;ie who&s;e <HI>Slanes</HI> the poore &s;hall bee? Whether they &s;hall be the Kings va&s;&s;alles, or the Presbyterians, or the Independant factions? and is not the Contention nouri&s;hed, that you who&s;e Hou&s;es are full of the &s;poiles of your Countrey, might be &s;ecure from Accompts, while there is nothing but Di&s;traction, and that by the tumultuou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the People under prodig ousoppre&s;&s;ion, you might have faire Pretences to keepe up an Army, and Garri&s;ons, and that under pretence of nece&s;&s;itie you may uphold your arbitrary Government by Com|mittees, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Have you not upon &s;uch pretences brought an Army into the bowels of the City, and now Exchange doth ri&s;e already be|yond Sea, and no Marchants beyond Sea will tru&s;t their Goods hither, and our owne Marchants conveigh their <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Merchants have already kept back from the Tower, many hundred thou&s;and pounds, and no bullion is brought into the Tower, &s;o that money will be more &s;carce daily.</NOTE> E&s;tates from hence, &s;o there is likely to bee no importing of Goods, and then there will be no Exporting, and then our Trade will bee ut|terly Lo&s;t, and our Families peri&s;h as it were in a moment.</P>
<P>O yee Parliament men heare our dying Cry, <HI>Settle the Common-wealth, &s;ettle the Common-wealth! &s;trive not who &s;hall bee greate&s;t untill you be all confounded.</HI> You may if you will pre&s;ently determine where the &s;upreame Power re&s;ides, and &s;ettle the Iu&s;t common Freedomes of the Nation, &s;o that all Parties may equally receive Iu&s;tice and injoy their Right, and every one may bee as much concerned as other to de&s;end tho&s;e common Freedomes; you may pre&s;ently put downe your Arbitrary Committees and let us be Governed by plaine written Lawes in our owne Tongue, and pay your mini&s;ters of Iu&s;tice out of a common, Trea&s;urie, that every one may have Iu&s;tice freely and impartially.</P>
<P>You have in your hands the Kings, Queenes, and Princes revenue, and Papi&s;ts Lands, and Bi&s;hops, and Deanes, and Chap|ters lands, and Seque&s;tred lands, at lea&s;t to the value of Eighteene hundred thou&s;and Pounds by the yeare. Which is at lea&s;t five hundred Thou&s;and pounds a yeare more then will pay the Navie and all the Army, and the Forces which need to bee kept up in <HI>Engl<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">nd</HI> and <HI>Ireland;</HI> and out of that the Kingdomes debts would bee payd yearely; whereas now you runne fur|ther into Debt daily, and pay One thou&s;and pounds by the Day at lea&s;t for u&s;e Money; be&s;ides you may if you will Proclaime Liberty, for all to come and di&s;cover to a Committee of di&s;-ingaged men, cho&s;en out of every County, one for a County to di&s;cover to them what Monies and Trea&s;ure, your owne Members and your Seque&s;trators, &amp;c. have in their hands, and you may by that meanes find many Millions of money to pay the Publique debts. You may find 30000. l. in Mr. <HI>Richard Dar|ley's</HI> hand 25000. l. in Mr. <HI>Thorpes</HI> hands <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">M <HI>William Lenthall,</HI> Speaker of the Hou&s;e, to cover his co|zenage, gave two and twenty thou&s;and pounds to his &s;ervant M. <HI>Cole,</HI> to purcha&s;e Land in his own name, though for his u&s;e; which hee did, and then dyed &s;uddenly, and the Land fell to his Sonne, and the widow having married a Lawyer, keeps the Land for the childs u&s;e, and &s;aith he knowes not that his predece&s; for received any monie from the Speaker, and now Ma&s;ter Speaker &s;ueth in Chancery for the Land. A hundred &s;uch di&s;|coveries might be made.</NOTE>, a Member of Yours who fir&s;t Proclaimed Sir <HI>John Hotham</HI> Traytor. And thus you may take off all Taxes pre&s;ently, and &s;o &s;ecure Peace, that Trading may revive and our Pining, hungry, fami&s;hing Fami|lies bee &s;aved.</P>
<P>And O yee Souldiers who refu&s;ed to Disband, becau&s;e you would have Iu&s;tice and Freedome, who Cryed till the Earth ec|choed Iu&s;tice, Iu&s;tice; forget not that Cry, but cry &s;peedily for Peace and Iu&s;tice, Louder then ever. There is a large Peti|tion of &s;ome pitifull men that's now a broad, which containes all our de&s;ires, and were that Granted in all things, wee &s;hould have Trading againe, and &s;hould not need to begge our Bread, though tho&s;e men have &s;o much mercy as they would have none to cry in the &s;treets for Bread.</P>
<P>Oh though you bee Souldiers, &s;hew bowels of Mercy and Pity to a hunger &s;tarved People; Goe downe to the Parliament, de&s;ire them to con&s;ume and trifle away no more time, but offer your de&s;ires for Vs in that large Petition, and cry Iu&s;tice, Iu|&s;tice; Save, &s;ave, &s;ave the Peri&s;hing people; O cry thus till your importunity make them heare you.</P>
<P>O Parliament men, and Souldiers! <HI>Nece&s;&s;ity di&s;&s;olves all Lawes and Government,</HI> and <HI>Hunger will breake through &s;tone walls,</HI> Tender Mothers will &s;ooner devoure You, then the Fruit of their owne wombe, and hunger re|gards no Swords nor Cannons. It may be &s;ome great oppre&s;&s;ours intends tumults that they may e&s;cape in a croud, but your food may then be wanting as well as ours, and your Armes will bee hard diet. O hearke, hearke at our do<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">res how our chil|dren cry <HI>Bread, bread, bread,</HI> and we now with bleeding hearts, cry, once more to you, pity, pity, an oppre&s;&s;ed in&s;laved people: carry our cries in the large petition to the Parliament, and tell them if they bo &s;till deafo; the Teares of the op|pre&s;&s;ed will wa&s;h away the foundations of their hou&s;es. Amen, Amen &s;o be it.</P>
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