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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B120012.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<P>A TRVE RELATION OF THE MOST VVISE AND VVORTHY SPEECH Made by Captain VEN, one of the Burge&s;&s;es of the PARLIAMENT to the Apprenti&s;es of <HI>London;</HI> who ro&s;e in <HI>Cheap&s;ide</HI> upon the Combu&s;tion at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> on Wedne&s;day la&s;t at night, <HI>De|cember</HI> the 29. 1641.</P>
<P><HI>AS ALSO</HI> The <HI>Randevowes</HI> they had that night at the Counter in <HI>Wood-&s;treete.</HI></P>
<P><HI>VVITH</HI> A De&s;cription of the e&s;tate of <HI>Jreland</HI> at this pre&s;ent time.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for <HI>R. H.</HI> 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>CAPTAIN <HI>&V;EN</HI> HIS SPEECH TO THE APPRENTISES OF <HI>LONDON.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THE Apprenti&s;es waiting three dayes at the Parliament Hou&s;e, without giving affront or ill Language to any; they did onely with a full Con&s;ent, Cry downe Bi&s;hops and Popi&s;h Lords.</P>
<P>But coming &s;cattering home by &s;lender Companies, were &s;et upon by divers Cavi|liers, who did cut many, and mi&s;u&s;ed mo&s;t with ba&s;e Language, not onely Apprenti&s;es but men of good rank and qualitie (calling them Ram-headed Rogues) to the great di&s;paraging and di&s;hartning of them in their Trades and Callings; for by this meanes
<PB N="2" REF="3">many Trade&s;men have &s;hut up Shops, and given over their Trades, becau&s;e they are &s;o abu&s;ed: And the adver&s;e party, Papi&s;ts and their Adherents, greatly countenanced and incouraged; which makes them &s;o bold and in&s;olent, that they care not what outrages they commit again&s;t hone&s;t men of good report, and the Kings loyall and good Subjects, and without &s;ome &s;peedy redre&s;&s;e, and &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of them by the good Lawes of the Land again&s;t &s;uch as doe &s;o in&s;olently fall upon the Kings Ma|je&s;ties Subjects without cau&s;e, there is like to be many thou&s;and lives &s;pilt and taken away.</P>
<P>The Apprenti&s;es being many of them committed, and the other countenanced, made the Apprenti&s;es to &s;well in bloud, to the adventure of the lo&s;&s;e of their lives, met on Wedne&s;day night la&s;t, to the number of two thou&s;and with Clubs, Swords, Hal|berts, and were re&s;olved to goe to the <HI>White Lion;</HI> and others cryed out, to my <HI>Lord Ma|jors:</HI> but by the providence of God, and the grave wi&s;dome of Captaine <HI>&V;en,</HI> they were
<PB N="3" REF="3">prevented by the grave Speech that follow|eth.</P>
<Q><HI>Gent.</HI> Let me intreat you to be at peace and quietne&s;&s;e, and return every one to his own habitation, and you &s;hall find we will be as readie to do any favour for you, and relieve you in any of your iu&s;t grievances, as you can or &s;hall your&s;elves, and as you &s;hew your willingne&s;&s;e to us, &s;o &s;hall we with our lives be willing and readie to help you: therefore pray depart everie man to his own home in peace, that it may not be &s;aid of you, they are rude and tumultuous, but that you may &s;hew your &s;elves to be di&s;creet in all your affairs, to the advancing of the cau&s;e you have in hand; and refer the cau&s;e to us which will be readie to &s;upport you to our powers in all that &s;hall be iu&s;t.</Q>
<P>Then &s;ome cried out, But what &s;hould they do for the Brethren that were committed by my L. <HI>Maior,</HI> and at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> before they &s;hall &s;uffer we will &s;pend all our lives. The Cap|tain made an&s;wer, That for tho&s;e that were committed at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> he and another was appointed by the Hou&s;e to relea&s;e them
<PB N="4" REF="4">all, and we did &s;o the &s;ame night before we came from <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter.</HI> And if my L. <HI>Maior</HI> hath committed any, I will warrant you, if you will be quiet, and take my word, they &s;hall be relea&s;ed evercie one. And as &s;oon as I have refre&s;hed my &s;elf, I will go to my L. <HI>Maior,</HI> and have them di&s;charged; but do you by no means go, but return home: So they all cried, Home, home, home, with a mightie noi&s;e. Then the maior part went a|way, but &s;ome of them remained there which would not be &s;atisfied, but went down to the Counter in <HI>Wood&s;treet,</HI> where they were with&s;tood by the Officers there|to belonging, with &s;words and half pikes, but &s;ome ru&s;ht in upon them, and got away one of the half pikes from one of them, and then went up into Cheape &s;ide again, but could not re&s;t &s;atisfied, but down they went again, and the doore being &s;hut again&s;t them, they broke it, and brake the win|dows. After this, the Keeper of the Counter let &s;ome of them come in, and &s;earch for them in everie Ward, and que&s;tioned the pri|&s;oners whether there was any or no, but
<PB N="5" REF="4">they found none there, And therefore went away.</P>
<P>There are many Volenteers agoing out, but it is to be feared, that there are many of them Papi&s;ts, who will be more readie to help the Papi&s;ts again&s;t the King, then the King again&s;t the Papi&s;ts. But I hope the Lord will defeat their de&s;ignes, and bring their evill waies upon their own heads, if there be any that &s;eeks the de&s;truction of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Ireland</HI> is in a verie bad e&s;tate, and in much fear and trouble of the lo&s;&s;e of <HI>Dublin,</HI> but there is yet hopes if there be but pre&s;ent help and aid again&s;t the Rebels, which is the de|&s;ire of all true Subiects, the going forward of the happie de&s;igne.</P>
<P>Thus Courteous Reader, you have had the full occurrant of the pa&s;&s;ages, and in what a mi&s;erable e&s;tate we are brought unto by Papi&s;ts and Athei&s;ts, who &s;warme like the frogs of <HI>Egypt</HI> over the whole Land, and not likely to be &s;wept away, till the Lord in mercie to his people, &s;weep them
<PB N="6" REF="5">into the Red &s;ea of their own blood, into the depth of which the Lord bring all the enemies of his Go&s;pel.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>And &s;o I &s;alute you with kinde farewell.</SALUTE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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