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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<VID>191934</VID>
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<P><HI>No Parliament, no Penny.</HI></P>
<P>OR, The <HI>SOULDIER</HI> Convinced, THAT There can be no money levied, upon what pretence &s;oever, without the PARLIAMENT Sit again.</P>
<P><HI>At a Conference</HI> Between an Hone&s;t Souldier, and a Plain <HI>Countreyman.</HI></P>
<P>In which is likewi&s;e Di&s;covered, That the Warr which is making again&s;t General <HI>MONCK,</HI> is for no other Cau&s;e, Then his faithful &s;tanding up for his Ma&s;ter the PARLIAMENT.</P>
<P>TOGETHER, With a <HI>Re&s;olution</HI> of the Souldiers, to &s;et Open the Parliament Doors, that the Members may &s;it again, to di&s;charge the TRUST committed to them by God and Man.</P>
<P>Printed for a Lover of his Country, and a Martyr for <HI>Englands</HI> Freedomes; And are to be &s;old at the Sign of the faithful Engli&s;h-man, right again&s;t Tyrants Court.</P>
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<HEAD>A DIALOGVE BETWEEN A SOVLDIER AND AN Hone&s;t Countreyman.</HEAD>
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<SPEAKER>Countreyman.</SPEAKER>
<P>SOuldier, If you plea&s;e to &s;lacken your pace a little, I would reque&s;t you to Re&s;olve me a few Que&s;tions.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Souldier.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I will.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Countryman.</SPEAKER>
<P>Whither are you marching?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Souldier.</SPEAKER>
<P>To reduce General <HI>Monck</HI> and his Party,</P>
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<SPEAKER>Country.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, Is not <HI>Monk</HI> for the Parliament?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Souldier.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes; and therefore are we re&s;olved to fight him, and as much as in us lies we a&s;per&s;e him, and endeavour to make him odious, giving out, <HI>That he will drink too exce&s;s,</HI> and, <HI>that he is for the King.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Countryman.</SPEAKER>
<P>But are the&s;e things &s;o?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Souldier.</SPEAKER>
<P>We know not; onely (according to our ac|cu&s;tomed manner) we a&s;per&s;e all we fight again&s;t.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>If you fight again&s;t the Parliaments friends, who do you fight for?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sould.</SPEAKER>
<P>For &s;ome of our Principal Officers, <HI>viz Lam|bert, Packer,</HI> and the re&s;t of the nine Field-Officers, which the Parliament Ca&s;hier'd the Army.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>What! fight for your Officers again&s;t the Parliaments Forces! who gives you Authority?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sould.</SPEAKER>
<P>We have taken care as to that; for, having made <HI>Fleetwood</HI> our Commander in Chief, he &s;hall give out Commi&s;&s;ions, by which means we create a power to our &s;elves; and what is it we by our &s;words cannot do? if the People will be &s;o tame as to let us alone.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>Oh! But what will you do for monies? the nerves and &s;inews of War?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sould.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, for that we have a Paper that pa&s;t the Hou&s;e twice, which &s;hall &s;erve our pre&s;ent turns to rai&s;e monies by.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then it &s;eems that the Parliaments Authori|ty will take place among you in order to the rai&s;ing of money; letting the People under&s;tand thereby, that the very talk of an Act, binds them to conform thereto: yet this may be gathered from it, That monies cannot be rai&s;ed without a Parliament.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sould.</SPEAKER>
<P>You &s;peak very right: but then will we make the Act void, which forbids the rai&s;ing or levying of monies, but by the Con&s;ent of the People in Parlia|ment.</P>
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<PB N="5" REF="4">
<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>Oh! Take heed of that; for hitherto no Ty|rant-King nor Protector, dur&s;t make invalid that Fun|damental Law, by which the Peoples E&s;tates are &s;ecu|red.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sould.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then will we get about 40 Members into the Parliament-Hou&s;e, and make them to aboli&s;h that Law, and provide money for us.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then will it appear to all men, That you &s;tand convinced in your Con&s;ciences, That y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u have acted very unadvi&s;edly, in turning out the Parliament, with|out whom you cannot Lawfully rai&s;e a penny; and you will yet appear more odious and vile then ever in the eyes of the People; who are &s;o wi&s;e, as not to part with any monies, but in obedience to Parliamentary Authority.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sould.</SPEAKER>
<P>You &s;ay true: but if there be no other way, we will make virtue of nece&s;&s;ity, and take it by force.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>Marry, God forbid! for then &s;hould we be as very &s;laves as the <HI>Turks.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Sould.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why we have forcibly outed the Parliament, and made a <HI>Committee for Safety</HI> without Law, and by force made <HI>Fleetwood</HI> General; and why may we not rai&s;e money by force?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then will you be in wor&s;e ca&s;e then ever; you will be look'd upon as no better then Thieves and Felons, and as Tyrants, and not fit to live. Then look to your &s;elvs, That you be not &s;erved as were the <HI>Danes</HI> of old.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Souldier.</SPEAKER>
<P>How was that?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>The People being grievou&s;ly oppre&s;&s;ed with them, determined at a certain hour in the Night, when mo&s;t of the Souldiers were a&s;leep; That the men &s;hould ri&s;e and &s;eize on the Guards, and the women &s;hould cut the Throats of tho&s;e which were in Bed a&s;leep; which accordingly they did.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Souldier.</SPEAKER>
<P>But we will give them no &s;uch cau&s;e, we will deal Kindlier with them.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Countreyman.</SPEAKER>
<P>Alas poor Souls! When you come once to Rule by the Sword, God will take away his re&s;training grace, as being out of his way, and give you up to a cruell Inhumane Spirit; and you will work all manner of Cruelty, &s;till pa&s;&s;ing on from one cruell action to another, till you be hated of all, and afraid to tru&s;t one another.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sold.</SPEAKER>
<P>But I warrant you, we will not do &s;o.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>Alas poor deluded &s;ouldier! your grand Officers make you &s;laves to their Lu&s;ts, and &s;erve their turns upon you, when you are not aware thereof: Do but look back to the year, 1650. &s;ee and con&s;ider, how you and they have declined good princi|ples, waxing wor&s;e &amp; wor&s;e, deceiving and being deceived. How much more unchri&s;tian-like you are grown, more cruel, more prophane, more like your grand Hypocritical Officers every day then other: They them&s;elves confe&s;&s;ed in their Paper of <HI>April</HI> 6. 1659. when they invited the Parliament to fit again, <HI>That the Spirit of God was departed from them, and that they had wandered in the dark pathes of their Imaginations;</HI> in which they &s;till en|deavoured to lead you.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sold.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well, if things are &s;o, I confe&s;s our condition is &s;ad: Therefore do I re&s;olve to follow your Chri&s;tian-like coun&s;el, if you plea&s;e to tell me what to do.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>Fir&s;t, con&s;ider the great &s;infulne&s;s of your ways. Second|ly, the mi&s;ery you bring upon your &s;elves and Families: Can you endure to have your bones broken, your Children made father|le&s;s; your Wives widows; and many of your lives to be lo&s;t here; and all to be damned in Hell hereafter. Oh! con&s;ider for God's &s;ake, for your Wives and Childrens &s;akes, for your Lives and Limbes &s;akes, and for your Soules &s;akes; and rather give over tho&s;e Nine Officers of yours to the Mercy of the Par|liament, and re-e&s;tabli&s;h them, and return to your fir&s;t princi|ples; and leave not the Brand of a Mercenary, Cruel, Murther|ous Army upon your &s;elves.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sold.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sithence you have told me that I thought not of, I will follow your coun&s;el; for I &s;ee you are a good Chri&s;tian, &amp; love the peace and welfare of your Countrey, and good of all men,
<PB N="7" REF="5"> and would not have our Bodies nor our Soules made mi&s;erable here or in the world to come, and that you are a con&s;tant <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI>-man.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Count,</SPEAKER>
<P>Truly, I wi&s;h you peace here, and Eternal Happine&s;s hereafter, and would not have you by your Officers be drawn in to &s;inful cout&s;es, by which the Nation &s;hould be made poor, and &s;o you want your <HI>pay</HI> as you do.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sold.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well! I will tell all Fellow-&s;ouldiers and Officers what you &s;ay, &amp; will per&s;wade them to take their <HI>Force</HI> off from our Ma&s;ters the Parliament, and let them &s;it again in peace, and we will deliver up all tho&s;e Nine Men, as <HI>Kel&s;ie</HI> and the re&s;t, to their Mercy, which have rebelled again&s;t them, whom we ac|knowledged to be the <HI>Supreme Authority</HI> of the Nation, that no more bloud be &s;hed in vain.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>You will do like a good Chri&s;tian, and like a valiant Souldier, if you do &s;o.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sold.</SPEAKER>
<P>But how do you think the Parliament will deal with the&s;e men <HI>(viz.) Lambert, Kel&s;ie.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>You know the <HI>Parliament</HI> are very ready to forgive: you know they gave them an <HI>Act of Pardon</HI> the other day, for as bad matters as they have done now; yea, for five years Cruel|ty, in keeping them out, and &s;etting up <HI>Cromwel.</HI> Do not fear but the Parliament will be kind to them, and to all the Nation. There needs nothing to be done, but to &s;et open the Parliament door, and they will &s;it again.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sold.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well Sir, I will do my uttermo&s;t to get all my fellow &s;ouldiers to be of my mind.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>If you plea&s;e, I will write the&s;e things, and you &s;hall &s;hew it them.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sold.</SPEAKER>
<P>I thank you Sir, and I am the rather de&s;irous you would do it quickly; for I call to mind that all Trade is decayed, and the Nation is impoveri&s;hed, by rea&s;on of the&s;e many Charges we have had, and our Enemies grow very high upon us, we cannot get our pay &s;o con&s;tant as we had when the Parliament &s;at before: They (indeed) were our be&s;t Ma&s;ters; they allowed us 5 <HI>s.</HI> 10 <HI>d.</HI> a week all their time; and our <HI>pay</HI> was never le&s;&s;ened, till they were turned out.</P>
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<PB N="8" REF="6">
<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>You &s;ay true: But con&s;ider al&s;o, that Religion and all is at the &s;take; and Body and Soul, and all will peri&s;h, if you con|tinue to &s;tand upon your Swords, and act like Tyrants.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sold.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sir, I will be as good as my word.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Count.</SPEAKER>
<P>You will do well; and I will pray to God, that you may have grace to do as you &s;ay; and that all your Fellow-&s;oul|diers may agree with you;</P>
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<TRAILER>Farewel.</TRAILER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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