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<P>A RELATION OF THE RARE exployts of the London Soul|diers, and Gentlemen Prentizes, lately gone out of the Citie for the De&s;ignes of the KING <HI>AND</HI> PARLIAMENT.</P>
<P><HI>Hen. El&s;yng Cler. Parl. D. Com.</HI></P>
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<P>Printed for <HI>William Smith.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A RELATION OF The rare exploits of the <HI>London</HI> Souldiers, and Gentlemen Prentizes lately gone out of the City for the de&s;ignes of the King, and Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>_THe mi&s;eries and Calamities which of late have happened in this con|fu&s;ed place of England are &s;o ma|ny, that they furni&s;h the di&s;cour&s;e both of this and of other nations, who notwith&s;tanding are not able to expre&s;&s;e them all; I &s;hall now relate you onely two, be|falling within the&s;e few dayes, and to this end that by the true report of the&s;e which by men of &s;undry pa&s;&s;ions may be prevented) others of the like natare, if it plea&s;e God may be prevented, of the one I have certaine information, of the o|ther I my &s;elfe was an eye witne&s;&s;e. The fir&s;t
<PB N="4" REF="3">happened at <HI>Acton,</HI> &s;ome &s;ix miles di&s;tant from <HI>London,</HI> where lived a Gentleman; reported and beleeved to be different in Religion (as too many now a dayes are which we know to be the cau&s;e of all our evills) from the Church of <HI>Eng|land;</HI> but in the voice of mo&s;t of his neighbours a &s;ober moderate and charitable minded man. This Gentleman having in his hou&s;e no more but one ancient Gentlewoman his kin&s;woman, whom he intru&s;ted as his hou&s;e keeper, with one &s;erving man and maide. Had his hou&s;e be&s;ett with divers Companies of Souldiers, who had li&s;ted them&s;elves for the &s;ervice of the King and Parliament and were in pay, and command, un|der Officers, where after they had forced him to open the gates by threatning words they en|tred the hou&s;e, and &s;o &s;trangly de&s;poyled him, that they left him not a bed, bed&s;ted, table, doore, or gla&s;&s;ewindow, che&s;t, trunke, or the &s;malle&s;t uten&s;ill, but &s;old all for very &s;mall pri|zes before his &s;ervants faces, &s;ome of them ha|ving forced him before on foote to <HI>London,</HI> and for his bills, bonds, letters, and other writings, the mo&s;t part they tore in peeces, and &s;trewed them about the hou&s;e, others &s;ome they &s;ent up to <HI>London,</HI> he hath with much indu&s;try, and long time rarley furni&s;hed a plot of Ground with the choice&s;t flowers and outlandi&s;h trees which he could procure, which they plucked up by the roots as many as they could, and the re&s;t left &s;o
<PB N="5" REF="3">de&s;olate that whereas it was thought the fine&s;t and mo&s;t curious gardens in all tho&s;e part, there is now left nothing but the ruines of art and nature.</P>
<P>The other outrage which with griefe I &s;aw was committed in Radcliffe highway, upon Tu&s;eday la&s;t being the 23 of this in&s;tant <HI>August,</HI> where lived an aged Gentleman in good fa&s;hi|on, love and credit among&s;t his neighbours for many yeares &s;pace. I was enformed and might likewi&s;e gue&s;&s;e by his a&s;pect that hee was above foure&s;core, and his wife not much di&s;tant from his time. This poore man was like manner a&s;|&s;aulted by another company of Souldiers, who are billated thereabouts, untill the Drum com|mands them to doe &s;ervice: where having ap|proached his doore, they drew out a paper which they read, whether a pretence of Autho|rity or what el&s;e I cannot ea&s;ily conjecture. And thereupon they ru&s;ht into the Hou&s;e, rifled him of all that was in the Hou&s;e, breaking and bat|tering many of the goods, and having brought them out, &s;old them to &s;uch per&s;ons as would buy them at any rates, and this at nooneday and in the &s;ight of 1000 people; one Featherbed I &s;aw &s;old for foure &s;hillings, and one Flockbed for one &s;hilling, &amp; many other things at I know not what pri&s;es, leaving him nothing but naked wales and one &s;toole which the old man &s;ate up|on, he being lame and decrepit with old age.
<PB N="6" REF="4">&s;he Headborough of that place endeavored to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e&s;cue &s;ome of the goods, which were af|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">terwards violently taken againe out of his hou&s;e After the riot was thus ended, they marched a|way with a drum; and then I made bold to goe into this di&s;tre&s;&s;ed mans hou&s;e, where I found him &s;itting upon his only &s;toole, and with the teares falling downe his hoary beard; from whence having admini&s;tred the be&s;t comfort that I could I departed.</P>
<P>I will now leave the Reader to Iudge of the&s;e &s;trange inhumanities they being in this re&s;pect the more mon&s;trous in that they are practi&s;ed among&s;t Chri&s;tians again&s;t Chri&s;tians, and a|mong&s;t men that pretend and indeede &s;hould maintaine and defend Religion, the Lawes of the Land, and Priviledges of the Subiect; to the &s;candall of the true &s;incere Prota&s;tant Religion, de&s;truction of the Lawes of the Kingdome, and the utter violation of all Priviledge.</P>
<P>If it be heer obiected unto me that they were Papi&s;ts, I demand if there be not many whol&s;om Lawes, made again&s;t them, and de&s;ired both by the Kings Maje&s;ty by the Parliament to be put in execution, nay, were they Iewes or Aethi&s;ts, it is a &s;taine to the Government of the Kingdom among&s;t many other di&s;tempers, and may teach Forraigne Princes to u&s;e the &s;ame rigour towards Prote&s;tants beyond the Seas; who&s;e Religion in puritie, truth, and decency let us
<PB N="7" REF="4">pray God for ever to maintain and defend. The Lords and Commons in Parliament declares, that all &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hall, upon any pretence what&s;oever, a&s;&s;i&s;t his Maje&s;tie in this Warre, with Hor&s;e, Armes, Plate or money, are Tray|tors to His Maie&s;tie, the Parliament, and King|dome, and &s;hall be brought to condigne pun|ni&s;hment for &s;o high an offence.</P>
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<P>Ordered to be forthwith Printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. El&s;yng Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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