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AN OUTCRY Of the Youngmen and Apprentices of London: OR, An Inquisition after the lost Fundamentall Lawes and Liberties of ENGLAND. Directed (August 29. 1649.) in an Epistle to the private Souldiery of the Army, especially all those that signed the solemne Ingagement at Newmarket-Heath, the fifth of Iune, 1647. But more especially to the private souldiers of the Generalls Regiment of Horse, that helped to plunder and destroy the ho∣nest and true-hearted English-men, trayterously defeated at Burford the 15. of May, 1649.
Signed by Charles Collins, Anthony Bristlebolt, William Trabret, Stephen Smith, Edward Waldgrave, Thomas Frisby, Edward Stanley, VVilliam VVhite, Nicolas Blowd, John Floyd, in the name and behalf of themselves, and the Young-men and Apprentices of the City of London. Who are cordiall approvers of the Paper, called, The Agreement of the free people, dated May 1. 1649. and the defeated Burford-mens late Vindication, dated the 20. of August, 1649.
LAMENT. 2.11,12.Mine eyes do faile with tears: my bowells are troubled: my liver is powred upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the City.
They say to their mothers, Where is corne and wine? when they swooned as the woun∣ded in the streets of the City, when their soule was powred out into their mothers bo∣some.
Gentlemen,
VVE are all of one Nation, and People, it is the sword only that differeth; but how just a title that is over us, your owne private thoughts surely are our determi∣ners, however your actions import: For, it is not imaginable, (except a∣mongst Bears, Wolves, and Lions,) that brethren of one cause, one Nation, and family, can without remorse and secret check of conscience, impose such i∣ron yokes of cruelty and oppression upon their fellowes, as by the awe and force of your Sword ram∣pant, is imposed upon the people of this Nation: you see it; we are at best but your hewers of wood, and drawers of water; our very persons, our lives and properties, are all over-awed to the supporta∣tion only of the raging lawlesse Sword, drench't in the precious blood of the people, the ancient and famous Magistracy of this Nation, the Petition of Right, the great Charter of England, above thir∣ty times confirmed in open and free Parliament, with all other the fundamentall laws, safeties, and se∣curities