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Written by Capt. CHARLES HAMMOND , one of the Truly Loyal and Indigent Officers . London , Printed by Edward Crowch , dwelling on Snow-Hill . 1664. To the Courteous READER . I Know not into whose hands this Pamphlet may come , nor indeed do I much care : The Proverb saith Truth may be blam'd , but not sham'd , For my own part , I fear God , and honour my King : I hope at this time I shall displease neither : I will here use my Pen , as I ever us'd my Sword ; which was more out of love and duty to my Prince , then lucre of Pay , Honour , or Preferment . As I ever hated to Insinuatd into any ones Favour : So I hope in this Booke I shall incurr no ones displeasure . Here is no particular Person Rubb'd , but if any be Gaul'd , perhaps they may Winch , who will be but laught at , by honest Men ; for my part , I feare not their kicking , but shall Defend my selfe ( I hope ) with honour , having Truth , Conscience , and Plain-dealing to defend mee ; Justice and Equity , to second mee . I shall have the Censures of many , in Reading of this Booke ; All my desire is , that they would Peruse it all over ; I will own it , 't is no Bastard deckt with borrowed habit : if it wants Learning , or Language to set it forth , Pray consider it came from a Souldier , and An Indigent Officer , who can dress it no better then hee is able ; confessing himselfe very poore in his Pen , ( as I believe ) we are all left in our Purses ; Therefere it may be the better accepted amongst some of you . However being once past the Press , let it shift ( as wee must ) for the present ; to the greife of our Friends , and derision of our Enemies ; Which God , the King and Parliament , in time ( I hope ) will Consider ; to the Comfort and Reliefe of those that can Clearly make themselves out to be the Truly Loyal and Jndigent Party . Which is the humble desire of him , that loves and honours a faithful and constant Sufferer , a Loyal and civil Subject , a Gallant and Deserving Souldier . 28 MR 59 Charles Hammond . Truth 's Discovery ; OR , The Cavaliers Case clearly Stated , BY Conscience and Plain-dealling . Laid Open in these Four Heads : 1. Their Grievances made manifest , Impartially . 2. Their Faults laid open , without Flattery . 3. The Causes that produceth their Faults , discovered in reallity . 4. The Remedies discribed in good will , out of true Loyalty and Fidelity . And First , The Cavaliers Grievance made manifest . I Believe we have been a Table-talk in most parts of Christendom these three Years past ; but much more since our Divident of Indigent Money hath been allotted us : not six Weeks Pay for six Years Service , and sixteen years Sufferings ; many Censures and Judgments hath been cast upon many Men in the handling of this business : For my part I shall reflect upon none , but declare the truth of what I have seen , and heard , and know in it ; The King and Parliament did intend a better Gratuity than it fell out to be . And so it would have proved , had it been shared to none but those that were truly quallified according to the Act ; but who would not lay Claim to have an Interest in the Act , when there was neither Penalty nor Punishment for the breakers of it ? If any could procure a Certificate from any Colonel or Captain , that he was a Commission Officer , that Certificate ( with the assistance of some Friends , to any one or more of the Commissioners ) would produce Five of their Hands and Seals , they believing the Party quallified according to the Certificate that is so produced from the said Officers , which Officers , it is possible , are to go sharers with them they so certifie for , when they receive their Money ; as I believe too many hath ( with Impudence ) gone clearly off with that Cheat ; Others have Ride up and down the Country , and for some Money in hand , and so much in the pound ( when they receive their Devident ) they would secure their business , and warrant them they shall stand right or wrong ; and if they would but conceit themselves Officers , they would perswade them they were so ; and let the Royal Party that ( knew they were no such men ) prove it , and by Oath maintain it and turned them out ; yet those Men were brought in again , and have received part of this Money , and it is not known which way ; & if it were , we cannot help it : It hath been proved that some hath been dead six years , some ten years , and some sixteen years ; yet those men hath been raised again , not to receive their Money because they are invisible and not to be seen , but to make over Letters of Attourneys to have their Monies received for them by such as are not to learn to Cheat us now , as well as they could the King formerly , by their dead Musters , and so make him a great Army of Officers now , as they did Souldiers then ; but when they were to do him Service , there could not the Fourth part be found , no more there will be of these Indigent Officers if the King should call them for his service , or to have a strict Accompt whether they be quallified according to the Act. Another sort there is of Indigent Officers that carried their Commissions in their Pockets , that either could not Raise their Regiments Companies , or Troops , or else would not ; yet these made all or most part of their Officers , especially Quarter-Masters , which must provide their Captains quarter for a Troop , though he had never a Man besides his Officers and their Pedee's and Baggage Hotses : these would lye upon the Out quarters of the Army if there were no Danger ; else in one Regiment or other : These would serve themselves , being under no Command ; never venturing their Lives unless it were to Plunder , making the Army odious by their actions ; so that civil and gallant Fighting-men were look'd upon by the Country where they march'd , as our Indigent Party is here in the City , all a like ; so that a truly Loyal and Indigent Officer now is ashamed to own himself in regard of so many Counterfeits which hath abused both the King and Country , and is rank'd in amongst us , and received as much as any of the best of us ; whether it be their Due or no , I leave that to those in time may please to Consider of it , if this Book come to their hands ; which I hope it will. Others there is ( that hath had a great share in this Money ) that may be termed Indigent Officers , but whether quallified according to the Act , that I shall not judge of ; and they are such as never served the King ( if they did ) not as Commission Officers till after 1646 , which was at the Rising in Kent , about a Week standing ; or at Colchester , or in Duke Hambleton's Engagement , two or three Months standing ; or in Sir George Boothes business ; and all these petty Risings and TrainRand Officers , that never went out of their own County or Garrisons where they lived , that were only in a readiness to help to save themselves , not being able to endure the scent of a light Match upon Service ; yet these are brought in for Indigent Officers too . And then for Colonels , to make their Serving-men and Grooms Officers , to put in for the Money ; and Captains to appoint Lievtenants , Cornets , Ensigns and Quarter-masters , ( in a Tavern or an Alehouse ) and go half snips with them ; this they counted no Cheat if the Officers were dead : Others if they served the Parliament ( after the King was Murdered ) till the Restauration of our Soveraign that now is : nay , some of them proved great Trappaners to the King's Friends now in these times ; yet these are rank'd with the truly Loyal and Indigent Officers , such as were in Pay , when we were in Prison , and could March the streets , when we were forced to hide our heads : If these be not Grievances ( which we have cause to lay open ) let Friends and Enemies both be our Judges ; When it was proved upon Oath before Commissioners , that some never had Command in their lives : And against others , that there was no such Men known , not so much as Troopers , or Souldiers , which claimed to be Captains and Commission Officers , and many of them never appeared to answer for themselves , if there were any such , as I believe it will be made appear there was not : To be short , When we thought there had been 1500 at least turned out by Inspection , there was 300 more then the first Number taken in ; so that we were senceable it was but a folly to strive against the stream , being driven more and more backward . As for those Indigent Officers that leapt from Corporals to Quarter-Masters , and from Cornets to Captains , Majors , and Lievtenant-Colonels , to put themselves in Colonels ; and to make their Brothers or Kindred Lievtenant-Colonels and Majors under them , that was accounted nothing , though it were within a Week or a Fortnight before the laying down of Arms ; and some too that never did the King Service since , nor I believe will never be Chronicled for their Service they did his Father formerly ; for their Loyalty , it may be they are clear ; for I believe they were like a Chip in Pottage , never did hurt nor good , neither for the King nor his Friends , but all for their own Ends : Indigent they may be termed , but by their Insinuating , they have gotten good Gifts and Rewards that hath been given by the King ( and others ) intended for those that was deserving , and poor ; but the Proverb saith , Kissing goes by favour ; and Rewards bestowed upon them that can make best Friends , when Service and Desarts either lyes in Prison , or dare not peep out for fear ; as by some 't is too openly known , that through Want and Grief together , being ashamed to make their wants known , especially since the King came in , have broke their hearts to see some of their Friends slighting them for their Poverty : And others , that would willingly Relieve them , but not able , the more is their grief , and to be pittied . Now there is another sort of truly Loyal , but not Indigent ; which some of them I much honour , having been much impoverished in Estate by their Service for the King , and never yet had any Reward , that hath put in for a Part of this Money , that are not so Indigent ; but if they had thought to what a pittiful sum it would amount to , they would have left it to them that had more need : But there are some again that hath had good Rewards and Offices ( under the King ) given them , some more then their Commands , their Service , or their Sufferings ever merited , yet hath put in , and taken share of this Money too , being so covetous as to rob the spittle ( as I may term it ) being ungrateful to his Majesty for his Favour to them formerly , and abusing his Charity in this which was now intended for them that were Really in Want for the present : I believe there are some that hath taken of this Money , that if the truth were known ( as it may be made appear ) that they have gotten ( besides their Places ) near a Thousand pounds a man , and some have Three-score , some an Hundred , nay , Five hundred a year ; yet all these have put in for Indigent Officers ; so what I have here Related concerning our Greivancees is nothing but truth ; and much more can be proved by the truly Loyal and Indigent Party , to the shame of some Persons ( that shall be nameless ) if once called to an account : our Wants and Necessities hath been so great , that it is not unknown upon what Rates some men hath been fain to borrow Money , as at Five shillings in the pound , and a Gratuity to some to help them to it : Some indeed borrowing so much , I believe they will never come to look for more , knowing they have no right to any of our Money , if all things had been rightly carried : Besides , there hath been abundance of honest Trades-men and House-keepers undone by Trusting and Helping us in the time we waited for this Money , not any of them thinking but it would amounted in some measure to a satisfied every moderate mans Debts ; but falling out as it hath done , it hath undone them , and us too ; for some of them are not able to Relieve themselves now , that formerly Relieved us , that of necessity if God doth not raise Friends for some , they must want Lodging , Food , and Rayment , unless it be provided them in a Prison , as too many can witness since they have received this Indigent Money ; many being cast into Prison already , others having neither Money nor Credit , must of necessity either beg , steal , or starve , unless God be pleased to raise them Friends , to move His Majesty and the Parliament to provide for them , as they out of their Mercy and Wisdom shall think fit ; which will not be ( of the truly Loyal and Indigent Party , that can prove themselves quallified according to the Act , not ) the Fift part of those that have gotten their share of this last Money , which I shall more clearly make out how they may be proved at the latter end of this Book . So having shewed you our Grievances in part , I will now shew you the Faults our Indigent Party is branded with , and not without a cause . The Faults of the Indigent Party , laid open without flattery . AS the Complaints are great of the Indigent Party , to the grief of many civil men ( their Friends ) so their griefs hath been as great to hear the Complaints against them , which I confess is not without a cause : And give me leave to lay ope nt to you those faults which are too openly seen , and heard , to our shame in the World ; that makes many say , We can see the Moats in others eyes , but perceive not the Beams that are in our own . Our Sufferings was great before his Majesty was Restored , you will say 't is greater now : 'T is true our sins was great before , they are far greater now ; God hath Restored us to our Peace and Liberty , which we so long prayed for , and wish'd for , what Returns have we made to him for that Mercy ? Instead of sending new Praises and Thanksgivings to present him from our hearts and lips for those Mercies , we have Invented New Oathes and Curses to send him : He that cannot Swear and Swagger , Drink , Rant , and Rogue , is look'd upon ( by some ) as a pittiful Fellow , and not worth their keeping Company ; and if he cannot Vapour , he is not look'd upon to have any Valour : These Vices have got such a custome of late , that they are look'd upon to be the only Badge to distinguish a Cavalier from a Sectary , that you shall find in Court and Camp , in City and Country , that those that are crept into places of profit and preferment by their Purses ( which I believe serves the King more for lucre of Pay , then love to his Person ) these now are become as absolute Dam-me Boys as the best ( or the worst I may say ) which formerly would as soon cut a Cavaliers throat as swear an Oath , and esteemed it a less sin , unless it had been the Covenant or Engagement ; but I have no more to say to them : but how can we look for Mercies from God , or Favour from the King , when we ( who should shew such good Examples for the Glory of God who hath delivered us , and the Honour of our King , whose Cause we fought for ) are now so accustomed to these odious Sins , that we neither feat God's Judgements , nor the Kings Laws , which are both Enemies to such counterfeit Cavaliers ( I can term them no other , nor ever did ) who hath done the King more harm by their deboystness , then ever they can do him good by their service if He should have occasion to use them ; therefore , you that can make your Service and Sufferings out for His Majesty , shew it in your Carriage and Behaviour , for your future Happiness , and His Majesties Honour : We have Enemies enough , we had need make God our Friend , and that can never be with such courses : I believe , if some thought there was a God , they would not call upon him to damn them so often as they do ; it is an Oath so common , it is grown a custome by Rich and Poor , Men and Women , Old and Young ; we can talk against the Pride of the Gentry , the Covetousness of the Clergy , the Deceipt of the Citizens , and the Corruption of the Lawyer ; but Swearing , Cursing , Lying , Back-biting , and Insinuating is counted no sins amongst us ; and that I must be bold to tell you , That those that profess themselves the Indigent Party , are greatly Guilty in this , and by Jarring and Quarrelling one with another , every one thinking his own wit best , till at last some out-witted all those thar are truly Indigent ; and well they may , having Four to One against us , and good backers to second them : These , and such like , are the Faults of the Indigent Party , which I have here declared , not out of Envy or Hypocrisie , but out of the Love to them that are of the right Party , hoping you will better accept of it from a Friend then from an Enemy ; for others , let them think what they will , and speak what they list , I have done what I can to make it appear who are the truly Loyal and Indigent Party , and who the Counterfeit , that the Cheat may be found though the Gamesters be hid ) for the satisfaction of our Friends , which are grieved for us ; and likewise for our Enemies which rejoyceth at our Poverty , and would work upon our Necessity if they could ; but I hope they shall find us more contented with our Rags of Loyalty , with a quiet Conscience , then they can be in their Robes of Sedition , which they have gained by our Ruine , not doubting but God's Mercy , and the Kings Clemency in time may relieve us , when it s clearly known who hath faithfully served and suffered for him ; in the mean time , I desire all them that fear God , and honour the King , not to let their Grievances and Poverty move their Passion so much by their Cursing and Swearing , which makes us stink in the nostrils of God , and odious in the company of civil persons , and become a laughing stock to our Enemies , that hath nothing else to look for , but the Judgements of God to fall upon us , such like sins , which are too much used by those that profess themselves the Kings Friends . So having now shewed you the Faults of our Party , I shall shew you the Causes , which are many ; I will instance a few , and though they be great , I desire to remove them , that our Faults may be mended . The Causes that produceth their Faults , Discovered in Reallity . WE can plead no cause we have for our sins , or Faults , but what produceth them , we may ; and that I shall declare , which is Pride , Poverty , and Passion ; you will say 't is strange that the Indigent Party should be tainted with Pride , for they have cause enough to be humbled : Yes , but the Counterfeits are proud in conceit , that they have out-witted , out-vapoured , and can out-swear the truly Loyal and Indigent Party , as by woful experience we have found ; I must tell you , that they take such pride in their swearing , that they think they are not look'd upon as Gentlemen and Cavaliers , unless they can swear to all they speak , whether it be truth or lyes ; nay , I dare say , that there are many hundreds that have received their potion of this Indigent Money ( with the best ) that have discharged more Vollies of Oathes in the faces of the Kings Friends , then ever they discharged corns of powder gallantly in the faces of his Enemies , if the greatest Swearers and Vapourers could prove themselves the best Souldiers and the greatest Sufferers for his Majesty , they then may be proud of their Loyalty to the King , but they cannot boast of their good service to God : I must tell you , 't is the greatest honour that can redound to a Souldier to be counted Religious , as well as Valourous ; and Humility is the truest badge of Gentility : you must not blaze every mans Arms now by the Coat he wears on his back ; if you should , Poverty procured by Loyalty , would be a great blot in the Seutchins of many a gallant Soul , and well bred Gentleman , which can patiently see every day Rich Coats worn by such as cannot find a Coot of Arms to blaze , unless they fetch it from the Hauraldy of Rebellion , or buy it , as many hath done Places of Honour and Preferment with the Purses that they have gained by the Plunder , Purchase , and utter Ruine of some of his Majesties best Subjects , which in their Eyes and in their Hearts they think and will speak a far off , that our Poverty is a just Reward for our Loyalty , terming us Fools that we did not turn Knaves as they did , and then face about with them , having but Money in our Purses they say it would a procured us Friends enough at Court , I hope every rational man may clearly see that I have spoken nothing but truth , and you may give losers leave to speak , having nothing more to lose now but our lives ; for few of us can boast of being sure of our Liberty , not daring to walk the streets in the City for fear of a Compter Scuffle , nor out of the City for fear of a worse Party , which hath taken many of our Indigent Officers , and conveyed them to such Garrisons , where they must lye till God in his Mercy take them away , or the King in his Clemency find Exchanges for them , which some of their hard-hearted Creditors had rather see starved to death than Relieved or Released by them ; and this is the Poverty that hath caused many a civil Soul to fall into Passion to see his fellow Sufferer ready to starve , and not able to Relieve him , to see him carried to Prison and cannot help him , to hear him laught at , scorn'd and derided by others and dare not vindicate him without the venturing your life , or flying your Country , or suffer your self to be villified in taking his part , by such as with their insinuating into some mens Favours that are in Authority , shall smite you secretly ( if it be possible ) and you shall never know who hurts you , and shall ruine you in your Credit as they have done in your Estate , if their Tongue or their Purse can do it : Are not these sufficient Causes to move passion in civil men to break out beyond reason sometimes , when our Poverty for our Fidelity shall make us ridiculous , our inferiors predominating over us , our Superiors more countenancing our Enemies then hearkening to us , and our own Party not able to help one another , our Complaints being kept from his Majesties Ear , as our Persons by our Poverty are kept from his Presence ; so that I believe some of us may compare with Job for patience , and out-strip him too in some points , as I shall take a little leave to parrallel ; Job was a rich man , had Wife and Children , God suffered Satan to afflict him in Body and Estate to try his patience , he endured to the end and was Restored : we cannot read that ever Job wanted Bread , nor was forced to fly from his own House and Home , or ever stood in danger of his life every hour by the hands of Rebels , in his own Country ; he had his Liberty ( though in sores and misery ) no debarring of any Friends that would come and visit him : How many of the Kings Friends have lost all , many have been starved for want , and at this time wants bread , having neither House nor Habitation of their own to go to , and now when the time of Restoration was expected : how many hath been forced formerly to fly their own Country , every day in danger of a Jayle , if not their Life ; their Friends not daring to visit them without being in danger of being Undone for them ; being Plundered and Robb'd by their own native Country , their Kindred ( not Caldeans ) professed Enemies to our Country , as Job's was to him ; yet in during to the end with patience , never cursing the Day of our Nativity nor the Cause that brought us to this Misery , as willing still to venture our lives for his Majesty that now is , as we hazarded our lives and Estates formerly for his Father of blessed Memory ; give me leave to think if Job had lived in these times to have been an Indigent Officer , and endured so much slavery and poverty , and afterwards been delivered to his former liberty , and a reasonable Provision provided by King and Parliament for his present Necessity , and that being Ordered and handled so that it produceth him to more Misery , by the close sinister ends of those that profess to be his Friends , and of his own Party , I believe it would have urged his patience , and with some of us , think that ( if it were to be searched out ) they would find in it much partiallity , and that the main ends of some covetous Parties hath brought many to misery , and highly abused the King and Parliaments Clemency , which was never intended for such as hath received it , which are above Three thousand not quallified according to the Act , which hath been formerly declared , and can be clearly made out by civil rational men , that are neither vapourers nor flatterers ; and will prove it the greatest Cheat that ever was acted against so needful an Act of Charity as this was . So having shewed you our Grievances , our Faults , and the Causes , I shall now propound some Remedies , which being applied to these sores , may open abundance of Corruption to the sight of those ( in time ) may pitty our Condition , and use some Remedies to cure our lingring Disease . Remedies described in good will ( out of true Loyalty ) for the recovery of the truly Loyal and Indigent Party . THe Remedies that I shall produce , are but few ; yet being applied with the help of these , we look for Relief and Redress from , which are these Honourable Persons ( the Parliament I mean ) that ( under God ) hath already , and will heal ( I hope ) our tottered and once almost ruined Kingdom , which we may justly claim to be Members of ; though some by Age and Wounds , and others by Poverty , are not able to do as they have done , yet are willing still ; and I dare boldly say ( in the behalf of some ) if tryed , are as able now ( by their Knowledge and Courage ) to do the King as good service ( if there were occasion to use them ) as they did formerly for his Father of ever blessed Memory : But for the Remedies in hand ; some things that are past I shall not propound , which were to recover a thing unpossible , which is the Money that was alloted amongst us , it being dispersed into so many greedy and needy hands , which I believe ( and 't is thought by not rash , but rational men ) that a good handsome part of the threescor thousand pounds will fall into the hands of but a few persons that will be made by our undoing ; but the Letters of Attourney will skin over that sore , and it can hardly be remedied ; for the Office-Money , how that hath been handled , none can justly tell , though give a shrewd guess ; but if the Raters and Receivers were but throughly purged and searched , that Corruption may be fetched out , and a Remedy in time may be procured ; but I must confess it is but a folly in me ( or any other of our poor Party ) to propound any Remedies for such old sores that are too deep for us to search into : therefore I shall leave those things that is past my finding out , and prescribe a few Remedies that may do well for the future , to help those that are the truly Loyal and Indigent Party , that if ever the King or Parliament ( or any other ) should be willing to help heal us ; that those may be look'd on whose service , sufferings , and deserts deserves pitty , and that should be made appear by a new Certificate from the Hand or Hands of the Chiefest Officer of the Regiment now living , that is known himself to be a Deserving Gallant man , and it was a Compleat fighting Regiment , and then to Certifie that he knew such a man , and he had a real Command so long , as he can testifie of his own knowledge , and of his behaviour and carriage while he was under his Command ; and thus to certifie the truth according to his deserts upon his Credit ; and likewise to get another Certificate from the Hands of Creditable men where he lived , or from others that knew him where he had been since the Wars , and would testifie for his Loyalty after he left the Kings Army , to the Restauration of our now Gracious Sovereign : I believe , if none but those that could produce such a Certificate should have had share of this Indigent Money , we should have had no cause to declare our Grievances ; but I believe , then it would a been a great grief to some , to have seen none but honest men provided for ; for then they should not a been so well provided ( as they are now ) with our Money : Next Remedy is , if for the future there should any provision be made either by Offices or Places , either Martial or Civil , or any Money given by his Majesty ( or any others ) that it may be put into the hands of impartial men to be distributed , such as Jethro prescribed to Moses , Men fearing God and hating Covetousness ; that Rewards intended for deserving men and sufferers that wants , may not be distributed to particular persons in Private , by Letters from Ladies ( or Great men ) to their Serving-men , Foot-men , or Porters , or to such as hath had more already then ever their Service deserved , being a cluster of Insinuating Impudent ( more then Indigent ) Officers , that runs up and down ( hearkening after such Gifts ) either fawning with the Favourites , or Feeing them ( and the Clerks that belongs to such persons , that hath the distributing of such Gifts ) that when their own turn is served , if there be any thing left , ( giving them a part with you ) they will make you acquainted with it ; this hath been the course of most Gifts that hath been bestowed since his Majesty came in , that if it were openly known upon whom it hath been bestowed , it could not be made appear that it hath been half distributed according to the Intentions it was given for ; so that a few particular persons hath and doth get a shear in everything , and most of them deserves nothing , and some wants nothing ; when some Gentlemen to my knowledge that had done the King good service , hath been great Sufferers , gallant Souldiers ( and no diserters ) that could not get a penny of all this Money to relieve them , not hearing of it till it was all distributed ; some being brought to that condition through want , that now they are past want ; such as could not make their case known to none but such as could not help themselves , but only with hopes , which keeps their hearts from breaking , thinking they are now at the worst ; therefore in hopes it will mend . Another Remedy would be desired for the truly Loyal and Indigent Souldiers that served his Majesty as well as Officers , which are or should be provided for by Pension according to the Act , which I believe if they were clearly purged , and none to have it but such as could produce ( from their Officers , and the places where they have lived or been since the Wars ) such Certificates as I prescribed for our Indigent Officers before , I believe then there would be a good subsistance for all true Pentioners , Widows ( or others ) which I believe is not many more then they have made Indigent Officers , if they were carefully examined ; but there is as great Complaints from them as there is justly from us ; some that never served the King , some that served a while and run home , others that served the Rebells here in England till the King came in ; Yes , and received their Wounds in their service against the King ( some of them ) and had Pension for it from them ; yet making Friends , and getting some Officers Hand ( like themselves ) or to keep them from the Parish charge , hath gotten in to be Pensioners , when ( to my knowledge ) there are those that hath been stout Souldiers , and served as Corporals and Sergeants ( and continued till the end of the Wars ) lame and wounded too , and have been faithful ever since ; some can get nothing , some Forty shillings or Three pounds a year , when Four pounds ( or more ) shall be allotted some that can be proved as unworthy Rascals against the Kings Friends ( in the time of Rebellion ) as those that were alwayes against us , and worse too , and would be as ready still to stand for Rebellion if they thought it would prove the stronger side ; thus hath the Kings and Parliaments Clemency in the Act been abused , which I hope God will put into the hearts of some of the Nobility and Clergy to move his Majesty in our behalf , that he would appoint some noble Persons to hear our Grievances , and in some way relieve us , that such whom God in Mercy , hath preserved their lives , and shifted for their Liberty and Livelihood in the worst of times , as we thought , should not now complain for want of Food , Raiment , and Liberty , and to see ( both in Court and Camp , Sea and Land ) places of profit and preferment bestowed upon them that hath enough to live on besides , which they gain'd when we lost all ; when able men , and civilmen as ever served his Majesty , only branded with Poverty , must be look'd upon by these persons as unworthy men , and not fit to have any Employment , by reason of the deboystness of some that hath made themselves the Cavalier Party . I must of necessity Conclude , and leave these Remedies ( and what else is wanting ) to be remedied by those whom God directs and appoints , not only to hear us , but what they shall see ( in their Wisdom ) is wanting for the Advancement of His Majesty , the Peace and Preservation both of Church and People under his Majesties Dominions , which shall be the Prayers of him , which for this time takes his leave , desiring what you see in this Book writ out of Ignorance or Passion , judge favourably of it , and let that real Intention which I aim at , without sinester ends , plead for my Infirmities , which you discover here , reflecting upon your selves , knowing there is none free from some or other . Post-script . I Know there is many will wonder , that I should presume to take upon me , to write this Book , being there is many of our Party that were far more able to have undertook the handling of it : I must confess it might have come from a better Pen , but not a truer Heart ; It grieved me to see what Confusion there hath been amongst us from the beginning : some drawing up Remonstrances , and Grievances , and setting of Hands to this Thing , and that Thing ; then Chusing of Trustees , appointing of Meetings at several places , and so spend our Time and Money too ( them that had it ) some siding for one Party , some for another ; every one crying out they are wrong'd , when some of them are as much tainted themselves as the worst , yet take upon them to Right others , when they have done the most Wrong , and think their pretended high Commands that they have had , will bear them out . Some of those Gentlemen that we Chose for Trustees , I much honour ; whose aim and intentions I believe were right ; but for some amongst them , I cannot understand that how they can be clearly for our Good , that cannot clear themselves : Must not they wink at others , for fear themselves should be brought to light ? I should desire every one to rest themselves contented , and not hearken after the Fancies of every sinister-ended Party , that are more for their own end , then for the general Good of us ( if they should bring their purposes to pass ) For my part , the writing of this Book was intended ( from me ) only to give Satisfaction to all Loyal Subjects , how His Majesties , and the Parliaments Clemency hath been abused , and we wronged and disgraced ; having such a Company of pittiful Fellows lay Claim to be Commission Officers ; some ( I believe ) knows not a Rank from a File , nor a Counter-march from a Wheell ; that never look'd as if they had either Wit or Valour in them ( and wanting both , they were very unfit to Command ) for I believe the King was never in such need of Officers ; and some that were more fit for a Rod , than wear a Sword in his late Majesties Service , being twenty six or thirty years of Age , hath had this Divident too ; so that what long of such ( and your Roaring , Dam-me , Counterfeit Cavaliers ) hath rendered our Party so ridiculous in the Eyes of some People , that they slight and scorn all civil Cavaliers for their sakes : but I must tell them , there was , and is , as gallant and as civil men in the Kings Army , which hated , and doth hate such Courses as much as the greatest Zealot of them all , not out of Hypocrisie , or fear of the Law , but out of the fear of God , which we should all live in ; perhaps some may censure 't is out of Envie , or vain Glory , that I have so often touch'd upon Swearing ; it is so often in my Ears ( against my will ) which makes me mind it so often to you , that you may bend your mind to leave it . For Envie or vain Glory , how much I have heen guilty of these two Sins , I leave those to censure that knows me now , or formerly in the Kings Service ; which I was constantly in one Army , and in one Regiment , though under Four Collonels : First the Lord Mehuns , then Sir Charles Mehuns , afterwards Col. John Digbys , and last Sir Chichester Wrays ; my service being most in the West , belonging to the Cornish Army ; and now since his Majesties Restoration . I have served in his Majesties Regiment of Gaurds ( as a Souldier ) in the Right Honourable Col. John Russels own Company : What my service and carriage hath been ( from the first to the last ) I leave to the censure of those that are able to Report of both , either for my Credit or Shame , desiring them to give no better nor worse a Character then I have deserved ; which I know can never redound to my dishonour for my service ( and I hope as little for my Carriage and Behaviour to every man ) which I shall endeavour to continue with the utmost of my power , hoping in time to see such men countenanced , if not provided for ; whose service and carriage hath never dishonoured that just Cause they ever Fought for , which was for Gods Glory , and his Majesties just Rights ; which is the Desire of him , that for present leaves you , and remains your Friend to the utmost of his power , so far forth as you are Loyal Subjects : Hoping this Book may light into the Hands of some near the King , that may Reflect upon their own Sufferings formerly ; and to do now , as they would be done unto , if they were in our Condition . FINIS .