CERTAIN Considerations proposed by the CITY to the soldiery in and about LONDON, touching the Peace and Welfare of the NATION.  
GENTLEMEN,  
WE conceive you to be persons no less reasonable and conscientious then stout and courageous; and therefore propose these weighty particulars to your prudent and pious consideration.  
First, that your poor native country is now brought into a languishing and expiring condition, by the almost-monthly Mutation of arbitrary and tyrannical forms of Government, contrived and set up by a sort of rural, and Mechanical Mashromes, Sons of earth and yesterday, to promote and accomplish their own ambitious and covetous designs.  
Second, That these usurping tyrant's obtained not supremacy by their own personal power and policy: but it was the hands that lifted them up, and your shoulders that supported them.  
Third, That it was with expense of your blood, hazard of your lives, and the solary due to your service, that several Grandees of the Army, Rump, and City, have purchased such goodly parcels of the Crowns, the Churches, and Delinquents Lands.  
Fourth, That if you desert these Cormorants and leave them to the justice of a free Parliament, they may be constrained to disgorge those sweet Morsels (which have made them swell with fatness, and render them up for discharge of the Arrears of the Land and sea-soldiery, and other public uses and benefits.  
Fifth, That it is by your strength that tyrants are enabled to profane our Religion, violate our Laws, infringe our Liberties, invade our proprieties. It is with their feet that they tread on our necks, and with the sword that they wound and kill us.  
Sixth, That as your ill-placed (and not Well rewarded) valour, hath been instrumental in plunging your afflicted country in a gulf of Miseries and calamities; so it hath now pleased Providence to put into your hands the power of putting her up, and restoring her to her former flourishing condition.  
Seventh, That the blessed work may be effected without any the least effusion of blood; if you but please to draw out, and unanimously declare for a free Parliament.  
Eighth, That if you shall thus declare, the Nation in general, and the City more particularly will stand by you with their lives and fortunes; and bless, praise, and reward you, as the principal Authors, under Heaven, of all the content and happiness they shall reap thereby.  
Ninth, That if you persist in adherence to the Excrement of a Rump, which now Rules, you will enable them to raise and Modall a new Army, and then you cannot but expect the reward of your former desertion, which, at least, will amount to an unrewarded and ignominious Cashiering, which will expose you to the scorn and hate of the whole Nation, which now desires cause to love and honour you.  
Gentlemen, 
 WE the proposers of these considerations are a very considerable number of Citizens of no mean quality and fortunes who know it to be according to the Temper of the generality of the City, and indeed of the Nation; and we wish a Judgement upon our persons and Families, if we do not at your first declaring immediately appear with you, and faithfully adhere unto you with the hazard of all that is dear unto us, and see all your Arrears forthwith discharged, and you received with hearty respect and thanks into future employment, with assurance of enlargement and continuance of your Pay.  
Consider, we beseech you, these things, and the Lord give you a right understanding.  
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