A PRESENT ANSWER to the late COMPLAINT Unto the House of COMMONS.  
By divers Members of the said House.  
Printed in the year M.DC.XLII.   

A PRESENT ANSWER to the late Complaint unto the House of Commons by divers Members of the said House.  
Friends, countrymen, and Brethren,  
YOur very Patheticke Complaint we have received, and do so inwardly consider the too much Truth and cause thereof, that wee are almost ashamed to amend, what can not be excused. wee for our parts( whose names are underwritten) do aclowledge your sharp truths, wee wish our power had been such as to have obtained public reading of your Complaint in the House, and public thankes and satisfaction to you. But the most of our body have withdrawn themselves from the House, and are either with His Majesty, or returned to tbeir homes, as neither willing nor able to justify the present proceedings. and wee who are left here are so over-balanced that we are too few to help ourselves, or you.  
The truth of your instances is our sorrow, and the shane of our House. wherein our griefs and fears are many, lest our names be found recorded to have satin here, when these strange excesses make the land out of love with their Parliament. we shall onely answer to your Wishes and Resolution.  
1 You wish that Iustice might proceed upon Offending Members.  
2 You wish this Parliament Dissolved.  
3 You resolve to Reassume the Trust you have conferred.  
1 For the first Offending Members, we must decline the Character of them: yet you may easily find them: And you may justly call for, nay require, Iustice and the course of law upon them, we have no privilege more then yourselves in case of Treason. His Majesty in his Declarations and Proclamations, hath shown you the names of his, & your, and all our great enemies. wee have no such privilege as to protect them from due, and lawful trial. And wee are of opinion that those few men, being taken and then legally condemned or acquitted, the way of Peace would be much more open both for you and vs. You may therefore do well to endeavour to take them all, and bring them to trial.  
2 Concerning Dissolving this Parliament, we entreat you to moderate that wish, and rather to try the amending of it thus. Our House hath made cruel use of an un-due power in dismembering itself. You and all the kingdom are interested in that body of this house which was first elected and sworn. Call all your first Trustees in again. Demand this of the House. It is a request both just and necessary. Our House being completed with the full number of all our true members, we doubt not but to recover your love and good esteem, as amply and deservedly as in our first performances. And thus we may resettle the land and stop this deluge of blood, which else will drown us all.  
3 Lastly, if these two be denied, we do then desire you and all the kingdom, to Reassume the Power which hath been so abused; in doing whereof you shall redeem us and yourselves from a new bondage, and shall be sure of a new Parliament, before three yeares can be expired. Nay the goodness of the King will( upon our Petition, we speak it knowingly) issue writtes for a new convention, within threescore dayes.  
Do what is in your own power for yourselves and us, or the best Christian kingdom in the world will become a desolation.  
FINIS.