All worthy Commanders, Officers, soldiers, Citizens and Inhabitants of London, and the places adjoining, who have in any kind or measure assisted the Parliament in the late or present war, and do still cordially desire the Freedom and Peace of the commonwealth, and therein, your own safety and prosperity.  
Ye are most earnestly desired to consider the violent and imperious disposition of those whom ye have opposed, how extremely they despise you, how exceedingly they are provoked against you, what bloody Plots they have heretofore laid to murder and massacre you, your wives and Children.  
Consider, what cruelty they used to prisoners, when they had hopes to prevail against you. As those taken at Brainford, driving them like so many beasts before them to Ox●ord; then at Wood house in the West, where, in cold blood they hanged up 14. upon a Tree, then at Cissiter, from whence they drove divers, both Minuters and others barefoot and barelegged, in a most cruel manner to Oxford, where, their and other honest men's usage in time of their imprisonment was most barbarous; and how ye should have been used, if ye had been overcome by them, as they have been by you and your adherents, ye may more than guess by these and the like examples.  
Ye see, all the favour they have found, works nothing with them, but they still manifest upon-all occasions a most deally hatred against you, ye see, they are ever plotting and contriving mischief what Treaty was there ever with them, that was not accompanied with some treacherous Plot, as (if, you remember▪ a Treaty went immediately before their uncexpected approach to Brainford? Also 0529 V 3 a Treary ushered in the bloody Plot of Tomkins and Challoner, and a Treaty at Uxbridge, some that then played buoty and persuaded the King to a personal Treaty at Westmi●ster, as the only means to obtain his ends, and which had been then effected, had things been ripe enough for the purpose.  
But of late, living amongst you, they have by their arts and policies brought the Parliament into contempt, and the Army into hatred, and have gotten many of their friends into Parliament, and other places of fruit, and raised jealousies and discontents in all places, and wrought the poorer and more ignorant sort of people into an humour of rising, crying up the King, and cursing the Parliament: now, they judge a personal Treaty would soon make them absolute Masters over you, and if ye rightly, weign the temper of the times, ye will find they are not mistsken: But by whose means have they endeavoured the procurement of the same? even by the means of seeming friends, viz. divers Aider. men, and Common-Councelmen, with some Officers of the Trained Bands.  
By which it appears, there are many in all places that play booty, like decoy Ducks, and have agreed to bring you in love with a personal Treaty, thereby to lead you into the next prepared for your destruction, when themselves shall be highly rewarded for their Treachery.  
Therefore, as ye love the liberty of your country, the cause ye have maintained, your own, or your wives & children's lives & estaces, be speedy & resolved for prevention, by letting your Officers of your Trained Bands, your Common-Councelmen & Aldermen know, that ye apprehend both danger and treachery therein, and that their importunate labouring for the same, is to animate and give eneouragement to the tumumuous Risings and Revolting of Ships. ye must therefore signify to them, that ye will seek out some other more ●ake ways to compass the Peace and Prosperity of the Nation, and that in the mean time, ye will make bold to decline their counsels, and adhere to and assist the Army, under the Command of the Lord Fairfax, in subduing all forces lately raised by Goring and others, to disturb the proceedings of parliament, the Peace of the commonwealth, or to enfore a personal Treaty.  
Do this speedily and prosper, defer it, and be for ever miserable.  
Learn by Colchester, what it is to have bad Magistrates and Officers, and be warned whom ye trust, by the mischief brought upon them.