AN EXACT AND TRUE RELATION of that Tumultuous behaviour of divers Citizens and others at Guild-Hall, December the 12. 1642.  
Wherein is related the business they pretend, their Conference with my Lord Major and Court of Common Counsel, their cruelty to the Soldiers, their breach of peace, and shameful abuse to the Citizens, with other remarkable Things.  
By a sad Spectator.  
Printed for B. A. & R. D. Decemb. 13. 1642.   

An Exact and True Relation of that tumultuous behaviour of divers Citizens and others at Guild-Hall. December 12. 1642.  
By a multitude under the pretence of PEACE.  
IT is a sad thing, that such strange tumults should arise in such a well Governed City, especially from them whose pretence is altogether for Peace, but whose words and carriages do declare the contrary, as may appear in their carriage at Haberdasher's Hall the ninth of December, and in those desperate speeches that came from them that night, as will appear largely upon proof, as doth more evidence itself upon the twelfth of December, upon which day my Lord Major called a Court of Common Counsel, and being on serious debate, these men of several conditions, some Proctors, some Tapsters, some Players, witness Cain the Clown at the Bull, and others came in great multitude, and filled the Hall and Yard, as full as if there had been some extraordinary common Hall. So they sent some of their company up to the Court, at their coming in my Lord Major asked them what they would have one Master Osbinstone, Tole taker on the Bridge, being one of their chosen men, said, for Peace, and for the petition, which would admit of no delay. 'tis so, said he, the King's Army and ours do face one another, and much blood is like to be spilt, therefore there is speed of our Petition. My Lord spoke of some passages in the petition, and upon discourse they all seemed to be satisfied. Then my Lord and the Court told them they did as really desire peace as they, but they did not approve of their way, and to that purpose he had called a Court to advise about it, who had chose seven Aldermen, and fourteen Commoners, to draw up a petition to the King and both Houses of Parliament, and they hoped it would be such, that it would give satisfaction to all.  
In the mean time the Spirits of those men that were in the Hall and in the Yard, were so up, that they were ready to quarrel with every man that they had any suspicion was not of their Society, insomuch that many men of civil quality went away for fear of danger; at length they grew to this resolution, they would force out all they apprehended to be Soldiers out of the Hall.  
Sergeant Major Skippons man passing through the Hall, speaking to no man, saith one there goeth Skippons dog, upon that they jousled him, knocked him down often, and rob him of money and other things to the worth of six pounds. A few Soldiers there were up and down the Hall, waiting on their business as at other times, out they must by head and shoulders where ever they found any, though they gave them very good words, and an account of their business. The Soldiers being thus disgracefully turned out, by what authority they knew not, resolved they would go in again, and some ten or twelve drew their swords and in they got, being in they wished them to clear the Hall, offering no blow nor assault to any; the most that were in the Hall drove up to the Court of Hustings, others got behind the Soldiers, closed in upon them, and wrested their swords out of their hands, then presently the multitude cried out shut the doors, shut the doors. So they did, and barricadoed them up with Forms & other things they found in the Hall, in the interim they most cruelly beat, cut, and wounded the Soldiers, 20. or 30. upon one, kicking them like dogs, after that they fell upon some Citizens, calling them round head rogues, beat them black and blue, and abused them in most shameful manner, multitudes on one, with their fists about his ears. The beaten, wounded men, cried out murder murder, those without laboured to get open the doors, and by force got open a little crevice one of the Horsemen that were in the yard, shot in at the crevice to frighten them that so they might open the door, but they shut it fast, and in a hubbub up stairs they got, where my Lord Major and the Court sat, forced open the doors, Master Osbinstone told my Lord and the Court if they would send the Soldiers away that were in the yard and at the gates of the Hall, he would undertake that every man should go home to their dwellings; This Osbinstone being in custody, and passing by the Conduit at the lower end of Cheap side, was by force drove into the Mitre Tavern, no sooner was he in, but they shut the street doors, presently he was creeping out of a window at the top of the house, getting on the leads of Mercer's Chapel, to make an escape as is conceived, but being discerned by some on the other side-they discovered him and got him again; Many were committed for speaking desperate words, and one with his head broke for beginning a Fray in the yard, the issue of such desperate carriages I hope will be carefully looked to in time, that they may not grow to such a head, that Religion, and Liberty, and all safety may be hazarded.  
FINIS.