The Engagement and Remonstrance of the City OF LONDON▪ Subscribed by 23500 hands▪  
ALthough, as Citizens, we are reduced to a necessity of Violence; and as Christians, obliged to the exercise of it; unless we will rather prostitute our Lives and Liberties, Fortunes and Reputations; Nay, our very Souls, and Altars, to the Lusts of a Barbarous, and Sacrilegious Enemy: we have yet so great a tenderness for Christian blood, as to leave unattempted no means, of probability to save it. This is it which hath prevayled with us to Declare, First, to the World, what we Propose, and Resolve, ere we proceed to further Extremities: and to satisfy the public, as well in the Reasons of our undertakings, as to justify our Selves, in the Menage and Event of them.  
We find, in the Midst of us, the House of Prayer converted into a Den of thieves: Our Counsels Affronted by Armed troops, our Fellow Citizens knocked on the head, like dogs, at their own doors, for not so much as barking; Nay, 'tis become Death, now, to desire to Live; and adjudged Treason, but to Claim the benefit of the Law against it. Witness those Infamous Murders committed, but Monday last, upon our unarmed Friends: and the glorious insolences of that Rabble, towards such of the rest, as they seized, and carried away. But this is nothing: to make us a complete Sacrifice, we are to be Burnt too: a thing, not only threatened, in the Passion of the Tumult, but Soberly intended; for they have laid in their Materials for the work already: a Prodigious Quantity of Fire-Balls in Paul's, and Gresham college. Briefly, We are designed for Fire, and Sword, and Pillage: and it concerns us now, to look a little better to our gracious Guards. Not to insist upon the loss of Trade; how many Thousand Families have nothing now to do, but beg, and Curse these wretches? the Honour and the Safety of the City lies at stake: and God so bless us as we'll fall together. We will not live to see our Wives, and Daughters ravished: our Houses Rifled, and our Children Beggars, that shall only live to Reproach their cowardly Fathers: and all this done too by a People, which we can as easily destroy, as mention: by a Party, so barbarous, and so Inconsiderable together, that, certainly, no creature can be mean enough, either to suffer the one, or fear the other. In this Exigency of Affairs, we have found it both our Duty and our Interests to Associate; and we desire a Blessing front Heaven upon us, no otherwise than as we do vigorously and faithfully pursue what we here Remonstrate.  
First, We do engage ourselves, in the presence of Almighty God, with our lives and fortunes, to defend the Rights and Liberties of the City of LONDON; and if any person that subscribes to this Engagement, shall be molested for so doing; We will unanimously, and without delay, appear as one Man to his Rescue.  
Next, we demand, that all such troops, and Companies, as do not properly belong to the Guard of the City, nor receive Orders from the lawful Magistrates thereof; that such Forces withdraw themselves from the Liberties, within 12. hours after the Publication of This: upon pain of being deemed conspirators, and of being Proceeded against accordingly, (for to this extent, both of judgement, and Execution, is every Individual qualified in his own defence.)  
We are next to demand the enlargement of our Fellow Citizens, which were taken away by Force, and in a tumultuous manner, contrary to the known laws of the Place and Nation.  
This being performed, we shall acquiesce, in the Enjoyment of those Liberties, which we will not lose, but with our Lives. In fine, to remove all Impediments of the peace we desire: We do undertake, both as Men of Credit, and justice; that such of the Soldiers as will betake themselves to honester employments, shall receive their arrears from the City, and such a further care of their future well-being, as is suitable to the Necessities of the one part, and the Charity of the other.