The RESOLVE of the city.  
Our Respects to Peace, and Order, are too notorious to be questioned, since by the mere Impressions of Charity and Obedience, we have thus long suspended the Justice we owe to our Selves, together with that Vengeance, which the Blood of our murdered Companions requires at our hands. Nor hath the Power of these Principles of public tenderness been less Eminent, upon our Judgements, than upon our Passions; For, We have as well Believed, in Contradiction to Evidence of Experiment, as we have Suffered, in Opposition to the very Elements, and Dictates of Humanity. Witness that Execrable Monday (sacred to the Eternal Infamy of this City) even Then; When we had that Enemy at our Mercy, toward whom, by the Rights of Nature, and of Generosity, we were not bound to exercise any; even then, I say, in the very Heat, and Course of an Honest, and powerful Indignation, we returned Quietly, to our Houses, upon the first Notice, that the Authority of the City would have it so. But it is likewise true, that this Assurance, was added to the Message, viz. That the Common Council, was Sensible of our Grievances, and would duly Consider them. Since this, we find nothing done in Pursuance of that Promise; but on the Contrary, injuries are multiplied upon us; and those of that Day, serve but as Arguments of Encouragement to Greater. Some of us Killed, Others Wounded, and lead in Triumph Naked through the streets: Two or Three Hundred Thousand Persons Looking on, to Celebrate the Conquest, and the Shame. A citizen's Skull, is but a thing to try the Temper of a soldier's Sword upon; Give us but every man a Red-Coat for a Cash Keeper, and the work's done. They're come within a Trifle on't already; and all this while, an Order to be Quiet, is all our Patient Masters would afford us. Give us an Order that may make us Safe (although we need not Ask, what we can give ourselves) persuade these people to be Gone, or Bid us Drive them out; What Law made Paul's, and Gresham college, Garrisons? If nothing else will do, we'll do't ourselves: We have Engaged, and Sworn the Vindication of the City, and nothing can Absolve us from the Oath we have taken This must be done betimes too, 'twill come too late else, to prevent, either the Necessity of a Tumult, or the greater Mischief, of a Supine, and Credulous security. A Parliament in January, will do us no more good, than a Cordial will do him that was Hanged last Sessions. Our Sense at Large, we delivered to the world, in a Paper, Entinuled, The Final Protest, and Sense of the CITY: Which is public enough, notwithstanding the great Design used to suppress it, and the Insolences of diverse Persons, disaffected to the good of the City, toward those that sold them. To that we adhere, That Protest of Ours, produced Another from the Common Council, of the 20th. Current, to which something ought to be said, (by the way, let the Reader take Notice of an Error in the Printing, and, for— Not Soon Vote up the City, & e. Read, Soon Vote up, &c.—) The sum of that Order is, but in effect, the justification of the Lord Mayor, in the matter of Prudence and Integrity: we do not Deny, but finding ourselves abandoned to all sorts of Outrages, by the Cold Proceedings of the Court, in our behalf, We were transported to some bitter Reflections: Involving the present Mayor, with his more Criminal Predecessor, Ireton, in the Imputation. We shall not more Gladly find it a Mistake, than Readily Confess it one, when we reap the Effects of that Care for the Good of the City; but so long as we are tied up from all Lawful Defence, and the public Enemy at liberty to Practise all Unlawful Violences upon us, We desire to be Pardoned, if we suspend in the Case. The close indeed is very Noble, and worthy of the Court, where they Declare; For the Fundamental laws, and the Protestant Religion, &c.— and in fine, to endeavour the Convening of a Free Parliament, in order thereunto. But in Contradiction to this Resolve, the Committee of Officers have yesterday published a Paper, entitled, The Agreement, &c.—— fairly telling us, That we are to be Governed by People of their choosing, & by a Model of their framing, without any regard had to the Practice, and Reason of the ancient Laws, or to the Interest, and Liberty of every Freeborn Englishman. This usurpation is to be considered in its due Place; at present it concerns us, to hinder them from making the Slavery of the City, their first Step towards the Subjection of the Nation. The seasonable Care of This, we do Humbly, and Earnestly recommend to the Court of Common Council; Our Hopes are, that we are now fallen into Better hands, and if our Magistrates will but Command us, they have an Hundred Thousand Lives in Readiness to Engage for them. If we should be so unhappy, as to be still delayed; we do however wash our hands of the Consequences: And so God Direct and Deliver Us.  
December 23.