A Letter to the Right Honourable THOMAS ALYN Lord Mayor of The City of London, sent to him from the Committee appointed To Disperse The General Remonstrance and Protestation of the 16th of November last, into the Several Cities and Conuties of ENGLAND and WALES, To be by him Communicated to the Aldermen, and Common-Councel of the said City.  
December 6th 1659. At the Committee appointed to disperse the General Remonstrance and Protestation, into the several Cities and Counties of England and Wales. 
 Right Honourable,  
WE being appointed by lawful Authority, to disperse the General Remonstrance and Protestation as aforesaid, have thought good hereby, to direct the same here enclosed to your Lordship, desiring you to communicate the same to the rest of your Brethren the Worshipful Aldermen, and together with them, to the Court of Common-Council of the City of London; and to do therein, as by the printed Letter herein also enclosed, or as by the Remonstrance itself is directed, or otherwise, as to Your and their Grave wisdoms shall seem most meet. We very well know that your Lordship, and the Aldermen, with the Court of Common-Council, are really sensible of the great and miserable distractions, and confusion the three Nations are at present almost overwhelmed with, and of the sudden and great decay of Trade by reason thereof; but especially of that sad and miserable distraction, and confusion which happened in this famous City on Monday the 5th instant, and of the several notorious Murders then Committed: all which, we conceive, have been of late chiefly occasioned by the interruption of the Parliament, the 13th of Oct. last; and also, that the & distractiaons & decay of Trade, is like to grow every day worse and worse, unless some speedy way & means be found out, to put a stop to the Torrent of the Rampant Sword, that so the Parliament may again return with safety, to the free exercise & discharge of their trust in settling the Government of these Nations, upon true & sure Foundations of a Free State & Commonwealth; by which all the good people of these Nations, both as men and Christians, may enjoy their Common and equal Rights and Freedoms, both in their Persons and Estates, which undoubtedly is, and will be, the only, speediest, and most probable way and means, for a full and free Trade once more to flourish in these Nations, to the encouragement of all Art, labour and industry, the only Glory and Sinews of a good & well ordered Commonwealth. And to the end no doubt may remain in your Lordship, whether the said Parliament be the lawful Supreme Legislative Authority of these Nations, be pleased for your better information therein, to read the Statute of the 16 Cor. 7. whereby it is declared and enacted, That this Parliament shall not be dissolved, prorogued, or adjourned, but by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose, nor shall at any time or times be adjourned, unless it be by themselves or by their own order; And that all and every thing, and things whatsoever, done or to be done for the adjourning, proroguing or dissolving the said Parliament contrary to the said Act, shall be utterly void, and of no effect; By which, as also by the several reasons and grounds for the making the said Act declared in the preamble thereof, together with the Parliaments answer to the King's Letter of the third of March 43, Printed in the Book of Collections of public Orders, and Ordinances, etc. fol. 451, by which with the advice and concurent consent of the Commissioners of Scotland, for the better solution of the said question, the PARLIAMENT told the KING, That they were bound to let him know, that they were called together according to the known FUNDAMENTAL LAWS of the Nation, and their continuance settled and established by a Law, and therefore they were bound in duty, and accordingly did then resolve with their lives and fortunes to preserve and defend the just Rights and Authority of this Parliament, and likewise by several other arguments and reasons, very fully and learnedly set forth and printed in the same and other books, your Lordship may and will fully and clearly understand, that notwithstanding all or any of the seclutions and interruptions they have or shall at any time meet withal, yet so long as the said Act stands unrepeall'd, and that a Quorom according to the ancient Custom of England of the Members that last sat are living, they are and avoidable must and will be the Lawful and Supreme Legislative Authority of these Nations; And therefore not to trouble your Lordship any further, but hoping according to the duty of your place, and the trust reposed in you, being Lawfully called to so high and Honourable place and Seat of Authority, your Lordship will speedily use all Lawful ways and means for restoring this Parliament to the safe and free exercise, and discharge of their trust for the ends aforesaid, which we judge will undoubtedly be by the assisting hand of God's providence, the only means under Heaven to heal all our breaches, put an end to all our public distractions, which at present is ready even to swallow us up in a Flood of general Confusion: Free us from that Bondage and Slavery the people of these Nations for many years past, but especially at prefent are like to undergo by forceable imprisoning their persons, and violent seizing upon and taking away their Estates contrary unto, and against the known and good Laws of this Commonwealth, and that this poor miserable and divided Nation but once flourishing, and now a scorn and reproach to all Nations, by reason of our distractions and often changes may as formerly again become a terror to all the Nations round about it, and your Lordship may be confident that no assembly of men in these Nations Rebus sic Scantibus can be better confided in, to secure the promises unto us then this Parliament, who have all along been and now are engaged for the same things; And let not your Lordship and the City of London think that they shall be alone in this good work, for all the Counties in England and Wales are engaged in the same as by the Remonstrance your Lordship may understand, and within very few days will be ready to lend their assistance thereto, so that having Nakedly and plainly laid before your Lordship the hearts and spirits of the people engaged in this Remonstrance, and their good affections to this work, we doubt not but that your Lordship and this City will be ready and willing to do the same, that so this good work may if possible without the expense of blood be soon finished, and all just interests thereby fully satisfied, and all persons have cause to rejoice that they can once more set down under the wholesome Vines of peace and safety.  
Signed in the name, and by the consent and appointment of the . JOHN FREEMAN, Clerk to the said Committee.  
For the Right Honourable Thomas Allyn, Lord Mayor of the City of London.   

London Printed by I. C.