A LETTER Written from a Person of worth to a Friend of his in LONDON: Discovering London and the Kingdom's Danger, and advising the City to adhere to the Parliament.  
TOGETHER, With a Just and fair REMONSTRANCE of the Honest and Ingenious People of one of the Neighbouring Counties.  
LONDON: Printed in the Year 1647.   

COmmend me to Nol Nod, and tell him that he hath very good friends abroad, that will not see him starved in these hard times; assure Mr. Sorwind that he is in some danger, tell him he had need be well victualled, and man'd in these straits, the sooner the better. Did you not hear the News from France, that Mounsieur Liamentrap, and some of his friends are impeached of high Treason? there is a very subtle plot laid to blow up Mr. Donies. Mr. Grips and his two Sons are very active against Mounsieur Liamentrap they plead that we must all be ruled by the Law of Nature; that Liamentrap hath forfeited all and therefore is not to be accounted himself. France, you know, is governed by a standing Parliament, but standing pools gather mud, and therefore must be drawn dry, and rid once a year; all he power, say the Populars, is in the people, they set up the Parliament, and they may pluck it down. On the other side it is pleaded, that the Populars have a mind to introduce Tyranny and Anarchy both at once; for if they (do in the State, or in an Army, as they have done in the Church) place all the power in the Body, and none in the Officers, the body of the Army being most commonly corrupt, the Officers must not be Dissenters under pain of cashiering, or somewhat worse; It is whispered that London is like to be besieged: and Mr. Grips said shrewdly, that though the Demands which Joyce and his 400. men are about to make, will seem strange and unreasonable to the City and Parliament, yet yield they must, saith he, when they are under the Rod. The King, they say, did forfeit all his Power by abusing it; and now the Parliament have too after the like manner forfeited theirs. They talk of fortifying at Reding Albey, of possessing Windsor Castle, keeping strong guards at Staines, and at Kingston-bridge, that they may command the River. If some little Garrilons were made 4. or 5. miles round about London, they could never come to sit down before it; and if they sit down at a distance, it will be easy to beat up their Quarters, and it will be impossible for them to relieve one another, because they can never have any Communion of Quarters. If Donies were dissolved, they might undeceive the honest and ingenious people in every County.  
Put on heroical Spirits, brave Boys of Mars, the 20. Guns sent from hence are only fit for to keep the Field, most of them were Sakers: the Pieces that are for battery are as yet left behind; Mr. Grips and his two Sons are here making Proselytes, but we are not easily persuaded though they assure us that we do but rise against the rising Sun.  

1. Nol nod 
1. London.  2. Sorwinde 
2. Windsor.  3. Donies 
3. Synod.  4. Lionentrap 
4. The Parliament.     

The Happy Union.  
WE of the County of— observing (the overthrow of the Privileges both of Parliament and people ●o be seriously endeavoured by some (who were not long since professed Cavaliers) now in Arms under the fair vail of their love to the Parliament, make this fain and just Remonstrance to all true English hearts:  
We consider, that if the Parliament of England be affronted, reviled, threatened, and even almost forced in a mutinous and rebellious way, to Answer the Demands of daring Cavaliers, the Parliament is then no free Parliament, and the Act made by the three Estates for the Continuance of this Parliament being violated, we have cause to fear, that no Parliament will ever hereafter be free, or safe, and no Acts of Parliament be observed; and then no man can call his wife, or lands, or goods his own; farewell Liberty and Property.  
We cannot but believe, that the rich City is an inviting bait not only to some poor hungry Soldiers, but to some rich, yet greedy, Commanders; If some Members of either House, against whom nothing is yet proved, be demanded, must London be besieged till eleven Members of the House be tried? Many women and children, in all probability, will be affrighted out of their wits, and some out of their lives; the free Trade of the Kingdom will be stopped, hundreds undone, thousands starved, and the City of London sacked, and ruined by the unjust practices of those who cry for Justice.  
We do therefore by these Presents testify and declare, that we approve the Piety, Nobleness, and Prudence of those Colonels, other Officers and Soldiers, who refuse to joun with those who are now drawing up in a Body to besiege and force the two Houses of Parliament, the famous Cities of London and Westminster, and the adjacent parts to yield and submit to such Conditions as these men in Arms shall think fit to put upon them. And we do clearly protest, that we are ready upon Command to serve both the Houses, and the Cities with our lives and Estates against these gallant Mutineers, who complain of Grievances, and protest against Enemies, but will not declare what are their Grievances, or who are their Enemies.  
We observe, that by sundry Declarations, false suggestions, and otherwise, these men in Arms do insinuate into the favour of those foolish people whom they do daily oppress, by taking free quarter and otherwise; they promise in lord to prevent effusion of blood, and yet endeavour to engage and embroil more Kingdoms than one in a bloody War; they vow that they will settle the just Liberties of the People, whom they do more and more enslave.  
Wherefore we call upon our Friends in this and the neighbouring Counties, even upon all our fellow-subjects, to fall upon these Confederates (who are none of our fellow subject, because they will not be subject to King or Parliament) and doubt not but that all ingenious and honest people throughout the Land, will detest and abhor the cursed practices of these vainglorious Hypocrites, now they are thus clearly discovered to the world.  
We hear, that Joyce and some of the Isle of Ely are to rule the King of three Kingdoms, and the Parliament is to be in Wardship (now the Court of Wards is down) to Wat Tyler and jack Straw; Sirs, the Spirit of the English cannot (and the Scottish Nation will not) bear it; only peradventure some Irish, French, Spanish, Italian Negroes may come under Goring to do Justice upon London.  
Friends, you of the meanest Rank, even you my Countrymen that handle the Plough, and Whip, are freeborn English, and have as good a Commission as these Disbanded Bands: Come take up your Swords and come away; you are Englishmen, & may be Soldiers; Come, come let us cry for Justice, Justice against these self-Justiciaries, and cry even whilst we are fight and bleeding with one lip and hand, we have not that Liberty, which true Englishmen are born to; and we will rather die than lose our Parliament, our Liberty, our London, our All.  
By Command of the Honest and Ingenious People of our County. June 22. 1647.  
FINIS.