THE OUT-CRY OF THE London Prentices FOR JUSTICE TO BE EXECUTED UPON JOHN Lord HEWSON; WITH Their desires and proposals touching his Arraignment.  
AS ALSO A Hue-and-cry, OR PROCLAMATION.  
London Printed for Gustavus Adolphus, 1659.   

THE PRENTICES OVTCRY, OR The Arraignment of the Lord John Hewson, &c.  
SOund Drums and Trumpets! will you buy any Brooms, have you any Boots or Sh●es to sell? so cries the noble Lord Hewson, Baron of Bungle Hall, to his lasting Renown and Honour. Wat tiler was an ass to this cobbler, nor did ever any Rascall presume to strut and vapour up and down the streets of London with half the impudence as him. His Master Oliver came not in such pride and state, nor stomach to his Dinner at Grocers-Hall, as this one-eyed Varlet marched with insolence and fury to the Exchange to a butchery; and with the same quarrel against the Prentices, as his Comrade Tom Pride had against the bears, merely for their Skins. He hath formerly been a Tory-hunter in Ireland, and imagined he had then been on such an expedition, for he skipped and danced over the kennels, as if they had been bogs, and pursued his enterprise as closely as ever his cobbling ends did his awl. Hold up his Dagger-hand, lets see whether the Hangman have not puncht him, and given him an earnest in his fist for a Halter. Bring him to the bar of the other House, and let him be tried by his Peers, and see if 12 such Cobaliros can be found among all the Anabaptist Churches that have most of the Trade in Saintship with them; may he have and be fitted with a size of twelves, such Godfathers as the turn will afford him, though there be no heed now adays to the Common Prayer in that, yet let regard be had to the common cry of the City. Was the black Rod do you think, ever intended or designed to whip cobblers? or will Princes Robes sit handsome on Brewers backs, and yet this goodman two shoes, by a relish and smack of Lordly Dignity, did confidently personate that pretended Honour, and acted not barely as a Lord in his late Riot and Tumult, but usurped the Authority and Power as if he had been our Lord Mayor.  
We never yet heard of any that ascended from his Corporation to that pitch and height of Magistracy; but we now see the difference betwixt a company of Cordwainers and a company of Re●●●ats. 'Twas a marvel this Fellow, with the rest of the 〈◇〉 not made Lord marquis, when Olivers dubbing and en●●●●ng Hand was in; We imagine that if he had had his other eye, Oliver would have done it, for he had need of a hundred eyes ro look to himself.  
But though the Jewish Law forbids any imperfect Sacrifice to be offered, yet we will not rest nor cease our prosecution, till we have sacrificed this blind cobbler to the Ghosts of our slain, and to the injuries of our wounded Brethren, and in satisfaction of the Outrages and affronts he hath done to us.   

Here followeth the Desires and proposals of the London Prentices, touching the Arraignment and Execution of Col. John Hewson.  
I. THat we may be assured that we shall not be molested in our Callings by Hewson the cobbler, lately Hewson the Colonel.  
II. That his Estate may be confiscated towards the maintenance ●f the poor, blind, and lame; and that he be forthwith com●anded, at his peril, to cry Jumps up and down the streets, ●nd old shoes and Boots, to humble his haughty spirit, and make him the fitter for Execution.  
III. That after he hath humbled himself a month, he be sent into the City of London, and there to stand in the Pillory, until he hath had as many rotten Eggs flung at him, as he hath sowed stitches in shoes or Boots; and then to be taken down, and tied to a Cart, and whipped from thence to the place where the Speaker's Coach was stopped, and had stones cast at him by the soldiery, there to be again Pillorized, and bored through the Tongue for his wicked perjuries.  
IV. That he be forthwith brought to the Sessions, and there convicted according to Law, and being conveyed to Newgate, thence to be carried on a Bull-hide to tyburn, and there to hang as long as Shooe-making is used in London.  
And therefore we'do demand this Polyphemus to be delivered to Justice, otherwise we will drag him out of his Den, where he thinks to lurk by benefit of the Parliaments Vote for his confinement to his own house( if any such of right he have) and take our own course with him; and for his greater terror we do here declare the manner of our severe punishment, and exemplary execution, that he may take it for a warning.  
First, Because they say he was a Knight, we will degrade him of his new gentility, by throwing a Basket of grains in his eye, and pull off his Spurs; and having stripped him out of his breeches, give him a hundred blows on his bare breech with his Coloshoes.  
2. For his brustling in our streetts, we will with his Awles pierce his hid all over, and put Bristles in the holes, as the old Womans Arse that was stuffed with Parsley.  
3. Being suc● a hide-bound slave, we will put him upon Squire Duns three, and stretch him till his skin crack again, which we will strip over his ears, and sand to moll Lovel, or any other Doxy for a new fashion stuff, or else cut into Thongs for the Boyes to whip Gigs with, or make Bartholomew faire Drums, in memorial of such a Warrior.  
4. The one good eye he hath left, wee'l take out of his Head, and bestow it upon blind Milton, that it may still be worn as an Ornament in a knaves countenance, and when he leaves it, it shall be given to Surgeons Hall for a rarity.  
5. We will have his skull well scraped, and preserved for a drinking bowl for his Brethren to fuddle in on Crispianas night.  
6. We will pick his bones clear, and tip them with the Iron of his Sword, and make Ninepins of them, and in the solemnity of Skimmington, they shall be carried in procession, and be reverenced by the scolds of the ●own.  
7. His Coach shall wait on us to Tyburn, while we convey him thither in a Tumbrel, wee'l bring home his clothes in the Boots of it, and have the caroche cut out to the best advantage, and bestowed upon young beginners of his Trade gratis.  
But if he will render himself into the hands of Justice, and not stand so stiff on his Pantofles, upon his trial we may chance to wink on him; but justice is as blind as himself, and spares no body, even as he killed his brother Cob; However we say let him try us, for the Parliaments Pleasure heel never remove, and weele have but one 'bout at blindmans buff with him, and then good night gaffer. We believe he is not now so high in the instep, but that he would be glad to work Pumps to Tenis-Courts: In this we are very favourable to him,  
For, 
This Punishment we think he hath d●serv'd,  
And little better those whom he observed.  
He is a traitor, so were all the Nine,  
And all that do 'gainst us henceforth combine.    

A HUE-AND-CRY or Proclamation, after Coll. Hewson.  
O yes, O yes, O yes.  

IF any person that walks up and down,  
In City, Country, Village, or in Town,  
Can of this Lordling certain tidings bring,  
Him we'll reward with th' R●nsome of a King.  
That you as well by Person as by famed,  
May know him when you meet him; first, his Name  
Was John Lord Hewson, as men did him call,  
When he a Sword did wear; but since his fall,  
It is Blind Hewson, and the worst of all,  
My fear is that he's hidden in a stall:  
If so, perhaps, having abated Pride,  
' Stead of a Sword, a Last hangs by his side.  
But that you may the better him descry,  
By's aged Person, he hath but one Eye,  
That being forced out by a forsworn Oath,  
One added Perjury would drive out both:  
Instead of a prancing horse whereon he rid●s,  
Then he might make a Dog and Bell his Guid●s.  
In the next place, his head's of greatest note,  
For it appears to each man's Eye to float  
In th' air: I guess by's shaking's meant,  
His threatening of the famous Parliament;  
Or else th' Apprentices, or his intent,  
Never to join with a settled Government:  
Also it doth denote his various mind,  
As mutable as Proteus or the Wind.  
So under Oliver, and Dick Protectors,  
He was one of the Nations grand Infectors.  
Was made a Lord, a colonel, Prince, what not?  
For Money he would fight for th' Turk God wot.  
He being something stronger then a louse,  
Might well deserve a Vote in th' upper House.  
After great Richard's fall he was content,  
To serve the Long and famous Parliament,  
A●d then the Army; now he'd serve the devil,  
If he could free himself from future evil.  
What can be registered of's former famed,  
But that he was suitor ultra Crepidam.    
FINIS.