THE REMONSTRANCE AND Complaints of the poor Commoners of ENGLAND WITH Their humble addresses and Resolutions for a present relief therein.  

Showing,  
THat after the frequent pretences, of a blessed Reformation; and the many assurances of settling a wel-conditioned peace, in this now-unhappy island; the only issue of our six years late troubles and vast expenses, hath been, Religion wasted into a libertinism of Factions; Three kingdoms inflamed with most bitter enmities; and this Nation consumed by the lamentable calamities of an unnatural and bloody War.  
That for more than twelve months since, the Managery of the whole Power and Authority of this kingdom, hath remained in the hands of a prevailing Party: and the only end of this is, The confusion of a well-tempered Government, The abandoning of wholesome Laws, and the purity of Justice troubled and overtopped by an Arbitrary Jurisdiction over the lives and fortunes of a freeborn people.  
To this end Garrisons are still continued throughout the whole body of this kingdom; a Navy is kept at Sea, and an Army free-quartered in every corner of this Land; for the maintenance whereof, God's patrimony is seized on: The Free-holds of many thousands conscientious persons Sequestrated and exposed to sale, and all of us surcharged with unsupportable impositions to secure our own bondage.  
All which notwithstanding, Distractions are still multiplied; the public debts increased daily; Mutinies and Insurrections continually suspected, and almost numberless Families of innocency and worth, Crying to God for vengeance; impoverished, and at present ready to perish for want.  
Hereupon, Religion is scandalised, Husbandry is neglected, Commerce abandoned, and Trades decayed; whereby the necessaries of our livelihood are grown scrace and dear: housekeeping is disabled, and all employments discontinued.  
Insomuch, that besides the just provocations of God's vengeance upon us, by the crying sins of this Age, (which God hath blinded to impenitency) blasphemy, profaneness, Rebellion, hypocrisy, rapine, murder, cruelty, and all kinds and degrees of uncharitableness: (the scene of our calamities being only changed, and not with-drawn) We the poor Commoners, with this whole Nation, (which can never be quieted, by the tyranny of a prevailing power) and clearly behold a convincing evidence in the present state of these our distempers, that (without some speedy remedy) they must necessarily be devoured by Famine or the Sword, or live cowed and discontended, under the cruelty of a pretended Conquest.   

In prevention whereof it is their humble desire,  
That all persons of public trust do immediately apply themselves to remove the forementioned Grievances; and that every able man within our languishing Dominions, (according to his power) do contribute his best assistance to vindicate their respective rights and settle the peace of a distracted people. And they do also further declare, that upon their backwardness therein, they shall conceive themselves freed of all engagements for the public interests, and (calling Heaven and earth in their behalf to attest their innocency in this particular) will forthwith apply themselves to any Party, and to all expediencies that may serve to secure them against the present dangers.