To the Honourable the House of Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT. The humble Petition of the reduced Officers and soldiers, in and about the City of LONDON.  
Humbly showing:  
THat your Petitioners having (not as mercenaries, but like faithful and freeborn Subjects) exposed their Estates to ruin, and their Lives to all dangers, for the preservation of the King, the privilege of Parliament, and Liberty of the Subject, cannot but look upon these new Divisions, with sad and bleeding hearts, and justly dread the evil consequence that doth probably threaten desolation to these three kingdoms, if not timely prevented, by your Honours great wisdoms and Care; And your Petitioners do cordially protest before God and man, that they would gladly undergo the worst of ills, might their Sufferings divert those heavy judgements from us, yet notwithstanding their Fidelity and constant affection to the privilege and Honour of both Houses of Parliament. They are sensible there hath been strong endeavours to render them odious to the World, under the notion of Fomenters of a new war, and disturbers of a happy Peace; And have by that Colourable pretence, and for some other reasons best known to your Honours, procured an Ordinance to banish them this City, which if you shall put in execution without remunerating their said Services, and Sufferings with some considerable part of their arrears, they must inevitably be liable to all the Miseries and Reproaches that are incident to Vagabonds, and consequently perish, having spent their Patrimony, lost their employments, and some their limbs to discharge their Consciences, and duties to serve your Honours, and the kingdom's safety.  
Your Petitioners do thankfully acknowledge Your vigilancy and restless endeavours to prevent the effusion of more Blood and settle a happy Peace; And our humble requests are, That your Honours would leave no means unattempted to complete the same; And that our abode in this City and necessitated addresses to your Honours, may be no hindrance nor impede the speedy Consummation thereof, You would be pleased in tender Consideration of the premises, to grant them whose accounts are already audited, that part of their arrears which appears due by their Debentures, and vendable Security for that part which is respited on the public Faith; Provided they shall not be further charged by the several Counties of the kingdom; And that special order be taken for the stating of their accounts, who are not yet Cast up, and they licenced to attend the same, till they shall be proportionably satisfied; that so your Petitioners (some of them being Strangers, others far remote from their native Countries, and all deeply engaged and impoverished by their tedious Attendances for their arrears) may be enabled to discharge their Debts; And as they have conformed themselves (in all the Course of this war) to your honour's orders, so now being in some measure restored to their pristine Condition, they shall withal cheerfulness yield perfect Obedience to the same.  
And they shall ever pray, &c.