YEE are most earnestly desired to consider the violent and imperious disposition of those whom ye have opposed, how extreamly they despise you, how exceedingly they are pro­voked against you, what bloody Plots they have heretofore layd to murther and massa­cre you, your wives and Children.

Consider, what cruelty they used to prisoners, when they had hopes to prevail against you. As those taken at Bramford, driving them like so many beasts before them to Ox [...]ord; then at Wood house in the West, where, in cold blood they hanged up 14. upon a Tree, then at Cissiter, from whence they drove divers, both Minuters and others bare-foote and bare-legg'd, in a most cruel manner to Oxford, where, their and other honest mens usage in time of their imprisonment was most barbarous; and how ye should have been used, if ye had been overcome by them, as they have been by you and your adherents, ye may more then guesse by these and the like examples.

Ye see, all the favour they have found, works nothing with them, but they still manifest upon-all occasions a most deally hatred against you, ye see, they are ever plotting and contriving mischiefe what Treaty was there ever with them, that was not accompanied with some treacherous Plot, as (if, you remember▪ a Treaty went immediately before their uncexpected approach to Bramford? Also 0529 V 3 a Treary ushered in the bloody Plot of Tomkins and Challoner, and a Treaty at Ʋxbridge, some that then played buoty and perswaded the King to a personall Treaty at Westmi [...]ster, as the only meanes to obtain his ends, and which had been then effected, had things been ripe enough for the purpose.

But of late, living amongst you, they have by their arts and policies brought the Parliament into contempt, and the Army into hatred, and have gotten many of their friends into Parliament, and other places of fruit, and raised jealousies and discontents in all places, and wroughe the poorer and more ig­norant sort of people into an humour of rising, crying up the King, and cursing the Parliament: now, they judge a personall Treaty would soone make them absolute Masters over you, and if ye rightly, weign the temper of the times, ye will find they are not mistsken: But by whose means have they endeavoured the procurement of the same? even by the means of seeming friends, viz. divers Aider. men, and Common-Councelmen, with some Officers of the Trained Bands.

By which it appears, there are many in all places that play booty, like decoy Ducks, and have agreed to bring you in love with a personall Treaty, thereby to lead you into the next prepared for your destruction, when themselves shall be highly rewarded for thir Treachery.

Therefore, as ye love the liberty of your Countrey, the cause ye have mainteined, your own, or your wives & Childrens lives & estaces, be speedy & resolved for prevention, by letting your Officers of your Trained Bands, your Common-Councelmen & Aldermen know, that ye apprehend both danger and treachery therein, and that their importunate labouring for the same, is to animate and give eneouragement to the tumumuous Risings and Revolting of Ships. ye must therefore signifie to them, that ye will seek out some other more [...]ake wayes to compasse the Peace and Prosperi­ty of the Nation, and that in the mean time, ye will make bold to decline their Councels, and adhere to and assist the Army, under the Command of the Lord Fairfax, in subduing all forces lately raised by Goring and others, to disturbe the proceedings of Paliament, the Peace of the Common-wealth, or to enfore a personall Treaty.

Do this speedily and prosper, deferre it, and be for ever miserable.

Learn by Colchester, what it is to have bad Magistrates and Officers, and be warned whom ye trust, by the mischief brought upon them.