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WHen we cal to mind how eminent inſtruments your Excellency, and the Army under your comRights and Liberties of the free people of this Nation, according to the Truſt repoſed in you, and how to theſe ends you have not ſpared to expoſe your ſelves to the extremeſt hazards of lives, and eſtates from time to time in the three Nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland, although one trouble ſucceeded another, occaſioned by the ſeveral wars, and commotions therein, in all which the Lord of Hoſts crowned your endeavours with moſt happy ſucceſſe, and hath given you a large Intereſt in the godly well-affected in this Nation, who continually wreſtled with God by prayer on your behalfs, while you were jeoLiberties, in the high places of the field; we therefore humbly conceive our ſelves bound in duty from that zeal we bear to the Religion, Laws, Liberties, and ſetled peace of our Native Country, (which we have cordially prayed, fought, and acted for) and very principally alſo out of that tendereſt affection, and moſt ſincere reſpect we bear your Excellency, and the Armies under your conduct, to repreſent to you, and them the ſad condition of this Nation, which ſeemeth as in one day to be deprived of its Antient liberty, to wit, their being governed by Repreſentatives, choſen by themſelves, which in all ages ſince England hath been civillized, the People have been ſo conſtantly ad
Ʋpon the reading of a Repreſentation brought into the Councel by the Lord General, which was this day delivered to his Lordby ſome perſons of the City of London, in the name of ſeveral Aldermen, Aldermens Deputies, Common-Councel men, and other Citizens of London, and upon conſideration had thereof, it is ordered that all ſuch perſons who have ſigned the ſaid Repreſentation, and who have any place of publick Truſt upon them, and for which they receive ſalary, and allowance from the Common-wealth, be forthwith diſmiſſed, and diſcharged from their reſpective places, and imployments.
You have here likewiſe inſerted, a Copy of ingenious verſes, in relation to the Lord General Cromwel, which were taken by the original, as they were ſet up on the Exchange.