promise or perswasion could prevaire with these men to attend that
service until with incredible vigour, and Arms as fixed as their
Resolution they had compleated or concluded their Agreement,
And now twice in one year they have fallen off and have fallen, on
to their Commanders. The reducing of Ireland was then reserved
by the Amighty for another hand, ordained to make apparont his
power, and his glory, and at last to prepare a way for his Justice to
ride in triumph, at which the Seas shall bow in Reverence, and
the Hills shall clap their hands for joy.
The manner of the reducing of these men called Levellers represented
to the House of Commons by Captain Wagstaff in these
following words.
Mr. Speaker, at the beginning of the last week there was a discovery
of a distemper arising amongst the five Companies of Co'.
Inglesbies Regiment at Oxtord, upon which there was karch made
in one John Radmonds quarters (a Gentlemen at arms, formerly
an Adjutator for the Regiment, he being a man suspected to have
intelligence with discontented parties broad) in whole hand there
was found a scandalous Pamphlet, called The Out- cry of the Apprentices,
and some other papers, some written of the same nature,
which gave a full discovery of some designe intended,
tended, whereupon perceiving the souldiers distempers to in
they were called to a Randezvouz on Wednesday last, where
was offered them (by the Officers) a Declaration to have undecerved
them touching those scandalous papers, with certain grievatces,
which we conceived to be of the most publique Concernment,
and tending to a generall remedie both of their grievances
and ours; But their distempers appeared so great and violent, waving
all manners of discourte, and experst nothing but the chusing
of Agents to make known the cause of their disassections to us:
We told them that my Lord General and a General Councel of
the Army had formerly dissolved such kind of actings, yet being
willing to understand the ground of their present distempers, we
told them that for this businesse we would be content to receive it
by any that they should chuse for that purpose the next morning.
which accordingly they did and so marched out of the field with
their Officers back to their Quarters orderly but the next morning
(hoping to have had their Agents according to appointment come
to debate with us) they sent back our paper by one of themselves,