02256nam 2200373 n 450 99639221680331620200824121745.0(CKB)4940000000109374(EEBO)2248540166(UnM)99864997e(UnM)99864997(EXLCZ)99494000000010937419940111d1649 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|All worthy officers and souldiers, who are yet mindful, that you engaged not as a meer mercenary army, hyred to serve the arbytrarie ends of a councel of state;[electronic resource] but took up arms in iudgement and conscience, in behalf of your own, and the peoples just rights and liberties. You may now see plainly by the proceedings of Colonel Hewson with his regiment, that the design of our grand officers is, to reduce the army to a meer mercinary and servile temper, that shall obey all their commands, without so much as asking a question for conscience sake. ... Therefore keep every man his place and post, and stir not, but imediately chuse you out a councel of agitators once more to judge of these things: without which we shall never see a new Parliament, or ever be quit of these intolerable burthens, oppressions, and cruelties, by which the people, are like to be beggered and destroyed[London s.n.1649]1 sheet ([1] p.)Advising the soldiers to appoint a "Coucel of Agitators," and refuse service in Ireland.Annotation on Thomason copy: "A Libbell, scatered about ye Streets ye 25 Aprill, 1649.".Reproduction of the original in the British Library.eebo-0018LevellersEarly works to 1800IrelandHistory1649-1660Early works to 1800Great BritainHistoryCommonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660Early works to 1800LevellersCu-RivESCu-RivESCStRLINWaOLNBOOK996392216803316All worthy officers and souldiers, who are yet mindful, that you engaged not as a meer mercenary army, hyred to serve the arbytrarie ends of a councel of state2405482UNISA