And Independents.

Mr Walter Wilkins, in his Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries, says, the imprint of this broadside intimates
that it was published in "the year of Hope, 1647," and Thomson, the
collector, added the precise date, the 7th of September.


That thou wilt be pleased to grant our requests,
And quite destroy all the vipers' nests,
That England and her true religion molests,
Te rogamus audi nos.

That thou wilt be pleased to censure with pity
The present estate of our once famous city;
Let her still be govern'd by men just and witty,
Te rogamus, etc.

That thou wilt be pleased to consider the Tower,
And all other prisons in the Parliament's power,
Where King Charles his friends find their welcome but sour,
Te rogamus, etc.

That thou wilt be pleased to look on the grief
Of the King's old servants, and send them relief,
Restore to the yeomen o' th' Guard chines of beef,
Te rogamus, etc.

That thou wilt be pleased very quickly to bring
Unto his just rights our so much-wrong'd King,