Seasonable advice to the city, in a letter from a secluded Member of Parliament to a gentleman in London. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A58908 of text R214755 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S2213). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A58908 Wing S2213 ESTC R214755 99826831 99826831 31240 2240857584

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A58908) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 31240) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1770:12) Seasonable advice to the city, in a letter from a secluded Member of Parliament to a gentleman in London. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed for N.B., London : 1659. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A58908 R214755 (Wing S2213). civilwar no Seasonable advice to the city, in a letter from a secluded Member of Parliament to a gentleman in London. [no entry] 1659 1 430 1 0 0 0 0 0 23 C The rate of 23 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-06 Sampled and proofread 2008-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Seasonable ADVICE TO THE CITY , In a Letter from a Secluded Member of Parliament to a Gentleman in London . SIR ,

Fortune assists the bold ; this you need not travel so far as Florence to experiment , seeing our great Officers of Safety stagger at noise . Had your City Magistrates been confident of their own Authority and Strength , the Iron Gate had opened , and these Inohantments which affrighted them had vanisht , Your City , as Monsieur de Rohan said of England , is a Beast indomitable , when provoked ; and cannot be destroyed but by itself , having now Besides the Magazine of Arms , 〈…〉 and Money , ( the Sinews of War ) that Authority which others want , with the Concurrence of all the Nation , except the common Enemy . All that can be required to a happy Issue , consists under GOD in your Resolution to Defend your selves , and trust to your own Courage : all other Parties are onely Factions and you the Umpaire . It lies now in your own Manage to break the Yoak , and by gaining your Liberty , to set us Free . If you joyn with any particular Interest , you yield the Cause , and suffer them to ride you for their own business , changing your Masters not your Bondage . If you keep your Swords in your Hands , and your Money in your purses , the very Tax , Excize , and Custom which you may spare , will bear your change and tire your Opposers . Above all , suspect Cajoles ; Treaties are yet new to you , and dagerous to the best experienced , having to doe with Men that hold no Faith : Oaths Promises in such a Juncture serve onely to delude the Credulous , and gain easie secure Victories : He that trusts not cannot be deceived . The yielding any Point in Treaty makes way for new Demands , and doth encourage hope to overcome . You will finde it most safe and Honourable to insist upon a Free Parliament , and take in the considerable Vote of the Nation , without relying yon Souldiers of Fortune , whose Trade is to perpetuate the War , and their Livelihood to eat up the industrious . I wish you the Honour to oblige that Thanks which the Peoples Deliverance may challenge . So rests ,

Your Faithfull Friend to serve you .

London , Printed for N.B. 1659.