Quest. WHat is your Name?

Ans. Red-Coat.

Quest. Who gave you that Name?

Ans. My God Fathers and God Mothers.

Quest. Who were they?

Ans. Several. Necessity, Idlenesse, Murder, Rapine, Theft, principally the Divel and the Par­liament.

Quest. I perceive you have Testimonies sufficient to bear witnesse to your Name; But what did these your God-Fathers and God-Mothers promise for you?

Ans. That I should all my Life long Live in Penury, and Misery; that I should alwaies with the DOG preferre Hunger and Ease, before Plenty and Diligence; and not stick at any ad­vantagious Acts though never so Villanous, and that I should promote the Slaughter, and Butche­ring of my lawful Soveraign, and Sacrifice him to [Page 4] the lust of the Elders the Parliament, and their Caiaphas Cromwell.

Quest. Was this all they did engage for you?

Ans. No. They did Promise and Vow three things in my Name First, That I should utterly forsake God and all his Works, and shake of all Obedience to the Pomp and Vanities of KING or House of LORDS with whatsoever is con­sonant either to Law or Gospel. Secondly, That I should believe all the Articles of the Parliaments Faith, without Hesitation or Scruple. And Thirdly, To keep and observe all their Acts and Ordinances, and walk in the same all the daies of my Life.

Quest. Dost thou not think that thou art bound to believe and do, as they have promised for thee?

Ans. Yes Verily and by the D [...]vels help and Sir Arthurs I will, and I hartily thank our infernal Fa­ther Belzebub, that he hath called me to this state of Damnation, through his dear Child the Parlia­ment. And I pray Satan to supply me continu­ally with such Divelish intentions, as may conti­nue me in it unto my lives end.

Quest. Rehearse the Articles of thy belief?

Ans. I believe in the Divel the Father of Secta­ries and sworn enemy to Religion or Reason, and in his dearly beloved Spawn the Parliament, which was conceived by the necessities of the King, born of the discontents of the people: suffe­red under Oliver Cromwell, was dissolved, cashiered [Page 5] and turned out, and for a while sent packing to Hell; but at last rose again, and ascended into its former place, and now sitteth on the right hand of London that Rebellious and stiffe-necked City; from whence it shall come to take vengance of them for their stubborn misdemeanours, I believe in Sir Arthur Hasilrigge the whole number of Se­ctaries and Conventicles the Council of State, the Act of Oblivion, the resurrection of my Lord Lambert, and the contriuance of our power to e­verlasting.

Quest. What dost thou chiefly learn by this thy belief.

Ans. First, I learn to believe in the Parliament, who hath made me and all the rest of my good brethren.

Secondly in General Monke who hath redemed our Good old Cause from the jaws of the wicked.

Thirdly, In Sir Arthur Hesilrigge who by his stre­nuous endeavours hath sanctified our interest.

Quest. You told me that your God-Father, and God-Mother did promise for you, that you should keep and observe all the Parliaments; Commandments tell me how many there be?

Ans. Divers.

Quest. Which be they?

Ans. These were given to us by our God the Parliament, when they assumed illegally the whole power and authority of these Nations into their hands, telling us. We are your only Lords and Masters that have redeemed you from the Tyran­nical [Page 6] Government of a King or Single person, and brought you into the Freedom of a Lawless usur­pation.

• 1. Thou shalt have no other Generals but us.
• 2. Thou shalt not set up any lawful Magistrate, King, Protector, or Single Person, or any thing in their likenesse. Thou shalt not subject thy self to them nor truckle under them. For we your Lords and Masters are of so boundlesse spirits and so furious ambition, that whosoever shall offer re­sist to us, we shall punish them, Sequester their E­states, and ruine their Families for ever; but those that will quietly submit their Ass-like backs to the intollerable slavery of our Lawlesse burdens, we will feed with the gracious Sugar-plums of Kings Deans and Chapters Lands for the maintenance of their Wives and Children.
• 3. Thou shalt not abuse our name with those ignominious terms of Rump, Tail, or Fagg end for we have deeply sworn, that his Arse shall make But­tons, who shall dare to affront us in that Nature.
• 4. Thou shalt remember to be present at the Guard day, the rest of the daies you may follow your lawful Vocations of Pimping, Picking of Pockets, Filching or the like; but that is who­ly to be reserved to our service: thou shalt be sure then to give thy attendance with all due and care­ful [Page 7] preparation of Sword, Musket, and Bande­leers: for this is a day wherein you must be dili­gent, to preserve our security, lest we should be disturbed in our making those good Ordinances of Laws, Excise and such other Acts of Grace for your good & the ruine of this malignant Nation.
• 5. Have an awful and reverent fear in thy mind of us, that so thou mayest long enjoy thy place, without danger of being Disbanded or cashiered.
• 6. Thou shalt when Commanded, Commit what Murder or Slaughter, we shall think fit.
• 7. Thou shalt at all times hold it lawful and take all occasions to lye with the Citizens Wives, wich may be a means to provide you with Linnen and other necessaries, which your want of pay may cause your indigence of.
• 8. Thou shalt Plunder, Filch, and Steal any thing thou canst lay thy hands on, for herein you come nearest to our example, and similitude in our grand Robberies and Sequestrations.
• 9. Thou shalt not stick to Trapan, betray, swear, forswear any thing never so false which may con­duce to our interest and advantage.
• 10. Thou shalt desire & covet above all things the Plunder of the City, the Ravishing of their [Page 8] Wives, the Knocking down of their Prentices, and taking from them all that they have for the inrich­ing of us and the Good old Cause.

Well my Friend, I see you are sufficiently en­structed in your Duty and Cause, and so I see no reason why you should not receive confirmation, and have the Red-Coat laid on your shoulders.