City Justice,
OR,
True Equity Expos'd.
Being an Humble Petition to the King, of Eight Grandees of one Party, against
Four of another. Faithfully turn'd into Verse dogril, by as real a Well-wisher to them, as they are to Monarchy.
To the Tune of, Packingtons Pound.
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I.
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YE Sages of London, of states high and low,
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I sing an Exploit late contriv'd in the City,
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And that you its Wit, and its Justice may know,
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I now have dispers'd it, compos'd in a Ditty;
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Eight Grandees of Power
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Against three, and one Moore,
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Complain'd to the King of some Fines that lay sore;
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And fram'd a Petition, to heighten the Crime,
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Which wanting good Reason, I've put into Rhime.
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II.
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The stile began thus, Mighty Sir, you must know,
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In the year eighty three, we all guilty were found
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Of a damnable Riot, and no one knows how,
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Were sawcily Fin'd above four thousand Pound:
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That by the vile power
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Of those three, and one Moore,
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We were all forc'd to pay the said Fine, or to scowr,
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And only for Acting like true English-men,
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Our Zeal for the Monarchy being most plain.
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III.
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But now since our happy and strange Revolution
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Those errors by Parliament all were dispers'd,
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And at your Petitioners wise prosecution,
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That Judgment illegally giv'n, was revers'd;
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That the Fine rais'd before,
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By those three, and one Moore,
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Your Majesty's liable now to restore;
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But that all such Crimes you may rightly condemn,
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We hope Sir, to pay us, you'll take it from them.
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IV.
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For since that our Rights, and our Nations defending
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From Tyranny, was of your coming the cause,
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No other design of Subversion intending.
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But Relief of the Church, and establishing Laws,
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Which altho have no power
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On these three, and one Moore,
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To make 'em refund, on a true Legal score;
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Yet if you'll be pleas'd Sir to break one for us,
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We shan't, and we hope none will say 'tis unjust.
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V.
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We think 'tis unfit, you that came to protect it,
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Should your self in the least lye under the Law,
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But rather those Criminals should be rejected,
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That such bloody Fines from our Purses could draw,
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That the sum nam'd before,
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Rais'd by three, and one Moore,
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Their substantial Estates should be pawn'd to res[tore,]
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That so into Parliament once it may come,
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Then your Majesty may be excused the Sum.
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VI.
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The PRAYER.
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We therefore most humbly beseech you Great Sir
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To except the said four in the next Act of Grace,
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The only chief reason who we ask it for.
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Is through a deep sentiment of our own Case,
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For the three, and one Moore,
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As I told you before,
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Won't refund it but by a Parliamentary power,
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Which if you'll be pleas'd to effest, in our way,
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As always we us'd, we will zealously Pray.
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FINIS
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