Kingly Authority is set up in your Laws again, King
Charles has conquered you and your posterity by policy, though you
seemingly have cut off his head. For the Strength of a King lies
not in the visible Appearance of his Body, but in his Will, Laws,
and Authority, which is called Monarchial Government. But if you
remove Kingly Government, and set up true and free Commonwealth's
Government, then you gain your Crown and keep it, and leave peace
to your posterity: otherwise not. And thus doing makes a War either
lawful or unlawful."

Then follows this bold, manly challenge of the conduct of the Grandees
of the Army:

"AN ARMY MAY BE MURTHERERS AND UNLAWFUL.

"If an Army be raised to cast out Kingly Oppression, and if the
Heads of that Army promise a Commonwealth's Freedom to the
oppressed people, in case they will assist in person and purse, and
if the people do assist and prevail over the Tyrant, those Officers
are bound by the Law of Justice (who is God) to make good their
engagements. And if they do not set the Land free from the
branches of the Kingly Oppression, but reserve some part of the
Kingly Power to advance their own particular interest, whereby some
of their friends are left under as great slavery to them as they
were under the Kings, those Officers are not faithful
Commonwealth's Soldiers, they are worse Thieves and Tyrants than
the Kings they cast out, and that Honor they seemed to get by their
Victories over the Commonwealth's Oppressor, they lose again by
breaking Promise and Engagement to their oppressed friends who did
assist them.

"For what difference is there between a professed Tyrant, who
declares himself a Tyrant in words, laws and deeds, as all
Conquerors do, and him who promises to free me from the power of
the Tyrant if I'll assist him; and when I have spent my estate and
blood, and the health of my body, and expect my bargain by his
engagements to me, he sits himself down in the Tyrant's Chair, and
takes the possession of the Land to himself, and calls it his and
none of mine, and tells me he cannot in conscience let me enjoy the
Freedom of the Earth with him, because it is another man's right."

HIS ACCOUNT OF HIS OWN CIRCUMSTANCES.

"And now my health and estate is decayed and I grow in age, I must
either beg