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R210617 I Am a poore Committee-man / (although there be not many) You need not goe too farre to aske, / examine M. Needam, / Hee'le sweare, all that the Scots have done, / is for the Kingdomes freedome. British Library - Thomason Tracts Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 11: 68 The Committee-mans Complaint, and the / SCOTS Honest Vsage. The Committee-man's Complaint, and the SCOT'S Honest Usage. ?-?

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I Am a poore Committee-man (although there be not many) Yet where the bonny Blue-Caps come, those sure are poore, if any. The North was call'd the barren Land, we pittied were at London; To us the Plagues of Egypt came, and have our Countries undone. You need not goe too farre to aske, examine M. Needam, Hee'le sweare, all that the Scots have done, is for the Kingdomes freedome. That Money was first sent to them, but summon'd them together; The next great Sum was for them rays'd, that was to bring them hither: Our loyall friends, who call'd the Scots, now heartily abhorre them, But that Sir Thomas Fairfax came, they had not now sent for them. You need not etc. These Northern Locusts to us came in swarmes, like Bees together; But they may thank their Generall King, or they had nere raught hither: Had he beene like Sir Marmaduke, we then had struck a Battell; And made the bonny Blue-Cap run to Tweede, like Summer Cattell. You need not etc. But they into our Countrey came, and will you know the reason? 'Twas for our gudes they came, they say, and that could be no Treason. No sooner were they come, but they our gudes began to plunder, And left us nothing but our Soyle, that they could beare or sunder. You need not etc. They left us Sicknesses and Sinnes, (the Darlings of that Nation)
The Flux, the nastie Pestilence, Lust, Pride, Dissimulation; Besides, they have infected us with strange Religious Treasons, And maskt them with a Covenant, more to abuse our Reasons. You need not etc. Besides their Money monthly rays'd, our Lands were sequestrated, Two hundred thousand pounds they got, and all their demands stated: All what they lik't, our Horse and Armes they tooke so they disarm'd us, And left the North as poore as Job, and swore our wealth but harm'd us. You need not etc. They out of of Yorkshire carryed more then would have bought two Scotlands, Yet could not keepe our Horse alive, they have lesse Grasse then Oat-lands: Our men in Scotland dy'd like Dogs, with change of Ayre and Dyet, With gude Oatmeale, long & short Keale, yet will they not be quiet. You need not etc. This Needam is Britannicus, so they mis-name the Creature, There's scarce a Car-man in the Towne; but dares proclaime him traytor: And for the bonny Blue-Cap, I will be so bold to tell him, Had he his gude King Charles againe, for Siller he would sell him. But since the South, to save themselves, the Loyall North have undone, We hope there is a Northern man may now come even with London. You need not goe too farre to aske, examine M. Needam, Hee'le sweare, all that the Scots have done, is for the Kingdomes freedome.
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