We Want Pensions for Our Widows, Orphans and Wounded

In early april, parliament voted to offer the troops a choice, serve in ireland or disband. The soldiers asked who will be leading the irishxeit? And the delegation told them it was going to be, not fairfax and not cromwell. But before we knocked the presbyterians too much, they had been presented with another petition making the rounds that was far more political, far more radical and far more unsettling than about anything any englishman had ever seen. We want pensions for our widows, orphans and wounded. Third, anyone who remains in service is going to get paid on time. Fourth, men who volunteered to serve can't be forced to fight outside