Several ways of getting Hands in the Country. Bum. _Nay, the thing was well enough_ Citt, _if we could but have gone through with it: And you shall see now that we were put to our shifts in the_ Country, _as well as you in the_ City. _I was employ'd you must know, to get_ Names _at_ four shillings a Hundred, _and I had all my_ Real Subscriptions _written at such a distance, one from another, that I could easily clap in a Name or two betwixt 'um; and then I got as many_ School-boys _as I could, to underwrite after the same manner, and after this, fill'd up all those spaces with_ Names _that I either_ Remember'd, _or_ Invented _my self, or could get out of two or three_ Christning-books. _There are a World (ye know) of_ Smiths, Browns, Clarks, Walkers, Woods, _so that I furnish'd my Catalogue with a matter of Fifty a piece of these_ Sir-names_, which I_ Christen'd _my self. And besides, we had all the_ Non-conformist Ministers _in the_ Country _for us, and they brought in a power of hands_. The Protestant Dissenters great Promoters of the Petition. _Citt._ What do you talk of _your Non-conformists_? They do but work _Journey-work_ to _Ours_. We have the _Heads_ of all the _Protestant Dissenters_ in the _Nation_ here in this Town, why, we have more _Religions_, _Bumpkin_, in _this City_, then you have _People_ in your whole _Country_. Bum. _Ay, and 'tis a great blessing too, that when_ Professors _are at so mighty Variance among_ themselves_, there should be so wonderfull an_ Agreement _in the_ Common Cause. _Citt._ And that's notably observ'd, _Bumkin_; for so we found it here. The _Presbyterian_ got hands of _His Party_; the _Independent_ of _His_; the _Baptist_ of _His_; the _Fifth-Monarchy_ man of _His_; and so throughout all our Divisions: and we had still the most zealous man in His way, to gather the _Subscriptions_: And when they had completed their _Roll_, they discharg'd themselves as Naturally into the _Grand Committee_, as _Rivers_ into the _Sea_. And then we were sure of all the _Republicans_. Bum. _But after all this_ Care _and_ Industry_, how was it possible for the business to_ Miscarry? _Citt._ Why I know 'tis laid in our dish, that when we had set the whole Kingdome agogg upon _Petitioning_, our hearts would not serve us to go through stitch, and so we drew our own necks out of the Collar, and left the Countries in the Lurch. Bum. _Nay that's the Truth on't,_ Citt_; We stood all gaping for_ London _to lead the way_. _Citt._ The great work that we look't upon was the gaining of a _well-affected Common-Council_; which we secur'd upon the _Election_, with all the skill, and watchfullness imaginable. Bum. _And that was a huge point_ Citt; _but how were ye able to compasse it_? Tricks to defeat Elections. _Citt._ Why we had no more to do, then to mark those that we knew were not for our turns, either as _Courtiers_, or _Loose-livers_, or _half-Protestants_, and their business was done.