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worthy Remonstrators of the most Renowned City of London ansd the several Counties of this Kingdome in the pursuance of their several Declarations for a Full and Free Parliament which is the onely means under God to bring us out of this miserable Confusion in which at present we are plunged And we further declare That we will pay no Tax or other Imposition whatsoever but by Authority from our Representatives in a Full and Free Parliament Into whose hands we shall commit our Lives and Fortunes and into whose Results we will ever acquiesce Our eyes are up unto our God for Help and thence our Hopes are fixed on General Monke that God hath called him forth to be the Vmpier and Determiner of our Divisions and Oppressions by whom he will lead us through the Wilderness of our present Confusion and bring us to our desired Canaan In this Confidence we pray to God to Bless Direct and Keep Him Advertisement THis our Declaration had came forth a week since had not the Trappanning Diligence of an unworthy Member of our Country endeavoured the surprizal of it and us Let not three hundred and thirty hands an inconsiderable number for so great a County bespeak this Declaration forged we being forced to do in one day the work we had cut out for seven had we had time we had brought ten thousand hands such as upon a good occasion will bring hearts suitable to the merits of their Cause THE Declaration of the Gentry of the County of NOTTINGHAM And of the Town of Nottingham presented by way of Address to his Excellency the Lord General MONCK the 28. of February With a Letter to his Excellency and another to the Speaker of the PARLIAMENT WHat the people of this Land have suffered in their greatest Concernments both Religious and Civil by the late Disorders and frequent change of Government hath for a long time been the Argument of a general and sad complaint both to God and Man What the most publick sense of the Nation is as to the means of setling it in the possession of its antient and native Liberties is sufficiently known by the several Declarations of so many Counties already presented and published What God in great mercy hath done by your Excellencies means as his chosen Instrument to revive our dying hopes in plucking us as a brand out of the fire and that with so gentle a hand is the wonder and rejoycing of our souls In testimony therefore of our thankfulness to God and our grateful sense of your Excellencies most valiant and wise management of the Power he hath intrusted you with As also to evidence as Fellow-members our concurrence and sympath with those other parts of this great Body We the Nobility Gentry Ministry and Commonalty of the County of Nottingham and of the County of the Town of Nottingham do Declare That as it is our Judgement that the Nation ought so it is our earnest desire and shall be our endeavour by the use of all lawful means that it may be free in its Members in Parliament deputed from all parts impowred by antient and undoubted right to elect the best Expedient whereto at present we conceive to be either an admission of the Members secluded in 1648. and a filling up of Vacancies by new Elections or the speedy calling of another Parliament with such Qualifications as were then agreed on before there as a force upon the House We also claim it with the rest of the Nation as our uniquestionable right That nothing be imposed upon us by way of Tax or otherwise but by our consents first given and declared in a Full and Free Parliament And now considering how great things in prosecution of these just ends are already done for us as we do in most humble manner bless and praise his glorious name that hath thus far answered our desires so we do most earnestly beseech him to perfect in his due time what is so happily begun and in order thereto to bless and conduct your Excellency through all the remaining difficulties that may obstruct our present necessary Settlement upon the true lasting foundation of our known Laws and Priviledges In the vindication whereof we beseech your Excellency to be confident not only of our best wishes and thanks but also of our utmost assistance to the hazard of our lives and fortunes My Lord THis enclosed was intended to be presented to your Excellencies before we had notice of your Excellencies happy removal of all Force excluding Members from sitting in Parliament wherein though our desires are thereby granted yet we cannot but address the same to you that it may appear what your Excellency hath done therein is according to our sense and desire as well as those of other Counties that have gone before us in time though not in affection and that we shall in our places and callings be ready to make good what we have publickly declared for as the Parliament and your Excellency shall command us and remain Nottingham Feb. 23. 1650. My Lord your Excellencies most humble and faithful servants Mr. Speaker WE being desirous amongst other Counties to express our thanks to the Lord General Monke for his endeavours in our restitution to Peace and Settlement and to manifest our adherence to him and those under his command in the further prosecution of those good ends mentioned in our Address to him after we had subscribed and ordered these Gentlemen to wait upon him with the same We received the joyful news that all force was removed and a free admission given to all Members to sit in Parliament whereby our desires are so far accomplished that we might have acquiessed therein but only that we would not have our intentions and desires though obtained buried in oblivion We thought fit to present that Address to the Lord General and judge it our duties to express our thankfulness to God for your re-admission and our readiness in our places and callings to assist you in what you have so happily begun and humbly desire that by your Authority our Militia may be so setled that we may be serviceable to your Commands and capacitated to defend our selves against any discontented persons that may upon this change endeavour a disturbance of the publick Peace or deny your Authority Nottingham Feb. 23. 1659. Sir Your humble and faithful servants THE DECLARATION OF Sir Charles Coot Knight and Baronet Lord President of the Province of CONNAVGHT And the rest of the Council of Officers of the Army in IRELAND Present at DUBLIN Concerning the Re-admission of the Sucluded Members SInce the Authority of Parliament became openly violated and that by their own waged servants of the Army in England by whom 41. of the Members of Parliament were torn from the Parliament House in Dec. 1648. and imprisoned and a 160. other Members denied entrance into the House and about fifty more voluntarily withdrew themselves to avoid violence making in all of secluded Members about
Griefs and Declaration of our Desires and Thoughts of the most probable means by Gods assistance to give some remedy to our present Sufferings and prevention of our yet greater Calamities which threaten our speedy ruine The cause of all proceeding as we conceive is from that unhappy Disorder in that great Wheel of Government And that after all our great Sufferings and Trials the vast expence of Treasure and Blood for our Rights Liberties and Priviledges of Parliament which we take to be the Good old Cause such persons in whom we have already lodged our Trusts and who have sufficiently manifested their endeavours to perform the same namely Nathaniel Stephens Esq Sir John Seymore Kt. Edward Steephens Esq John Steephens Esq and the Right Honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax have been since December 1648. and still are denied the freedom of sitting and voting in Parliament The Restauration of which Members we desire with all freedom to their former Capacities And Declare we shall not otherwise consent to pay Tax or other Impositions or hold our selves bound by any Law to be made without a Restitution of these our Representatives with a supply of all Vacancies by a free Election according to the Fundamental Laws and Constitutions of this Nation it being the undoubted birth-right of all the Free-born people of England that no Tax or other Imposition be exacted from them or any new Law imposed upon them but by their consents had by their Representatives in a full and free Parliament And we further declare our hearty desires for the burying all former Animosities and Differences by a full and general Act of Oblivion and Indempnity with satisfaction to be given to Purchasers under any Act of Sale as by Parliament shall be thought fit And that no Officer or Soldier that hath ventured his life for the freedom of his Countrey and shall continue faithfull to those Principles may hereby receive any Discouragement We also declare That we shall freely and willingly consent that all such shall receive their Arrears and be continued so long as the Parliament shall think fit in order to the safety and preservation of the Nation and that such liberty be allowed to tender Consciences as is not opposite to the Scriptures or the established Laws of this Nation We also Declare That in pursuance of these our just Desires we shall not be wanting to the uttermost of our powers to engage our selves by all lawful ways and means with our Fellow Brethren in the just Vindication of our Liberties and shall neither count our Lives or Fortunes too dear to hazard for the Redemption thereof and herein we shall not doubt the ready Concurrence of all those in the three Nations whose Peace Prosperity and Safety is equally concerned with ours This Declaration being subscribed by great numbers of considerable persons of that County was to have been presented to the Speaker by some of them but considering how Sir Robert Pye and Major Finchers handsome behaviour was unhandsomly rewarded with imprisonment for a particular of the same nature it was thought more proper to preserve the liberty of Personages of so much worth til a better opportunity and therefore it is thought fit thus to communicate this for the vindication of this County and satisfaction of the whole Nation THE REMONSTRANCE Of the Knights Gentlemen and Freeholders of the County of GLOUCESTER WE do claim and avow it to be our undoubted Birth-right and Liberty That no new Laws much lesse any new Government can or ought to be imposed upon us nor any Taxes Contributions or Free-quarter taken of us without the consent of the People of this Nation in a Free-Parliament Assembled which Liberties have been often confirmed to us by the great Charter the Petition of Right and many other Statutes And Parliaments being the only Bulwarks and Defence of our Liberties as men and Christians ought to be freely elected and to sit and Vote without interruption or opposition by any persons whatsoever The Priviledges whereof we are all bound to maintain and defend and to assist and maintain each other in the defence thereof And therefore we resolve according to our bounden duty to joyn with the Lord Mayor and Common-Councel of the City of London and all other Counties in England in pursuance thereof And we do not doubt but all true hearted English men who love their own Liberties and are not willing to be made slaves or to enslave their Brethren will joyn with us herein A Letter agreed unto and subscribed by the Gentlemen Ministers Free-holders and Sea-men of the County of SUFFOLK Presented to the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Councel of the City of London Assembled January 30. 1659. Right Honorable PLease you to accept this Paper as a testimony that we are highly and gratefully sensible of those breathings and Essayes towards peace which your renowned City hath lately declared to the World As we earnestly wish that our serious and unanimous concurrence may ripen them to a perfect Accomplishment We are willing to consider it as an Omen of Mercy when we observe the Nation in general lifting up its Vows to Heaven for a free and full Parliament 't is that alone in its genuine sense which our Laws prescribe and present to us as the great Patron and Guardian of our Persons Liberties and Properties and whatsoever else is justly precious to us And if God shall by your hand lead us to such an obtainment after-Ages shall blesse your memory 'T is superfluous to spread before you your Merchandise decay'd your Trade declin'd your Estates wither'd Are there not many within your Walls or near them that in your ears deplore such miseries as ehese Your Lordship may believe that our prayers and persons shall gladly promote all lawfull means for our Recovery And we entreat that this cheerful suffrage of ours may be annex'd as a Label to your Honorable intendments This Letter was delivered according to its Superscription by Robert Broke Philip Parker and Thomas Bacon Esquires THE Declaration of the Gentry of the County of NORFOLK And of the County and City of NORWICH WE the Gentry of the County of Norfolke and County and City of Norwich being deeply affected with the sense of our sad Distractions and Divisions both in Church and State and wearied with the miseries of an unnatural Civil War the too Frequent Interruptions of Government the Imposition of several heavy Taxes and the loud Out-cries of multitudes of undone and almost Famished people occasioned by the general decay of Trade which hath spread it self throughout the whole Nation and these Counties in particular and having met together and consulted what may best remedy and remove our and the Nations present Grievances and Distractions Do humbly conceive that the chief Expedient will be the recalling of those Members that were secluded in 1648 and sate before the Force put upon the Parliament We of the County of Norfolk being by such Seclusion deprived of
and Nations for want of a setled Government and Free Parliament have many years by-past been violently rent in pieces wasted consumed made the very hissing scorn laughing-stock of all Neighbour Countries whether Friends or Foes Christians or Infidels and thereby exposed to the justly dreaded hostile Invasions of combined forraign Romish Adversaries whose Emissaries have been very active instrumental in our late Combustions and Changes being now deeply sensible of the deplorable desperate condition and imminent ruine not onely of our own Persons Families Posterities but of our dearest exhausted enthralled dying Native Country and Protestant Religion too far dearer to us than our Lives or private Interests the preservation whereof is the Supreamest Law and calling to our minds the first publick ends and causes for which we took up arms since totally perverted subverted oppugned by ambitious self-advancing Commanders Officers of the Army and others contrary to their Trusts and Commissions with the manifold Oaths Protestations Vowes Solemn League and Covenant and other Sacred as well as Civil Obligations lying upon our Consciences engaging us all in our several places and callings in this day of Englands trouble and extream danger to put our helping hands and best advice to obviate those Perils and remove those Disorders Grievances Confusions which menace utter desolation both to her and us if we should any longer fit stupidly silent or unactive in our spheres like persons altogether uninterested or unconcerned in these perillous times of unprefidented exorbitancies usurpations tyrannies over our Persns Estates Lawes Liberties and Parliaments themselves by ambitious turbulent Self-seekers and Incendiaries and of universal decay of trade by Sea and Land Have thereupon conceived it our necessary bounden duties in this sad posture of our Sacred and Civil Concernments both as Christians and English Freemen by this our joynt REMONSTRANCE to tender to the rest of our English Brethren throughout the whole Nation of what rank calling or condition soever such just legal safe rational honest and Christian Proposals as through Gods blessing upon our and their unanimous vigorous prosecution of them against all self-ended Opponents may redeem us from our present Bondage Dangers Schisms Confusions frequent Rotations of publick Government and restore our tottering Church State Kingdoms Religion to their pristine Unity Tranquillity Purity Stability Dignity Felicity and secure them against all future Concussions and Convulsions For which end we all passionately desire and shall unanimously and cordially endeavour by all lawful meanes within our Orbs 1. That a legal full and free Parliament of England may be speedily summoned according to the prescription of 16 Caroli c. 1. enacted for this purpose not hitherto put in execution and that free Elections of able Knights Citizens and Burgesses by and of all well-affected persons to Peace and the old Parliaments good Cause to represent them therein may be no wayes disturbed nor restrained by force of Armes or otherwise 2. That the said Parliament may safely freely meet at Westminster on the third Monday in January next to consult of vote and settle the Peace Government of our distracted Churches and Nations without the interruption disturbance force or dissolution of any Commanders Officers or Souldiers of the Army or other tumultuous persons whatsoever under pain of being declared prosecuted executed as Traitors and Enemies to the Publique 3. That the full power of the Militia both by Sea and Land be delivered up to this Parliament on the first day of their Convention therein for the better assurance of their free and peaceable Session and not continued as a distinct body or interest in opposition contradistinction or super-inspection but in real subordination to the Parliament and people 4. That the whole frame and settlement of the Government of our Nations be entirely referred to the Parliaments unanticipated consideration the proper Judges thereof without any antecedent restrictions presciptions or impositions by the Army-Officers or any others 5. That the Supreme Management of all Civil Politique Military Affairs and appointment of all great Officers of State and Ministers of Justice shall be in all the surviving Members of the long Parliament without secluding any as in a General Council of State and Safety only who are all desired to meet for that purpose till the New Free Parliament shall assemble and no longer 6. That the preservation of the Peace Government of each County shall be in the hands of such Sheriffs Conservators of the Peace and other antient Officers as the Free-holders of every County shall publickly elect in their County-Court according to their antient Rights and Liberties and of every City and Corporation in the Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs and other Officers elected by them according to their Charters Customs and in none other Officers imposed on them till the Parliament shall take further Order therein 7. That no Taxes Contributions Excises Imposts New Customs Militiaes or other Payments whatsoevet shall be henceforth imposed assessed levied upon or paid by the people but by their common grant and consent in free and full Parliament by Act of Parl. under pain of High Treason in the Imposers Assessors Collectors and voluntary payers thereof this being the peoples indubitable Birth right acknowledged declared confirmed by manifold Acts and Declarations old and new 8. That such an Act of Indempnity may be agreed on and assented to in this Parliament by common consent as may secure and indempnifie all persons whose future peaceable deportment till this Act passed shall demerit it 9. That care may be therein taken for the speedy satisfaction of all just arrears of all Officers and Souldiers duly listed before the 7. of May last who shall peaceably and dutifully submit to the free convening and safe sitting of this desired Parliament That all others who shall tumultuously oppose or interrupt the Summoning Assembling or Sitting thereof shall forfeit all their Commands Arrears Indempnity and incur the penalty of Traitors and publick Enemies to the Parliament and Nation 10. That an effectual course may be taken for the setled old maintenance succession protection and encouragement of a godly learned painful Orthodox Preaching Ministry throughout the three Nations 11. That due care and order may be taken for the speedy detection banishment and execution of the Lawes against all Jesuits Seminary Priests Freers and other Romish Emissaries or Seducers whatsoever employed to divide corrupt seduce the people and the Oath of Abjuration duly tendered by Justices of Peace and other Officers to all persons who shall be accused and justly suspected to be such for their better detection 12. That the causes of the great extraordinary decay of all sorts of Trade Merchandise Shipping Scarcity of Bullion Coin with all frauds and abuses in Manufactures dilatory vexatious proceedings extortions in Courts of Law and Equity may be diligently enquired into redressed punished and the great destruction and waste of Timber in all parts inhibited under severe penalties 13. That all Treasurers Receivers Collectors Farmers of any
that they never heard the said Principles or had them any way communicated to them much lesse ever consented to the same or any of them This Court being deeply sensible of these great Indignities doth declare That the said Lord Mayor is so far from deserving any of the said Affronts or Aspersions that he hath highly merited the great Honour and Esteem of this Court and the whole City having in all things demeaned himself with much Prudence and faithfull Integrity to this City and Court which doth therefore return his Lordship their most hearty thanks And that the said Committee in all their Transactions touching the Peace and safety of this City have also discreetly and faithfully discharged their Trust to their own trouble and great satisfaction of this Court And whereas this Court and City hath been lately represented by some as having deserted their first Cause and Declarations in the use of all lawfull means for the maintenance of the true reformed Protestant Religion according to the Scriptures The support and maintenance of a settled lawfull Magistracy a learned pious Ministery and publick Universities with the ancient fundamental Laws of the Nation Just Rights Properties and Liberties of all Persons And for these ends will endeavour all they lawfully may the speedy convening of a Free Parliament to sit and Act without Interruption or Molestation by any persons whatsoever Sadler To the Right Honorable our worthy and grave Senators the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Comonalty of the City of London in Common Council assembled The humble Petition and Address of divers Young Men on the behalf of themselves and the APPRENTICES in and about this honorable City Most humbly sheweth IT hath pleased the good and only wise God for our and the Nations crying sins to manifest his displeasure for many years together against these our flourishing now sadly divided distracted and almost ruined Nations and yet blessed be God this honorable City hitherto hath been no proportionable sharer in the Calamities which our Brethren in other parts of these now miserable Nations have suffered which are now aggravated by our Divisions and such a general decay of trading as doth exceed the worst of former times all which we look upon as a most sad presage of some art and dismal judgement very near at hand if not our sudden ruine together with the destruction and utter dissolation both of Church and State which will inevitably ensue as a just reward upon our multiplied provocations under the most signal manifestations of Gods most gracious presence and the most engaging Mercies that ever People did enjoy unlesse it please our most gracious God whose Name hath been exceedingly dishonored by the violation of many sacred and solemn Oaths amongst us to work our deliverance out of this contexture of dangerous mischiefs into which we have already wound our selvs or which as the innundations of mighty Waters may suddenly break in upon us and being sadly sensible of the Calamities under which the three Nations groan for want of a well-ordered and established Government We being members in the same pollitical Body cannot but sympathize with the rest of our Brethren and forasmuch as our endeavours may contribute very much thereto and the well or ill management of your talents in the discharge of your Trusts may now make these Nations happy or else make them irrecoverably miserable We hold our selves obliged in conscience to God and our Countrey both by the Laws of God and the Land in the behalf of our selves and all good and peaceable People in the Land and the many thousands that know not their right hand from their left and in the behalf of the Children unborn who in time to come may have cause to blesse or curse the day of their birth for your sakes do make this humble Addresse to you as the only means under God now left us to redresse these growing mischiefs which make us and the three Nations in these times of our great trouble cry unto you as those of Macedonia did in the Apostles Vision Come and help us And we beseech you our most grave and worthy Senators as you tender the welfare of these bleeding Nations to stand in the wide gap of our breaches with your Prayers improving your Councils and every Talent which God hath reposed in you for the honour of God and the peace of his Church by a reall reformation and we question not but our most gracious God will then break through the thick Clouds of these black and dark providences and return unto us our Judges as at the first and our Counselors as at the beginning with the abundance of the blessings of peace that Judgement may run down our streets and Righteousness as a mighty stream And we humbly desire the two great Pillars of the Land Magistracy and Ministry may be asserted and encouraged in order unto which we humbly present unto your grave and serious consideracions First the Priviledges of the Gospel which we do enjoy at this day in the faithfull preaching and dispensing of Gods holy Word and Sacraments together with the labours of so many of his faithfull Servants in the Ministry and the liberty of these sacred Ordinances being the best and choicest of our National blessings in respect of which we may well say with holy David God hath not dealt so with any Nation which with thankfulnesse we desire to ackowledge as a great mercy to this Land And should the Lord remove this Candlestick out of its place as we have just cause to fear he will unlesse we do repent Then may we indeed complain with Phineas his Wife the glory is departed from our Israel and a dark and dismal night of black and gloomy Ignorance Error and Prophanenesse will envelope our Valley of Vision And to the end that this choice Blessing which we account more precious than our lives may be conveyed to Posterity we most humbly desire the Ministry may be Countenanced and encouraged the Universities upheld and maintained which have nursed many famous Preachers for Piety and Learning in this and former Ages and your Authority used for the terror of evil doers but the praise of them that do well Secondly we esteem and assert as our undoubted birth-right the Freedom and Priviledges of our Parliaments as being the great Charter of the people of England which we account equally dear with our lives in the enjoyment of which we yet hope under God to see a happy and lasting settlement both in Church and Scate Therefore we most humbly desire that a new Election may be made or else that those worthy Gentlemen chosen to serve as Members in the late free Parliament may be restored to their priviledges and sit without disturbance or force from the Army that they may consider in this evil time what England Scotland and Ireland ought to do which with submission to your grave judgements we humbly conceive to be the most probable means under God to
a like sense to manifest our Resolutions to the same effect in a Declaration sent to General Monke whereof the Inclosed is a Copy We have thought good to give your Lordship an account of our intentions as that to which we are most firmly resolved to adhere wishing it may effect the end by our selves and as we are perswaded by your Lordship and all good people of that City intended We remain York Feb. 10. 1659. Your Lordship 's very humble Servants Thomas Fairfax Faulconberge Bar. Bouchier Vicecomes Christopher Topham Mayor c. Which Letter with the Declaration therein inclosed was also the same day delivered by Sir Thomas Wharton and the rest of the said Gentlemen to the Lord Mayor of London desiring it might be communicated to the Common-Councel according as by the Letter it was desired The same day also a particular letter was presented to the Lord General Monke from the Lord Fairfax dated Feb. 14. in confirmation of the said Declaration which was delivered by Mr. Bryan Fairfax who was sent up on purpose with the said Letter THE DECLARATION OF THE Gentry Ministers Free-holders of the County and City of LINCOLNE WE the Gentry Ministers and Free-holders of the County and City of Lincolne being truly sensible of our Miseries and Grievances namely the sad consequents of Intestine War the fear of Invasion from abroad at this time of our Distractions and Divisions both in Church and State the violent alteration of Government the heavy imposition of unheard of Taxes All which of late years hath ruined our Trade and impoverished the whole Nation and are all occasioned by reason of the many Violences and Breaches made upon our known established Laws and fundamental Liberties Do therefore humbly propose and declare having first met and consulted as other Countries have done that the onely remedy for our said Grievances will be for a Free Full Parliament speedily to be called and assembled to sit according to our said known established Laws wherein the Free Votes of all Free People of this Nation might be included since that such onely have a legal capacity to enact Laws and Statutes that may equally binde all the Free people of this Nation And therefore if any persons how ever impowred not having the Authority of such a Parliament shall take upon them to lay impositions upon the Free people of this Commonwealth or to prescribe or enjoyn any Limitations Restrictions or Quallifications whatsoever not formerly agreed upon in full Parliament We do declare our selves not obliged thereto as being destructive to the freedome and undoubted Priviledges of Parliament A DECLARATION Of all the WATERMEN In about the City of LONDON between GRAVESEND and STANES OR A Hue and Cry after Col. WHITTON and his Decoys WHereas it hath been seemingly by the insinuatious of some few of us cast on our whole Company that we would lay our shoulders and stretch out our helping hands for the upholding of something which to our selves is both unknown and uncertain and may likewise in probability be a cause of disturbance if not breaking the peace of the Nation We to manifest Our innocency in the one particular and vindicate our selves from the scandal thereof as also to shew our real and hearty concordance with all other Noblemen Gentlemen Citizens and others of the several Counties of England whose Declarations are exposed to the publick view doe cordially unanimously and freely declare That the List annexed of our names to a Petition pretended by our consent to be presented to the Members sitting at Westminster is not at all by us owned neither doe we know any other Authors or Abettors thereof than some few here under-mentioned our names in truth being gained by Colonol Whitton under the pretence to put down Hackny Coachmen but by him converted to another use and that so contrary to our thoughts and intentions that we would sooner have quitted our nearest relations than have consented to such ebulliences For the undeceiving therefore of the Gentry of this Nation to whom many yea most of us are obliged and consequently not unknown for the rectifying the judgments of such as know us not and for the satisfaction of the whole Free-born Subjects of England who with us claim a birth-right in Magna Charta and the Petition of Right we doe further with one Consent declare That we conceive it fitting for the redressing the grievous wants and pressures that lie upon all the good people of this Nation that according to Fundamental Right the People in Parliament may have their Representatives who may receive their grievances and present them in their behalf whereby to obtain a remedy And because Faction and Schism hath already too great a root that honest and prudential men may be Elected whose Estates as to Temporals and Religion as to Spirituals may oblige them sincerely to endeavour a Settlement both in Church and State The onely meanes for attaining of which ends we conceive by the blessing of God to be a full and free Parliament which as we know the Nation groans for so we cordially desire and we shall not acquiesce till we have regained that our undoubted Right hitherto unquestioned Priviledge and never to be denied Lawful Demand In the defence whereof we shall account nothing too dear to lose being ready to quit not onely our Employments but to lay aside our relations and lay our lives at stake This Representation is owned by Ten Thousand of us which if desired shall be acknowledged both with our hands and hearts against all the malicious underminings of Col. Whitton the Painter and his Decoys Who upon the tendring that forged Petition to the Watermens Hall being conscious that the rankness of the Trepan would be presently sented addrest themselves to Mr. Pryn to en their Protest against it their names are hereunto annexed Viz. Wil. Lemond Josias Smith Wil. Crop Wil. Goodale Thomas Slator Tho. Wasborn John Howard Wil. Bugby Robert Crop Tho. Vincent John Foster John Lee Wil. Sound Jacob Meade Wil. Clerk Martin Craul Roger Phillips Fran. Borrick Richard Thusee Wil. Butler The Remonstrance of the Noblemen Knights Gentlemen Clergy-men Free-holders Citizens Burgesses Commons of the late Eastern Southern Western Associations who desire to shew themselves Faithful and Constant to the Good Old Cause the Priviledges and Freedom of Parliament the Liberty and Property of the Subjects Laws of the Land and true Reformed Religion which they were formerly called forth and engaged to defend by Declarations of Parliament the Protestation and Solemn National League and Covenant WE the Noblemen Knights Gentlemen Clergy-men Freeholders Citizens Burgesses and Commons of the late Eastern Southern and Western Associations of England whose names are hereunto subscribed having for a long season with bleeding hearts perplexed spirits weeping eyes and over-much patience and silence beheld the miserable publick Distractions intollerable Oppressions various Revolutions great Tumults and destructive Confusions wherewith our former most glorious flourishing Churches