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A85018	A happy handfull, or Green hopes in the blade; in order to a harvest, of the several shires, humbly petitioning, or heartily declaring for peace.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing F2437; Thomason E1021_17; ESTC R208465	46,178	87

Single Staple of Pirates than many lesser ones sprung since every where the cause why rich men will not as poor cannot adventure 4. Our second misery is increase yea superfetation of Taxes so long as so numerous an Army is maintained For though some of their Souldiers will preach gratis conscientious to take nothing for that which they know is worth nothing yet none will fight at so cheap a rate 5. Some will say that what the Souldier receiveth with one hand he returneth with another expending his pay in Victuals Cloaths c. whereby Coin by circulation is continued in our Country This I deny for some Grandees greatned by the Times have made their Monies over in Banks beyond the Seas which are put into MORTMAIN or a Dead hand whereby no profit accreweth to our Commonwealth Others having gotten the Estates of Lords live after the rate Yoomen whose discretion therein is to be commended for proportioning their expences for fear of afterclaps rather according to their original than present condition 6. The increase of Taxes must inevitably cause the ruine of our Nation For though still there be wealthy men left as they shew it in their cowardise and fear to engage for the general good yet they grow thinner every day whilst such as are left no root of their own rather than they will wither will turn Suckers on the Stock of others So that the greatest happiness rich men can promise to themselves is only to be last devoured though the comfort of the lateness will not countervail the sadness for the certainty of their destruction Indeed it is miraculous that our Nation hath subsisted so long and few there are that would believe that the whole Candle of our English wealth could last so long as we have beheld it burning in the Socket but now giving the last blaze if God be not merciful and men discreet to prevent it 7. Pass we from the sad Malady to the sole Remedy thereof I say sole not exclusively of divine miraculous power but according to humane apprehension this is a Free and full Parliament Indeed Free-Parliament is a Tautology like a Reasonable-man who if not reasonable is no man as the other if not free no Parliament But the late frequent forces put on Parliaments hath made the needless Epethite become necessary to express what kinde of Parliaments we desire Not such in which every word must be spoken under correction of the Sword but wherein every Member without fear of violence to interrupt or dissolve them may follow the dictates of their own judgement 8. Nor ought a Parliament onely bee free from Force but also from any Abjurations or previous Engagements Let them take heed of renouncing any thing save what is simply sinful in it self as the forsaking of the World Flesh and Devil as was solemnly promised for them in their Baptism But it is bad to bee busie with other Ab-renunciations especially of the Royal Family 9. Look backward and we may say with David The Vows of the Lord are upon us I mean on so many of us as are of fifty years of age The Oath of Supremacy not to mention the Covenant is the eldest Brother to whom the inheritance of our Consciences do belong 10. Look forwards it limiteth Gods Providence which is an hainous offence wee know not what a day month year c. may bring forth This Age hath the least reason of any to meddle with the edge-tools of such Oathes which in a short but strict time hath seen so many strange things that now nothing is strange unto us Have wee not seen O. Cromwell from a private Gentleman gradatim ascend to bee Protector of three Nations and by his Courage and Wisdome rather than any right a more absolute Power possessed by and larger Tribute paid unto him than to any King in England His Son and Successour counted bad by many for his goodness and milde spirit for eighth months was congratulated by the most considerable Persons of our Nation Now if some twenty years since an Oath had been tendred unto us to abjure the Family of Cromwels from ever having the Supream Magistraey in our Nation such an Oath would have seemed safe but yet it was not lawful to take it because none knew what was in the Womb of Teeming Time though utterly improbable to our belief 11. Besides the Imposers of this Oath may miss the mark they propound to themselves viz. assurance of their own and discovery of the opposite Party for many now pass not for the taking or breaking of any Oath and assurance of such is hard in keeping and indeed not worth the having Other will behold the Oath as temporary and expiring with the power of the Imposers As for the conscientious indeed Esfusing it out of pure principles of piety it is a barbarous act for persons in power to turn Executioners to strangle tender Consciences whose cordial fear of an Oath should be encouraged 12. As the Parliament must be free no Vassal but enfranchised from the Sword so must it bee full no Cripple but entire and compleat in all the Members thereof Our Land hath lately groaned under the most grievous Monopoly as ever was or can be when a handful of men have grasped to themselves the representing of a whole not to say three Nation most of them being but Burgesses who though equal in Votes are not equal in their Representation with the Knights of the Shires If they presume that the rest excluded by them far more considerable for Birth Estates Number Love of the People and what not are vertually included in them it is an intollerable PRESUMPTION That what pertaineth to all should be handled by all is a Truth so clear and strong that they must offer a Rape to their own Reason that deny it Such also is this Maxim Vnrepresented Vnconcluded So that if so few have in them the notion of a Parliament it is a bare Notion indeed especially seeing this handful of men were say the Cavaliers dissolved by the death of the King dissolved said Cromwell by his Sword dissolved say some Great ones by an Act of their own entred into the Journall Book of the Parliament dissolved must their own Consciences say by their voluntary accepting of Elections in later Parliaments 13. Now the Members of a Free and full Parliament the onely Hope of Humane help ought thus to be qualified 1. Let them be Godly and Well-affected indeed and not in the canting language of the Times 2. Men of Estates who will be tender in taxing others as striking them thorough themselves whilst such who bear nothing care not how much they burthen others as if paying were as easie as voting and Money as free as words 3. Men of spirits no dull Souls all the sparks of whose activity are quenched in their own flegm 4. No Gainers by the continnance of the Army Demetrius the Silver-smith was no fool what ever else he was so sticking for

LEICESTER Delivered to His Excellency the Lord General MONK At St. Albans the Thirtieth of January 1659. by George Fawnt Esquire High Sheriffe of the said County Willam Boothby Richard Orton and Richard Halford Esquires entrusted for that purpose by the whole County WE the Knights Gentlemen Ministers Free-holders and Inhabitants of the County of Leicester humbly conceiving that the first Force put upon the Parliament hath been an encouragement and occasion to all the rest And finding that your Excellency under God hath been the principal means for repairing the last interruption are the more encouraged to desire your assistance in the promoting of these our just desires as a visible means of an happy Peace and Settlement of these Nations And whereas every free-born person of England is supposed to be present in Parliament by the Knights and Burgesses of the place where he liveth and thereby is presumed to give his consent in all things that pass in Parliament There is not as we are credibly informed one Knight for all the Counties in Wales nor for divers Counties in England and some of them the greatest in England as that of Yorkshire We therefore desire that all vacant places be supplied whether they became vacant by death or judgment of Parliament And that those that were secluded by force in the year 1648. may sit again And that no previous Oath or Engagement be put upon any that is chosen by his Countrey to sit and vote freely in Parliament That the fundamental Laws of England the Priviledges of Parliament the Liberties of the People and the Property of Goods may be asserted and defended according to the first Declaration of Parliament when they undertook the War and no Taxes or Free-quarter imposed upon any without Authority of Parliament That the true Protestant Religion may be professed and defended all Heresies Sects and Schisms discountenanced and suppressed a lawfull succession of Godly and able Ministers continued and encouraged and the two Universities and all Colledges in both of them preserved and countenanced That a fitting and speedy course be taken for the paying and discharging the Arrears of such Officers and Soldiers as submit to Authority of Parliament and that they may be speedily reduced to a lesser number for the easing of the great Taxes and Burthens of these Nations The humble Address and hearty desires of the Gentlemen Ministers and Free-holders of the County of Northampton Presented to his Excellency the Lord General Monck at his arrival at Northampton January 24. 1659. WE the Gentlemen Ministers and Free-holders of the County of Northampton humbly conceiving that the first force put upon the Parliament hath been an encouragement to open the way to all the rest and finding that your Excellency under God hath been the principal means for the repairing of the last Interruption are the more encouraged and having the conveniency of your presence now amongst us to desire your assistance in the procuring these our just desires as the visible means of a happy Peace and Settlement of these Nations 1. That whereas every free-born Subject of England is supposed to be present in Parliament by the Knights and Burgesses of the place where he liveth and thereby is presumed to consent to all things that passe in Parliament So it is now that there is not one Knight for all the Counties in Wales nor for divers Counties in England and some of them the largest in England as that of Yorkeshire 2. That no free-born Subject of England may have any Taxes levied upon him without his consent in Parliament 3. To that end That all vacant places may be supplied whether they became vacant by Death or Seclusion and that those that were secluded by force in the year 1648 may sit again and that no previous Oath or Engagement may be put upon any that is chosen by his Countrey to sit and vote freely in Parliament 4. That the fundamental Lawes of England the Priviledges of Parliament the Liberty of the Subject and the Property of Goods may be asserted and defended according to the first Declarations of the Parliament when they undertook the War 5. That the true Protestant Religion may be professed and defended all Heresies Sects and Schisms discountenanced and suppressed a lawfull succession of Godly and able Ministers continued and incouraged and the two Universities and all Colledges in both of them may be preserved and countenanced 6. That all the Soldiery that will acquiesce in the Judgment of a free and full Parliament in the promoting and setling a happy Peace upon those foundations may have their Arrears paid and as many of them as the Parliament shall think necessary may be continued in the publick service and that as many of them as have been Purchasers of Lands from the Parliament may either enjoy their Bargains or their Money paid back with Interest and some considerable advantage over and above for their satisfactions as the Parliament shall judge expedient for the publick good of the Nation This Address was prepared by the Gentlemen c. abovesaid to be presented to General Monck at his entrance into Northampton To his Excellency the Lord General MONCK The Congratulation and Addresse of us the Knights Divines Free-holders and others of the County of BUCKS. Humbly sheweth THat with all possible Gratitude we admire the wise and gracious dispensation of things by Almighty God who hath moved your self and other the worthy Officers with you to such just and honorable Resolutions as to put your selves into the breach then when Tyranny Irreligion and all Confusion like a mighty Flood were ready to break in upon us An occasion in which whether the noblenesse of the Attempts or the Happinesse of the Successe were more considerable after times will take pleasure to discourse and we at present congratulate these your Sentiments of Honour and Conscience Sir Our credit abroad is impaired our Trade at home is decayed our Fundamental Laws are violated our primitive Apostolick Religion endangered The cause of all which we humbly conceive is the force and violence put upon the Parliament in the year 1648. and since to obviate all which evils we request the total removal of that force and that all surviving Members so secluded be restored to the discharge of their Trust Vacancies be supplied by free Elections according to Law that no previous Oaths or Engagements be put upon any of them that shall be chosen to sit and Vote in Parliament Sir this is our desire and as we observe 't is the voice of the whole People and that is the voice of God we doubt not but that you have been reserved for such a time as this in pursuance of which we are ready to hazard our Lives and Estates A DECLARATION Of the CITY and COUNTY of Gloucester BEing deeply affected and most sadly sensible of the present Miseries which both our selves and the whole Nation lie under We cannot be altogether silent in the expressions of our

Monies Customes Excises Rents Revenues Taxes Imposts Sequestrations or other goods profits whatsoever to the use of the publick may be speedily called to account in each County by fitting unaccountable persons appointed for that end and all their frauds and abuses therein enquired of and condignly punished 14. That all good Laws formerly enacted for the preservation and defence of the Persons Lives Liberties Properties of the Subjects against illegal Imprisonments Banishments Restraints Confinements corporal punishments execution by any Person or Persons Powers Committees Council of State Military Civil Officers or Judicatures whatsoever and against all unjust Taxes Confiscations Sequestrations Rapines Plunders may be ratified and the late and future violations of them exemplarily punished 15. That every person who shall from henceforth Canvas for voices to make himself a Knight Citizen Burgess or Baron of the Ports in the next or any ensuing Parliament either by Letters of Recommendation from Great men feasting the Electors before at or after Elections Gifts Bribes or otherwise shall upon due proof thereof be made uncapable to sit or serve in Parliament 16. That all Members of Parliament Officers of State Justices Sheriffs Mayors Recorders shall henceforth take a Corporal Oath to the best of their knowledge skill power inviolably to preserve the Fundamental Laws Liberties Franchises of the Free-men of England and to give all Lawes for the defence of them in charge to the Grand Jury in their respective Assizes and General Sessions of the Peace that they may enquire and present all offences against and violations of them to be condignly punished according to Law 17. That all unnecessary Garrisons Supernumerary Souldiers and Sea-men may be speedily paid off dismantled disbanded and all superfluous Officers excessive Fees and extortions whatsoever taken away for the impoverished peoples ease and the manifold extortions abuses of Gaolers Marshals Messengers and other detainers of Prisoners punished and redressed 18. That Able Faithful Consciencious fitting Persons fearing God and hating covetousnesse may be preferred to all Offices Places of publick Trust and Administration of Justice and detur digniori made the only rule in all Elections and Preferments whatsoever 19. That all Universities Colleges Schools of Learning in our three Nations with all Lands Rents Annuities Gifts Revenues for their support may be constantly maintained preserved from rapine and all mis-imployments substractions of them and of any Lands Rents Annuities Monies Gifts Legacies to them or any other publick or charitable use whatsoever diligently enquired after and reformed All which Proposals we are resolved by Gods gracious assistance with unanimity constancy and activity in our several stations with our lives and fortunes to prosecute and accomplish to our powers by all just and legal wayes with what ever else may conduce to the Peace Safety Unitie Wealth Prosperity of our Lacerated Macerated Naufragated Church and State wherein as we shall constantly pray for Gods Divine assistance and blessing upon our weak endeavours without which they will be altogether succeslesse So we cannot but confidently expect and shall importunately desire the cordial concurrence assistance prayers of all other Noblemen Knights Gentlemen Clergy-men Free-holders Citizens Burgesses and English Freemen without the smallest opposition that fo Righteousness and Peace may kiss each other and glory once more dwell within our Land wherein they have been strangers over-long And let all the People by their joynt subscriptions say Amen Amen Amen THE DECLARATION Of the Gentlemen Free-holders and Inhabitants of the County of BEDFORD WE the Gentlemen Free-holders and Inhabitants of the County of BEDFORD being truly sensible of the heavy pressures that we lie under having all our Civil and Religious Rights and Liberties daily invaded cannot in this common day of Calamity be silent but with the rest of the Nation make some enquiry after the way of Peace and Settlement And having met and considered thereof doe humbly Propose as the most probable meanes under God to compose all our Differences and cement all our Breaches both in Church and State the Assembling of a Full and Free PARLIAMENT without any previous Oaths or Engagements or Qualifications whatsoever saving what was in the year 1648. before the Force put upon the Parliament Or the re-admitting of the Secluded Members to the Execution of their Trusts with a full and free Supply of their Vacancies by Death And until one of these be done we do declare We shall not hold our selves engaged to pay the Taxes imposed upon us without our Consents so first had in Parliament THE DECLARATION OF THE Gentry Clergy and Commonalty of the County of ESSEX WEre it not that our former too unhappy Zeal in Idolizing those persons who are now become by far more oppressing than the Egyptian Task-masters at this time seconded with silence would bespeak us stupid and insensible we needed not to repeat the Sighs and Groans of an Oppressed and almost Ruined Kingdome But lest a tacit silence should render us complaint with Their Sacrilegious and Regicidious Proceedings we are necessitated to declare our present Thoughts and future Resolutions We cannot look upon our present Rulers without casting an Eye upon a Militant Church and there we finde them converting a House of Prayer into a Den of Thieves an Orthodox Learned and Reverend Clergy by them reduced to the extremest want under pretence of propagating the Gospel and those who are yet permitted to exercise their Ecclesiastical Function treatned to be deprived of Gods Allowance except in effect they will forsake Him and fall down to their Baal We cannot look into our Cloathing Towns but we behold Famine ready to assault them the poor and diligent Labourer for want of work not able to buy him bread so that those who before wrought with their hands at home are now forced to wander abroad and work with their tongues to beg life whilst we who although willing are hardly able through the Oppression which lyes upon us to relieve them And when we look upon the Instruments of these our Miesries and consider their Persons and Qualifications we cannot finde one publick Spirit not one wise man among them Their number is inconsistent with our Laws and a large part of that small number are reputed Relatives to Gaoles and Brothil-houses Persons who outwardly profess God but in their lives and actions utterly deny him who through their most perfidious Treacheries and reiterated Perjuries have blasted the honour of our Nation and rendred our Religion contemptible to all our Enemies Who while they pretend to strive for Religion and Liberties of the people have no other Cause but Cains thinking their Sins greater than can be forgiven and therefore per fas aut nefas they endeavour to lay a foundation for their own Security although in the Church and Kingdomes desolation These Premises considered we conceive our selves obliged and therefore readily and unanimously we do declare That with our Lives and Fortunes we will protect abet and assist all tho e