of sober spirits and offended not the Parliament should out of their estates pay for those extravagant mens Delinquency rather than the Delinquents themselves And although the said Lieut. Gen. Ludlow and Miles Corbet Esq together with Col. John Jones and Col. Mat. Tomlinson stand impeached from hence most justly of High Treason and that charge against them being known to the House and there remaing yet they have admitted two of those persons namely the said Lieut Gen. Ludlow and Miles Corbet actually to sit in the said House And now the greatness of those miseries which have befaln these three Nations in General by such late actings in England and those heightned with many aggravations in the circumstances of them too many and too long to be repeated as it hath begotten in us and in all good men in the three Nations deep impression of astonishment and horror so it is evident that if it be any longer continued it will perpetually nourish dishonour to God grief to all god men and we doubt and fear utter infamy and destruction to the three Nations In contemplation whereof and considering how God hath in his justice blasted all attempts that since the year 1648. have been made for re-setling of these Nations in peace and tranquillity and that after all the trials and various changes of Government which we have in all that time with much long-suffering and patience endured there is no way visible to us under Heaven whence deliverance may be probably wrought or expected but from the care and wisdome of a Free and full Parliament in England which by the experience of all former ages hath been found the best and only expedient for providing remedies to be applied to so great and general mischiefs arising in Church or State And considering also that the marks of the true Reformed Religion according to the Word of God and of the fundamental Laws of the Land and of our now dying Liberties and Freedome are not yet so utterly razed and defaced but that some footsteps of them do yet remain so as by the wisdome of a full and Free Parliament they may be again renewed and firmly re-established and considering likewise that our hopes of having the said excluded Members restored and of new Elections to be made for vacant places whereby there might be a full and free Parliament as there was on Decem. 5. 1648. and the antient and long contested Liberties of the people might be asserted are much contrary to our expectations and contrary to the fundamental Laws of the Land and indeed contrary to all justice and become frustrated and considering further how unjust and unreasonable a thing it is that of above five hundred Members whereof the Commons House of Parliament usually consisted there were but four and forty or thereabouts when that fatal Vote passed for the keeping out the aforesaid excluded Members by the prevalency of a major part of the said 44. persons not much exceeding those who voted then on the contrary side which assumes to it self the Supreme Authority not onely of England but also of the three Nations without president or example of any former age there being above two hundred and fifty which stand eleven years excluded without so much as the least offer of an Impeachment against them in all that time which unexampled and unparallel'd assumption in those men is not possible to continue but by the force of an Army poisoned with Anabaptistical and corrupted principles to the continual grief and unsupportable burden and charge of the three Nations And besides that act of the aforesaid persons chasing away for so it now appears about two hundred and fifty Members of above five hundred chosen by all the several parts of England according to the known Laws of the Land to represent the whole Nation in Parliament and after the forcible exclusion of so many that the four and forty persons remaining amongst whom we believe there are some worthy Patriots who are not so fully concurring in the actings of the rest of their number as violently over-voted them which is a further aggravation of the others guilt should dare to usurp to themselves as is formerly mentioned contrary to all the Laws the Supreme power not only of England but also of Ireland and Scotland is a thing which none but Conquerors or Tyrants would attempt and in all circumstances is so hideous and monstrous to be endured by a Free people formerly famous to all the world for wisdome and valour as the English Nation have been as it will be incredible to all posterity And lastly considering that as in all Ages and more particularly since the beginning of the late horrid Rebellion in Ireland our Brethren in England have abundantly manifested a tender and compassionate sense of the condition in Ireland and were careful to relieve us in our lowest estate as bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh which we do and shal ever acknowledge with humble thankfulnesse and as a debt which we well know to be due from us to them above all people in the world shall be for ever as tender of their happinesse and welfare as of our own which indeed is involved in theirs and without whom Ireland cannot be happy We therefore remaining constant in the reasons of our said Declaration of Dec. 14. 1659. for adhering to the Parliament in defence of its Priviledges and the just Rights and Liberties of these Nations all which we see now are apparently more and more violated by the not admission of the said excluded Members and by not filling the vacant Places whereby the House might be full and being freed from force might uninterruptedly Act according to their Judgements and Consciences towards re-setling the peace of these Nations which otherwise in all humane probability can never be restored to Peace and Tranquillity We do therefore declare for a full and free Parliament in England consisting not only of those that sate on Oct. 11. 1659. but also of all such of the Members of Parliament imprisoned excluded or withdrawn in December 1648. as are yet living whom we desire may be restored to the freedome and liberty of sitting and acting according to the Trust committed to them by the several Counties and places which did chuse them that so they may be no longer debarred from discharging their said Trust and that vacant places may be speedily supplied by free and due Elections of the people yet so as none of the persons to be Admitted or Elected be any of those who have been in Arms or otherwise aiding abetting or assisting the late King or his Son in the late War against the Parliament and that the House being so filled may proceed unanimously to consult the best meanes for re-setling the Peace of the Nations the re-establishment of true Religion the surest foundaon as of all righteous Government so of all the happinesse of a Nation the fundamental Lawes of the Land whereby all mens rights
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
establish the true Protestant Religion reform the Laws secure our Liberties and preserve our lives and outward concernments to promote Learning end encourage Vertue whereby peace with our neighbour Nations may be renewed and established the Army satisfied their Arrears paid and Trading restored In all which most grave and worthy Senators your own concernments as well as ours are so deeply engaged that we perswade our selves you will be instumental to further our desires by all peaceable and lawfull means and we hope it will put an end to our Divisions which if God in mercy prevent not may soon break out into another civil War and render us as a prey to a forreign enemy For a Kingdom divided against it self cannot stand Now we leave it unto you our most grave and worthy Senators duly to consider if you part with these our great National Blessings whether you will not discover a palpable breach of trust and leave your names for a reproach to the generations following who will in the Ages to come rise up and call you blessed if you be carefull to preserve them now and convey them to Posterity And now we beseech the Lord to strengthen both your hearts and hands and give you wisdom from on high to direct you in all your Consultations as may be most for the honour of God the peace of his Church throughout the world and the settlement safety and happinesse of these poor Nations And by his assistance we resolve to stand by you and with you to the utmost hazzard of our lives and all that is deare unto us to promote the same Munday 5. December This day the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council being assembled the fore-recited Pitition was presented by several Young-men and Apprentices in behalfe of themselves and several thousands which have subscribed the same the which being received was ordered to be read and thereupon a Committee chosen to consider thereof and to give their speedy Report unto the next Court concerning the same At the same Court it was likewise Ordered that the Lord General Fleetwood should be desired to draw off the Soldiers unto their several Quarters it being then also Ordered that every Common Council man in his several Precinct should give notice to the House-keepers within the same that they should keep their Servants and Apprentices at home thereby to preserve the peace of the City To his Excellency the Lord General MONCK The Vnanimous Representation of the APPRENTICES and Young-men inhabiting in the City of LONDON Humbly sheweth THat the Glory of our Nation and the greatest Comfort of our Lives in our Civil Interests consists in the Priviledges and Liberties to which we were born and which are the undoubted Inheritance of all the free people of England among which the grand and essential Priviledges which discriminates Free-men from Slaves is the Interest which every man hath in the Legislative power of the Nation by their Representatives assembled in Parliament without which however we may flatter our selves or be flatter'd by others we are truly no better than Vassals govern'd by the will and pleasure of those who have no relation to us or our common Interest Now how much this dear Priviledge of the People hath been assaulted by the open violence of some and secret artifice of others and to what a deplorable condition we are brought at this present period when heavy Taxes are imposing upon mens Estates and new Laws upon our Persons without any consent of the People had in a free Parliament and how generally through the said distractions in Government Trading is decayed and how much we are likely to suffer thereby in our times and places we cannot but remonstrate to your Excellency constrain'd through the sense of our present sufferings and apprehensions of greater to implore your assistance most humbly beseeching your Excellency by that ancient love you have born to your Native Countrey zeal to our Liberties by that great Renown you have lately gain'd in opposing the cruel raging of the Sword by the common Cries of the People and by the hopes and cheerful expectation of all England now fix'd upon you and lastly by your own Personal Concern in the same common Cause as a free-born English man that you would be pleased to use those great advantages Divine Providence hath now put into your hands to the securing your Native Countrey from those dangerous usurpations and preserving us in those Liberties to which we were born That no Tax may be imposed nor new Law made nor old abolisht but with the consents of the People had by their Representatives in Parliament freely to be chosen without terror or limitations and freely to sit without any Oath or Engagement previous to their entrance without which special Liberties the Parliament cannot in any construction be esteemed the free Assembly of the People and by your Excellency's asserting of those our undoubted Rights in your present advantages you will certainly by the blessing of God and unanimous concurrence of the People accomplish our ends and will thereby gain the hearts and hands of the whole Nation and the City in particular and purchase to your self a Name that shall make every true English man call you blessed and Posterity shall hereafter delight to recount the famous Acts of their worthy Patriot This was delivered to his Excellency at S. Albans on Thursday Febr. 2. 1659. by persons elected for that purpose and had a very cheerfull Reception THE DECLARATION Of the Nobility Gentry Ministry and Commonalty of the County of KENT Together with the City and County of Canterbury the City of Rochester and the Ports within the said County HAving with sadnesse weighed the multiplied calamities wherein we are at present involved how friendlesse we are abroad and how divided at home the loud and heart-piercing cries of the poor and the disability of the better sort to relieve them the total decay and subversion of Trade together with the forfeiture and losse of the Honour and Reputation of the Nation what is more dear to us than all these the apparent hazzard of the Gospel through the prodigious growth of Blasphemies Heresies and Schism all which own their birth to the instability of our Governors and the unsettlement of our Government Lastly how in all these an universal ruine threatneth us and will if not timely prevented doubtlesse overwhelm us We thought it our bounden duties both as Christians out of tendernesse to our Religion as English men to our Countrey and as Friends to our selves and our Relations to represent and publish to the world our just griefs for and our lively resentments of this our deplorable condition and to seek all lawfull and probable means to remedy and redresse the same Wherefore having the leading Examples of the renowned Cities of London and Exeter together with the Counties of the West before our eyes and the clamors and out-cries of the People always in our ears whereof the one encourageth and
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
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