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lord_n	edward_n	sir_n	william_n	56,368	5	8.7171	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82138	The declaration of the County of Oxon to His Excellency the Lord General Monck. We the gentlemen, ministers, free-holders, and others of the County of Oxon, having a long time groaned under heavy burthens, do now hereby declare the resentments we have of our grievances, and our just desires as the most visible means of a happy peace and settlement of these nations.	Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing D662; Thomason 669.f.23[42]; ESTC R205363	745	1

THE DECLARATION Of the COUNTY of OXON To His EXCELLENCY The Lord General MONCK We the Gentlemen Ministers Free-holders and others of the County of OXON having a long time groaned under heavy Burthens do now hereby Declare the Resentments we have of our Grievances and our just desires as the most visible means of a happy Peace and Settlement of these Nations WHereas every Free-born Subject of England is supposed to be present in Parliament by the Knights or Burgesses of the place of his Residence and thereby is presumed to consent to all things that passe in Parliament it now so hapning that many Counties are wholly left out either by Death or Seclusion I. We therefore desire That all places vacant by Death may be supplyed and those that were Secluded in 1648 may be re-admitted that thereby we may be taken into the Share of Government by our Representatives We having at this time but one of Nine and him a Burgess taken up with the Publick Concern of the Chair from minding our particular Grievances II. That no unusual previous Oath may be put upon any that is to sit in Parliament III. That no Tax may be put upon us without our Free consent in Parliament IV. That the Fundamental Laws of the Land the Priviledges of Parliament the Liberty of the Subject the Property of Goods may be asserted and defended according to the first Declaration of Parliament when they undertook the War V. That the True Protestant Religion may be professed and defended a lawful Succession of Godly and Able Ministers continued and encouraged and the two Universities and all Colledges in or belonging to either of them Preserved and Countenanced These our Just Rights we lay Claime to as Free-born English-men and resolve to assert This Declaration was signed by above Five thousand considerable Inhabitants of the said County and delivered to Gen. Monk on Munday Febr. 13. at his Quarters at the Glass-house in Broad-street London by the Lord Falkland Sir Anthony Cope Mr. James Fiennes Captain William Cope Henry Jones Edward Hungerford Esqrs. and other Persons of Quality LONDON Printed for John Starkey at the Miter near the middle Temple-gate in Fleetstreet 1660.