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A58516 A remonstrance and declaration of severall counties, cities, and burroughs against the unfaithfulness, and late unwarrantable proceedings of some of their knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament with their dissents thereunto, and revocation and resumption of their power therein. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1648 (1648) Wing R961; ESTC R1096 2,793 9

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A REMONSTRANCE AND DECLARATION OF SEVERALL Counties Cities and Burroughs Against the Unfaithfulness and late unwarrantable Proceedings of some of their Knights Citizens and Burgesses IN PARLIAMENT WITH Their Dissents thereunto and Revocation and Resumption of their POWER therein Imprinted at London 1648. A Remonstrance and Delaration Of severall Counties Cities and Burroughs against the unfaithfulness and late unwarrantable Proceedings of some of their Knights Citizens and Burgesses in PARLIAMENT WE the Gentlemen and Free-holders of the respective Counties of Berks Huntingdon Kent Leicester Monmouth Northampton Nottingham Rutland Salop Sussex Wilts and Worcester and the respective Citizens and Freemen of the Cities of Chester Gloucester London Norwich Winchester Bristol Salisbury and York and the free Burgesses of the severall Burroughs of Ailesbury Wendover New-Windsor Wallingford Truro Tregonis Fowey St. Iermins Cockermouth Cambridge Barnstaple Dartmouth Okeshampton Dorchester Lyme-Regis Bridport Wareham Shaftesbury Quinborough Leicester Wigan Liverpool Great-Yarmouth Newcastle Woodstock Southwark Rigate Tamworth Bishops-castle Yarmouth Ipswich Taunton Bridgwater Midhurst Bramber East-Greenstead Arundel Appleby Calice Chippenham Malmsbury Bedwin Malburg Warwick Kingston upon Hull Knarisburge Rippon Richmond Burroughbridge Auldling Pomfret Rye and Cardiffe do hereby respectively for our said severall Counties Cities and Burroughs declare notifie and protest to all the Nobility Gentry Commons and Freemen of England and Dominion of Wales and all others whom it doth or may concern That neither we our selves nor any other by our privity or assents did ever directly or indirectly implicitly or explicitly delegate give or intend to give unto Henry Martin Valentine Walton Augustine Skinner Henry Smith Henry Herbert Esquires Sir Gilbert Pickering knight Iohn Hutchinson Thomas Wait Esquires Sir Iames Harrington knight Humphrey Edwards Anthony Stapley Edmond Ludlow Humphrey Saloway or Iohn Iones serving in Parliament as knig●ts of our respective Counties or to William Edwards Thomas Pury Iohn Lenthall Isaac Pennington Iohn Ven Thomas Atkins Iohn Lisle Nicholas Lane Richard Aldworth Luke Hodges Michael Oldsworth Iohn Dure Esquires Sir William Alanson knight elected and returned Citizens to sit and vote in the Parliament for our respective Cities Or to Thomas Scot Thomas Harrison Cornelius Holland Edmond Bunch Francis Rowse Iohn Carew Nicholas Gold Gregory Clement Benjamin Valentine Francis Allen Oliver Cromwell Philip Skippon Lawrence Whitaker Dennis Bond Edmond Prideaux Roger Hill Iohn Fry Iohn Trenchard Esquires Sir Henry Mildmay knight Sir Michael Livesey baronet Augustine Garland Thomas Lord Grey Peter Temple Alexander Rigby Iohn Moore Miles Corbet Iohn Blackstone William Lenthall Speaker George Thompson George Snelling Esquires William Lord Viscount Mounson Sir Peter Wentworth knight of the Bath Iohn Corbet Esq Philip Lord Lisle Iohn Gourdon George Serle Robert Blake Esquires Sir Thomas Wroth knight Gregory Norton baronet William Cowley Iames Temple Iohn Downes Henry Ireton Richard Salway Rowland Wilson Esquires Sir Edward Bainton Sir Iohn Danvers knights Edmond Harvie Philip Smith William Purefoy Godfrey Bosvile Peregrine Pelham Esquires William Constable baronet Sir Iohn Bourchier knight Thomas Chaloner Francis Thorpe Esquires Thomas Mal●vorer Baronet Brian Stapleton Iames Chaloner William White William Hay Thomas Westraw Algernoon Sidney Esquires Burgesses for our respective Boroughs or to any one of them any Authority Power Commission Instruction or Deputation whatsoever to consent vote or agree for us or any of us or in our Names Rights and Behalfs as our Representatives Knights Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament to any Vote Ordinance Order Bill Act Articles or other Instrument whatsoever in the Commons House or else-where for or concerning the Deposing or Executing the King the Dis-inheriting of the Prince or Duke of York The breaking off and laying aside the Personal Treaty with the King for the happy settlement of that blessed Peace we have so long desired expected and prayed for Or rejecting the Kings large Grants for our future security freedom and tranquility the like whereunto we have no hopes to expect hereafter if now rejected by you on our behalfs who shall be fully satisfied therewith when ratified by his royall assent to Bils and an Oath inviolably to observe them Or the altering or subverting the ancient Hereditary Monarchical Government of this Kingdom Or the Constitution of the Parliaments of England consisting of King Lords and Commons The tolerating of all kinds of Religions Heresies and Errors The taking away of our Ministers Tythes and usuall Maintenance or the disorderly intruding into their sacred Functions without any lawsull calling or Ordination thereunto Much lesse did we or any of us actually or intentionally authorize or empower them or any of them to subvert the very foundations of this and all other Parliaments and betray our ancient Liberties Rights and Charters contrary to their trust and duty by condescending or agreeing to give away our unquestionable rights of Electing our Knights Citizens and Burgesses according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm and Customs Usages and Charters of our respective Counties Cities and Burroughs or to set up any new Representative for us or the Kingdom which neither we nor our Ancestors ever heard of nor desired Or to undermine the Honour Freedom Rights and Priviledges of Parliament by sitting and voting in the House whiles under the visible detestable force and sword of a rebellious and mutinous Army who have imprisoned excluded and forced away most of their fellow-Members who ought to joyn with them both in their Debates and Votes Or to usurp such an arbitrary and exorbitant power to themselves alone being few in number and not one fifth part of the House to repeal nul and make void what Votes Orders Ordinances and Proceedings they please made in a free and compleat House when there were five times more Members present Or to suspend or cast out their fellow-Members who are their Peers and Equals and sit there by the same and as good authority as themselves or to continue or impose any further Taxes on us to maintain an imperious lawless Army to devour and tyrannize over King Parliament Lords Commons City Country and the whole Kingdom as our only Soveraign Lords and Masters without improving their utmost authority to suppresse and reclaim them from their present insolencies and destructive treasonable practices or else to declare them publick Enemies and Rebels and proceed against the Ringleaders of them and bring them unto speedy justice and exemplary punishment And therefore we do here by these presents absolutely disclaim and renounce whatever they or any of them have fraudulently and indirectly acted voted ordered ordained or consented to or shall hereafter vote order ordain or consent to in the House of Commons or else-where in or concerning all or any of the premisses contrary to their trusts and duties and against our consent authority wils and instructions to the prejudice or destruction of our Religion Laws Liberties King Kingdom the Rights Priviledges and Freedom of Parliaments or their fellow-Members and hindrance of the speedy Peace and settlement of this Realm or obstructing the relief of despairing Ireland or support of any new usurped Arbitrary or Tyrannicall Power in any Party or Faction whatsoever to the inthralling of the Kingdom to their vassallage and lawlesse wils and declare the same to be void null and no ways binding unto us or any of us who do hereby demand publick justice against them from their fellow-Members in a free and full Parliament for all the misdemeanors and offences in and against the House its Priviledges and Members or any the Premisses and likewise revoke and resume all that trust power and authority we formerly delegated and committed to them and every of them so far as they have abused and perverted it in any of the aforesaid particulars contrary to our minds and commissions who by the Armies late Remonstrance may and ought to call them to account for all their unjust Votes Orders Proceedings and abuses of their trust and to resume their power into our own hands from whom they received it onely as our Deputies when we discern them palpably to abuse both it and us from whom they are to receive their wages All which we held it our bounden duties in these times of imminent danger and ruine to us and our Posterity King Parliament and Kingdom to remonstrate to the world and these our Knights Citizens and Burgesses our Representatives in the House that they might take timely notice thereof Dated from our respective Counties Cities and Boroughs the 23 of Decemb. 1648. 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