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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87946	A letter from divers of the gentry of the county of Lincolne to his Excellency the Lord General Monck.	Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1457; Thomason 669.f.23[51]; ESTC R211588	863	1

A LETTER from divers of the GENTRY of the COUNTRY of LINCOLNE To his EXCELLENCY The Lord General MONCK May it please your Excellency WEE being Strangers to your-Person and failing of the Honour to see you in your March South-ward When wee might have Communicated our Thoughts and Desires more freely unto You are now enforced to represent them in this Inclosed Declaration craving your best ayd and assistance for the effecting of what is therein comprised being our Just Birth-rights the Defence whereof will be to Gods Glory your EXCELLENCIES great Honour and the Peace and Happiness of these Distressed Nations Which is the onely Endevour and Desire of Lincolne 7 Febr. 1659. Your Excellencies most humble Servants The DECLARATION of the Gentry Ministers and Freeholders of the County and City of LINCOLNE WEE the Gentry Ministers and Freeholders of the County and City of LINCOLNE being truly sensible of our Miseries and Grievances namely the sad Consequents of an Intestine War The Fears of Invations from abroad at this time of our Distractions and Divisions both in Church and State The Violent Alterations of Government the Heavy Impositions of Unheard-of Taxes All which have of Late years Ruined one Trade and Impoverished the whole Nation And are all occasioned by reason of the many Violations and Breaches made upon our Known Established Laws and Fundamental Liberties Do therefore humbly Propose and Declare having first Met and Consulted as other Counties have done That the onely Remedy for our said Grievances will be found in a Free Full Parliament speedily to be Called and Assembled to Sit according to our said Known Established Laws wherein the Votes of all Free People of this Nation may be included Since that Such onely can have a Legal Capacity to Enact Laws and Statutes that may equally bind all the Free People of ENGLAND And therefore If any persons how ever impowered not having the Authority of Such a Parliament shall take upon them to Lay Impositions upon the Free People of this Common-wealth or to prescribe or enjoyn any Limitations Restrictions or Qualifications whatsoever not formerly agreed upon in Full Parliament Wee do Declare our Selves not oblieged hereto as being destructive to the true Freedome and undoubted Priviledges of PARLIAMENT This LETTER and the DECLARATION therein inclosed subscribed by thousands of hands were presented to his Excellency the Lord Gen. Monck by Sir Michael Armyn Baronet Coll. Edward Rosseter and John Hatcher Esq on Thursday the 16th of February 1659. LONDON Printed for Richard Lowndes at the White Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard 1659.