Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	henry_n	thomas_n	william_n	45,902	5	7.8067	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03993	A letter and declaration of the nobility and gentry of the county of York. To his excellency, the Lord Generall Monck.	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1345B; ESTC R179521	1,011	1

Letter and Declaration of the Nobility and Gentry of the County of YORK TO HIS EXCELLENCY The Lord Generall MONCK The LETTER My Lord WE find our selves constrained by writing to supply the Omission of acquainting your Lordship with our thoughts and desires when you passed through our County which we had then done if upon so short notice we could have met for a mutual Vnderstanding Your Lordship will find in the inclosed Declaration the sum of our Apprehensions We thought it not necessary to multiply particulars but leave all other things to a duly constituted Parliament neither have we been sollicitous to multiply Subscriptions trusting more to the weight of the Proposals than to the number of Subscribers yet we may safely affirm this to be the sense of the generality of the County as your Lordship sees it is of others We have only to add the earnest desires to your Lordship That you would be pleased to further the Accomplishment of what we have represented with such seasonable speed as that the fear of Friends and the hopes of Enemies concerning a ●●●gerous Confusion amongst us may be prevented The DECLARATION WE being deeply sensible of the grievous Pressures under which we lye and the extream dangers whereunto we are exposed at this time through the violent alteration of our Government the Multiplication and Interruption of Parliaments And having no Representatives to expresse or remedy our Grievances have thought meet according to the example of other Counties to Declare and Desire That if the Parliament begun NOVEMBER the third 1640. be yet continued The Members that were secluded in the year 1648. be forthwith restored to the exercise of their Trust of all Vacancies may be filled up that Right may be done to their Persons to Parliaments and the People that have chosen them If otherwise That a Parliament may be presently called without imposing of Oaths or Engagements the greatest prejudice to Civil or Christian Liberty or requiring any Oualifications save what by Law or Ordinance of Parliament before the Force in 1648. are alread● established And untill this or One of these be done We cannot hold our selves oblieged to pa● the Taxes that are or shall be imposed on us We not enjoying the Fundamentall Rights of this Natio● to consent to our own Laws by equal Representatives Tho. Lord Fairfax Lord Fawconberge Bar. Bourchier Sheriff Christo Wivill Thomas Wharton Tho. Remington Tho. Harrison William Gee William Fairfax William Osberton Thomas Hutton Gustavus Boynton Har. Betheli VVilliam Dawson Rob. Wivel Nicholas Bethell Jo. Ledgar Henry Fairfax John Hotham Thomas Slingsby Will Cholmley Mett Robinson Hen. Stapleton George Matwood Tho. Heblethwait Rob. Redman Rob. Belt VV. Adams Jo. Micklethwait Bryan Layton Tho. Lovell VVil Rokesby Rich. Levit Roger Langly Francis Boynton Hen. Cholmley John Dawny John Gibson James Moyser George Crake John Peirson Tho. Yarborow Jo. Richard VV. Dalton F. Driffield VValter Bethel Wil. Woodver Jo. Vavasor c. Printed at London and Re-printed at Edinburgh by Christopher Higgins 1660.