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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94422	To His Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax: general of all the forces raised by the Parliament, for the Common Wealth of England. The humble representation of the desires of the officers and souldiers in the regiment of horse, for the county of Northumberland.	Wetwang, Joshua.; Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.	1648 (1648)	Wing T1360; Thomason E475_13; ESTC R203821	5,371	8

To His EXCELLENCY Thomas Lord Fairfax GENERAL of all the Forces raised by the Parliament for the Common Wealth of England The Humble Representation of the Desires of the Officers and Souldiers in the Regiment of Horse for the County of Northumberland Printed in the Year 1648. To his Excellency THOMAS LORD FAIRFAX General of all the Forces raised by the Parliament for the Common-wealth of England The humble Representation of the Desires of the Officers and Souldiers in the Regiment of Horse for the County of Northumberland Sheweth THat the people of this Nation both by Nature and as they are Englishmen are a Free-born Generation but by conquest and captivity under William the sixt Duke of Nomandies Bastard they were made slaves the property of their Lands removed from the Brittish Natives to the Norman Invaders the lands which were vouchsafed to their occupation translated from their own Free-Simples into strange Tennours by Knight Homage Villain and other services to the conqueror and his Norman Earls Lords and Knights which of his Commanders he made in every County their free customs abrogated their Laws subverred and shut up from the English understandings into the French Tongue and all Writs Processes and Proceedings in Law entred and issued forth in Latin and the poor Commons that were used to have all their suits ended in their several Hundreds once or twice a moneth were forced then to trudge up to London from all parts of the Land to the new made Norman courts and none suffered in any Office either in Church or Common-wealth but those Forraign Invaders And to infatuate and bewitch the people with an adoration and sacred Reverence of this Bastards Person and his Succession his Clergy the better to settle his crown then preacht him up to be Gods Vicegerent the Lords Anointed ascribing a certain Deity to his person that in process of time the people through ignorance fell down and worshipped the Bastard and his Successors making the place of his usual presence as holy ground to be reverenced even in his absence also preaching up the power the Bastard had thus got over the land to be the power of God and he that did resist to resist to his own damnation And then utterly to prevent the English of all recovery and relief by their Parliaments in future he created Lords by his Patent and Prerogative to sit by succession in Parliament as Representers of his conquest and tyrannie over us and not by election of the people as Representers and Patrons of the Common-wealth And to add unto this to make his usurpation firm and inviolable he subdued the Law-giving power of the free people of England in their Parliaments to the Negative voice of Himself and Posterity and nothing to be had or held neither Law Land or Liberty but by Grace by Royal Grant or the like as if our selves were naturally their born slaves and nothing our own of Right And under the yoke of this Norman captivity and villanage in every of the Premisses with the most miserable effects and fruits thereof we have bin held by that succession even to this Day And this King to uphold the constitution and settlement of those principles and forms of Tyrannie and in them h●s Dominion over us brought a cruel and bloudy war upon the Nation against whom with your Excellency under the Authority of Parliament we have freely engaged to the end we might rescue the Legislative powers of our English Parliaments our free customs and Native Rights from the bondage of that captivity and so free our selves and all the people from the common oppressions of the Land by a settlement of a just and equal Government of Right and Freedom And now it hath pleased God to bless our Engagement with an happy conquest over the cap●tal enemy of the people and to subdue him and his party under the power of the Parliament we have e●pected that the Parliament being fully enabled should set this Common-wealth at Freedom remove our Oppressions and bring the capital Offenders and Destroyers of the People to justice without respect of Persons But insteed of this discharge of their Trust we find that they encrease and multiply our oppressions countenance our enemies reject and slight the just Directions and Petitions of the People for common Right and Freedom Discourage and somtime Imprison and otherwise persecute the Promoters and Presenters and burn their Petitions by the hand of the common Hangman an Act so abhorred as never to be forgotten and betake themselves to a complyance and Treaty with our conquered enemy courting his pleasure and allowing him a Negative Voyce in the pasting of all Acts of Parliament whereby our Indempnity our Laws and Liberties are all subjected to his concession his Will advanced above all Law above the Parliament and People and himself put out of the reach of Iustice and made accompt●ble to none Unto which yoke of Norman captivity after all the bloud that hath bin spilt against it we are loth to be subjected again as we see both we and all the People must needs be except the Army interpose betwixt the people and their destroyers and make good their Engagement at New-Market-Heath with all their Remonstrances Declarations and Promises to the people May it therefore please your Excellency to take these premisses into your timous and serious thoughts and before it be too late to improve that opportunity of strength and power which God hath now put into your hands for the relief and release of this oppressed long captivated Nation that both we and all the people may thereby be made safe and free And in Order thereunto we humbly crave leave to propose these our subsequent des●res in the behalf of our selves and the Common-wealth 1. That all Monopolies relating either to Sea or Land yet remaining be forthwith abolished 2. That the exaction of Tythes and all manner of Impropriations be removed and that the publike Ministry be otherwise provided for 3. That Excise upon all In-land commodities be taken off and that no Taxes or Cesments be levied upon the People but by the old way of Subsidies 4. That a sufficient competency out of the Bishops Deans and Chapters Lands Kings Revenues and Delinquents Estates be ordered and set apart for the discharge of the whole Arrears of the Souldiery and constant payment of the Army whereby the people may be wholy eased of all free quarter and taxes for the Army and the Souldiery also satisfied 5. That all Parliament-members Committees Excise-men Sequestrators c. be called to an impartial accompt for the monies of the State 6. That all inclosed Commons and other ancient donations and rights belonging to the poor in the several Counties and Parishes of the Land be restored to their ancient and proper use for the good of the comunalty 7. That the ancient Tenures of Lands in the county of Northumberland Cumberland c. which have bin destroyed by several Earls and Lords of late