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A remonstrance of the northern associations: communicating to the whole kingdome their miseries, desires and resolutions. Their miseries many. Their desires few. Their resolutions irrevocable.
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1647
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Wing R1007; Thomason E414_12; ESTC R203385
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A REMONSTRANCE OF THE Northern Associations Communicating to the whole Kingdome their Miseries Desires and Resolutions Their Miserie 's many Their Desires few Their Resolutions irrevocable Printed Anno Dom. 1647. A REMONSTRANCE OF THE Northern Associations c. IT is not unknown unto these Western parts of the world into what a deplorable condition this Kingdom together with Scotland and distressed Ireland of late yeers have been implunged and what ease relaxation or as yet hope of peace or reducement of an unhappy people into their former safety enjoyed properties appeareth not yet so much as any shadow of hope From what principles these bloody and unparalleld differences had their first touch and progress except our sins to the general ruin of many millions both in person and estate we know as little as the conclusion of them neither were they obvious to our knowledg are we willing to rip up old sores or uncharitably to uncover to the publike eye the weakness we say not wickedness of our brethren only thus as co-partners of a most agreived Communalty we are made sensible of our ruin under the glorious outsides of a promised happiness We were not unacquainted of those innumerable and incessant revolutions of promises often engagements and too many pretences and seemingly real Charracters of affection both from the Royal and Parliamentary Parties We have not yet forgot the many Remonstrances Declarations Exhibitions with their annext Commands either to ingage or disingage us which we have at several times on al opportunitys receivd unto a double interest each tying us according to their prevalence to different respects the fatal Tragedy and mutual destruction of each other We yet remember thereupon the setling our selves upon a mixt-confused posture to a defensive War and how of united friends and neighbours by dispartite affection to each cause we were divided into enemies It is yet fresh coloured in our memories the bloody issue of the Kingdom especially of these Northern parts how when all passages of Peace were stopped up we were enforced to swim through a red Sea mixed with the blood of our dearest brethren to repurchase it We are not insensible looking back into our days comparing the former with the present condition of our being that the burthens which then we patiently indured were but mole-hills to the mountanous pressures which now we are crushed under Nevertheless we should account it though an embittered happiness to loose our Parents Children Friends Estates could we but perceive the least beam of Redemption from this miserable thraldom yet arise unto us but alas our eyes are even dim with expectation being as far from hope as we are far from happy We have considered the many Oaths and Protestations tendred to us approved and accepted of us above all that Solemn Covenant taken with hands we say not hearts lift up to heaven as the instrument of mercy or misery a blessing or a curse upon the violation of performance of it but to the sadding of our souls we see the Pillars and Foundation of it shaken and those unhing'd from their principles who first gave life and motion to it This National sin wil produce a National judgment We easily foresee the extirpation of Monarchy under which we and our progenitors have enjoyed so many calmed years of external Freedom and Tranquility we see the subversion of our Fundamental Laws Customary Immunities and Municipal Priviledges deriv'd to us and our posterity as our proper Birth-rights if not prevented by a mutatitious and tyrannical Equaity level with us if not inferior to us We see Religion turn'd out of her garments of needle-work and wrought gold into a linsey-wolsey stupious and an unclean vesture painted over with resemblances meer shadows of truth precipitating into Anarchy any thing every thing that may speak this poor Kingdom the object of shame and pity and all this contrary to Covenant countenanced if not authorized by that superior Power elected only for the establishing of our Peace confirmation of our Priviledges removal of our grievances and the dissipating of all those thick fogs of Error Tyranny and Division which hitherto dictates nothing but our ruin and overclouds that glory yet deducible to an once flourishing Church and Commonwealth These things seriously and sadly debated in our hearts and weighing our past and present calamities with our imminent destruction impending for the future not by accident but by evident demonstration we are bold to present the insides of souls to all our Brethren and Concomitants in this common misery First That we do wish and ever shal endeavor the honor safety and preservation of his Majesties person power and just derived Rights according to our Oaths and Covenant without any mental evasions or secret reservations desiring only to live under his Kingly Government and Protection and the Government and Protection of his Royal Issue after him according to the ancient Laws established in this Kingdom Secondly We shal to our uttermost defend and maintain the power of Parliaments and their lawful Priviledges as being the only visible Interporation of the Kingdom from whom and from his Majesty as from the Fountain and pure Channel may flow thâ—se wholesom Courses of good Laws and Justice that we his people and our succeeding generations may live in peace all our dayes Thirdly We shal with our best of power oppose all Arbitrary and Tyrannical Usurpation Government or Dominion Military or Politick that may or shal produce alteration detriment or nullity of any Fundamental Law legal Act or Acts yet unrepealed heretofore confirmed by Authority of King and Parliament Fourthly We shal with our hearts profess and with the hazard of our dearest blood protect the true and truly received Protestant Religion in the truth and substance of it as it hath been imbraced by and communicated to us and our progenitors desiring such holy Discipline may be exercised hauing respect to Decency and Order as may keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Moreover seeing as we dayly grow so we dayly groan under the unsupportable weight of Oppression Taxes Free-quarter besides murders rapines robberies not mentioning the deep exhaustings during the late time of War and since both by the English and Scottish Forces no part of the Kingdom being so infested we humbly desire a speedy alleanement and retardation thereof that yet if it be possible we may have bread to sustain the lives of our poor wives and children many thousands being ready to perish through want and unable to support themselvs much less of power to supply the rigid desires and demands of an useless and insaturate Souldiery else we shal be enforced through necessity heaven knows our unwillingness to acquit our selves by the readiest way of our any longer tolerable calamities and purchase freedom though with the Sacrifice of our dearest blood Nature obliging in the behalf of our selves and ours to exchange a miserable and disconsolate life for a happy and honourable death And we doubt not but that all our faithful fellow Commoners as wel in the South as Northern parts being equally sharers with us in our sufferings as joynt Members of one languishing body wil not only be partakers in our firm resolves which no affliction shal cause us to desert but also communicate their assistance to the re-inthroning of his Majesty the securing and protecting of Parliaments the Maintenance of the Laws the Confirmation of the true Religion the freedom of our Estates and Liberties from Usurpation and the renewing that ancient and sweet Peace now violated to the Glory of God the Honour of his Majesty and the general rejoycing of all his faithful and loyal Subjects Subscribed with the Hands of 164247 within the Northern Associations