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<HEAD>THE DECLARATION Of the COUNTY of OXON To His EXCELLENCY The Lord General MONCK.</HEAD>
<OPENER><HI>We the Gentlemen, Mini&s;ters, Free-holders, and others of the County of</HI> OXON, <HI>having a long time groaned under heavy Burthens, do now hereby Declare the Re&s;entments we have of our Grievances, and our ju&s;t de&s;ires as the mo&s;t vi&s;ible means of a happy Peace and Settlement of the&s;e Nations.</HI></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas every Free-born Subject of <HI>England</HI> is &s;uppo&s;ed to be pre&s;ent in Par|liament, by the Knights or Burge&s;&s;es of the place of his Re&s;idence; and thereby is pre&s;umed to con&s;ent to all things that pa&s;&s;e in Parliament; it now &s;o hapning, that many Counties are wholly left out, either by Death or Seclu&s;ion.</P>
<P N="1">I. We therefore de&s;ire, That all places vacant by Death, may be &s;upply|ed, and tho&s;e that were Secluded in 1648, may be re-admitted, that thereby we may be taken into the Share of Government by our Repre&s;entatives, We having at this time but one of Nine, and him a Burge&s;s, taken up with the Publick Concern of the Chair, from minding our particular Grievances.</P>
<P N="2">II. That no unu&s;ual previous Oath may be put upon any that is to &s;it in Parlia|ment.</P>
<P N="3">III. That no Tax may be put upon us without our Free con&s;ent in Parliament.</P>
<P N="4">IV. That the Fundamental Laws of the Land, the Priviledges of Parliament, the Liberty of the Subject, the Property of Goods, may be a&s;&s;erted and defended, according to the fir&s;t Declaration of Parliament when they undertook the War.</P>
<P N="5">V. That the True Prote&s;tant Religion may be profe&s;&s;ed and defended, a lawful Succe&s;&s;ion of Godly and Able Mini&s;ters continued and encouraged, and the two U|niver&s;ities, and all Colledges in or belonging to either of them, Pre&s;erved and Coun|tenanced.</P>
<P>The&s;e our Ju&s;t Rights we lay Claime to, as Free-born Engli&s;h-men, and re&s;olve to a&s;&s;ert.</P>
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<P><HI>This Declaration was &s;igned by above Five thou&s;and con&s;iderable Inhabitants of the &s;aid County, and delivered to Gen.</HI> Monk, <HI>on Munday Febr.</HI> 13. <HI>at his Quarters at the Gla&s;s-hou&s;e in</HI> Broad-&s;treet London, <HI>by the Lord</HI> Falkland, <HI>Sir</HI> Anthony Cope, <HI>Mr.</HI> James Fiennes, <HI>Cap|tain</HI> William Cope, Henry Jones, Edward Hungerford <HI>E&s;q^r^s^., and other Per&s;ons of Quality.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>John Starkey,</HI> at the Miter, near the middle Temple-gate in <HI>Fleet&s;treet,</HI> 1660.</P>
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