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<HEAD>A DECLARTION And Prote&s;t of the Lords, Knights and Gentlemen In the Counties of <HI>CHESTER SALOP STAFFORD, &amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Again&s;t all A&s;&s;emblies which impo&s;e Taxes upon the People without their con&s;ent by their Repre&s;entatives in a Full, Free and Legall PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<P>_HAving, with great trouble, ob&s;erved the grievances of the People in the&s;e late Re|volutions, and being encouraged by the common con&s;ent of this Nation (&s;eccond|ing our late endeavours) in their frequent Addre&s;&s;es unto his Excellency the Lord Generall <HI>Monck,</HI> We have con&s;ulted, and thereupon, with them, do declare our Prote&s;t again&s;t all Powers or A&s;&s;emblies what&s;oever, who impo&s;e Taxes upon the People, without their con&s;ent by their Repre&s;entatives, duely elected in a Full, Free and Legal Parliament; And that any &s;hould &s;eem to countenance that force put upon the Parliament (now called the &s;ecluded Members) in the year 1648. by <HI>Cromwell</HI> and his Con&s;pirators, &s;eemes unrea&s;onable unto us, in that they have publickly di&s;owned the like force &s;ince put upon them&s;elves as unlawful: Therefore how the Minor part of National Councils can exclude the Major (which was ever acknowledged the whole) we leave to the con&s;ideration of all &s;ober men, and &s;ay, That the People ought not to be limitted in their Elections, by unheard of Qualifications, contrary to the known Lawes of <HI>England:</HI> neither that the Members &s;o Elected or forcibly Secluded, &s;hould be de|barr'd the di&s;charge of their Tru&s;t, by any previous Oathes or Engagements what&s;oever; for that they were the fir&s;t A&s;&s;ertors of our Rights and Freedome of Parliaments, unto which they bound them&s;elves (the Nations complying) by Solemne Leagues and Covenants) not to de&s;troy, but to pre&s;erve) The breach of which by others we finde hath brought the&s;e Calamities upon us, all which we hope will be call'd to remembrance, and repented of, as becometh Chri&s;tians, that at la&s;t the Nations may have peace and be &s;etled.</P>
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<P>LONDON, <HI>Printed</HI> for Thomas Poole, <HI>1659.</HI></P>
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