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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE DECLARATION OF THE <HI>Lords, Gentlemen, Citizens, Freeholders, and Yeomen of this once happy Kingdom of</HI> ENGLAND.</HEAD>
<P>SInce it hath plea&s;ed Almighty God to &s;uffer the Spirit of Divi|&s;ion to continue in this di&s;tracted Nation, and to leave us without any &s;etled foundation of Religion, Liberty, or Property, the Legi&s;lative power u&s;urped and contemned at plea&s;ure, the Armies rai&s;ed at fir&s;t for our defence, abu&s;ed and mi&s;|led into unwarrantable Actions, by the Cunning and Ambition of &s;ome of their &s;uperiour Officers; no face of Government appearing either in any &s;ingle Per&s;on, or Body of Men in Coun&s;el lawfully con|&s;tituted, to whom the grievances of the People may with any pro|bability of &s;ucce&s;s be properly addre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>Wee being con&s;cious of our Duty, and &s;en&s;ible of our own, and the Nations Ruine, if the&s;e Di&s;tractions continue, or re&s;olve into a more fixt Oppre&s;sion, by &s;ome corrupt &s;ettlement, incon&s;i&s;tant with the Laws, Peace, and intere&s;t of the Nation, have taken Arms, in defence of our &s;elves, and all others, who will pertake with us in the vindication and maintenance of the Freedom of Parliaments, a|gain&s;t all violence what&s;oever of the known Laws, Liberty, and Pro|perty of the Good People of this Nation, who at pre&s;ent groan un|der illegal, arbitrary, and in&s;upportable Taxes and payments, un|known to our Ance&s;tors.</P>
<P>This being our Duty to God and Man, and our only De&s;ign, we cannot di&s;pair of the Ble&s;sing of him that gives victory, nor of the chearfull concurrence of all good men, nor of the undeceived part of the Army, who&s;e Arrears, increa&s;e of future pay, and advance|ment to higher Commands, we &s;hall by all means procure; &s;uffe|ring no impo&s;ition or force on any mans Con&s;cience: To this we doubt not but all hone&s;t Engli&s;hmen will &s;ay</P>
<CLOSER>AMEN.</CLOSER>
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