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<DATE>2007-11-03</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE DECLARATION OF THE GENTRY, MINISTERS, FREE-HOLDERS Of the County and Citty of LINCOLNE.</HEAD>
<P>_WEE the GENTRY, MINISTERS, and FREE-HOLDERS of the County and Citty of <HI>Lincolne,</HI> being truly &s;en&s;ible of our Mi&s;&s;eries and Greivances, namely the &s;ad con&s;equents of inte&s;tine WARRE, the feare of <HI>Inva&s;ion</HI> from abroad, at this time of our Di&s;tractions and Divi&s;ions both in <HI>Church</HI> and <HI>State,</HI> the violent alteration of GOVERNMENT, the heavy impo&s;ition of unheard of <HI>TAXES;</HI> All which of late Yeares hath ruined our TRADE, and impover|i&s;hed the whole <HI>Nation,</HI> and are all occa&s;ioned by rea&s;on of the many Violences and Breaches made upon our known e&s;tabli&s;hed <HI>Lawes</HI> and Fundamentall Liberties, <HI>Doe therefore</HI> humbly propo&s;e and declare (having fir&s;t met and con&s;ulted, as other Coun|tryes have done) that the onely remedy for our &s;aid Greivances, will be for <HI>A Free Full PARLIAMENT,</HI> &s;peedily to be called and a&s;&s;embled, to &s;it according to our &s;aid knowne e&s;tabli&s;hed <HI>Lawes,</HI> wherein the Free Votes of all Free People of this <HI>Nation</HI> might be included, Since that &s;uch onely have a leagall Capacity to enact <HI>Lawes</HI> and <HI>Statutes</HI> that may equally bind all the free people of this <HI>Nation;</HI> And therefore if any per&s;ons (how ever impowered) not having the authority of &s;uch a PARLIAMENT: &s;hall take upon them to lay impo&s;itions upon the &s;ree people of this <HI>Common-wealth,</HI> or to pre&s;cribe or enjoyne any Limitations, Re&s;trictions or Quallifications what&s;oever not formerly agreed upon in full PARLIAMENT. We do declare our &s;elves not obleiged thereto, as being de&s;tructive to the freedome and un|doubted priviledges of PARLIAMENT.</P>
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<P><HI>Printed for</HI> H. M. <HI>at the</HI> Princes Armes <HI>in</HI> Chancery-lane, <HI>1659.</HI></P>
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