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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>A LETTER from divers of the GENTRY of the COUNTRY of
LINCOLNE:
To his EXCELLENCY
The Lord General MONCK.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Excellency,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WEE being Strangers to your-Per&s;on, and failing of the
Honour to &s;ee you in your March <HI>South-ward;</HI> When
wee might have Communicated our Thoughts and
De&s;ires more freely unto You; are now enforced to
repre&s;ent them in this Inclo&s;ed <HI>Declaration,</HI> craving
your be&s;t ayd and a&s;&s;i&s;tance for the effecting of what
is therein compri&s;ed, (being our Ju&s;t Birth-rights)
the Defence whereof will be to Gods Glory, your
EXCELLENCIES great Honour, and the Peace and
Happine&s;s of the&s;e Di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Nations: Which is the onely Endevour and De&s;ire of</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Lincolne <DATE>7 Febr. 1659.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>Your Excellencies mo&s;t humble Servants.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The DECLARATION of the Gentry, Mini&s;ters and Freeholders of the County and
City of <HI>LINCOLNE.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WEE the <HI>Gentry, Mini&s;ters,</HI> and <HI>Freeholders</HI> of the County and City of <HI>LINCOLNE;</HI> being truly
&s;en&s;ible of our Mi&s;eries and Grievances, namely, the &s;ad Con&s;equents of an Inte&s;tine War; The
Fears of Invations from abroad at this time of our <HI>Di&s;tractions</HI> and <HI>Divi&s;ions</HI> both in <HI>Church</HI> and
<HI>State;</HI> The Violent Alterations of <HI>Government;</HI> the Heavy Impo&s;itions of <HI>Unheard-of Taxes:</HI> All which have of Late
years Ruined one <HI>Trade,</HI> and Impoveri&s;hed the whole <HI>Nation;</HI> And are all occa&s;ioned by rea&s;on of the many <HI>Violations</HI>
and <HI>Breaches</HI> made upon our <HI>Known E&s;tabli&s;hed Laws,</HI> and <HI>Fundamental Liberties:</HI> Do therefore humbly Propo&s;e and Declare,
(having fir&s;t Met and Con&s;ulted) as other <HI>Counties</HI> have done, <HI>That</HI> the onely Remedy for our &s;aid Grievances will
be found in a <HI>Free Full Parliament,</HI> &s;peedily to be Called and A&s;&s;embled; to Sit according to our &s;aid <HI>Known E&s;tabli&s;hed
Laws,</HI> wherein the <HI>Votes</HI> of all <HI>Free People</HI> of this Nation may be included; Since that <HI>Such</HI> onely can have a
Legal Capacity to Enact <HI>Laws</HI> and <HI>Statutes,</HI> that may equally bind all the <HI>Free People</HI> of <HI>ENGLAND:</HI> And therefore,
If any per&s;ons (how ever impowered) not having the Authority of Such a <HI>Parliament,</HI> &s;hall take upon them to Lay
<HI>Impo&s;itions</HI> upon the <HI>Free People</HI> of this <HI>Common-wealth;</HI> or to pre&s;cribe, or enjoyn any <HI>Limitations, Re&s;trictions,</HI> or
<HI>Qualifications</HI> what&s;oever, (not formerly agreed upon in Full Parliament;) <HI>Wee</HI> do Declare our Selves not oblieged
hereto, as being de&s;tructive to the true <HI>Freedome</HI> and undoubted <HI>Priviledges</HI> of <HI>PARLIAMENT.</HI></P>
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<P>[This LETTER and the DECLARATION therein inclo&s;ed, (&s;ub&s;cribed by thou&s;ands of hands)
were pre&s;ented to his Excellency the Lord Gen. <HI>Monck,</HI> by Sir <HI>Michael Armyn</HI> Baronet,
Coll. <HI>Edward Ro&s;&s;eter,</HI> and <HI>John Hatcher</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> on <DATE><HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the 16^t^h. of <HI>February,</HI> 1659.</DATE>]</P>
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<P>LONDON, <HI>Printed for</HI> Richard Lowndes <HI>at the</HI> White Lion <HI>in St.</HI> Paul's Church-yard. 1659.</P>
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