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<HEAD>An Extract of A LETTER From <HI>York,</HI> dated <DATE>the 31. of <HI>Decemb.</HI> 1659.</DATE> concerning The Lord FAIRFAX'S Rai&s;ing that County in Arms again&s;t Illegal Taxes and Free-quarter, and for the Freedom of Parliament, as it was in the Year, 1648.</HEAD>
<P>HAving done with our particular concernments, give me leave to acquaint you in brief with mat|ters more publick, and perhaps very &s;trange unto you: The Gentry of this County are univer|&s;ally up under the Conduct of the Lord <HI>Fairfax,</HI> &s;uch a ri&s;ing on a &s;udden hath not been known. That which fir&s;t occa&s;ioned it, is Free-quarter, and the Tax that hath been lately impo&s;ed upon this Coun|ty by military Power, to which the Gentry of the&s;e parts are unwilling to &s;toop, being loath to receive Law from the Sword, having drawn their Swords to maintain the Laws of the Land, which declares, that no Tax be impo&s;ed upon the People, but by Con&s;ent in Parliament, and the Gentry in the&s;e parts ex|plain to be by Con&s;ent in <HI>a Full Parliament.</HI> The manner of their Ri&s;ing was in three Divi&s;ions; the Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI> for the We&s;t-Riding of the County had his Rendevouze at <HI>Leeds,</HI> where multitudes of Peo|ple re&s;ort unto him both Hor&s;e and Foot. And the Trade of Cloathing being dead, by rea&s;on of the Warres with <HI>Spain,</HI> makes tho&s;e Parts ri&s;e in abundance, to do any thing for the having of a <HI>Free Par|liament,</HI> which (they think) will procure the opening of Trade again. There is come unto the Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI>'s A&s;&s;i&s;tance al&s;o three Troops of Hor&s;e of Collonel <HI>Lilburn</HI>'s Regiment, under the Command of Major <HI>Smith&s;on,</HI> Captain <HI>Strangwayes</HI> and Captain <HI>Wilkin&s;on.</HI> The Forces in the North-Riding are rai&s;ed by Collonel <HI>Hugh Bethel</HI> (with one eye) and Sir <HI>Francis Boynton:</HI> And the Forces in the Ea&s;t-Riding are rai&s;ed by Sir <HI>Henry Cholmely,</HI> and other Gentlemen in that Riding. The&s;e two la&s;t Divi&s;i|ons at a Rendevouze ye&s;terday had fifteen hundred Hor&s;e compleatly armed; And this day, or upon Munday, do meet the Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI> at the General Rendevouze. I have endeavoured to under&s;tand the Bottom of this Bu&s;ine&s;s, and do perceive they intend to declare upon the&s;e Heads following,</P>
<P N="1">I. <HI>For the Re&s;toring of this Parliament to the Due Freedome which it enjoyed in the Year, 1648. be|fore it was Garbled by the Army.</HI></P>
<P N="2">II. <HI>That the Souldiers of the Army may have their Arrears paid, and that for the future military Forces may be put into &s;uch hands as may be of Publick Intere&s;t, and likely to &s;ubmit to Civil Authority.</HI></P>
<P N="3">III. <HI>To remove the pre&s;ent Illegall A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ement now in Leavying upon the County; and</HI></P>
<P N="4">IV. <HI>To prevent the Quakers Anabapti&s;ts,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>from meeting at their Rendevouze, who did intend as we are informed to joyn with the Lord</HI> Lamberts <HI>Forces on the third day of</HI> January. The Lord <HI>Lam|bert</HI> is upon a &s;peedy March Southward from <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> (where he hath left ten Companies of Foot, and two Troopes of Hor&s;e to &s;ecure it) (and the report goes that Generall <HI>Monk</HI> will March after him, but we have not the Certainty of it) the Lord <HI>Lambert</HI> hor&s;es many of his Foot, we expect them at <HI>Witherby</HI> the &s;econd of <HI>Ja|nuary,</HI> and various are the Opinions what he will do. Some think he will not tru&s;t to Indemnity from a|bove, &s;hould it be granted unto him, and therefore it is conceived, that &s;ince the <HI>Quakers,</HI> &amp;c. do prepare for a Conjunction with him, that he will declare for <HI>Liberty of Con&s;cience;</HI> and by the help of the Garri&s;on of <HI>Hull,</HI> Arme and Array tho&s;e men, in hopes of which the Papi&s;ts do not a little rejoyce. But others think, that he will hold tho&s;e people too narrow an Intere&s;t to build &s;o great an undertaking upon, having <HI>Monk</HI> behind him, the Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI> on the Flank, and the Southern Army if reall, again&s;t him in the Front, and therefore that he will rather Declare to joyn with the Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI> for the Re&s;titution of the Members in 1648. and ra|ther receive Indemnity from them, then from the Pre&s;ent Parliament; one of tho&s;e two in all likelyhood he will be con&s;trained to do, if he do not &s;ubmit, unle&s;s he intend to Go by to ha&s;ten up to <HI>London,</HI> whereas, we now hear, he expecteth to find the Army as plyable to his de&s;ign as when he left them.</P>
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<P>I Forgot to acquaint you that the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Brigade (who have refu&s;ed to receive Orders from the Lord <HI>Lambert,)</HI> have &s;ent a very Civill Me&s;&s;age to the Lord <HI>Fairfax,</HI> (their old Generall) and there is a right under&s;tand|ing between them, as I am told; We expect hourly to hear that Collonel <HI>Ro&s;&s;iter</HI> is up in <HI>Lincoln&s;hire;</HI> It's &s;aid that that County, <HI>Darby&s;hire, Lanca&s;hire,</HI> and <HI>Che&s;hire,</HI> will joyn in a&s;&s;ociation with <HI>York&s;hire.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed in the Year 1659. <DATE><ADD>Jan: 4</ADD></DATE></P>
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