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<HEAD>The humble de&s;ires of the Knights, Gentlemen, Mini&s;ters, Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County and Burrough of LEICESTER.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Delivered to His EXCELLENCY, The Lord Generall MONCK, At St ALBANS <DATE>the Thirtieth day of Ianuary, 1659.</DATE> by <HI>George Fawnt</HI> E&s;quire, High Sheriffe of the &s;aid County, <HI>William Boothby, Richard Orton,</HI> and <HI>Richard Halford</HI> E&s;quires, entru&s;ted for that purpo&s;e by the Body of the whole County.</HEAD>
<P>_WE the Knights, Gentlemen, Mini&s;ters, Free-holders, and Inhabitants, of the County of <HI>Leice&s;ter,</HI> humbly conceiving, that the fir&s;t Force put upon the <HI>Parliament,</HI> hath been an encouragement and occa&s;ion to all the re&s;t: And finding that your Excellency (under God) hath been the principall means, for repairing the la&s;t interruption; are the more encouraged to de&s;ire your a&s;&s;i&s;tance, in the promoting of the&s;e our ju&s;t de&s;ires, as a vi&s;ible means of an happy Peace and Settlement of the&s;e Nations. And whereas every free-born per&s;on of <HI>England</HI> is &s;uppo&s;ed to be pre&s;ent in <HI>Parliament,</HI> by the Knights and Burge&s;&s;es of the place where he liveth, and thereby is pre&s;umed to give his con&s;ent in all things that a&s;&s;e in <HI>Parliament.</HI> There is not (as we are credibly informed) one Knight for all the Counties in <HI>Wales,</HI> nor for divers Counties in <HI>England,</HI> and &s;ome of them the greate&s;t in <HI>England,</HI> as that of <HI>York|&s;ire.</HI> We therefore de&s;ire, that all vacant places be &s;upplied, whether they became vacant by death, judgment of <HI>Parliament:</HI> And that tho&s;e that were &s;ecluded by force in the year 1648, may &s;it again. And that no previous Oath or Engagement be put upon any, that is cho&s;en by his Country to &s;it and vote freely in <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
<P>That the fundamentall Laws of <HI>England,</HI> the Priviledges of <HI>Parliament,</HI> the Liberties of the People, and the Property of Goods, may be a&s;&s;erted and defended, according to the fir&s;t Declaration of <HI>Par|liament,</HI> when they undertook the War; and no Taxes or Free-quarter impo&s;ed upon any, without Au|thority of <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
<P>That the true Prote&s;tant Religion may be profe&s;&s;ed and defended, all Here&s;ies, Sects, and Schi&s;ms, i&s; countenanced and &s;uppre&s;&s;ed; a lawfull Succe&s;&s;ion of godly and able Mini&s;ters continued and en|couraged; and the two Univer&s;ities, and all Colledges in both of them, pre&s;erved and countenanced.</P>
<P>That a fitting and &s;peedy cour&s;e be taken, for paying and di&s;charging the Arrears of &s;uch Officers and Souldiers, as &s;ubmit to Authority of <HI>Parliament,</HI> and that they may be &s;peedily reduced to a le&s;&s;er num|ber, for ea&s;ing of the great Taxes and Burthens of the&s;e Nations.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Henry Cha&s;e,</HI> in <HI>Chancery-Lane.</HI> 1659.</P>
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