<!DOCTYPE ETS PUBLIC "-//UMDLPS//DTD EEBOPROOF 2.0//EN">
<ETS>
<TEMPHEAD>
<REVDESCR>
<CHANGE>
<DATE>2007-11-02</DATE>
<RESPSTMT>
<NAME>Emma Leeson Huber</NAME>
<RESP>MURP</RESP>
</RESPSTMT>
<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B071013.apex.</ITEM>
</CHANGE>
</REVDESCR>
</TEMPHEAD>
<EEBO>
<IDG S="marc" R="OX" ID="A82251">
<STC T="W">D786</STC>
<STC T="T">669.f.6[49]</STC>
<BIBNO T="umi">99871033</BIBNO>
<VID>160910</VID>
</IDG>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 10 -->
<HEAD>A Declaration, Or Re&s;olution of the County of HEREFORD.</HEAD>
<P>_WHeras the Kingdom for many yeers pa&s;t hath groned under Taxes of Loans, Shipmoney, &amp; the like di&s;mal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> effects of an Arbitrary Government, &amp; a high &s;tretcht <HI>Prerogative:</HI> for the cure of which di&s;tempers a <HI>Par|liament</HI> was held to be the onely good old way of <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> to clean&s;e the Body Politique from oppre&s;sing Crudities (which was heartily de&s;ir'd) but not by over-&s;trong Purgations to weaken it in the principall Part, charging it to receive a di&s;po&s;ition to the like di&s;temper, or a Relap&s;e into the &s;ame, or a wor&s;e Di&s;|ea&s;e, which in &s;tead of re&s;toring it to its primitive vigour and health, mu&s;t needs drive it to a fatall Period. Such is our mi&s;ery, &s;uch the ju&s;t judgment of God upon our Sins.</P>
<P>This whol&s;ome <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> hath not wrought in us that ble&s;&s;ed effect, as was either believed by &s;ome, or hoped for by all men: but as if God had an&s;wered our importunity for a Parliament, as hee did the old I&s;raelites for a King in his anger; we drive on with much more ha&s;te then good &s;peed to the other extream, which portends no le&s;&s;e Symptomes of ruine and de&s;truction than the former. So that having maturely con&s;idered what hath proved de&s;tructive to this or other Par|liaments, we may the more ea&s;ily avoid tho&s;e Rocks upon which others have &s;plit them&s;elves, <HI>viz.</HI> 1 The venting of particular ends of Avarice and Ambition in the publike Cau&s;e. 2 Private Combinations or Chamber conventicles to re&s;olve before-hand what &s;hall be done in the Hou&s;e. 3 Hindring the freedom of &s;peech by impri&s;onment of their per|&s;ons. 4 Denying information by the humble way of Petitions from the County, as that mo&s;t excellent Orthodox Pe|tition of our Brethren of <HI>Kent,</HI> and of rejecting information of Letters to our Knights and Burge&s;&s;es. 5 The ready &s;wal|lowing of informations and jealous rumours again&s;t his Maje&s;ty, the &s;tyling them the malignant party and enemies to the State, which were onely, truly and con&s;cionably his friends 6 The private if not publike mutinous rabble, which ill Spirit was ready at all times to be rai&s;ed by a whi&s;per from any of tho&s;e worthy Members, Emphatically &s;o called, if not ex|clu&s;ively, as if all Ju&s;tice, Reformation, and Government were onely to be expected from them. 7 The now unheard of State-law and Logick to &s;tyle and believe that a Parliament that is divided in it &s;elfe, is &s;evered from the King the Head thereof: if they may be remedied (as we hope they are not pa&s;t cure) we &s;hall rather de&s;ire to change &s;ome of our Phy&s;icians then Phy&s;ick, there being no better way, nor more nece&s;&s;ary to pre&s;erve the health of a Common-wealth, than a well temper'd Parliament. Wherefore we as faithfull Subjects to his Maje&s;ty, as free-born Engli&s;hmen, doe joyn in an unanimous re&s;olution to maintain.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 <HI>The Prote&s;tant Religion,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>The Kings ju&s;t power,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>The Laws of the Land,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4 <HI>The liberty of the Subject.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>For the fir&s;t, <HI>The Prote&s;tant Religion;</HI> we cannot but with grief of heart remember how it hath been a&s;&s;aulted in the In-works and skirts of it, the <HI>Liturgie,</HI> and decent <HI>Ceremonies</HI> e&s;tabli&s;hed by Law; yea, in the very Body of it the 39 <HI>Articles.</HI> In what a danger this Church of <HI>England</HI> hath been, to be overcome with <HI>Browni&s;me</HI> and <HI>Anabapti&s;me,</HI> let all the World judge. For the &s;econd, <HI>The ju&s;t power of the King;</HI> God knows he hath been &s;o far unable to defend that from violence, as it was Gods great goodne&s;&s;e rather then his own power which &s;ecured, or rather pre&s;erved his per&s;on from violence, What their ayme was, who to plea&s;e the vulgar Rabble would uphold and not puni&s;h them for their in&s;olencies, as wee feare and imagine for the pre&s;ent; &s;o we cannot but with horror and amazement doubt the con&s;equence.</P>
<P>Nor can we conceale our joy of heart, or thanks to his Maje&s;ties good Subjects of the County of <HI>York,</HI> for endevou|ring to &s;ecure his per&s;on with a Guard (being of much more value then many thou&s;and of us) and putting him in a po&s;ture of defence, which &s;ome have ignorantly or maliciou&s;ly interpo&s;ed by &s;ugge&s;ting it an inten&s;ion of War again&s;t his Par|liament, whereby it is plaine enough his Maje&s;ties de&s;ires are onely to &s;ecure him&s;elf and &s;ervants from prodigious tu|mults and di&s;orders as have indangered his &s;acred per&s;on: Nor can we blame him con&s;idering Sir <HI>Iohn Hothams</HI> Act at <HI>Hull,</HI> and Sir <HI>Henry Ludlowes</HI> Speech in Parliament.</P>
<P>For the two la&s;t, <HI>The Laws of the Land,</HI> and <HI>The Liberty of the Subject,</HI> which mu&s;t not be &s;eparated, how have they beene violated after by &s;ome of tho&s;e who were cho&s;en to be Con&s;ervators of them, by impri&s;onment of mens per&s;ons, con|trary to the Petition of <HI>Right?</HI> a&s;si&s;ting of the Clergy without a Body of <HI>Magna Charta;</HI> &s;huffling the Convocation in|to a <HI>Synod,</HI> or an A&s;&s;embly, or Conventicle, without the choice, con&s;ent, or election of the Clergy; as if they were nei|ther the Kings Subjects, nor Gods &s;ervants.</P>
<P>As wee conceive our &s;elves obliged by the Law of God, the Law of the Land, by the Dictates of Nature and rea&s;on to maintaine all the&s;e; &s;o by Gods grace a&s;&s;i&s;ting us, we hope we &s;hall not be terrified or compelled to yeeld any active obedience to any di&s;-joyned part of <HI>Parliament</HI> without the con&s;ent of the whole (which we heartily de&s;ire may be united) or to any uncertaine Debates, Votes or Ordinances, that are not dige&s;ted or &s;etled into Lawes: nay which &s;eemes to contradict former Lawes, and yet are tender'd to us with &s;o much earne&s;tnes, as &s;ome dare hardly deny them with &s;afety, or obey with Con&s;cience.</P>
<P>Nor &s;hall we ever yeeld our &s;elves &s;uch Slaves, or &s;o betray the liberty purcha&s;ed by our Forefathers blood, and bequeathed unto us as to &s;uffer our &s;elves to be &s;wayed by any Arbytrary Government what&s;oever, or &s;tand with too much contention of Spirit to ca&s;t off the yoake of our Tyrany to endure many wor&s;e,</P>
<P><HI>And &s;eeing his Maie&s;tie is gratiou&s;ly plea&s;ed to maintaine the true</HI> Prote&s;tant <HI>Religion; His owne</HI> ju&s;t Power, <HI>The</HI> Lawes <HI>of the</HI> Land, <HI>The</HI> Liberty <HI>of the</HI> Subjects <HI>and that the&s;e waters of</HI> Reformation, <HI>having beene long &s;tirred; we want onely the favour of his Princly</HI> Maje&s;tie <HI>to let us in and heale us: So we doe reciprocally declare that we conceive our &s;elves bound to maintaine him in all the Premi&s;&s;es with our lives and Fortunes</HI></P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="colophon">
<P>Imprinted at <HI>London</HI> by a printed Copie. 1642.</P>
</DIV1>
</BACK>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
</ETS>
