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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<HEAD>TO HIS VERY LOVING FRIENDS, The High Sherife, and Iu&s;tices of Peace <HI>of the County of</HI> SURREY.</HEAD>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>GENTLEMEN;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IT is now &s;ome moneths &s;ince that the Prote&s;tation taken by the Lords, and Hou&s;e of Commons, was &s;ent down into the Country, with an expectation that it &s;hould be gene|rally taken throughout the Kingdome, for a te&s;timony of their good concurrence with the Parliament, but through the remi&s;&s;ene&s;&s;e of &s;ome of tho&s;e that had the care of recom|mending it to others, very many there be that have not hitherto taken it. Now the Hou&s;e of Commons having di&s;covered many dangerous de&s;ignes plotted again&s;t the Parliament; and e&s;pecially that of the fourth of this in&s;tant <HI>Ianuary,</HI> which had it taken effect would have &s;trucken not onely at the Priviledges, but the very beeing of Parliaments, as will more appeare by the Declaration herewith &s;ent unto you, which the Hou&s;e de|&s;ires you to publi&s;h throughout all parts of the Countie, Have thought fit once again to recommend the taking of this Prote&s;tation; And have therefore commanded me in their Name to de&s;ire you the High Sheriffe, and the Ju&s;tices of the Peace of that County, to meet together in one place a&s;&s;oon as po&s;sibly you may, and there to take the Prote&s;tation your &s;elves; and then di&s;per&s;ing your &s;elves into your &s;everall Divi&s;ions, that you will call toge|ther the Mini&s;ter, the Con&s;tables, Churchwardens, and Over&s;eers of the poore of every Pa|ri&s;h, and tender unto them the Prote&s;tation to be taken in your pre&s;ence; And to de&s;ire of them, that they will very &s;peedily call together the Inhabitants of their &s;everall Pari&s;hes, both Hou&s;holders and others being of Eighteen yeares of age, or upwards, into one or more places, according to the largene&s;&s;e of their Pari&s;hes, and to tender unto them the &s;ame Pro|te&s;tation to be taken in their pre&s;ence, and to take the names of tho&s;e that doe take, and doe refu&s;e to take the &s;ame Prote&s;tation, and to return them unto your &s;elves at &s;uch time as you &s;hall appoint, which the Hou&s;e de&s;ires may be &s;o &s;peedily, as that you likewi&s;e may return &s;uch Certificate, as you receive from them, to the Knights and Burge&s;&s;es &s;erving for that County, if the &s;ame County be within &s;ixty miles of <HI>London,</HI> before the twentieth day of <HI>February</HI> next; And if the &s;aid County be above &s;ixty miles di&s;tant from <HI>London,</HI> then before the twelfth of <HI>March</HI> next, wherein the Hou&s;e de&s;ires your greate&s;t Care and Diligence, as a matter very much importing the good both of the King and Kingdome, which being all I have in command, I re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your very loving friend
WILLIAM LENTHALL, <HI>SPEAKER.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Have lately received a Letter from the Speaker of the Hou&s;e of Com|mons now a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, the Copy whereof is above|mentioned: I de&s;ire you, according to the directions in the &s;aid Letter, to meet with the re&s;t of the Ju&s;tices of Peace (to whom I have writ|ten to the &s;ame purpo&s;e) and my &s;elfe at <HI>King&s;ton</HI> in the Town Hall there on <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> being the tenth day of this in&s;tant <HI>February,</HI> by nine of the Clock in the fore-noon, to perform that which we are thereby required.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your very loving friend</SIGNED>
<DATE>2. <HI>Febr.</HI> 1641.</DATE></CLOSER>
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