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<HEAD>A Declaration and Vindication of the Loyal-Hearted Nobility, Gentry, and Others of the County of KENT, and City of <HI>CANTERB&V;RY,</HI> That they had no Handin the Murther of our <HI>KING.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the Generality and as (for the number) much the greater, &s;o al&s;o (for the quality) much the better part of this famous and populous County and City, hath from the <HI>Alpha</HI> to the <HI>Omega,</HI> from the fir&s;t to the la&s;t of the&s;e di&s;tracted, di&s;tempered, and unhappy times, been truly cordial, con&s;tant and &s;teady (in the matter of their Fidelity and Loyalty) to their Prince and Soveraign, without the lea&s;t thought or de&s;ire to deviate, apo&s;tatize, or turn out of the good old way of due Allegiance, or (in the lea&s;t mea&s;ure to dimini&s;h or detract from his Maje&s;ties ju&s;t Rights and Royalties; much le&s;s to bla&s;t or bla&s;pheme his Honour; lea&s;t of all to lift up their hard, or offer any violence to his Sacred Per&s;on, as no other in their e&s;teem, then what undoubtedly he is, <HI>The Lords Anointed.</HI></P>
<P>Whereas (al&s;o) Truth and Syncerity, with their Friends and Followers, by the invincible oppre&s;&s;ion and oppo&s;ition of a <HI>Ma&s;&s;anellian</HI> brood of bold U&s;urpers and Invaders of the Government, (who, like that <HI>Neapolitan</HI> Crew, unhappily thri|ving in their wayes of blood and violence, had got the Ma&s;tery and upper hand of their more Loyal Fellow-Subjects) dur&s;t not of latter times appear abroad, or &s;hew them&s;elves in publick: but were inevitably forced to &s;trike &s;ail, and give way to the violent and irre&s;i&s;table tide and torrent of Fal&s;hood and Impo&s;ture, with their impudent Abettors; and in &s;ilence pa|tiently to wait for &s;uch an opportunity and &s;ea&s;on as this (of &s;afer and more &s;ober times) to di&s;cover and a&s;&s;ert them&s;elves.</P>
<P>And whereas (further) it highly concerns all men in general; more e&s;pecially Chri&s;tians; mo&s;t of all Subjects; and among&s;t them Prote&s;tants, (both in point of Con&s;cience and Credit) to keep them&s;elves free not only from the actual guilt, but al&s;o from the ju&s;t &s;u&s;pition of Regicide and King-killing; of all crying &s;ins the loude&s;t and mo&s;t execrable, as &s;carcely, if at all capable of Expiation.</P>
<P>VVhereas (moreover) of latter times, &s;ince we of this County and City, with the re&s;t of the Nation, laboured under an univer&s;al and common force, (being with the Defender of our Faith robbed of the Protector of our Freedom, and &s;lavi&s;hly captivated and &s;ubjected to the lawle&s;s and Arbitrary power and Tyranny of a perfidious and bloody Engli&s;h <HI>Phocas,</HI> and his Confederates:) many &s;everal Petitions, Remon&s;trances, Declarations, and other like Addre&s;&s;es, framed, or rather forged by a few di&s;loyal, factious and &s;editious time-&s;erves, (per&s;ons, for the mo&s;t part, as incon&s;iderable for their e&s;tates, as num|ber) have with much Impudence in the Authors, and injury to us, without our privity, and to our great and ju&s;t regret, been fathered, foi&s;ted and obtruded upon us, and pre&s;ented and expo&s;ed to the open view of all the world in Print, under our Name and Stamp, as carrying the Title, &s;ome of this Counties, others of this Cities Addre&s;&s;es: and among&s;t the&s;e, one more black, dete&s;table, and odious then all the re&s;t, nor indeed to be remembred without ju&s;t abomination, and perfect abhor|rency, to wit, That for requiring of Ju&s;tice again&s;t his late Maje&s;ty (of ever Ble&s;&s;ed and pretious memory) and for bringing his &s;acred and royal Per&s;on to (what no Law either of God or Man &s;ubjected him unto) his Tryal, as an arraigned pri&s;oner at the Bar of a pretended, but &s;purious, illegal, and for ever infamous Court of Ju&s;tice; a Court never once heard or thought of, much le&s;s with approbation, among&s;t Chri&s;tians, or indeed but civilized Men, in any Age or Nation until then; nor then erected without the perpetual and indeleble &s;hame and reproach both of the Engli&s;h Nation, and of (what &s;hould be of highe&s;t e&s;teem with it) the Prote&s;tant Cau&s;e and Religion, clearly repugnant to &s;uch prodigious and infernal practi&s;es.</P>
<P>And whereas (la&s;tly) in truth and verity, (which thanks, under God, to that ever indeared Saviour of his Countrey, our gallant General, may freely now be &s;poken) all tho&s;e Petitions and Addre&s;&s;es in general, and that never enough abomi|nated one in particular, were fo far from being the Acts, or from &s;peaking the Sence and De&s;ires of our more Loyal County and City, that as they were hatch'd and bred in corners, and in a &s;ly and clande&s;tine way carried on, without either Counties or Cities privity; &s;o were they never &s;ub&s;cribed or avouched by any party of either place, con&s;iderable or comparable (ei|ther for number or weight) with the Non-&s;ub&s;cribers: &s;carce one of a hundred, we may truly &s;ay of a thou&s;and, of the numerous Inhabitants of either putting his hand, or giving his con&s;ent to them, but (with full concurrence of heart and ton|gue) unanimou&s;ly abhorring, abominating, renouncing, dete&s;ting, di&s;claiming and di&s;owning all &s;uch (we want words to expre&s;&s;e how foul and horrible) de&s;ignes and practi&s;es, with their promotors and abettors.</P>
<P><HI>WHerefore to vindicate our undi&s;tained and un&s;haken Loyalty to our Prince and our con&s;tant readine&s;&s;e (ac|cording to our bounden Duty and Allegiance) to adhere, and (had it been as much in our power as de&s;ires) to have defended and re&s;cued his late Maje&s;ties &s;acred Per&s;on from violence, and his Honour, Greatne&s;s and ju&s;t rights from the lea&s;t violation or incroachment: and to wa&s;h off, and purge away all ju&s;t &s;u&s;pition of our concur|rence with the men of bloud, tho&s;e &s;ons of violence, the wor&s;t of Paricides, (titles which they have taken more de|light to de&s;erve, than we to impo&s;e (who have not &s;pared to imbrue their hands in that of their and our late Dread and gratious Soveraign, their and our common Father, the be&s;t of Men, and Mirrour of Princes: we cannot but (with tho&s;e renouned Patriots of the Citie of</HI> London) <HI>lay hold on this fir&s;t opportunity (given to Loyal Subjects, both to declare the Truth, and to a&s;&s;ert their own Integrity) to renounce, di&s;own, di&s;claim, and from our hearts and &s;ouls to prote&s;t, as against all Petitions, Declarations, and other like Addre&s;&s;es incon&s;istent with the Duty of Loyal Subjects, and &s;uch as de&s;ire to make the known Laws of the Land the Rule and Square of their Obedience; &s;o particularly and principally, against that impious, infamous, and most uncharitable Addre&s;s (framed and pre|&s;ented as the rest, in an under the name of our County and City) for calling his late &s;acred Majesty into question, and bringing him, as a Malefactor to a per&s;onal Tryal, with all the &s;ad and accur&s;ed effects, re&s;ults and con&s;equen|ces of it: humbly de&s;iring (what in ju&s;tice cannot be denied as) that what was &s;o clandestinely, &s;urreptitiou&s;ly, and impiou&s;ly contrived and acted by a few individual Members, may not pa&s;s or be imputed, either by the pre&s;ent or future ages, to the whole body of &s;o large and populous a County and City: or that (at lea&s;t) it may not be laid to the charge, or ca&s;t in the teeth of any one of us, who by this Prote&s;t of ours (aiming only at the righting and vindication of our &s;elves, not at the wronging or irritation of others; we being, though at enmity with their practi&s;es, yet in charity with their per&s;ons) do as truly as &s;olemnly di&s;claim it: with this annexed &s;erious Vow and Promi&s;e, as in the pre&s;ence of God, &s;ince we cannot recall the Father, to redouble our Endeavours for establi&s;hing the Son (the true and apparent Heir of his paternal Throne and Vertues) in that fulne&s;s of Honour, Splendor and Greatne&s;s, which (with Gods ble&s;&s;ing) may in good time ju&s;tly crown him with the Title of</HI> Charles the Great.</P>
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<P>Printed for <HI>H. Brome</HI> at the Gun in <HI>Ivy-Lane.</HI> 1660.</P>
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