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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE DECLARATION Of the Gentlemen, Free-holders and Inhabitants Of the County of BEDFORD.</HEAD>
<P>_WEE the Gentlemen, Free-holders, and Inhabitants of the County of <HI>BEDFORD,</HI> being truly &s;en&s;ible of the heavy pre&s;&s;ures that we lye under, having all our Civill and Religious Rights and Liberties daily Invaded, cannot in this common day of Calamity, be &s;ilent, but, with the re&s;t of the Nation, make &s;ome enquiry after the way of Peace and &s;ettlement: And having met, and con&s;idered thereof, do humbly propo&s;e, as the mo&s;t probable means, under God, to compo&s;e all our Differences, and cement all our Breaches both in Church and State, the a&s;&s;embling of a Full and Free <HI>PARLIAMENT,</HI> without any previous Oaths, or Engagements, or Qua|lifications what&s;oever, (&s;aving what was in the year 1648. before the Force put upon the <HI>Parliament.)</HI> Or, the re-admitting of the Secluded Members to the Execution of their Tru&s;ts, with a full and free Supply of their Vacancies by Death. And un|till one of the&s;e be done, we do declare, We &s;hall not hold our &s;elves engaged to pay the Taxes impo&s;ed upon us, without our Con&s;ents &s;o fir&s;t had in <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Printed at</HI> LONDON, 1659.</P>
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