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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B071115.tech.</ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="declaration">
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<HEAD>The generall REMONSTRANCE or
DECLARATION of the SEA-MEN which inhabit
in <HI>London</HI> and thereabouts, dated <DATE>the 31, of <HI>Ian,</HI> 1641.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>_WHereas wee of the true Prote&s;tant Religion and the maintainer of the Go&s;pell
under our gracious King and Parliament, and have beene continually loving and
faithfull Subjects to his Sacred Maje&s;ty, and notwith&s;tanding the generall and
hard oppre&s;&s;ions &s;uffered by &s;ubordinate Governours, to the Ruine of our
lives, if it had not beene prevented by the providence of God, and the good
care of our King and Parliament, to prevent their de&s;ignes before it came to
perfection, yet having all liberty of the true Religion from his Maje&s;ty out
of the effluence of his Princely care to us, and wee waying no Corporall lo&s;&s;e
in re&s;pect of that great Immunity of the Soule, we are inviolably re&s;olved to infix our &s;elves in an im|mutable
and pure Allegiance forever to his Sacred Maje&s;ty, and his Succe&s;&s;ors, for the maintenance of
the Go&s;pell under them, and to &s;ubdue all tho&s;e which doth oppo&s;e it, if his Maje&s;ty would be plea&s;ed
out of his Princely care, and providence, to give us leave.</P>
<P>So it is, that if his Maje&s;ty and this Honourable Parliament, would bee plea&s;ed to give unto Us
and the Owners of the&s;e Ships the Priviledges to have Letters of Marts and free pa&s;&s;age into the Seas,
by the providence of the Almighty GOD, wee &s;hall in a &s;hort time &s;ubdue all the&s;e Rebels and any
that doth oppo&s;e his Maje&s;ty, or this Kingdome, or other Kingdomes for the maintenance of the
Go&s;pell which doth belong to his Maje&s;ty: and knowing none to bee &s;o de&s;irous to maintaine it but
the true Prote&s;tants, and none more readier then wee that doth belong to the Sea, and thereby pre|tending
the generall good of his Maje&s;ty and this Kingdome.</P>
<P>But wee the &s;aid Sea-men and true Prote&s;tants, and loyall Subjects to his Maje&s;ty; doe hereby
proffer our &s;elves and Lives for the maintenance of it, touching our Religion in which wee were
Baptized in and under the Faith of our Saviour JESVS CHRIST.</P>
<P>But likewi&s;e, if his Maje&s;ty and this Parliament would bee plea&s;ed to let us bee &s;upported there,
for to rai&s;e the name of the true Prote&s;tants heere in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and &s;eeing this &s;urpri&s;e &s;o
dangerous, tending ab&s;olutely to the overthrow of the Liberty of our Con&s;ciences and Countrey, if it
bee not prevented in time; and al&s;o our gracious Kings Power and Priviledges forced from him, in
which, and in who&s;e prudent Care have formerly beene over Us and the Go&s;pell, our &s;ole quiet, and
comfort con&s;i&s;ted, and without the which, the feare of our pre&s;ent Ruines did pre&s;cribe opinion and
premoni&s;h us to &s;ave our &s;elves; Wee therefore as well to regaine his Excellent Maje&s;ties &s;aid Pre|rogative,
it being onely due to Him and his Succe&s;&s;ours, and being the e&s;&s;ence and life of Monarchy,
hoping thereby to Confirme a &s;trong and invincible Unity betweene his Royall and ever happie Love
unto us and our faithfull Duty, and Loyaltie to his incomparable Maje&s;tie. And the Rebels having ta|ken
up Armes, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed them&s;elves of the be&s;t and &s;tronge&s;t Forts of the Kingdome of <HI>Ireland</HI> to
oppo&s;e his Maje&s;ty, and all tho&s;e which doth maintaine the Go&s;pell, the which wee doe hope that the
Almighty God, will &s;ave and defend us from the tyrannous re&s;olution of our Enemies, and this in our
Con&s;ciences as we doe wi&s;h the Peace of the &s;ame to our &s;elves and po&s;terity, is the pretence and true
cau&s;e that doth make us to declare our &s;elves to God and the World for the reliefe of the&s;e our poore
di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Brethren in <HI>Jreland.</HI></P>
<P>Wee doe declare unto God and the World, that what we doe is for the maintenance of our King
and our Religion, and to defend our Brethren by our reliefe at Sea.</P>
<P>Wee doe de&s;ire that the Government of that Kingdome of <HI>Ireland</HI> might bee put into the hands of
&s;ome godly and Religious man, and not to have any Papi&s;ts to inhabit there, nor within the Kingdome
of <HI>England,</HI> nor any Popi&s;h Lords to have place in this Honourable Court of Parliament, but to bee
utterly ca&s;t out.</P>
<P>Al&s;o wee doe de&s;ire, that tho&s;e Commanders which are bound forth for that &s;ervice into <HI>Ireland,</HI>
&s;hould take the Oath of alleagiance and Supremicie: &s;o that they which doe goe under them may be &s;e|cured
that they &s;hall not be betrayed into the hands of the Rebels, but to &s;tand to maintaine the Faith
and the Truth of the Go&s;pell.</P>
<P>Wee taking it into our &s;erious con&s;ideration, doe for feare our Brethren &s;hould be over-come of a
&s;udden, and for the &s;ecurity of this Kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> we have thought fit to have this our Decla|ration
to be publi&s;hed, that his Maje&s;tie and this Honorable Parliament would be plea&s;ed to con&s;ider
of it, and give us the Priviledges of Letters of Marts for to keepe the&s;e our Enemies in &s;ubjection.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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