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<HEAD>Letter and Declaration of the Nobility and Gentry of the County of YORK. TO HIS EXCELLENCY The Lord Generall MONCK.</HEAD>
<HEAD>The LETTER.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>_WE find our &s;elves con&s;trained by writing, to &s;upply the Omi&s;sion of acquainting your Lord&s;hip with our thoughts and de&s;ires when you pa&s;&s;ed through our Coun|ty, which we had then done, if upon &s;o &s;hort notice, we could have met for a mutual &V;nder&s;tanding: Your Lord&s;hip will find in the inclo&s;ed Declaration the &s;um of our Apprehen&s;ions. We thought it not nece&s;&s;ary to multiply particulars, but leave all other things to a duly con&s;tituted Parliament; neither have we been &s;ollicitous to multiply Sub&s;criptions, tru&s;ting more to the weight of the Propo&s;als than to the number of Sub&s;cribers; yet we may &s;afely affirm this to be the &s;en&s;e of the generality of the County, as your Lord&s;hip &s;ees it is of others. We have only to add the earne&s;t de&s;ires to your Lord&s;hip, That you would be plea&s;ed to further the Accompli&s;hment of what we have repre&s;ented, with such &s;ea&s;onable &s;peed, as that the fear of Friends, and the hopes of Enemies concerning a <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">gerous Confu&s;ion among&s;t us, may be prevented.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The DECLARATION.</HEAD>
<P>WE being deeply &s;en&s;ible of the grievous Pre&s;&s;ures under which we lye, and the extream dan|gers whereunto we are expo&s;ed at this time, through the violent alteration of our Govern|ment, the Multiplication and Interruption of Parliaments: And having no Repre&s;entatives to expre&s;&s;e or remedy our Grievances, have thought meet (according to the example of other Counties) to Declare and De&s;ire, That if the Parliament begun NOVEMBER the third, 1640. be yet continued, The Members that were &s;ecluded in the year 1648. be forthwith re&s;tored to the exerci&s;e of their Tru&s;t, of all Vacancies may be filled up, that Right may be done to their Per&s;ons, to Parliaments, and the People that have cho&s;en them. If otherwi&s;e, That a Parliament may be pre&s;ently called, without impo&s;ing of Oaths or Engagements, (the greate&s;t prejudice to Civil or Chri&s;tian Liberty) or requiring any Oualifications, &s;ave what by Law or Ordinance of Parliament before the Force in 1648. are alread<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> e&s;tabli&s;hed. And, untill this, or One of the&s;e be done, We cannot hold our &s;elves oblieged to pa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Taxes that are, or &s;hall be, impo&s;ed on us, We not enjoying the Fundamentall Rights of this Natio<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> to con&s;ent to our own Laws by equal Repre&s;entatives.</P>
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<ITEM>Tho. <HI>Lord</HI> Fairfax,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lord</HI> Fawconberge,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bar. Bourchier,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sheriff.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;to. Wivill,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Wharton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho. Remington,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho. Harri&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Gee,</ITEM>
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<LIST>
<ITEM>William Fairfax,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Osberton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Hutton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gu&s;tavus Boynton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Har. Betheli,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVilliam Daw&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rob. Wivel,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nicholas Bethell,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo. Ledgar,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Henry Fairfax,</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<ITEM>John Hotham,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Slingsby,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Will. Cholmley,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mett. Robin&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Stapleton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Matwood,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho. Heblethwait,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rob. Redman,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rob. Belt,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VV. Adams,</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Jo. Micklethwait,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bryan Layton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho. Lovell,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVil. Rokesby,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rich. Levit,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Roger Langly,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Francis Boynton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Cholmley,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Dawny,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Gib&s;on,</ITEM>
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<LIST>
<ITEM>James Moy&s;er,</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Crake,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Peir&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho. Yarborow,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo. Richard,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VV. Dalton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>F. Driffield,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VValter Bethel,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wil. Woodver,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo. Vava&s;or, &amp;c.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at <HI>London,</HI> and Re-printed at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> by <HI>Chri&s;topher Higgins,</HI> 1660.</P>
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