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<P>THE RESOLVTION OF WILTSHIRE: Pre&s;ented at <HI>Oxford</HI> to His MA|jESTIE with their Contributions.</P>
<P><HI>ALSO</HI> The Re&s;olution of <HI>Hereford&s;hire, &amp;c.</HI></P>
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<P>Printed <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>WILTSHIRE<HI>'s</HI> Re&s;olution, pre&s;ented with the Contributions of divers Gentle|men to His MAjESTIE at OXFORD.</HEAD>
<P>_FOra&s;much as we who&s;e names are hereto &s;ub&s;cribed, having taken the late Prote&s;tation recommended unto this Kingdome in generall, according to the direction of both Hou&s;es of Parliament, with His Maje&s;ties con&s;ent, whereby wee hold our &s;elves mo&s;t e&s;pecially bound and engaged to defend, and maintaine with our lives and fortunes according to our utmo&s;t abilities, the Prote&s;tant Re|ligion e&s;tabli&s;hed by authority of divers pa&s;t Parliaments &s;ince the Reformation, and al&s;o His Maje&s;ties Royall Per&s;on, and Pre|rogative, the ju&s;t and ancient Priviledges of Parliaments, the Lawes of this Land, and the Liberty of the Subject. And whereas it is evident unto us, that at this pre&s;ent by the mali|tious practi&s;es of &s;ome dangerous &s;pirits, the Prote&s;tant Reli|gion hath received manife&s;t detriment by calumniating, di&s;|countenancing, and impri&s;oning divers painfull, reverend, and orthodoxe Divines, as namely <HI>D^r Featley, D^r Old&s;worth, M^r Shute</HI> of London, and many other men of approved &s;ound|ne&s;&s;e in Doctrine, and un&s;potted integrity in their lives and conver&s;ations, and almo&s;t in all places obtruding ana|bapti&s;ticall, Browni&s;ticall, and Schi&s;maticall Teachers of fal&s;hood, and rebellion, to the di&s;honour of God, and &s;candall of the Pulpit, abu&s;ed nowadayes to &s;educe us from the Loyalty and piety which made our Fore-fathers, and our &s;elves for|merly happy, and to engage us in a Civill warre one again&s;t
<PB N="3" REF="3">another. The much, and much worthy to be reverenced Li|turgie, and Common Prayer of our Church growne infamous, and a reproach to tho&s;e that u&s;e it, and all po&s;sible endeavour u&s;ed utterly to expunge it.</P>
<P>And having beene bold with God in his wor&s;hip, no wonder if they proceed to the injury of his Vicegerent, our mo&s;t Graci|ous Soveraigne, who oppo&s;ing as much as in him lay, tho&s;e, and other unju&s;t and illegall proceedings, was by their &s;ubtletie ren|dred &s;u&s;pected to His Subjects of inclining to Popery, and many other matters equally fal&s;e; that under &s;uch hatefull jealou&s;ies, He might by degrees become le&s;&s;e beloved of His Subjects, and they brought into the condition they are at this time in open warre again&s;t him, wherein, le&s;t they &s;hould relent, they are made beleeve it is for the &s;afety, and defence of His Per&s;on; the mo&s;t ab&s;urd gullery that ever was put upon a Nation.</P>
<P>And as the <HI>KING</HI> did not alone di&s;like the&s;e injuries done to God and Him&s;elfe, &s;o neither alone does Hee &s;uffer; for with him mo&s;t of the mo&s;t Learned, and judicious Members of both Hou&s;es, who&s;e Noblene&s;&s;e, Honour, Vertues, Piety, Religion, and cleare under&s;tandings, made them declare them&s;elves aver&s;e to the pre&s;ent cour&s;e of the times, have beene either im|pri&s;oned or &s;tigmatized with the brand of Traytors, and Papi&s;ts, or at the lea&s;t malignants, and Prelati&s;ts: the&s;e and &s;uch like have beene all the Priviledges of Parliaments allowed the Wor|thies of our times, and wor&s;e is hatching for them if the Di|vine providence pre&s;erve them not.</P>
<P>Are our ancient Lawes in any better condition, or &s;eeme they not as dead as their prudent contrivers? do not new borne Votes &s;upply their roome, and new borne mi&s;eries attend them? the <HI>KING,</HI> his Wife, and Children, voted &amp; forcibly kept out of all that is due to them, wee are required to be a&s;si&s;ting hereto; if not, we &s;hall be voted to be plundered, &amp; our goods and e&s;tates
<PB N="4" REF="4">&s;eque&s;tred, and all this is pretended to be for the Liberty of the Subject: we have liberty indeed to give, but no liberty to deny: and we mu&s;t give not as we know we are able, but as they think fit, and this they have the impudence to publi&s;h.</P>
<P>The&s;e things being taken into our &s;erious con&s;ideration, and the times now requiring us to declare our &s;elves, &s;ince we can no longer be at peace: fir&s;t condoling the generall calamity of our &s;elves, and Ireland, we profe&s;&s;e to all the world, that we cannot &s;ee or find any other lawfull way to free us from the di&s;tre&s;&s;es we are in, then by our be&s;t a&s;si&s;tance of His Sacred Maje&s;tie, a|gain&s;t all that &s;hall oppo&s;e Him in an a&s;&s;ured confidence that His purpo&s;e is as He hath declared, and no other, than to maintaine and e&s;tabli&s;h the Protestant Religion, as it hath beene in au|thority &amp; u&s;e in this Kingdome ever &s;ince <HI>Edward</HI> the &s;ixth, &amp; likewi&s;e His own ju&s;t and true prerogative, and inheritance, derived unto Him from His Ance&s;tours Kings, and Queens of England, and al&s;o the rights and priviledges of Parliaments, that have beene alway ju&s;tly due to them; to whom we conceive His Maje&s;ty ought e&s;pecially to hearken, as hath beene the cu|&s;tome of his Royall Predece&s;&s;ours, they &s;eeking in all humility His a&s;&s;ent to their debates and re&s;olutions, by rea&s;on, not by force; and al&s;o the ancient Lawes of this Kigndome, and all other Acts of Parliament, ratified by the Kings con&s;ent. And la&s;tly, the Liberty and Property of the Subject: Hereto we hold our &s;elves bound by Con&s;cience and vow to God, Loyal|ty to our King, and duty to our Country: and &s;o God pro&s;per us as wee &s;hall be a&s;si&s;ting to His Maje&s;tie in the accompli&s;h|ment of all this.</P>
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<HEAD>A Declaration of the Re&s;olution of the County of HEREFORD.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the Kingdome for many yeares pa&s;t hath groaned under many taxes of Loane, Ship-money, and the like di&s;mall effects of an arbitrary Govern|ment, and an high &s;tretcht prerogative: for the cure of which di&s;temper a Parliament was beleeved by all men to be the onely good old way of Phy&s;icke, to clean&s;e the body poli|tique from oppre&s;&s;ing crudities (which was heartily de&s;ired) but not by over-&s;trong purgatives to weaken it in the princi|pall parts, cau&s;ing it to receive a di&s;po&s;ition to the like di&s;tem|per, or a relap&s;e into the &s;ame, or a wor&s;e di&s;ea&s;e; which in &s;tead of re&s;toring it to its primitive vigour and health, mu&s;t needs drive it to a fatall period. Such is our mi&s;ery, &s;uch the ju&s;t judgement of God upon our &s;innes: this whole&s;ome and approved Phy&s;icke hath not wrought in us that ble&s;&s;ed effect, as was either beleeved by &s;ome, or hoped for by all men. But as if God had an&s;wer'd our importunity for a Parliament, as he did of old the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> for a King, in his anger; we drive on with more ha&s;te then good &s;peed to the other extreame, which por|tends no le&s;&s;e &s;ymptomes of ruine and de&s;truction, then the for|mer. So that having maturely con&s;idered what hath proved de&s;tructive to this and other Parliaments, we may the more ea&s;i|ly avoid tho&s;e Rocks upon which others have &s;plit them&s;elves: <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. The venting of particular ends of Avarice and Ambition in the publique State.</P>
<P N="2">2. Private Combinations and Chamber-conventicles, to re|&s;olve before hand what &s;hall be done in the hou&s;e.</P>
<P N="3"><PB N="6" REF="5"> 3. Hindering the freedome of &s;peech by impri&s;onment of the per&s;ons.</P>
<P N="4">4. Denying informations by the humble way of Petitions from the Countries; as that mo&s;t excellent and orthodox Peti|tion of our brethren of <HI>Kent:</HI> of rejecting information by let|ters to our Knights and Burge&s;&s;es.</P>
<P N="5">5. The ready &s;wallowing of informations and jealous ru|mours again&s;t His Maje&s;tie, by &s;tyling them malignant enemies to the State, which were onely truly, and con&s;cionably His friends.</P>
<P N="6">6. Private, if not publique encouragement of the mutinous Rable, which ill &s;pirit was ready at all times to be rai&s;ed by a whi&s;per by any of tho&s;e worthy members emphatically &s;o cal|led, if not exclu&s;ively; as if all Ju&s;tice, Reformation, and Go|vernment were onely to be expected from them.</P>
<P N="7">7. The new and unheard of State-Law, and Logick, to &s;tyle and believe that a Parliament which is divided in it &s;elfe; which is &s;evered from the King the Head thereof.</P>
<P>If the&s;e things may be remedied, (as we hope they are not all pa&s;t cure) we &s;hall de&s;ire rather to change &s;ome of our Phy|&s;itians, then our Phy&s;ick; there being no better way, nor more nece&s;&s;ary to pre&s;erve or re&s;tore the health of a Common|wealth, then a well-temper'd Parliament: Wherefore we, as faithfull &s;ubjects to His Maje&s;tie, as free-borne <HI>Engli&s;h-men,</HI> do joyne in an unanimous re&s;olution to maintaine
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<ITEM>1. The Prote&s;tant Religion:</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The Kings ju&s;t Power:</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The Lawes of the Land:</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. The Liberties of the Subject.</ITEM>
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<P>For the fir&s;t, <HI>The Prote&s;tant Religion,</HI> wee cannot but with griefe of heart remember how it hath beene a&s;&s;aulted in the out-workes and skirts of it, the Liturgie and decent Ceremonies e&s;tabli&s;hed by Law; yea, in the very body of it, the 39 Ar|ticles.</P>
<P>In what danger the Church of <HI>England</HI> hath beene to be o|ver-runne with Browni&s;me, and Anabapti&s;me, let all the world judge.</P>
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<P> For the &s;econd, <HI>The ju&s;t Power of the King;</HI> God knowes, he hath beene &s;o farre unable to defend that from violation, as it was Gods great goodne&s;&s;e rather than His owne power, which &s;ecured, or rather re&s;cued His Per&s;on from violence: And what their aime was, who to plea&s;e the vulgar Rabble, would uphold them in, or not puni&s;h them for tho&s;e high in&s;olencies, as we feare to imagine for the pre&s;ent, &s;o we cannot but with horrour and amazement doubt the con&s;equence: Nor can we conceale our joy of heart, or thanks to His Maje&s;ties good Sub|jects of the County of <HI>Yorke,</HI> for endeavouring to &s;ecure His Per&s;on with a Guard, (being of more value than many thou|&s;ands) and putting him into a po&s;ture of defence, which &s;ome have either ignorantly or malitiou&s;ly interpreted, an intention of warre again&s;t the Parliament; whereas it is plaine enough, his de&s;ires are onely to &s;ecure him&s;elfe and his &s;ervants from tho&s;e prodigious tumults and di&s;orders, which have endange|red his &s;acred Per&s;on: Nor can we blame him, con&s;idering Sir <HI>John Hothams</HI> act at <HI>Hull,</HI> and Sir <HI>Henry Ludlowe's</HI> Speech in Parliament, with M^r <HI>Martine's.</HI></P>
<P>For the two la&s;t, <HI>The Lawes of the Land,</HI> and <HI>The Liberties of the Subject,</HI> which mu&s;t not be &s;eparated; how have they beene violated al&s;o by &s;ome of tho&s;e who were cho&s;en to be the con&s;ervators of them? as impri&s;onments of the per&s;ons, con|trary to the Petitions of Right; &s;e&s;&s;ing the Clergy, without a body of their owne, contrary to <HI>Magna Charta;</HI> &s;huffling the Convocation into a Synod, or an A&s;&s;embly, or Conventicle, without the choyce, con&s;ent, or election of the Clergy, as if they were neither the Kings Subjects, nor Gods Servants.</P>
<P>As we conceive our &s;elves obliged by the Lawes of God, by the Law of the Land, and by the dictate of nature and rea&s;on, to maintaine all the&s;e; &s;o by Gods grace a&s;&s;i&s;ting us, we hope we &s;hall not be terrified to yeild any active obedience to any di&s;|joynted part of a Parliament, without the con&s;ent of the whole; (which we heartily de&s;ire may be united) or to any uncertaine Debates, Votes, or Ordinances, which are not dige&s;ted and &s;et|led into a Law; nay, which &s;eemes to contradict former Lawes tendred unto us with &s;o much earne&s;tne&s;&s;e, as &s;ome dare hardly
<PB N="8" REF="6" MS="y">deny with &s;afety. Now we cannot obey with con&s;cience, nor &s;hall we yeeld our &s;elves &s;uch &s;laves, or betray the liberty pur|cha&s;ed with our fore-fathers bloud, and bequeathed unto us, as to &s;uffer our &s;elves to be &s;wayed by any Arbitrary government what&s;oever; or &s;trive with &s;o much contention of &s;pirit to ca&s;t off the yoke of one Tyranny, to induce many wor&s;e: Seeing his Maje&s;tie is graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to maintaine
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<ITEM>1. The Prote&s;tant Religion:</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. His owne ju&s;t Power:</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The Lawes of the Land:</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. The Liberties of the Subject.</ITEM>
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<P>And that the&s;e waters of Reformation having beene long &s;tirr'd, we want onely the favour of His Princely Maje&s;tie, as our good Angell, to let us in and heale us; for we doe recipro|cally declare, that we conceive our &s;elves bound to maintaine Him in all the premi&s;es with our lives and fortunes.</P>
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