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A85018	A happy handfull, or Green hopes in the blade; in order to a harvest, of the several shires, humbly petitioning, or heartily declaring for peace.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing F2437; Thomason E1021_17; ESTC R208465	46,178	87

worthy Remonstrators of the most Renowned City of London ansd the several Counties of this Kingdome in the pursuance of their several Declarations for a Full and Free Parliament which is the onely means under God to bring us out of this miserable Confusion in which at present we are plunged And we further declare That we will pay no Tax or other Imposition whatsoever but by Authority from our Representatives in a Full and Free Parliament Into whose hands we shall commit our Lives and Fortunes and into whose Results we will ever acquiesce Our eyes are up unto our God for Help and thence our Hopes are fixed on General Monke that God hath called him forth to be the Vmpier and Determiner of our Divisions and Oppressions by whom he will lead us through the Wilderness of our present Confusion and bring us to our desired Canaan In this Confidence we pray to God to Bless Direct and Keep Him Advertisement THis our Declaration had came forth a week since had not the Trappanning Diligence of an unworthy Member of our Country endeavoured the surprizal of it and us Let not three hundred and thirty hands an inconsiderable number for so great a County bespeak this Declaration forged we being forced to do in one day the work we had cut out for seven had we had time we had brought ten thousand hands such as upon a good occasion will bring hearts suitable to the merits of their Cause THE Declaration of the Gentry of the County of NOTTINGHAM And of the Town of Nottingham presented by way of Address to his Excellency the Lord General MONCK the 28. of February With a Letter to his Excellency and another to the Speaker of the PARLIAMENT WHat the people of this Land have suffered in their greatest Concernments both Religious and Civil by the late Disorders and frequent change of Government hath for a long time been the Argument of a general and sad complaint both to God and Man What the most publick sense of the Nation is as to the means of setling it in the possession of its antient and native Liberties is sufficiently known by the several Declarations of so many Counties already presented and published What God in great mercy hath done by your Excellencies means as his chosen Instrument to revive our dying hopes in plucking us as a brand out of the fire and that with so gentle a hand is the wonder and rejoycing of our souls In testimony therefore of our thankfulness to God and our grateful sense of your Excellencies most valiant and wise management of the Power he hath intrusted you with As also to evidence as Fellow-members our concurrence and sympath with those other parts of this great Body We the Nobility Gentry Ministry and Commonalty of the County of Nottingham and of the County of the Town of Nottingham do Declare That as it is our Judgement that the Nation ought so it is our earnest desire and shall be our endeavour by the use of all lawful means that it may be free in its Members in Parliament deputed from all parts impowred by antient and undoubted right to elect the best Expedient whereto at present we conceive to be either an admission of the Members secluded in 1648. and a filling up of Vacancies by new Elections or the speedy calling of another Parliament with such Qualifications as were then agreed on before there as a force upon the House We also claim it with the rest of the Nation as our uniquestionable right That nothing be imposed upon us by way of Tax or otherwise but by our consents first given and declared in a Full and Free Parliament And now considering how great things in prosecution of these just ends are already done for us as we do in most humble manner bless and praise his glorious name that hath thus far answered our desires so we do most earnestly beseech him to perfect in his due time what is so happily begun and in order thereto to bless and conduct your Excellency through all the remaining difficulties that may obstruct our present necessary Settlement upon the true lasting foundation of our known Laws and Priviledges In the vindication whereof we beseech your Excellency to be confident not only of our best wishes and thanks but also of our utmost assistance to the hazard of our lives and fortunes My Lord THis enclosed was intended to be presented to your Excellencies before we had notice of your Excellencies happy removal of all Force excluding Members from sitting in Parliament wherein though our desires are thereby granted yet we cannot but address the same to you that it may appear what your Excellency hath done therein is according to our sense and desire as well as those of other Counties that have gone before us in time though not in affection and that we shall in our places and callings be ready to make good what we have publickly declared for as the Parliament and your Excellency shall command us and remain Nottingham Feb. 23. 1650. My Lord your Excellencies most humble and faithful servants Mr. Speaker WE being desirous amongst other Counties to express our thanks to the Lord General Monke for his endeavours in our restitution to Peace and Settlement and to manifest our adherence to him and those under his command in the further prosecution of those good ends mentioned in our Address to him after we had subscribed and ordered these Gentlemen to wait upon him with the same We received the joyful news that all force was removed and a free admission given to all Members to sit in Parliament whereby our desires are so far accomplished that we might have acquiessed therein but only that we would not have our intentions and desires though obtained buried in oblivion We thought fit to present that Address to the Lord General and judge it our duties to express our thankfulness to God for your re-admission and our readiness in our places and callings to assist you in what you have so happily begun and humbly desire that by your Authority our Militia may be so setled that we may be serviceable to your Commands and capacitated to defend our selves against any discontented persons that may upon this change endeavour a disturbance of the publick Peace or deny your Authority Nottingham Feb. 23. 1659. Sir Your humble and faithful servants THE DECLARATION OF Sir Charles Coot Knight and Baronet Lord President of the Province of CONNAVGHT And the rest of the Council of Officers of the Army in IRELAND Present at DUBLIN Concerning the Re-admission of the Sucluded Members SInce the Authority of Parliament became openly violated and that by their own waged servants of the Army in England by whom 41. of the Members of Parliament were torn from the Parliament House in Dec. 1648. and imprisoned and a 160. other Members denied entrance into the House and about fifty more voluntarily withdrew themselves to avoid violence making in all of secluded Members about

introduce Prosecution for Conscience into the Land again we do hereby in the presence of Almighty God protest and Declare against all Coercive power in matters of Religion and that to the utmost of our strength through Gods assistance we will endeavour to the hazzard of our Blood and Fortunes the Freedom and Protection of all vertuous and religious People by what Name soever differenced from us equal with our selves and that no forreign or other Authority save only the Civil be exercised in England That the Practise of the Law be reformed all corrupt Statutes repealed Annual Elections of all Officers and Magistrates with the constant Succession of Parliaments restored our fundamental Laws cleared and asserted and whatever is contrary there to be abolished That no Trials be admitted in England for Life Limb Liberty or Estate but by the good old way of Juries and that they be restored to their original power and purity That all Extrajudicial and Illegal proceedings by High-Courts of Justice or otherwise with all Illegal and Arbitrary Committees be strictly provided against that the Excise and all other Payments and Taxes such as our Ancestors never knew of together with all Monopolies and Patents destructive to Trade and the Common good of the Nation be also abolished And that our Parliaments and Magistrates be secured from all Force and Violence and utterly cleared from all boundlesse Prerogative and unlimited Priviledge That the Right of the Poor in the Commons of England all Donations for Charitable Uses and all Lands formerly belonging to the People be restor'd again And that Mercy and Justice be truly established amongst us And for these ends and what else may be of publick good to the Nation we do desire and indeed challenge as of English Right the speedy Election of a New Free Parliament And thus most Noble Citizens Brethren and fellow Freemen of England we have dealt truly and plainly with you and given you the real Grounds and Reasons of our taking up Arms looking upon you as the most concern'd in the Nation and therefore hold our selves the more obliged to give you this Early Advice of our Candid and just Intentions in this undertaking that you may not be deluded or frighted though falsly into any strange opinion of us either through your own mistake or by the pollicy of those men who will leave no means unattempted to render us as publick Enemies Rebels and Traitors Plunderers Tyrants and Persecutors or whatever is odious and monstrous to engage you in Blood Believe us right worthy Citizens and Free-born English Brethren we have no Design of Fire or Sword or of Evil toward you or your City or any part of the Nation or any Person in it We know there are thousands amongst you that are satisfied in us it may be indeed that many or most of the Gathered separate Churches may be fearfull and jealous of us and so may be induced to Arms against us but we do again and again protest before Almighty God and the whole World that we have no other purpose towards them but that they with us and we with them may be bound up as Friends and Brethren in the Common Cause of our Countrey that every English-man may have English Freedom and Right and we do not desire to wrong Man Woman or Childe the worth of a Shoo-latchet Therefore we hope you will first well advise before you proceed in a new War lest you bring not only your own but others blood on your heads for we are resolved to presecute this to the last drop of our blood The Case of England is laid before you our Laws and Liberties they are yours as well as ours and for which we have all engaged in the first War and not to be so slightly valued as to be set at stake against the private ends of some ambitious and corrupt persons Salus Populi Suprema Lex let the People live and their Enemies perish Therefore we beseech you we conjure you as English men to stand by your Native Countrey and your Countrey's Cause Our Voice is and it is no other than the Consent and Voice of the People A new free Parliament A new free Parliament it is the English man's main Birth-right which we are resolved to put the People in possession of or to perish with our Swords in our hands But if you will not joyn but degenerate we hope notwithstanding by Gods blessing to carry on this Work Yet to that just and glorious Work we may challenge your concurrence it being your duty as well as ours to endeavour the procurement thereof And therefore to you make it our Proposal to your Militia to the Army and the whole People for the prevention of a New War and the effusion of English blood that you would be instrumental with us for the speedy Election of a New Free Parliament for the ends aforesaid and in the interim all hostility to be forborn and that a day may be appointed and the People suffered to go to their free Elections and we shall quietly submit to their Authority heartily desiring that all revenge division rancor and animosity of spirit may be for ever buried in one General Act of Oblivion And that all Parties Sects and sorts now jarring and making up interests one against another may reconcile cement and concenter in the common Brotherhood of English Freedom and Right in and for which we are Sir George Booth to a Friend of his in London SIR MY last to you of the second instant I understand you have committed to open view the Publication whereof was of general Satisfaction to your Friends here and for which we all hold our selves obliged I have sent you here inclosed an Express from the Knights and Gentlemen engaged with me and beg this further addition to your former many Favours that you would please to take the care upon you to get the same Printed and published for the undeceiving of those amongst you and all other that are yet doubtfull or unsatisfied in us The Messenger will inform you of the present State and condition of Affairs with us to whom I refer you In haste I rest Sir Your most affectionate Friend and Servant George Booth Manchester Aug. 9. 1659. Alleyn Mayor At a Common-Council holden in the Guildhall LONDON On Tuesday the 20. of December 1659. THis Court having taken notice of divers Affronts put upon the Right Honorable Thomas Alleyn the present Lord Mayor of this City with many false and scandalous Aspersions cast upon his Lordship and the Committee appointed by this Court to confer with the Lord Fleetwood touching the Peace and Safety of this City as if they had deserted their Trust or betrayed the Rights and Liberties of this City And in particular that the said Committee seemed satisfied with the Limitations of Parliament called The Seven Principles or unalterable Fundamentals printed in a late scandalous Pamphlet stiled The Publick Intelligencer The said Committee here openly declaring

the other enforceth us to this our Declaration we thought that we would not be silent at such a time when our silence would speak us to be Assentors to our own ruine or Abettors of such proceedings as have neither Law nor Equity to support them We therefore the Nobility Gentry Ministry and Commonalty of the County of KENT together with the City and County of Canterbury the City of Rochester and the Ports within the said County do by these Presents unanimously declare That our desires are for a Full and Free Parliament as the only probable means under God to lead us out of this Maze and Labyrinth of confusions in which we are at present engag'd that is that the old secluded Members so many of them as are surviving may be re-admitted into the House and that there may be a free Election of others to supply the places of those who are dead without any Oath or Engagement previous to their entrance these we shall own as the true Representatives of the People these we shall with our Lives and Fortunes to the uttermost of our power assist and with all cheerfulnesse submit to and acquiesce in whatsoever they shall Enact or Ordain Thus concluding that all publick spirited men and good Patriots will with all readinesse joyn and concur with us in a matter of so universal concernment and that we shall finde opposition from none but such as prefer their own private Interests and temporal respects to their Religion and Laws of the Land we shall as bodily subscribe our Names as we do heartily declare our Desires ADVERTISEMENT THe forward zeal of some wel-disposed persons to expresse their cordial and unanimous concurrence with their Countrey-men of the several Counties and Cities of England having caused a Declaration imperfect in a very weighty and material Clause thereof to be printed and published in the Name of the County of Kent c. It was thought fit that the genuine and true Copy of the said Declaration should be set forth as it was intended to be presented to the Speaker and to the present great Arbitrator of the Nations peace and happinesse General MONCK but through the mis-informations of some unquiet spirits who while they may have leave to accuse will leave no man innocent nor the State without trouble the persons of many Gentlemen are secured and others threatned by a great force march'd into the Countrey the Presentation was necessarily omitted and the Names and subscriptions not exposed to publick view for reasons very obvious and evident A NARRATIVE Of the meeting of some Gentlemen Ministers and Citizens at the Town-Hall in Canterbury Together with their Declaration presented to the Mayor at the common Burghmoote UNderstanding that the late procedure of some of the principal Gentlemen and Citizens Inhabitants of the City of Canterbury hath been represented above as a Malignant Design tending to Tumult and Sedition We thought fit to publish to the World a brief Narrative of the same together with the Declaration it self that both the one and the other being cleared from the malicious aspersions and calumnies of our Adversaries the whole Nation may judge between them and us and so give sentence according to the merit of the cause Whereas some peaceable and well-minded Gentlemen with some godly and sober Ministers perceiving the people generally bent for a free Parliament as in the following Declaration is expressed and hearing that the Cities of London and Exeter had lately declared for the same thought it neither unmeet to follow so leading Presidents not unseasonable to joyn their Votes with the general desires of the whole Nation to which end it was resolved to present this following draught to the Common Burghmoote and to desire their concurrence therein Thus in an orderly manner without tumult or noise without Arms in their hands or thoughts or without Anger or Threats in their looks divers Gentlemen Ministers and Citizens went to the Town-hall on Jan. 24. the Mayor Aldermen and Common Councel then sitting and presented the Declaration at the door desiring that after a serious perusal thereof they would be pleased to joyn with them in a business which they judged agreeable not only to the sense of that Court but also of the whole County and Nation But when it was mentioned to be put to the Vote whether the paper should be read or not some of the Bench protested against it although they knew nothing of its contents and in conclusion having a long time rather wrangled than debated the Dissenters being but seven of twenty four quitted the Court not leaving enough to make a Burghmoote Quorum whereupon the Gentlemen who though rudely treated had quietly attended withdrew Re infecta and returned home with as little tumult as at first they came Thus was there nothing done to surprise or disturb the Court nothing to raise a tumult nothing to cause a second Kentish Insurrection as our Adversaries give it out No the design was not Arms but Peace not tumult but settlement not to surprize and disturb the Court but to desire an amiable correspondence with the same to the end that the intended Declaration might be made the more authentick by the formal intervention and assent in open Court of the Magistracy of so considerable a Corporation and that the Declarers themselves might not be thought to tread in any oblique Paths or to proceed in a Clandestine manner But being disappointed as you see herein it was thought fit to strengthen and confirm our Declaration and to make good the Title it bears by private subscriptions as well through the whole County as this City wherein we had in three dayes time proceeded so far that many thousands were then collected whereupon some Gentlemen from the slie insinuations and false representations of our Aversaries were secured in several prisons to the discouragement of well-begun and well-meant undertaking neither can the Gentlemen understand wherein they have offended or how they should merit imprisonment since there was no order nor prohibition to the contrary Although they conceive that had they proceeded therein they had not trangressed any known Laws of the Land it being the Subjects Birth-right modestly to represent their grievances by way of Petition Remonstrance or Declaration Wherefore lest through our silence and the present suppression of our Declaration the aspersions of our Adversaries might be thought deservedly cast upon us we thought fit to publish the same together with this Narrative deeming that as we have done nothing herein worthy the present severity so the impartial Reader will in his private judgement absolve us from all guilt or demerit Neither shall we answer our Adversaries by way of recrimination nor although we can by undoubted testimonies sufficiently prove it say that the same men who now appear so zealous assertors of the Parliaments interests and proceedings did as eagerly joyn with the Army crying them up as much with whom they would live and dye as they decryed this