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A82242	A declaration of the vvel-affected in the county of Buckinghamshire. Being a representation of the middle sort of men within the three chilterne hundreds of Disbrough, Burnum, and Stoke, and part of Alisbury hundred, whereby they declare their resolution and intentions, with a removall of their grievances.		1649 (1649)	Wing D776; Thomason E555_1; ESTC R205704	3,107	8

A DECLARATION OF THE VVEL-AFFECTED In the County of Buckinghamshire BEING A Representation of the middle sort of Men within the three Chilterne Hundreds of Disbrough Burnum and Stoke and part of Alisbury Hundred whereby they Declare their Resolution and Intentions with a Removall of their Grieva●●●s May 10th Printed in the Year 1649. A DECLARATION OF THE VVell-affected in the County of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE WE have for this eight years waited with much patience and great expence of Treasure besides the loss of many our dear friends in the pursuance of our just Rights and Freedoms which God had invested us withall and the whole Nation and kept from us by the Arbitrary Powers tyrannicall Factions of the Nobility Courtiers Episcopal Priests and wicked cheating Lawyers besides Impropriators Patentee-men Lords of Mannors and all illegall Courts c. and other diabolicall Interest parties that had all their Licences Patents Grants Commissions from the late King whose first Predecessor was that out-landish Bastard William the Norman Conqueror from whence doth proceed the originall of all our slavery both in Tenures Termes tyrannicall Laws Customs c. whereby we the lower sort of People are made slaves to the wills of Tyrants by reason the Law being in an outlandish Tongue and withall bought and sold by the Lawyers who judge the Causes according to the Purse and will do no Justice without money so for filthy lucre will stand to justifie and maintain any unjust and wicked and tyrannicall Custome or illegall persecutions of any Tyrants whatsoever although to the utter deprivation and undoing of the poor widdows fatherless c. and to the advancing the Wills of merciless Tyrants and which said parties especially the Lawyers was the chief instruments of procuring all that miserable effusion of bloodshed and ruine in this Nation by the Judges giving their Verdict for ship-moneys and other Monopolies over all sorts and trades and which doth still strive to hinder all good and godly honest and just Reformation they striving rather to uphold their own theft and deceit then admitting any just composure and agrement of the People lest all trials should be by twelve men of the neighbourhood in every Hundred without expence and charge which would be the ruine of their needless Calling and a full ease to the People who are now vexed and undone by their Removes Demurs and needless journeys to their Termes whereby they live upon the only Dissentions and Differences of the People and by whose Subtilties Counsels and Delusions the whole Nation hath been inslaved ever since the foresaid Conquest by whose strategems all the middle sort and poor People hath been pursued by merciless Priviledges great men as Lords Gentlemen and extorting Lords of Mannors whereby all wicked Customs as Fines Hariots Quit-rents and Headsilvers with all slavish and base Tenours Tyths Impropriations and Patents Prerogative Charters the said Lawyers being alwayes Judges and Stewards of those Arbitrary Courts and are chosen by those Prerogative Borough towns to be Burgesses of Parliament which have been the great obstructors and hinderers of all our Liber●ies Freedoms and naturall Rights But when we received so many Promises Declarations and Remonstrances from the Parliament that so soon as God should make them capable and overthrow their ene●ies that were in arms against them they would make us the absolute freest People in the world removing all Oppressions all which did engage us to assist them and find●ng them to apostatize from their principles in their Treaties the Army promising to stand by us that we might have our Freedoms but finding both the Parliament and Army to break their promises and to be as Arbitrary as those that were before them in maintaining all the foresaid oppressions upon us with new vexations as Excise Taxes Free-quarter c. suffering their Committees to domineer over us the same Terms Lawyers Courts remain as corrupt as formerly Tithes slavish Tenures Tolls Patents c. still in force our friends most unjustly and Starchamber-like imprisoned by a new Committee called the Councel of State which was never desired to be set up or allowed to tyrannize over the People yet no less then four of our worthy friends as Mr. Lilburn Mr. Walwin Mr. Prince Mr. Overton must be by them sent to the Tower at their pleasure for not answering Interogatories the Parliament approve of it some of our friends cast into other prisons as Captain Bray and an honest faithful souldier murthered and shot to death by the audatious and perfidious proud Officers of the Army who in a Councel of War condemus him the General refusing to pardon or repleeve him the Janisary souldiers murther him so that even the old conquest of William the Norman is now revived again the forenamed Lawyers with the Impropriators Lords of Mannors Patentee men and chiefe Officers of the Army with the Judges wicked Peers c. being compacted all in one and minding utterly to betray inslave and undo us more then those former Tyrants before them doth still keep up the Kingly power altering the title and all that Diabolicall Interest that doth belong unto it c. so that Quitrents Fines and Hariots Tolls and Customs are still forced upon us and the Impropriators suing us for Tythes no right Justice to be had for the meaner and poor people many undone ready to famish and starve yet no effec●uall course taken for them as their need requires all our honest Petitions slighted and disregarded All which tyranny oppression and arbitrary proceedings of theirs makes us doubt of any true Reformation or just Freedom and Liberty to come from them so long as those wicked Lawyers and impropriators c. are amongst them and untill all those Lawyers and Impropriators be purged out from amongst them it will be to little purpose to make any more addresses to them Likewise finding the Grandees of the Army to be the men that hinder both the honest soldiery that stands for absolute Freedom and doth imprison and put them to death that are for just principles of common Right and Equity so that those honest men are by those proud Commanders persecuted by the name of Levellers By all which we see those chief Commanders are grown to an extream height of avarice pride hypocrisie and apostacy meer arbitrary Politicians prefering their filthy lucres and diabolical interests gain and ugly honor more then the common Freedom of us and the soldiery for a great part of them to be so barbarous as to subject themselves to those Commanders wils although it be to murther their fellows that are godly honest and consciencious c. All which both by Parliament and Grandees of the Army there can be but little good expected from them and bootlesse for us any longer to wait for their delivering us notwithstanding their flattering delusions and hypocritical Fasts making us believe they would take off our oppressions when they lay more on us not at all removing the Roman power but allowing Law to be bought and sold still and yet will not suffer our imprisoned friends to have it for their money but to lye in prison during pleasure c. inventing new wayes to try them others tryed sentenced condemned kild c. even by a Court Martial contrary to the diabolical Norman Laws themselves ANd therefore we declare our intentions that the World may take notice of our Principles which are for common right and freedom And therefore 1. We do protest against all Arbitrary Courts Terms Lawyers Impropriators Lords of Mannors Patents Priviledges Customs Tolls Monopolizers Incroachers Inhancers c. or any other interest-parties whose power are Arbitrary c. as not to allow or suffer our selves to be inslaved by any of those parties but shall resist as far as lawfully we may all their Arbitrary proceedings 2. We protest against the whole Norman power as being too intollerable a burden any longer to bear 3. We protest against paying Tythes Tolls Custom c. 4. We protest against coming to Westminster Terms or to give any mony to the Lawyers but will endeavor to have all our controversies ended by 2 3 or 12 men of our own neighborhood as before the Norman Conquest 5. We protest against any trial by a Martial Court as Arbitrary Tyrannical and Wicked and not for a free people to suffer in time of Peace 6. We shall help to aid and assist the poor to the regaining all their Rights dues c. that do belong unto them and are detained from them by any tyrant whatsoever 7. And likewise will further and help the said poor to manure dig c. the said Commons and to fell those woods growing thereon to help them to a stock c. 8. All wel-affected persons that joyn in community in Gods way as those Acts 2. and desire to manure dig and plant in the waste grounds and Commons shall not be troubled or molested by any of us but rather furthered therein 9. Wee desire to go by the golden rule of equity viz. To do to all men as we would they should do to us and no otherwise And as we would tyrannize over none so we shall not suffer our selves to be slaves to any whosoever FINIS