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A82251 A declaration, or resolution of the county of Hereford. 1642 (1642) Wing D786; Thomason 669.f.6[49]; ESTC R212409 2,175 1

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A Declaration Or Resolution of the County of HEREFORD WHeras the Kingdom for many yeers past hath groned under Taxes of Loans Shipmoney the like dismal● effects of an Arbitrary Government a high stretcht Prerogative for the cure of which distempers a Parliament was held to be the onely good old way of Physick to cleanse the Body Politique from oppressing Crudities which was heartily desir'd but not by over-strong Purgations to weaken it in the principall Part charging it to receive a disposition to the like distemper or a Relapse into the same or a worse Disease which in stead of restoring it to its primitive vigour and health must needs drive it to a fatall Period Such is our misery such the just judgment of God upon our Sins This wholsome Physick hath not wrought in us that blessed effect as was either believed by some or hoped for by all men but as if God had answered our importunity for a Parliament as hee did the old Israelites for a King in his anger we drive on with much more haste then good speed to the other extream which portends no lesse Symptomes of ruine and destruction than the former So that having maturely considered what hath proved destructive to this or other Parliaments we may the more easily avoid those Rocks upon which others have split themselves viz. 1 The venting of particular ends of Avarice and Ambition in the publike Cause 2 Private Combinations or Chamber conventicles to resolve before-hand what shall be done in the House 3 Hindring the freedom of speech by imprisonment of their persons 4 Denying information by the humble way of Petitions from the County as that most excellent Orthodox Petition of our Brethren of Kent and of rejecting information of Letters to our Knights and Burgesses 5 The ready swallowing of informations and jealous rumours against his Majesty the styling them the malignant party and enemies to the State which were onely truly and conscionably his friends 6 The private if not publike mutinous rabble which ill Spirit was ready at all times to be raised by a whisper from any of those worthy Members Emphatically so called if not exclusively as if all Justice Reformation and Government were onely to be expected from them 7 The now unheard of State-law and Logick to style and believe that a Parliament that is divided in it selfe is severed from the King the Head thereof if they may be remedied as we hope they are not past cure we shall rather desire to change some of our Physicians then Physick there being no better way nor more necessary to preserve the health of a Common-wealth than a well temper'd Parliament Wherefore we as faithfull Subjects to his Majesty as free-born Englishmen doe joyn in an unanimous resolution to maintain 1 The Protestant Religion 2 The Kings just power 3 The Laws of the Land 4 The liberty of the Subject For the first The Protestant Religion we cannot but with grief of heart remember how it hath been assaulted in the In-works and skirts of it the Liturgie and decent Ceremonies established by Law yea in the very Body of it the 39 Articles In what a danger this Church of England hath been to be overcome with Brownisme and Anabaptisme let all the World judge For the second The just power of the King God knows he hath been so far unable to defend that from violence as it was Gods great goodnesse rather then his own power which secured or rather preserved his person from violence What their ayme was who to please the vulgar Rabble would uphold and not punish them for their insolencies as wee feare and imagine for the present so we cannot but with horror and amazement doubt the consequence Nor can we conceale our joy of heart or thanks to his Majesties good Subjects of the County of York for endevouring to secure his person with a Guard being of much more value then many thousand of us and putting him in a posture of defence which some have ignorantly or maliciously interposed by suggesting it an intension of War against his Parliament whereby it is plaine enough his Majesties desires are onely to secure himself and servants from prodigious tumults and disorders as have indangered his sacred person Nor can we blame him considering Sir Iohn Hothams Act at Hull and Sir Henry Ludlowes Speech in Parliament For the two last The Laws of the Land and The Liberty of the Subject which must not be separated how have they beene violated after by some of those who were chosen to be Conservators of them by imprisonment of mens persons contrary to the Petition of Right assisting of the Clergy without a Body of Magna Charta shuffling the Convocation into a Synod or an Assembly or Conventicle without the choice consent or election of the Clergy as if they were neither the Kings Subjects nor Gods servants As wee conceive our selves obliged by the Law of God the Law of the Land by the Dictates of Nature and reason to maintaine all these so by Gods grace assisting us we hope we shall not be terrified or compelled to yeeld any active obedience to any dis-joyned part of Parliament without the consent of the whole which we heartily desire may be united or to any uncertaine Debates Votes or Ordinances that are not digested or setled into Lawes nay which seemes to contradict former Lawes and yet are tender'd to us with so much earnestnes as some dare hardly deny them with safety or obey with Conscience Nor shall we ever yeeld our selves such Slaves or so betray the liberty purchased by our Forefathers blood and bequeathed unto us as to suffer our selves to be swayed by any Arbytrary Government whatsoever or stand with too much contention of Spirit to cast off the yoake of our Tyrany to endure many worse And seeing his Maiestie is gratiously pleased to maintaine the true Protestant Religion His owne just Power The Lawes of the Land The Liberty of the Subjects and that these waters of Reformation having beene long stirred we want onely the favour of his Princly Majestie to let us in and heale us So we doe reciprocally declare that we conceive our selves bound to maintaine him in all the Premisses with our lives and Fortunes FINIS Imprinted at London by a printed Copie 1642.