To his very loving friends, the high sherife, and iustices of peace of the county of Surrey. Lenthall, William, 1591-1662. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A87860 of text R209763 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.3[40]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A87860 Wing L1090 Thomason 669.f.3[40] ESTC R209763 99868626 99868626 160598 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A87860) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160598) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f3[40]) To his very loving friends, the high sherife, and iustices of peace of the county of Surrey. Lenthall, William, 1591-1662. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1642] Signed: William Lenthall. Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Loyalty oaths -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. A87860 R209763 (Thomason 669.f.3[40]). civilwar no To his very loving friends, the high sherife, and iustices of peace of the county of Surrey. Lenthall, William 1642 598 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion TO HIS VERY LOVING FRIENDS , The High Sherife , and Iustices of Peace of the County of SURREY . GENTLEMEN ; IT is now some moneths since that the Protestation taken by the Lords , and House of Commons , was sent down into the Country , with an expectation that it should be generally taken throughout the Kingdome , for a testimony of their good concurrence with the Parliament , but through the remissenesse of some of those that had the care of recommending it to others , very many there be that have not hitherto taken it . Now the House of Commons having discovered many dangerous designes plotted against the Parliament ; and especially that of the fourth of this instant Ianuary , which had it taken effect would have strucken not onely at the Priviledges , but the very beeing of Parliaments , as will more appeare by the Declaration herewith sent unto you , which the House desires you to publish throughout all parts of the Countie , Have thought fit once again to recommend the taking of this Protestation ; And have therefore commanded me in their Name to desire you the High Sheriffe , and the Justices of the Peace of that County , to meet together in one place assoon as possibly you may , and there to take the Protestation your selves ; and then dispersing your selves into your severall Divisions , that you will call together the Minister , the Constables , Churchwardens , and Overseers of the poore of every Parish , and tender unto them the Protestation to be taken in your presence ; And to desire of them , that they will very speedily call together the Inhabitants of their severall Parishes , both Housholders and others being of Eighteen yeares of age , or upwards , into one or more places , according to the largenesse of their Parishes , and to tender unto them the same Protestation to be taken in their presence , and to take the names of those that doe take , and doe refuse to take the same Protestation , and to return them unto your selves at such time as you shall appoint , which the House desires may be so speedily , as that you likewise may return such Certificate , as you receive from them , to the Knights and Burgesses serving for that County , if the same County be within sixty miles of London , before the twentieth day of February next ; And if the said County be above sixty miles distant from London , then before the twelfth of March next , wherein the House desires your greatest Care and Diligence , as a matter very much importing the good both of the King and Kingdome , which being all I have in command , I rest Your very loving friend WILLIAM LENTHALL , SPEAKER . SIR , I Have lately received a Letter from the Speaker of the House of Commons now assembled in Parliament , the Copy whereof is above-mentioned : I desire you , according to the directions in the said Letter , to meet with the rest of the Justices of Peace ( to whom I have written to the same purpose ) and my selfe at Kingston in the Town Hall there on Thursday being the tenth day of this instant February , by nine of the Clock in the fore-noon , to perform that which we are thereby required . Your very loving friend 2. Febr. 1641.