A letter agreed unto, and subscribed by the gentlemen, ministers, freeholders and seamen of the county of Suffolk, presented to His Excellency, the Lord Generall Monck This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A47962 of text R11855 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L1344A). 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. 2 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 A47962 Wing L1344A ESTC R11855 12387901 ocm 12387901 60898 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. A47962) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 60898) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 766:4) A letter agreed unto, and subscribed by the gentlemen, ministers, freeholders and seamen of the county of Suffolk, presented to His Excellency, the Lord Generall Monck Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670. Felton, Henry, Sir, 17th cent. Brook, Robert, 17th cent. Bloys, William, 17th cent. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Thomas Dring, London : 1659. Broadside. Caption title. "This letter was delivered at St. Albans, Jan. 28, 1659, by Sir Henry Felton, barronet, Robert Brook, and William Bloys, Esquires." Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. eng Suffolk (England) -- History. Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century A47962 R11855 (Wing L1344A). civilwar no A letter agreed unto, and subscribed by, the gentlemen, ministers, freeholders and seamen of the county of Suffolk· Presented to His Excelle [no entry] 1660 361 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. 2006-05 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-05 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-09 Judith Siefring Sampled and proofread 2006-09 Judith Siefring Text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A LETTER Agreed unto , and subscribed by , the Gentlemen , Ministers , Freeholders and Seamen of the County of SUFFOLK . Presented to His EXCELLENCY , The Lord Generall MONCK . May it please your Excellency , THAT our own hearts may not accuse us of a Negligence and Supinenesse , unbecomming those Distempers we languish under , 't is our desire , that this Application , humbly and affectionately tendered , may be received , as the Effect of a just and serious Resentment . To us , at this distance , the God of Heaven seems to prompt you to do Nobly , by depositing in your hands a full and happy Opportunity , such as conspires to promote those Ends , which are worthy and generous . Your Lordship will need no other Incitements , than the publick Concern , and contriving an abiding Ornament to your Name . It must needs be tedious , to see Government reeling from one Species , from one hand to another . We apprehend it much in your power to fix it . Are our Sacred or Civill Liberties dear to us ? They sollicite a Restitution to their Legall Boundaries . Let your Lordship cast your eyes upon a Nation , impoverished , disfigured , bleeding under an intestine Sword : Let its agonies , its miseries , its ruines , implore your assistance . To our sense , the onely redresse , under God , lies in a Free and Full PARLIAMENT , whereunto our Ancestors recours'd in resembling Exigencies . And lest your Lordship should suspect these to be our own solitary thoughts , we are not ashamed to acknowledge , that the Presentments of severall Grand-Juries , and the desires of the Sea-men in this County , urged this Addresse ; which shall be pursued with all due testimonies of a Cordiall Adhesion to your Lordship in order thereunto . This Letter was delivered at St. Albans , Jan. 28. 1659. by Sir Henry Felton Barronet , Robert Brook , and William Bloys Esquires . LONDON , Printed for Thomas Dring . 1659.