A declaration of his excellency, George Lord Goring Earl of Norwich with the gentry and freeholders of the county of Essex, in armes for the prosecution and just defense of their generall petition, and solemne ingagement, and their offer unto all such officers and souldiers as shall repair unto them. Norwich, George Goring, Earl of, 1583?-1663. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A52482 of text R43487 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing N1330). 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'). 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A52482) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 110192) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1730:29) A declaration of his excellency, George Lord Goring Earl of Norwich with the gentry and freeholders of the county of Essex, in armes for the prosecution and just defense of their generall petition, and solemne ingagement, and their offer unto all such officers and souldiers as shall repair unto them. Norwich, George Goring, Earl of, 1583?-1663. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n.], [London : July 12. Printed in the Yeer 1648. Place of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. A52482 R43487 (Wing N1330). civilwar no A declaration of his excellency, George Lord Goring Earl of Norwich with the gentry and freeholders of the county of Essex, in armes for the Norwich, George Goring, Earl of 1648 434 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. 2007-12 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Jason Colman Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Jason Colman Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A DECLARATION Of his Excellency , George Lord Goring Earl of Norwich , with the Gentry and Freeholders of the County of ESSEX , in Armes for the prosecution and just defence of their generall Petition , and solemne Ingagement ; And their offer unto all such Officers and Souldiers as shall repair unto them . COuld prosperity make us insolent , this overture should be the story of our present fortunes ; how numerous , how unanimous , how associated , how befriended , or ( in a word ) how Heaven and Earth conspire to our deliverance : Consider with what assurance we have mannaged our very despaires , and raised our selves to this height out of nothing . Consider withall , that we move still by the same resolves , as we are favoured and incouraged by that hand of providence which at first raised us . From this posture ( Gentlemen and Fellow-Subjects ) we salute you in a temper of love , and Christianity , disengaged ( we assure you ) from any interest or mixture of revenge or feare : Peace is the end we aime at , and by peace , if it be possible , we propound to accomplish that end . To which purpose , upon a sad and compassionate thought , how many innocent soules are seduced by the imposture of a pretended Liberty ; and how many more corrupted , by their owne importune necessity , into an erroneous and unfortunate ingagement ; all which must in probability perish , except they may be recovered by the offer of this and this onely expedient . What Officer or Souldier soever , now in armes against us , shall before the 21. of this present July , make his repaire unto us , or any part of our Forces , and there enter into an Ingagement , not to act any thing against us for the future , shall have his Arreares audited and paid : And we do further oblige our selves , to interpose unto His most sacred Majesty for an Act of Indempnity ; the successe whereof from our Gracious Soveraigne Lord the King we at all doubt not . And for the performance on our parts , we tie our Honours , and the Faith of the County ; Avowing withall , that wee designe nothing of alteration either in Church or Common-wealth , but what this present Parliament hath declared to be the duty of good Christians and Loyall Subjects . July 12. Printed in the Yeer 1648.