The declaration of Thomas Lord Fairfax, and the rest of the lords, knights, esquires, citizens, ministers and freeholders of the county and city of York. Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84696 of text R211574 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.23[47]). 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 A84696 Wing F154 Thomason 669.f.23[47] ESTC R211574 99870290 99870290 163703 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. A84696) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163703) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f23[47]) The declaration of Thomas Lord Fairfax, and the rest of the lords, knights, esquires, citizens, ministers and freeholders of the county and city of York. Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for James Williamson, London : [1660] Dated at end: Leeds Febr. 13. 1659. Praying for a Free Parliament. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Feb: 16. 1659". Reproductions of the originals in the British Library (Thomason Tracts), and the Harvard University Library (Early English books, 1641-1700). eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. York (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A84696 R211574 (Thomason 669.f.23[47]). civilwar no The declaration of Thomas Lord Fairfax, and the rest of the lords, knights, esquires, citizens, ministers and freeholders of the county and Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron 1660 498 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 2007-11 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Elspeth Healey Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE DECLARATION OF Thomas Lord Fairfax , And the rest of the Lords , Knights , Esquires , Citizens , Ministers and Freeholders of the County and City of YORK . WHereas this Famous County , Honoured formerly for its puissance and strength by which they have always been taken for the Bulwork of this Nation , are now reputed so inconsiderable that they have not at this time a Representative in Parliament : and being deeply sensible of the Confusions and Distractions of the Nation , the particular Decay and Ruine of the Cloathing-Trade of this County , which necessarily bears an influence upon the Publick : as also the Future Evils that will attend this Vacancy of Government during the imperfection and incompleatness of Our Parliaments , whose entireness , and Full Number hath been in all Times ( as to a Right English Constitution ) the only Conservative of our Liberties . We the Lords , Knights , Esquires , Gentlemen , Ministers and Citizens aforesaid do Declare , That we finde a Corrupt Intrest in the present Government , abetted by Factious Parties , and carried on with an Irreconciliable Violence against our Peace : Predominant , and sitting at the Helm , whereby the Freedom and Liberty of the Subject is so far endangered , that we judge it past Application , or any other Wording Remedy to Retrive it . And as this is not only our own opinion , but the general Sense of the Nation , fruitlesly hitherto made known to the World : We will therfore allow our selves the precedency of Asserting and Defending the justice of this our Common Right by open Armes , if no other present Temperament and Expedient can be adjusted or fitted for our Grievances . We do therefore require A Free and Full Parliament to be straitwith Convened , according to the Directions and Provisions made in the Act for the Triennial Parliament ; the intent and design whereof , after such a bloody Contest we may not see eluded and frustrated with strange VOTES and Qualifications : Therefore we desire a Free Parliament , or else the return of the secluded Members by the force of the Army in 1648. ( to which his Lordship Protests he was unwittingly and unwarily accessory ) to the remaining Discharge of their Trust , they having given singular and superlative evidence of their capacity and fitness for it , by their wise and judicious moderation . We shall in their Wisdom and Counsels acquiesce , and otherwise shall not be satisfied , for that our pressing Calamities will give no Rest to the Kingdom , till these our Desires are accomplished . To which purpose , we have at this our general Meeting or Rendevouz Signed this our Declaration to be forthwith Communicated to the NATION . Signed Leeds Febr. 13. 1659. Thomas Fairfax , &c. London , Printed for Iames Williamson .