A letter and declaration of the nobility and gentry of the county of York. To his excellency, the Lord Generall Monck. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03993 of text R179521 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L1345B). 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. 5 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 B03993 Wing L1345B ESTC R179521 53299145 ocm 53299145 179893 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. B03993) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179893) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2807:29) A letter and declaration of the nobility and gentry of the county of York. To his excellency, the Lord Generall Monck. Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671. 1 sheet ([1] p.) by Christopher Higgins, London, ; and re-printed at Edinburgh : 1660. The "declaration" bears the names of Tho. Lord Fairfax and others. Caption title. Initial letter. Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland. eng Albemarle, George Monk, -- 1st Duke of, 1608-1670. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Sources. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. B03993 R179521 (Wing L1345B). civilwar no A letter and declaration of the nobility and gentry of the county of York. To His Excellency the Lord Generall Monck. [no entry] 1660 615 4 0 0 0 0 0 65 D The rate of 65 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Megan Marion Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Megan Marion Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Letter and Declaration of the Nobility and Gentry of the County of YORK . TO HIS EXCELLENCY The Lord Generall MONCK . The LETTER . My Lord , WE find our selves constrained by writing , to supply the Omission of acquainting your Lordship with our thoughts and desires when you passed through our County , which we had then done , if upon so short notice , we could have met for a mutual Vnderstanding : Your Lordship will find in the inclosed Declaration the sum of our Apprehensions . We thought it not necessary to multiply particulars , but leave all other things to a duly constituted Parliament ; neither have we been sollicitous to multiply Subscriptions , trusting more to the weight of the Proposals than to the number of Subscribers ; yet we may safely affirm this to be the sense of the generality of the County , as your Lordship sees it is of others . We have only to add the earnest desires to your Lordship , That you would be pleased to further the Accomplishment of what we have represented , with such seasonable speed , as that the fear of Friends , and the hopes of Enemies concerning a ●●●gerous Confusion amongst us , may be prevented . The DECLARATION . WE being deeply sensible of the grievous Pressures under which we lye , and the extream dangers whereunto we are exposed at this time , through the violent alteration of our Government , the Multiplication and Interruption of Parliaments : And having no Representatives to expresse or remedy our Grievances , have thought meet ( according to the example of other Counties ) to Declare and Desire , That if the Parliament begun NOVEMBER the third , 1640. be yet continued , The Members that were secluded in the year 1648. be forthwith restored to the exercise of their Trust , of all Vacancies may be filled up , that Right may be done to their Persons , to Parliaments , and the People that have chosen them . If otherwise , That a Parliament may be presently called , without imposing of Oaths or Engagements , ( the greatest prejudice to Civil or Christian Liberty ) or requiring any Oualifications , save what by Law or Ordinance of Parliament before the Force in 1648. are alread● established . And , untill this , or One of these be done , We cannot hold our selves oblieged to pa● the Taxes that are , or shall be , imposed on us , We not enjoying the Fundamentall Rights of this Natio● to consent to our own Laws by equal Representatives . Tho. Lord Fairfax , Lord Fawconberge , Bar. Bourchier , Sheriff . Christo . Wivill , Thomas Wharton , Tho. Remington , Tho. Harrison , William Gee , William Fairfax , William Osberton , Thomas Hutton , Gustavus Boynton , Har. Betheli , VVilliam Dawson , Rob. Wivel , Nicholas Bethell , Jo. Ledgar , Henry Fairfax , John Hotham , Thomas Slingsby , Will . Cholmley , Mett . Robinson , Hen. Stapleton , George Matwood , Tho. Heblethwait , Rob. Redman , Rob. Belt , VV. Adams , Jo. Micklethwait , Bryan Layton , Tho. Lovell , VVil . Rokesby , Rich. Levit , Roger Langly , Francis Boynton , Hen. Cholmley , John Dawny , John Gibson , James Moyser , George Crake , John Peirson , Tho. Yarborow , Jo. Richard , VV. Dalton , F. Driffield , VValter Bethel , Wil. Woodver , Jo. Vavasor , &c. Printed at London , and Re-printed at Edinburgh by Christopher Higgins , 1660.