A LETTER AND DECLARATION Of the Gentry of the County of NORFOLK, and the County of the City of NORWICH, To his Excellency the Lord GENERALL MONK.

Right-Honourable,

WEe the Gentry of the County of Norfolk and of the County and City of Norwich, do cordi­ally rejoyce, with many others of these Counties, and of the Nation, for your Excellen­cies return into your Native Countrey with honour and safety: And that the late Diffe­rences in the Armies are now so happily composed without blood-shed; We are desirous to blesse our good God for these mercies, and to acquaint your Lordship, That we have signified the Resentment of our grievances to the Speaker of the Parliament; A true Copie whereof we have here inclosed, sent to your Excellency, least any persons should in our absence mis-represent us or our intentions to your Lordship: We rest.

The Declaration.

WE the Gentry of the County of Norfolk and County and City of Norwich, Being deeply affected with the sence of our sad Distractions and Divisions, both in Church and State; And wearied with the Mise­ries of an unnaturall Civil War, The too frequent Interruptions of Government, the Impositions of severall heavy Taxes, And the loud out-cryes of multitudes of undone and almost famished people, occasioned by a ge­nerall decay of Trade, which hath spread it self throughout the whole Nation, and these Counties in particular; And having met together and consulted what may best remedy and remove Our and the Nations present grei­vances and Distractions; Do humbly conceive, That the chief Expedient, will be, the Recalling of those Mem­bers that were secluded in 1648. and sate before the Force put upon the Parliament (We of this County of Norfolk, being by such Seclusion deprived of any person to represent us in Parliament) and also by filling up the vacant places thereof; And all to be admitted without any Oath or Engagement, previous to their Entrance; Which being done, We shall be ready to acquiesce and submit in all things to the Judgment and Authority of Parliament; Without which Authority, the People of England cannot be obliged to pay any Taxes.

The Letter to Generall MONK and this Declaration was signed by
  • Thomas Lord Richardson.
  • John Hobart.
  • Horatio Townesend.
  • John Asteley.
  • Wil. Hewitt.
  • John Palgrave.
  • Thomas Berney.
  • Wil. Rant.
  • Adrian Parmenter.
  • Edmund Burman.
  • John Rawley.
  • Henry Watts.
  • John Maum.
  • John Andrewes.
  • John Salter.
  • Edmond Bacon.
  • N. Le Strange.
  • Thomas Pettus.
  • Wil. Doyley.
  • Thomas Guybon.
  • John Windham.
  • James De Grey.
  • Butts Bacon.
  • Thomas Rant.
  • Chr. Jay.
  • Joseph Payne.
  • Rob. Bendish.
  • Richard Wenman.
  • John Laurence.
  • Thomas Wisse.
  • Philip Woodhouse.
  • Ralph Heure.
  • John Tracy.
  • Arthur Jenny.
  • Augustin Sotherton.
  • John Buxton.
  • Francis Norris.
  • Thomas Johnson.
  • Thomas Le Gros.
  • John Hovile.
  • Richard Catelyne.
  • Suck. Jay.
  • Rob. Suckling.
  • Samuel Smith.
  • Rob. Holmes.
With many hundreds more of the Knights, Gentry, Citizens, and Freee-holders.

LONDON Printed for John Place, at Furnivals Inne Gate in Holborne, 1660.

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