A 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 mutuall Ʋnderstanding; 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 Proposalls than to the number of Sub­scribers; yet we may safely affirm this to be the sense of the Generallity of the County, as your Lordship sees it is of others. We have onely 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 dangerous Confusion amongst us, may be prevented.

The DECLARATION.

WEE 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, and 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 Civill or Christian Liberty) or requiring any Qua­lifications, save what by Law or Ordinance of Parliament before the Force in 1648. are already establi­shed. And untill this or One of these be done, We cannot hold our selves obliged to pay the Taxes that are or shall be imposed on us, We not enjoying the Fundamentall Rights of this Nation to consent to our own Laws by equall 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. Berhell
  • William Dawson
  • Rob. Wivel
  • Nicholas Bethell
  • Jo. Ledgar
  • Henry Fairfax
  • John Hotham
  • Thomas Slingsby
  • Will. Cholmley
  • Mert. Robinson
  • Hen. Stapleton
  • George Marwood
  • Tho. Heblethwait
  • Rob. Redman
  • Rob. Belt
  • VV. Adams
  • Jo. Micklethwait
  • Bryan Layton
  • Tho. Lovell
  • VVil. Rokesby
  • Rich. Levit
  • Roger Langley
  • Francis Boynton
  • Hen. Cholmley
  • John Dawny
  • John Gibson
  • James Moyser
  • George Crake
  • Jo. Peirson
  • Tho. Yarborow
  • Jo. Richard
  • VV. Dalton
  • F. Driffield
  • Walter Bethel
  • VVil. VVoodver
  • Jo. Vavasor, &c.

Printed at YORK, and re-printed at LONDON for John Starkey, 1659.

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