The declaration of the County of Oxon to His Excellency the Lord General Monck. We the gentlemen, ministers, free-holders, and others of the County of Oxon, having a long time groaned under heavy burthens, do now hereby declare the resentments we have of our grievances, and our just desires as the most visible means of a happy peace and settlement of these nations. 1660 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A82138 Wing D662 Thomason 669.f.23[42] ESTC R205363 99864765 99864765 163698

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A82138) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163698) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f23[42]) The declaration of the County of Oxon to His Excellency the Lord General Monck. We the gentlemen, ministers, free-holders, and others of the County of Oxon, having a long time groaned under heavy burthens, do now hereby declare the resentments we have of our grievances, and our just desires as the most visible means of a happy peace and settlement of these nations. Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for John Starkey, at the Miter, near the middle Temple-gate in Fleetstreet, London : 1660. Praying for a Free Parliament. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Feb. 14. 1659". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

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THE DECLARATION Of the COUNTY of OXON To His EXCELLENCY The Lord General MONCK. We the Gentlemen, Miniſters, Free-holders, and others of the County of OXON, having a long time groaned under heavy Burthens, do now hereby Declare the Reſentments we have of our Grievances, and our juſt deſires as the moſt viſible means of a happy Peace and Settlement of theſe Nations.

WHereas every Free-born Subject of England is ſuppoſed to be preſent in Parliament, by the Knights or Burgeſſes of the place of his Reſidence; and thereby is preſumed to conſent to all things that paſſe in Parliament; it now ſo hapning, that many Counties are wholly left out, either by Death or Secluſion.

I. We therefore deſire, That all places vacant by Death, may be ſupplyed, and thoſe that were Secluded in 1648, may be re-admitted, that thereby we may be taken into the Share of Government by our Repreſentatives, We having at this time but one of Nine, and him a Burgeſs, taken up with the Publick Concern of the Chair, from minding our particular Grievances.

II. That no unuſual previous Oath may be put upon any that is to ſit in Parliament.

III. That no Tax may be put upon us without our Free conſent in Parliament.

IV. That the Fundamental Laws of the Land, the Priviledges of Parliament, the Liberty of the Subject, the Property of Goods, may be aſſerted and defended, according to the firſt Declaration of Parliament when they undertook the War.

V. That the True Proteſtant Religion may be profeſſed and defended, a lawful Succeſſion of Godly and Able Miniſters continued and encouraged, and the two Univerſities, and all Colledges in or belonging to either of them, Preſerved and Countenanced.

Theſe our Juſt Rights we lay Claime to, as Free-born Engliſh-men, and reſolve to aſſert.

This Declaration was ſigned by above Five thouſand conſiderable Inhabitants of the ſaid County, and delivered to Gen. Monk, on Munday Febr. 13. at his Quarters at the Glaſs-houſe in Broad-ſtreet London, by the Lord Falkland, Sir Anthony Cope, Mr. James Fiennes, Captain William Cope, Henry Jones, Edward Hungerford Eſqrs., and other Perſons of Quality.

LONDON, Printed for John Starkey, at the Miter, near the middle Temple-gate in Fleetſtreet, 1660.