A DECLARATION OF THE KNIGHTS AND GENTRY IN THE County OF Dorset, VVho were in his Late MAJESTIES Army.

UPon a due consideration of the dangerous jealousies which are promoted; part­ly, by the cunning of a close, and malitious Faction of Separatists: and partly, by the unwarranted Liberties of a heady, and intemperate sort of People, which falsely terme themselves Royallists:—to the great dissettlement of Sober, and well-minded Persons: and sufficient to blast the hopes we have of returning to our Antient Freedoms; without a more then ordinary appearance of Di­vine ayde, to support, and re-unite us in this our Critical necessity.

VVe have thought it highly expedient to declare our Sense, and Resolves, in the particu­lar of adherence to the largest Assurances of Amicable Agreement, and Correspondence Imaginable: Looking upon our selves as Obliged by an Indispensible Tye of Religious Charity, to compassionate, and forgive one another, as we expect to be forgiven: And we do further Declare, that we are so farr from Justifying those Unchristian Animosityes, which reigne in divers turbulent Spirits, even of our own Party; (by Reputation at least) that we disclaime any Society with men of those wilde Principles: and that to all honest purposes, we will never put any difference, betwixt such as shall now unite with us, in Order to the Publique Peace, and those who first engaged in the same perswasion, with our selves: Sub­mitting all to the Resolves of Parliament, upon whose Determinations we beseech God to bestow his Benediction.

  • Sir Hugh Windham.
  • Sir Gerard Naper.
  • Sir John Strangwayes.
  • Giles Strangwayes.
  • John Hardy.
  • Henry Coker.
  • Edward Hull.
  • Henry Butler.
  • Maximilian Mohune.
  • Robert Mohune.
  • Henry Hoskins.
  • James Hoskins.
  • George Strangwayes.
  • Nicholas Strangwayes.
  • Robert Lawrence.
  • Bruen Lawrence.
  • Arthur Fookes.
  • George Browne.
  • Major Udvehall.
  • Robert Chamberlaine.
  • Robert Strode of Slape.
  • John Strode of Slape.
  • Humphrey Bishopp.
  • John Bishopp.
  • Robert Culliford.
  • George Cary.
  • George Penny.
  • Tho. Turbervile.
  • George Turbervile.
  • Tho. Paulet.
  • Capt. Hoare.
  • Major Dolline.
  • Hugh Hodges.
  • Richard Willoughby.
  • John Pesing.
  • John Gillingham.
  • William Eising.
  • Robert Ernsly.
  • John Dawe.
  • John Fisher.
  • Ellis Collins.

LONDON, Printed in the Year 1660.

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