The declaration of the Lord Fairfax, and others of the nobility and gentry of the north parts of England Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A39965 of text R216393 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing F154A). 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. 2 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 A39965 Wing F154A ESTC R216393 99828124 99828124 32551 2248499493

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A39965) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 32551) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1946:21) The declaration of the Lord Fairfax, and others of the nobility and gentry of the north parts of England Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [S.l. : 1660] Publication date from Wing. Dated at end: February 13. 1659. Reproduction of the original in the Cashel Cathedral Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate -- Early works to 1800. A39965 R216393 (Wing F154A). civilwar no The declaration of the Lord Fairfax, and others of the nobility and gentry of the north parts of England. Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron 1660 1 244 1 0 0 0 0 0 41 D The rate of 41 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2005-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2005-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-11 Sampled and proofread 2005-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-01 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Declaration of the Lord Fairfax , and others of the Nobility and Gentry of the North parts of England .

VVE being deeply sensible of the grievous Pressures under which we lie , and the extream dangers whereunto we are exposed at this time , through the violent alteration of our Government ; the mutilation and interruption of Parliament , having no Representatives to express or remedy our grievances , have thought it meet according to the examples of other Countryes to Declare and desire , that if the Parliament begun Nov. 3. 1640. be yet continued , the Members that were secluded in 1648 〈◊〉 forthwith restored to the excercise of their Trust , and all vacancyes filled up , that right may be done , to their persons , to Parliaments , and the peoples that have chosen them ; if otherwise , that a Parliament may be presently called , without the imposing of Oaths or Ingagements , the greatest prejudices to Civil or Christian Liberty ; or requiring any Qualifications , save what by Law or Ordinance of Parliament before the force in 1648. are already establisht ; And until this or one of these be done , we cannot hold our selves obliged to pay the Taxes that are or shall be imposeed , we not enjoying the fundamental right of this Nation , to consent to our own Laws by equal Representatives .

February 13 ▪ 1659.