To his Excellency the Lord General Monck. The humble address of the Members of Parliament (in behalf of the people) interrupted and forceably secluded by Cromwell and his confederates, 1648. Proceedings. 1660-02-04. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A62701 of text R220681 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1356B). 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. 3 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 A62701 Wing T1356B ESTC R220681 99832077 99832077 36546 2240891298

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A62701) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 36546) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2100:02) To his Excellency the Lord General Monck. The humble address of the Members of Parliament (in behalf of the people) interrupted and forceably secluded by Cromwell and his confederates, 1648. Proceedings. 1660-02-04. England and Wales. Parliament. Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed for T.P., London : [1660] Dated at end: February 4. 1659. [i.e. 1660]. Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library. eng Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A62701 R220681 (Wing T1356B). civilwar no To his Excellency the Lord General Monck· The humble address of the Members of Parliament (in behalf of the people) interrupted and forceabl England and Wales. Parliament 1660 1 428 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-10 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE Lord General Monck . The Humble Address of the MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT ( In behalf of the People ) interrupted and forceably secluded by Cromwell and his Confederates , 1648. My Lord ,

WE hope it is not unknown unto your Excellency , neither unto these Nations for whom we served as Members in that Parliament interupted by Oliver Cromwell , and his confederates in the year 1648. That it was by them forceably done , that we might not in a Parliamentary way discharge our consciences and Trust reposed in us by the people , whereby the Nations would through the blessings of God have been setled . And upon those Concessions from his Majesty at the Isle of Whites Treaty , which we found to be a sufficient ground , we did resolve , after some further Treaty , to conclude a Peace , and thereby prevent the efusion of more Christian blood , secure the people from further Calamities , and preserve their rights and freedome intire from any insolent or Arbitrary powers whatsoever : But being hitherto by violence kept out , and sometimes imprisoned , we cannot possibly act : Therefore we desire your Excellency to remove that force which thus obstructs the peoples Rights and our freedome in Parliament , by which you will certainly open a door to the future safety and Tranquility of these Kingdomes , and we can further assure your Lordship , That in this the people will rest satisfied , otherwise we can never expect a lasting peace ; for when they are limited and tyed to such qualifications , as we understand are intended in their Elections , it signifies the same with what they already have , and do now so grievously complain and petition against ; from hence we have seriously considered the evils and great troubles growing upon us , And unless we can prevail with your Excellency-unto whom we make this our humble Address in their behalf , That we may be admitted according to those Addresses of the Gentry of Devon , and other parts , The Nation is unavoidably in a lost condition , as a short time will discover : all which we leave to your Lordships consideration , and as we expect this liberty from you , we are resolved to lessen the present burthens of the people , by taking off all Taxes , Excise , Oppressions and grievances whatsoever .

February 4. 1659 .

LONDON , Printed for T.P.