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. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82138 of text R205363 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.23[42]). 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 A82138 Wing D662 Thomason 669.f.23[42] ESTC R205363 99864765 99864765 163698 2240902354

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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. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Oxfordshire (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A82138 R205363 (Thomason 669.f.23[42]). civilwar no The declaration of the County of Oxon to His Excellency the Lord General Monck. We the gentlemen, ministers, free-holders, and others of the Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of 1660 1 429 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. 2007-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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.