The declaration of the gentlemen, free-holders and inhabitants of the county of Bedford This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82156 of text R205555 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.23[55]). 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 A82156 Wing D676 Thomason 669.f.23[55] ESTC R205555 99864901 99864901 163711 2240903962

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A82156) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163711) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f23[55]) The declaration of the gentlemen, free-holders and inhabitants of the county of Bedford 1 sheet ([1] p.) [s.n.], Printed at London : 1659. [i.e. 1660] Desiring a Free Parliament. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Feb: 22." 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. Bedfordshire (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A82156 R205555 (Thomason 669.f.23[55]). civilwar no The declaration of the gentlemen, free-holders and inhabitants of the county of Bedford. anon. 1659 1 228 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 Gentlemen , Free-holders and Inhabitants Of the County of BEDFORD .

WEE the Gentlemen , Free-holders , and Inhabitants of the County of BEDFORD , being truly sensible of the heavy pressures that we lye under , having all our Civill and Religious Rights and Liberties daily Invaded , cannot in this common day of Calamity , be silent , but , with the rest of the Nation , make some enquiry after the way of Peace and settlement : And having met , and considered thereof , do humbly propose , as the most probable means , under God , to compose all our Differences , and cement all our Breaches both in Church and State , the assembling of a Full and Free PARLIAMENT , without any previous Oaths , or Engagements , or Qualifications whatsoever , ( saving what was in the year 1648. before the Force put upon the Parliament . ) Or , the re-admitting of the Secluded Members to the Execution of their Trusts , with a full and free Supply of their Vacancies by Death . And untill one of these be done , we do declare , We shall not hold our selves engaged to pay the Taxes imposed upon us , without our Consents so first had in Parliament .

Printed at LONDON , 1659.