A declaration of the knights and gentry of the county of Hertford that adhered to the late King This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A85114 of text R211815 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.24[72]). 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 A85114 Wing F419 Thomason 669.f.24[72] ESTC R211815 99870509 99870509 163803 2248506457

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A85114) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163803) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f24[72]) A declaration of the knights and gentry of the county of Hertford that adhered to the late King Fanshawe, Thomas Fanshawe, Viscount, 1596-1665. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Daniel Pakeman at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet, London : 1660. Signed: Thomas Fanshaw Kt of the Bath [and 13 others]. Annotation on Thomason copy: "April 26". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Royalists -- England -- Hertford -- Early works to 1800. Hertfordshire (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A85114 R211815 (Thomason 669.f.24[72]). civilwar no A declaration of the knights and gentry of the county of Hertford that adhered to the late King. Fanshawe, Thomas Fanshawe, Viscount 1660 1 412 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. 2007-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A DECLARATION of the Knights and Gentry of the County of HERTFORD that adhered to the late KING .

BY discountenancing our ancient laws under which the Nation hath been so long happy , and pursuing after new forms , and disputes about them ; Government which was made for our Protection , has been the occasion of laying us open to all miserie ; and we that before in respect of society had but one common reason , have broken our unitie by that which should have preserved it . And whilest every man pursues his single apprehensions of good , the real good of the Nation was lost : from which confusion of parties our valiant and wise General is now hopefully withdrawing us , and because the passionate discourses of some private persons seeme to obstruct this good worke he is about , We have thought fit to make this Declaration for our selves , that we are not in the number of those that vaunt our selves in the prospect of our prosperity , nor that if it were in our power would delight in any revenge upon any man or body of men whom we think hath contributed most to our sufferings ; we are rather of those that will with patience beare the indignation of God because we have offended him , and will forgive our brethren a little , that of him we may be forgiven much . We will not be so ungratefull to God that by the management of his excellency hath done so much for our deliverāce , as presently to be prosecuting others , which as it would behigh ingratitude to him , so we dare say it would be no lesse to the General , whose whole conduct of his business , shewes him to be truly of a publick spirit that will protect every party as they subject themselves to the Lawes made for the whole Nation ; and the wisdome of the approaching Parliament will without doubt be such , that we have all reason to hope our settlement from them , & to determine our obedience to them .

Thomas Fanshaw Kt. of the Bath Simon Fanshaw Knight Francis Boteler Knight Edward Cooper Knight John Wats Knight Ralph Bash William Cooper Robert Slingsby Thomas Conisbie Edward Crosby George Bromley John Taylor Thomas Brann George Bromley , &c.

London Printed for Daniel Pakeman at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet 1660