A letter from divers of the gentry of the county of Lincolne to his Excellency the Lord General Monck. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A87946 of text R211588 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.23[51]). 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. 4 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 A87946 Wing L1457 Thomason 669.f.23[51] ESTC R211588 99870303 99870303 163707 2248509441

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A87946) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163707) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f23[51]) A letter from divers of the gentry of the county of Lincolne to his Excellency the Lord General Monck. Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Richard Lowndes at the White Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard, London : 1659. [i.e. 1660] With a declaration desiring a Free Parliament. The letter is dated 7 Febr. 1659; both letter and declaration were presented to him on 16 Feb. 1659 [i.e. 1660]. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Feb: 18." 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. Lincoln (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A87946 R211588 (Thomason 669.f.23[51]). civilwar no A letter from divers of the gentry of the county of Lincolne: to his Excellency the Lord General Monck. Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of 1659 1 502 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 LETTER from divers of the GENTRY of the COUNTRY of LINCOLNE : To his EXCELLENCY The Lord General MONCK . May it please your Excellency ,

WEE being Strangers to your-Person , and failing of the Honour to see you in your March South-ward ; When wee might have Communicated our Thoughts and Desires more freely unto You ; are now enforced to represent them in this Inclosed Declaration , craving your best ayd and assistance for the effecting of what is therein comprised , ( being our Just Birth-rights ) the Defence whereof will be to Gods Glory , your EXCELLENCIES great Honour , and the Peace and Happiness of these Distressed Nations : Which is the onely Endevour and Desire of

Lincolne 7 Febr. 1659. Your Excellencies most humble Servants .
The DECLARATION of the Gentry , Ministers and Freeholders of the County and City of LINCOLNE .

WEE the Gentry , Ministers , and Freeholders of the County and City of LINCOLNE ; being truly sensible of our Miseries and Grievances , namely , the sad Consequents of an Intestine War ; The Fears of Invations from abroad at this time of our Distractions and Divisions both in Church and State ; The Violent Alterations of Government ; the Heavy Impositions of Unheard-of Taxes : All which have of Late years Ruined one Trade , and Impoverished the whole Nation ; And are all occasioned by reason of the many Violations and Breaches made upon our Known Established Laws , and Fundamental Liberties : Do therefore humbly Propose and Declare , ( having first Met and Consulted ) as other Counties have done , That the onely Remedy for our said Grievances will be found in a Free Full Parliament , speedily to be Called and Assembled ; to Sit according to our said Known Established Laws , wherein the Votes of all Free People of this Nation may be included ; Since that Such onely can have a Legal Capacity to Enact Laws and Statutes , that may equally bind all the Free People of ENGLAND : And therefore , If any persons ( how ever impowered ) not having the Authority of Such a Parliament , shall take upon them to Lay Impositions upon the Free People of this Common-wealth ; or to prescribe , or enjoyn any Limitations , Restrictions , or Qualifications whatsoever , ( not formerly agreed upon in Full Parliament ; ) Wee do Declare our Selves not oblieged hereto , as being destructive to the true Freedome and undoubted Priviledges of PARLIAMENT .

[ This LETTER and the DECLARATION therein inclosed , ( subscribed by thousands of hands ) were presented to his Excellency the Lord Gen. Monck , by Sir Michael Armyn Baronet , Coll. Edward Rosseter , and John Hatcher Esq on Thursday the 16th . of February , 1659. ]

LONDON , Printed for Richard Lowndes at the White Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard . 1659.