To the Right Honorable Will: Lenthal Speaker to the Parliament By him to be communicated to the Members sitting at Westminster. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94682 of text R211510 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.23[15]). 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 A94682 Wing T1716 Thomason 669.f.23[15] ESTC R211510 99870231 99870231 163671 2240952125

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94682) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163671) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f23[15]) To the Right Honorable Will: Lenthal Speaker to the Parliament By him to be communicated to the Members sitting at Westminster. Lenthall, William, 1591-1662. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain, London : 1659. [i.e., 1660] An address from the county of Berks, praying for a Free Parliament and the recall of the Members secluded in 1648. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan. 26." 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. Berkshire (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A94682 R211510 (Thomason 669.f.23[15]). civilwar no To the Right Honorable Will: Lenthal Speaker to the Parliament. By him to be communicated to the members sitting at Westminster. Lenthall, William 1659 1 467 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. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the Right Honorable WILL : LENTHAL Speaker to the PARLIAMENT . By him to be communicated to the MEMBERS Sitting at Westminster .

WHEREAS Wee the Gentlemen and Freeholders of this County of Berks , were generally met together at Abingdon , upon some intimation of an Election of a Knight of the Shire , in pursuance of your Order , for the filling up of this Parliament ; and that some solicitations were used throughout the County for Voyces , and being jealous to be surprised therein by any Clandestine carriage of the Writ : And whereas at this Meeting it was further taken into consideration , that this County have with the rest of this Nation been deeply sensible of many insupportable grievances and oppressions of late dayes , occasioned through the want of a real , setled , and regular Government ; and in particular , that the Commissioners for the Militia having formerly charged the Countrey to provide Arms , which was done accordingly , the said Commissioners do yet direct their Warrants for the bringing in of Twenty shillings for every Foot Arms ; which we are very confident is besides the intent of the Act which impowers them , and are ignorant otherwise by what Authority they proceed therein ; That therefore , having seriously consulted the Remedies which might be proper for these and the like Inconveniences for the future , and by Gods blessing reduce us unto a firm , free , and legal settlement of our Rights , Civil and Religious ; Wee conceived it to be our duty towards God and our Countrey , without any private ends whatsoever , to declare our selves in this sense ; That we take the most satisfactory expedient for it , will be , the recalling of all those Members that were secluded in 1648. and that before the first force upon the Parliament . And , that in the Elections which shall be of any other Members in the vacant places , such due course may be taken , as that the Countrey may not any way be surprised or over-awed therein : And , that the secluded Members may be admitted to Sit without any Oath or Engagement to restrain their Freedome in the least ; Wherein we shall be ready to defend You and Them with whatsoever is dearest unto us , against all opposition : And pray unto Almighty God for his assistance to the happy accomplishment of what may best conduce to the Peace and Safety of this Nation .

[ This is subscribed by most of the chief Gentlemen and Freeholders of the County of Berks. ]

LONDON , Printed for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain . 1659.