WILTSHIRE's
Resolution
,
presented
with
the
Contributions
of
divers
Gentlemen
to
His
MAjESTIE
at
OXFORD
.
FOrasmuch
as
we
whose
names
are
hereto
subscribed
,
having
taken
the
late
Protestation
recommended
unto
this
Kingdome
in
generall
,
according
to
the
direction
of
both
Houses
of
Parliament
,
with
His
Majesties
consent
,
whereby
wee
hold
our selves
most
especially
bound
and
engaged
to
defend
,
and
maintaine
with
our
lives
and
fortunes
according
to
our
utmost
abilities
,
the
Protestant
Religion
established
by
authority
of
divers
past
Parliaments
since
the
Reformation
,
and
also
His
Majesties
Royall
Person
,
and
Prerogative
,
the
just
and
ancient
Priviledges
of
Parliaments
,
the
Lawes
of
this
Land
,
and
the
Liberty
of
the
Subject
.
And
whereas
it
is
evident
unto
us
,
that
at
this
present
by
the
malitious
practises
of
some
dangerous
spirits
,
the
Protestant
Religion
hath
received
manifest
detriment
by
calumniating
,
discountenancing
,
and
imprisoning
divers
painfull
,
reverend
,
and
orthodoxe
Divines
,
as
namely
Dr
Featley
,
Dr
Oldsworth
,
Mr
Shute
of
London
,
and
many
other
men
of
approved
soundnesse
in
Doctrine
,
and
unspotted
integrity
in
their
lives
and
conversations
,
and
almost
in
all
places
obtruding
anabaptisticall
,
Brownisticall
,
and
Schismaticall
Teachers
of
falshood
,
and
rebellion
,
to
the
dishonour
of
God
,
and
scandall
of
the
Pulpit
,
abused
nowadayes
to
seduce
us
from
the
Loyalty
and
piety
which
made
our
Fore-fathers
,
and
our selves
formerly
happy
,
and
to
engage
us
in
a
Civill
warre
one
against
another
.
The
much
,
and
much
worthy
to
be
reverenced
Liturgie
,
and
Common
Prayer
of
our
Church
growne
infamous
,
and
a
reproach
to
those
that
use
it
,
and
all
possible
endeavour
used
utterly
to
expunge
it
.
And
having
beene
bold
with
God
in
his
worship
,
no
wonder
if
they
proceed
to
the
injury
of
his
Vicegerent
,
our
most
Gracious
Soveraigne
,
who
opposing
as
much
as
in
him
lay
,
those
,
and
other
unjust
and
illegall
proceedings
,
was
by
their
subtletie
rendred
suspected
to
His
Subjects
of
inclining
to
Popery
,
and
many
other
matters
equally
false
;
that
under
such
hatefull
jealousies
,
He
might
by
degrees
become
lesse
beloved
of
His
Subjects
,
and
they
brought
into
the
condition
they
are
at
this
time
in
open
warre
against
him
,
wherein
,
lest
they
should
relent
,
they
are
made
beleeve
it
is
for
the
safety
,
and
defence
of
His
Person
;
the
most
absurd
gullery
that
ever
was
put
upon
a
Nation
.
And
as
the
KING
did
not
alone
dislike
these
injuries
done
to
God
and
Himselfe
,
so
neither
alone
does
Hee
suffer
;
for
with
him
most
of
the
most
Learned
,
and
judicious
Members
of
both
Houses
,
whose
Noblenesse
,
Honour
,
Vertues
,
Piety
,
Religion
,
and
cleare
understandings
,
made
them
declare
themselves
averse
to
the
present
course
of
the
times
,
have
beene
either
imprisoned
or
stigmatized
with
the
brand
of
Traytors
,
and
Papists
,
or
at
the
least
malignants
,
and
Prelatists
:
these
and
such
like
have
beene
all
the
Priviledges
of
Parliaments
allowed
the
Worthies
of
our
times
,
and
worse
is
hatching
for
them
if
the
Divine
providence
preserve
them
not
.
Are
our
ancient
Lawes
in
any
better
condition
,
or
seeme
they
not
as
dead
as
their
prudent
contrivers
?
do
not
new
borne
Votes
supply
their
roome
,
and
new
borne
miseries
attend
them
?
the
KING
,
his
Wife
,
and
Children
,
voted
&
forcibly
kept
out
of
all
that
is
due
to
them
,
wee
are
required
to
be
assisting
hereto
;
if
not
,
we
shall
be
voted
to
be
plundered
,
&
our
goods
and
estates
sequestred
,
and
all
this
is
pretended
to
be
for
the
Liberty
of
the
Subject
:
we
have
liberty
indeed
to
give
,
but
no
liberty
to
deny
:
and
we
must
give
not
as
we
know
we
are
able
,
but
as
they
think
fit
,
and
this
they
have
the
impudence
to
publish
.
These
things
being
taken
into
our
serious
consideration
,
and
the
times
now
requiring
us
to
declare
our selves
,
since
we
can
no
longer
be
at
peace
:
first
condoling
the
generall
calamity
of
our selves
,
and
Ireland
,
we
professe
to
all
the
world
,
that
we
cannot
see
or
find
any
other
lawfull
way
to
free
us
from
the
distresses
we
are
in
,
then
by
our
best
assistance
of
His
Sacred
Majestie
,
against
all
that
shall
oppose
Him
in
an
assured
confidence
that
His
purpose
is
as
He
hath
declared
,
and
no
other
,
than
to
maintaine
and
establish
the
Protestant
Religion
,
as
it
hath
beene
in
authority
&
use
in
this
Kingdome
ever
since
Edward
the
sixth
,
&
likewise
His
own
just
and
true
prerogative
,
and
inheritance
,
derived
unto
Him
from
His
Ancestours
Kings
,
and
Queens
of
England
,
and
also
the
rights
and
priviledges
of
Parliaments
,
that
have
beene
alway
justly
due
to
them
;
to
whom
we
conceive
His
Majesty
ought
especially
to
hearken
,
as
hath
beene
the
custome
of
his
Royall
Predecessours
,
they
seeking
in
all
humility
His
assent
to
their
debates
and
resolutions
,
by
reason
,
not
by
force
;
and
also
the
ancient
Lawes
of
this
Kigndome
,
and
all
other
Acts
of
Parliament
,
ratified
by
the
Kings
consent
.
And
lastly
,
the
Liberty
and
Property
of
the
Subject
:
Hereto
we
hold
our selves
bound
by
Conscience
and
vow
to
God
,
Loyalty
to
our
King
,
and
duty
to
our
Country
:
and
so
God
prosper
us
as
wee
shall
be
assisting
to
His
Majestie
in
the
accomplishment
of
all
this
.
A
Declaration
of
the
Resolution
of
the
County
of
HEREFORD
.
WHereas
the
Kingdome
for
many
yeares
past
hath
groaned
under
many
taxes
of
Loane
,
Ship-money
,
and
the
like
dismall
effects
of
an
arbitrary
Government
,
and
an
high
stretcht
prerogative
:
for
the
cure
of
which
distemper
a
Parliament
was
beleeved
by
all
men
to
be
the
onely
good
old
way
of
Physicke
,
to
cleanse
the
body
politique
from
oppressing
crudities
(
which
was
heartily
desired
)
but
not
by
over-strong
purgatives
to
weaken
it
in
the
principall
parts
,
causing
it
to
receive
a
disposition
to
the
like
distemper
,
or
a
relapse
into
the
same
,
or
a
worse
disease
;
which
in
stead
of
restoring
it
to
its
primitive
vigour
and
health
,
must
needs
drive
it
to
a
fatall
period
.
Such
is
our
misery
,
such
the
just
judgement
of
God
upon
our
sinnes
:
this
wholesome
and
approved
Physicke
hath
not
wrought
in
us
that
blessed
effect
,
as
was
either
beleeved
by
some
,
or
hoped
for
by
all
men
.
But
as
if
God
had
answer'd
our
importunity
for
a
Parliament
,
as
he
did
of
old
the
Israelites
for
a
King
,
in
his
anger
;
we
drive
on
with
more
haste
then
good
speed
to
the
other
extreame
,
which
portends
no
lesse
symptomes
of
ruine
and
destruction
,
then
the
former
.
So
that
having
maturely
considered
what
hath
proved
destructive
to
this
and
other
Parliaments
,
we
may
the
more
easily
avoid
those
Rocks
upon
which
others
have
split
themselves
:
viz.
1.
The
venting
of
particular
ends
of
Avarice
and
Ambition
in
the
publique
State
.
2.
Private
Combinations
and
Chamber-conventicles
,
to
resolve
before
hand
what
shall
be
done
in
the
house
.
3.
Hindering
the
freedome
of
speech
by
imprisonment
of
the
persons
.
4.
Denying
informations
by
the
humble
way
of
Petitions
from
the
Countries
;
as
that
most
excellent
and
orthodox
Petition
of
our
brethren
of
Kent
:
of
rejecting
information
by
letters
to
our
Knights
and
Burgesses
.
5.
The
ready
swallowing
of
informations
and
jealous
rumours
against
His
Majestie
,
by
styling
them
malignant
enemies
to
the
State
,
which
were
onely
truly
,
and
conscionably
His
friends
.
6.
Private
,
if
not
publique
encouragement
of
the
mutinous
Rable
,
which
ill
spirit
was
ready
at
all
times
to
be
raised
by
a
whisper
by
any
of
those
worthy
members
emphatically
so
called
,
if
not
exclusively
;
as
if
all
Justice
,
Reformation
,
and
Government
were
onely
to
be
expected
from
them
.
7.
The
new
and
unheard
of
State-Law
,
and
Logick
,
to
style
and
believe
that
a
Parliament
which
is
divided
in
it selfe
;
which
is
severed
from
the
King
the
Head
thereof
.
If
these
things
may
be
remedied
,
(
as
we
hope
they
are
not
all
past
cure
)
we
shall
desire
rather
to
change
some
of
our
Physitians
,
then
our
Physick
;
there
being
no
better
way
,
nor
more
necessary
to
preserve
or
restore
the
health
of
a
Commonwealth
,
then
a
well-temper'd
Parliament
:
Wherefore
we
,
as
faithfull
subjects
to
His
Majestie
,
as
free-borne
English-men
,
do
joyne
in
an
unanimous
resolution
to
maintaine
-
1.
The
Protestant
Religion
:
-
2.
The
Kings
just
Power
:
-
3.
The
Lawes
of
the
Land
:
-
4.
The
Liberties
of
the
Subject
.
For
the
first
,
The
Protestant
Religion
,
wee
cannot
but
with
griefe
of
heart
remember
how
it
hath
beene
assaulted
in
the
out-workes
and
skirts
of
it
,
the
Liturgie
and
decent
Ceremonies
established
by
Law
;
yea
,
in
the
very
body
of
it
,
the
39
Articles
.
In
what
danger
the
Church
of
England
hath
beene
to
be
over-runne
with
Brownisme
,
and
Anabaptisme
,
let
all
the
world
judge
.
For
the
second
,
The
just
Power
of
the
King
;
God
knowes
,
he
hath
beene
so
farre
unable
to
defend
that
from
violation
,
as
it
was
Gods
great
goodnesse
rather
than
His
owne
power
,
which
secured
,
or
rather
rescued
His
Person
from
violence
:
And
what
their
aime
was
,
who
to
please
the
vulgar
Rabble
,
would
uphold
them
in
,
or
not
punish
them
for
those
high
insolencies
,
as
we
feare
to
imagine
for
the
present
,
so
we
cannot
but
with
horrour
and
amazement
doubt
the
consequence
:
Nor
can
we
conceale
our
joy
of
heart
,
or
thanks
to
His
Majesties
good
Subjects
of
the
County
of
Yorke
,
for
endeavouring
to
secure
His
Person
with
a
Guard
,
(
being
of
more
value
than
many
thousands
)
and
putting
him
into
a
posture
of
defence
,
which
some
have
either
ignorantly
or
malitiously
interpreted
,
an
intention
of
warre
against
the
Parliament
;
whereas
it
is
plaine
enough
,
his
desires
are
onely
to
secure
himselfe
and
his
servants
from
those
prodigious
tumults
and
disorders
,
which
have
endangered
his
sacred
Person
:
Nor
can
we
blame
him
,
considering
Sir
John
Hothams
act
at
Hull
,
and
Sir
Henry
Ludlowe's
Speech
in
Parliament
,
with
Mr
Martine's
.
For
the
two
last
,
The
Lawes
of
the
Land
,
and
The
Liberties
of
the
Subject
,
which
must
not
be
separated
;
how
have
they
beene
violated
also
by
some
of
those
who
were
chosen
to
be
the
conservators
of
them
?
as
imprisonments
of
the
persons
,
contrary
to
the
Petitions
of
Right
;
sessing
the
Clergy
,
without
a
body
of
their
owne
,
contrary
to
Magna
Charta
;
shuffling
the
Convocation
into
a
Synod
,
or
an
Assembly
,
or
Conventicle
,
without
the
choyce
,
consent
,
or
election
of
the
Clergy
,
as
if
they
were
neither
the
Kings
Subjects
,
nor
Gods
Servants
.
As
we
conceive
our selves
obliged
by
the
Lawes
of
God
,
by
the
Law
of
the
Land
,
and
by
the
dictate
of
nature
and
reason
,
to
maintaine
all
these
;
so
by
Gods
grace
assisting
us
,
we
hope
we
shall
not
be
terrified
to
yeild
any
active
obedience
to
any
disjoynted
part
of
a
Parliament
,
without
the
consent
of
the
whole
;
(
which
we
heartily
desire
may
be
united
)
or
to
any
uncertaine
Debates
,
Votes
,
or
Ordinances
,
which
are
not
digested
and
setled
into
a
Law
;
nay
,
which
seemes
to
contradict
former
Lawes
tendred
unto
us
with
so
much
earnestnesse
,
as
some
dare
hardly
deny
with
safety
.
Now
we
cannot
obey
with
conscience
,
nor
shall
we
yeeld
our selves
such
slaves
,
or
betray
the
liberty
purchased
with
our
fore-fathers
bloud
,
and
bequeathed
unto
us
,
as
to
suffer
our selves
to
be
swayed
by
any
Arbitrary
government
whatsoever
;
or
strive
with
so
much
contention
of
spirit
to
cast
off
the
yoke
of
one
Tyranny
,
to
induce
many
worse
:
Seeing
his
Majestie
is
graciously
pleased
to
maintaine
-
1.
The
Protestant
Religion
:
-
2.
His
owne
just
Power
:
-
3.
The
Lawes
of
the
Land
:
-
4.
The
Liberties
of
the
Subject
.
And
that
these
waters
of
Reformation
having
beene
long
stirr'd
,
we
want
onely
the
favour
of
His
Princely
Majestie
,
as
our
good
Angell
,
to
let
us
in
and
heale
us
;
for
we
doe
reciprocally
declare
,
that
we
conceive
our selves
bound
to
maintaine
Him
in
all
the
premises
with
our
lives
and
fortunes
.