A LETTER AND DECLARATION Of the Gentry of the County of NORFOLK, and the County of the City of NORWICH, To his Excellency the Lord general MONK.  
Right-Honourable,  
We the Gentry of the County of Norfolk and of the County and City of Norwich, do cordially rejoice, with many others of these Counties, and of the Nation, for your Excellencies return into your Native country with honour and safety: And that the late Differences in the Armies are now so happily composed without bloodshed; We are desirous to bless our good God for these mercies, and to acquaint your Lordship, That we have signified the Resentment of our grievances to the Speaker of the Parliament; A true copy whereof we have here enclosed, sent to your Excellency, lest any persons should in our absence misrepresent us or our intentions to your Lordship: We rest.  

The Declaration.  
WE the Gentry of the County of Norfolk and County and City of Norwich, Being deeply affected with the sense of our sad Distractions and Divisions, both in Church and State; And wearied with the Miseries of an unnatural Civil War, The too frequent Interruptions of Government, the Impositions of several heavy Taxes, And the loud outcries of multitudes of undone and almost famished people, occasioned by a general decay of Trade, which hath spread itself throughout the whole Nation, and these Counties in particular; And having met together and consulted what may best remedy and remove Our and the Nations present greivances and Distractions; Do humbly conceive, That the chief Expedient, will be, the Recalling of those Members that were secluded in 1648. and sat before the Force put upon the Parliament (We of this County of Norfolk, being by such Seclusion deprived of any person to represent us in Parliament) and also by filling up the vacant places thereof; And all to be admitted without any Oath or Engagement, previous to their Entrance; Which being done, We shall be ready to acquiesce and submit in all things to the judgement and Authority of Parliament; Without which Authority, the People of England cannot be obliged to pay any Taxes.  
The Letter to general MONK and this Declaration was signed by 

Thomas Lord Richardson.  
John Hobart.  
Horatio Townesend.  
John Asteley.  
Wil. Hewitt.  
John Palgrave.  
Thomas Berney.  
Wil. Rant.  
Adrian Parmenter.  
Edmund Burman.  
John Raleigh.  
Henry Watts.  
John Maum.  
John Andrew's.  
John Salter.  
Edmond Bacon.  
N. Le Strange.  
Thomas Pettus.  
Wil. Doyley.  
Thomas Guybon.  
John Windham.  
James De Gray.  
Butts Bacon.  
Thomas Rant.  
Chr. Jay.  
Joseph pain.  
Rob. Bendish.  
Richard Wenman.  
John Laurence.  
Thomas Wisse.  
Philip Woodhouse.  
Ralph Heure.  
John Tracy.  
Arthur Jenny.  
Augustin Sotherton.  
John Buxton.  
Francis Norris.  
Thomas Johnson.  
Thomas Le Gros.  
John Hovile.  
Richard Catelyne.  
Suck. Jay.  
Rob. Suckling.  
Samuel Smith.  
Rob. Holmes.   With many hundreds more of the Knights, Gentry, Citizens, and freee-holders'.    

LONDON Printed for John Place, at Furnival's inn Gate in Holborn, 1660.