A DECLARATION OF THE KNIGHTS AND GENTRY IN THE County OF Dorset, who were in his Late majesty's Army. UPon a due consideration of the dangerous jealousies which are promoted; partly, by the cunning of a close, and malicious Faction of Separatists: and partly, by the unwarranted Liberties of a heady, and intemperate sort of People, which falsely term themselves royalists:— to the great dissettlement of Sober, and well-minded Persons: and sufficient to blast the hopes we have of returning to our ancient Freedoms; without a more than ordinary appearance of Divine aid, to support, and reunite us in this our Critical necessity. We have thought it highly expedient to declare our Sense, and Resolves, in the particular of adherence to the largest Assurances of Amicable Agreement, and Correspondence Imaginable: Looking upon ourselves as Obliged by an indispensable Tye of Religious Charity, to compassionate, and forgive one another, as we expect to be forgiven: And we do further Declare, that we are so far from Justifying those Unchristian animosities, which reign in divers turbulent Spirits, even of our own Party; (by Reputation at least) that we disclaim any Society with men of those wild Principles: and that to all honest purposes, we will never put any difference, betwixt such as shall now unite with us, in Order to the public Peace, and those who first engaged in the same persuasion, with ourselves: Submitting all to the Resolves of Parliament, upon whose Determinations we beseech God to bestow his Benediction. Sir Hugh Windham. Sir Gerard Naper. Sir John Strangwayes. Giles Strangwayes. John Hardy. Henry Coker. Edward Hull. Henry Butler. Maximilian Mohune. Robert Mohune. Henry Hoskins. James Hoskins. George Strangwayes. Nicholas Strangwayes. Robert Lawrence. Bruen Lawrence. Arthur Fookes. George Browne. Major Udvehall. Robert Chamberlain. Robert Strode of Slape. John Strode of Slape. Humphrey Bishop. John Bishop. Robert Culliford. George Cary. George Penny. Tho. Turbervile. George Turbervile. Tho. Paulet. Capt. Hoare. Major Dolline. Hugh Hodges. Richard Willoughby. John Pesing. John Gillingham. William Eising. Robert Ernsly. John Daw. John Fisher. Ellis Collins. LONDON, Printed in the Year 1660.