A DECLARATION of the Knights and Gentry of the County of HERTFORD that adhered to the late KING.  
BY discountenancing our ancient laws under which the Nation hath been so long happy, and pursuing after new forms, and disputes about them; Government which was made for our Protection, has been the occasion of laying us open to all misery; and we that before in respect of society had but one common reason, have broken our unity by that which should have preserved it. And whilst every man pursues his single apprehensions of good, the real good of the Nation was lost: from which confusion of parties our valiant and wise General is now hopefully withdrawing us, and because the passionate discourses of some private persons seem to obstruct this good work he is about, We have thought fit to make this Declaration for ourselves, that we are not in the number of those that vaunt ourselves in the prospect of our prosperity, nor that if it were in our power would delight in any revenge upon any man or body of men whom we think hath contributed most to our sufferings; we are rather of those that will with patience bear the indignation of God because we have offended him, and will forgive our brethren a little, that of him we may be forgiven much. We will not be so ungrateful to God that by the management of his excellency hath done so much for our deliverance, as presently to be prosecuting others, which as it would behigh ingratitude to him, so we dare say it would be no less to the General, whose whole conduct of his business, shows him to be truly of a public spirit that will protect every party as they subject themselves to the laws made for the whole Nation; and the wisdom of the approaching Parliament will without doubt be such, that we have all reason to hope our settlement from them, & to determine our obedience to them.  


Thomas Fanshaw Kt. of the Bath  
Simon Fanshaw Knight  
Francis Boteler Knight  
Edward Cooper Knight  
John Wat's Knight  
Ralph Bash  
William Cooper  
Robert Slingsby  
Thomas Conisbie  
Edward Crosby  
George Bromley  
John Taylor  
Thomas Brann  
George Bromley,   &c.   

London Printed for Daniel Pakeman at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet 1660